Title 63 — Title 63 — Public Health and Safety

The Legislature declares that if any portion of this act is determined to be unconstitutional, it would nevertheless have enacted all of the remaining portion of this act, and no such decision shall invalidate the entire act. Laws 1935, p. 59, § 10.

No railroad or other common carrier shall receive for shipment to any point within the state or to any point outside the state the body of a deceased person unless there is attached to the shipping case, in a strong envelope, a burial-transit permit duly issued and signed by the …

Any agent, or employee, or officer of any railroad, or transportation company, violating any of the provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than Twenty- five Dollars ($25.00), nor more th…

Nonliability of physician and hospital. It shall be lawful for a physician, legally qualified to practice in the State of Oklahoma, to perform a post mortem caesarian section upon any female who is the victim of accidental death, who at the time of said death, is in the advanced …

Failure on the part of the physician, under such circumstances, to perform a caesarian operation shall not subject said physician to criminal liability, if in his opinion after due examination, the child is not viable at the time of the death of the female, while in the advanced …

This act may be cited as the "Oklahoma Housing Authorities Act." Laws 1965, c. 251, § 1, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

The provisions of this act shall apply in all counties of this state. Laws 1965, c. 251, § 2, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

It is hereby declared: (a) that there exists in urban and rural areas in certain counties in the state unsanitary, unsafe, and overcrowded dwelling accommodations; that in such urban and rural areas within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations …

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Authority" means any public body corporate and politic created by this act. (b) "City" means any incorpor…

In each city and in each county of the state there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the "housing authority" of the city or county; provided, that the authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers hereunder until or unless the…

communication towers. Any city, county, Rural Electric Cooperative or Indian housing authority created pursuant to Sections 1055 and 1057 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes is hereby authorized subject to approval of the state agency controlling such communication towers to use…

of additional public housing projects. A. 1. Upon the filing of a petition by five percent (5%) of the qualified voters of the city or county, as the case may be, asserting there is need for limiting an authority to its existing operations and prohibiting such authority from enga…

management and control. A. There is hereby created, with respect to each Indian tribe, band, or nation in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of each Indian tribe, band, or nation to be known as the "housing authority" of the Indian t…

authority commissioners. A. When a housing authority is authorized to transact business and exercise powers hereunder, five (5) persons shall be appointed as commissioners of the authority as follows: 1. In the case of a city, by the mayor with the advice and consent of the gover…

A. During his tenure and for one (1) year thereafter, no commissioner, officer, or employee of the local housing authority shall voluntarily acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, or in any co…

For inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, or allowing any portion of any project to become dilapidated, unsanitary or unkept, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the governing body, or, in the case of an authority for a county, by the board of county…

Every authority shall have all powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including the following powers in addition to others herein specifically granted: (a) To sue and to be sued; to have a seal and to alter the same at …

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to accomplish the charitable and public purposes of this act that each authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals or payments for dwelling accommodations…

An authority shall issue regulations establishing eligibility requirements, consistent with the purposes and objectives of this act, for admission to and continued occupancy in its projects. Nothing contained in this or the preceding section shall be construed as limiting the pow…

Any two or more authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing, including the issuance of bonds, notes or other obligations and giving security therefor, planning, underta…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other act relating to rentals of, preferences or eligibility for admission to, or occupancy of dwellings in housing projects, during a time of war as declared by Congress an authority determines that there is an acute need for housing…

The property and funds of a housing authority are declared to be used for charitable purposes and to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes, and such property and the authority are exempt from all taxes, including sales and use taxes and special as…

All projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the project is situated. Laws 1965, c. 251, § 17, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

An authority shall have power to issue bonds from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. It shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. An authority may issue such types of bonds …

Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum, be in such denomination or denominat…

In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, an authority, in addition to its other powers, shall have power: (a) to pledge all or any part of its gross or net rents, fees or…

The state and all public officers, private citizens, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations and savings and loan associations, investment companies, ins…

This act without reference to other statutes of the state shall constitute full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds hereunder. No other law with regard to the authorization or issuance of obligations or the deposit of the proceeds thereof that requires a bond el…

An obligee of an authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee: (a) by mandamus, suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity, to compel an authority…

An authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture, lease or other contract, to confer upon any obligee the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by s…

All property, including funds acquired or held by an authority pursuant to this act, shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against the authority be a charge or l…

In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of this act, an authority is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, grants, or other financial assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any project or related activities concernin…

In any contract with the federal government for annual contributions to any authority the authority may obligate itself, which obligation shall be specifically enforceable and shall not constitute a mortgage, notwithstanding any other laws, to convey to the federal government pos…

An authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property or interest therein which it may deem necessary for its purposes under this act after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real proper…

At least once a year an authority shall file with the clerk of the governing body of the jurisdiction within which the authority operates a complete financial and operating report of the preceding fiscal year which shall be and remain a public record. When required by federal law…

For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of projects located within its jurisdiction, any state or local public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (a) dedicate, sell, convey, or …

In connection with any project of a housing authority located wholly or partly within the area in which any state or local public body is authorized to act, any state or local public body shall agree with the housing authority with respect to the payment by the authority of such …

In addition to other aids provided herein, the state or any state or local public body is authorized to make contributions in the form of donation of land, buildings or personal property for or in aid of the charitable purpose of housing persons or families of low income in decen…

There is hereby created, with respect to each rural electric cooperative in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of such rural electric cooperative to be known as the "housing authority" of said cooperative which shall be an agency of …

Exemption from publication of notice, petition and election procedure. There is hereby created, with respect to each rural electric cooperative in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of such rural electric cooperative to be known as t…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, or of any municipal or county ordinance or local building code, the standards for factory-built housing, housing prototypes, subsystems, materials and components certified as acceptable by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban De…

A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Anatomical Donor Program Registration Act". B. The State Anatomical Board shall register all anatomical donor programs and non-transplant tissue banks in the state which meet the requirements of the Anatomical Donor Program …

Sections 3 and 4 of this act and Sections 1093, 1094, 1095, 1097, 1098 and 1099 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Relocation Assistance Act". Added by Laws 1988, c. 315, § 3, emerg. eff. July 6, 1988.

Compensation and reimbursement payments. A. When any department, agency or instrumentality of the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, or any other public or private entity subject to the provisions of the Federal Uniform Relocation Ass…

Except as provided in this section, the responsibility for the conduct of the relocation assistance programs shall be with the entity authorizing or requiring the relocation. An entity authorizing or requiring relocation may enter into contracts with any individual, firm, associa…

Funds appropriated or otherwise available to any state agency for the acquisition of real property or any interest therein for a particular program or project shall be available also for obligation and expenditure to carry out the provisions of this act as applied to that program…

If a unit of local government acquires real property, and federal-state financial assistance is available to pay the cost, in whole or in part, of the acquisition of such real property, or of the improvement for which such property is acquired, the cost to the unit of local gover…

No payment received by a displaced person under this act shall be considered as income or resources for the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistance under any state law or for the purposes of the state's personal income tax law,…

Nothing in this act shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain any element of value or of damage not in existence immediately prior to the date of enactment of this act. Added by Laws 1971, c. 342, § 14, operative July…

Any person or business concern aggrieved by final administrative determination, as provided by the Administrative Procedures Act, concerning eligibility for relocation payments authorized by this act may appeal such determination to the district court of the district in which the…