Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 69-1722.1

A. The rights-of-way acquired by the Oklahoma Turnpike

Authority shall be held inviolate for turnpike and Authority

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purposes, and no physical or functional encroachments or uses shall

be permitted within such rights-of-way.

B. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, maintain

or operate any gasoline pump, oil, gas or water drilling rig, line

or structure, tank battery or other equipment or structure used in

the collection, processing or transportation of hydrocarbons or

other minerals, driveway canopy, building, sign, fence, post, or any

thing or structure on or overhanging any right-of-way, or upon or

overhanging any turnpike, and the construction or maintaining of any

such thing or structure on or overhanging any turnpike shall

constitute a public nuisance, which may be summarily abated by the

Authority or its trustees, officers, agents, servants and employees

in the manner provided in subsection D of this section.

C. This section shall not apply to the lawful use of such

rights-of-way for the erection and operation of facilities of a

public utility as provided in Section 1722 of Title 69 of the

Oklahoma Statutes nor to the use of such rights-of-way with the

express consent of the Authority.

D. The Authority, its trustees, officers, agents, servants and

employees shall have authority to physically remove any such

gasoline pump, oil, gas or water drilling rig, line or structure,

tank battery or other equipment or structure used in the collection,

processing or transportation of hydrocarbons or other minerals,

driveway canopy, building, sign, fence, post, thing or structure.

If the owner of any such gasoline pump, oil, gas or water drilling

rig, line or structure, tank battery or other equipment or structure

used in the collection, processing or transportation of hydrocarbons

or other minerals, driveway canopy, building, sign, fence, post,

thing or structure fails to remove the same within a reasonable time

after written demand for the removal thereof has been made upon such

owner by registered mail or personal service, the Authority, its

trustees, its officers, agents, servants and employees may

physically tear down and remove such gasoline pump, oil, gas or

water drilling rig, line or structure, tank battery or other

equipment or structure used in the collection, processing or

transportation of hydrocarbons or other minerals, driveway canopy,

building, sign, fence, post, thing or structure.