Re: Ex-State Law Maker fined for killing illegal deer
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-Money</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
The law was put into place, I think back in 1995 maybe before, after a teenage boy shot an albino deer and the "Indians" had a fit about it. It is a nonsense law that needs to be dropped from the books. </div></div>
I lived in Stillwater when this law passed. There were some totally white deer that hung out around Edmond on a/the golf course and the locals didn't want them shot. Thought it was a dumb law, then, too.
§29-5-414. White deer.
A. Except for white deer that are farmed cervidae regulated pursuant to the Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act, no person may possess, hunt, chase, harass, capture, shoot at, wound or kill, take or attempt to take, trap or attempt to trap a white deer without specific written permission of the Director of Wildlife Conservation.
B. Any person convicted of willfully violating any of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both.
C. For purposes of this section, a “white deer” is any whitetail or mule deer exhibiting a deficient pigmentation condition known as albinism or with a genetic mutation which results in the piebald coloration of the animal.
Added by Laws 1998, c. 159, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1998. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 138, § 18, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
