Title 69, Title 69 — Roads, Bridges, and Ferries

Qualifications - Joint employment - Agreement for engineering services. A. The board of county commissioners of each county shall employ one or more full- or part-time county engineers, who shall perform the duties as provided by law. The county engineer shall receive as compensa…

Before entering upon the performance of his duties the county engineer shall execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the board of county commissioners with sufficient surety to be approved by the board, conditioned upon the f…

(a) The county engineer shall, when requested by the board of county commissioners, give instruction or advice with reference to the construction, building or repairing of any roads or bridges. (b) When requested by the board of county commissioners, the county engineer shall per…

The county engineer shall keep, prepare and submit cost records upon all road work in his charge in order that the best and most economical method of doing the work may be thus ascertained and put into practice. Laws 1968, c. 415, § 627, operative July 1, 1968.

The board of county commissioners shall have power and authority upon its own motion to open and establish public roads on section lines anywhere in the county and obtain right-of-way therefor, either by amicable settlement or condemnation proceedings as provided by law. Laws 196…

The board of county commissioners shall at the time of establishing public roads make an order fixing the width thereof and definitely describing such roads. Laws 1968, c. 415, § 629, operative July 1, 1968.

No member of the Department, or any person in the employ of the Department, no county commissioner, county engineer, road superintendent, or any person in their employ, or one holding an appointment under them, shall be either directly or indirectly interested in any contract for…

- Supervision by county board. Boards of county commissioners in their respective counties shall have the supervision over bridges and the approaches thereto constructed upon county highways within their respective counties which have been erected by the voting of bonds by the co…

tolls. (a) The board of county commissioners may require any public utility or public service corporation, using any such bridge or approaches thereto, to pay such toll or rental for the use of such bridge and the approaches thereto as it may agree upon with the public utility or…

county board - Advisory services - Warrants for payroll. A. When any culvert or bridge is to be constructed at an estimated cost of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) or more, or any culvert or bridge reconstruction is to be accomplished at an estimated cost of Three Hu…

The board of county commissioners shall require each contractor to furnish a bond pursuant to the provisions of Section 1 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes but made payable to the county. If the contractor fails to comply with the terms of the contract, the bond shall be forfe…

forfeiture of office. (a) Any road, county, or other official charged with duties herein who shall violate any of the terms or provisions of this Article the punishment for which is not prescribed elsewhere in this Code, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction…

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be known and designated the "County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund", which shall consist of all appropriations and deposits made for the purposes hereinafter designated and shall also include all proce…

construction and maintenance machinery and equipment. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to use the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund to purchase new or used road and bridge construction and maintenance machinery and equipment for lease or leas…

machinery and equipment - Eligibility - Notice of intent - Lack of funds - Full warranty leases - Rules and regulations. A. Counties shall enter into lease or lease-purchase contracts for road machinery and equipment pursuant to the provisions of Sections 636.1 through 636.7 of t…

equipment and machinery - Eligibility of counties - Sales - Rental rate - Interest - Disposition of proceeds. A. The Department of Transportation may enter into a written lease or lease-purchase agreement providing new, surplus or used road machinery and equipment for the use by …

leasing county - Return. A. Any county leasing road machinery and equipment from the Department of Transportation shall use and care for said machinery and equipment in a careful and prudent manner and shall pay all operating and maintenance expenses including any and all repairs…

A. Any surplus road machinery and equipment in excess of the needs of the Department of Transportation which was purchased pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be offered for sale to all counties before it is disposed of. Whether sold to a county or sold as otherwise prov…

expenses. A. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to acquire space for storing road machinery and equipment while not in possession of a county and to pay the necessary costs thereof from the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund. B. Any costs or exp…

When any county road within the state, which shall have been designated as a part of the federal aid secondary highway system, is brought to standard grade and drain by the county in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Commission, and where sufficient right-o…

Whenever any road shall have been hard surfaced as provided for in the preceding section, it shall then become the duty of the county in which the road is located to maintain such road in a manner satisfactory to the Commission and the Bureau of Public Roads. Laws 1968, c. 415, §…

If there be located in any county less than six private operators actively engaged and registered with the governmental bureau or department having supervision of soil conservation, and available for contracting for rendering soil conservation services, the board of county commis…

machinery. (a) The board of county commissioners may not permit the use of such machinery and equipment, as provided in the preceding section, until the farmer desiring the use thereof shall make and enter into a contract with such county, providing that the farmer shall pay all …

Such machinery and equipment when used as hereinbefore provided shall be operated by and be under the control of the duly appointed agents and employees of the counties. Laws 1968, c. 415, § 642, operative July 1, 1968.

