Article V — Legislative Department
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Okla. Const. art. V, § 61 Section 61
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The legislature may enact laws authorizing cities to pension meritorious and disabled police officers.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 62 Section 62
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The Legislature may enact laws to provide for the retirement for meritorious service of teachers and other employees in the public schools, colleges and universities in this State supported wholly or in part by public funds, and may provide for payments to be made and accumulated…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 63 Section 63
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The Legislature, in order to insure continuity of State and local governmental operations in periods of emergency resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack or in periods of emergency resulting from the imminent threat of such disasters, shall have the power and the immediat…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 9A The state shall be apportioned into forty-eight senatorial districts in the following manner
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The state shall be apportioned into forty-eight senatorial districts in the following manner: the nineteen most populous counties, as determined by the most recent Federal Decennial Census, shall constitute nineteen senatorial districts with one senator to be nominated and electe…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 10A The House of Representatives shall consist of the number of Representatives as determined by the formula and procedure set forth herein
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The House of Representatives shall consist of the number of Representatives as determined by the formula and procedure set forth herein. The number of members of the House of Representatives to which each county shall be entitled shall be determined according to the following for…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 11A Section 11A
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The apportionment of the Legislature shall be accomplished by the Legislature according to the provisions of this article, within ninety (90) legislative days after the convening of the first regular session of the Legislature following each Federal Decennial Census. If the Legis…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 5A Section 5A
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Each county in the State of Oklahoma may by a majority of the legal voters of such county voting upon the proposition, abolish township organization or government. The Board of County Commissioners of such county, upon a petition signed by sixteen per centum of the total number o…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 11B Section 11B
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Each order of apportionment rendered by the Apportionment Commission shall be in writing and shall be filed with the Secretary of State and shall be signed by at least two members of the Commission.
Okla. Const. art. V, § 11C Section 11C
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Any qualified elector may seek a review of any apportionment order of the Commission, or apportionment law of the legislature, within sixty days from the filing thereof, by filing in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma a petition which must set forth a proposed apportionment more nearl…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 11D Section 11D
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Upon review, the Supreme Court shall determine whether or not the apportionment order of the Commission or act of the legislature is in compliance with the formula as set forth in this Article and, if so, it shall require the same to be filed or refiled as the case may be with th…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 11E Section 11E
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The Supreme Court, upon petition of any qualified elector alleging failure of the Commission to timely act, is hereby vested with original jurisdiction to compel, and shall compel, the Commission to make the apportionment as herein provided. It shall also have exclusive jurisdict…
Okla. Const. art. V, § 17A Section 17A
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Any member of the Legislature who is elected to office after the effective date of this amendment shall be eligible to serve no more than 12 years in the Oklahoma State Legislature. Years in Legislative office need not be consecutive and years of service in both the Senate and th…