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4 OK Stat § 4-201.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.4. Perfection of lien.

|An owner’s lien is granted and exists as part of and incident to the ownership of livestock and is perfected automatically from the effective date of this act without the need to file a financing statement or any other type of documentation. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.5. Commingled livestock - Priority.

|If livestock subject to an owner’s lien are commingled with other livestock in such a manner that the identity of the specific livestock subject to the owner’s lien cannot be determined by reasonable means, then the owner’s lien continues without interruption into and attaches to such commingled livestock and is perfected automatically as of the date of its original perfection but only as to the percentage of the commingled livestock equal to the number of livestock to which the owner’s lien originally attached. In such event, the owner’s lien in the commingled livestock has priority over any security interest or other lien that is not an owner’s lien or permitted lien, whether or not the security interest or other lien has been properly perfected. If more than one owner’s lien attaches to the commingled livestock, then the owner’s liens rank equally in the proportion that the respective sales prices secured by each owner’s lien bears as a percentage of the total of the sales prices secured by all owner’s liens applicable at the time the livestock were commingled. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.6. Transfer of lien due to sale.

|A. A purchaser or sales agent takes free of any owner’s lien otherwise applicable to the livestock so purchased and shall be relieved of any obligations created by subsection A of Section 4 of this act if the purchaser or sales agent has paid the full amount of required consideration for the livestock pursuant to a good faith, noncollusive agreement to purchase such livestock. If a purchaser or sales agent has paid the full amount of consideration as set forth in this section, the owner’s lien shall transfer to the proceeds paid by the purchaser or sales agent. Except as specifically provided by this section, an owner’s lien has priority over the rights of any purchaser or sales agent. |B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, the owner’s lien shall continue uninterrupted in the proceeds paid to or otherwise due the first purchaser. Except as specifically set forth in this section, an owner’s lien has priority over the rights of any purchaser.Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.7. Lien priority.

|Except for a permitted lien, an owner’s lien takes priority over any other lien, whether arising by contract, law, equity or otherwise. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.8. Applicability of act.

|The provisions of this act shall not affect the time at which legal title to livestock may pass by agreement or operation of law subject to an owner’s lien. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.9. Prohibition of waiver, relinquishment, or release of lien.

|No livestock owner shall be required, as a condition or term of an agreement to sell or otherwise, to waive, relinquish or release any owner’s lien or any rights under this act other than upon payment in full of the sales price or agree to any provision that would apply the law of any state other than this state insofar as the same relates to rights under this act, and any such purported waiver, relinquishment, release, or provision shall be void as a matter of the public policy of this state. Provided, however, any livestock owner or sales agent acting on behalf of a livestock owner, may waive, relinquish or release any owner’s lien or any rights under this act or agree to a provision that would apply the law of any state other than this state insofar as the same relates to rights under this act provided the first purchaser either: |1. Posts a letter of credit in form and amount satisfactory to the livestock owner or sales agent; or2. Agrees to a binding contractual arrangement satisfactory in form and substance to the livestock owner or sales agent to prepay or escrow the sales price under an agreement to sell in form and substance satisfactory to the livestock owner and performs all of the first purchaser’s obligations thereunder.Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.10. Lien expiration - Commencement of action.

|A. An owner’s lien shall expire one (1) year after the last day of the month following the date the sales price from the sale of livestock subject to such lien are required by law or contract to be paid to such livestock owner but only as to the particular livestock sold during such month, unless an action to enforce the owner’s lien is commenced within such time in a court of competent jurisdiction. |B. If a sales agent advances the sales price for livestock to the livestock owner before the first purchaser pays the sales prices to the livestock owner or sales agent, the sales agent shall assume and be entitled to enforce all rights of the livestock owner under this act as to such livestock or proceeds thereof.C. In addition to any other court of competent jurisdiction, an action to enforce the owner’s lien may be commenced in the district court of the county where the agreement to sell was entered, where the sales price was to be paid, where the unpaid for livestock are located, or wherever the proceeds may be found. Provided, however, the commencement of any proceeding by or against any person claiming an interest in any property subject to the owner’s lien seeking to adjudicate such person as bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of such person or such person’s debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee or other similar official for such person or for any substantial part of such person’s property shall toll the foregoing one (1) year period in which to commence an action to enforce the owner’s lien for an additional period of ninety (90) days from the earlier of:1. The final conclusion or dismissal of such proceedings; or2. The date final relief is obtained from the applicable tribunal authorizing the commencement of such action.D. The prevailing party in any action to enforce the provisions of this act shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs in any legal proceeding.E. Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or affect the right of any livestock owner or sales agent to maintain a personal action to recover the debt against any person liable for payment of the sales price or to exercise any other rights and remedies available at law or in equity.Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-201.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-201.11. Preference - Owners right to be paid.

