Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 29-4-130

Exemptions.

A. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Wildlife

Conservation Code, no person may hunt or take any waterfowl during

the open season on waterfowl unless the person has first obtained an

Oklahoma waterfowl hunting stamp or license from the Director or

authorized agents of the Director. Each person shall have the stamp

or license in their possession when hunting or taking any waterfowl.

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B. Persons excepted from the Oklahoma waterfowl hunting stamp

or license requirement of this section are:

1. Legal residents of Oklahoma under eighteen (18) years of

age; and

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

older.

C. The Oklahoma waterfowl hunting stamp fee and waterfowl

license shall be for:

1. Residents eighteen (18) years of age or older – Twenty

Dollars ($20.00); and

2. Nonresidents eighteen (18) years of age or older – Thirty

Dollars ($30.00).

D. 1. The collection and remittance procedures applicable to

hunting license fees under this title shall apply to waterfowl stamp

or license fees.

2. The waterfowl stamp or license issued pursuant to this

section shall expire on June 30 of each year.

E. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission may prescribe,

by regulation, the form, design and manner of issuance, if any, of

the waterfowl stamp, which could include the selection of art for

such stamp from an art contest regulated by the Commission.

F. 1. Any person arrested for hunting or taking any waterfowl

during the open season on waterfowl without a valid Oklahoma

waterfowl hunting stamp or license as required by the provisions of

subsection A of this section may purchase a substitute temporary

thirty-day stamp or license from the arresting game warden in lieu

of posting bond. Proof of hunter safety certification shall not be

required for the temporary substitute stamp or license. The fee for

a substitute stamp or 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 Seventy-five Dollars

($175.00).

2. The fees from the temporary stamp and license purchased

pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be deposited in

the Wildlife Conservation Fund, to be used exclusively in this

state, for the purpose of developing, managing, preserving,

restoring and maintaining wetland habitats and for the conservation

and management of waterfowl and ecologically related species.

G. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of

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

five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).

H. Nothing in this title shall prohibit a person from hunting

waterfowl exclusively on their own property without an Oklahoma

waterfowl hunting stamp or license.

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