2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-6-404. Court action against persons not abiding by disease control measures – Hearing – Violation.

A. If the State Board of Agriculture determines that a person has not or is not reasonably likely to abide by the disease control measures established by the Board, the Board may request a court hearing to determine if the emergency temporary restrictions should continue. The court shall schedule the hearing as expeditiously as possible. When the Board requests a court hearing under this section, restrictions pursuant to Section 17 of this act shall continue to apply to the person until the court has held the temporary emergency restrictions hearing and issues an order either continuing the emergency disease control measures established by the Board or removing the emergency disease control measures.

B. If the Board requests a court hearing pursuant to this section, notice of the hearing must be served upon any person restricted at least twenty-four (24) hours before the hearing.

C. The notice must contain the following information:

1. The time, date, and place of the hearing;

2. The grounds and underlying facts upon which continued restrictions are sought;

3. The person's right to appear by electronic means at the hearing and the right to have a representative appear in person at the hearing;

4. The person's right to present and cross-examine witnesses; and

5. The person's right to counsel, including the right, if the person is indigent, to representation by counsel designated by the court or county of venue.

D. 1. The court may order the continued restriction on the movement of the person if it finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that travel outside of the quarantine zone by the person would pose an imminent threat of transporting a dangerous, infectious, or communicable disease outside of the boundaries of the quarantine zone.

2. If the person agrees to sign and comply with the acknowledgment form referred to in Section 17 of this act, the temporary restrictions shall not continue longer than thirty (30) days.

3. If the person refuses to sign and comply with the acknowledgment form, the temporary restrictions shall continue for a longer time as specified by the court. Refusal by the person to sign and comply with the acknowledgment form constitutes a knowing violation of the Animal Disease Outbreak Temporary Emergency Act.

Added by Laws 2002, c. 173, § 18, emerg. eff. May 6, 2002.