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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2nd Session of the 53rd Legislature (2012)

HOUSE BILL 3001	By:	Newell

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to game and fish; establishing open season dates for the hunting, killing or taking of deer; directing the Wildlife Conservation Commission to establish certain limits; authorizing the Commission to establish a special antlerless deer gun open season and certain limits for the season; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5-415 of Title 29, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  Except as otherwise provided, no person may hunt, kill, capture or otherwise take any whitetail deer or mule deer by gun, except during the period beginning on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and running for twenty three (23) consecutive days. 
B.  The Wildlife Conservation Commission shall determine the catch limits, bag limits and possession limits for antlered and antlerless deer that may be harvested during the open deer gun season as set forth in subsection A of this section.  
C.  In addition to the open deer gun season as set forth in subsection A of this section, the Commission may establish a special antlerless deer gun open season and determine the catch limits, bag limits, possession limits and territorial limitations for that open season.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.

53-2-9202	KB	01/19/12

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