Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.13
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Zoning powers - Structures and equipment exempt
Official statutory text
For the purposes of promoting the public health, safety, peace,
morals, comfort, convenience, prosperity, order, quality of life,
and general welfare, and to lessen danger and congestion of public
transportation and travel, and to secure safety from fire and other
dangers, and to prevent overcrowding of land, and to avoid undue
concentration of population, and to provide adequate police
protection, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks,
forests, recreational facilities, military and naval facilities, and
other public requirements, and to prevent undue encroachment
thereon, the council, as respects the municipality and the board of
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 300
any such county, as respects the unincorporated areas of the county,
are hereby empowered in accordance with the conditions and procedure
specified in this act, in the areas, respectively, to regulate the
location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and
other structures, the percentage of the lot or area which may be
occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the
density and distribution of population, and the uses of buildings,
structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation,
civic and public activities and other purposes.
The zoning power hereby conferred shall not apply to the
erection, installation, and use of structures and equipment, by
public service corporations subject to the jurisdiction and
regulation of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, or other similar
state or federal regulatory bodies; nor to the erection or use of
the usual farm buildings for agricultural purposes or the planning
of agricultural crops.
morals, comfort, convenience, prosperity, order, quality of life,
and general welfare, and to lessen danger and congestion of public
transportation and travel, and to secure safety from fire and other
dangers, and to prevent overcrowding of land, and to avoid undue
concentration of population, and to provide adequate police
protection, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks,
forests, recreational facilities, military and naval facilities, and
other public requirements, and to prevent undue encroachment
thereon, the council, as respects the municipality and the board of
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 300
any such county, as respects the unincorporated areas of the county,
are hereby empowered in accordance with the conditions and procedure
specified in this act, in the areas, respectively, to regulate the
location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and
other structures, the percentage of the lot or area which may be
occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the
density and distribution of population, and the uses of buildings,
structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation,
civic and public activities and other purposes.
The zoning power hereby conferred shall not apply to the
erection, installation, and use of structures and equipment, by
public service corporations subject to the jurisdiction and
regulation of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, or other similar
state or federal regulatory bodies; nor to the erection or use of
the usual farm buildings for agricultural purposes or the planning
of agricultural crops.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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