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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 530 By: Murdock
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to state-owned fencing; requiring
certain telephone hotline maintenan ce; providing
certain telephone hotline and fence repair
procedures; requiring certain notification;
authorizing certain rule promulgation by the Oklahoma
Department of Agricult ure, Food, and Forestry ;
providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 157 of Title 4, unless there is
created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
shall maintain on its official website a telephone number connected
to a hotline administered and monitored by the Oklahoma Department
of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry for any damaged state-owned
fencing or state-owned fencing otherwise in disrepair.
B. The hotline shall prompt callers to provide the approximate
location of and the date in which the caller first viewed the
damaged or otherwise in disrepair state-owned fencing. The Oklahoma
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Department of Agriculture , Food, and Forestry shall attempt to
identify the appropriate state agency or institution responsible for
the fence within a week of receiving the complaint and transmit
electronically and via mail to the state agency or institution a
notification providing the ap proximate location of and the date in
which the caller first viewed the damage or disrepair.
C. The state agency or institution shall act within thirty (30)
days of receiving notification from t he Oklahoma Department of
Agriculture, Food, and Fore stry to repair the damaged or otherwise
in disrepair state-owned fencing.
D. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture , Food, and Forestry
is authorized to promulgate rules to effectuate the provisions of
this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall beco me effective November 1, 2023.
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