 Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
   Title 4. Animals
Title 4. Animals
     Chapter 13 - Use of Unclaimed Animals for Scientific Investigation and Education
Chapter 13 - Use of Unclaimed Animals for Scientific Investigation and Education
         Section 394                       - Pound Supervisor - Delivery of Animals - Requirements
Section 394                       - Pound Supervisor - Delivery of Animals - Requirements
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  - Except as otherwise provided by municipal 
  ordinance, it shall be the duty of the pound supervisor to deliver from among 
  the available impounded animals on the demand of an institution possessing a 
  license, such number of animals as the institution may demand and be 
  reasonably required effectively to carry on its activities, subject to the 
  following conditions: 
  
- Such animals shall have been impounded at least 
  fifteen (15) days for dogs without a license, and at least thirty (30) days 
  for dogs with license and remained unclaimed and unredeemed by their owners or 
  by any other person desiring the animal as a pet and willing to pay applicable 
  license fees and the reasonable expenses incurred in the dog's detention; and 
  
  
- Any owner of an animal who voluntarily delivers 
  the possession of it to a public pound shall have a right to specify that it 
  shall not be used for scientific research, and if an owner so specifies, it 
  shall be the duty of the pound superintendent to tag such animal properly and 
  to make certain that such animal is not delivered to an institution for 
  scientific purposes; and 
  
- If a demand is made on a pound supervisor for a 
  greater number of dogs than he has available for release to the institution, 
  the supervisor shall withhold thereafter from execution all unclaimed and 
  unredeemed dogs until the demand has been met; and 
  
- Any animal in the pound to which an identification 
  tag is attached may not be disposed of until the owner has been 
  notified. 
B. Any city may adopt an ordinance setting the number 
of days an animal must be impounded and setting restrictions or prohibitions on 
the delivery of animals for scientific research. 
Historical Data 
Laws 1951, HB 241, p. 9, § 4; Amended by Laws 1997, 
c. 210, § 2, eff. November 1, 1997 (superseded document available).
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