Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-107 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-107
Publication of certain codes and ordinances by title
Status: in_force

and summary of contents.

A. If a municipal governing body enacts or adopts by reference

ordinances which are compilations or codes of law or regulations

relating to traffic, building, plumbing, electrical installations,

fire prevention, inflammable liquids, milk and milk products,

protection of the public health, or any other matters which the

municipality has the power to regulate, such ordinances are not

required to be published in full. Legal publication of such

ordinances may be by publishing the title and a summary of their

contents in the manner provided by Section 14-106 of this title. At

least one copy of such ordinances shall be kept in the office of the

municipal clerk for public use, inspection, and examination. The

municipal clerk shall keep copies of the ordinances, codes, or

compilations for distribution or sale at a reasonable price.

B. A municipality which adopts building standards shall adopt

and enforce codes adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code

Commission.

C. Nothing in this act shall prevent or take away from any

city, town or county the authority to enact and enforce rules

containing higher standards and requirements than the codes adopted

by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission nor prevent or take

away from any city, town or county the authority to amend such

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adopted codes to make changes necessary to accommodate local

conditions except as provided in subsections D and E of this

section.

D. A city, town or county may begin enforcing the higher

standards and requirements allowed in subsection C of this section

no less than thirty (30) days after submitting the higher standards

and requirements to the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission in

such form as the Commission may prescribe.

E. No city, town or county shall adopt real estate development

building or construction ordinances, rules or codes restricting or

prohibiting connections to the facilities of utility providers

lawfully operating in this state, nor may any city, town or county

discriminate in the adoption of such rules or codes against one or

more utility providers based in whole or in part upon the nature or

source of the utility service provided.

F. Ordinances which are passed by the governing body with an

emergency clause attached are not required to be published in full,

but may be published by title only in the manner provided by Section

14-106 of this title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-118 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-118
Additional powers of State Board
Status: in_force

The State Board shall, in addition to other powers herein

granted, have power, to wit:

1. To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all

matters connected with the operations of this article, and in the

same manner as is or may be provided by law for the taking of

testimony before notaries public; and its president or any member of

said board may administer oaths to such witnesses;

2. To provide for the payment from the Fund of all its

necessary expenses and printing;

3. To make all rules and regulations needful for its guidance

in conformity with the provisions of this article; and

4. To bring any action for declaratory relief in the district

courts in the state to enforce any provisions of this article or any

other applicable state statute.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-43-112 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-43-112
Site plans - Submission, review and approval - Changes
Status: in_force

- Validity of prior approved developments.

A. As used in the section, "site plan" means the documents and

plans specified in the zoning ordinance needed to ensure that a

proposed land use or activity is in compliance with the ordinances

and applicable state and federal regulations, if any.

B. The procedures and requirements for the submission and

approval of site plans shall be specified in the zoning ordinance.

Site plan submission, review and approval shall be required for

planned unit developments. Decisions denying, approving, or

conditionally approving a site plan shall be based upon the approved

planned unit development conditions and standards, and requirements

contained in the zoning ordinance.

C. Changes to the approval site plan may be authorized by the

zoning ordinance with notice as specified thereby.

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D. Nothing set out in this section or Sections 2 and 3 of this

act shall invalidate a planned unit development approved by a

municipality prior to the effective date of these sections.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-56-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-56-104
Campaign committee organization statements
Status: in_force

Each campaign committee shall file a statement of organization

with the Ethics Commission subject to the same requirements as set

forth for candidate committees for state office required to file

statements of organization under Rules of the Ethics Commission

promulgated pursuant to Section 3 of Article XXIX of the Oklahoma

Constitution including, but not limited to, time for filing and

contents.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-11-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-11-109
Council - Meetings
Status: in_force

The council shall meet regularly at least monthly at such times

as it may prescribe by ordinance or otherwise. The mayor or any

three councilmembers may call special meetings.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-104
Organization of board - Officers - Rules and other
Status: in_force

offices.

The mayor shall be an ex officio member and chairman of the

local board, the municipal clerk shall be ex officio secretary, and

the municipal treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of the local

board. The mayor shall have a casting vote with the members only

when necessary to avoid a tie vote among them. The members shall

elect a vice chairman from among them and promulgate such other

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rules and offices as may be necessary to insure the orderly conduct

of business.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-121 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-121
City officials and employees - Suspension or removal -
Status: in_force

Successors.

An officer or employee may be suspended, demoted, laid off or

removed by the city manager or other authority which has the power

to appoint or elect the officer or employee. The city manager or

other authority which has the power to appoint or elect the

successor of an officer or employee may appoint or elect a person to

act during the temporary absence, disability or suspension of such

officer or employee, or, in the case of a vacancy, until a successor

is appointed or elected and qualified. The council may ordain that

a particular superior or subordinate or deputy of such officer or

employee shall act in such cases.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-509 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-509
Zoning, land use, planning and permitting authority -
Status: in_force

Exclusions.

