Jurisdiction for Swine - Prohibited Actions - Oklahoma

A. No person shall import live feral swine into this state unless the live feral swine are going directly to a slaughter facility in a sealed trailer and accompanied by a USDA vs 1-27 permit for the movement of restricted animals...

Citation:  2 Okl. St. Ann. § 6-608.

A. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the Feral Swine Control Act for any person:

1. To refuse an inspection; 

2. To fail to comply with importation, testing, permitting, licensing, or transportation requirements;

3. To fail to pay any fee, administrative fine, or penalty;

4. To fail to comply with any Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry order; or

5. To violate any provision of the Oklahoma Feral Swine Control Act, Oklahoma Agricultural Code, or Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Code...

Citation: 2 Okl. St. Ann. § 6-610.

A. No person shall intentionally or knowingly release or engage in, sponsor, instigate, assist, or profit from the release of any hog, boar, swine, or pig to live in a wild or feral state upon public or private lands, except for:

1. Release into a licensed sporting facility pursuant to the Feral Swine Control Act; or

2. When utilizing the Judas pig tagging system, release onto the same private land on which a feral hog was trapped or caught. In order to come under the release authorization of this paragraph, the release must occur within twenty-four (24) hours of the capture of the hog.

B. No person shall knowingly or intentionally violate the importation, testing, permitting, licensing, and transportation requirements contained in the Feral Swine Control Act and rules promulgated thereto...

Citation: 2 Okl. St. Ann. § 6-611.

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H. It shall be unlawful for a person issued a permit to manage depredating animals pursuant to this section or a person authorized by or contracting with the permit holder pursuant to subsection B of this section to:

1. Hunt, shoot, shoot at, kill, or attempt to kill from an aircraft any wildlife, domesticated animal, or livestock other than the depredating animals authorized by the permit; 

2. Intentionally disturb, haze, or buzz any wildlife, domesticated animal, or livestock by the use of an aircraft other than the depredating animals authorized by the permit; or

3. Take or attempt to take any depredating animal for any purpose other than is necessary for the protection of land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, human life, or crops.

I. During designated deer hunting seasons from the dates of October 1 through January 15 as specified in rules promulgated by the Department of Wildlife Conservation, it shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take depredating animals without first obtaining a special permit from the local game warden or other authorized employee of the Department of Wildlife Conservation...

L. As used in this section:

1. “Depredating animal” means feral hogs, coyotes, and crossbreeds between coyotes and dogs;

2. “Management by the use of aircraft” means to manage depredating animals by counting, photographing, relocating, capturing, or hunting with any firearm by the use of aircraft; and

3. “Aircraft” means nonexperimental manned fixed wing and non-fixed wing aircraft registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Citation:  29 Okl. St. Ann. § 4-107.2.