This site will be continually under construction and changing as the states, counties and municipals continually change their regulations and laws. These are the current regulations for 1996 that we have received to date. If you have other information, please let us know the citations of those laws or regulations, the state and when the changes went or will go into effect by sending e-mail to lawschange@monkeymaddness.com.
There is no statewide law in Oklahoma addressing the private ownership of primates and, though some of the 77 counties have ordinances which regulate exotic pets, none specifically mention nonhuman primates. At the time of this writing, the City of Oklahoma City is preparing an ordinance dealing with exotic pets and the officials have welcomed advice and information resulting from development of this White Paper from the American Society of Primatologists.