Subject to the provisions of this act and applicable federal

law, an authority may continue to exercise zoning, land use,

planning and permitting authority within its territorial boundaries

with respect to wireless support structures and utility poles. No

authority shall have or exercise any jurisdiction or authority over

the design, engineering, construction, installation or operation of

any small wireless facility located in an interior structure or upon

the site of any campus, stadium or athletic facility not owned or

controlled by the authority, other than to comply with applicable

codes. An authority shall evaluate the structure classification for

wireless support structures under the latest version of ANSI/TIA-

222. Nothing in this act authorizes the state or any political

subdivision, including an authority, to require wireless facility

deployment or to regulate wireless services.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-19-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-19-104
Record and publication of change
Status: in_force

The resolution declaring the change of name of the municipality

shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county in

which the situs of the municipal government is located and filed in

the office of the Secretary of State and in the archives of the

municipality. The resolution shall also be published at least once

in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-39-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-39-103
Creation of improvement districts - Purpose - Contents
Status: in_force

The governing body of any city may create one or more districts

for the purpose of making or causing to be made any improvement or

combination of improvements that confer special benefit upon

property within the district. Such improvement or combination of

improvements may include the following, without limitation because

of enumeration:

1. Acquisition of property or interest in property when

necessary for any of the purposes authorized by the Improvement

District Act;

2. Opening, creating, widening and extending or altering of

streets to improve paving, and surfacing, constructing and

reconstructing gutters, curbs, sidewalks, crosswalks, driveway

entrances and structures, drainage facilities, and service

connections from sewers, water, gas, electricity and other utility

mains, conduits or pipes;

3. Constructing or improving main and lateral storm water

drains and sanitary sewer systems and facilities;

4. Installation or improvement of street lights and street

lighting systems;

5. Construction or improvement of water mains and waterworks

systems;

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6. Improvement of parks, playgrounds and recreational

facilities;

7. Improvement of any street, parking or other facility by

landscaping, or planting of trees, shrubs and other plants;

8. Constructing or improving dikes, levees and other flood

control works, gates, lift stations, bridges and streets appurtenant

thereto;

9. Constructing or improving vehicle and pedestrian bridges,

overpasses and tunnels;

10. Constructing or improving retaining walls and area walls on

public ways or land abutting thereon;

11. Constructing or improving property for off-street parking

facilities, including construction and equipment of buildings

thereon;

12. Constructing or improving pedestrian malls; or

13. Constructing or improving offsite facilities or

infrastructure serving all or a portion of land within a district;

notwithstanding that, such facilities or infrastructure may also

serve areas outside a district, but subject to cost apportionment

requirements of subsection A of Section 39-110 of this title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-8-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-8-108
Absence from governing body meetings
Status: in_force

Whenever a member of the municipal governing body is absent from

more than one-half of all meetings of the governing body, regular

and special, held within any period of four (4) consecutive months,

he shall thereupon cease to hold office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-114 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-114
Designation of acting city manager
Status: in_force

The city manager, by letter filed with the city clerk, may

appoint a qualified administrative officer of the city to be acting

city manager during the temporary absence or disability of the city

manager. The council may appoint an acting city manager whenever:

1. The manager fails to make such designation;

2. The council suspends the city manager; or

3. There is a vacancy in the office of city manager.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-101
Right to pension - Amount
Status: in_force

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A. All retired volunteer firefighters who qualify for

retirement shall be entitled to a monthly pension. The monthly

pension of a volunteer firefighter shall be in the amount retired

volunteer firefighters are receiving at the time the volunteer

firefighter begins to receive a pension for each year of credited

service not to exceed thirty (30) years. In determining the number

of years of credited service, a fractional year of six (6) months or

more shall be counted as one (1) full year and a fractional year of

less than six (6) months shall not be counted in such determination.

Retired volunteer firefighters of a municipality shall receive a

pension of not less than that which retired volunteer firefighters

of such municipality were receiving on June 30, 1985.

B. A volunteer firefighter who terminates service after

completing ten (10) years of credited service, but less than twenty

(20) years of credited service, shall be entitled to receive a

vested benefit commencing on the date the firefighter reaches fifty

(50) years of age or the date the firefighter would have had twenty

(20) years of credited service had the firefighter's service

continued uninterrupted, whichever is later. The monthly amount of

such retirement benefit shall be the amount being paid to volunteer

firefighters at the time the member vests multiplied by the number

of years of credited service. Credited service must be established

at the time of the volunteer firefighter's termination. If a

volunteer firefighter who terminated employment and elected, or was

eligible to elect, a vested benefit dies prior to being eligible to

receive benefits, the volunteer firefighter's beneficiary, as

defined in paragraph 16 of Section 49-100.1 of this title, shall be

entitled to the volunteer firefighter's normal monthly retirement

benefit on the date the deceased volunteer firefighter would have

been eligible to receive the benefit.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-12-114 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-12-114
Appointments and removals
Status: in_force

