Title 11, Title 11 — Cities and Towns

The making, enforcement and penalties for the violation of any rules and regulations for the protection of the water supply and water district shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of state law on public water supplies and standards. All expenses incident to and con…

Any municipality having acquired possession by purchase, condemnation, gift or otherwise, of a reservoir site for a public water supply may close to travel any section line or public road leading into or through the reservoir site. Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-113, eff. July 1, 1978.

It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, damage or otherwise interfere with any fence enclosing any reservoir or other site which supplies any municipality with water. Such unlawful injuries to reservoir fences shall constitute a misdemeanor, and any person found violating the…

No person, firm, partnership, or corporation, or any of the partners, officers, managers, or employees thereof, shall pollute or permit the pollution of the water supply of a municipality, or any stream, pond, spring, lake, or other water reservoir or groundwater aquifer, which i…

supply. A municipality shall have a right of action for damages resulting from pollution of its water supply, as provided in Section 37-115 of this title, and the measure of damages shall be the amount which will compensate for the detriment caused thereby, whether it could have …

outside corporate limits no defense. Any municipality owning and operating or proposing to own and operate a system of waterworks to supply the municipality, and the inhabitants thereof with water may provide for its contemplated future water and waterworks requirements, in advan…

adjoining states. For use in connection with the acquisition, establishment, betterment or expansion, and the maintenance or operation of its municipal waterworks system, any municipality may acquire title to, or any lesser interest in, any lands or water rights, or both, in any …

rates - Outside users subject to rationing program of municipality. A. All contracts for the sale or furnishing of water from a source obtained by or on behalf of a municipality by permit or prior right under state law or by general obligation bonds shall be made in the name of t…

implement enterprise accounting system - Liability to purchaser. Beginning July 1, 1996, if a municipality selling water to persons or public or private entities outside its corporate limits has not implemented an enterprise accounting system to account for the cost of water supp…

furnishing water outside limits. Any municipality owning or operating its own waterworks plant and every municipality engaged in the distribution of water may extend its lines beyond the corporate limits of such municipality and may acquire, construct, own, maintain and operate a…

of water - Extensions. The municipal governing body may enter into a contract or lease program as a governmental function for the purpose of buying, selling, or distributing water with any nonprofit organization, person, or water development or distribution corporation inside or …

Validation of existing contracts. Any municipal governing body, or any agency, instrumentality or public trust of which a municipality is beneficiary thereof, or appropriate board or commission subject to the approval of the municipal governing body, may enter into and do every a…

purposes. Any municipality owning and operating waterworks or water plants for the purpose of supplying the municipality and the inhabitants thereof with water may make use of such water for park or other public purposes without the corporate limits of the municipality. Laws 1977…

Election. Any municipality may conduct an election, in the manner provided by law for municipal elections, for the purpose of securing approval of the registered voters within its corporate limits to enter into a contract with any other municipality to finance the construction, m…

Waterworks which are jointly constructed, maintained, controlled or operated by two or more municipalities may be financed by the issue and sale of bonds and collection of water charges, as provided in Sections 37-106 through 37-109 of this title. The governing bodies of such mun…

The provisions of Sections 37-124 and 37-125 of this title, authorizing the joint construction and financing of waterworks and water supplies, shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby, and shall be construed as supple…

water in Oklahoma. An incorporated municipality of a state adjoining the State of Oklahoma is hereby granted permission, if authorized or empowered by the laws of such adjoining state to do so, to acquire by purchase from a private corporation which may be furnishing water to wat…

Penalties - Exceptions. A. Any public water trust formed pursuant to Sections 176 through 180.4 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes whose beneficiary is the state, any county or municipality or any combination thereof, supplying water directly to residents of a municipality, sha…

efforts - Acceptance of grants. The municipal governing body may: 1. Authorize the construction of mains, submains and laterals for sewers, also ditches, drains, conduits, pipelines and channels for sanitary and drainage purposes, or either or both thereof, with lift stations, ou…

distribution lines. In all municipalities where a system of public waterworks is maintained and operated, or created, the municipal governing body shall have power to cause a general sanitary, storm or combination sewer system to be established, which shall be composed of two cla…

Public sewers shall be established along the principal courses of drainage, at such points, to such extent, of such dimensions and under such regulations as may be determined by the governing body. These public sewers may be extensions or branches of sewers already constructed or…

lines of conveyance. The public water distribution system shall consist only of the main lines of conveyance from the sources of supply, and the main lines for general distribution, including such other property as may be necessary in connection therewith for the proper maintenan…

sewers and water lines - Petition. Except as otherwise provided, the construction and maintenance of public sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and public waterlines shall be paid for as follows: 1. Unless otherwise provided for in this section, all mains and submains constructed by a…

lines - Petition. District sewers and district water distribution lines shall be established within the limits of the districts, to be prescribed by ordinance. District sewers shall connect with public sewers or other district sewers, or with the natural course of drainage, as ea…

The costs of district sewers and district water distribution lines, including mains and submains properly included in the district, shall be assessed and collected as hereinafter provided. The municipality shall incur no liability for building district sewers, except when the mun…