|The provisions of this act shall not be construed to impair any other rights a livestock owner otherwise may have at law or in equity. In the event a conflict arises between this act and any other rights a livestock owner may have, the livestock owner’s right to receive the sales price shall be given preference. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 123, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
4 OK Stat § 4-251 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-251. Duties of parties butchering stock or purchasing hides - Records - Retention of hides for inspection - Violations of provisions - Penalties.

|All parties butchering stock or purchasing hides or pelts, in the state, shall be required to keep a record of the marks, brands, color, from whom purchased, and by the party butchering, the sex and age. They shall be required to keep all hides together, with horns and ears complete, for at least five (5) days from the time of butchering the same during the months of May, June, July, August, September and October, and, during the remaining months of the year, ten (10) days, said hides to be free for inspection to anyone wishing to see the same. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. |R.L.1910, § 186.
4 OK Stat § 4-268 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-268. Fraudulent branding - Branding over or obliterating previous brand - Penalties - Definitions.

|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; and2. “Exotic livestock” means commercially raised exotic livestock including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.R.L. 1910, § 203. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 33, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 110, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 4, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 53, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
4 OK Stat § 4-269 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-269. Destruction of cattle hides or brands a misdemeanor.

|Any person who shall burn, or in any manner destroy any cattle hides, or cut or destroy any brands on same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L. 1910, § 204.
4 OK Stat § 4-270.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-270.2. Enforcement of laws pertaining to livestock brands.

|The laws of this state relating to violations and investigations of livestock brands shall be enforced and carried out by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and any agriculture law enforcement agent of the state. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 400, § 1, eff. July 1, 1965. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 107, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1968; Laws 2009, c. 373, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2017, c. 167, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
4 OK Stat § 4-341 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-341. Livestock shippers - Right to furnish feed.

|In all cases wherein any shipper of livestock has contracted with any person, firm or corporation for the use of feeding pens or impounding pens in stockyards in the State of Oklahoma wherein said lessee keeps livestock for the purpose of disposing of the same to packing plants or otherwise, said lessee shall have the right and is hereby authorized and empowered to furnish feed for the purpose of feeding said livestock without purchasing the same from the lessor of said pens or any other person. |Added by Laws 1933, c. 146, p. 320, § 1.
4 OK Stat § 4-342 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-342. Refusal to permit lessees of pens to furnish feed - Penalties.

|Any person, firm or corporation who refuses to permit the lessee of pens, as provided in Section 1 hereof, to furnish their own feed and feed the same to the livestock of such lessees while impounded in pens belonging to lessors, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. |Added by Laws 1933, c. 146, p. 320, § 2.
4 OK Stat § 4-351 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-351. Driver of vehicle carrying livestock, domestic fowls or ratite - Permit or statement authorizing movement - Violations - Penalties.

|Any person who is the driver of any truck, automobile or other vehicle containing any livestock, domestic fowls or ratite or any slaughtered livestock, slaughtered domestic fowls or ratite or the butchered portions of any of which he is not the owner and which is upon or being driven upon any land of which said driver is not owner, lessee, renter or tenant, or which is upon or being driven upon any highway, public street or thoroughfare, who fails to have in his possession and exhibit to any meat inspector, sheriff or deputy sheriff upon demand a written permit authorizing said movement, signed by the owner or caretaker of said livestock, domestic fowls or ratite, or from the owner or person in control of the land from which said driver began said movement, shall be fined not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each head of livestock in said movement, unless said driver upon demand of said meat inspector, sheriff or deputy sheriff makes, signs and delivers to said meat inspector, sheriff or deputy sheriff a written statement containing all information herein required to be included in permits. Said permit or statement shall contain a description of each head of livestock, domestic fowls and ratites, and the place of origin thereof, including the name of ranch, market center, packing house or other place, and the kind, breed, color and marks and brands of such livestock, domestic fowls or ratites, if there be any. Failure or refusal of such driver to exhibit to a person or peace officer said permit or to make said statement shall constitute probable cause for any meat inspector, sheriff or deputy sheriff to search said truck or vehicle to ascertain if it contains any stolen livestock, domestic fowls or ratites and to detain said movement a reasonable length of time to ascertain whether any stolen livestock, domestic fowls or ratites are contained therein, but the person detaining said movement shall provide adequate care and feed for such livestock, domestic fowls or ratites while said livestock, domestic fowls or ratites are being detained. Any driver who has in his possession any false or forged permit or who makes any false written statement shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or he shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty (60) days nor more than six (6) months, or he shall be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 193, § 1. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 36, § 5, eff. July 1, 1993.
4 OK Stat § 4-391 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-391. Definitions.

