Title 11, Title 11 — Cities and Towns

appropriated funds - Levying tax. A. After the hearing and at least seven (7) days prior to the beginning of the budget year, the governing body shall adopt the budget by resolution, or as any charter may require, at the level of classification as defined in Section 17-213 of thi…

budget. Within fifteen (15) days after the filing of any municipal budget with the State Auditor and Inspector, any taxpayer may file protests against any levy of ad valorem taxes for creating sinking funds in the manner provided by this section and Sections 24104 through 24111 o…

Unlawful acts and liability therefor. A. No expenditure may be incurred or made by any officer or employee which exceeds the fund balance for any fund. Any fund balance remaining in a fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be carried forward to the credit of the fund for the ne…

A municipality shall establish funds consistent with legal and operating requirements. Each municipality shall maintain according to its own needs some or all of the following funds or ledgers in its system of accounts: 1. A general fund, to account for all monies received and di…

Each fund shall be made up of accounts for classifying revenues and expenditures. Revenues shall be classified separately by source. Expenditures shall be departmentalized within each fund and shall be classified into at least the following accounts: 1. Personal services, which m…

A municipality may create an operating reserve for the purpose of providing a fund or reserve out of which to meet emergency expenditures. Laws 1979, c. 111, § 14.

Limitations on encumbrances or expenditures. A. The chief executive officer, or designee, as authorized by the governing body, may transfer any unexpended and unencumbered appropriation or any portion thereof from one department to another within the same fund; except that no app…

budget. A. The governing body may amend the budget to make supplemental appropriations to any fund up to the amount of additional revenues which are available for current expenses for the fund due to: 1. Revenues received or to be received from sources not anticipated in the budg…

As used for a budget based on purpose: 1. "Appropriation" means an authorization to expend or encumber income and revenue provided for a purpose; 2. "Budget summary" means a tabular listing of revenues by source and expenditures by purpose for the budget year; 3. "Estimated reven…

A municipality that selects a purpose-based budget format shall be subject to the following procedures in addition to other applicable provisions of the Municipal Budget Act: 1. Each municipality shall adopt an appropriation for each purpose as established by the governing body; …

A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Fiscal Impact Act”. B. As used in this section, “direct adverse fiscal impact” means the cost in dollars to a municipality in this state of a statute which imposes a mandate for the new or additional application of…

governing body resolution. Any city operating pursuant to a statutory form of city government may change to any one of the other statutory forms of city government. The mayor shall issue an order calling for an election on the question of whether or not the city shall change its …

The question of changing the statutory form of city government shall be submitted to the registered voters of the city at a general or special election to be held in the city not less than sixty (60) days nor more than ninety (90) days after the date of the order calling for the …

The question submitted to the registered voters of the municipality shall be substantially in the following form: Shall the City of ______ change to the statutory ___________ (name of proposed statutory form) form of city government? ( ) Yes. ( ) No. The secretary of the county e…

Transition of officers. The first primary and general elections under the new form shall be held at the time that the next municipal primary and general elections would be held as if there were no change in the form of government. The form of government which has been adopted sha…

The resolution declaring the change in form of city government shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county in which the situs of the city government is located and filed in the office of the Secretary of State and in the archives of the city. Laws 1977, c. 2…

body resolution. The mayor of an incorporated municipality shall issue an order calling for an election on the question of whether or not the municipality shall change its name if: 1. an initiative petition is filed with the governing body; or2. the go The initiative petition or …

The question of changing the name of the municipality shall be submitted to the registered voters of the municipality at a general or special election to be held in the municipality not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days after the date of the order calling for th…

The question submitted to the registered voters of the municipality shall be substantially in the following form: Shall the ________ (City or Town) of ________ change its name to the (City or Town) of ________? ( ) Yes. ( ) No. The secretary of the county election board shall, wi…

The resolution declaring the change of name of the municipality shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county in which the situs of the municipal government is located and filed in the office of the Secretary of State and in the archives of the municipality. T…

A. As soon as practicable following each federal census, the municipal governing body shall review the wards and ward boundaries of the municipality. The governing body shall change the boundaries or number of wards, if necessary, in the manner provided by this article, so that t…

A change in the name, boundaries, or number of wards in a municipality may be proposed at any time by: 1. a resolution of the municipal governing body; or 2. an initiative petition filed with the governing body of the municipality. Any change in the number or boundaries of wards …

The governing body shall give at least thirty (30) days' notice of the proposal by the governing body to change the name, boundaries, or number of wards. The notice shall be published at least once. After the thirty-day notice period, the governing body may make the proposed chan…

Within thirty (30) days after an election adopting the question in the initiative petition requesting a change in the name, boundaries or number of wards, the municipal governing body by ordinance shall make the requested changes. Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 20-104, eff. July 1…

Unless otherwise provided for by the governing body, the effective date of a change in the name, boundaries, or number of wards shall be the effective date of the ordinance making such change. Election of councilmembers or trustees for wards which have no representation due to su…

The governing body shall provide for the recording and filing of changes made in the name, boundaries or number of municipal wards. Laws 1977, c. 256, § 20-106, eff. July 1, 1978.

