Title 19, Title 19 — Counties and County Officers

performance or nonperformance of duties. A. The county clerk shall not accept for filing any claim of lien against a federal, state, or local official or employee based on the performance or nonperformance of that official's or employee's duties unless accompanied by a specific o…

Auditor and Inspector. Within fifteen (15) days from the date of a county election concerning a sales tax question, the county clerk shall send to the State Auditor and Inspector a copy of the ballot concerning the sales tax question. This section only applies if the sales tax qu…

In any such special election, the organization favoring the formation of such new county, or the detaching thereof any such territory, may appoint and designate one qualified elector in any precinct, or voting place, to act as challenger at such precinct, and may appoint or desig…

- Liability. A. The county clerk shall keep any Department of Defense Form 214 (DD Form 214) filed with the clerk, including any DD Form 214 that was filed before the effective date of this act, separate from records available for public inspection and shall not make the DD Form …

The county clerk in a county shall have the authority to employ a general counsel through an outside law firm, to advise or represent the county clerk and his or her office in the performance of the official duties of that office. The Board of County Commissioners shall approve a…

Any election officer who shall be appointed, or commissioner, under the provisions of this act or the laws of Oklahoma, and who shall knowingly and willfully fail or refuse to perform required duties shall be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall, upon conviction, be puni…

The register of deeds shall have the care and custody of all books, records, deeds, maps, papers and fixtures deposited and kept in his office, and it shall be his duty to carefully preserve and guard the same against defacing, mutilation, change or injury, and he shall be furnis…

The register of deeds shall keep a seal, to be furnished by the county, which seal shall contain the name of the county, the words “Oklahoma” and “Register of Deeds”. Except as provided in the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, he or she shall attach such seal to all…

The county commissioners shall furnish, and the county clerk shall maintain, in the office of the county clerk, suitable records for storage for all instruments of writing subject by law to be recorded in the office of the county clerk. Suitable record may include either photogra…

Each register of deeds shall keep an index of deeds direct and inverted, and an index of mortgages direct and inverted, in his office. The index direct and inverted, of deeds and mortgages, shall be divided into columns, with heads to the respective columns, as follows to-wit: GR…

A. The county clerk shall also keep a well-bound book in which shall be platted all maps of cities and towns, or additions to the same, cemeteries and other plats, required by law to be recorded within his county, together with description, acknowledgment or other writing thereon…

A. Plats or subdivision plats filed in the county clerk's office shall be indexed and filed, and one copy placed in bound volumes or booklets, so that all plats or subdivisions are compiled and indexed accordingly. B. Plats or subdivision plats of property in unincorporated areas…

town. The county clerk shall not file of record any plat which contains any lot of less than two and one-half (2 1/2) acres located outside the corporate limits of a city or town unless the plat bears the stamp of approval of the Department of Environmental Quality as provided in…

All plats, subdivision plats or re-plats may be filed, at the option of the county assessor, in digital electronic format with the county assessor of the county in which the property is located. The digital electronic format shall meet the specifications of the county assessor. A…

The county clerk shall keep a receiving book, with suitable headings and columns, as the case may be; a. For instruments to be recorded by the county clerk as registrar of deeds; b. For instruments to be filed as public notice by the county clerk as such; which receiving book, in…

Any person or corporation offering money or other thing of value, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of influencing any voter for or against any proposition in such election shall be guilty of the felony of bribery, a Class D3 felony offense and shall, upon conviction…

He shall keep an index to chattel mortgages, bills of sale and other instruments affecting title to or incumbering personal property, required by law to be recorded, in which shall be entered in separate columns, the number of the instrument, name of grantor alphabetically, and t…

The county clerk shall also keep a numerical index, in which shall be noted all deeds relating to tracts of land and units within unit ownership estates within the limits of such county, such index shall be divided into columns with the heads to each division of the pages designa…

No register of deeds shall perform any of the duties required by this article, to be performed unless the fee for the same has been paid, or tendered. R.L. 1910, § 1664.

The register of deeds shall, whenever an instrument shall be presented to him for record, immediately note on the instrument the year, month, day, hour and minute of receiving the same, and the date of record of such instrument shall be from the date of filing; he shall then ente…

The register of deeds of any county of this state shall, in addition to the duties now prescribed by law, make and keep indexes in the same manner as is now provided by Sections 1733 and 1737 of Snyder's Compiled Laws, 1909, of all records, files, books, instruments, or the certi…

taxation. It is hereby made the duty of county clerks of Oklahoma to record without charge all certificates describing and designating lands situate in their respective counties owned by members of the Five Civilized Tribes and their heirs, which lands are shown by said certifica…

A. Every county clerk in this state shall require that the mandates of the Legislature be complied with, as expressed in Sections 287 and 291 of this title, and for that purpose, every instrument offered which may be accepted by the county clerk for recording, affecting specific …

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in Section 298 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes, an electronic document presented in compliance with the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act is acceptable for filing. Nothing in this section shall require any county clerk to …

