{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-820.4","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-820.4","heading":"Required agreement terms","body":"A. A solar power facility agreement shall provide that the\n\ngrantee is responsible for removing the grantee's solar power\n\nfacilities from the landowner's property and that the grantee shall,\n\nin accordance with any other applicable laws or regulations, safely:\n\n1. Clear, clean, and remove from the property each solar energy\n\ndevice, transformer, and substation;\n\n2. For each foundation of a solar energy device, transformer,\n\nor substation installed in the ground:\n\na. clear, clean, and remove the foundation from the\n\nground to a depth of at least three (3) feet below the\n\nsurface grade of the land in which the foundation is\n\ninstalled, and\n\nb. ensure that each hole or cavity created in the ground\n\nby the removal is filled with soil of the same type or\n\na similar type as the predominant soil found on the\n\nproperty;\n\n3. For each buried cable, including power, fiber-optic, and\n\ncommunications cables, installed in the ground:\n\na. clear, clean, and remove the cable from the ground to\n\na depth of at least three (3) feet below the surface\n\ngrade of the land in which the cable is installed, and\n\nb. ensure that each hole or cavity created in the ground\n\nby the removal is filled with soil of the same type or\n\na similar type as the predominant soil found on the\n\nproperty; and\n\n4. Clear, clean, and remove from the property each overhead\n\npower or communications line installed by the grantee on the\n\nproperty at the request of the landowner.\n\nB. The agreement shall provide that, at the request of the\n\nlandowner, the grantee shall:\n\n1. Clear, clean, and remove each road constructed by the\n\ngrantee on the property; and\n\n2. Ensure that each hole or cavity created in the ground by the\n\nremoval is filled with soil of the same type or a similar type as\n\nthe predominant soil found on the property.\n\nC. The agreement shall provide that, at the request of the\n\nlandowner, if reasonable, the grantee shall:\n\n1. Remove from the property all rocks over twelve (12) inches\n\nin diameter excavated during the decommissioning or removal process;\n\n2. Return the property to a tillable state using scarification,\n\nV-rip, or disc methods, as appropriate; and\n\n3. Ensure that:\n\na. each hole or cavity created in the ground by the\n\nremoval is filled with soil of the same type or a\n\nsimilar type as the predominant soil found on the\n\nproperty, and\n\nb. the surface is returned as near as reasonably possible\n\nto the same condition as before the grantee dug holes\n\nor cavities, including by reseeding pastureland with\n\nnative grasses prescribed by an appropriate\n\ngovernmental agency, if any. Noninvasive grasses\n\nshall be allowed when reseeding native grasses is not\n\neconomically feasible.\n\nD. The landowner shall make a request under subsection B or C\n\nof this section not later than the one hundred eightieth day after\n\nthe later of:\n\n1. The date on which the solar power facility is no longer\n\ncapable of generating electricity in commercial quantities; or\n\n2. The date the landowner receives written notice of intent to\n\ndecommission the solar power facility from the grantee.","path":["OK Code","Title 17"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os17.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"54aa80b17f185d1ebe3e4e312ed2827bd1e21ea80f6e4e37fd2f069031292a99","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-820.3","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-820.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}