Okla. Stat. tit. 76, § 76-50.2

As used in the Oklahoma Livestock Activities Liability

Limitation Act:

1. "Engages in a livestock activity" includes training, racing,

showing, riding, or assisting in medical treatment of, or driving

livestock, or engaging in any agritourism activity involving

livestock or on a location where livestock are displayed or raised,

and any person assisting a participant, livestock activity sponsor

or livestock professional. The term "engages in a livestock

activity" does not include being a spectator at a livestock

activity, except in cases where the spectator places himself or

herself in immediate proximity to livestock activity;

2. "Agritourism activity" includes, but is not limited to, any

activity carried out on a farm or ranch that allows members of the

general public, for recreational, entertainment, or educational

purposes, to view or enjoy rural activities, including farming,

ranching, historic, cultural, harvest-your-own activities, or

natural activities and attractions. An activity is an agritourism

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activity whether or not the participant pays to participate in the

activity;

3. "Livestock" means any cattle, bison, hog, sheep, goat,

equine livestock, including but not limited to animals of the

families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds of the ratite

group;

4. "Livestock activity" includes but is not limited to:

a. livestock shows, fairs, livestock sales, competitions,

performances, or parades that involve any or all

breeds of livestock and any of the livestock

disciplines, including, but not limited to, rodeos,

auctions, driving, pulling, judging, cutting and

showing,

b. livestock training or teaching activities or both such

training and teaching activities,

c. boarding or pasturing livestock,

d. inspecting or evaluating livestock belonging to

another, whether or not the owner has received some

monetary consideration or other thing of value for the

use of the livestock or is permitting a prospective

purchaser of the livestock to inspect or evaluate the

livestock,

e. drives, rides, trips, hunts or other livestock

activities of any type however informal or impromptu

that are sponsored by a livestock activity sponsor,

f. placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine, or

otherwise preparing livestock for show, and

g. agritourism activities involving the viewing of,

handling of, riding of, showing of, or other

interactive activities with livestock;

5. "Livestock activity sponsor" means an individual, group,

club, partnership or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is

operating for profit or nonprofit, which sponsors, organizes, or

provides the facilities for, a livestock activity, including but not

limited to: livestock clubs, 4-H clubs, FFA chapters, school and

college-sponsored classes, programs and activities, therapeutic

riding programs, and operators, instructors, and promoters of

livestock facilities, including, but not limited to, barns, stables,

clubhouses, ponyride strings, fairs and arenas at which the activity

is held;

6. "Livestock professional" means a person engaged for

compensation in:

a. instructing a participant or renting to a participant

livestock for the purpose of engaging in livestock

activity, or

b. renting equipment or tack to a participant;

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7. "Inherent risks of livestock activities" means those dangers

or conditions which are an integral part of livestock activities,

including but not limited to:

a. the propensity of livestock to behave in ways that may

result in injury to persons on or around them,

b. the unpredictability of livestock's reaction to such

things as sounds, sudden movement and unfamiliar

objects, persons or other animals,

c. certain hazards such as surface and subsurface

conditions unknown to the livestock activity sponsor,

d. collisions with other livestock or objects, and
propensity of livestock to behave in ways that may

result in injury to persons on or around them,

b. the unpredictability of livestock's reaction to such

things as sounds, sudden movement and unfamiliar

objects, persons or other animals,

c. certain hazards such as surface and subsurface

conditions unknown to the livestock activity sponsor,

d. collisions with other livestock or objects, and

e. the potential of tack to become dislodged or move in

ways that may result in injury to persons on or around

livestock activities; and

8. "Participant" means any person, whether amateur or

professional, who engages in a livestock activity, whether or not a

fee is paid to participate in the livestock activity.