Oklahoma 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB2898 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/17/2025

                             
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
HOUSE BILL 2898 	By: Townley 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Corporation 
Commission; prohibiting the construction of certain 
facilities within certain distance of primary 
residences; providing setback distance details; 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 86.5a of Title 17, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
No person or entity shall construct, establish, or operate a 
commercial pit, commercial soil farming operation, or commercial 
recycling facility with in five hundred (500) feet of a primary 
residence.  The setback distance shall be measured in a straight 
line from the nearest point of the proposed or existing commercial 
operation to the nearest point of the primary residence.   
 
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SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2025. 
 
60-1-10518 JBH 12/13/24