Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1276 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1276
Election - Resolution - Notice - Ballots
Status: in_force

A. Upon the adoption of a resolution by a majority of the board

of county commissioners or upon a petition to the board of county

commissioners signed by twenty percent (20%) of the qualified voters

of the county as determined by the last general election, the board

of county commissioners shall by resolution call an election for the

purpose of issuing bonds as provided in Section 1 of this act.

B. The board of county commissioners shall give notice of said

election by publication once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in

a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation published in the

county. If there is no daily or weekly newspaper published in such

county, then notice shall be given by publication in the manner

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provided for in this section in a newspaper of general circulation

in such county.

C. The resolution calling for the election and the notice shall

contain:

1. The amount of bonds to be issued;

2. The time of holding said election, which shall not be less

than thirty (30) days from the first publication of any notice; and

3. The purpose for which the facilities or reservoirs are to be

used.

D. Printed ballots stating "For Bonds" and "Against Bonds"

shall be cast at the election.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.30
Strikes, work stoppages or slowdowns prohibited - Grant
Status: in_force

of labor rights - Violations - Arbitration.

A. The protection of the public health, safety and welfare

demands that the permanent members of any Rural Fire Protection

District not be accorded the right to strike or engage in any work

stoppage or slowdown. This necessary prohibition does not, however,

require the denial to such employees of other well-recognized rights

of labor such as the right to organize, to be represented by a

collective bargaining representative of their choice and the right

to bargain collectively concerning wages, hours and other terms and

conditions of employment; and such employees shall also have the

right to refrain from any and all such activities.

B. It is declared to be the public policy of this state to

accord to the full-time firefighters in a Rural Fire Protection

District all of the rights of labor, other than the right to strike

or to engage in any work stoppage or slowdown. Nothing in this act

shall constitute a grant of the right to strike to any full-time

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firefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District and such strikes are

hereby prohibited. Unless otherwise provided by law, any person

holding such a position who, by concerted action with others and

without the lawful approval of the person’s superior, willfully

absents the person from his or her position or abstains in whole or

in part from the full, faithful and proper performance of such

person’s duties for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing

a change in the conditions or compensation, or the rights,

privileges or obligations of employment shall be deemed to be on

strike but the person, upon request, shall be entitled to a

determination as to whether he or she did violate the provisions of

this act. The request shall be filed in writing. The official or

body with whom the request is filed shall have the power to remove

or discipline such employee within ten (10) days after regular

compensation of such employee has ceased or other discipline has

been imposed. In the event of such request, the official or body

shall within ten (10) days after the receipt of such request

commence a proceeding for the determination of whether the

provisions of this act have been violated by the full-time

firefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District, in accordance with

the law and regulations appropriate to a proceeding to remove a

full-time firefighter in a Rural Fire Protection District. The

proceedings shall be undertaken without unnecessary delay. The

decision of the proceeding shall be made within ten (10) days

following the conclusion of the hearing. If the employee involved

is held to have violated this act and his or her employment

terminated or other discipline imposed, the employee shall have the

right of review in the district court having jurisdiction of the

parties, within thirty (30) days from such decision, for

determination whether such decision is supported by competent,

material and substantial evidence on the whole record. To provide

for the exercise of these rights, a method of arbitration of

disputes is hereby established.

C. It is declared to be the public policy of the State of

Oklahoma that no person shall be discharged from or denied

employment as a member of any Rural Fire Protection District of this

state by reason of membership or nonmembership in, or the payment or

nonpayment of any dues, fees or other charges to, an organization of

such members for collective bargaining purposes as herein

contemplated.

D. The establishment of this method of arbitration shall not,

however, in any way whatever, be deemed to be a recognition by the

state of compulsory arbitration as a superior method of settling

labor disputes between employees who possess the right to strike and

their employers, but rather shall be deemed to be a recognition

solely of the necessity to provide some alternative procedure for

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settling disputes where employees must, as a matter of public

policy, be denied the usual right to strike.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-242 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-242
Appointment of deputies
Status: in_force

Every such clerk may, by instrument in writing, by permission of

the board of county commissioners, appoint one or more deputies, and

shall file such appointments in his office; and said deputies shall

have such authority as the clerk may delegate, and, in case of a

vacancy in the office of county clerk, shall fill such vacancy until

a county clerk shall be appointed or elected.

R.L. 1910, § 1565.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-178.4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-178.4
Systems and forms - Audit and verification of accounts
Status: in_force

It shall be and is hereby made the duty of the State Auditor and

Inspector to prescribe all systems and forms to be used in property

accounting in keeping with the provisions of this act, whether for

record or reporting, and of indentification of such properties for

said purposes, and to enforce the use of the same in his own right

as such public officer. It shall be his further duty to audit and

verify said accounts so kept in as full and ample manner as is now

required by law of county finance records.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-286 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-286
Maintenance of records for storage
Status: in_force

The county commissioners shall furnish, and the county clerk

shall maintain, in the office of the county clerk, suitable records

for storage for all instruments of writing subject by law to be

recorded in the office of the county clerk. Suitable record may

include either photographic copy, digital copy or computer storage

of such instruments. All records shall be available to the public

for immediate viewing and reproduction. The county clerk shall

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retain sole custody and responsibility for the records of the

office. All digital copies shall be produced to meet archival

standards and a security copy shall be maintained. Stored documents

shall meet the guidelines set forth in Section 214 of Title 74 of

the Oklahoma Statutes.

R.L. 1910, § 1658. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 71, § 1; Laws 2004, c.

447, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004; Laws 2017, c. 22, § 6, eff. Nov.

1, 2017.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1608 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1608
License fee - Bond
Status: in_force

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Each application for a transient merchant license shall be

accompanied by a license fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and by a cash

bond or a surety bond issued by a corporate surety authorized to do

business in this state in the amount of Two Thousand Dollars

($2,000.00) or five percent (5%) of the wholesale value of any

goods, wares, merchandise, or services to be offered for sale

whichever sum is lesser. The surety bond shall be made payable to

the State of Oklahoma and shall assure the payment by the applicant

of all taxes that may be due from the applicant to the state or any

political subdivision of the state, the payment of any fines that

may be assessed against the applicant or its agents or employees for

violation of the provisions of the Transient Merchant Licensing Act,

and for the satisfaction of all judgments that may be rendered

against the transient merchant or its agents or employees in any

cause of action commenced by any purchaser of goods, wares,

merchandise, or services within one (1) year from the date of the

sale by such transient merchant. The bonds shall be maintained so

long as the transient merchant conducts business in the county and

for a period of one (1) year after the termination of such business

and shall be released only when the transient merchant furnishes

satisfactory proof to the court clerk that it has satisfied all

claims of purchasers of goods, wares, merchandise, or services from

such merchant, and that all state and local sales taxes and other

taxes have been paid.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1412 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1412
Public hearings - Notice
Status: in_force

The county budget board shall hold a public hearing on the

proposed budget no later than fifteen (15) days prior to the

beginning of the budget year. Notice of the date, time and place of

the hearing, together with the proposed budget summaries, shall be

published on the county's website and in a newspaper of general

circulation in the county not less than five (5) days before the

date of the hearing. Affidavit and proof of publication shall be

attached to the budget when filed with the county excise board and

State Auditor and Inspector. The county clerk shall make available

a sufficient number of copies of the proposed budgets as the county

budget board shall determine and have them available for review or

for distribution or sale at the office of the county clerk. At the

public hearing on the budgets, any person may present to the county

budget board comments, recommendations or information on any part of

the proposed budget.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-435 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-435
Order of district court
Status: in_force

The district court may make a final judgment and cause the same

to be executed, or may send the same back to the board with an order

how to proceed, and require said board of county commissioners to

comply therewith by a mandamus or attachment as for contempt.

R.L. 1910, § 1644.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-954 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-954
Annual appropriation - Maximum contributions
Status: in_force

It shall be the mandatory duty of the board of county

commissioners of any county establishing a retirement fund and

system to appropriate annually, for the sole use of the retirement

fund within its general fund and subject to the approval of the

county excise board, a sum which shall be equal to or exceed the

contributions made to the retirement fund by the employees. Such

appropriation shall not exceed the sum of the current annual

salaries of all employees to be covered in the following

percentages:

July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 13 1/2%

July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 14 1/2%

July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 15 1/2%

July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2019 16 1/2%

July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2025 18 1/2%

July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

and each year thereafter 22%

Beginning July 1, 2025, the total employer and employee

contributions shall not exceed twenty-two percent (22%) of the

monthly compensation of each member. The governing body of the

participating employers listed in this section may vary the

percentage contribution of the employer and employee, provided the

total percentage contributed by the employer and employee equals the

total percentage contribution required by this section. Payment of

such shall be paid to the fund upon verified claims by the treasurer

of the fund approved by the board of trustees and attested by its

clerk.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.12 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.12
Manufacturers and assemblers
Status: in_force

Manufacturers or assemblers of electrical equipment shall not be

subject to the provisions of this act in regard to any work involved

in the manufacture, test, alteration, maintenance or repair by the

manufacturers or assemblers of electrical materials, devices,

appliances or apparatus, except that nothing herein contained shall

exempt any manufacturer or assembler from compliance with any

applicable electrical installation code in his plant.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-174 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-174
Reports - Copies - Officers filed with
Status: in_force

A copy of each report of audit shall be filed with the Governor,

district attorney, county clerk and the State Auditor and Inspector.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-869.3 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-869.3
Membership - Qualifications - Term - Joint commission -
Status: in_force

Removal - Vacancies - Compensation.

A lake area planning commission shall consist of not less than

five (5) nor more than eleven (11) members, all of whom shall be

residents of the affected county or counties. The board of county

commissioners shall, by resolution creating the planning commission,

establish the qualifications for membership on the planning

commission and the length of terms; provided, that after the initial

appointment of planning commission members, not more than forty

percent (40%) of the terms shall expire in any one (1) calendar

year. In the event that two or more counties elect to cooperate in

a joint lake area planning commission, the board of county

commissioners of each county shall appoint the number of members to

the planning commission as is mutually agreed by joint resolution of

the boards of county commissioners of the participating counties.

In the event that one or more incorporated cities or towns elect to

come within the jurisdiction of a lake area planning commission, the

governing bodies of such cities or towns may appoint the members of

planning commissions as may be mutually agreed upon in a joint

resolution among the participating county or counties and cities or

towns.

Once appointed, members of a lake area planning commission may

be removed from office during the term only for cause and after a

hearing before the governing body by which the members were

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appointed. Vacancies occurring other than through the expiration of

terms shall be filled for the unexpired term. Members of a lake

area planning commission shall serve without compensation; provided,

that upon the appropriation of funds members of the planning

commission may be reimbursed for true and reasonable expenses

incurred in the performance of their duties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-528 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-528
Authority to employ attorney
Status: in_force

Upon the recommendation of the Attorney General, the sheriff of

any county shall have the authority to employ an attorney to

represent the sheriff and the office of the sheriff in the

performance of the official duties of that office. The authority to

employ an attorney shall be limited to those situations or cases

where the district attorney of the same county as the sheriff has

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been disqualified or removed from the case. The fees for employing

an attorney may be paid from unrestricted funds within the budget of

the sheriff or the sheriff may request that the budget authority of

the county appropriate funds from the county general fund, if such

funds are available, for the purpose of paying such fees.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-6 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-6
Payment of judgment against county
Status: in_force

When a judgment shall be rendered against the board of

commissioners of any county, or against any county officer in any

action prosecuted by or against him in his official name, where the

same should be paid by the county, no execution shall issue upon the

said judgment, but a tax sufficient to pay same shall be levied and

collected in like manner as other county taxes, and when collected

shall be paid by the county treasurer on the delivery of a proper

receipt and the signing of an acknowledgment on the court record of

said judgment, by the party in whose favor the judgment was

rendered, or by his attorney of record, that same has been

satisfied.

R.L. 1910, § 1502.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1505 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1505
See the following versions:
Status: in_force

OS 19-1505v1 (HB 2165, Laws 2025, c. 66, 1)

OS 19-1505v2 (SB 403, Laws 2025, c. 85, § 2)
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-79 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-79
Qualifications
Status: in_force

No person shall be qualified and eligible to perform the duties

of special election commissioner in any county, who shall be or have

been a resident of such county, or who shall be interested in any

manner in the success of any city, town or place, which is a

candidate for any such county seat, or who shall be interested in

any way or in any manner in any business proposition or institution

located in any such city, town or place which is a candidate for the

location of said county seat.

R.L. 1910, § 1525.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1505.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1505.1
Contracts for supplies, equipment or materials - Bidders to provide information as to
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 30Bidders to provide information as to manufacturer and country of

origin of supplies, equipment and materials.

A. The county purchasing agent may require each bidder for

county contracts for supplies, equipment or materials to provide

information as to the manufacturer and country of origin of any

supplies, equipment or materials for the county as specified by

labels attached to the supplies, equipment or materials where such

identification is required by federal or state law. If an item has

more than one component part or accessory which may have been

manufactured in more than one country, the bidder may specify the

countries of origin for only the major component parts or

accessories as determined by the Board of County Commissioners where

such identification is required by federal or state law.

B. Any county contract for the purchase of supplies, equipment

or materials may require the contractor to obtain from all of his

subcontractors information as to the manufacturer and country or

countries of origin of any such supplies, equipment or materials

provided to the county where such identification is required by

federal or state law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1505v1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1505v1
Procedures for the operation of county government
Status: in_force

The following procedures shall be used by counties for the

requisition, purchase, lease-purchase, rental, and receipt of

supplies, materials, road and bridge construction services,

equipment and information technology and telecommunication goods and

services for the maintenance, operation, and capital expenditures of

county government unless otherwise provided for by law.

A. The procedure for requisitioning items for county offices

shall be as follows:

1. The requesting department shall prepare a requisition form

in triplicate. The requisition shall contain any specifications for

an item as deemed necessary by the requesting department. The form

shall be prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector;

2. The requesting department shall retain a copy of the

requisition and forward the original requisition and a copy to the

county purchasing agent; and

3. Upon receipt of the requisition, the county purchasing

agent, within two (2) working days, shall begin the bidding and

purchasing process as provided for in this section. Nothing in this

section shall prohibit the transfer of supplies, materials, or

equipment between county departments upon a written agreement

between county officers.

B. The bid procedure for selecting a vendor for the purchase,

lease-purchase, or rental of supplies, materials, equipment and

information technology and telecommunication goods and services used

by a county shall be as follows:

1. The county purchasing agent shall request written

recommendations from all county officers pertaining to needed or

commonly used supplies, materials, road and bridge construction

services, equipment and information technology and telecommunication

goods and services. From such recommendations and available

requisition, purchase, or inventory records, the county purchasing

agent shall prepare a list of items needed or commonly used by

county officers. The county purchasing agent shall request from the

Purchasing Division or from the Information Services Division in the

case of information technology and telecommunication goods and

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services of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services all

contracts quoting the price the state is paying for the items. The

county purchasing agent shall either request the Purchasing Division

or the Information Services Division of the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services, as applicable, to make the purchase for the

county or the county purchasing agent shall solicit bids for unit

prices on the items for periods of not to exceed twelve (12) months

in the manner described in paragraph 2 of this subsection. If the

county purchasing agent receives a requisition for an item for which

the county purchasing agent does not have a current bid, the county

purchasing agent shall request from the Purchasing Division or the

Information Services Division of the Office of Management and

Enterprise Services, as applicable, all contracts quoting the price

the state is paying for the item. The county purchasing agent shall

either request the Purchasing Division or the Information Services

Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, as

applicable, to make the purchase for the county or the county

purchasing agent shall solicit bids in the manner described in

paragraph 2 of this subsection. Nothing in this paragraph shall

prohibit bids from being taken on an item currently on a twelve-

month bid list, at any time deemed necessary by the county

purchasing agent. Whenever the county purchasing agent deems it

necessary to take a bid on an item currently on a twelve-month bid

list, the reason for the bid shall be entered into the minutes of

the board of county commissioners;

2. Bids shall be solicited by mailing or emailing a notice to

all persons or firms who have made a written request of the county

purchasing agent that they be notified of such bid solicitation and

to all other persons or firms who might reasonably be expected to

submit bids. Notice of solicitation of bids shall also be published

one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.