Appointments and promotions in the service of a statutory town

board of trustees government shall be made solely on the basis of

merit and fitness; and removals, demotions, suspensions, and layoffs

shall be made solely for the good of the service. The board by

ordinance may establish a merit system and provide for its

organization and functioning, and provide for personnel

administration and regulation of personnel matters. The board of

trustees may remove for cause any appointive officer by a majority

vote of all its members.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-303 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-303
Bond payment and cancellation
Status: in_force

The municipality shall have the right to call in and pay the

bonds or any number thereof in the following manner: Whenever there

shall be sufficient funds in the hands of the municipal treasurer

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after the payment of all interest due and to become due within the

next six (6) months, the treasurer, on or before March 10 and

September 10 of any year, shall give notice by certified mail

addressed to the last registered holder of the bonds called at the

address appearing on his registry, that there has accumulated funds

sufficient to pay the designated bonds and interest thereon to April

1 next or October 1 next, as the case may be, and directing the

presentation of the bonds for payment and cancellation. The bonds

which are called will cease to bear interest after April 1 or

October 1, as provided in the notice. Upon the payment and

cancellation of the bonds, proper entry thereof shall be made upon

the books of the clerk and treasurer. Upon the accumulation of

sufficient funds as herein provided to pay one or more bonds, the

municipal treasurer shall call and pay such 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 the treasurer.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-47-105
Staff and finances
Status: in_force

The commission may recommend such employees as it may deem

necessary for its work, whose appointment, promotion, demotion, and

removal shall be subject to the same provisions of law as govern

other corresponding civil employees of the municipality. The

commission may also recommend to the council the employment of city

planners, engineers, architects, and consultants for such other

services as it may require. The council may provide funds for the

salaries of employees and the expenses of the planning commission as

for other functions of the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-48-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-48-105
Prorating of fund in event of insufficiency
Status: in_force

If the funds in any retirement system are insufficient to make full

payment of the amount of retirement benefits or allowances to any

eligible persons under the rules and regulations of the

municipality, then the fund shall be prorated among those entitled

thereto as the board of trustees administering the fund shall

determine to be just and equitable.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-406 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-406
Issuance of negotiable coupon bonds
Status: in_force

Upon the expiration of thirty (30) days after the passage of the

assessing ordinance, the governing body may provide by resolution

for the issuance of negotiable interest coupon bonds. The bonds

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shall be designated Local Improvement Bonds and shall be of such

denominations and in such form as the governing body shall

determine. The bonds shall bear the date of thirty (30) days after

the publication of the assessing ordinance and shall bear interest

at the rate of seven percent (7%) per annum until paid, and ten

percent (10%) per annum, from maturity. The bonds may be registered

in the name of the holder thereof and shall be payable at the office

of the municipal treasurer or at the fiscal agency of the State of

Oklahoma. The interest thereon shall be payable annually on the

first day of September of each year. Upon the issuance of the

bonds, they shall be delivered to the municipal treasurer and shall

be sold at not less than par. If the governing body deems it most

advantageous to the municipality, the bonds may be used for the

payment of the cost of acquiring the real estate necessary for the

improvement. The bonds shall be paid from the accumulation of

assessments, interest and penalty, levied against the several lots

and tracts of land described in the assessing ordinance. The

accumulations shall be retained in a separate, special fund used for

the purpose of paying the bonds and interest thereon, and for no

other purpose whatsoever. Any surplus remaining in the fund, after

the payment of all bonds and the interest thereon, shall become the

property of the municipality. In no event shall the municipality be

liable for the payment of the bonds.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-143.2 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-143.2
Additional retirement benefit
Status: in_force

A. The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System

shall pay to its retirees, who retire not later than June 30, 1997,

or their beneficiaries, from assets of the retirement system, an

additional amount, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, based

upon the number of years of credited service upon which the

retirement benefit of the member was computed as follows:

1. For paid firefighters:

a. One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for at least ten

(10), but no more than fourteen (14) years of service,

b. Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for at least fifteen

(15), but no more than nineteen (19) years of service,

c. Four Hundred Fifty Dollars ($450.00) for at least

twenty (20), but no more than twenty-four (24) years

of service, and

d. Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) for twenty-five (25) or

more years of service.

2. For volunteer firefighters:

a. Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for at least ten (10),

but no more than fourteen (14) years of service,

b. One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for at least

fifteen (15), but no more than nineteen (19) years of

service,

c. Two Hundred Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) for at least

twenty (20), but no more than twenty-four (24) years

of service, and

d. Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for twenty-five (25)

or more years of service;

3. One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for a paid firefighter

with less than ten (10) years of service who received a disability

retirement; and

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4. Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for a volunteer firefighter

with less than ten (10) years of service who received a disability

retirement.

B. For purposes of subsection A or B of this section, months of

credited service in excess of a whole number of years shall be

disregarded for purposes of determining the applicable payment

amount.

C. The payment authorized by this section shall be distributed

not later than August 1, 1997.

