§ 10-9.1. Short title--Oklahoma Registered Poultry Feeding Operations Act--Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 2. Agriculture
2 Okl.St.Ann. § 10-9.1
§ 10-9.1. Short title--Oklahoma Registered Poultry Feeding Operations Act--Definitions
1. “Best Management Practices” or “BMPs” means schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices which prevent or reduce the pollution of waters of the state as established by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry pursuant to Section 10-9.7 of this title;
3. “Certificate” means a written document issued to an individual by the Board pursuant to Section 10-9.17 of this title which indicates that the individual is authorized to land-apply poultry waste by the Oklahoma Poultry Waste Applicators Certification Act;1
5. “Commercial poultry waste applicator” means any person who engages in commercial land-application of poultry waste. Any farmer while working for a neighbor in agricultural production, and not advertising, nor holding himself or herself out to be in the business of land-applying poultry waste, shall not be classified as a commercial poultry waste applicator, but as a private poultry waste applicator;
12. “Integrator” means an entity which unites the elements associated with the poultry industry, including but not limited to hatching, feeding, processing, and marketing. It includes, but is not limited to, situations when growing is contracted out to others and when the integrator operates its own growing facilities;
14. “Nutrient Management Plan” means a written plan that includes a combination of conservation and management practices designed to protect the natural resources of the state as required by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry pursuant to the provisions of Section 10-9.7 of this title and shall also include a certified nutrient management plan and animal waste management plan;
23. “Private poultry waste applicator” means any person who is not a commercial poultry waste applicator but engages in the land application of poultry waste for purposes including, but not limited to, producing any agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by the person or such person's employer, or if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities, on the property of another person;
25. “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, storm sewers, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof, and shall include under all circumstances the waters of the United States which are contained within the boundaries of, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof. Process wastewaters shall not be considered as waters of the state if contaminated at the site.
Credits
Laws 1998, c. 232, § 1, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2012, c. 79, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2015, c. 313, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.
Footnotes
Title 2, § 10-9.16 et seq.
2 Okl. St. Ann. § 10-9.1, OK ST T. 2 § 10-9.1
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 295 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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