Notices shall be mailed and published at least ten (10) days prior

to the date on which the bids are opened. Proof of the mailing or

emailing shall be made by the affidavit of the person mailing or

emailing the request for bids and shall be made a part of the

official records of the county purchasing agent. The notice shall

specify whether the county will consider written bids, electronic

bids, or both; the decision to exclusively consider either written

bids or electronic bids shall be determined pursuant to an

affirmative vote of the board of county commissioners. Whenever any

prospective supplier or vendor dealing in or listing for sale any

particular item or article required to be purchased or acquired by

sealed bids fails to enter or offer a sealed bid for three

successive bid solicitations, the name of the supplier or vendor may

be dropped from the mailing lists of the board of county

commissioners;

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3. The sealed bids received from vendors and the state contract

price received from the applicable Division of the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services shall be given to the county

clerk by the county purchasing agent. The county clerk shall

forward the sealed bids and state contract price, if any, to the

board of county commissioners;

4. The board of county commissioners, in an open meeting, shall

open the sealed bids and compare them to the state contract price.

The board of county commissioners shall select the lowest and best

bid based upon, if applicable, the availability of material and

transportation cost to the job site within thirty (30) days of the

meeting. For any special item not included on the list of needed or

commonly used items, the requisitioning official shall review the

bids and submit a written recommendation to the board before final

approval. The board of county commissioners shall keep a written

record of the meeting as required by law, and any time the lowest

bid was not considered to be the lowest and best bid, the reason for

such conclusion shall be recorded. Whenever the board of county

commissioners rejects the written recommendation of the

requisitioning official pertaining to a special item, the reasons

for the rejection shall be entered in their minutes and stated in a

letter to the requisitioning official and county purchasing agent;

5. The county purchasing agent shall notify the successful

bidders and shall maintain a copy of the notification. The county

purchasing agent shall prepare and maintain a vendors list

specifying the successful bidders and shall notify each county

officer of the list. The county purchasing agent may remove any

vendor from such list who refuses to provide goods or services as

provided by contract if the removal is authorized by the board of

county commissioners. The county purchasing agent may make

purchases from the successful bidders for a price at or below the

bid price. If a vendor who is the low bidder cannot or will not

sell goods or services as required by a county bid contract, the

county purchasing agent may make a one-time purchase from the next

lowest or best quote or take quotations as provided in paragraph 6

of this subsection; provided, however, such purchase does not exceed

Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) as the amount specified in

subparagraph a of paragraph 3 of subsection A of Section 1501 of

this title; and

6. When bids have been solicited as provided for by law and no

bids have been received, the procedure shall be as follows:

a. the county purchasing agent shall determine if

potential vendors are willing to commit to a firm

price for a reduced period of time, and, if such is

the case, the bid procedure described in this

subsection shall be followed,

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b. if vendors are not willing to commit to a firm price

for a reduced period, the purchasing agent shall

solicit and record at least three (3) quotes of

current prices available to the county and authorize

the purchase of goods or services based on the lowest

and best quote as it becomes necessary to acquire such

goods or services. The quotes shall be recorded on a

form prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector and

shall be attached to the purchase order and filed with

the county clerk's copy of the purchase order. Any

time the lowest quote was not considered to be the

lowest and best quote, the reason for this conclusion

shall be recorded by the county purchasing agent and

transmitted to the county clerk, or

c. if three quotes are not available, a memorandum to the

county clerk from the county purchasing agent shall

describe the basis upon which a purchase is

authorized. The memorandum shall state the reasons

why the price for such a purchase is the lowest and

best under the circumstances. The county clerk shall

then attach the memorandum to the county clerk's copy

of the purchase order and file both in the office of

the county clerk.

C. After selection of a vendor, the procedure for the purchase,

lease-purchase, or rental of supplies, materials, road and bridge

construction services, equipment and information technology and

telecommunication goods and services used by a county shall be as

follows:

1. The county purchasing agent shall prepare a purchase order

in quadruplicate and submit it with a copy of the requisition to the

county clerk;

2. The county clerk shall then encumber the amount stated on

the purchase order and assign a sequential number to the purchase

order;

3. If there is an unencumbered balance in the appropriation

made for that purpose by the county excise board, the county clerk

shall so certify in the following form:

"I hereby certify that the amount of this encumbrance has been

entered against the designated appropriation accounts and that this

encumbrance is within the authorized available balance of the

appropriation.

Dated this ________ day of ________, 20__.

________________________________

County Clerk/Deputy

of _____________________ County."

In instances where it is impossible to ascertain the exact amount of

the indebtedness sought to be incurred at the time of recording the

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encumbrance, an estimated amount may be used. No purchase order

shall be valid unless signed by the county purchasing agent and

certified by the county clerk; and

4. The county clerk shall file the original purchase order and

return three (3) copies to the county purchasing agent who shall

file a copy, retain a copy for the county road and bridge inventory

officer if the purchase order is for the purchase of equipment,

supplies, or materials for the construction or maintenance of roads

and bridges, and submit the other copy to the receiving officer of

the requesting department.

D. 1. The procedure for the purchase of supplies, materials,

equipment and information technology and telecommunication goods and

services at public auction or by sealed bid to be used by a county

shall be as follows:

a. the county purchasing agent shall prepare a purchase

order in quadruplicate and submit it with a copy of

the requisition to the county clerk,

b. the county clerk shall then encumber the amount stated

on the purchase order and assign a sequential number

to the purchase order,

c. if there is an unencumbered balance in the

appropriation made for that purpose by the county

excise board, the county clerk shall so certify in the

following form:

"I hereby certify that the amount of this encumbrance

has been entered against the designated appropriation

accounts and that this encumbrance is within the

authorized available balance of the appropriation.

Dated this ________ day of ________, 20__.

________________________________

County Clerk/Deputy

of _____________________ County."

In instances where it is impossible to ascertain the

exact amount of the indebtedness sought to be incurred

at the time of recording the encumbrance, an estimated

amount may be used. No purchase order shall be valid

unless signed by the county purchasing agent and

certified by the county clerk, and

d. the county clerk shall file the original purchase

order and return three (3) copies to the county

purchasing agent who shall file a copy, retain a copy

for the county road and bridge inventory officer if

the purchase order is for the purchase of equipment,

supplies, or materials for the construction or

maintenance of roads and bridges, and submit the other

copy to the receiving officer of the requesting

department.

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2. The procedure for the purchase of supplies, materials, and

equipment at a public auction when the purchase will be made with

the proceeds from the sale of county property at the same public

auction are as follows:

a. the purchasing agent shall cause such items being sold

to be appraised in the manner determined in Section

421.1 of this title,

b. the county purchasing agent shall prepare a purchase

order in quadruplicate and submit it with a copy of

the requisition to the county clerk,

c. the county clerk shall then encumber the amount of the

appraised value and any additional funds obligated by

the county on the purchase order and assign a

sequential number to the purchase order,

d. the county clerk shall certify that the amount of the

encumbrance is equal to the appraised value of the

item being sold plus any additional funds obligated by

the county. In effect the recording of the

encumbrance is an estimate that is authorized by law.

No purchase order shall be valid unless signed by the

county purchasing agent and certified by the county

clerk,

e. the county clerk shall file the original purchase

order and return three (3) copies to the county

purchasing agent who shall file a copy, retain a copy

for the county road and bridge inventory officer if

the purchase order is for the purchase of equipment,

supplies or materials for the construction or

maintenance of roads and bridges, and submit the other

copy to the receiving officer of the requesting

department, and

f. a purchase shall not be bid until such time that the

appraised item or items are sold. Any item or items

purchased shall not exceed the appraised value plus

any additional funds obligated by the county or the

actual selling price of the item or items, whichever

is the lesser amount.

E. The procedure for the receipt of items shall be as follows:

1. A receiving officer for the requesting department shall be

responsible for receiving all items delivered to that department;

2. Upon the delivery of an item, the receiving officer shall

determine if a purchase order exists for the item being delivered;

3. If no such purchase order has been provided, the receiving

officer shall refuse delivery of the item;

4. If a purchase order is on file, the receiving officer shall

obtain a delivery ticket, bill of lading, or other delivery document

and compare it with the purchase order. If any item is back-

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ordered, the back order and estimated date of delivery shall be

noted in the receiving report;

5. The receiving officer shall complete a receiving report in

quadruplicate which shall state the quantity and quality of goods

delivered. The receiving report form shall be prescribed by the

State Auditor and Inspector. The person delivering the goods shall

acknowledge the delivery by signature, noting the date and time;

6. The receiving officer shall file the original receiving

report and submit:

a. a copy of the purchase order and a copy of the

receiving report to the county purchasing agent, and

b. a copy of the receiving report with the delivery

documentation to the county clerk;

7. The county purchasing agent shall file a copy of the

purchase order and a copy of the receiving report;

8. Upon receipt of the original receiving report and the

delivery documentation, the county clerk shall maintain a file until

such time as an invoice is received from the vendor;

9. The invoice shall state the name and address of the vendor

and must be sufficiently itemized to clearly describe each item

purchased, the unit price when applicable, the number or volume of

each item purchased, the total price, the total purchase price, and

the date of the purchase;

10. Upon receipt of an invoice, the county clerk shall compare

the following documents:

a. requisition,

b. purchase order,

c. invoice with noncollusion affidavit as required by

law,

d. receiving report, and

e. delivery document.

The documents shall be available for public inspection during

regular business hours; and

11. If the documents conform as to the quantity and quality of

the items, the county clerk shall prepare a warrant for payment

according to procedures provided for by law.

F. The following procedures are for the processing of purchase

orders:

1. The purchasing agent shall be allowed up to three (3) days

to process purchase orders to be presented to the board of county

commissioners for consideration and payment. Nothing herein shall

prevent the purchasing agent from processing or the board of county

commissioners from consideration and payment of utilities, travel

claims, and payroll claims;

2. The board of county commissioners shall consider the

purchase orders so presented and act upon the purchase orders, by

allowing in full or in part or by holding for further information or

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disallowing the same. The disposition of purchase orders shall be

indicated by the board of county commissioners, showing the amounts

allowed or disallowed and shall be signed by at least two (2)

members of the board of county commissioners. Any claim held over

for further information shall be acted upon by allowing or

disallowing same at any future meeting of the board held within

seventy-five (75) days from the date of filing of the purchase

order. Any purchase order not acted upon within the seventy-five

(75) days from the date of filing shall be deemed to have been

disallowed, but such disallowance shall not prevent the refiling of

the purchase order at the proper time; and

3. Whenever any allowance, either in whole or in part, is made

upon any purchase order presented to the board of county

commissioners and is accepted by the person making the claim, such

allowance shall be a full settlement of the entire purchase order

and provided that the cashing of warrant shall be considered as

acceptance by the claimant.

G. The procedure upon consumption or disposal of supplies,

materials, or equipment shall be as follows:

1. For consumable road or bridge items or materials, a

quarterly report of the road and bridge projects completed during

such period shall be prepared and kept on file by the consuming

department. The quarterly report may be prepared and kept

electronically by the consuming department. The report shall

contain a record of the date, the place, and the purpose for the use

of the road or bridge items or materials. For purposes of

identifying county bridges, the board of county commissioners shall

number each bridge subject to its jurisdiction; and

2. For disposal of all equipment and information technology and

telecommunication goods which originally cost more than Five Hundred

Dollars ($500.00), resolution of disposal shall be submitted by the

officer on a form prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector's

Office to the board of county commissioners. The approval of the

resolution of disposal shall be entered into the minutes of the

board.

H. Inventory forms and reports shall be retained for not less

than two (2) years after all audit requirements for the state and

federal government have been fulfilled and after any pending

litigation involving the forms and reports has been resolved.

I. The procedures provided for in this section shall not apply

when a county officer certifies that an emergency exists requiring

an immediate expenditure of funds. Such an expenditure of funds

shall not exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). The county

officer shall give the county purchasing agent a written explanation

of the emergency. The county purchasing agent shall attach the

written explanation to the purchase order. The purchases shall be

paid by attaching a properly itemized invoice, as described in this

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section, to a purchase order which has been prepared by the county

purchasing agent and submitting them to the county clerk for filing,

encumbering, and consideration for payment by the board of county

commissioners.

J. The county purchasing agent may authorize county purchasing

officers to make acquisitions through the state purchase card

program as authorized by the State Purchasing Director in accordance

with Section 85.5 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes and defined

in Section 85.2 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Purchase

cardholders shall sign a purchase card agreement prior to becoming a

cardholder and attend purchase card procedure training as required

by the State Purchasing Director. Complete descriptions of

purchases made by county government entities shall be published

through the state transparency portal pursuant to Section 85.33B of

Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and as warrants required to be

published pursuant to Sections 444 and 445 of this title.

K. Nothing in this section shall prohibit counties from

providing material and/or services bids on the twelve-month bid list

to all road and bridge projects and contracts. All non-road and

bridge related construction contracts shall refer to subsection A of

Section 103 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

L. Nothing in this section or under Section 103 of Title 61 of

the Oklahoma Statutes shall prohibit counties from requesting and

entering into interlocal agreements pursuant to the Interlocal

Cooperation Act for services offered by Circuit Engineering

Districts created under Section 687.1 of Title 69 of the Oklahoma

Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-264 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-264
Release of filed information over telephone - Fees
Status: in_force

A county clerk may release over the telephone any information

requested from files that are open to public inspection within the

county clerk's office. There may be a fee not to exceed Three

Dollars ($3.00) for each individual phone request answered over the

telephone. The provisions of this section shall also apply to any

Uniform Commercial Code information requested. For the purposes of

this act, an "individual phone request answered," is defined as the

release by telephone of all information pertinent to any one

individual. "Individual" includes husband and wife.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-894 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-894
Presentation and allowance of claims - Warrants
Status: in_force

No claims shall be paid by the clerk of said district until the

same shall have been presented and allowed by the board of directors

and only upon warrants signed by the president and countersigned by

the clerk, and if the district treasurer has not sufficient money on

hand to pay such warrants when presented, he shall endorse thereon

"not paid for want of funds" and endorse thereon the date presented,

over his signature, and from the time of such presentation until

paid such warrant shall draw interest at the rate of six percent

(6%) per annum. All claims against the district shall be verified

the same as is required in the case on claims filed against the

counties in this state, and the clerk of the district is hereby

authorized and empowered to administer oaths to the parties

verifying such claims the same as a county clerk or a notary public

might do. The district clerk shall keep a register in which he

shall enter each warrant presented for payment, showing the date and

amount of such warrant, to whom payable, the date of the

presentation for payment, the date of payment, and the amount paid

in redemption thereof, and all warrants shall be paid in the order

of their presentation for payment to the district clerk. All

warrants shall be drawn and payable to the claimant or bearer.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-382 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-382
Additional tax voted, when
Status: in_force

When county warrants are at a depreciated value, the said

commissioners may in a like manner submit the question whether a tax

of a higher rate than that provided for shall be authorized; and in

all cases when an additional tax is laid in pursuance of a vote of

the people of the county, or for constructing or ordering to be

constructed any road or bridge, or for aiding in any enterprise

contemplated by the preceding section, such special tax shall be

paid in money and in no other manner.

R.L. 1910, § 1609.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1250 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1250
Installments - Payment - Collecting agent - Duties
Status: in_force

The assessments provided for and levied pursuant to the

provisions of Sections 1230 through 1262 of this title shall be

payable as the installments become due, together with the interest

on said installments, to the county clerk who shall give proper

receipts for such payments and credit the same upon the road

assessment record. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to keep

an accurate account of all such collections made by the clerk and to

pay to the county treasurer daily the amounts of such assessments

collected by the clerk. The amounts so collected and paid to the

county treasurer shall constitute a separate, special fund to be

used and applied to the payment of such bonds and the interest

thereon, as provided by Sections 1257 through 1260 of this title.

