Okla. Stat. tit. 4, § 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.