Oklahoma Code § 2-20-18

Title 2. Agriculture: Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance
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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

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.
Added by Laws 1969, c. 116, § 10.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 315, §
1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 331, § 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Renumbered from § 9-210 of this title by Laws 2005, c. 292, § 25,
eff. July 1, 2005.  Amended by Laws 2007, c. 31, § 18, eff. Nov. 1,
2007.

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