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

prohibited. A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the practice of applying waste oil to any street or road in this state is hereby prohibited. Upon authorization of the Corporation Commission and compliance with the provisions of this section, a board of county commiss…

bus turn-arounds. In order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the children of this state, the board of county commissioners shall be authorized to enter onto private property adjoining county roads in order to perform maintenance or improvements to an existing private r…

The board of county commissioners in every county in this state must notify the Department of Transportation at least twenty-one (21) days prior to accepting bids on any publicly let road or bridge work projects in the county. The Department shall make this information available …

roads. A. The boards of county commissioners are authorized to issue permits which authorize and regulate the harvesting of hay along the right-of-way of public roads of the county highway system within their respective counties. Each permit shall authorize the permittee to harve…

devices. The state, county or political subdivision shall be immune from liability if a claim for damages results from the use, repair or maintenance of cattle guards or other device designed to impede the movement of livestock, wildlife or other animals on public roadways. Added…

Federal aid. (a) A hard surfaced state or county highway may be extended into the corporate limits of a municipality to connect with the paving of such municipality under the following conditions: (1) When any state or county highway within any county has been completed with hard…

incorporated cities or towns. The board of county commissioners of any county may, under the direction of the Commission, contract for grading, draining or hardsurfacing any street within any municipality where such street is a continuation of or a connecting link in the State or…

The board of county commissioners may issue bonds of its county for the purpose of building, constructing, repairing or acquiring bridges, and for building and constructing state or county roads and bridges; provided, the issuance of such bonds shall first be approved by not less…

Whenever the board of county commissioners shall determine to construct a permanent bridge or culvert, the engineer's estimated cost of which exceeds the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), it shall adopt a resolution of necessity, containing substantially the following mat…

The board of county commissioners of any two or more adjoining counties may unite in the construction of a bridge, or bridges, over any stream forming the boundary line between such counties or flowing from one county into the other, and the said bridge, or bridges, may be locate…

(a) Whenever the public convenience justly demands it and the need thereof shall be appropriately signified, as herein provided, then the board of county commissioners must proceed as follows with respect to intercounty bridges across streams serving in whole or in part as a boun…

The board of county commissioners may pay for the reconstruction or repairing of such county bridges as have been damaged or destroyed by floods. Provided, that the authority granted by this section shall apply only to claims for repairing or reconstructing bridges previously own…

bridges. The accounts for repairing or reconstructing such bridges destroyed or damaged shall be filed and allowed by the board of county commissioners upon accounts itemized and verified by affidavit as in other cases. Laws 1968, c. 415, § 609, operative July 1, 1968.

service corporation. Any county, by act of the board of county commissioners, and any municipality within such county, by a majority of its governing board, and any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, may all or either of them jointly con…

authorized - Bond issue - Tax levy. Any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma may jointly contract with any municipality, county, or citizen of same, for the joint construction, maintenance, ownership and use of any bridge or bridge approach…

municipality. When the cost of such construction is apportioned respectively between the county and municipality, bonds may be voted for the same in like manner and form as otherwise provided by law for the construction of a bridge in its entirety by the county and municipality, …

The board of county commissioners of any county shall have authority to work any convicts confined in the county jail, either as punishment for crime or in lieu of payment of fine and costs, upon public highways in the county, and to employ such guards and other assistants as may…

When, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners, the expense of working the convicts upon the public highways is too great, on account of the small number thereof, or for any other reason, then it shall have authority to provide all necessary apparatus for working of s…

Authority of road supervisors. Any person in this state convicted of a crime who, as a result of such conviction, is confined as a prisoner in a county jail of any county may, at the discretion of the board of county commissioners of such county in which the jail is located, be r…

The board of county commissioners shall purchase supplies for feeding and maintaining county convicts while at work, from the lowest and best bidder, after reasonable public notice shall have been given. No contract for furnishing supplies at a higher price than the ordinary sell…

The board of county commissioners shall furnish wholesome food in sufficient quantity and variety to all convicts working upon the public roads to maintain them in good health and vigor, and shall furnish medical attention when required in accordance with the standards promulgate…

Any of the convicts whether male or female, mentioned in the preceding sections may be required to perform service in or around the county jail or other place of confinement, or at any camp or commissary where convicts are kept or fed. Laws 1968, c. 415, § 618, operative July 1, …

work. The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of the state shall have authority to receive by agreement with the governing board of any municipality, the prisoners of the municipality, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the municipality's jail, either a…

Whenever there remains in the State Treasury to the credit of the Commission, in the account of any county in this state, an unexpended balance of any special fund, being an amount in excess of the contract price of any federal aid road or bridge project and the purpose for which…

All county highways on county lines in this state shall be maintained and constructed by the counties adjoining. County commissioners of each of the counties or other jurisdictions between which such roads are located may enter into agreements to provide for said maintenance and …

Division of roads. (a) It shall be the duty of each board of county commissioners to maintain the section of each county line road assigned to it by the aforesaid agreement. The expenditures on such roads shall be governed by the laws relating to expenditures by boards of county …

Should the boards of county commissioners fail to agree upon an equitable division of such roads or upon the expense of maintenance and construction of such roads after the division has been made, the Director shall be authorized to settle such disputes, when called upon to do so…

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 …