Animal Ordinances in Oklahoma (2026)

Oklahoma's Right to Farm Act protects established agricultural operations, including livestock and poultry, from…

Edmond allows 4 to 30 hens on single-family lots depending on acreage, but requires a $25 city permit, a chicken-care…

Midwest City requires at least one acre of fenced land before you can keep horses, cattle, goats, sheep, mules or…

Broken Arrow bars stables, kennels, coops, and similar livestock enclosures within 40 feet of a neighbor's home or…

Keeping horses, goats or other large and small animals in Lawton requires an Animal Welfare Division permit under City…

Norman allows up to four chickens or laying hens per parcel in the R-1 zoning district under NCC 4-301, but bans…

OKC zoning caps backyard flocks at six hens or quail on lots under an acre, bans roosters, and sets coop setback and…

Tulsa allows up to six adult chickens and fourteen chicks under eight weeks on non-agricultural lots, but the coop must…

Broken Arrow makes it a class C offense for an owner to let a dog run at large, and separately bans leaving a dog on an…

Edmond dog owners must keep their dog on a chain, rope, cord, or leash of six feet or less in public, or confined in a…

Lawton makes it unlawful for an owner or keeper to let a dog or any animal run at large anywhere in the city, and…

Midwest City makes it unlawful to let any dog run at large on streets, alleys, public places, or unauthorized private…

Norman flatly bans letting a dog run at-large anywhere in the city under NCC 4-503: any dog off its owner's property…

Oklahoma City bans letting a dog run at large or trespass on others' property; off your own land a dog must be under…

Tulsa dog owners must keep their dog confined on their property or under leash once it leaves that property. Letting a…

Oklahoma state law expressly prohibits municipalities from enacting breed-specific dog regulations, preempting any city…

Edmond doesn't regulate dogs by breed. It classifies any animal as vicious or potentially vicious based on its actual…

Norman does not ban or single out any dog breed. NCC 4-101 defines a dangerous animal purely by behavior, temperament…

Tulsa regulates dogs based on bite history, not breed. A dog declared "dangerous" needs a $50,000 insurance policy, a…

Oklahoma City has no breed-specific dog ban. Individual animals are instead classified as "menacing" or "dangerous"…

Lawton's animal code lets the animal welfare division weigh a dog's individual behavior, bite history and temperament…

Oklahoma runs a voluntary apiary registration program under 2 O.S. § 2-3-113. Keeping bees needs no state license, but…

Edmond's zoning code lists bees only under the 'Agriculture' use classification, permitted by right solely in the…

Broken Arrow allows backyard beekeeping but caps density at one hive per 2,500 square feet of lot, requires colonies…

Beekeeping is allowed in every Lawton zoning district under Section 5-4-415(C). In urban districts, keepers must…

Norman requires a permit before keeping any hive outside the A-1, A-2, or R-E zoning districts, under NCC 20-601…

Tulsa allows backyard honeybee hives but caps density at four hives per quarter acre, requires a 20-foot lot-line…

Oklahoma regulates ownership of dangerous wild animals through Department of Wildlife Conservation permits, restricting…

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (Tulsa County) bans keeping venomous reptiles or any wild or exotic animal within city limits…

Lawton bans keeping or displaying any wild or exotic animal as a pet, from lions and wolves to poisonous snakes…

Midwest City bans owning, keeping, or harboring any warm-blooded wild or exotic carnivore or omnivore, and any animal…

Norman bans keeping exotic wildlife, native wildlife, or any venomous species under NCC 4-301(d): an Animal Services…

Oklahoma City outright bans keeping big cats, bears, wolves, venomous reptiles, primates, and crocodilians as pets…

Tulsa outright bans keeping, owning or exhibiting any animal wild by nature, big cats, bears, wolves, primates…

Edmond requires an annual city license and disease testing to own most non-human primates, and bans gorillas…

Lawton City Code Section 19-4-410 makes it unlawful to feed, kill, ensnare, trap, or chase prairie dogs anywhere on…

Within Tinker Air Force Base's Clear Zone and Accident Potential Zones, Midwest City's Airport Zoning Ordinance bans…