The county assessor, county clerk and county treasurer of any county may adopt a system of land parcel identifier numbers whereby the same land identifier numbers shall be used by the county assessor, county clerk and county treasurer to designate a tract of real property situate…

Contracts while not acting as a board. The powers of a county as a body politic and corporate shall be exercised by its board of county commissioners. It is hereby declared to be contrary to law, and against public policy, for any individual county commissioner, or commissioners,…

Incorporation by reference - Unrecordable matters. A. A master form shall be any instrument containing forms of covenants, conditions, obligations, powers, or other clauses not being acknowleged nor containing a legal description. Such instrument shall be labeled on the first pag…

If the object sought be to transfer territory from one county to an existing county, and if sixty percent (60%) of the votes cast at said election vote "Yes", the Governor shall within ten (10) days after declaring the result of said election issue his proclamation calling an ele…

Upon the holding of any election in any county to vote upon the acceptance of the territory which is seeking to be transferred to said county, the board of canvassers shall certify and return said vote to the Governor as required by law, who shall thereupon, and within ten (10) d…

and resolutions depository. A. Each county shall be divided by the board of county commissioners into three (3) compact districts, as equal in population as practicable and numbered respectively one, two and three. One commissioner shall be elected from each of the districts by t…

The board of county commissioners shall procure and keep a seal with such emblems and devices as they may think proper, which shall be the seal of the county, and no other seal shall be used by the county clerk; and the impression of the seal hereby required to be kept by the sta…

A. In addition to the special sessions for equalizing assessments, and all other special sessions now provided by law, the county commissioners shall meet and hold sessions for the transaction of business in the county courthouse, at the county seat, on or before the first Monday…

At the first meeting of the county commissioners in each year they shall elect one of their number chairman, who shall act as chairman of the said board of commissioners during the year in which he is elected, or until his successor is elected, and in case of a vacancy from any c…

It shall be the duty of the chairman of the board of county commissioners to preside at the meetings of said board, and he shall have the power to administer oaths to any person concerning any matter submitted to the board or connected with their powers and duties; and all orders…

When the board of county commissioners are equally divided on any question, they shall defer a decision until the next meeting of the board, and then the matter shall be decided by a majority of the board. R.L. 1910, § 1590.

Upon the transfer of territory from a county to a new county or an existing county, said new county to which said territory is transferred shall be entitled to such proportionate part of the net assets of the county from which said territory is taken as the taxable wealth of the …

Copies of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners, duly certified and attested by the county clerk under seal shall be received as evidence in all courts of this state. R.L. 1910, § 1591.

The board of county commissioners shall have power to preserve order when sitting as a board, and may punish contempts by fines not exceeding Five Dollars ($5.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twenty-four (24) hours; they may force obedience to all orders m…

The said commissioners shall keep a distinct account with the treasurer of the county, in a book provided for that purpose, commencing from the day on which the treasurer became qualified and continuing until the same or another person is qualified as treasurer, in which account …

another term - Duties. A. The board of county commissioners shall keep a book in which all orders and decisions made by them shall be recorded, except those relating solely to roads and bridges as required by Section 334 of this title. All orders for the allowance of money from t…

Any county commissioner or person who knowingly or willfully fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a felony. Added by Laws 1953, p. 80, § 3. Editorially renumbered from § 410.1a of this title. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 150, eff. July …

They shall keep a book for the entry of all proceedings and adjudications relating to bridges, and the establishment, change or discontinuance of roads. R.L. 1910, § 1595.

warrants. They shall keep a book for the entry of warrants on the county treasurer, showing number, date, amount and name of the payee of each warrant drawn on the treasury, which book may be known as the "Warrant Book", and the warrants shall be numbered in relation to the order…

The board of commissioners is hereby authorized and required at each regular meeting to cancel and destroy all warrants drawn on any fund of the county that may have remained uncalled for and on file for a period of three years and upwards next preceding the regular meeting at wh…

Said commissioners before canceling and destroying any such warrants shall cause to be entered in the minutes of their proceedings a brief description thereof, containing the name of the payee, the number, date and amount of each warrant destroyed. R.L. 1910, § 1598.

or incorporated city or town for airports or public uses. The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with the authorities of the United States of America, the State of Oklahoma, and any incorporated city or town within the boundar…

A. The board of county commissioners shall have power: 1. To make all orders respecting the real property of the county, to sell the public grounds of the county and to purchase other grounds in lieu thereof; and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section it s…

Society. The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to sell to the Oklahoma Historical Society for purposes of restoration and preservation, county-owned land, sites or structures which have been deemed by the Oklahoma Historical Society to be of histori…

The purchase price of any county-owned land, sites or structures to be sold to the Oklahoma Historical Society shall be determined by the board of county commissioners. Added by Laws 1975, c. 240, § 2, emerg. eff. May 30, 1975.

The board of county commissioners shall place all funds received from the sale of land, sites or structures in a special fund to be used for the purchase or construction of facilities for use by the county. All such funds may be invested by the county treasurer as directed by the…