It shall be the duty of the county clerk, not less than thirty (30)

days and not more than forty (40) days before the maturity of any

installment of such assessments, to publish in two successive issues

of a daily newspaper or in one issue of a weekly newspaper,

published in the county and of general circulation in said county, a

notice advising the record title holder of the land affected by such

assessment of the date when such installment and interest will be

due, and designating the road, street, streets, or public places, or

parts thereof, for the improvement of which such assessments have

been levied, and that unless such assessments shall be promptly

paid, said installment and interest shall bear interest at the rate

of fifteen percent (15%) per annum until paid, and proceedings taken

according to law to collect said installment and interest. It shall

also be the duty of the county clerk, not less than thirty (30) days

before the maturity of any installment of such assessments, to send

a notice by mail advising the record titleholder of the land

affected by such assessment of the date when such installment and

interest will be due, and designating the road, street, streets, or

public places, or parts thereof, for the improvement of which such

assessments have been levied, and that unless such assessments shall

be promptly paid, said installment and interest shall bear interest

at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum until paid, and

proceedings taken according to law to collect said installment and

interest. Failure of the owner to receive any notice shall not

invalidate any of the proceedings authorized in this title and shall

not invalidate any installment or interest that may be due. It

shall be the duty of the county clerk, promptly after the date of

maturity of any such installment and interest and on or before the

fifteenth day of September in each year, to certify such installment

and interest due to the county treasurer of the county in which the

improvement district is located, which installment and interest

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shall be placed by said county treasurer upon the November

delinquent tax list of the same year prepared by the treasurer of

said county and collected as other delinquent taxes are collected.

It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to collect such

installments of assessment, together with interest and penalty, so

certified to the treasurer by the county clerk, as provided for in

this section, but any taxpayer shall have the right to pay his ad

valorem taxes to the county treasurer regardless of the delinquency

of such assessments. Within thirty (30) days from the receipt of

such delinquent assessments, interest and penalty collected by the

county treasurer shall be disbursed in accordance with the

provisions of Sections 1230 through 1262 of this title. Failure of

the county clerk to publish notice of the maturing of any

installment and interest shall in no way affect the validity of the

proceedings to collect such installment and interest pursuant to the

provisions of this section. All payments to the county treasurer on

account of such assessments shall be certified by the treasurer to

the county clerk to be credited on the road assessment record.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.61 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.61
Administration of rural fire protection program - Acquisition of federal excess property -
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 25Acquisition of federal excess property - Rural fire protection

coordination districts.

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A. The State Department of Agriculture is hereby directed to

administer a rural fire protection program and is hereby authorized

to acquire federal excess property for the support and operation of

fire departments and fire districts.

B. For the purpose of coordination of improved rural fire

protection, rural fire protection coordination districts are hereby

created to consist of the following counties:

District 1, composed of Washington, Nowata, Craig, Ottawa,

Mayes, Delaware and Rogers Counties.

District 2, composed of Wagoner, Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah,

Muskogee, Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties.

District 3, composed of Pittsburg, Haskell, LeFlore, Pushmataha,

Latimer, McCurtain and Choctaw Counties.

District 4, composed of Garvin, Pontotoc, Coal, Atoka, Johnston,

Murray, Carter, Love, Marshall and Bryan Counties.

District 5, composed of Lincoln, Okfuskee, Hughes, Seminole,

Pottawatomie, Payne and Pawnee Counties.

District 6, composed of Creek, Osage and Tulsa Counties.

District 7, composed of Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Noble, Garfield,

Major, Blaine and Kingfisher Counties.

District 8, composed of Canadian, Oklahoma, Cleveland and Logan

Counties.

District 9, composed of Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady,

Jefferson, McClain, Stephens and Tillman Counties.

District 10, composed of Roger Mills, Custer, Washita, Beckham,

Greer, Kiowa, Jackson and Harmon Counties.

District 11, composed of Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, Harper, Woods,

Ellis, Woodward and Dewey Counties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.16A — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.16A
Board of county commissioners may establish fines and
Status: in_force

penalties.

A. A board of county commissioners may provide for enforcement

of its regulations and establish fines, penalties or other remedies

for any offense in violation of its regulations, which shall be

recoverable together with costs of suit.

B. 1. In addition to other powers and duties prescribed by

law, a board of county commissioners shall have the power to

establish and enforce fines and penalties for violation of its

zoning, subdivision, storm water and floodplain regulations,

including the issuance of citations by designated county personnel

for violations of its zoning, subdivision, storm water and

floodplain regulations. A board of county commissioners may

additionally establish that any person who fails to correct a

violation for which a citation has been issued within the period

permitted for its correction may be assessed a fine or penalty for

each ensuing day during which such failure or violation continues.

2. In issuing a citation pursuant to this subsection, the

county employee shall proceed as follows:

a. the employee shall prepare a written citation to

appear in court, containing the name and address of

the cited person and the violation/offense charged,

and stating when the person shall appear in district

court. The time to appear specified in the citation

shall be at least five (5) days after the issuance of

the citation,

b. one copy of the citation to appear shall be delivered

to the person cited, and such person shall sign a

duplicate written citation which shall be retained by

the county employee, and

c. as soon as practicable, one copy of the citation shall

be filed with the district court specified therein and

one copy delivered to the prosecuting attorney.

3. If a person fails to appear in district court at the

designated time, a warrant for arrest shall be issued.

4. Violations and penalties shall be deemed misdemeanor

offenses, punishable by a fine of up to Five Hundred Dollars

($500.00). Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the district court

within the county.

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5. Fines and penalties collected pursuant to this subsection

shall be deposited in the appropriate county fund.

6. Issuance of citations and/or payment of fines or penalties

shall in no way preclude other remedies or appropriate action or

proceedings to prevent or remove a violation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-339 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-339
General powers of commissioners
Status: in_force

A. The board of county commissioners shall have power:

1. To make all orders respecting the real property of the

county, to sell the public grounds of the county and to purchase

other grounds in lieu thereof; and for the purpose of carrying out

the provisions of this section it shall be sufficient to convey all

the interests of the county in those grounds when an order made for

the sale and a deed is executed in the name of the county by the

chair of the board of county commissioners, reciting the order, and

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signed by the chair and acknowledged by the county clerk for and on

behalf of the county;

2. To audit the accounts of all officers having the care,

management, collection or disbursement of any money belonging to the

county or appropriated for its benefit;

3. To construct and repair bridges and to open, lay out, and

vacate highways; provided, however, that when any state institution,

school, or department shall own, lease, or otherwise control land on

both sides of any established highway, the governing board or body

of the same shall have the power to vacate, alter, or relocate the

highway adjoining the property in the following manner:

If it should appear that it would be to the best use and

interest of the institution, school, or department to vacate, alter,

or relocate such highway, the governing board or body shall notify

the board of county commissioners, in writing, of their intention to

hold a public hearing and determine whether to vacate, alter, or

relocate the highway, setting forth the location and terminals of

the road, and all data concerning the proposed right-of-way if

changed or relocated, and shall give fifteen (15) days’ notice of

the hearing by publication in some newspaper in the county or

counties in which the road is located, and the hearing shall be held

at the county seat of the county in which the road is located, and

if a county line road, may be heard in either county. At the

hearing testimony may be taken, and any protests or suggestions

shall be received as to the proposed measure, and at the conclusion

thereof if the governing board or body shall find that it would be

to the best use and interest of the institution, school, or

department, and the public generally, they may make an appropriate

order either vacating, altering or relocating the highway, which

order shall be final if approved by the board of county

commissioners. The institution, school, or department may by

agreement share the cost of changing any such road. No property

owner shall be denied access to a public highway by the order;

4. To recommend or sponsor an employee or prospective employee

for job-related training and certification in an area that may

require training or certification to comply with state or federal

law as such training or certification is provided by the Department

of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, or any other

state agency, technology center school, or university;

5. To determine the years of service required for full-time

county employees to qualify for a continuing education program.

Such programs may consist of courses offered by colleges and

universities that are members of The Oklahoma State System of Higher

Education as well as any other in-state or out-of-state programs or

courses which are relevant to the employee’s responsibilities as

approved by the county commissioners. Such programs shall require

that employees maintain at least an A or B average in order to

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qualify for one hundred percent (100%) reimbursement. Employees who

maintain passing or satisfactory grades shall qualify for seventy-

five percent (75%) reimbursement under such programs. Such programs

shall require that documentation from colleges and universities

regarding courses completed, credits earned, and tuition charged be

submitted to a board of county commissioners within ninety (90) days

after the completion of courses. General applications and request

forms for such programs shall be submitted to a board of county

commissioners or an appropriate human resources department prior to

the conclusion of a county’s current fiscal year. Employees who

elect to participate in such programs shall continue to meet the

full responsibilities of their positions, and participation shall

not interfere with availability for scheduled work or negatively

affect work performance. In order to be eligible for participation

in such programs, employees shall not have been formally disciplined

within one (1) year prior to submitting their program application.

A board of county commissioners shall be authorized to establish a

program requiring a one-year commitment of service to the county

from individuals who participate in such programs. Under such

programs, employees shall only be eligible to receive tuition

reimbursements in exchange for employment with the county lasting at

least one (1) year;

6. Until January 1, 1983, to furnish necessary blank books,

plats, blanks, and stationery for the clerk of the district court,

county clerk, register of deeds, county treasurer, county judge,

sheriff, county surveyor, county attorney, justices of the peace,

and constables, to be paid for out of the county treasury; also a

fireproof vault sufficient in which to keep all the books, records,

vouchers, and papers pertaining to the business of the county;

7. To set off, organize, and change the boundaries of townships

and to designate and give names therefor; provided, that the

boundaries of no township shall be changed within six (6) months

next preceding a general election;

8. To lease tools, apparatus, machinery, or equipment of the

county to another political subdivision or a state agency. The

Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma

State University Center for Local Government Technology together

shall establish a system of uniform rates for the leasing of such

tools, apparatus, machinery, and equipment;

9. To jointly, with other counties, buy heavy equipment and to

loan or lease such equipment across county lines;

10. To develop personnel policies for the county with the

approval of a majority of all county elected officers, as evidenced

in the minutes of a meeting of the board of county commissioners or

the county budget board;

11. To purchase, rent, or lease-purchase uniforms, safety

devices, and equipment for the officers and employees of the county.

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The county commissioners may pay for any safety training or safety

devices and safety equipment out of the general county funds or any

county highway funds available to the county commissioners;

12. To provide incentive awards for safety-related job

performance. However, no employee shall be recognized more than

once per calendar year and the award shall not exceed the value of

Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00); further, no elected official

shall be eligible to receive a safety award;

13. To provide for payment of notary commissions, filing fees,

and the cost of notary seals and bonds;

14. To do and perform other duties and acts that the board of

county commissioners may be required by law to do and perform;

15. To make purchases at a public auction pursuant to the

county purchasing procedures in subsection D of Section 1505 of this

title;

16. To deposit interest income from highway funds in the

general fund of the county;

17. To submit sealed bids for the purchase of equipment from

this state, or any agency or political subdivision of this state;

18. To utilize county-owned equipment, labor, and supplies at

their disposal on property owned by the county, public schools, two-

year colleges, or technical branches of colleges that are members of

The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, the state and

municipalities according to the provisions of Section 36-113 of

Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Cooperative agreements may be

general in terms of routine maintenance or specific in terms of

construction and agreed to and renewed on an annual basis. Work

performed pursuant to Section 36-113 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall comply with the provisions of this section;

19. To enter into intergovernmental cooperative agreements with

the federally recognized Indian tribes within this state to address

issues of construction and maintenance of streets, roads, bridges,

and highways exclusive of the provisions of Section 1221 of Title 74

of the Oklahoma Statutes;

20. To execute hold harmless agreements with the lessor in the

manner provided by subsection B of Section 636.5 of Title 69 of the

Oklahoma Statutes when leasing or lease-purchasing equipment;

21. To accept donations of rights-of-way or right-of-way

easements pursuant to Section 381 et seq. of Title 60 of the

Oklahoma Statutes;

22. To establish by resolution the use of per diem for specific

purposes in accordance with the limitations provided by Sections

500.8 and 500.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

23. To apply to the Department of Environmental Quality for a

waste tire permit to bale waste tires for use in approved

engineering projects;

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24. To enter into the National Association of Counties (NACo)

Live Healthy Prescription, Health and Dental Discount Program;

25. To work with federal, state, municipal, and public school

district properties in an effort to minimize cost to such entities;

26. To work with ambulance service districts established under

Section 9C of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution in an effort to

minimize cost to such entities;

27. To provide incentive awards to employees for participating

in voluntary wellness programs which result in improved health.

Incentive awards may be created by the Wellness Council set forth in

Section 1302 of this title;

28. To establish a county employee benefit program to encourage

outstanding performance in the workplace. Monies may be expended

for the purchase of recognition awards for presentation to an

employee or members of a work unit. Recognition awards may be

presented at a formal or informal ceremony, banquet, reception, or

luncheon, the cost of which may be expended from monies available in

the county department’s or division’s operating fund;

29. To trade in equipment to a vendor or on statewide contract

by acquiring used equipment values pursuant to subsection B of

Section 421.1 of this title;

30. To expend federal funds made available to a county of the

state through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic

Security Act (CARES Act), Pub. L. 116–136, or similar relief funds

according to the permissible uses of the applicable federal

legislation or guidance issued by any federal agency thereof,

regardless of any lack of specific state statutory authorization to

perform the duties or functions for which the federal government has

provided the funds. The expenditure of the funds in accordance with

the federal legislation or guidance issued by any federal agency

thereof shall be at the discretion of the board of county

commissioners.

The receipt of funding through the CARES Act or similar relief

funds shall not be considered a supplemental appropriation and shall

be exempt from the requirements of Section 1420 of this title. In

the event the period allotted for expenditure of federal funds

crosses fiscal years, such funds shall not be considered revenue

when setting the county’s budget for the next fiscal year; and

31. To enter into intergovernmental cooperative agreements

which shall include shared services, with local governmental units

within this state pursuant to the provisions of the Interlocal

Cooperation Act, Section 1002 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma

Statutes.

B. The county commissioners of a county or, in counties where

there is a county budget board, the county budget board may

designate money from general county funds for the designated purpose

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of drug enforcement and drug abuse prevention programs within the

county.

C. When any lease or lease purchase is made on behalf of the

county by the board pursuant to the provisions of this section, the

county shall be allowed to have trade in values for transactions

involving the Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act.

D. In order to timely comply with the Oklahoma Vehicle License

and Registration Act with regard to county vehicles, the board of

county commissioners may, by resolution, create a petty cash

account. The board of county commissioners may request a purchase

order for petty cash in an amount necessary to pay the expense of

license and registration fees for county motor vehicles. Any

balance in the petty cash account after the license and registration

fees have been paid shall be returned to the account or fund from

which the funds originated. The county purchasing agent shall be

the custodian of the petty cash account, and the petty cash account

shall be subject to audit.

E. When the board of county commissioners approves an express

trust, pursuant to Sections 176 through 180.4 of Title 60 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, for the purpose of operating a county jail, the

trustees of the public trust may appoint commissioned peace

officers, certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and

Training, to provide security for inmates that are required to be

transported outside of the detention facility, and investigate

violations of law within the detention facility. Other personnel

necessary to operate the jail may be employed and trained or

certified as may be required by applicable state or federal law.

R.L. 1910, § 1600. Amended by Laws 1949, p. 150, § 1, emerg. eff.

May 20, 1949; Laws 1982, c. 249, § 7; Laws 1989, c. 286, § 1,

operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1990, c. 183, § 1; Laws 1991, c. 60, §

1, emerg. eff. April 10, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 239, § 14, eff. July 1,

1993; Laws 1994, c. 34, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1995, c. 1, §

4, emerg. eff. March 2, 1995; Laws 1995, c. 172, § 1, emerg. eff.

May 9, 1995; Laws 1996, c. 45, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1998, c.

193, § 1, emerg. eff. May 4, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 76, § 1, eff. Nov.

1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 200, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c.

39, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2001, c. 231, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2001; Laws 2002, c. 142, § 1, eff. July 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 387,

§ 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 5, § 5, emerg. eff.

March 1, 2004; Laws 2005, c. 76, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2006,

c. 125, § 7, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2006, c. 255, § 2, eff. Nov. 1,

2006; Laws 2010, c. 266, § 2, emerg. eff. May 13, 2010; Laws 2011,

c. 1, § 9, emerg. eff. March 18, 2011; Laws 2012, c. 22, § 1, eff.

Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 15, § 11, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013;
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.14 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.14
Exceptions
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall not apply to:

1. Buildings owned by the federal government.

2. Installation, alteration or repair of electrical equipment

and devices by municipalities for street lighting or traffic signal

systems.

3. Vehicles, boats or airplanes.

4. Integral parts of communications systems of telephone or

telegraph companies.

5. Communications systems of railroads or pipeline companies,

or oil or gas producers.

6. Public utilities systems subject to the regulations of the

Corporation Commission and rural electric cooperatives in the

generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.

7. Persons performing electrical work on integral components of

equipment for which they have been otherwise qualified by

examination of other competent bodies.

8. Any person engaged only in the work of operating any of the

electrical installation in a factory, refinery, office building,

school district, institution of higher learning, hospital or

eleemosynary institution or any facility thereof; provided he shall

be hired by only one entity and shall not establish an electrical

business nor be able to assume any electrical contracting functions.

9. Elevator construction contractors and/or elevator

construction journeymen in those jurisdictions of the city, county

or metropolitan area which otherwise provides for licensing and

inspection thereof by separate ordinance or resolution, and

authority to so exempt and establish such licensing and inspection

code by such enactment is hereby granted to such government

entities.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-153.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-153.1
Entities receiving county sales tax revenues -
Status: in_force

Reimbursement of county for cost of collecting, maintaining and

distributing funds.

A. The county treasurer or county clerk may charge a fee to any

entity which is the recipient of revenue from a designated county

sales tax levied for that entity as reimbursement for the cost of

collecting, maintaining, and distributing the funds on behalf of the

entity.

B. The county treasurer or county clerk shall prepare a special

estimate of needs each fiscal year covering all expenditures of the

office on behalf of the entities receiving the sales tax revenue.

The estimate of need shall be itemized by personal services,

maintenance, and operation expenditures for each taxing entity and

filed with the county excise board or county budget board.

C. In reviewing and approving the estimate as provided in

subsection B of this section, the county excise board or county

budget board shall charge such costs among the various recipients

receiving the revenue and shall render a statement to each entity

for reimbursement to the county general fund.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-241.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-241.1
Potential state taxes list issued to building permit
Status: in_force

applicants.

A. After the effective date of this act, the county clerk of a

county or any other designated employee or official authorized to

issue building permits shall provide to an applicant for a building

permit a list, which shall be developed by the Oklahoma Tax

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Commission, of state taxes which may potentially be assessed against

any Oklahoma taxpayer or out-of-state taxpayer who applies for a

building permit in this state. Such list shall include a paragraph

in bold, conspicuous type indicating the requirement for certain

building permit applicants to register with the Oklahoma Business

Registration System of the Tax Commission.

B. Upon the request for issuance of an occupancy permit, the

clerk or other designated employee or official shall request proof

of registration with the Tax Commission under their Oklahoma

Business Registration System. If the applicant does not provide

proof of registration, the clerk shall immediately issue the

occupancy permit and shall advise the Tax Commission that the entity

has not registered under the Oklahoma Business Registration System.

C. The Tax Commission may maintain, as part of its online

Business Registration System, the capability for an applicant to

obtain a document electronically which will serve as proof of

registration under the system.

D. This section shall not apply to building permits for new

construction or remodel projects less than Fifty Thousand Dollars

($50,000.00) in value.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-124 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-124
Provisions cumulative
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall be cumulative with all existing

laws governing deposit of funds by the county treasurer of the

several counties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.13A — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.13A
Board of county commissioners may establish fines and
Status: in_force

penalties.

A. A board of county commissioners may provide for enforcement

of its regulations and establish fines, penalties or other remedies

for any offense in violation of its regulations, which shall be

recoverable together with costs of suit.

B. 1. In addition to other powers and duties prescribed by

law, a board of county commissioners shall have the power to

establish and enforce fines and penalties for violation of its

zoning, subdivision, storm water and floodplain regulations,

including the issuance of citations by designated county personnel

for violations of its zoning, subdivision, storm water and

floodplain regulations. A board of county commissioners may

additionally establish that any person who fails to correct a

violation for which a citation has been issued within the period

permitted for its correction may be assessed a fine or penalty for

each ensuing day during which such failure or violation continues.

2. In issuing a citation pursuant to this subsection, the

county employee shall proceed as follows:

a. the employee shall prepare a written citation to

appear in court, containing the name and address of

the cited person and the violation/offense charged,

and stating when the person shall appear in district

court. The time to appear specified in the citation

shall be at least five (5) days after the issuance of

the citation,

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b. one copy of the citation to appear shall be delivered

to the person cited, and such person shall sign a

duplicate written citation which shall be retained by

the county employee, and

c. as soon as practicable, one copy of the citation shall

be filed with the district court specified therein and

one copy delivered to the prosecuting attorney.

3. If a person fails to appear in district court at the

designated time, a warrant for arrest shall be issued.

4. Violations and penalties shall be deemed misdemeanor

offenses, punishable by a fine of up to Five Hundred Dollars

($500.00). Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the district court

within the county.

5. Fines and penalties collected pursuant to this subsection

shall be deposited in the appropriate county fund.

6. Issuance of citations and/or payment of fines or penalties

shall in no way preclude other remedies or appropriate action or

proceedings to prevent or remove a violation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-879 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-879
Bylaws, rules and regulations - Public, district and
Status: in_force

private sewer lines.

The board of directors of such district is hereby authorized and

empowered to make all bylaws, rules and regulations, penal or

otherwise, that shall be necessary for the full protection,

maintenance, management and control of a sewerage system of said

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district, including the lines of conveyance, plant and other

property used in connection therewith and said board of directors

shall have the power to divide such sewer district system into three

(3) classes to be known as public, district and private sewer lines.

That the public sewer system shall consist only of the main lines of

conveyance to the sewage treatment or disposal plant or outside

system, and the main lines for general collection, including such

other property as may be necessary in connection therewith for the

proper maintenance and use of such sewage system throughout such

improvement district, and such public sewer lines shall be

established along the principal courses for collection at such

places to such extent and of such dimensions and under such

regulations, as may be provided for in the bylaws or regulations or

orders of said board of directors of said district, and such

principal lines of collection may be extensions or branches of lines

already constructed or entirely new throughout, as may be deemed

expedient. Such public main lines and sewage disposal or treatment

plant, including the other property necessary to operate such

system, shall be paid for by the district as a whole. District

sewer lines shall be established within the limits of all

subdistricts which subdistricts shall be prescribed by the bylaws,

regulations or orders of said improvement district and connected

with the public sewer lines or other subdistrict lines. Such

subdistricts may be again subdivided or may be enlarged or changed

by a bylaw regulations or orders of the improvement district at any

time previous to the construction of the district sewer line therein

and more than one sewer line may be laid in a subdistrict if deemed

necessary by the board of directors. The board of directors shall

cause district sewers to be constructed by petition or by resolution

as now provided by law for the construction of district sewers in

cities and towns. Private sewer lines connecting with the public

and district sewer lines may be constructed under such restrictions

and regulations as the board of directors may prescribe by general

bylaws, or regulations or orders; provided, that the expense of

constructing such lines shall be borne by the individual or

individuals desiring to construct them and providing further that

such improvement district shall be at no expense in the

construction, repair, or operation of the same.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.14 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.14
Sale of bonds
Status: in_force

The board shall sell such bonds from time to time in such

quantities as may be necessary and most advantageous to raise the

money for the construction of the proposed work, the acquisition of

property and rights and otherwise to fully carry out the objects and

purposes of the Oklahoma Rural Road Improvement District Act.

Before making any sale of bonds the board shall, at a meeting, by

resolution, declare its intention to sell a specified amount of the

bonds and the day and hour and place of such sale and shall cause

such resolution to be entered in the minutes and notice of the sale

to be given by publication thereof at least ten (10) days in some

newspaper of said county if published in a daily newspaper or two

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(2) weeks if published in a weekly newspaper, or said notice may be

published in two issues of a daily newspaper provided they are

published a week apart. Said bonds may be sold either at public

auction for cash to the highest bidder or upon sealed bids as

determined by the board of directors. At the time appointed, the

board shall award the purchase of the bonds to the highest

responsible bidder, but shall reserve and always have the right to

reject any and all bids, but said board shall in no event sell any

of said bonds for less than par with accrued interest.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-591.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-591.1
Removing, relocating, changing, obliterating or making
Status: in_force

unintelligible survey monument - Replacement - Recordation of

corners.

A. Any person who knowingly removes, relocates, changes,

obliterates or makes unintelligible a survey monument shall be

guilty of a misdemeanor and in addition shall be liable for the cost

of reestablishing and resetting the monument and any actual damages

incurred as a result of such actions.

B. At such time as it may be necessary to remove, obliterate,

cover or destroy any monument, the county surveyor or any other

qualified land surveyor shall set new monuments from which may be

established the location of the original monument and a new survey

report shall be recorded as provided for original survey reports.

C. All corners as required by this act that are included within

the definitions of the Corner Perpetuation and Filing Act (65SS3-116

through 65SS3-123) shall be recorded with the Oklahoma Department of

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1301 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1301
Vacation and sick leave plan
Status: in_force

Each county may develop and maintain a formal plan for vacation

and sick leave for all regular employees. No person chosen by

election or appointment to fill an elective office shall be subject

to any leave plan, nor shall such person be eligible for accrual of

any leave benefits.

Any leave plan adopted by a county shall not extend benefits to

any employee in excess of leave benefits available to a regular

state employee in the classified service.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-131 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-131
Enumeration of county officers - Election and term of office - Limitation on running for
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 2office - Limitation on running for other office.

A. At the general election to be held in November 1974, there

shall be elected in each county of the state, a court clerk, a

county sheriff, and a county clerk who shall hold office for a term

of two (2) years, the terms of the court clerk, county sheriff and

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county clerk beginning on the first Monday in January following

their election, and until their successors are elected and

qualified. At the general election to be held in November 1976, and

each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected in each

county of the state, a court clerk, a county sheriff, and a county

clerk who shall hold office for a term of four (4) years; the terms

of the court clerk, the county sheriff and the county clerk,

beginning on the first business day in January following their

election, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

B. At the general election to be held in November 1974, and

each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected in each

county of the state, a county assessor and a county treasurer, who

shall hold office for a term of four (4) years. The term of the

county assessor shall begin on the first business day in January

following the election, and shall terminate when a successor is

elected and qualified. The term of the county treasurer shall begin

on the first Monday in July following the election and shall

terminate when the successor is duly elected and qualified.

C. At the general election to be held in November 1990, and

each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected in each

county of the state two county commissioners, one from the first

county commissioner district and one from the third county

commissioner district, who shall hold office for a term of four (4)

years. At the general election to be held in November 1990, there

shall be elected in each county of the state one county commissioner

from the second county commissioner district who shall hold office

for a term of six (6) years. At the general election to be held in

November 1996, and each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be

elected in each county of the state, one county commissioner from

the second county commissioner district, who shall hold office for a

term of four (4) years. The terms of the county commissioners shall

begin on the first business day in January following their election,

and shall terminate when their successors are elected and qualified.

D. A county officer shall be eligible to become a candidate for

another county office or state office.

E. In order to file as a candidate for county commissioner in a

county commissioner's district, the candidate must have been a

qualified registered elector and have maintained a current principal

residence in that district for at least six (6) months immediately

preceding the first day of the filing period prescribed by law.

Evidence of a "principal residence" may include, but not be limited

to, the address listed on:

1. A federal or state tax return;

2. A driver license; or

3. An automobile registration.

R.L. 1910, § 1548. Amended by Laws 1917, c. 203, p. 378, § 1; Laws

1923, c. 121, p. 142, § 1; Laws 1927, c. 5, p. 4, § 1; Laws 1947, p.

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190, § 1; Laws 1953, pp. 67, 68, §§ 1-3; Laws 1955, p. 154, § 1,

eff. June 1, 1955; Laws 1961, p. 208, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 10,

1961; Laws 1968, c. 132, § 1, emerg. eff. April 8, 1968; Laws 1968,

c. 377, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 1968; Laws 1973, c. 92, § 1, emerg.

eff. May 1, 1973; Laws 1974, c. 300, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 1974;
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-92 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-92
Bribery
Status: in_force

Any person or corporation offering money or other thing of

value, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of influencing

any voter for or against any competing city, town or place in such

election shall be guilty of the felony of bribery, a Class D3 felony

offense and shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment as

provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20P of Title 21

of the Oklahoma Statutes.

R.L. 1910, § 1538. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 148, eff. July

1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 653, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 148 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-136 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-136
County clerk - Office hours - Sign
Status: in_force

The county clerk in each county of this state shall keep their

offices open during the same hours as other county officers in such

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county; but, so that the public may know when their needs at such

offices may be served, after the secular days and respective hours

thereof have been determined upon or agreed, the said officers shall

so notify the public by so noting in painting in the sign indicating

the location of their respective offices, whether upon, over, or

near the office door.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-251 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-251
Accounts with county treasurer
Status: in_force

The county clerk in keeping the accounts of his county with the

county treasurer, shall charge the county treasurer as follows:

With the amount of taxes levied and assessed by the state and

county, and each city, town, township, school district, or any other

special tax levied for any purpose in his county in each year, and

the same shall be kept in separate accounts; with the amount of any

sinking funds in separate accounts, with the amount of money and

with the amount of state, county, township, school, road, and city

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warrants, or orders, or other evidences of indebtedness which the

county treasurer may be authorized by law to receive from his

predecessor in office; with the amount of taxes on each tax roll

made out, and delivered to him during his term of office; with the

amount of the additional assessments made after the tax roll is made

out and delivered to the county treasurer; with the amount of

penalty added to the taxes after the first day of February of each

year; with the amount of redemption money on land and town lots sold

to the county for delinquent taxes when the same are redeemed; with

the amount of the state school fund received from the State

Treasurer; with the amount received from the sale of property

belonging to the county; with the amount received from the sales of

estrays; with the amount received as fines and forfeitures; with the

amount received from groceries or other licenses. And upon

presentation of proper vouchers, he shall credit him as follows:

With the amount of all county, city, town, township, school district

or other tax, which has been paid over to the proper authority and

receipted for; with the amount of county orders received by the

county treasurers and returned to the county board and canceled;

with the amount paid to the State Treasurer, and township trustees,

city treasurers, or other officers entitled by law to receive the

same; with the amount of delinquent taxes and the penalty thereon;

on lands and town lots bid off for the county, which said taxes have

been transferred from the tax roll to the book of tax sales; with

the amount of double or erroneous assessments of property, except

the assessments on lands and town lots which have been sold or

entered on the book of tax sales for delinquent taxes; with the

amount of percentage fees allowed by law to the county treasurer for

collecting taxes; with the amount of money and the amount of

warrants or orders, or other evidence of indebtedness, which the

county treasurer is allowed by law to receive for taxes or which he

pays over to his successor in office; with the amount of taxes

uncollected on the tax roll delivered over to his successor in

office.

R.L. 1910, § 1574.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-270 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-270
Confidentiality of Department of Defense Form 214 - Duties
Status: in_force

- Liability.

A. The county clerk shall keep any Department of Defense Form

214 (DD Form 214) filed with the clerk, including any DD Form 214

that was filed before the effective date of this act, separate from

records available for public inspection and shall not make the DD

Form 214 available to any person except as provided in this section.

A record of the names of veterans who have filed DD Forms 214 with

the clerk shall be made available for public inspection.

B. The county clerk may authorize the viewing or copying of a

veteran’s DD Form 214 only by the veteran, the veteran's spouse or

child, a guardian for or a person having power of attorney for the

veteran, spouse, or child upon presentation of a court order showing

the appointment, the executor or administrator of the estate of the

veteran or spouse upon presentation of a court order showing the

appointment, a representative of the United States Department of

Veterans Affairs, a funeral director upon presentation of a contract

signed by the person responsible for the funeral costs for the

veteran, or a person authorized by the court to view or copy the DD

Form 214 upon presentation of the court order. The clerk shall

record the names and addresses of all persons viewing or copying a

DD Form 214.

