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Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Statutes Citationized
Title 76. Torts
Oklahoma Livestock Activities Liability Limitation Act
§
50.2 . Term Defined.
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Cite as: 76 O.S. § 50.2 (OSCN 2001), Oklahoma Livestock
Activities Liability Limitation Act
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As used in the Oklahoma Livestock Activities Liability Limitation
Act:
1.
"Engages in a livestock activity" includes training,
racing, showing, riding, or assisting in medical treatment
of, or driving livestock, and any person assisting a participant,
livestock activity sponsor or livestock professional. The
term "engages in a livestock activity" does not
include being a spectator at a livestock activity, except
in cases where the spectator places himself or herself in
immediate proximity to livestock activity;
2.
"Livestock" means any cattle, bison, hog, sheep,
goat, equine livestock, including but not limited to animals
of the families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or
birds of the ratite group;
3.
"Livestock activity" includes but is not limited
to:
a.
livestock shows, fairs, livestock sales, competitions, performances,
or parades that involve any or all breeds of livestock and
any of the livestock disciplines, including, but not limited
to, rodeos, auctions, driving, pulling, judging, cutting
and showing,
b. livestock training or teaching activities or both such
training and teaching activities,
c. boarding or pasturing livestock,
d. inspecting or evaluating livestock belonging to another,
whether or not the owner has received some monetary consideration
or other thing of value for the use of the livestock or
is permitting a prospective purchaser of the livestock to
inspect or evaluate the livestock,
e. drives, rides, trips, hunts or other livestock activities
of any type however informal or impromptu that are sponsored
by a livestock activity sponsor, and
f. placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine, or otherwise
preparing livestock for show;
4.
"Livestock activity sponsor" means an individual,
group, club, partnership or corporation, whether or not
the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit, which
sponsors, organizes, or provides the facilities for, a livestock
activity, including but not limited to: livestock clubs,
4-H clubs, FFA chapters, school and college-sponsored classes,
programs and activities, therapeutic riding programs, and
operators, instructors, and promoters of livestock facilities,
including, but not limited to, barns, stables, clubhouses,
ponyride strings, fairs and arenas at which the activity
is held;
5.
"Livestock professional" means a person engaged
for compensation in:
a.
instructing a participant or renting to a participant livestock
for the purpose of engaging in livestock activity, or
b. renting equipment or tack to a participant;
6.
"Inherent risks of livestock activities" means
those dangers or conditions which are an integral part of
livestock activities, including but not limited to:
a.
the propensity of livestock to behave in ways that may result
in injury to persons on or around them,
b. the unpredictability of livestock's reaction to such
things as sounds, sudden movement and unfamiliar objects,
persons or other animals,
c. certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions
unknown to the livestock activity sponsor,
d. collisions with other livestock or objects, and
e. the potential of tack to become dislodged or move in
ways that may result in injury to persons on or around livestock
activities; and
7.
"Participant" means any person, whether amateur
or professional, who engages in a livestock activity, whether
or not a fee is paid to participate in the livestock activity.
Historical
Data
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Added
by Laws 1999, c. 326, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.
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