Title 82 — Title 82 — Waters and Water Rights

investigations. The board of directors shall also have the right to establish and maintain streamgauges, rain gauges, a flood warning service with telephone or telegraph service, and may make such surveys and examination of rainfall and flood conditions, stream flow, and other sc…

Outlets in other states. The board of directors shall also have the right and authority to enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States Government or any department thereof, with persons, railroad or other corporations, with public corporations, cities and to…

The rights of conservancy districts, landowners, municipalities, corporations, and other users of water in conservancy districts shall be governed by the laws of the State of Oklahoma providing for the use of water. Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 174, § 25. Amended by Laws 195…

board. At the time of making its order, organizing the district or at any suitable time thereafter; either in term or in vacation the court or judge shall appoint three (3) appraisers, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under this act be recommended by the boa…

(a) During the preparation of the official plan, the board of appraisers shall examine and become acquainted with the nature of plans for the improvement of the lands and other property affected thereby, in order that they may be better prepared to make appraisals. When the offic…

additional owners. If the appraisers find that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will be necessary for or affected by, the proposed improvement, or should be included in the district, they shall appraise the benefits and damages to such la…

Notice. If the report of the board of appraisers includes recommendations that other lands be included in the district, or that certain lands be excluded from the district, it shall be the duty of the court clerk where the proceeding is pending to give notice to the owners of suc…

The board of appraisers shall prepare a report of its findings which shall be arranged in tabular form and which shall be known as the conservancy appraisal record. Such record shall contain the name of the owner of property appraised as it may appear on the current tax roll of t…

Upon the filing of the report of the appraisers, the clerk of the court shall give notice thereof, as provided in this act, in each county wherein appraisals of lands reflect benefits thereto. Said notice shall be in the name of the state, directed by name to every person returne…

Any property owner may accept the appraisals in his favor of benefits, made by the appraisers, and shall be construed to have done so unless he shall before the date set for hearing in the notice by publication provided for in the preceding section, file exceptions to said report…

If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all said exceptions that the estimated cost to the conservancy district of constructing the improvement contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, then the court shall app…

Any person, or public or private corporation desiring to appeal from an award as to compensation or damages or benefits, shall within thirty (30) days from the judgment of the court confirming the report of appraisers, file with the clerk of the court a written notice of appeal a…

No property shall be taken under this act until compensation fixed by appraisal, agreement, donation or condemnation has been paid, according to law. Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 181, § 35.

Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the appraisers as provided for in this act, the clerk of said court in which the same is entered shall transmit a certified copy of the said decree, and of the appraisals as comfirmed by the court, except those part…

The board of directors may at any time, when necessary to fulfill the objects for which the district was created alter or add to the official plan, and when such alterations or additions are formally approved by the board and by the court, and are filed with the secretary, they s…

Waiver by failure to appeal. No appeal under this act shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution of any work under this act. The board of directors of any district organized under the terms of this act shall have the right to appeal from any order of t…

If any lands in any district organized under this act on which benefits have been appraised and confirmed, are not liable for assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but afterwards during the period when such work is being paid for, become liable to taxation or asses…

In case any real property within or without any district is benefited which for any reason was not appraised in the original proceedings, or was not appraised to the extent of benefits received, or in case any individual, corporation, municipality, political subdivision or other …

No fault in petition or any notice or other proceedings shall affect the validity of any proceedings under this act, except to the extent to which it can be shown that such fault resulted in a material denial of justice to the property owner complaining of such fault, and except …

A. The monies of every conservancy district organized pursuant to this act shall be administered through the following funds: 1. A preliminary fund, by which is meant the funds borrowed in accordance with Section 632 of this title, which shall be used for the payment of expenses …

In case any such project, or any part thereof, be abandoned as a flood control project, or in the event any land and property acquired by purchase or condemnation in fee simple shall no longer be necessary for the purposes of the district, the same shall not revert to the former …

In order to facilitate the preliminary work, which shall include, but not be limited to, the preparation of the official plan, the appraisals and the cost of administration incidental thereto, the board, by resolution, may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding six perc…

After the list of real property, with the appraised benefits as approved by the court, or that part thereof from which no appeal is pending has been filed with the secretary of the district, then from time to time, as the affairs of the district demand it, the board of directors …

for unpaid assessments. When the assessment roll is placed on file in the office of the district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property assessed for the execution of the official plan under the prov…

The board of directors may, if in their judgment it seems best, issue bonds not to exceed ninety percent (90%) of the total amount of the assessment exclusive of interest, levied under the provisions of this act, in denomination of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) bear…