D. The payment authorized by this section shall not be a

recurring benefit and shall only be made for the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1998, and for no other fiscal year.

E. If a retiree has multiple beneficiaries, the amount

prescribed by subsection A of this section shall be divided equally

among the beneficiaries on a per capita basis.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-135 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-135
Forfeiture of Motor Fuel Excise Tax revenues
Status: in_force

Any participating municipality that does not comply with the

contribution requirements of this act shall forfeit that

proportionate share of the Motor Fuel Excise Tax which is received

through the Oklahoma Tax Commission. It shall be the duty of the

Oklahoma Tax Commission to withhold these funds until such time as

the Attorney General shall certify to the Oklahoma Tax Commission,

upon proof presented, that the provisions of this act are being

complied with by the participating municipality, that the forfeiture

of the Motor Fuel Excise Tax is terminated. It shall be the duty of

the Attorney General to enforce the provisions of this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-102 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-102
Governing body
Status: in_force

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The governing body of a statutory council-manager city shall

consist of one (1) councilmember from each ward of the city and one

(1) councilmember at large.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-45-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-45-103
Duties and powers of the planning commission -
Status: in_force

Employees.

The planning commission shall prepare from time to time plans

for the betterment of the municipality as a place of residence or

for business. It may consider and investigate any subject matter

tending to the development and betterment of the municipality, and

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make recommendations as it may deem advisable concerning the

adoption thereof, to any department of the municipal government, and

for any purpose make or cause to be made surveys, maps or plans. The

commission shall have the power and authority to employ engineers,

attorneys, clerks and a secretary, or any other help deemed

necessary, subject to the approval of the municipal governing body.

The salaries and compensation of any planning commission employees

shall be fixed by the governing body and shall be paid out of the

municipal treasury as other officers and employees. The necessary

expenses incurred by the commission shall be appropriated and paid

out of the municipal treasury as other legal expenses of the

municipality, but in no event may the planning commission be

authorized to create a deficiency.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-32-111 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-32-111
Rules applicable to a petition for improvement
Status: in_force

For the purposes of a petition for parking station improvement,

the following shall apply:

1. After any petition has been signed by an owner of land in

the improvement district, any change in ownership of the land shall

not affect the petition;

2. If any of the owners of lands within the improvement

district are tenants in common or joint tenants, each cotenant or

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joint tenant shall be considered a landowner to the extent of his

undivided interest in said land;

3. The owner of a life estate shall be deemed the sole

landowner;

4. Guardians of minors or insane persons may petition for their

wards when authorized by the probate court to do so; and

5. An Oklahoma corporation having its registered office in the

municipality and owning land in the improvement district shall be

deemed a record landowner.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-115 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-17-115
Reverse auction bidding – Procedure – Public disclosure
Status: in_force

- Remedies.

A. A municipality or any public trust of which the municipality

is beneficiary or any nonappropriated governmental agency or

instrumentality of the state is authorized to use a reverse auction

bidding procedure to obtain bids for the purchase of goods or

services of any type of kind. The reverse auction shall be a real-

time bidding process taking place at a previously scheduled time and

Internet location and for a previously established duration, in

which multiple suppliers, anonymous to each other, submit bids to

provide the goods or services. The reverse auction procedure may be

used as an alternative to any state law applicable to the purchase

of the goods or services.

B. The procedure shall provide:

1. A bid opening and bid closure. At the opening date and

time, the municipality or public trust shall begin accepting reverse

auction electronic bids. Reverse auction bids shall be accepted

until the bid closure, except as provided by paragraph 6 of this

subsection, unless the municipality or public trust determines it is

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in the best interest of the municipality or public trust to extend

the closing time and notifies the reverse auction bidders of the

extended closing time by public announcement at the Internet

location at least fifteen (15) minutes prior to the original closing

time;

2. The posting of all reverse auction bids electronically and

updating of bids on a real-time basis by the municipality or public

trust;

3. The authorization for the municipality or public trust to

require bidders to register before the opening date and time and, as

part of that registration, require bidders to agree to any terms,

conditions or other requirements of the solicitation or applicable

acts;

4. The authorization for the municipality or public trust to

also require potential bidders to prequalify as bidders and to

restrict solicitations to prequalified online and reverse auction

bidders;

5. The retention of the authority of the municipality or public

trust to determine the criteria that will be used as the basis for

making awards; and

6. The authorization for the municipality or public trust to

determine it is in the best interest of the municipality or public

trust to allow it to accept an electronic bid after the specified

official closing date and time, in the event the municipality or

public trust determines that a significant error or event occurred

that affected the electronic receipt of any reverse auction bid by

the municipality or public trust.

C. All bids submitted electronically through the reverse

auction bidding process pursuant to this section are subject to the

same public disclosure laws that govern bids received pursuant to

any other law of this state governing procurement procedures for a

municipality or public trust.

