Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-20-18

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Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance

Official statutory text

A. In addition to any other requirement of the Oklahoma Swine

Feeding Operations Act, swine feeding operations owners and

operators who are granted a swine feeding operations license shall:

1. Provide adequate veterinarian services for detection,

control, and elimination of livestock diseases;

2. Have available for use at all necessary times mechanical

means of scraping, cleaning, and grading feed yards premises; and

3. Provide weather resistant aprons adjacent to all permanently

affixed feed bunks, water tanks, and feeding devices.

B. 1. Any swine feeding operation licensed pursuant to the

Oklahoma Swine Feeding Operations Act, operated in compliance with

those standards, and in compliance with the rules promulgated by the

State Board of Agriculture, shall be deemed to be prima facie

evidence that a nuisance does not exist; provided, no swine feeding

operation shall be located or operated in violation of any zoning

regulations.

2. Any swine feeding operation licensed pursuant to the

Oklahoma Swine Feeding Operations Act, operated in compliance with

those standards, and in compliance with rules promulgated by the

Board, that is located on land more than three (3) miles outside the

incorporated limits of any municipality and which is not located

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within one (1) mile of ten or more occupied residences shall not be

deemed a nuisance unless it is shown by a preponderance of the

evidence that the operation endangers the health or safety of

others.

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