|As used in this act, (a) "Institution" means any school or college of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine or agriculture, medical diagnostic laboratory, hospital, or other educational or scientific establishment having to do with the investigation of or instruction concerning the structure or functions of living organisms, the causes, prevention, control or cure of diseases or abnormal conditions of human beings or animals provided that high schools and elementary schools shall not be classed as institutions for the purposes of this act. (b) "Public pound" means any place used by a city or the state for the detention or keeping of unclaimed or stray animals. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 9, § 1.
4 OK Stat § 4-392 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-392. Application and issuance of license.

|An institution requiring for the effective carrying on of its scientific or educational activities the use of live dogs and cats may apply to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry for a license to obtain animals from the establishment maintained and operated by public funds for the confinement, care and disposal of animals seized by public authority, commonly called the "dog pound". If the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry finds that the institution, by reason of its ethical standards, its personnel, its facilities and the uses it proposes to make of animals is a fit and proper agency to receive a license, and that the public interest would be served by the issuance of a license to the institution, it shall issue a license to the institution, subject to the restrictions and limitations hereinafter provided. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 9, § 2. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 108, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
4 OK Stat § 4-393 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-393. Expiration and renewal of licenses.

|A license shall expire annually on June 30, but may be renewed annually from year to year on application to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, and on compliance with the conditions required with respect to the original issuance of the license. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 9, § 3. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 108, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
4 OK Stat § 4-394 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-394. Delivery of animals on demand – Municipal ordinances relating to impoundment and scientific research.

|A. 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: |1. 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; and2. 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; and3. 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; and4. 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.Added by Laws 1951, p. 9, § 4. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 210, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.
4 OK Stat § 4-395 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-395. Transportation of dogs - Purposes for which used.

|The licensed institution shall provide for the transportation of dogs from the pound, and may use them only in the conduct of their scientific or educational activities. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 5.
4 OK Stat § 4-396 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-396. Return of dogs subsequently claimed - Immunity from liability.

|An institution shall at its own expense return to appropriate dog pound any dog delivered to it which subsequently is identified and claimed by its owner; provided, however, that no institution shall be liable to the owner for any injury or illness or subsequent death of any such animal, resulting from the transportation, detention, or proper use of the dog in its scientific and educational activities. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 6.
4 OK Stat § 4-397 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-397. Revocation of licenses.

|The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, after notice and a reasonable opportunity to defend, may revoke the license granted an institution (1) if the institution has violated any provision of this act or any rule or regulation promulgated by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry pursuant hereto; (2) if the standards, personnel, facilities, practices or activities of an institution are such that the continued exercise of the rights conferred by the license issued to the institution is not in the public interest. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 7. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 108, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
4 OK Stat § 4-398 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-398. Obtaining dogs from other sources.

|Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the right of an institution to obtain dogs from sources other than dog pounds. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 8.
4 OK Stat § 4-399 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-399. Rules and regulations - Inspections and investigations.

|A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall have the power to adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of Oklahoma, as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act. The Secretary of Agriculture shall have the right whenever it deems advisable to inspect or investigate any institution to which it has granted a license or which has applied for a license. |B. Effective November 1, 2012, all records maintained by the State Board of Health for the purposes of licensing institutions pursuant to Sections 391 through 402 of this title shall be transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry.Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 9. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 108, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
4 OK Stat § 4-400 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-400. Interpretation and construction of law.

|This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make available to qualified institutions for the purpose of scientific investigation, experiment or instruction unclaimed and unredeemed animals impounded in dog pounds. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 10.
4 OK Stat § 4-401 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-401. Misdemeanors.

|It shall be a misdemeanor for: |(a) Any person or institution to violate any of the provisions of this act or any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or (b) Any person to fail willfully to execute any duty imposed on him by this act.Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 11.
4 OK Stat § 4-402 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-402. Partial invalidity.

|If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 10, § 12.
4 OK Stat § 4-499 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 4. Animals|§4-499. Short title.

|Sections 1 through 11 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Dog and Cat Sterilization Act". |Added by Laws 1986, c. 204, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1986.