Oklahoma 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB467 Compare Versions

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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 467 By: Daniels
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to nuisance; defining term;
66	66	prohibiting nuisance action for certain a ctivities
67	67	after specified time period; placing limitation on
68	68	award of noneconomic damages in certain actions;
69	69	providing for codification; and providing an
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75	75	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
76	76	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
77	77	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1.2 of Title 50, unless there is
78	78	created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
79	79	A. For the purposes of this section, “oil and gas activities”
80	80	includes but is not limited to oil and gas exploration, drill ing,
81	81	fracture stimulation, completion, production, maintenance, plugging
82	82	and abandonment, produced water disposal, secondary recovery
83	83	operations, flow and gathering lines or pipeline infrastructure.
84	84	B. No action for nuisance shall be brought against oil and gas
85	85	activities which have lawfully been in operation for two (2) years
86	86	or more prior to the date of bringing the action. The established
87	87	date of operation is the date on which an oil and gas activity
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139	139	commenced. The established date of operation for ea ch change is not
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141	141	commencement of the expanded activity does not divest the farm or
142	142	ranch of a previously estab lished date of operation if:
143	143	1. The physical facilities of the operation are subsequently
144	144	expanded or new technology adopted; or
145	145	2. Operation is interrupted for no more than three (3) years .
146	146	C. In any action for nuisance brought against oil and gas
147	147	activities on farm or ranch land p ursuant to this section:
148	148	1. The court or jury shal l determine the amount of noneconomic
149	149	damages separately from the amount of com pensation for all other
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151	151	2. Noneconomic damages awarded to a plaintiff shall not exceed
152	152	the greater of three times the amount of compensatory damages or Two
153	153	Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) .
154	154	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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