§2-20-55. Evidence of financial ability.
A. Any person who is licensed to operate an animal feeding operation with a liquid animal waste management system within this state shall furnish to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry evidence of financial ability to comply with the requirements for closure of retention structures and other waste facilities as established pursuant to […]
§2-2005. Administration of program – Rules – Advisory committee.
A. The State Board of Career and Technology Education shall administer this program with present personnel and shall not hire any new employees to assist in administering this act. B. The State Board of Career and Technology Education shall adopt rules pertaining to this act which shall take into consideration the special knowledge that farmers […]
§2-20-56. Duties of owners and operators – Nuisance.
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 […]
§2-2006. Quota system.
In the event that any institution is being seriously handicapped in its ability to provide an education or training for all of its students as a result of a disproportionate amount of tuition-waiver students under this act, then the administrative officer of such institution shall certify as to the handicapped condition to the State Board […]
§2-20-57. Setback requirements.
A. Except as authorized by this subsection, no liquid animal waste shall be land applied within five hundred (500) feet of the nearest corner of an occupied residence not owned or leased by the owner of the animal feeding operation. B. Except as provided by Section 20-58 of this title, no concentrated animal feeding operation […]
§2-20-58. Setback requirements – Certain feeding operations exempt.
Animal feeding operations, other than a concentrated animal feeding operation, not licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Feed Yards Act in operation on the effective date of this act shall not be subject to any setback requirements not in effect on the date of past construction. Added by Laws 2007, c. 31, § […]
§2-20-59. Prohibition of construction of feeding operations within certain distance upstream of Pensacola Project boundary.
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall not accept or approve any pending applications requesting permits for construction of any concentrated animal feeding operation to be located within one (1) mile upstream of the Pensacola Project boundary as described in the records of the Grand River Dam Authority and the Federal Emergency Management […]
§2-20-60. Exceeding animal unit capacity – Criteria – Notice.
A. A concentrated animal feeding operation may exceed its animal unit capacity if: 1. A diseased or potentially diseased animal exists at the operation; or 2. A diseased or potentially diseased animal is in the next destination for the production line for the operation; and 3. The owner of the concentrated animal feeding operation has […]
§2-20-61. Violation points system – Denial, suspension or revocation of license.
A. 1. The Board is authorized and directed to promulgate a violation points system for violating the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act which provides greater punishment for violations which are intentional and for violations which pose a greater threat to the environment. 2. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the power to suspend, […]
§2-20-62. Penalties.
A. Any person violating the provisions of the Oklahoma Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act or any rule of the Board promulgated pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be punished by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). B. Any owner or operator who fails […]