Title 82 — Title 82 — Waters and Water Rights

The petition shall be signed by the petitioners, filed with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, and shall contain the following information: 1. A specific description of the lands within the proposed district; 2. The names and addresses of all of the electors within the proposed …

After receipt of the petition, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall: 1. Set the petition for hearing before a hearing officer in a place of general convenience at the nearest county seat. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall instruct the petitioners to publish, at their e…

Adoption of bylaws - Other business. A. 1. Any elector in the division of the district in which he resides may serve as a director in that division. 2. If an elector does not own irrigable land in the division of the district in which he resides, or resides outside the district, …

Powers and duties - Effect of section on other laws. A. Each director of the board shall take and subscribe to the official oath of office and execute a surety bond to the district conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. B. The board shall: 1. Elect a president or …

Certificate. A. Each year, the board shall determine the assessments for the ensuing year. B. 1. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the county treasurer shall be responsible for the collection of any assessments and delinquent assessments made pursuant to the provis…

Reports. A. If the county treasurer of each county in which lands of the district are located collects any assessments and delinquent assessments, the county treasurer shall make monthly reports of the sums collected. On the first day of each month, the county treasurer shall iss…

assessments - Deeds. A. 1. All assessments and all costs and expenses of collecting them shall constitute a lien on the lands against which the assessments have been levied. Such lien shall attach the date the assessment certificate is filed in the office of the county treasurer …

Members of board as directors of districts. In addition to the powers conferred upon the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma by Article 5, Chapter 70, Oklahoma Statutes of 1931, as amended by House Bill Number 84, of the Fifteenth Legislature, the said Conservation C…

When in the opinion of the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, the organization of irrigation, flood control, reforestation and/or soil erosion prevention districts is necessary and expedient to effect the purposes and intentions of House Bill No. 84, of the Fifteen…

Upon the hearing had upon any such petition filed as hereinabove set out, if it shall appear to the court that the purposes of Chapter 70, Article 5, Oklahoma Statutes of 1931, as amended by House Bill No. 84, Of the Fifteenth Legislature, will be best served by the creation of t…

In such decree the court shall designate the general description of the outline of said district and shall appoint as directors thereof the members of the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma and their successors in office, who shall thereupon have and exercise with r…

injuriously affected. Upon the creation of any such conservancy district, as herein provided, the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, shall have authority and is hereby empowered and authorized to take such action as is deemed necessary by said Commission to properl…

Jurisdiction of all actions for the creation of conservancy districts as outlined in this act is hereby specifically conferred upon the various district courts of the State of Oklahoma and upon the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma to be exercised in the manner herein prescr…

Any petition filed under authority of this act by the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma shall be accepted and filed by the clerk of the court in which the same is filed without costs, and all proceedings thereunder shall be had without cost to the Conservation Comm…

The Conservation Commission or any landowner affected by any proposed conservancy district or by the creation of any conservancy districts under the provisions of this act, who is aggrieved by any order refusing to establish or establishing such district may, within one hundred e…

This act shall be cumulative to Chapter 70, Oklahoma Statutes of 1931, as amended by House Bill No. 84, of the Fifteenth Legislature of the State of Oklahoma, and the powers, duties and limitations hereby imposed upon the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma shall be …

If any part of this act shall be declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions hereof. Laws 1935, p. 346, § 11.

Cooperation with State Board. The board of county commissioners of the various counties of the State of Oklahoma are hereby authorized to cooperate with the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma in all instances where such cooperation is necessary and will expedite the…

The State of Oklahoma does hereby ratify, approve and adopt the aforesaid Compact, which is as follows: CANADIAN RIVER COMPACT The State of New Mexico, the state of Texas, and the State of Oklahoma, acting through their Commissioners, John H. Bliss for the State of New Mexico, E.…

Notice of approval of said Compact shall be given by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma to the Governor of Texas and to the Governor of New Mexico and to the President of the United States of America as provided in Article XI of said Compact. Added by Laws 1951, p. 331, § 2.

The ratification and approval of said Compact by this state shall not be binding or obligatory until it shall have been likewise approved by the Legislature of the State of Texas and the Legislature of the State of New Mexico and consented to by the Congress of the United States …

This act may be known and cited as the "Conservancy Act of Oklahoma"; the bonds which may be issued hereunder may be briefly called "conservancy bonds," and shall be so engraved or printed on their face; the districts created hereunder shall be briefly termed "conservancy distric…

powers and duties to Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board. Whenever the words "Commission of Drainage and Irrigation" occur in Chapter 139 of the 1923-1924 Session Laws of the State of Oklahoma, and where the words "Commission of Drainage and Irrigation and Reclamation," and whe…

Purpose - Board of Directors. A. There is hereby authorized the formation of conservancy districts within this state. Each such district shall be designated as a "conservancy district" or "master conservancy district". Such districts shall not be political corporations or subdivi…

The board of directors of any conservancy district or master conservancy district, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and in addition to all other powers conferred by law, hereby is authorized and empowered to enter into any contract or contracts with the duly-c…

Upon proper petition master conservancy districts may be organized in the State of Oklahoma under the provisions of this act. Laws 1955, p. 470, § 3; Laws 1957, p. 558, § 1; Laws 1961, p. 622, § 4.