D. All remedies available to the municipality or public trust

and suppliers through a bid process pursuant to any other law of

this state are also available to the municipality or public trust

reverse auction bidders in a reverse auction bidding process.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-302 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-302
Application of other provisions of law
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 29-101 through 29-115 of Title 11 of

the Oklahoma Statutes relating to paid fire departments, paid fire

chiefs, paid firefighters or fire department equipment or other

property shall also apply to combination fire departments unless

otherwise noted.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-28-125 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-28-125
Costs
Status: in_force

When a person is convicted of a violation of any ordinance of

the city, the cost of prosecution shall be taxed against such person

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as a part of the penalty and said penalty shall be enforced as

provided in this article. The governing body of the city shall have

the power to specify a schedule of costs, including witness fees, to

be taxed in cases wherein a violation of a city ordinance is

charged.

Costs of the prosecution shall be taxed against a person when

the penalty assessed said person is a deferred sentence in the same

manner as costs are taxed against an individual for a violation of

any other ordinance of the city.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-42-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-42-109
Replatting of vacated plat - Effect on rights-of-way
Status: in_force

and restrictive covenants - Reversion of fee.

A. The owner of any lot in a plat which has been vacated by

decree or written instrument may cause the same and a proportionate

part of adjacent public ways and public grounds to be replatted and

numbered by a registered land surveyor. The owner of any platted

lot or lots may replat the lot or lots without necessity of vacating

the initial plat or applicable portion thereof if such action is not

prohibited by any restrictive covenants encumbering the lots. A

replat shall not be deemed a vacation of the initial plat nor affect

any preexisting public ways, utility easements or rights-of-way. A

replat or a vacation of a plat shall not be deemed a termination of

any restrictive covenants which are otherwise enforceable. When a

replat is acknowledged by the owner and bears the approval of the

municipality in which the plat is situated and is recorded in the

office of the county clerk of the county in which the plat is

located, the lots may be conveyed and assessed by the numbers given

them on the plat.

B. When any part of a plat has been vacated by decree or

written instrument, the owners of the lots so vacated may enclose

the public ways and public grounds adjoining the lots in equal

proportion.

C. Nothing contained in this article shall operate to preclude

a fee from reverting to its owner when a public right-of-way is

vacated in law or in fact.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-28-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-28-108
Reporter
Status: in_force

A. The presiding judge of the municipal criminal court of

record may recommend to the governing body of the city the

appointment of a suitable and proper person as court reporter, whose

duty it shall be to correctly take and record all of the testimony

and proceedings had upon the trial or cases when required by either

party. The city governing body shall fix the compensation to be

allowed the court reporter. Such reporter may also perform such

other clerical duties as the city governing body and judge and clerk

of the court may require and shall have power to certify all

transcripts and records of evidence and proceedings taken by him.

B. The court reporter, before entering upon the duties of his

or her office, shall be duly sworn in open court faithfully to

perform the duties of the office.

C. The reporter shall not receive any fees from the city other

than salary but shall receive the same fees for transcribing the

testimony and proceedings from other parties that are received by

reporters of the district court for like services.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-107 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-107
Limitation of council authority to act through city
Status: in_force

manager.

Except for the purposes of inquiry, the council and its members

shall deal with the administrative service of the city solely

through the city manager. The council and its members may not:

1. Direct or request the city manager or other authority to

appoint or remove officers or employees;

2. Participate in any manner in the appointment or removal of

officers and employees of the city, except as provided by law; or

3. Give orders on ordinary administrative matters to any

subordinate of the city manager either publicly or privately.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-56-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-56-108
Financial interest statements
Status: in_force

All candidates for municipal office and all elected municipal

officers shall be required to file a statement of financial

interests with the Ethics Commission subject to the same

requirements as set forth for candidates for state office required

to file statements of financial interests under Rules of the Ethics

Commission promulgated pursuant to Section 3 of Article XXIX of the

Oklahoma Constitution including, but not limited to, time for filing

and contents.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-21-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-21-106
Failure to grant request in annexation petition -
Status: in_force

Filing in district court.

If the governing body fails to grant the request contained in a

petition for annexation within thirty (30) days after the last

publication of the notice, or refuses to grant the request, the

petitioners may file their petition with the clerk of the district

court in the county in which the situs of the municipal government

is located. Notice of the filing shall be served upon a deputy

municipal clerk and upon the mayor together with a notice of the

time and place that the district court will hear the petition. The

notice must be given at least ten (10) days before the date of the

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hearing. The hearing on the petition may be held at a regular or

special term of the district court or by the court in vacation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-41-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-41-106
Approval by municipal governing body before plat is
Status: in_force

recorded.

Before any plan, plat or replat of land within the corporate

limits of a municipality shall be entitled to record in the office

of the county clerk, it must be approved by the municipal governing

body. No plan, plat or replat may be received or recorded in any

public office unless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or

otherwise, the approval of the municipal governing body. The

disapproval of any plan, plat or replat by the municipal governing

body shall be deemed a refusal of any proposed dedication shown

thereon.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-20-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-20-101
Review of wards after each federal census
Status: in_force

A. As soon as practicable following each federal census, the

municipal governing body shall review the wards and ward boundaries

of the municipality. The governing body shall change the boundaries

or number of wards, if necessary, in the manner provided by this

article, so that the wards are formed of compact and contiguous

territory and are substantially equal in population.