C. A county clerk shall not be liable or responsible for any

harm or damages that may occur as a result of any person obtaining,

copying or viewing a DD Form 214.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-692 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-692
Filing and auditing of claims
Status: in_force

All claims for money, subject to refund or disbursement as in

this act provided, shall be filed with the county clerk, who is

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hereby authorized to audit the same, and to issue his voucher for

such amounts thereof as he may find to be due the respective

claimants.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.13 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.13
Zoning powers - Structures and equipment exempt
Status: in_force

For the purposes of promoting the public health, safety, peace,

morals, comfort, convenience, prosperity, order, quality of life,

and general welfare, and to lessen danger and congestion of public

transportation and travel, and to secure safety from fire and other

dangers, and to prevent overcrowding of land, and to avoid undue

concentration of population, and to provide adequate police

protection, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks,

forests, recreational facilities, military and naval facilities, and

other public requirements, and to prevent undue encroachment

thereon, the council, as respects the municipality and the board of

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any such county, as respects the unincorporated areas of the county,

are hereby empowered in accordance with the conditions and procedure

specified in this act, in the areas, respectively, to regulate the

location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and

other structures, the percentage of the lot or area which may be

occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the

density and distribution of population, and the uses of buildings,

structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation,

civic and public activities and other purposes.

The zoning power hereby conferred shall not apply to the

erection, installation, and use of structures and equipment, by

public service corporations subject to the jurisdiction and

regulation of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, or other similar

state or federal regulatory bodies; nor to the erection or use of

the usual farm buildings for agricultural purposes or the planning

of agricultural crops.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-683 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-683
Monies, how credited and withdrawn
Status: in_force

All monies deposited in the official depository as provided in

Sections 1 and 2 hereof, shall be credited to the account of the

officers, board or commission or employee thereof so depositing the

same and may be withdrawn, only in transfer of such parts thereof as

may be due the county or its fund or funds under its management, or

in distribution to the respective parties legally entitled thereto

of such parts thereof as may have accrued as fees or expense money,

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and in refund of erroneous or excessive collections and credits, and

in payment of legal claims and charges against any trust deposit or

fund included in such account. All withdrawals of monies from the

said depository shall be made on the voucher of the authority making

such deposit, - which said vouchers shall show on their face the

character of claim or charge liquidated or the fund or funds to

which transferred in the county treasury, and shall, when redeemed,

be delivered monthly to the county clerk and receipted for by him.

It shall be the duty of the authority making any withdrawal to

present the voucher therefor to the county treasurer for

registration before delivery to the payee. Upon such presentation,

the county treasurer shall register the said voucher in its proper

numerical order, certify such registration by his official

signature, and designate on the face of said voucher the bank

through which the same shall be paid. Such voucher thereupon shall

become the official draft of the county treasurer on such bank. The

treasurer shall keep a record of all vouchers so registered by him,

showing therein the date of issue and registration of each voucher,

by whom and on what account drawn, to whom payable, the purpose for

which issued and the amount thereof, and the name of bank on which

registered for payment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.51 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.51
County planning commission and county board of
Status: in_force

adjustment authorized.

For the purpose of cooperating with the State of Oklahoma in

conserving the natural resources of the state, and in promoting the

health, safety, peace and general welfare of the people of the

state, there may be provided in any county of the State of Oklahoma

county planning in the manner herein provided, and for that purpose

there is hereby authorized to be created in each of such counties a

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county planning commission and a county board of adjustment with the

respective powers and duties as set out in this act. In no county

shall there be at the same time a county planning commission

established pursuant to this section and a metropolitan area

planning commission established pursuant to Section 866.1 of Title

19 and Section 863.2 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Provided

that county commissioners may by proper resolution confer authority

to any metropolitan area planning commission located in such county

for the purposes of planning for unincorporated areas existing in

county. Provided further that any county planning commission

created under the provisions of this act shall have no jurisdiction

over the area covered by any lake area planning and zoning

commission in any county created pursuant to Section 866.36 of Title

19 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-790.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-790.1
Oath - Organization and meetings - Power and duties -
Status: in_force

Funds established - Facsimile signature machine

A. Upon the appointment of a Board of Control to manage a

county hospital, the members of the Board of Control shall within

ten (10) days after their appointment qualify by taking an oath in

the form required of county officers, and organize the Board of

Control by the election of one member as chair, one member as vice-

chair, one member as secretary and one member as treasurer; however,

the secretary and treasurer may be the same person, and electing or

appointing such other officer or officers as the Board may deem

necessary, but only the treasurer shall be bonded. The proportional

share of the county blanket bond premium for such person shall be

paid out of the county hospital fund. Every one (1) year

thereafter, at the first meeting of the Board of Control following

the appointment or reappointment of board members, a reorganization

meeting shall be held and officers selected as hereinbefore stated.

Such Board of Control shall hold meetings at least once each month,

shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings, and a majority

of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of

business. The district attorney, or his or her assistant, shall

serve as attorney for the Board of Control without additional

compensation; however, the Board may employ other counsel and pay

for such service from the general funds of the hospital, provided a

majority of the Board shall determine such employment to be in the

best interest of the hospital. No member of the Board of Control

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shall have a personal pecuniary interest either directly or

indirectly in any purchases or contracts for the hospital unless the

same are purchased or awarded by competitive bids.

B. The Board of Control shall in management of a county

hospital:

1. Have exclusive control, supervision, care and custody of the

grounds, property, and buildings purchased, constructed, leased, or

set apart for such hospital purposes;

2. Employ a competent administrator as the executive officer of

the hospital and fix his or her compensation. The administrator

shall be covered by the county blanket bond and the proportional

share of the premium shall be paid out of the county hospital fund;

3. Establish the fiscal year of the hospital and, not later

than ninety (90) days after close of the fiscal year, file with the

county clerk of the county a report of the proceedings with

reference to such hospital and a statement of all receipts and

expenditures during the preceding fiscal year, and shall adopt a

budget, such budget to show the amount necessary to maintain and

improve the hospital for the ensuing fiscal year. A complete audit

to be required at the end of each fiscal year is to be performed by

a licensed accountant;

4. Cause not less than one of its members to visit and inspect

the hospital at least once each month. It shall be the duty of the

Board of Control to admit, upon recommendation of a physician,

without expense to the patient, all county charity patients

certified to be such by the Board of Control, in need of medical or

surgical treatment; and all other patients admitted to the hospital

for treatment shall be charged a just and reasonable price for their

medical and surgical treatment while in the custody of the hospital;

5. Adopt a policy of admission of patients for the county

hospital;

6. Have authority to authorize the hospital to be a member of

and maintain membership in any local, state, or national group

association organized and operated for the promotion of the public

health and welfare or the advancement of the efficiency of hospital

administration and in connection therewith to pay dues and fees

therefor from the county hospital fund;

7. Have authority to establish or participate in health related

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and maintain membership in any local, state, or national group

association organized and operated for the promotion of the public

health and welfare or the advancement of the efficiency of hospital

administration and in connection therewith to pay dues and fees

therefor from the county hospital fund;

7. Have authority to establish or participate in health related

educational programs;

8. Have authority to procure and pay out of the county hospital

fund premiums on any and all insurance policies required for the

prudent management of the hospital, including, but not limited to,

public liability, professional malpractice liability, workers'

compensation, vehicle liability, life, health and accident plans,

and to make contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement System

of the state. The insurance may include as additional insureds the

Board of Control and employees of the hospital;

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9. Determine when there is a surplus in any of the funds of the

hospital and if so determined may invest such surplus in United

States Government Bonds or insured securities or in insured time

deposits until such time as in the judgment of the Board of Control

it is deemed advisable to use such funds for hospital purposes,

including, but not limited to, the purchase of equipment, repair,

remodeling or new construction of hospital property;

10. Either as a board or through the administrator, use

reasonable diligence and efforts to make collections of accounts for

hospital services rendered;

11. Have authority to adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations

as the Board deems desirable for its own guidance and the

administration of the hospital, not inconsistent with the law;

12. Have authority to undertake the management, lease or

operation of any other medical facility or institution located

outside of the county to provide a benefit to the community or

lessen the burden of government and which does not solely provide a

benefit by generating administrative fees; and

13. Do all things necessary for the management, control, and

government of the hospital and exercise all the rights and duties

pertaining to hospital boards generally, unless such rights are

specifically denied or prohibited by law.

C. In the operation of a county hospital by the Board of

Control the following funds shall be established in connection with

a county hospital:

1. The proceeds from the sale of bonds, as provided in Section

784 of this title, shall be deposited in a fund known as the "County

Hospital Bond Fund" in the treasury of the county, which shall be

paid out by the county treasurer upon the orders of the board of

county commissioners from time to time as the same is needed; and

2. The proceeds from the tax levy provided by Section 786 of

this title, and funds received by the hospital for services or

otherwise not specifically designated to a special fund by the Board

of Control shall be deposited in the treasury of the county in the

"County Hospital Fund". Current receipts by the hospital, including

tuition fees of any school operated by the hospital, shall be

deposited in the fund at least every week. The money in the "County

Hospital Fund" shall be paid out only upon itemized and acknowledged

claims duly approved by the Board of Control or in the procedure

prescribed by the Board by warrants drawn by the administrator or

such other person as may be designated by the Board of Control,

which warrants must be authenticated by the treasurer of the Board

of Control or a duly qualified officer of the Board of Control. If

a county hospital shall operate a home for nurses, then the current

receipts of the home for nurses shall be deposited with the county

treasurer in the Home for Nurses Fund.

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D. The Board of Control may by resolution establish such other

funds as it deems advisable for the efficient and proper management

of the hospital, which may or may not be in the county treasury, and

prescribe the procedure for the handling, expending, and withdrawal

of such funds. All checks to be signed by the administrator or his

or her assistant and one member of the Board of Control.

1. If a majority of the Board of Control shall vote in favor of

the establishment of a refund account, then the Board shall

designate a bank and set up an account. Thereafter, when it becomes

necessary to refund monies to a patient for the overpayment of an

account, a check shall be drawn on the refund account, and after the

check has been signed by the administrator or a designee and one

member of the Board of Control, the same shall be delivered to the

patient. The account may be replenished as deemed necessary.

After the establishment of the account, the administrator shall

certify the list of actual refunds which have been made to patients

during the interim since last approval. Upon acceptance by the

Board of Control, the certified list of refunds shall be used to

support the preparation of a warrant to be drawn on the county

treasurer and charged to county hospital fund for the replenishment

of the refund account.

2. If a majority of the Board of Control shall vote in favor of

the establishment of a salary account, the Board shall then

designate a bank covered by F.D.I.C., set up an account and deposit

a warrant drawn upon the "County Hospital Fund", not to exceed One

Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) in amount, to open the account, and the

necessary resolutions requisite to the establishment of an account

shall be performed. Thereafter, as soon as the complete payroll has

been prepared, a warrant shall be drawn upon the "County Hospital

Fund" for the amount of the payroll and deposited in the salary fund

of _______ Hospital. The individual payroll checks shall be signed

by the administrator or a designee and one member of the Board of

Control.

3. If a majority of the Board of Control shall vote in favor of

the establishment of a Nursing Home Operating Account, then a bank

account shall be opened in a bank designated as a state or county

depository.

Thereafter the Board of Control shall draw a warrant on the

county treasurer to be charged to the Nursing Home Fund, the warrant

to be in the exact amount of a certified list of current obligations

of the nursing home. The list shall be drawn by the administrator

and certified by him or her to the Board of Control and shall

contain the details of all expenditures to be made for the nursing

home for the previous months' operations including salaries.

The proceeds of the warrant shall then be deposited in the

Nursing Home Operating Account in the bank above designated.

Thereafter the administrator shall prepare individual checks in

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payment of the list of current obligations. Provided, however, that

the checks shall be signed by the administrator and by one member of

the Board of Control.

4. If a majority of the Board of Control shall vote in favor of

the establishment of a Petty Cash Account, then a warrant shall be

drawn on the county treasurer in an amount not to exceed the sum of

One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). The warrant shall be charged by the

county treasurer to the Hospital Fund. The proceeds of the warrant

shall be used for the payment of small bills for freight, postage

due, minor expenses, et cetera, all of a minor amount; and the

hospital shall secure proper receipts for the disbursement of the

proceeds.

Thereafter, the administrator shall certify the list of petty

expenditures and, after approval by the Board of Control, a warrant

shall be drawn on the county treasurer, County Hospital Fund, for

the replenishment of the petty cash account.

Likewise, and in the same manner, a petty cash account may be

established in any nursing home or related institution of the same

if operated by the hospital.

5. If a majority of the Board of Control shall vote in favor of

the use of a facsimile signature machine in signing checks upon the

"County Hospital Fund" or any other fund, a machine shall be

utilized to imprint the facsimile signature of the administrator and

the treasurer of the Board of Control upon the checks. Proper

procedures must be implemented to control the use of the signature

machine; such controls to be established by the Board of Control.

Any person having a key to operate the machine shall be bonded by

the county blanket bond and the company furnishing the machine shall

furnish a surety bond in an amount not less than Ten Thousand

Dollars ($10,000.00) to protect and indemnify against bogus or

forged checks or warrants from being issued from the machine.

E. Any unencumbered balances in any of the funds of the county

hospital at the close of the fiscal year shall not lapse, but shall

be carried forward to the next fiscal year.

F. The provisions of the Oklahoma Statutes relative to counties

or funds of counties, except Section 781 et seq. of this title,

shall not be applicable to county hospitals.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.52 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.52
Resolution of board - Majority vote of people
Status: in_force

Each county of the state which is hereby authorized to avail

itself of the provisions of this act is hereby authorized to set up

a planning commission by resolution of the board and by a vote of

the majority of the people voting at an election called for such

purpose in said county and to appropriate funds in the amounts

necessary to carry out the purpose of this act. The commission,

upon approval of the board, is hereby authorized to contract for,

receive and utilize any grants or other financial assistance from

the federal or state government or from any other source, public or

private, in furtherance of its functions and may incur necessary

expenses in obtaining said grants and/or financial assistance within

the limits of its appropriations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-246 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-246
County orders
Status: in_force

Such clerk shall not attest any county order unless ordered by

the board of commissioners authorizing the same, and signed by

chairman, and every such order shall be numbered, and the date,

amount and number of the same, and the name of the person to whom it

is issued, shall be entered in a book kept by such clerk in his

office for that purpose.

R.L. 1910, § 1569.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.6 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.6
Chairman, clerk and treasurer
Status: in_force

The board of directors of the district shall select one (1) of

its members for chairman and shall appoint a clerk and a treasurer.

The board of directors shall fix the term and duties of the

chairman, clerk and treasurer. The chairman and members of the

board shall serve without compensation. The treasurer shall give an

official bond, in an amount fixed and with sureties approved by the

board of directors, conditioned upon the faithful accounting for all

money pertaining to the district and coming into his hands.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-682 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-682
Duties of county officers - Deposit of funds - Change account funds - Worthless checks, etc
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 16

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 17account funds - Worthless checks, etc. - Interest-bearing accounts.

