Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-20-56
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Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance
Official statutory text
A. In addition to any other requirement of the Oklahoma
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act, animal feeding
operations owners and operators who are granted an animal 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 animal feeding operation licensed pursuant to the
Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act, operated in
compliance with those standards, and in compliance with the rules
promulgated by the Board, shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence
that a nuisance does not exist; provided, no animal feeding
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operation shall be located or operated in violation of any zoning
regulations.
2. Any animal feeding operation licensed pursuant to the
Oklahoma Concentrated Animal 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 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.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act, animal feeding
operations owners and operators who are granted an animal 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 animal feeding operation licensed pursuant to the
Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act, operated in
compliance with those standards, and in compliance with the rules
promulgated by the Board, shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence
that a nuisance does not exist; provided, no animal feeding
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 738
operation shall be located or operated in violation of any zoning
regulations.
2. Any animal feeding operation licensed pursuant to the
Oklahoma Concentrated Animal 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 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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