B. The municipal governing body, to the extent practicable,

shall not subdivide precincts established by a county election board

in establishing ward or council boundaries.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-113 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-47-113
Scope of control of subdivisions - Review of plats
Status: in_force

After a city planning commission is organized, all maps, plats,

replats, and subdivisions of land into lots, blocks, streets and

alleys shall be submitted to the commission, and no map or plat of

land within the jurisdiction of the commission shall be filed or

recorded until it shall have been approved by the commission and the

approval entered in writing on the plat by the chairman or secretary

of the commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-11-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-11-108
Powers vested in council - Designated powers
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this article, all powers of a

statutory strong-mayor-council city, including the determination of

all matters of policy, shall be vested in the council. Without

limitation of the foregoing, the council may:

1. Enact municipal legislation suject to such limitations as

may now or hereafter be imposed by the Oklahoma Constitution and

law;

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2. Raise revenue, make appropriations, regulate salaries and

wages, and all other fiscal affairs of the city, subject to such

limitations as may now or hereafter be imposed by the Oklahoma

Constitution and law;

3. Inquire into the conduct of any office, department or agency

of the city, and investigate municipal affairs, or to authorize and

provide for such inquiries and investigations;

4. Appoint or elect and remove its own subordinates, members of

commissions and boards, and other quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial

or advisory officers and authorities as provided by law, or

prescribe the method of appointing or electing and removing them;

and

5. Create, change and abolish offices, departments and agencies

other than those established by law, and assign additional functions

and duties to offices, departments and agencies established by this

article.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-39-111 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-39-111
Filing of objections to assessment - Waiver of
Status: in_force

objection - Hearings - Levy of assessment - Ordinance.

A. Not later than three (3) days before the date of the hearing

on the assessment roll, any owner of a tract or parcel of land which

is listed on the assessment roll may file his specific objections to

the amount of the assessment in writing with the city clerk. Unless

presented as required in this subsection, any objection is deemed

waived as to the regularity, validity and correctness of:

1. The proceedings;

2. The assessment roll;

3. Each assessment contained on the assessment roll; or

4. The amount of the assessment levied against each tract or

parcel of land.

B. At the hearing, the governing body shall hear all objections

which have been filed as provided in this section and may recess the

hearing from time to time and, by resolution, revise, correct,

confirm or set aside any assessment and order another assessment be

made de novo.

C. The governing body by ordinance shall by reference to such

assessment roll, or assessment roll as modified, if modified, and as

confirmed by resolution, levy the assessments contained in the

assessment roll. The decision, resolution and ordinance of the

governing body shall be:

1. A final determination of the regularity, validity and

correctness of the proceedings, the assessment roll, each assessment

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contained on the assessment roll, the amount of the assessment

levied against each tract or parcel of land; and

2. Conclusive upon the owners of the tract or parcel of land

assessed.

D. Within fifteen (15) days after the publication or posting of

the ordinance, any owner who has filed an objection as provided in

this section may commence an action in district court to correct or

set aside the determination of the governing body. After the lapse

of fifteen (15) days after the publication or posting of the

ordinance, all actions, which include the defense of confiscation or

attack the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings,

the assessment roll, each assessment contained on the assessment

roll, and the amount of the assessment levied against each tract or

parcel of land, are perpetually barred.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-112 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-112
Cancellation or denial of driving privileges for
Status: in_force

noncompliance with municipal court sentence.

A. As used in this section:

1. "Department" means the Department of Public Safety;

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2. "Notification form" means a form prescribed by the

Department which contains a statement from the court that the person

has failed to satisfy the sentence of the court. It shall include

the name, date of birth, physical description, and the driver

license number, if any, of the person;

3. "Reinstatement form" means a form prescribed by the

Department which contains a statement from the court that the person

has satisfied the sentence of the court. It shall include

sufficient information to identify the person to the Department;

4. "Sentence" means any order of the court to pay a fine,

penalty assessment or costs or to carry out a term of community

service or other remedial action.

B. When any person under the age of eighteen (18) years fails

or refuses to satisfy a sentence of a municipal court, the court

shall notify the Department. Upon receipt of the notification form

from the court, the Department shall cancel or deny all driving

privileges of the person without a hearing until the person

satisfies the sentence of the court.

C. When the person fulfills the sentence of the court, the

court or court clerk shall provide a reinstatement form to such

person either directly or by first class mail, postage prepaid, at

the last address given by the person to the court. The driving

privileges of a person who furnishes a reinstatement form to the

Department shall be granted or reinstated, if the person is

otherwise eligible, in accordance with law. Upon such granting or

reinstatement of driving privileges, the Department may remove any

record of the denial or cancellation of driving privileges as

provided for in this section from the file of the person and

maintain an internal record of the denial or cancellation for fiscal

or other purposes.