Oklahoma City bans feeding feral animals, wildlife, or fowl in any city park under Municipal Code § 38-93(g). The Parks…

Oklahoma criminalizes neglect and cruelty toward animals through statewide statutes that apply to hoarding situations…

Broken Arrow caps most properties at four domestic animals, a fifth is unlawful, unless the lot is agriculturally zoned…

Edmond caps household pets at four dogs and four cats over six months old, set out in separate sections of the animal…

Lawton caps ownership at three dogs or cats, in any combination, over six months old, per Section 5-5-501(A) of the…

Norman caps unaltered pets at two dogs or three cats per property without a kennel license, and altered pets at four…

Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 8-37 caps any household at four dogs and four cats over six months old, holding the…

Tulsa caps households at five dogs and cats combined once they're over four months old; keeping more without a Hobbyist…

Broken Arrow requires cats over six months old to carry current rabies vaccination and applies its general at-large ban…

Lawton authorizes registered animal rescue groups to run trap-neuter-return programs for feral cat colonies under…

Cats over six months must be vaccinated and licensed with the city, and any cat found running at large on streets…

Norman does not require a cat license, but an unaltered cat running at-large is a citable offense unless it is spayed…

Feral and stray cats picked up by Animal Welfare become city property and can skip the normal stray hold if eligible…

Tulsa requires every cat over four months old to carry a current rabies vaccination and city license, and bans letting…

Lawton makes it unlawful to own or keep any dog or cat over six months old that hasn't been spayed or neutered unless…

Oklahoma City requires all dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered and microchipped before they're released from the…

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (Tulsa County) requires dogs and cats adopted from the city animal shelter to be sterilized, or…

Midwest City requires any dog or cat impounded more than once to be spayed or neutered at the owner's expense before…

Tulsa requires every dog and cat over six months old to be spayed or neutered unless the owner holds a Hobbyist…

Lawton has no blanket microchip mandate, but Section 5-6-601(C) lets the Animal Welfare Division order a microchip…

Norman does not require routine microchipping of pets, but a dangerous-animal conviction triggers a mandatory microchip…

Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 8-57(b) requires every dog and cat to be spayed or neutered and microchipped before the…

Lawton doesn't ban pet-shop sales outright, but Section 5-1-106.1 requires every pet shop to hold a Commercial…

Midwest City bans commercial pet shops from selling animals outright: sales are allowed only if the animal comes from a…

Tulsa doesn't ban retail sale of dogs and cats: pet stores operate as Type B commercial animal establishments under…

Lawton requires every commercial animal establishment, including brick-and-mortar and mobile pet-grooming facilities…

Midwest City zoning classifies dog, cat, and small-animal grooming as its own commercial use category. Grooming shops…

Oklahoma City classifies pet grooming as Use Unit 8300.8 under the Zoning and Planning Code's commercial use…

Tulsa treats grooming and bathing facilities as Type A commercial animal establishments, requiring sanitary holding…

Norman treats a veterinary clinic or hospital as a discretionary special use, not a by-right use, in its agricultural…

Broken Arrow requires animal hospitals, training schools, kennels, and veterinary clinics to front an arterial street…

Lawton's A-2 Suburban District permits a veterinary medical facility by right, but only if the health officer's…

Midwest City's zoning ordinance splits animal kennels and veterinary clinics into two use classes: Restricted, which…

Oklahoma City zoning splits veterinary/kennel uses into two classes: fully enclosed "Restricted" clinics are permitted…

Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals are permitted by right in Tulsa's CS, CG, CH, CBD, IL, IM and IH zoning…

Lawton designates its whole corporate area a bird sanctuary under City Code Section 19-4-408, and Section 19-4-409…

Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 8-69 makes it unlawful to willfully kill a song bird, or to molest or rob the nest of…

Tulsa's Penal Code makes it an offense to kill, wound, maim, injure or harm any bird, to shoot or throw a weapon or…

Midwest City has designated every public park a bird sanctuary, making it unlawful to trap, hunt, molest, or rob the…

Norman bans trapping, hunting, shooting, killing, capturing, or otherwise molesting any wild bird or its nest under NCC…