Court to district court. Before any court shall establish a district as outlined in Section 541 of this title, a petition shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma. Said petition, shall be signed by owners of at least fifty-one percen…

At the time of filing the petition, the petitioners shall deposit as court costs the sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), which deposit shall be in lieu of bond and the court may require such additional deposits of costs as may be necessary from time to time. Laws 1923-24, c. 139…

Immediately after the filing of such petition, the clerk of the district court, with whom such petition is filed, or to whom it has been assigned, shall cause notice by publication, to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, and s…

organization - Corporate powers - Appeal - Decree as final order. Any owner of real property in said proposed district who wishes to object to the organization and incorporation of said district shall, on or before the date set for the cause to be heard, file, by attorney or in p…

Within ten (10) days after the said district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the Secretary of State, and the county clerk in each of the counties having lands in said districts, copies of the findings and the decree of the co…

Districts may be formed under the provisions of this act for irrigation, or partly for irrigation, by a substantial compliance with the terms as near as possible. But no such district in its construction or operation shall in any manner interfere with works for the prevention of …

necessary lands - Validation. Any time subsequent to the entry of the decree creating the district, and prior to the filing of the report of the board of appraisers, land situated outside of the district boundaries, necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district, may be inc…

necessary lands - Validation. Any time subsequent to the entry of the decree creating the district, and prior to the filing of the report of the board of appraisers, land situated outside of the district boundaries, necessary to accomplish the purposes of the district, may be inc…

Within thirty (30) days after entering the decree incorporating said district, the judge having jurisdiction shall call an election of a temporary board of directors, and cause notice thereof to be given by publication thereof in each county in which lands of the district are sit…

Each director before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to the Constitutional oath before a suitable officer and further that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties of his office, and that he will not be interested directly or indi…

A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within their duties shall be sufficient for its determination. Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 168, § 11.

The secretary shall be the custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal and shall assist the board in particulars as it may direct in the performance of its duties. It shall be the duty of the secretary to attest, under the corporate seal of the district, al…

Dissolution in certain cases - Proceedings concerning plan. Upon their qualification, the board shall prepare or cause to be prepared a plan for the improvements for which the district was created. Such plans shall include such maps, profiles, plans and other data and description…

A conservancy district created under the provisions of the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma may be dissolved by the district court having jurisdiction of said district, upon an application for that purpose filed by a majority of the members of the board of directors of such district, …

The board of directors shall have full power and authority to devise, prepare for, execute, maintain and operate any or all works or improvements necessary or desirable to complete, maintain, operate and protect the official plan. They may secure and use men and equipment under t…

The board of directors of any district organized under this act, or their employees or agents, including the contractors and their employees, and the members of the Board of appraisers and their assistants, may enter upon lands within or without the district in order to make surv…

and notice of action. A. In order to effect the protection, reclamation or irrigation of the land and other property in the district, the board of directors is authorized and empowered to: 1. Clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen or change the course or terminus of any ditc…

in emergency – District bidding process. A. When it is determined to let the work of a master conservancy district by contract, contracts in amounts to exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) shall be advertised after notices calling for bids have been published once a …

Said board, where necessary for the purpose of this act, shall have dominant right of eminent domain over the right of eminent domain of railroad, telegraph, telephone, gas, water power and other companies and corporations, and over townships, villages, counties and cities. In th…

Said board shall also have the right to condemn for the use of the district any land or property within or without said district, according to the procedure provided by law for the condemnation of land or other property taken for telegraph, telephone and railroad rights-of-way. A…

When the board of directors of a conservancy district determines that a lesser estate is needed for flood control purposes than fee simple absolute, the board shall have the right to condemn for easement purposes an easement as may be required. In such cases, the measure of damag…

Where necessary in order to secure the best results from the execution and operation of the plans of the district, or to prevent damage to the district by the deterioration or misuse, or by the pollution of the waters, of any water course therein, the board of directors may make …

Appeal. Whenever the official plan requires the building, modification, removal, or rebuilding of any bridge, grade, aqueduct, or other construction, and a hearing upon the report of the appraisers has been had and a final order issued by the court for appraisals and assessments …

owner. In case it is necessary to pass any dredge boat or other equipment through a bridge or grade of any railroad company or other corporation, county, township, or municipality, the board of directors shall give thirty (30) days' notice to the owner of said bridge or grade tha…