Condemnation. No sewer or water line shall run diagonally through private property when it is practicable, without injury to the sewer or water line, to construct it parallel with one of the exterior lines of such property; nor shall any public sewer or public water line be const…

Preliminary plans and costs. Whenever the governing body deems district sewers or district water distribution lines necessary, it may proceed with such work without petition, and shall require, by resolution, the municipal engineer, or other registered professional engineer, to p…

The municipal body may contract for the services of special attorneys, auditors or consulting engineers to make the necessary surveys, and prepare plans, plats, profiles, estimates and all other details for the work of improvements and to supervise the work. Any such consulting e…

necessity. Upon the filing of the preliminary plans, preliminary estimate and assessment plat, the governing body shall examine them and, if found satisfactory, shall adopt and approve them by resolution, and declare such work of improvement necessary to be done. The resolution s…

mailing. A. The resolution of necessity shall be published in at least two (2) consecutive Thursday issues of a daily newspaper, or at least two (2) consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper, which newspaper shall be of general circulation in the municipality. B. Not less than ten…

binding. Protests shall be heard and considered at the next regular meeting of the governing body following the expiration of the fifteen-day period after the last publication of the resolution of necessity. The hearing may be continued from time to time. The finding of the gover…

In determining the sufficiency of any protest or petition as provided in Section 37-213 of this title, the governing body shall be guided by these rules: 1. Each paper containing signatures shall have attached thereto the affidavit of an owner of property to be assessed, or his a…

court. Any property owner shall have the right to institute an action in the district court in the county in which the situs of the municipal government is located at any time not later than fifteen (15) days after the action of the municipal governing body in adopting and approv…

- Contractor's bonds. A. After the expiration of the time for filing protests against the proposed improvement, or if insufficient protests have been filed, the municipal governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that no protests have been filed, or if protests have been …

for suits and actions. A. The notice of the municipality's advertisement for proposals shall set forth: 1. The boundaries of the area to be improved, referring to the assessment plat on file; 2. The kind of improvements proposed; 3. What bonds will be required to be executed by t…

At the time and place named in the notice for proposals to contractors, the municipal governing body shall examine all bids received. Without unnecessary delay, the governing body shall award the contract to the lowest and best bidder. Contractors' bids shall not be held valid lo…

A. After the completion of the work and after the cost of the same has been ascertained, the engineer shall prepare and file with the municipal clerk a final, complete and accurate statement of the cost of the entire improvement, including engineering, advertising, legal, right-o…

- Notice. When the assessment roll is filed, the governing body shall set a time for holding a hearing on any complaints or objections that may be made concerning the apportionment as to any of the lots. Notice of the hearing shall be published in five (5) consecutive issues of a…

Any owner of real estate proposed to be assessed may, at or prior to the hearing on the apportionment, file his objections in writing against the validity of the assessment roll and proposed assessment, setting forth the nature thereof, and shall have full opportunity to be heard…

Assessments in conformity with the appraisement and apportionment, as corrected and confirmed by the governing body, shall be payable in ten equal annual installments, and shall bear interest not to exceed the rate of thirteen percent (13%) per annum until paid, payable in each y…

or schools. Any property which is owned by the municipality, or county, or any board of education or school district, shall be treated and considered the same as the property of other owners. The municipality, county, school district or board of education within the district to b…

As soon as the assessing ordinance is adopted, the municipal clerk shall prepare a book which shall be known as the Assessment Record, in which he shall enter: 1. The names of each person owning the land to be assessed, as ascertained from the records of the county; or in case th…

- Interest on delinquent installments. A. The first installment of the assessment, together with interest upon the whole assessment from the date of the passage of the assessing ordinance to the first day of the next September, shall be due and payable in cash on or before the fi…

The municipal clerk shall be required to execute a good and sufficient bond, with sureties, and in an amount to be approved by the governing body, payable to the municipality, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties conferred upon him as collector of the assessment…

treasurer - Collection of taxes and penalties. The municipal clerk, promptly after the date of maturity of any installment and interest and no earlier than the first day of July and no later than the tenth day of July in each year, shall certify the installment and interest then …

plans. Upon the completion of the improvement, the governing body shall determine whether or not the work has been completed in accordance with the plans, specifications and contract therefor. If the governing body finds the work to be in compliance, it shall accept the same. Whe…

The municipal governing body may, after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the publication of the assessing ordinance, within which period the whole of any assessment may be paid without interest, provide by resolution for the issuance of bonds. The bonds shall be in the agg…

The Improvement Bonds shall be registered by the clerk of the municipality in a book to be provided for that purpose, and each bond shall bear a certificate of such registration. Upon the books of the treasurer shall be noted the name of the holder of each bond and his address. A…

The municipality shall have the right to call and pay in numerical order the bonds or any number thereof in the following manner: Whenever there shall be sufficient funds in the hands of the municipal treasurer after the payment of all interest due and to become due within the ne…

The cash prepayments and the bonds in the amount that may be necessary for the purpose shall be turned over and delivered to the contractor or assigns at par and accrued interest in payment of the amount due in accordance with the terms of the contract, provided that the contract…