{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-802","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-802","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Exploration Rights Act of 2011:\n\n1. “Act” means the Exploration Rights Act of 2011;\n\n2. “Minerals” means oil, natural gas and other minerals of\n\nsimilar type or character that may be produced or associated with\n\nthe oil or natural gas, regardless of whether title to, or ownership\n\nof, the minerals is severed from the fee simple or absolute fee as\n\ndefined by Section 23 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n3. “Mineral estate” means, as to any lands within the State of\n\nOklahoma, the minerals underlying a tract of real property, or the\n\nright to capture the minerals underlying a tract of real property,\n\ntogether with the right to make reasonable use of the surface\n\nestate, including the right of ingress and egress therefor, for the\n\npurpose of exploring, severing, capturing and producing the\n\nminerals, as such rights both have been historically articulated at\n\ncommon law and also included within the surface damage statutes,\n\nregardless of whether title to, or ownership of, the minerals is\n\nsevered from the fee simple or absolute fee as defined by Section 23\n\nof Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n4. “Mineral owner” means a person owning the mineral estate or\n\na right to explore, sever, capture and produce the minerals, whether\n\nsuch right is derived from ownership of the mineral estate, from an\n\noil and gas lease or from a force pooling order issued by the\n\nCorporation Commission, and includes the operator;\n\n5. “Surface damages statutes” means Sections 318.2 through\n\n318.9 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, as the same now exists\n\nor may hereafter be amended;\n\n6. “Oil and gas operations” means, for purposes of this act\n\nonly, (a) conducting drilling, completion and operation of a well or\n\nwells for the purpose of exploring, severing, capturing and\n\nproducing minerals, or (b) conducting seismic exploration;\n\n7. “Operator” means a person engaged in the exploration,\n\nseverance, capture or production of the minerals for that person\n\nalone, for other persons only, or for that person and others;\n\n8. “Person” means any individual, executor, administrator,\n\nestate, agent, trust, trustee, institution, receiver, business\n\ntrust, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,\n\ncooperative, joint venture, governmental entity or agency,\n\nassociation or any other group or combination acting as a unit;\n\n9. “Surface estate” means, as to any lands within the State of\n\nOklahoma, the fee simple or absolute fee ownership of a tract of\n\nreal property, as defined by Sections 5 and 23 of Title 60 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes, less and excluding the mineral estate;\n\n10. “Wind energy developer” means a person who is developing or\n\nconstructing, pursuant to rights granted by a wind or solar energy\n\nagreement, a wind energy facility, or has constructed and is now\n\noperating a wind energy facility;\n\n11. “Wind energy facility” means an electrical generation\n\nfacility consisting of one or more wind turbines, substations,\n\nmeteorological data towers, aboveground and underground electrical\n\ntransmission lines, transformers, control systems, and other\n\nbuildings or facilities under common ownership or operating control\n\nused to support the operation of the facility, and whose primary\n\npurpose is to supply electricity to an off-site customer or\n\ncustomers. Wind energy facility shall not include either:\n\na. a wind energy facility located entirely on property\n\nheld in fee simple absolute estate by the owner of the\n\nwind energy facility, or\n\nb. substations, transmission lines, transformers, and\n\ncontrol systems which:\nose primary\n\npurpose is to supply electricity to an off-site customer or\n\ncustomers. Wind energy facility shall not include either:\n\na. a wind energy facility located entirely on property\n\nheld in fee simple absolute estate by the owner of the\n\nwind energy facility, or\n\nb. substations, transmission lines, transformers, and\n\ncontrol systems which:\n\n(i) are owned and operated by an electric utility\n\nregulated by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission,\n\nthe Grand River Dam Authority, the Oklahoma\n\nMunicipal Power Authority or an Oklahoma rural\n\nelectric cooperative, and\n\n(ii) which are not constructed or placed pursuant to\n\nrights granted through a wind or solar energy\n\nagreement; and\n\n12. “Wind or solar energy agreement” means the same as defined\n\nin Section 820.1 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 52"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os52.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"940aa5d86741d1a7a7b3aa27193881caaeb13b0aa00d0226e3e1d84af0ac9118","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-801","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-803"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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