The municipal governing body by ordinance may add to the municipality territory adjacent or contiguous to its corporate limits and increase or diminish the corporate limits as the governing body deems desirable for the benefit of the municipality. Laws 1977, c. 256, § 21-101, eff…

intervening strip or highway right-of-way. Where any territory to be annexed is separated from the corporate limits of the municipality only by a railway right-of-way, an intervening strip less than four (4) rods wide, or a highway right-of-way, the territory shall be considered …

A. Before the governing body of a city or town may annex any territory adjacent or contiguous to the city or town, it must obtain the written consent of the owners of at least a majority of the acres to be annexed to the municipality and provide for notice and a public hearing on…

ordinance. At least three-fourths of the registered voters and the owners of at least three-fourths (in value) of the property in any territory adjacent or contiguous to the municipality may request annexation by signing and filing a petition with the governing body of the munici…

Filing in district court. If the governing body fails to grant the request contained in a petition for annexation within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the notice, or refuses to grant the request, the petitioners may file their petition with the clerk of the distr…

institutions - Annexation only by petition. When any lands adjacent to the corporate limits of any municipality have been surveyed and platted into lots and blocks for the purpose of being sold in whole or in part to establish, build or maintain any religious, fraternal, or benev…

A. Tracts of land in excess of forty (40) acres which are annexed to a municipality and used for industrial or commercial purposes shall not be subject to ad valorem taxes at the municipal rate. Tracts of annexed land in excess of five (5) acres which are used by persons engaged …

OS 11-21-110v1 (SB 694, Laws 2025, c. 354, 1) OS 11-21-110v2 (HB 1166, Laws 2025, c. 481, § 2)

A. Territory may be detached from the corporate limits of a municipality by the governing body when: 1. An ordinance of the governing body so directs; or 2. A petition requesting detachment, signed by at least three- fourths (3/4) of the registered voters and by the owners of at …

A. Territory may be detached from the corporate limits of a municipality by the governing body when: 1. An ordinance of the governing body so directs; 2. The municipality has failed to substantially complete provision of services as required when the territory was annexed; or 3. …

Any lands detached from a municipality and the owners thereof shall be liable to the municipality only for the cost of public improvements which may have been constructed on the detached lands at the expense of the municipality. The municipality shall have no claim upon nor colle…

When any territory is annexed to or detached from a municipality, whether by ordinance or court order, the mayor shall file and record a duly certified copy of the ordinance or court order, together with an accurate map or plat of the territory, in the office of the county clerk …

construction. Upon proper notification, a municipality may annex any unoccupied property of an owner who is not a resident of this state which is adjacent or contiguous to property already within the municipal limits for the sole purpose of constructing roads and/or bridges which…

boundaries of other municipality - District court action. A. The majority of the owners of a subdivision or property owners located in unincorporated territory which is enclosed by the boundaries of a municipality may petition for annexation in writing to another municipality if:…

Presumption of validity. In the event any territory has been included within public records or public notices describing the corporate boundaries of a municipality for purposes of an election or ad valorem tax assessment of the municipality for five (5) consecutive years, there s…

consuming facilities prohibited. Except as provided in this section, municipal corporations or public trusts thereof, the Grand River Dam Authority, rural electric cooperatives or investor-owned electric utilities shall not furnish retail electric service to an electric consuming…

townsite. When fifty percent (50%) or more of the area of a municipality shall be liable to inundation by the construction of a lake, reservoir or other body of water, and the municipal governing body determines that it is impracticable to annex adjacent or contiguous terrritory …

The owners of a tract of land located not more than ten (10) miles from the nearest limits of the municipality, or located at any greater distance which is reasonable under the circumstances in order to secure the most desirable site, may present to the governing body a plat of t…

plat. If a majority of the votes cast in the election are in favor of annexation of the territory and relocation of the municipality, the governing body shall so declare by resolution, and a copy of the resolution and the plat shall be filed for record in the office of the county…

All portions of land within the original boundaries of the municipality shall continue to be within its limits and subject to its governmental authority. The governing body may, in the interest of the public or the owners of such land, detach any territory embraced within its ori…

municipality. In relocating a municipality subject to inundation, the governing body may also: 1. Provide by ordinance for the acquisition of a new site through the exercise of the right of condemnation in the manner provided by law for municipalities, or by negotiated purchases …

cooperatives or electric public utilities - Moratorium - Implementation of retail consumer choice contingency. There is hereby declared a moratorium on all municipal condemnation proceedings instituted pursuant to Section 437.2 of Title 18 of the Oklahoma Statutes, initiated prio…

All incorporated municipalities shall be bodies corporate and politic, and shall have the powers to: 1. Sue and be sued; 2. Purchase and hold real and personal property for the use of the municipality; 3. Sell and convey any real or personal property owned by the municipality and…

Restrictions. Municipal employees may attend and express their views at city council meetings, or any other public meetings of municipal entities. Any municipal employee may actively participate in partisan and nonpartisan political activities. Provided, the political activity in…