Title 19 — Title 19 — Counties and County Officers

Removal - Vacancies - Compensation. A lake area planning commission shall consist of not less than five (5) nor more than eleven (11) members, all of whom shall be residents of the affected county or counties. The board of county commissioners shall, by resolution creating the pl…

The jurisdictional area of a lake area planning commission may include all or part of the unincorporated area of any county or counties authorized to create such a planning commission, provided that the jurisdictional area shall be limited to a three-mile perimeter from the norma…

Meetings - Funds - Personnel - Expenses - Fees A lake area planning commission shall have the authority to adopt, amend, extend, add to and implement a comprehensive plan for the betterment of its jurisdictional area as a place of residence and business. It may consider any subje…

adjustment. At the discretion of the board or boards of county commissioners, a lake area planning commission may be designated as the zoning commission, for the purpose of establishing and administering zoning regulations within its jurisdiction. In the event that a board or boa…

A violation of this act or any order or regulation adopted under authority of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by fine or by imprisonment or both, as provided by Section 10 of Title 21. Added by Laws 1982, c. 183, § 8.

Exclusive, original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court over all controversies that may arise under the provisions of this article, and any city, town or place being a candidate for the location of any county seat in any such election, shall have a right to a …

Whenever fifty persons, resident of a given area, or a majority of the holders of title to lands in such area, in any county susceptible of being furnished sewer systems for domestic use by the same system or by a combined system of sewer lines, desire to provide for a common sew…

A petition shall be filed with the board of county commissioners signed by a majority of the holders of title to lands in the proposed district desiring to be embraced in such district, which petition shall set forth the name of the proposed district, the boundaries of the propos…

Upon the filing of a petition with the board of county commissioners for a change of boundary lines of any sewer improvement district signed by a majority of the holders of title to lands of the area proposed to be annexed to an adjacent sewer improvement district, the board of c…

district. Such election shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state and the regular election officials shall be in charge at the usual polling place of each regular precinct or part of a precinct, within the boundaries of said proposed district, a…

Custodian of funds - Reports - Compensation. The board of county commissioners shall, after the organization of the sewer improvement district, appoint a board of directors for such improvement district to be composed of three (3) members, one of whom shall be designated director…

of property - Contracts. The board of directors shall hold their regular meetings in their office on the first Tuesday of each month beginning at 10:00 A.M., and in addition thereto, such special meetings as may be required for the proper transaction of business, provided all spe…

Dissolution. (a) The legal title to all property acquired under this act shall immediately and by operation of law vest in such sewer improvement district in its corporate name and shall be held by such district in trust for, and is hereby dedicated and set apart to, the uses and…

The board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to take conveyances and other assurance for all property acquired by it under this act in the name of such sewer improvement district, to and for the uses and purposes herein expressed, and to institute and maintain any an…

It shall be the duty of the secretary to attend all of the regular and special meetings of the board of directors and to make a proper record of all of the proceedings, to record at length in a separate book all of the orders, rules and regulations issued or made by the board of …

private sewer lines. The board of directors of such district is hereby authorized and empowered to make all bylaws, rules and regulations, penal or otherwise, that shall be necessary for the full protection, maintenance, management and control of a sewerage system of said distric…

If any application for a hearing, upon any question arising after any such election has been held, is filed with the Supreme Court it shall be the duty of said court to make said matter special and give it precedence over the other business of said court, and consider and pass up…

specifications - Contracts. Whenever such district sewer or sewers shall have been authorized, the said board of directors shall then proceed to employ a registered professional engineer licensed in the State of Oklahoma, and cause to be prepared profiles, plans and specification…

Special assessment bonds. As soon as any subdistrict sewer line or lines shall have been completed the engineer having charge of the work shall compute the whole cost thereof which shall also include the cost of advertising, appraising, engineering and such other expense necessar…

assessments - Foreclosure - Sale. The clerk of said district shall no earlier than the first day in July and no later than the tenth day in July in each year certify the installments of assessments coming due on the first day of September in said year, together with interest on t…

assessment. No suit shall be sustained to set aside any assessment made or special assessment bond for which any assessment is security, unless brought within thirty (30) days from the time such assessment is made; provided, that in the event any special assessment shall be set a…

As soon as practicable after the organization of such improvement district, the board of directors shall, by resolution entered on its record, formulate a general plan of proposed operation for the district, in which shall be stated what constructed works or other property is pro…

1949.

