An act relating to property, the official text

1                   STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2              1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

3 HOUSE BILL 1290            By: Hays

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to property; limiting total land

    owned or encumbered in each county by certain

8   parties; providing for calculation of ownership;

    prohibiting the recording of instruments that would

9   violate limit; providing exceptions; providing for

    codification; and providing an effective date.

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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

13  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1501 of Title 60, unless there

15 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

16  A. The State of Oklahoma shall limit the amount of land owned

17 by the State of Oklahoma, state agencies, and the federal

18 government, and shall limit the amount of land encumbered by any

19 easements, including, but not limited to, conservation easements to

20 no more than ten percent (10%) of the total land of each county in

21 the state.

22  B. The percentage of land owned by the parties mentioned in

23 subsection A of this section shall be calculated by the county clerk

24 of each county in this state. County clerks shall refuse to record

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1 any instrument which would cause more than ten percent (10%) of the

2 total land in the county to be owned by or encumbered by parties

3 mentioned in subsection A of this section.

4   C. The following are exempt from subsection A of this act:

5   1. Federal military bases;

6   2. Flood control lakes or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

7 property; and

8   3. Temporary county real estate holdings that were acquired by

9 the county for nonpayment of taxes.

10  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

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12  60-1-10290      JL  01/06/25

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