SECTION 800:25-26-3. Use

(a)   A copy of the approved application must be carried with the collector permit when sampling or collecting in the field.

(b)   The permit holder must notify the Law Enforcement Division at least twenty-four hours prior to the time of sampling or collecting in any county. Notification must be made prior to each trip, unless prior arrangements to the contrary have been made with the Game Warden(s) in the counties involved.

(c)   Instructors in charge of educational classes may take classes into the field and allow students to collect in their presence under their permit. If students collect or sample fish or wildlife when the instructor is not present, they must have their own permit. Students collecting or sampling in the field, under the permit of an instructor, and in the presence of an instructor, are not required to have a hunting or fishing license, or individual permit except as provided in (5).

(d)   Except as stipulated in (e), persons who sample or collect fish or wildlife under a scientific collector permit are not required to possess a fishing or hunting license.

(e)   The permit does not authorize the holder to collect game, furbearing, or predatory species with firearms, bows and arrows, or fish with any hook and line method without a valid Oklahoma hunting and/or fishing license. The following species may not be taken under a scientific collector permit: deer, bear, elk, antelope, or wild turkey.

(f)   This permit does not authorize sampling or collecting on State or Federal Refuge or Wilderness Areas.

(g)   Only those specific species, areas, and methods approved by the Department will be covered by the permit. Any variations from the above rules must be covered by specific written approval by the Director and said approval shall be attached to and carried with the permit.

(h)   A Scientific Collector's permit shall not be used to collect those species of wildlife for which a statewide closed season has been established by the Oklahoma Wildlife Commission, unless specifically authorized.

(i)   A Federal Permit is required in addition to the state permit, if migratory birds, threatened or endangered species are to be collected.

[Source: Added at 20 Ok Reg 2216, eff 7-1-03; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1583, eff 7-1-06]