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SECTION 1789. Caves or caverns, injuring.

It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully or knowingly break, break off, crack, carve upon, write, or otherwise mark upon, or in any manner destroy, mutilate, deface, mar or harm any natural material found in any cave or cavern located on any public lands or other lands owned by the United States, the State of Oklahoma, or any county, municipality, school district or other instrumentality of government, or on private property without the prior written consent of the owner; to kill, harm or disturb any plant or animal life found in any cave or cavern, and, whether inside or outside a cave, any fish of the genera chologaster, typhicthys or amblyopsis (commonly known as cavefish, springfish or blindfish), any salamander of the genus typhlotriton (commonly known at the Ozark blind, grotto or spring salamander), or the species Eurycea Lucifuga (commonly known as cave salamander); to discard litter or refuse in any cave, or dump or cause to be dumped any garbage, sewage, trash, industrial waste or pollution into any cave, cavern or natural subterranean drainage system; providing nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the commercial mining of bat guano or the destruction of any predatory terrestrial mammal or poisonous snake seeking shelter within a cave if such destruction is not otherwise unlawful.

Laws 1967, c. 87, sec. 1. Emerg. effective April 19, 1967

SECTION 1790. Penalties.

Any person violating any provision of this Act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.