D. At the time of sentencing the person, the court may take

custody of the driver's license of the person until the terms of the

sentence are fulfilled. In such case, the court shall issue to the

person a receipt for the license. Additionally, the court may

notify the parents or other custodian of the person of the terms of

the sentence or any notice to the Department.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-108
Codification of municipal ordinances
Status: repealed

A. The governing body of a municipality may, from time to time,

authorize a codification of its ordinances. Such a code may be kept

up to date by use of a loose-leaf system and process of amendment.

In a code of municipal ordinances, the title, enacting clauses and

emergency sections may be omitted and temporary and special

ordinances and parts of ordinances may also be omitted. Permanent

and general ordinances and parts of ordinances which are to be

repealed by the code shall be omitted from the code. The ordinances

and parts of ordinances included in the code may be revised,

rearranged, renumbered, and reorganized into some systematic

arrangement. The governing body may publish in connection with the

code new matter, provisions of state law relating to the

municipality, a history of the municipality, the history of the

municipal government, the names of officials and other informational

matter as the governing body may decide. The book or pamphlet

containing the code may also contain an index and forms and

instructions as the governing body may decide.

B. At least three copies of the code shall be kept in the

office of the municipal clerk for public use, inspection and

examination. The municipal clerk shall keep copies of the code for

distribution or sale at a reasonable price.

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C. Notice of the publication of the code shall be in the manner

provided for publication by title of certain codes and ordinances in

subsection A of Section 14-107 of this title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-28-113 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-28-113
Commencement of prosecution - Style – Procedure –
Status: in_force

Schedule of fines.

A. All prosecutions commenced in a municipal criminal court of

record shall be by information, pursuant to Section 16-108 of Title

47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for traffic offenses and by information

as in the district courts in other cases, which shall be subscribed

by the person making complaint and shall be verified before a judge,

the court clerk, or a deputy court clerk. All prosecutions for the

violation of municipal ordinances shall be styled, "The City of

_______ (naming the municipality) vs. __________ (naming the person

or persons charged)".

B. Upon receipt of a traffic ticket or complaint by the court

clerk, other than a traffic ticket which has been signed by the

arrested person as a plea of guilty, the court clerk shall either

prepare a copy of the ticket or complaint and deliver the original

or duplicate original to the municipal attorney, or record the

ticket on a list maintained in the clerk's office and deliver the

ticket to the municipal attorney for his disposition. After

disposition of the ticket by the municipal attorney, the name shall

be removed from the list by the court clerk. A traffic ticket or

complaint that is certified by the arresting officer, the

complainant, or the municipal attorney, shall constitute an

information against the person arrested and served with the traffic

ticket or complaint. The ticket or complaint shall be endorsed by

the municipal attorney before it is filed with the court clerk;

except if the person arrested and served with a traffic ticket or

complaint either at the time he is arrested or at a subsequent time

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shall indicate in writing on the ticket or complaint, above his

signature, that he elects to plead guilty to the violation charged,

the traffic ticket or complaint shall be filed with the court clerk,

as an information, without the endorsement of the municipal

attorney, and it shall be the duty of the court clerk to notify the

municipal attorney as to the fact of such filing.

C. The municipal governing body, by ordinance, may prescribe a

schedule of fines for nonjury cases which a defendant may pay in

lieu of an appearance before the municipal court, and such payment

shall constitute a final determination of the cause against the

defendant; provided, however, this subsection shall not apply to

those offenses for which the penalty is a fine of more than Five

Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-1-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-1-103
Saving vested rights
Status: repealed

The provisions of this act shall not in any manner affect the

rights, liability or right of action, civil or criminal, for or

against any municipality in any action commenced before the

effective date of this act. The adoption of this act shall not be

construed to repeal or in any way affect or modify:

1. Any substantive or fixed right;

2. Any law authorizing the issuance of any outstanding bonds of

any municipality;

3. Any law pursuant to which special assessments or rates or

charges of any nature levied by any municipality which have not been

paid in full, principal, interest, and any penalties; or

4. The running of any statute of limitation in force at the

time this act becomes effective.