The board of directors of any Conservancy District or Master Conservancy District, notwithstanding any other provision of the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, and in addition to all other powers conferred by law, may borrow money and otherwise contract indebtedness for the purposes s…

tax. To maintain, operate and preserve the reservoirs, ditches, drains, dams, levees, canals or other improvements made pursuant to this act and to strengthen, repair and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the district, the boa…

Notice and hearing. Whenever the owners, or representatives of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the acreage or value of the lands in the district shall file a petition with the court clerk in whose office the petition was filed, stating that there has been a material change i…

book. The board of directors shall each year thereafter determine, order and levy the part of the local assessment levied under this act, which shall become due and collectable during each year at the same time the state and county taxes are due and collected, which annual levy s…

Delinquents. The county treasurer of each county in which lands of the district lie, shall make daily report to the county clerk of the county of the sums collected by him, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk on the first day of each month to issue his warrant payable to…

Before receiving the aforesaid "Assessment Book" the treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the district are located, shall execute to the board of directors of the district a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties or a surety company, and which…

Deeds. All conservancy assessments as provided for in this title, together with all costs in collecting the same, remaining unpaid after they become due and collectable, shall constitute a lien on the specific properties against which the said assessments have been levied, said l…

The "Delinquent Conservancy Book" of the district court shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of all matters therein contained. Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 192, § 54.

municipality - Dissolution of district - Rights of bond holders. Whenever assessments are made against a county, city, town or township, it shall be the duty of the governing or taxing body of said political subdivision, upon receipt of the order of the court which established th…

Any surplus funds in the treasury of the district may be used for retiring bonds, reducing loans or obligations, reducing the rate of assessments or for the accomplishing of any other of the legitimate objects of this district. Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 193, § 56. Amended…

Each member of the board of directors and each appraiser shall receive compensation allowed by the court and his necessary expenses for the time actually employed in performing his duties. Before any duties devolve upon a county clerk or county treasurer under this act the board …

Conservancy districts may borrow money in any amount, which, exclusive of interest, does not exceed the assessments then levied but not collected, for any purpose incident to its powers and functions and for any purpose provided by law, and may evidence such debt by contract, agr…

districts. The board of directors of any master conservancy district formed under the provisions of this act may determine, by resolution, the necessity and amount of assessments and the respective portions thereof to be paid by the component areas of said district, based upon th…

The board of directors shall designate the fiscal year for the district, which fiscal year shall not be changed except with approval of the district court. Annually, or more often if the court shall order, and within thirty (30) days of the ending of the fiscal year, the board of…

The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience or welfare, may be included in more than one district and be subject to the provisions of this act for each and every district in which it may be included, provided, that no district shall be organized under this a…

same territory. In case any district or districts are being organized within or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district or districts have been or are being organized, then one district judge of each judicial district in which said conserv…

In case two or more districts have been organized under this act in a territory which, in the opinion of the directors of either of the districts, should constitute but one district, the board of directors of any one of the districts may petition the court uniting said districts …

The provisions of Title 82 Oklahoma Statutes, Section 663, relating to the union of conservancy districts shall apply equally to drainage districts organized under the provisions of Title 82 Oklahoma Statutes. Any drainage district so organized may unite with a conservancy distri…

Rights, remedies, and obligations. If such union or reorganization is ordered by the court, the order shall set out the fact that all pending litigation and claims, and outstanding bonds, refunding bonds, warrants, assessments, and obligations shall continue in their status quo, …

Except as otherwise provided or authorized by the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, any person or public corporation injuriously affected in any manner whatsoever by an act performed by any official or agent of a district established pursuant to the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, or by …

Whenever it is desired to construct improvements wholly within or partly within and partly without any district organized under this act, which improvements will affect only a part of said district, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, subdistricts may be organized upon pe…

Any territory in which a proceeding has been instituted or is pending for construction of a single or joint or interstate, or county ditch, or township ditch, or underground drain, or levee, or county sewer, or for the cleaning of drains and water courses, or for the removal of d…

district. Additional territory may be annexed to a master conservancy district in the following manner: (a) A petition praying for such annexation signed by fifty or a majority of the qualified voters residing in the territory and who own taxable property therein, and who duly re…

conservancy districts - Levies and assessments. All payments to become due to the United States under any federal contract entered into between a master conservancy district and the United States may be paid from revenues or derived from assessments upon the real property of the …

In all suits in any court for damages, condemnation or other proceedings, whether brought for or against such conservancy district, the same shall be brought in the name of the conservancy district as fixed and established by the decree of incorporation, and shall be under the di…