of county farm agent. Before the board of county commissioners shall permit the use of any such machinery, the board shall require that such farm be surveyed for terracing purposes by an engineer from Oklahoma State University or by the county agent of the county, either under hi…

authorized to enter and perform work on private property. The board of county commissioners is authorized to enter onto private property adjoining county roads and to perform work by county employees or by contractors working for the county, on such private property, when: 1. The…

The board of county commissioners may, upon such terms and conditions as it deems advisable, loan the county road machinery, tractors and equipment to municipalities located within the county for the purpose of permitting the use thereof in the building, grading and maintaining o…

The board of county commissioners shall cause each piece of county- owned, rented or leased road machinery and equipment, and each automobile and truck, to be marked in accordance with the provisions of this section. County-owned automobiles, trucks, road machinery and equipment …

A. The board of county commissioners may open, establish, reserve or condemn roads on section lines and may vacate, alter, widen, change or lay out other new roads according to the following procedure: 1. A proposal for action to vacate, alter, widen, change or locate a road shal…

The boards of county commissioners of the respective counties of this state, within the boundaries of which counties a state park is located, are hereby authorized to open section lines leading into such state parks, to build and establish roads thereon, to extend said roads into…

purpose - Dedication of adjacent land. In any case in the state where a public highway has been appropriated and occupied by a county or municipality for a public purpose and such county or municipality owns adjacent land, the board of county commissioners of such county or the g…

appropriate county highway for public purposes. The board of county commissioners of each county, by and with the written approval of the Commission, may grant to the United States of America or any irrigation district, conservancy district or water user's association, organized …

The board of county commissioners shall have the power to authorize the execution of, and the chairman of the board in accordance with such authorization shall have the power to execute, any and all contracts, deeds, easements and other instruments of conveyance as may be require…

The provisions of Sections 1229 - 1233 of this Code, relating to the marking and obliteration of section and quarter section corners within rights-of-way of state highways, shall apply with full force and effect and in like manner to the board of county commissioners of each coun…

engineers. The board of county commissioners of any county shall have authority to employ consulting engineers to make locations and prepare plans and specifications on any federal aid secondary highway project on the county highway system; and the supervision and inspection of a…

The State Highway Department shall numerically designate each section line in the State of Oklahoma according to the following system: The first section line running north and south at the west end of the State shall be designated NS1, each succeeding section line shall have the …

The boards of county commissioners of the various counties in this state shall adopt a system of county highways and public roads which shall constitute the county primary road system of their respective counties. Said system shall consist of functionally classified county collec…

The board of county commissioners in each county may, within one (1) year after the designation of the county primary road system in that county, locate, erect and thereafter maintain markers designating those routes classified as county primary roads. Markers shall bear the card…

system. A. The county commissioners in each county shall designate a county primary road system as provided for in Section 654 of this title, and upon completion, the board of county commissioners in any county may program bridge or roadway projects located on the county primary …

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Bridge and Road Improvement Act". Added by Laws 1980, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. June 17, 1980. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 284, § 18, eff. July 1, 1997.

Engineering services. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to develop a complete set of county bridge standards, including standards for demonstration bridge projects and standards for county bridges with low average daily traffic volumes as defined by the latest…

Expenditures. The boards of county commissioners may enter into cooperative agreements with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for the purpose of replacement, expansion or repair of functionally obsolete and structurally deficient bridges which cross over or under turnpikes. The exp…

Selection - Apportionment of funds. A. When a county receives monies pursuant to the County Bridge and Road Improvement Act, a county shall give priority to reconstructing, replacing, or closing those bridges in the county that are rated less than three (3) tons or fifteen (15) t…

A. A professional engineer registered by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors pursuant to Section 475.1 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall approve projects that may be awarded to contractors by the boards of county commission…

A. All consulting engineering contracts for services referred to in this act may be reviewed by the Department of Transportation except those contracts entered into pursuant to the provisions of Section 687.1 of this title or by the county or circuit engineer. The Department, cou…

Environmental studies as otherwise required by state or federal law shall not be required prior to the replacement of any existing county bridge. Added by Laws 2011, c. 257, § 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 2011. NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 663 of Title 69 to avoid duplication in…

A. The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may create a circuit engineering district with any other county or counties. The objectives of the circuit engineering district shall be: 1. To allow county governments to make the most efficient use of their powers…

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Treasurer to be designated the "Statewide Circuit Engineering District Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies receiv…

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be designated the "Emergency and Transportation Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by any donations, deposits d…

engineering services. A. The Department of Transportation is hereby directed, in cooperation with the Oklahoma Cooperative Circuit Engineering Districts Board, to cause to be developed appropriate local road design standards for use in constructing projects pursuant to this progr…