Such bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by revenue derived from an annual assessment upon the real property of the district, and all the real property of the district shall be and remain liable to be assessed for such payments as herein provided. Added by Laws 1947, p. …

The county assessor must on or before the first Monday in May in each year assess all the real property in the district to the persons who own, claim, or have the possession or control thereof, at its full cash value. He must prepare an assessment book, in which must be listed al…

On or before the 15th day of May in each year the assessor must complete his assessment book and deliver the same to the clerk of the board, who must immediately give notice thereof and of the time the board of directors, acting as a board of equalization, will meet to equalize a…

Upon the day specified in the notice required by the preceding section, the board of directors, which is hereby constituted the board of equalization for that purpose, shall meet and continue in session from day to day as long as may be necessary, not to exceed ten (10) days excl…

All special election commissioners, selected and commissioned as provided herein, shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per day for each and every day necessarily employed in the work connected with the holding of such election, includi…

and costs of operation - Lien - Limitations. The board shall then levy an annual assessment sufficient to pay the interest of the outstanding bonds, as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the bonds in the amount set forth in the…

The cost and expense of purchasing and acquiring property and constructing the works and improvements herein provided for shall be wholly paid in cash or in the bonds of said district issued as hereinbefore provided at their par value with accrued interest. The bonds may be issue…

For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the organization of the district and the care, operation, management, repair and improvement of the property purchased and works constructed, including salaries of officers and employees, the board may fix rates of tolls and charges fo…

After adopting the plans for the construction of the district sewer lines, sewerage disposal, or treatment plant, or parts thereof, and other work in connection therewith, and after determining the property necessary to be acquired, and after the bonds as hereinbefore provided fo…

No claims shall be paid by the clerk of said district until the same shall have been presented and allowed by the board of directors and only upon warrants signed by the president and countersigned by the clerk, and if the district treasurer has not sufficient money on hand to pa…

19 O.S. § 895 Repealed by Laws 1963, c. 325, § 1705, eff. July 1, 1963

That the board is authorized in its discretion to file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma for the approval of any bonds or series of bonds to be issued hereunder, and exclusive original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court to hear and determine e…

All instruments and deeds filed for record in the office of the county clerk by or under the direction of the board of directors of any sewer improvement district located in such county shall be filed and recorded without any filing or recording fee being charged therefor. Added …

A county sewer improvement district lying adjacent to a city or town may consolidate and become one municipal corporation with such city or town, with all the powers, obligations and duties of the adjacent city or town whose name shall be assumed and adopted in the proceedings he…

Ordinance. The board of directors of any county sewer improvement district, or the resident citizens liable to pay a majority of the taxes assessed, as shown by the last preceding tax roll of the county, on real property situated within the boundaries of such county sewer improve…

district offices vacated. Whenever an entire county sewer improvement district shall be consolidated with an adjacent city or town, the property, both real and personal and effects of every nature and description of such county sewer improvement district shall be the property of …

The property within the county sewer improvement district consolidated under the provisions of this act shall assume its full proportion of all legal bonded indebtedness of the city or town to which it is consolidated, and the city or town to which it is consolidated shall assume…

In the event of such consolidation, the city or town shall comply with provisions of bond resolutions pertaining to outstanding county sewer improvement district bonds and shall remit the sum due for debt requirements as set out therein. Added by Laws 1955, p. 182, § 5, emerg. ef…

The bonds of the county sewer improvement district referred to in this act pertain only to bonds issued under authority of Title 19, Oklahoma Statutes 1951, Section 884, which consist of bonds issued for public main lines and sewage disposal or treatment plant, including the othe…

The consolidation of a county sewer improvement district with an adjoining city or town under the provisions of this act, shall not affect or qualify the rights of any owner or owners of mineral interests or mineral estates, or interests therein, in and to the land covered in any…

Any city, town or place being a candidate for the location of any county seat in any such election may appoint and designate one qualified elector in any precinct or voting place to act as challenger at such precinct; and may appoint and designate one poll book holder and one spe…

Whenever twenty-five percent (25%) of the holders of title to lands outside of the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town shall petition the board of county commissioners of the county in which such area owned by them is located for the formation of a fire protection d…

19 O.S. § 901.10 Repealed by Laws 1951, p. 47, § 3

To permit an apportionment of the cost of the benefits accruing by reason of the maintenance of fire protection, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board to prepare and keep a record which shall be known as the fire protection district appraisal record. Such record shall co…

19 O.S. § 901.12 Repealed by Laws 1951, p. 47, § 3

19 O.S. § 901.13 Repealed by Laws 1951, p. 47, § 3

As soon as practicable after organization of such district, the board of directors shall, by resolution entered on its record, formulate a general plan of proposed operation for the district in which shall be stated the cost of operation and maintenance of the district, what prop…