It shall be the duty of each and every county officer, county

board, county commission and all members and employees of either

thereof, to deposit daily in the official depository designated in

Section 681 of this title, all monies, checks, drafts, orders,

vouchers, funds, rentals, penalties, costs, proceeds of sale of

property, fees, fines, forfeitures and public charges of every kind

received or collected by virtue or under color of office, except

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 255

that each county officer, county board, and county commission is

hereby authorized to keep in the office, from this deposit, no more

than One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) to be used for

their change needs. The amount so retained shall not be cumulative

so that after each such deposit there shall not be on hand more than

authorized by this section. A notation of the retention of this

money shall be made in the proper accounting records. All checks,

drafts, orders and vouchers so deposited shall be credited and

cleared at par, and should payment be refused on any check, draft,

order or voucher, should the same prove otherwise worthless, the

amount thereof and any costs accruing thereon shall be a charge

against the account theretofore credited with the same. Each county

officer is hereby authorized to assess and collect a fee of Thirty-

five Dollars ($35.00) for each worthless check, draft, order or

voucher. All monies when so received by the county treasurer, as

such official depository, shall be deposited in interest-bearing

accounts in financial institutions designated and qualified as

county depositories as now provided by law and shall draw interest,

subject to deduction of financial institution charges for

maintaining, processing and collateralizing the account, which

interest shall be paid monthly; and, when collected, shall be

credited to the respective funds and accounts so earning the same;

provided, that all interest collected on monies deposited pursuant

to the provisions hereof shall be paid into the county treasury

monthly by the authority to whose financial institution account the

same shall have accrued and shall be credited to the general or

contingent fund of the county, except that in civil cases all

interest earned on funds, other than court costs, deposited in court

by litigants shall, when so ordered by the court upon deposit, be

disposed of as the court orders. This provision shall only apply to

such deposit in excess of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.23 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.23
Appeals to district court from acts of the commission
Status: in_force

Any person claiming to be aggrieved by any act of the commission

in administering this act, or any regulations promulgated pursuant

thereto, may as to any matter concerning plats, subdivisions and

lot-splits, both as to land situated in the corporate limits of the

municipality and as to land situated in the unincorporated area of

the county, appeal directly to the district court of the county and

the district courts of said counties are hereby expressly vested

with jurisdiction to hear and determine said appeals. On appeal,

said matter shall be tried de novo. Such appeal shall be taken by

the parties claiming to be aggrieved by filing with the secretary of

the metropolitan area planning commission within ten (10) days after

the action appealed from, a notice of appeal which shall state the

grounds of such appeal. No bond or deposits for costs shall be

required for such appeal. Upon the filing of the notice of appeal,

it shall be the duty of the commission to transmit to the court

clerk of the county, the original or certified copies of all the

papers constituting the record in the case, together with the order,

decision or ruling appealed from. An appeal shall lie from the

action of the district court as in all other proceedings.

An appeal to the district court from the commission stays all

proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from unless the

chairman of the commission certifies to the court clerk after the

notice of appeal shall have been filed that by reason of facts

stated in the certificate, a stay would in his opinion cause

imminent peril to life or property. In such case, proceedings shall

not be stayed otherwise than by restraining order which may be

granted by the district court upon application or notice to the

administrative officer in charge of the enforcement of the terms and

provisions of the order, decision or ruling appealed from, and upon

notice to the commission, and upon due cause being shown, the court

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may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or modify the decision

brought up for review.

Costs shall not be allowed against the commission unless it

shall appear to the court that it acted with gross negligence or in

bad faith or with malice in making the decision appealed from.

All issues in any proceedings under this section shall have the

same preferences over all other civil actions and proceedings as is

provided for appeals from boards of adjustment by Section 44-110 of

this title.

There shall be no right of appeal from any act of the commission

in its advisory capacity to the council and board or from any of its

acts which are subject to review, repeal or modification by said

governing bodies.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-167 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-167
Blanket bond
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of each county is hereby

directed to purchase from the lowest bidder a surety contract or

contracts in the form known as a "blanket bond" to cover all county

officers, appointive officers, employees and reserve force deputy

sheriffs in the manner hereinafter provided. No other bond shall be

acceptable as surety for any elected or appointed officer or

employee of this state in lieu of the blanket bond provided for

herein unless the blanket bond is provided for as a specified item

in an all risk insurance policy purchased by the county. For

purposes of this act, a "blanket bond" is defined as a public

employees' blanket position bond which covers all employees up to

the penalty of the bond for each employee and the full penalty of

the bond is always in force during its term and no restoration is

necessary and there is no additional premium after a loss is paid.

The district attorney shall bring an action on the blanket bond to

recover any loss by the county which is covered by the bond.

Reserve deputy sheriffs shall also be covered by workers'

compensation insurance as provided in Section 1 et seq. of Title 85

of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-448 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-448
Failure to perform duty - Penalty
Status: in_force

Any county commissioner who shall fail to perform any duty

required of him by law, shall be fined in a sum not less than Fifty

Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or

by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days

nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

R.L. 1910, § 1652.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-337 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-337
Record of canceled warrants
Status: in_force

Said commissioners before canceling and destroying any such

warrants shall cause to be entered in the minutes of their

proceedings a brief description thereof, containing the name of the

payee, the number, date and amount of each warrant destroyed.

R.L. 1910, § 1598.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1004 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1004
Commission membership - Tenure - Vacancies - Compensation
Status: in_force

- Expenses.

The city-county park and recreation commission shall consist of

eleven (11) members. Five of the members shall be appointed by the

mayor of the city subject to approval of the governing body thereof.

Four of the members shall be appointed by the board of county

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commissioners. The mayor of the city and the chairman of the board

of county commissioners shall be members of the commission and shall

be entitled to vote on all matters. The initial appointments by the

city shall designate two members to serve a term of three (3) years,

two members to serve a term of two (2) years, and one member to

serve a term of one (1) year. The initial appointments by the

county shall designate one member to serve a term of three (3)

years, two members to serve a term of two (2) years, and one member

to serve a term of one (1) year. Provided, that the terms of such

initial appointees and the terms of all future appointees of both

the city and county shall terminate July 31 of that year in which

they expire, regardless of the calendar date when such appointments

are made. Subsequent appointments of either the city or the county

shall be for three-year terms, except in the case of an appointment

to fill a vacancy in the membership of the commission, which latter

appointment shall be for the balance of the unexpired term of the

member whose death, resignation, or removal has created the vacancy.

Members shall not be eligible to succeed themselves after serving

two consecutive terms. A member of such commission once qualified

can thereafter be removed only for misconduct or neglect of duty

during his term of office after notice and hearing before the

governing board that appointed him. All members of the commission

shall serve thereon without compensation. Expenses which are

incurred by members pursuant to prior specific authorization by the

board of county commissioners and the governing body of the city

shall be reimbursed, provided, that expenses incurred for

transportation, meals and lodging shall be reimbursed only if

incurred in connection with authorized travel outside the county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-629 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-629
Nonexistent assets due to bank failure, robbery, etc. -
Status: in_force

Determination of status - Liquidation from penalty and interest on

delinquent taxes.

Upon presentation by the county treasurer to the county

commissioners, either for purpose of accounting or settlement as by

law required, or otherwise, of statements of account and balance

sheets in which is disclosed an item or items of assets that amount

to fiction, represented by bank accounts or securities that, because

of bank failure, robbery, theft, embezzlement, or otherwise, are

nonexistent, worthless, or unenforceable, then the county

commissioners, judge of the district court and district attorney are

hereby authorized, by quasi-judicial proceedings, the judge of the

district court presiding, to make a determination of the status of

such item or items of assets; and upon first finding that such item

or items have been carried on the treasurer's accounts fifteen (15)

years or more without realization or abatement, they shall then

proceed to further determination for purpose of correcting said

accounts to procure a liquid condition. If, after first finding

said fifteen (15) years to have fully run, they find such

fictitious, nonexistent, or worthless and unenforceable asset to be

not identifiable as an asset of a corresponding fund liability

account, they shall so state, and thereupon, by decree and order

direct that the county treasurer henceforth apply and determine

percentage, not exceeding twenty-five percent (25%) of the penalty

and interest on delinquent taxes, as collected by him, that would

otherwise be apportioned to the county under the statute, to the

liquidation of such fictitious, nonexistent, or worthless asset, and

to so continue until such account is closed by such liquidation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-333 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-333
Record of orders and decisions - Commissioner not serving
Status: in_force

another term - Duties.

A. The board of county commissioners shall keep a book in which

all orders and decisions made by them shall be recorded, except

those relating solely to roads and bridges as required by Section

334 of this title. All orders for the allowance of money from the

county treasury shall state on what account and to whom the

allowance is made, dating the same and numbering them consecutively

from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December,

inclusive, in each year.

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B. Any county commissioner who fails to file for reelection or

is defeated in any primary or general election or by any other

manner it is impossible for the commissioner to serve another term

in office, shall not acquire, purchase, contract for or dispose of

any machinery or equipment, or expend or approve for expenditure any

monies for any purpose other than normal or routine operating

expenditures except as provided in this section. It shall be the

mandatory duty of the commissioner to execute payment and to pay all

outstanding obligations of the county incurred by the commissioner,

or on behalf of the commissioner by the board of county

commissioners, prior to the expiration of the term of office of the

commissioner. However, in the case of lease-purchase contracts,

rental, lease or other payments extending beyond the term of office

of the commissioner it shall be the mandatory duty of the

commissioner to execute and to make such payments current as of the

date of expiration of the term of office of the commissioner. The

commissioner shall be liable both personally and on the official

bond of the commissioner for any violation of the mandatory duties

herein imposed.

R.L. 1910, § 1594. Amended by Laws 1953, p. 80, § 1; Laws 1965, c.

387, § 1, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965; Laws 1996, c. 65, § 1, emerg.

eff. April 9, 1996.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-339.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-339.1
Sale of county-owned property to Oklahoma Historical
Status: in_force

Society.

The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and

empowered to sell to the Oklahoma Historical Society for purposes of

restoration and preservation, county-owned land, sites or structures

which have been deemed by the Oklahoma Historical Society to be of

historical significance to the state.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.39 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.39
Narrative report of offenses for offenders sentenced to
Status: in_force

incarceration for more than five years.

A. Upon the arrest, conviction and sentencing of any defendant

to the custody of the Department of Corrections, the district

attorney of the county in which the crime was committed shall

prepare a written narrative report describing the commission of the

offense and any factors which might enhance or diminish the gravity

of the offender's conduct.

B. The report shall be provided to the Department of

Corrections and the Pardon and Parole Board, together with the

judgment and sentence in the case and any victim impact statements

presented to the court in the case.

C. The form to be used for this report shall be developed and

distributed by the District Attorneys Council.

D. The provisions of this section shall not apply to offenders

sentenced to terms of incarceration of five (5) years or less.

E. No allegations or recitations of alleged facts contained in

any narrative submitted pursuant to the requirements of this section

shall give rise to any cause of action by the defendant against the

submitting agency unless the defendant shall first object to such

allegation or recitation in writing, with notice to the submitting

agency. The submitting agency shall be given thirty (30) days

following such notice to withdraw or amend any such allegation or

recitation objected to. Nothing contained herein shall be construed

as creating a cause of action.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-401.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-401.1
Courtroom, office space and other facilities in city
Status: in_force

other than county seat.

In any city other than the county seat, within the county, which

has been designated as a court or court division city under

authority of Sections 95.1 through 95.5, inclusive, of Title 20 of

the Oklahoma Statutes, the board of county commissioners may provide

suitable and adequate courtroom and office space for the judges of

the district court and attendants, for the court clerk and staff,

and for a branch of the county law library where established under

Section 1202 of Title 20 of the Oklahoma Statutes, to be furnished

by the county in a suitable building in such city.

The board of county commissioners shall also furnish

electricity, water, other utilities, toilet facilities and

janitorial service, suitable and sufficient for the transaction of

court business in such facilities.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-875 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-875
Meetings of board - Records - Right of entry - Acquisition
Status: in_force

of property - Contracts.

The board of directors shall hold their regular meetings in

their office on the first Tuesday of each month beginning at 10:00

A.M., and in addition thereto, such special meetings as may be

required for the proper transaction of business, provided all

special meetings shall be ordered by the director of the board and

such order be entered of record. Such order must also specify the

business to be transacted at such meeting. Two members shall

constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and upon all

questions requiring a vote there shall be a concurrence of at least

two members of such board. All records of said board must be open

to the inspection of any elector during business hours. The board,

its agents and employees, shall have the right to enter upon any

land within the district, to make surveys and locate any sewer line

and the necessary branches or extensions. The board shall also have

the right to acquire by purchase or condemnation all lands and other

property necessary for the construction, maintenance, repair and

improvement, of any sewer lines or branches thereof within such

district, and may acquire either by purchase or condemnation such

lands as may be necessary for a sewage treatment or plant site and

use in connection therewith and right of ways necessary therefor and

the necessary right of way to any site of sewage treatment plant

outside of such district. Said board shall also have the right to

enter into any obligation or contract for the construction,

operation and maintenance of the necessary lines for the collection

of sewage within said district, and for the construction, operation

and maintenance of a sewage disposal or treatment plant and other

contracts necessary or incident to carrying out the purposes of this

act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-155.7v2 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-155.7v2
County records - Reproduction and storage
Status: in_force

A. County officers may have any or all records kept by any

county office reproduced and stored in any generally accepted manner

using current technology. The device or method used to reproduce

such records shall be such as to accurately reproduce and perpetuate

the original records in all details.

B. The reproduced or stored copy of the original records shall

be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, and shall be

admissible in evidence in all court or administrative agencies. A

facsimile, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all

purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a transcript,

exemplification or certified copy of the original.

C. Whenever such reproduced records shall be placed in

conveniently accessible files and provisions made for preserving,

examining and using same, the county officer may certify those facts

to the board of county commissioners. All such records shall be

archived or disposed of according to the provisions of the Oklahoma

State Statutes and any other such restrictions as may be applicable.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-868.17A — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-868.17A
Building and fire codes for unincorporated areas
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, adopt

building codes, fire codes, or both building and fire codes which

shall be designed for the purpose of promoting, benefiting, and

protecting the public health, safety and welfare of the people of

this state. The codes adopted pursuant to this section shall be

applicable only in the unincorporated areas of the county. All

building materials, equipment, and methods of installation or

construction shall be at least the equivalent of that prescribed in

any building or fire code adopted by the board of county

commissioners in quality, strength, effectiveness, fire resistance,

durability, and safety. Any codes adopted pursuant to this section

shall not apply to the installation and maintenance of electric

supply and communication lines of public utilities and public

service companies which are regulated by the Corporation Commission.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any area located

within any county not subject to the provisions of Section 868.1

through 868.22 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Building

inspectors may be employed by a county to enforce building or fire

codes. The building inspectors shall be licensed by the State of

Oklahoma. The building inspectors shall enforce the provisions of

any building or fire code adopted pursuant to this section and shall

be authorized to inspect all buildings for the purpose of

discharging the duties imposed by this section or by any building or

fire code adopted by the board of county commissioners. The board

of county commissioners may adopt rules to carry out the inspections

to enforce the building or fire codes, may prescribe the necessary

permits, notices, and inspection procedures and may set and

determine fees. The fees shall be reasonable and shall be

sufficient to meet the expense of inspection and enforcement of the

building or fire codes. The county engineer shall have the duty of

supervising and ensuring that the rules for building inspections are

carried out. The board of county commissioners may hire other

employees necessary for inspection and enforcement of building or

fire codes and may expend funds as it deems reasonable and necessary

for equipment and ancillary services.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-745 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-745
Sale of courthouse - Appraisal - Leaseback - New
Status: in_force

facilities.

The board of county commissioners of any county may sell the

courthouse of the county together with the real property upon which

the courthouse is located if the contract price for such sale equals

or exceeds the appraised value of the courthouse and real property

upon which the courthouse is located. Such appraisal shall be made

by the county assessor of the applicable county. The sale

authorized by this section may only be made if, as part of the

contract for sale, the purchaser agrees to lease the conveyed

premises to the county until the county provides new courthouse

facilities, whether by purchase, construction, remodeling, lease or

some combination thereof. Such new facilities shall be provided

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 267

within three (3) years from the date of the conveyance of the

existing courthouse to the purchaser. The new facilities may be

provided in whole or in part from proceeds of the sale of the

existing county courthouse, including principal and interest.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-517.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-517.1
Maintenance and disposal of departmental records –
Status: in_force

Digitizing.

A. The governing body of each county may establish a length of

time for the county to keep departmental records and authorize the

sheriff to properly dispose of or digitize all records not

specifically addressed in other statutes.

B. Except as otherwise provided in this section, records shall

be kept for a minimum of seven (7) years. However, the sheriff may

keep any audio or video recordings from recording equipment attached

to the person of a law enforcement officer pursuant to subsection C

of this section; provided, the county shall keep for a minimum of

one (1) year from the date of incident any such recordings that

depict or directly relate to:

1. An officer-involved shooting;

2. Use of lethal force;

3. Incidents resulting in medical treatment;

4. Incidents identified in a written application for

preservation of the recording of the incident received by a county

sheriff prior to the expiration of one hundred eighty (180) days

from the date of the recording of the incident; or

5. Incidents identified for preservation as requested by the

district attorney.

