{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-4-4-268","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 4, § 4-268","heading":"Fraudulent branding - Branding over or obliterating","body":"previous brand - Penalties - Definitions.\n\nA. Any person who shall with intent to defraud, brand or\n\nmisbrand, mark or mismark any neat domestic animal, not his own; or\n\nshall intentionally brand over a previous brand or shall cut out or\n\nobliterate a previous mark or brand on any neat domestic animal, not\n\nhis own, shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense and upon\n\nconviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State\n\nPenitentiary for a term not less than three (3) years nor more than\n\nten (10) years or by imprisonment in the county jail for one (1)\n\nyear or by a fine not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor\n\nmore than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).\n\nB. For purposes of this section:\n\n1. “Domestic animal” means cattle, equinae, sheep, goat, hog,\n\npoultry and exotic livestock; and\n\n2. “Exotic livestock” means commercially raised exotic\n\nlivestock including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and\n\nantilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.\n\nR.L. 1910, § 203. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 33, § 1; Laws 1963, c.\n\n110, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1963; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 4, eff. July\n\n1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st\n\nEx.Sess., c. 5, § 53, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 201,\n\neff. Jan. 1, 2026.\n\nNOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective\n\ndate of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.","path":["OK Code","Title 4"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os4.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"c975a8b0abaac683e96d1c29476944b4b64ad0b9f13957eb135d338728bee772","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-4-4-251","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-4-4-269"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}