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OK HB2119

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Chris Kannady

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

HB 2119 Summary

  • Enacts the Oklahoma Uniform Easement Relocation Act of 2025, allowing servient estate owners to relocate easements through civil action if relocation does not materially lessen utility, increase burden on the easement holder, impair safety, or harm the dominant estate or other recorded interests.

  • Excludes public utility easements, conservation easements, and negative easements from relocation; does not apply to easements relocated by mutual consent.

  • Requires servient estate owners to serve summons and petition on easement holders, security-interest holders, and lessees of record; courts must issue detailed orders specifying conditions, improvements, and mitigation requirements for relocation.

  • Establishes that the servient estate owner bears all reasonable expenses of relocation including construction, permits, title work, and title insurance; parties must act in good faith to facilitate relocation after court approval.

  • Provides that relocation rights cannot be waived by agreement regardless of easement instrument language; applies to easements created before, on, or after the effective date; becomes effective November 1, 2025.

Legislative Description

Easements; the Oklahoma Uniform Easement Relocation Act of 2025; easement relocation; court orders; effective date.

Last Action

Policy recommendation to the Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee; Do Pass Civil Judiciary

2/25/2025

Committee Referrals

Civil Judiciary2/4/2025
Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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