Section 268 - Fraudulent branding - Branding over or obliterating previous brand - Penalties - DefinitionsA. 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.Okla. Stat. tit. 4, § 268
R.L. 1910, § 203; Laws 1947, p. 33, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 110, § 1, emerg. eff. 5/31/1963; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 4, eff. 7/1/1993.; Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 122, Effective Date Amended to July 1, 1999 by Laws 1998, c. 2 (First Extraordinary Session), §§ 23-26, eff. 6/19/1998; Amended by H.B. 1009X (1st Ex. Sess. 1999), § 53, emerg. eff. 7/1/1999.