Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 29-4-110

A. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Wildlife

Conservation Code, no person shall fish, pursue, harass, catch,

kill, take in any manner, use, have in possession, sell, or

transport all or any portion of fish without having first procured a

license for such from the Director or from any of the authorized

agents of the Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Oklahoma

Wildlife Conservation Commission may designate two (2) days per year

in which residents and nonresidents may fish without first procuring

a fishing license pursuant to the provisions of this section.

B. The following legal residents of Oklahoma and the following

nonresidents shall be exempt from the annual fishing license

requirements of subsection C of this section:

1. Legal residents under eighteen (18) years of age and

nonresidents under eighteen (18) years of age;

2. Legal residents sixty-five (65) years of age or older and

nonresidents sixty-five (65) years of age or older from states which

do not require nonresident fishing licenses for persons sixty-five

(65) years of age or older, provided a legal resident has obtained a

senior citizen lifetime fishing or combination hunting and fishing

license pursuant to the provisions of Section 4-114 of this title;

3. Legal resident veterans having a disability of sixty percent

(60%) or more and registered with the veterans registry created by

the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs; provided, that if the

veteran has previously received an exemption pursuant to this

paragraph, no registration with the veterans registry shall be

required. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall

promulgate any rules necessary to implement the provisions of this

paragraph;

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4. Legal resident owners or tenants, their spouses, parents,

grandparents, children and their spouses, grandchildren and their

spouses who fish in private ponds on land owned or leased by them;

5. Any legal resident or nonresident who is a patient of an

institution of the State of Oklahoma established for the care and

treatment of mental illness or alcohol or drug dependency or any

developmentally disabled person residing in any group home or other

institution or developmentally disabled persons when accompanied by

an attendant of the institution or legal guardian of the patient, or

when fishing on institutional property;

6. Any legal resident or nonresident who is legally blind or

who has any other physical impairment, as certified by a physician

licensed in this state or any state which borders this state, which

prevents the person from properly using fishing apparatus without

the assistance of another person, and any one person actually

accompanying and actually assisting such legally blind or otherwise

physically impaired person while the latter is fishing. This

certification shall be carried by the individual while fishing;

7. Any legal resident or nonresident who is a Job Corps trainee

of this state, provided that the trainees shall have on their

persons a duly authorized identification card issued by their

respective Job Corps Center and shall present the card upon request,

in lieu of a fishing license. The trainees shall return their cards

to their respective Job Corps Center when the trainees leave their

respective Job Corps training programs;

8. Any legal resident having a proven disability which renders

the resident nonambulatory and confined to a wheelchair as certified

by a physician licensed in this state or any state which borders

this state;

9. Any legal resident who is fishing with a pole and line,

trotline, or throwline in streams, natural lakes, natural ponds, and

mine pits in the county in which the person is a resident, or in

streams, natural lakes, natural ponds, and mine pits which form a

part of the boundary line of the county in which the person is a
hysician licensed in this state or any state which borders

this state;

9. Any legal resident who is fishing with a pole and line,

trotline, or throwline in streams, natural lakes, natural ponds, and

mine pits in the county in which the person is a resident, or in

streams, natural lakes, natural ponds, and mine pits which form a

part of the boundary line of the county in which the person is a

resident, when using any bait other than commercial or artificial

bait, blood, stink bait, cut fish, and shrimp; and

10. Any legal resident or nonresident participating in an

aquatic education event or clinic sanctioned by the Department of

Wildlife Conservation.

C. Except as otherwise provided for in the Oklahoma Wildlife

Conservation Code, the fishing licenses issued pursuant to the

provisions of this section and the fee for each shall be:

1. Annual fishing license for legal residents eighteen (18)

years of age and older, valid for one (1) year from the date of

issuance - Thirty Dollars ($30.00);

2. Annual fishing license for nonresidents, valid for one (1)

year from the date of issuance - Eighty Dollars ($80.00), provided

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the Commission may enter into reciprocity agreements with states

wherein nonresident license fees shall be in conformity with such

reciprocal agreements;

3. Daily fishing license for residents – Ten Dollars ($10.00);

and

4. Daily fishing license for nonresidents – Twenty-five Dollars

($25.00).

D. Legal residents who have resided in this state for at least

six (6) months and who are receiving Social Security Disability

benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits, disability benefits

under the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C.A., Section 231a, postal

employees receiving disability benefits pursuant to 5 U.S.C.,

Section 8451 (1998) or legal residents who are one hundred percent

(100%) disabled and are receiving disability payments from the

Multiple Injury Trust Fund pursuant to Section 31 of Title 85A of

the Oklahoma Statutes, may purchase a five year disability

combination hunting/fishing license from the Director for Twenty

Dollars ($20.00) for five (5) years.

E. 1. Any person arrested while violating the provisions of

this section who does not meet the requirements of subsection H of

this section, may purchase a substitute temporary thirty-day license

from the arresting game warden in lieu of posting bond. The fee for

a substitute license purchased pursuant to the provisions of this

subsection shall be:

a. for legal residents, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00),

and

b. for nonresidents, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00).

2. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the fees

from licenses purchased pursuant to the provisions of this

subsection shall be deposited in the Wildlife Conservation Fund to

be used exclusively for developing, managing, preserving, and

protecting wildlife and wildlife habitat.

F. Unless a substitute license is purchased as provided for by

subsection E of this section, any resident of this state convicted

of violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by the

imposition of a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)

nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or by imprisonment in

the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by

both such fine and imprisonment.

G. Unless a substitute license is purchased as provided for by

subsection E of this section, any nonresident convicted of violating

this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty

Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or by

imprisonment in the county jail for a period not more than thirty
o exceed thirty (30) days, or by

both such fine and imprisonment.

G. Unless a substitute license is purchased as provided for by

subsection E of this section, any nonresident convicted of violating

this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty

Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or by

imprisonment in the county jail for a period not more than thirty

(30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

H. Any person producing proof in court that a current fishing

license issued by the Department of Wildlife Conservation to that

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person was in force at the time of the alleged offense shall be

entitled to dismissal of a charge of violating this section upon

payment of court costs. If proof of a current fishing license

issued by the Department to the person that was in force at the time

of the alleged offense is presented to the court or district

attorney within seventy-two (72) hours after the violation, the

charge shall be dismissed without payment of court costs.