Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-110.3: Definitions

As used in this act:

1. "Board" means the Oklahoma Water Resources Board;

2. "Dam" means any artificial barrier, together with

appurtenant works, which does or may impound or divert water;

3. "Gully plug" means any grade stabilization structure that

has less than five (5) acre-feet of water storage available below

the principal spillway elevation and less than fifty (50) acre-feet

of storage volume below the emergency spillway elevation;

4. "Owner" means any person who, jointly or severally, owns,

controls, maintains, manages, or proposes to construct a dam or

reservoir, and includes but is not limited to those persons shown by

records of the county registrar of deeds in the county where the dam

or reservoir lies to have some interest, by fee, easement, mortgage

or otherwise, in the land on which the dam and lake lie, and may

also include but is not limited to those persons who may derive a

direct pecuniary benefit from the existence of the lake; and

5. "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,

association, corporation, any trust formed for the benefit of an

individual, business or any public entity, federal agency, the State

of Oklahoma and any political subdivision thereof, municipalities,

and any other legal entity.