C. The sheriff's office of each county that utilizes or

operates audio or video recordings from recording equipment attached

to the person of a law enforcement officer within the sheriff's

office shall keep for a minimum of one hundred eighty (180) days

from the date of incident any audio or video recordings that do not

depict or directly relate to the incidents described in paragraphs 1

through 5 of subsection B of this section.

D. Any written reports and records related to the audio or

video recordings described in subsections B and C of this section

shall be kept for a minimum of seven (7) years.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.14 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.14
Formulation of plan
Status: in_force

As soon as practicable after organization of such district, the

board of directors shall, by resolution entered on its record,

formulate a general plan of proposed operation for the district in

which shall be stated the cost of operation and maintenance of the

district, what property, real or personal, is proposed to be

purchased and the cost of purchasing the same, and what amount of

construction is proposed to be done and the cost of doing the same.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-904.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-904.5
Authority to sue and be sued
Status: in_force

The board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to

institute and maintain, or appear and defend, any and all actions

and proceedings, suits at law or in equity, necessary or proper to

fully carry out the provisions of this act, or to enforce, maintain,

protect or preserve any and all rights or privileges conferred

hereby, or acquired in pursuance hereof. Actions and proceedings

shall be prosecuted and defended in the corporate name of the

authority, and the board is empowered to employ attorneys to

represent the authority in any such actions or proceedings, or to

advise the board in respect of its duties under this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.23a — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.23a
Annexation of all or a portion of a fire protection
Status: in_force

district - Requirements.

In the case of a municipality annexing a portion of or all of a

fire protection district as established by this section the

following shall apply:

1. The delivery of fire protection services shall meet or

exceed the current levels and standards of fire protection services

being provided by the fire protection district, pursuant to the

provisions of Section 324.8 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, in

order for a municipality, private entity, organization, corporation

or company to provide fire protection services to a fire protection

district;

2. A vote of fifty-one percent (51%) of those paying the

current assessment is required to withdraw from the fire protection

district. The municipality is responsible for the cost of the

election;

3. The fire protection district and the board of the county

commissioners shall be notified by certified mail ninety (90) days

prior to the municipality taking final action on the annexation;

4. Existing debt service shall either be assumed by the

annexing municipality based on the share of the percent of revenue

the area annexed generated or the assessment shall be continued

until the debt is paid in full. The municipality must include this

provision in the final annexation resolution;

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5. The municipality may elect continuing with the effected fire

protection district provided that the fire protection district

continues to receive the assessment without restrictions.

Additional support may be provided by the municipality in the sole

discretion of the municipality;

6. If, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners,

the exodus of the territory sought to be withdrawn from the district

and is contained within the proposed annexation of the municipality,

will make further existence of the district impracticable, the board

shall proceed to order dissolution of the district. In the case of

withdrawal of any property from the district as herein provided,

such property shall remain subject to the payment of its

proportionate part of any bonds theretofore authorized by the

district and shall remain subject to annual assessment for the

payment of the principal and interest thereof in the same manner and

to the same extent as if such property had not been withdrawn. Such

annual assessments, however, shall be computed upon the appraisal

shown on the district appraisal record at the time of the withdrawal

of such property;

7. The municipality may, through negotiations with the board of

county commissioners and the fire protection district, acquire the

assets and liabilities of the district if it ensures the best fire

protection for the citizens of the district and protects the best

use of the investment which has been made by the citizens of the

district; and

8. If the municipality may elect to contract for fire

protection with the fire protection district. The contract shall

address enforcement of fire code, building permits, level of

service, billing, relationship with existing municipal fire

department (i.e. mutual aid agreement, subordinate role, direct

supervision, etc.), additional funding and other issues agreed to by

the two parties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-328 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-328
Powers and duties of chairman
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the chairman of the board of county

commissioners to preside at the meetings of said board, and he shall

have the power to administer oaths to any person concerning any

matter submitted to the board or connected with their powers and

duties; and all orders made by the board of county commissioners,

and all warrants drawn on the county treasurer, shall be signed by

the chairman and attested by the clerk.

R.L. 1910, § 1589.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-514.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-514.1
Sheriff's Service Fee Account
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a cash account to be known as the

"Sheriff's Service Fee Account". Monies from the account shall be

expended by the sheriff in the lawful operation of his office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.10 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.10
Metropolitan comprehensive plan
Status: in_force

A. 1. The metropolitan area planning commission shall prepare,

adopt, and from time to time revise, amend, extend or add to a plan

or plans for the development of the metropolitan area. The plan or

plans may be published and collectively shall be known as the

metropolitan comprehensive plan.

2. The comprehensive plan shall be developed:

a. for the purpose of bringing about an orderly,

coordinated, physical development in accordance with

the present and future needs of such area,

b. to conserve the natural resources of the area,

c. to ensure efficient expenditure of public funds, and

d. to promote the health, safety, convenience,

prosperity, and general welfare of the people of the

area and the state.

3. The metropolitan comprehensive plan shall:

a. set forth the policy recommendations of the

metropolitan area planning commission in regard to the

physical development of the metropolitan area,

b. contain a statement of the objectives, standards and

principles sought to be embodied therein,

c. contain recommendations for the most desirable pattern

of land use within the metropolitan area, in the light

of the best available information concerning:

(1) topography, climate, soil and underground

conditions, water courses and bodies of water and

other natural or environmental factors,

(2) the present and prospective economic bases of the

metropolitan area, past and future trends of

industry, population or other developments and

the habits and standards of life of the people of

the metropolitan area, and

(3) the relation of land use within the metropolitan

area to land use in adjoining areas,

d. insofar as appropriate, indicate areas for residential

uses and maximum recommended densities therein; areas

for manufacturing and industrial uses, with

classification of such areas in accordance with their

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compatibility with land use in adjoining areas; areas

for the concentration of wholesale and retail business

and other commercial uses; areas for recreational uses

and areas for open spaces; and areas for mixed uses,

e. include the circulation pattern recommended for the

metropolitan area, including routes and terminals of

transit, transportation and communication facilities

whether used for movement within the metropolitan area

or for the movement from and to adjoining areas,

f. include recommendations concerning the need for and

the proposed general location of public and private

works and facilities, such as utilities, flood control

works, water reservoirs and pollution control

facilities,

g. include such other recommendations of the metropolitan

area planning commission concerning current and

impending problems as may affect the metropolitan

areas as a whole, and

h. be based on studies of physical, social, economic and

governmental conditions and trends.

B. 1. Before the adoption, amendment, or extension of the plan

or portions thereof, the commission shall hold at least one public

hearing thereon.

2. Such hearing may be adjourned from time to time.

C. The commission may recommend for adoption or denial by the

municipal council and/or, as appropriate, the board of county

commissioners the comprehensive plan in whole or part, and

subsequently may recommend the adoption or denial of any amendment

or extension of the plan or portions thereof.

D. 1. Before the metropolitan comprehensive plan or part

thereof has the status of an official plan, the plan shall be

submitted to and shall have the approval of the municipal council

insofar as such plan affects the area within the city limits of the

municipality. In addition, the plan shall have the approval of the

board of county commissioners, insofar as such plan affects the

balance of the county excluding, however, any area within any

incorporated municipality located within the balance of the county.

2. The council and the board may approve the plan in whole or

in part, or return the plan or any portion thereof to the commission

for further consideration.

3. Any part so approved shall immediately become in full force

and effect as to the area covered by the approved portion of such

plan.

4. Should the council or board fail to act upon such plan

within forty-five (45) days from the date of its submission by the

commission, such plan shall be deemed to be approved by said council

or board and shall have the status of an official plan for the area.

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E. After the adoption of the comprehensive plan, or part

thereof, an attested copy shall be certified by the commission and

by the approving authority and shall be certified to the county

clerk of such county as a public record and certified to the clerks

of such incorporated areas as may be covered or affected by the

plan.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-384 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-384
Tax levy
Status: in_force

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When the question submitted involves the borrowing or

expenditure of money the proposition of the question must be

accompanied by a proposition to authorize a tax for the payment

thereof in addition to the usual taxes provided for by law; and no

vote adopting the question proposed shall be valid unless it

likewise adopts the amount of tax to be authorized to meet the

liability incurred.

R.L. 1910, § 1611.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-782 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-782
Resolution of necessity - Petition - Notice of election
Status: in_force

Upon the adoption by the county commissioners of a resolution

declaring the necessity therefor, or whenever twenty percent (20%)

of the qualified voters of any county of this state, as determined

by the last previous general election, shall petition the board of

county commissioners of such county to call an election for the

purpose of issuing bonds to purchase sites, erect and construct

county hospitals, including alterations, additions to and

enlargement of existing hospital buildings, it shall be the duty of

said county commissioners to call an election and give notice

thereof in two (2) daily or weekly newspapers of general circulation

published at the county seat of the county; provided, that if there

be one daily or weekly newspaper published in such county, in that

event one shall be sufficient, and such notices shall be published

for four (4) consecutive weeks. If there is no daily or weekly

newspaper published in such county, then printed notices shall be

posted in one of the most public places in each voting precinct of

the county at least thirty (30) days prior to said election. Said

petition calling for said election shall name the amount of bonds to

be issued and shall state the time of holding said election, which

shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the first publication

of any notice or the posting of said notice, and shall state for

what purposes the hospital is to be used.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1419 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1419
Transfer of special fund, debt service and special
Status: in_force

assessment fund balances.

Whenever the necessity for maintaining any special fund of a

county has ceased to exist and a balance remains in the fund, the

county budget board may authorize the transfer of the balance to the

general fund. Applicable law shall govern the use or transfer of

balances in any debt service or special assessment fund.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-521 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-521
Writs - How served on sheriff
Status: in_force

Every paper required by law to be served on the sheriff, may be

served on him in person, or left at his office during his business

hours.

R.L. 1910, § 1705.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-130.4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-130.4
Advisory boards
Status: in_force

A. The Cooperative Extension Service is hereby authorized to

create advisory boards as they deem necessary. Members of such

advisory boards shall be appointed by the Cooperative Extension

Service and shall include, but shall not be limited to, county

government officials and appropriate state agency representatives.

Meetings of advisory boards shall be called by the County Training

Program Director of the Cooperative Extension Service. Such

advisory boards shall assist in developing educational programs and

materials for training county government officers and their

employees.

Advisory board members shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred

in the performance of their duties under Sections 130.1 through

130.7 of this title in accordance with the State Travel

Reimbursement Act.

B. The Cooperative Extension Service is authorized to contract

with state agencies and private entities to provide training.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-965 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-965
Defined benefit retirement plan - Amendment or
Status: in_force

modification - Impact statement.

A. As used in this section:

1. “Concurrent funding” means an increase in employer

contributions, employee contributions, apportioned tax revenues or

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other assets transferred to the county retirement plan to offset any

increase in unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the plan; and

2. “Unfunded actuarial accrued liability” means the excess of

the actuarial accrued liability over the actuarial value of assets.

B. A county actively maintaining a defined benefit retirement

plan for both existing and new employees on or after the effective

date of this act which plan was established pursuant to the

authority of Section 951 et seq. of Title 19 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall not adopt any plan amendment or otherwise modify the

defined benefit plan provisions in any manner that would result in

an increase in the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the

retirement plan.

C. A county may adopt a plan amendment or other modification

that increases retirement benefits or that would otherwise increase

the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the retirement plan if

the county provides concurrent funding for the plan amendment or

other proposed plan modification.

D. Before a county described by this section adopts a plan

amendment or other plan modification, the proposed plan amendment or

other plan modification shall be reviewed by a qualified actuary who

shall prepare an impact statement with respect to the proposed plan

amendment or other plan modification. The actuary shall provide the

impact statement to the plan administrator, if applicable, and to

the county clerk of the county maintaining the retirement plan.

E. If the impact statement prepared by the actuary determines

that the proposed plan amendment or other plan modification would

increase the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the county

retirement plan, the county shall not adopt or implement the

amendment or other modification unless the county provides

concurrent funding.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1246 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1246
Street intersections and alley crossings - Improvement
Status: in_force

costs - State aid.

A. The board of county commissioners, in its discretion, may

provide for the payment of the cost for improving streets, roads,

intersections, alley crossings, or any part thereof, out of the

county road fund.

B. The Transportation Commission is authorized in its sole

discretion to enter into agreements with the board of county

commissioners of any county for participation with State Highway

Construction and Maintenance Funds in the cost of any improvements

on roads and streets which are a part of the state highway system,

and such agreements may provide for the award and supervision of the

contract by said county, the state's share of the cost to be due and

payable upon completion of the project.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-269 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-269
Election concerning tax question - Copy of ballot to state
Status: in_force

Auditor and Inspector.

Within fifteen (15) days from the date of a county election

concerning a sales tax question, the county clerk shall send to the

State Auditor and Inspector a copy of the ballot concerning the

sales tax question. This section only applies if the sales tax

question was passed by the voters of the county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-180.87 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-180.87
Direct deposit payment system
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners in each of the counties of the

state may establish a direct deposit payment system to pay county

employees instead of physical checks or cash.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-116 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-116
Duty of county clerk
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the county clerk of such county to

charge the bank designated as the depository of public monies with

all monies deposited by the treasurer and charge the fiscal agent

with the amount of money transmitted to it by the county treasurer

and credit the county treasurer with such amount transmitted.

R.L. 1910, § 1543.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-293 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-293
Duty when instrument offered for record
Status: in_force

The register of deeds shall, whenever an instrument shall be

presented to him for record, immediately note on the instrument the

year, month, day, hour and minute of receiving the same, and the

date of record of such instrument shall be from the date of filing;

he shall then enter the same on the receiving book, making all the

entries in the appropriate columns as herein provided, and shall as

soon thereafter as practicable, record said instrument in the proper

record, enter it upon the proper indexes, and over his signature and

seal note the book and page on which said instrument is recorded.

R.L. 1910, § 1665.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.37C — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.37C
Estimate of needs
Status: in_force

On or before July 1 of each fiscal year, each district attorney

shall file with the county clerk of each county in his district an

estimate of needs for the operation of his office in such county for

the ensuing fiscal year. The estimate of needs shall consist of two

sections as follows:

1. The first section shall include those appropriation requests

which are to be reimbursed from state funds. This section shall

consist of appropriation requests for "maintenance and operation"

and for "capital outlay" as defined in Section 2490 of Title 68 of

the Oklahoma Statutes, and such other accounts as may be prescribed

by the State Auditor and Inspector and approved by the District

Attorneys Council. The total of these requests shall not exceed the

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amount certified by the Council as being available for that county;

and

2. The second section shall include those appropriation

requests which are to be financed by county funds as provided by

law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-121 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-121
Daily deposit by county treasurer - Security
Status: in_force

The county treasurer of each county shall deposit daily, not

later than the immediately next banking day, all the funds and

monies of whatever kind that shall come into his or her possession

by virtue of the office as such county treasurer in the name of the

county treasurer in one (1) or more banks located in the county and

designated by the board of county commissioners as county

depositories. Provided, before the deposit of any such funds, the

county treasurer shall take from each of such banks security in a

sum equal to the largest approximate amount that may be deposited in

each bank respectively at any one time. Such security is required

to be pledged, taken, approved, held and withdrawn under the

provisions of the Security for Local Public Deposits Act prescribed

in Sections 8 through 14 of this act.

Each bank in which such county funds are deposited shall receive

all monies, checks, or drafts at par and for deposit only to the

credit of the county treasurer in his or her official capacity, and

each bank shall promptly honor the checks, drafts, or vouchers of

the treasurer of the county on such deposit.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-905.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-905.5
Regional jail director - Compensation - Authority
Status: in_force

A. The director, appointed by the regional jail commission,

shall administer the regional jail.

B. The director shall be paid a salary determined by the

regional jail commission. The director shall have the authority to

hire other officers and employees for positions that are authorized

by the commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-351.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-351.1
Agreements for fire protection services by
Status: in_force

municipalities - Charges.

