Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 29-5-301

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A. No person may set or use at any time any poison, cyanide

coyote getter, or other similar device, using cyanide gas or other

poisonous gas as the lethal agent, for the purpose of killing

predators, except in accordance with the following conditions and

procedures:

1. Signs of a size and character and with wording to be

determined by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and

Forestry indicating the presence of cyanide coyote getters or other

similar device using cyanide gas or other poisonous gas as the

lethal agent, shall be posted on all properties where the coyote

getters are set to the right and left of all entrances from public

roads and highways and from adjacent lands.

2. All signs as required by this article shall be in place

twenty-four (24) hours before the devices are set and shall be

properly maintained in place during the permission period herein

provided.

3. A game warden may issue a permit for the setting of such

devices and such permit must be obtained prior to the setting of

such devices. Each permit shall be made in triplicate, the original

to be retained by the landowner concerned, one copy retained by the

game warden and the other copy mailed immediately to the Department

for its permanent record.

4. In applying for a permit, the landowner shall state the

number of devices to be set and the approximate location to the

nearest forty (40) acres.

5. All signs required by this section shall be removed at the

end of the permission period, unless the permit is renewed prior to

the expiration date thereof.

6. No predator control devices shall be on any property without

the written permission of the record owner or lessee thereof.

B. Predatory control conducted by the Oklahoma Department of

Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or the Department of Wildlife

Conservation shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraphs 3 and

4 of subsection A of this section.

C. The Director of the Department of Wildlife Conservation may

issue depredation permits to landowners for control of any nuisance

wildlife.

D. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this

section shall be punished by a fine not less than Fifty Dollars

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($50.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than

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