{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-6-403","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-2-6-403","heading":"Requirements of construction or operation of sewage","body":"treatment systems - Planning residential development sewage\n\ntreatment - Plats.\n\nA. No small public sewage treatment system or individual sewage\n\ntreatment system shall be constructed or operated unless such\n\nsystem, when constructed, complies with requirements prescribed by\n\nthe Environmental Quality Board as determined by an inspection\n\nperformed by the Department of Environmental Quality or a person\n\nauthorized by the Department.\n\n1. It shall be the duty of the person contracting with an\n\ninstaller who is modifying or installing an on-site sewage treatment\n\nsystem for a residence or business to certify the number of bedrooms\n\nin the residence or the water usage of the business that will be\n\nserved by the sewage treatment system so that the system can be\n\nproperly sized.\n\n2. Upon reinspection of an approved system, performed at the\n\nrequest of the lot owner, the Department or a person authorized by\n\nthe Department shall not require that the system be uncovered unless\n\nthere is evidence that the system has not functioned properly.\n\nB. Any person, corporation or other legal entity which creates\n\nor intends to create a residential development outside the corporate\n\nlimits of a city or town shall file a plat describing the methods of\n\nsewage treatment for such residential development with the\n\nDepartment. Approval of the plat shall be obtained prior to\n\nrecording the plat, offering a lot or lots for sale or beginning\n\nconstruction within such residential development.\n\n1. The plat shall include:\n\na. a description of the methods for providing water\n\nsupply and sewage treatment. If a public water supply\n\nor public sewage is to be used, then verification of\n\nthe preliminary approval from the Department shall be\n\nsubmitted along with the plat,\n\nb. the actual lot size of each lot in square feet, acres\n\nor fractions of acres, and\n\nc. the location of any public water supply source,\n\nincluding wells and surface water supplies, within\n\nthree hundred (300) feet of the residential\n\ndevelopment.\n\n2. Upon approval by the Department, the plat of the residential\n\ndevelopment shall be imprinted with the stamp of the Department\n\nbearing the word \"approved\", restrictions, if any, signature of the\n\nDepartment or the Department's local representative and the date.\n\nApproval of the plat shall be made effective thirty (30) days after\n\nthe plat is filed with the Department unless specifically rejected\n\nprior to the expiration of the said thirty-day period of time.\n\n3. The office of county clerk shall not record a plat\n\ncontaining any lot of less than two and one-half (2 1/2) acres\n\nsituated outside the corporate limits of a municipality unless said\n\ninstrument bears the \"approved\" stamp of the Department. The\n\nDepartment shall have no authority to disapprove and shall approve\n\nplats of tracts that are being developed for individual residence in\n\nwhich no single tract is less than two and one-half (2 1/2) acres,\n\nprovided that none of the lots are within three hundred (300) feet\n\nof a public water supply source.\n\nC. Persons creating or intending to create a residential\n\ndevelopment, after receiving the stamp of approval from the\n\nDepartment or the Department's local representative, shall file such\n\nplat in the land records of the county where the residential\n\ndevelopment is to be situated.\n\nD. For purposes of this section, “subdivision of land for\n\npurposes of a residential development” shall have the same meaning\n\nas “subdivision” as defined in Section 863.9 of Title 19 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes.\n\nE. Any person who knowingly creates a residential development\n\nwithout receiving the approval of the Department or the Department's\n\nlocal representative of a plat or without filing of record a plat in\n\nviolation of this section, or who installs a private sewage\nfined in Section 863.9 of Title 19 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes.\n\nE. Any person who knowingly creates a residential development\n\nwithout receiving the approval of the Department or the Department's\n\nlocal representative of a plat or without filing of record a plat in\n\nviolation of this section, or who installs a private sewage\n\ntreatment system on a lot for which disapproval of a private sewage\n\ntreatment system has previously been filed of record shall be deemed\n\nguilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a\n\nfine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than\n\nFive Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for each violation.\n\nF. The Department is authorized to use monies other than fees\n\nor appropriated funds as such monies may be available to the\n\nDepartment to offer financial assistance to indigent citizens of the\n\nState of Oklahoma to reduce the incidence of surfacing sewage in the\n\nState of Oklahoma.","path":["OK Code","Title 27A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os27A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5562abc6e258e919e4ed6805e26b359c7c937b82ffeb5f9cd5d0cdeebb16fb75","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-6-402","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-27a-27a-2-6-403.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}