A. The board of county commissioners of each county may enter

into agreements with any municipality for the furnishing of fire

protection and emergency services, including, but not limited to,

medical attention and wreck removal, by said municipality for all

persons and property in areas outside the corporate limits of such

municipality and to pay for such services a reasonable amount on a

per run basis, or such other equitable basis as may be agreed upon,

and to pay for such services from funds of the county general fund

or the county highway fund. The board of county commissioners of

each county may also enter into reciprocal agreements with other

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counties for such services. The board of county commissioners shall

also have the authority to collect charges for such services

performed by a municipality or another county, pursuant to the

provision of this section, from any person to whom such services are

provided. Said funds shall be disbursed to the entities providing

services.

B. Should a disagreement over service areas arise between

jurisdictions providing services, with or without an agreement as

described in subsection A of this section, either entity may

petition for arbitration by the Fire Marshal's Commission to

determine boundary lines for the entities involved. In making a

determination, the Fire Marshal's Commission shall consider, but is

not limited to, the importance of a quick response time, the

financial burden on both the service providers and the jurisdiction

receiving services, and the capabilities of both jurisdictions to

render services.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1239 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1239
Awarding of contracts - Excessive costs
Status: in_force

At the time and place specified in the notice to contractors,

the board of county commissioners shall examine all bids received

and, without unnecessary delay, award the contract to the lowest and

best bidder, who will perform the work and furnish the materials

which have been selected, and perform all the conditions imposed by

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the board, as prescribed in the resolution for the work or

improvement and notice for proposals. The aggregate amount of the

contract shall not exceed the final estimate of cost submitted by

the engineer for the improvement as provided in Section 1238 of this

title. In the event of any excess in cost over said engineer's

estimate, the excess shall be void and no assessments for such

excess levied. The board shall have the right to award a contract

for all or a portion of such improvement or to reject any or all

bids, and to readvertise for other bids when any such bids are not,

in its judgment, satisfactory. The letting of the bid shall not be

complete until the contract is duly executed, and the bonds

approved.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-931 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-931
Authorization to establish and maintain
Status: in_force

Each county in the State of Oklahoma having a population of one

hundred thousand (100,000) or more, as determined by the last

Federal Decennial Census or any subsequent Federal Decennial Census,

is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, provide, maintain,

construct, set apart, and conduct parks, playgrounds, recreation

centers, swimming pools, social and community centers, and other

public recreational facilities anywhere within the said county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-793 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-793
Purchase of building - Gifts
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may proceed under the provisions of

this act to purchase any building or property already erected, which

is suitable for hospital purposes. The county commissioners may

also accept property by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise for the

use of such hospital.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.2 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.2
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this act the following words shall have the

following meanings:

a. "Joint electrical examining and appeals board" shall be held

to mean the joint city-county electrical examining and appeals board

hereinafter referred to.

b. "Electrical inspector" shall be held to mean and include the

electrical inspector of any city, county or metropolitan area within

the terms of this act, or any of his duly authorized assistants.

c. "Class A electrical contractor" shall be held to mean any

person, firm or corporation licensed to engage in the business of

wiring, rewiring, installing, repairing or altering any electrical

wiring, or installing or repairing any electrical apparatus or

electrical appliances in any city, county or metropolitan area.

Class A electrical contractor shall not include persons, firms, or

corporations engaged in the business of selling or offering

electrical materials, electrical apparatus and electrical appliances

for sale to the public that are not installed by such persons, firms

or corporations. The governing bodies of any city and county within

the terms of this act may, for good cause shown and in the public

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interest, after public hearing, establish subdivisions of this

classification. The license should be endorsed by the board to show

the classification or type of work the license would be limited to.

d. "Class A journeyman electrician" shall be held to mean any

person licensed to engage in the work of wiring, rewiring,

installing, repairing or altering any electrical wiring or actually

engaged in installing or repairing any electrical apparatus or

electrical appliances in any city, county or metropolitan area

within the terms of this act. The governing bodies of any city and

county within the terms of this act may, for good cause shown and in

the public interest, after public hearing, establish subdivisions of

this classification. Any such subdivision license shall be endorsed

by the board to show the classification or type of work authorized

thereunder.

e. "Class B electrical contractor" shall be held to mean any

person, firm, or corporation licensed to engage in the business of

wiring, rewiring, installing, repairing, or altering any electrical

wiring or installing or repairing any apparatus or electrical

appliances in any single-family residence building within any city,

county or metropolitan area within the terms of this act.

f. "Class B journeyman electrician" shall be held to mean any

person licensed to engage in the wiring or installing or repairing

of any electrical apparatus or electrical appliances or electrical

wiring within any building constructed for and designated to be used

as a single-family residence in any city, county or metropolitan

area within the terms of this act.

g. "Appliance repair shop" shall be held to mean any person,

firm or corporation licensed to engage in the business of repairing,

altering or otherwise modifying, replacing or changing the function

or parts of electrical appliances.

h. "Electrical appliance repairman" shall be held to mean any

person licensed to engage in the business of actually making

repairs, alterations or otherwise actually doing the work of

modifying, repairing or changing the function or parts of electrical

appliances.

i. "Electrical sign contractor" shall be held to mean any

person, firm or corporation licensed to engage in the business of

manufacturing, assembling, wiring, rewiring, installing, erecting,

repairing or altering interior or exterior electric signs.

j. "Journeyman sign electrician" shall be held to mean any

person licensed to engage in the business of performing the

assembling, wiring, rewiring, installing, erecting, repairing or

altering interior or exterior electric signs.

k. "Motor shop" shall be held to mean any person, firm or

corporation licensed to engage only in the business of the

assembling, wiring, rewiring, installing or repairing electric

motors, generators and transformers.

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l. "Apprentices and/or helpers" shall be held to mean any

unlicensed person who assists a licensed contractor or licensed

electrician in doing the actual work that such electrician or

contractor is qualified and permitted by license to do.

m. "Certificate of competency" shall be held to mean a

certificate issued to any person who has been certified by the

board, under the terms of this act, as possessing the skills and

knowledge qualifying him as competent to do and perform those acts

authorized and permitted by the classification for which the

certificate is issued.

n. "Metropolitan area" shall include all territory within the

limits of any city or county within the provisions of this act.

o. "Transfer of license" shall be held to mean allowing the use

of a license or certificate of competency, directly or indirectly,

by any other person, firm or corporation, for the purpose of

obtaining a permit to do any electrical work covered by this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1210 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1210
Proportionate payment of costs
Status: in_force

A. Each county in which any of the area of a district is

located shall pay its proportionate share of the cost of the

district, based on the ratio which that part of the population of

such district residing in the county bears to the total population

of the district. Such cost shall be paid from the county treasury,

but shall not exceed the equivalent of one (1) mill on each dollar

of valuation in the district.

B. Any incorporated town or city that is a party to the

district shall pay a proportionate share of the cost of the

district, based on the ratio which that part of the population of

such district residing in the town or city, bears to the total

population of the district.

C. Such cost shall include so much of the following as is not

paid from revenues of the district:

1. All operating and maintenance expenses necessary or

desirable for the prudent conduct of affairs of the district and the

principal of and interest on the obligations issued or assumed by

the district in the performance of the purposes for which it was

organized; and

2. Adequate reserves for the retirement of indebtedness,

maintenance and other purposes necessary and expedient to meeting

all obligations of the district.

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D. Any revenue received by the district shall be devoted,

first, to the payment of operating and maintenance expenses and the

principal and interest on outstanding obligations and, thereafter,

to such reserves for improvements, retirement of indebtedness, new

construction, depreciation and contingencies as the board of

directors may from time to time prescribe.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1103 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1103
Advisory committee - Duties and responsibilities
Status: in_force

After the passage of said resolution the board of county

commissioners shall create a county economic development advisory

committee of not less than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15)

members, which shall be representative of the various private and

public interests and political subdivisions within the county. It

shall be the duty and responsibility of the advisory committee to

meet and select from their members a chairman, vice-chairman and

secretary, and to meet as often as the committee deems necessary to

prepare for recommendation to the board of county commissioners an

annual budget and for further advice and recommendation for carrying

out the purposes of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-442 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-442
Examination of treasurer's tax records
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners at

each annual meeting to examine the county treasurer's "tax-sale

book" and "stub receipts" and ascertain the amount of redemption

money in the treasury and compel the said treasurer to account for

the same.

R.L. 1910, § 1646.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1257 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1257
Road Improvement Bonds
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of any county, after the

expiration of thirty (30) days from the publication of the assessing

resolution, within which period the whole of any assessment may be

paid without interest, may provide by resolution for the issuance of

negotiable bonds in the aggregate amount of such assessments then

remaining unpaid. The bonds shall bear a date of thirty (30) days

after the publication of the resolution levying the assessments, and

be of such denominations as the board of county commissioners and

the bond attorney shall determine. The bonds shall in no event

become a liability of the county issuing the same. The bonds shall

be payable on or before October 1 next succeeding the September 1 on

which the last installment of assessments shall mature, with

interest at the rate of not to exceed thirteen percent (13%) per

annum, payable October 1 next succeeding the due date of the first

installment of assessments, and semiannually thereafter, until

maturity, and fifteen percent (15%) per annum after maturity. Said

bonds shall be designated as Road Improvement Bonds, and shall

recite the roads, streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, or parts thereof,

or other public places, for the improvement of which they have been

issued and that they are payable, in cash, from the assessments

which have been levied upon the lots and tracts of land benefited by

said improvement and from the accumulation of the interest and

penalty provided for. Said bonds shall be signed by the county

commissioners of such county and attested by the county clerk, and

shall have an impression of the corporate seal of the county

thereon. The bonds and interest shall be payable at such place,

either within or without the State of Oklahoma, as shall be

designated therein. Said bonds shall be issued in series, and the

bonds of each series shall be numbered consecutively beginning with

number one, and said bonds of each series shall be payable, in cash,

in their numerical order. Such bonds shall be registered by the

county clerk and treasurer of such county in a book to be provided

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for that purpose and each bond shall bear a certificate of such

registration. Upon the books of such treasurer shall be noted the

name of the holder thereof and his address, and any subsequent

holder may cause the same to be registered in the name thereof upon

submission of proper proof of ownership. The county shall have the

right to call in and pay said bonds or any number thereof in the

following manner: Whenever there shall be sufficient funds in the

hands of the county treasurer after the payment of all interest due

and to become due within the next six (6) months, such treasurer

shall on or before March 10 and September 10 of any year give notice

by registered mail addressed to the last registered holder of the

bonds called, at the address appearing upon his registry that there

have accumulated funds sufficient to pay the designated bonds, and

interest thereon to April 1 next or October 1 next, and directing

the presentation of such bond or bonds for payment and cancellation.

The bond or bonds will cease to bear interest after said April 1

next or said October 1 next, and upon the payment and cancellation

of said bond or bonds, proper entry thereof shall be made upon the

books of the clerk and treasurer. It is hereby made the duty of

such county treasurer upon the accumulation of sufficient funds as

provided to pay one or more bonds to call and pay such bond or

bonds, and in the event of failure to do so, he shall be liable for

all such damages as may result therefrom. The provisions of this

section may be enforced by appropriate proceedings in mandamus

against such treasurer.

The bonds issued under this section shall have the same Oklahoma

tax status as is given by the federal government.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-23 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-23
Selection of permanent county seats
Status: in_force

In all new counties, created since the admission of the State of

Oklahoma into the Union, and to be hereafter created, wherein

temporary, or original county seat, has been, or will be, located or

designated, other than by a vote of the people, an election shall be

called and held to locate the permanent county seat, which election

shall be called and held under the laws now in force governing the

permanent location of county seats, included in Chapter Thirty-one,

Article Four, of the Session Laws of 1907 and 1908; provided, that a

majority of all the votes cast in the county, at such county seat

election, shall be in favor of any town, such town shall thereafter

be the county seat; provided, however, that where the temporary

county seat theretofore designated, is within six (6) miles of the

geographical center of the county (said geographical center to be

determined by certificate from the Secretary of State, and said

distance to be determined by measurement from said geographical

center to the nearest corporate limits of such county seat) it shall

require sixty percent (60%) of the total vote cast at such election

by the competing town to effect the designation of such county seat,

and unless such competing town be within six (6) miles of the

geographical center of said county, in which event a majority vote

shall suffice; provided, further, that those portions of Section 14,

of Article Four of Chapter 31 of the Session Laws of 1907-1908 in

conflict herewith, applying to counties created by the Constitution,

shall have no force and effect with reference to elections to locate

the permanent county seat of counties created since the adoption of

the Constitution and since the admission of the State of Oklahoma

into the Union.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-627 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-627
County, city, town or school district - Insurance of
Status: in_force

buildings and property.

The governing board of any county, city, town, or school

district, dependent or independent, is hereby authorized to insure

or cause to be insured, at the cost of such municipality, any or all

of the public buildings and property or other tangible and insurable

assets owned or held by such municipality, in the name of the lawful

treasurer of such municipality. In event of destruction or damage

to such buildings or property, or loss of other tangible and

insurable assets, so insured, such treasurer shall demand and

receive the moneys due on account of such insurance, and when so

received, he shall deposit the same as other moneys belonging to

such municipality and he shall credit the same to a special account

on his records and it shall be used solely to rebuild, repair, or

replace the property or assets so lost, damaged, or destroyed, and

shall be disbursed in payment of lawful warrants drawn by such

governing board for such purpose, the same as other public funds are

disbursed. If not so needed, upon resolution to that effect by the

governing board, the same shall be considered income from sources

other than ad valorem tax and credited to the general fund of such

municipality.

R.L. 1910, § 1734. Amended by Laws 1941, p. 64, § 1.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30-8 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.30-8
Appropriation of monies required by collective
Status: in_force

bargaining - Notice - Time limitation.

When wages, rates of pay or any other matters requiring

appropriation of monies by any Rural Fire Protection District are

included as matters of collective bargaining conducted under the

provisions of this act, it is the obligation of the bargaining agent

to serve written notice of request for collective bargaining on the

corporate authorities at least one hundred twenty (120) days before

the last day on which monies can be appropriated by the Rural Fire

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Protection District to cover the contract period which is the

subject of the collective bargaining procedure.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.6 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.6
Apprentices - Registration - Limitations
Status: in_force

All apprentices as herein defined shall be registered with the

city-county electrical examining and appeals board. No fee shall be

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required for such registration and no test shall be required for

such registration. The city-county electrical examining and appeals

board, upon acceptance of such registration, shall issue a

certificate of registration to each registrant. Such registration

shall authorize such apprentice to do electrical work, provided such

work is done under the direct personal supervision of a licensed

journeyman at all times. Such supervision shall be defined as the

doing of work within sight and audible communication with a

journeyman electrician. No work shall be done by an apprentice when

not in the presence of and under the supervision of a journeyman.

No more than three apprentices shall perform electrical work at the

same time under the supervision of one journeyman electrician. All

apprentice registrations and certificates shall expire on the 31st

day of December of the year in which they are issued.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-31 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-31
Vote for transfer of territory
Status: in_force

If the object sought be to transfer territory from one county to

an existing county, and if sixty percent (60%) of the votes cast at

said election vote "Yes", the Governor shall within ten (10) days

after declaring the result of said election issue his proclamation

calling an election to be held in the county to which said territory

is sought to be transferred, which said election shall be held not

less than thirty (30) nor more than forty (40) days thereafter.

R.L. 1910, § 1507.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1003 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1003
Counties authorized to act - Contract with cities -
Status: in_force

Resolution of necessity.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local

law, or of any charter, ordinance, rule or regulation, any county of

the state having within its boundaries a city having not less than

one hundred thousand population, according to the last or any

succeeding Federal Decennial Census, is hereby authorized to avail

itself of the provisions of this act and to combine its funds with

the funds of such city to be expended for the purposes herein set

forth. The board of county commissioners of any such county in this

state is hereby authorized to contract with the governing body of

any such city, as herein provided, for the establishment of a city-

county park and recreation system. Provided however, that before

exercising the authority and power to contract for the purposes

herein stated any city or county having a duly created and existing

city or county park and/or recreation board or authority as the case

may be, a resolution of necessity must first be adopted by any such

city or county park and/or recreation authority.