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Title 4. Animals

Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
  Title 4. Animals
    Chapter 7 - Marks and Brands
       General Provisions
        Section 268 - Branding or Misbranding with Intent to Defraud - Cutting Out Previous Brands - Felony
Cite as: O.S. §, __ __




A. Any person who shall with intent to defraud, brand or misbrand, mark or mismark any neat domestic animal, not his own; or shall intentionally brand over a previous brand or shall cut out or obliterate a previous mark or brand on any neat domestic animal, not his own, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not less than three (3) years nor more than ten (10) years or by imprisonment in the county jail for one (1) year or by a fine not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).

B. For purposes of this section:

1. "Domestic animal" means cattle, equinae, sheep, goat, hog, poultry and exotic livestock; and

2. "Exotic livestock" means commercially raised exotic livestock including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.

Historical Data


R.L. 1910, § 203; Laws 1947, p. 33, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 110, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 4, eff. July 1, 1993.; Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122, Effective Date Amended to July 1, 1999 by Laws 1998, c. 2 (First Extraordinary Session), §§ 23-26, eff. June 19, 1998 (superseded document available); Amended by H.B. 1009X (1st Ex. Sess. 1999), § 53, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available).

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