Oklahoma § 2-20-56 Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance.

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 2-20-56 — Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance.

Oklahoma § 2-20-56

Title 2Agriculture

This text of Oklahoma § 2-20-56 (Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Oklahoma primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-20-56 (2026).

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

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

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 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.