As used in the Oklahoma Forestry Code:

1. “Director” means the Director of Forestry of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

2. “Division” means the Forestry Division of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

3. “Established property line” means any boundary line which has been:

a.recognized by adjoining land owners as a boundary and uncontested for at least fifteen (15) years including, but not limited to, fence lines, roads, and natural features,

b.established by a registered land surveyor, or

c.uncontested for at least fifteen (15) years;

4. “Forest rangers” means all employees of the Forestry Division who have responsibilities in forest protection, including laborers, mechanics, and other employees who assist in forest protection;

5. “Forest” means a tract of land that is at least ten percent (10%) stocked by trees of any size, whether of commercial or noncommercial species, or formerly having tree cover and not currently developed for nonforest use, including woodlands, woodlots, windbreaks, and shelterbelts;

6. “Logging or timber harvesting operations” means the cutting or harvesting of and removal of timber from a site, leaving the root mass intact;

7. “Owner” means the possessor of a fee interest, a tenant, lessee, occupant, or other person in lawful control of land;

8. “Prescribed burning” means the controlled application by the owner of croplands, rangelands, or forestlands of fire to naturally occurring vegetative fuel under specified environmental conditions and following appropriate precautionary measures, which causes the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and accomplish land management objectives;

9. “Timber” means live and dead trees and the profit in any live and dead trees including, but not limited to, bark, foliage, wood, vines, firewood, crossties, and shrubbery;

10. “Timber owner” means any person who owns the right to cut or harvest timber at the time the timber is to be cut or harvested, or who legally owns the severed timber;

11. “Wildfires” means any fire which is not controlled on forests, grasslands, fields, or croplands; and

12. “Wild lands” means any undeveloped lands regardless of kind of vegetative plant cover including forests, prairies, marshes, and swamps.

Added by Laws 1971, c. 349, § 102, emerg. eff. June 24, 1971. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 238, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. Renumbered from Title 2, § 1301-102 by Laws 2001, c. 113, § 56, emerg. eff. April 18, 2001. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 208, § 2, emerg. eff. May 14, 2001; Laws 2001, c. 440, § 2, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2007, c. 195, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 2007.

NOTE: Laws 2001, c. 113, § 4 repealed by Laws 2001, c. 440, § 6, eff. July 1, 2001.