Oklahoma County Zoning Enabling Act — Unincorporated Territory + Agricultural Carveout (OK)
Tracked preemption from the Oklahoma overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1965-01-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:OK
Other Oklahoma preemptions
McGirt v. Oklahoma — Five Tribes + Secondary Reservation Overlay (Criminal Jurisdiction Settled; Civil/Zoning Unresolved)Oklahoma §52-137 — Oil & Gas Surface-Use Preemption (Corporation Commission Exclusive Jurisdiction)Oklahoma Wind Energy Development Act — Setbacks, Decommissioning, NoticeOklahoma §11-47-150 — Military Airfield Influence Zoning (Tinker / Fort Sill / Vance / Altus / McAlester)Oklahoma Brownfields Voluntary Redevelopment Program — DEQ Oversight + Liability LimitOklahoma Local Development Act — Tax Increment Finance DistrictsOklahoma §11-43-107 — Manufactured Housing Anti-Exclusion (Municipal) + §19-865.64a (County)Oklahoma Floodplain Management Act — State Mandate to Adopt Local Floodplain Ordinance
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
parcel.in_unincorporated_county == TruePreempted fields
3 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
county_zoning.scope | override | unincorporated_only | §865.51: counties may zone only territory outside the limits of an incorporated municipality |
county_zoning.agricultural_use_exemption | override | bona_fide_farm_or_ranch_exempt | §865.64: bona-fide farm and ranch uses (including incidental structures and farm-related sales) are broadly exempt from county zoning |
zoning_decision_procedure.board_of_adjustment_required | override | True | §865.59: county board of adjustment with variance / special-exception authority required where county zoning is adopted |
Citation
Authority source
Okla. Stat. tit. 19 §§865.51 through 865.69 (County Zoning Enabling Act); §865.64 (agricultural exemption); parallel manufactured-housing rule at §865.64a
§ §§865.51 et seq.; §865.64
Research notes
Most Oklahoma counties have NOT adopted county zoning. The zoned counties are Oklahoma (FIPS 40109), Tulsa (40143), Cleveland (40027), Canadian (40017), Comanche (40031), Rogers (40131), Wagoner (40145), plus a handful of others. Agricultural exemption is the dominant friction point for rural solar, utility-scale wind, feedlots, and unplatted rural subdivisions. Carry a `county_zoning_adopted: bool` flag on each county record.