All incomplete proceedings had and taken under any law hereby

repealed or amended in the acquisition or improvement of any

municipal project, the holding of any election, the creation of any

special assessment or other district, the levy and collection of any

taxes, special assessments, rates or charges of any sort, or the

issuance of any bond or other security appertaining to a municipal

project, any contract for the purchase of any such bonds or

securities, which proceedings are in substantial compliance

herewith, may, at the option of the municipal governing body, be

completed hereunder the same as if such incomplete proceedings had

been had and taken pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-11-125 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-11-125
Removal of employees in classified service - Procedure
Status: in_force

Whenever the mayor or other authority lays off, suspends without

pay, demotes or removes an officer or employee in the classified

service who has completed a probationary period of six (6) months,

the following procedure shall apply:

1. The mayor or other appointing authority shall deliver, or

mail by certified mail, a written statement of the causes for the

layoff, suspension, demotion or removal to the officer or employee

not later than three (3) days after the effective date of the

personnel action;

2. The officer or employee may appeal the action to the

personnel board. The appeal must be in writing, and must be filed

with the secretary or chairman of the personnel board within ten

(10) days after the effective date of the layoff, suspension,

demotion or removal;

3. The personnel board shall hold a public hearing on the

appeal, or give an adequate opportunity therefor, as soon as

practicable after an appeal has been filed;

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4. The personnel board shall report in writing its findings and

recommendations to the mayor, where the appellant is a subordinate

of the mayor, or to the respective authority having power of

removal; and

5. The mayor or other authority having power of removal shall

make the final decision in writing regarding the appellant's layoff,

suspension, demotion or removal; but if the personnel board finds to

its satisfaction that the layoff, suspension, demotion, or removal

was made for a political reason or for any reason other than the

good of the service, it shall veto the layoff, suspension, demotion

or removal, and the action by the mayor or other authority shall be

nullified thereby.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-27-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-27-101
Creation of municipal court not of record
Status: in_force

A municipality may create a Municipal Court, as provided in this

article, which shall be a court not of record. This court may be

created in addition to a Municipal Criminal Court of Record.

References in Sections 27-101 through 27-131 of this title to the

municipal court shall mean the municipal court not of record

established under the authority of the provisions of this article.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-121 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-47-121
Building line ordinance
Status: in_force

After any plan for major streets, or portions thereof, has been

prepared and adopted by a city planning commission, the council

shall be authorized and empowered to establish, regulate and limit

building or setback lines on such major streets by ordinance and to

prohibit any new building being located within the building or

setback lines, and to amend such regulations from time to time.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-100.6 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-100.6
Executive Director - Employees - Acceptance of gifts
Status: in_force

and gratuities - Actuary - Legal services.

A. The State Board shall appoint an Executive Director.

Subject to the policy direction of the State Board, the Executive

Director shall be the managing and administrative officer of the

System and as such shall have charge of the office, records, and

supervision and direction of the employees of the System.

B. The Executive Director shall recommend to the State Board

the administrative organization, the number and qualifications of

employees necessary to carry out the intent of this article, and the

policy direction of the State Board. Upon approval of the

organizational plan by the State Board, the Executive Director may

employ such persons as are deemed necessary to administer this

article.

C. The members of the State Board, the Executive Director and

the employees of the System shall not accept gifts or gratuities

from an individual organization with a value in excess of the amount

per year permitted by the Ethics Commission for all state officials

and employees pursuant to Rule 257:20-1-9(b) of the Ethics

Commission Rules. The provisions of this section shall not be

construed to prevent the members of the State Board, the Executive

Director or the employees of the System from attending educational

seminars, conferences, meetings or similar functions which are paid

for, directly or indirectly, by more than one organization.

D. The State Board may select and retain a qualified actuary

who shall serve at its pleasure as its technical advisor or

consultant on matters regarding the operation of the System. The

actuary may at the direction of the State Board:

1. Make an annual valuation of the liabilities and reserves of

the System, and a determination of the contributions required by the

System to discharge its liabilities and administrative costs under

this article, and recommend to the State Board rates of employer

contributions required to establish and maintain the System on an

adequate reserve basis;

2. As soon after the effective date of this act or as deemed

necessary by the State Board, make a general investigation of the

actuarial experience under the System, including mortality,

retirement, employment turnover, and interest, and recommend

actuarial tables for use in valuations and in calculating actuarial

equivalent values based on such investigation; and

3. Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the State

Board.

E. The State Board shall retain an attorney licensed to

practice law in this state. The attorney shall serve at the

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pleasure of the State Board for such compensation as set by the

State Board. The Attorney General of the state shall furnish such

legal services as may be required by the State Board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-201 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-201
Authorization to establish lines and facilities - Joint
Status: in_force

efforts - Acceptance of grants.

The municipal governing body may:

1. Authorize the construction of mains, submains and laterals

for sewers, also ditches, drains, conduits, pipelines and channels

for sanitary and drainage purposes, or either or both thereof, with

lift stations, outlets, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks,

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connecting sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, channels and other

appurtenances in, under, over or through any street, or any land of

the municipality or any right-of-way granted or obtained for such

purpose, either within or without the limits of the municipality;

2. Authorize the construction of mains, submains and laterals

for water distribution lines, water distribution systems or

waterworks, and water supply facilities for same; also ditches,

canals, channels, conduits, pipelines and siphons, together with the

necessary or usual appurtenances for carrying storm water or water

from irrigation ditches, water courses, streams, springs, wells,

lakes, treating plants or other sources of supply into, through or

out of the municipality in, under, over or through any street or any

land of the municipality or any right-of-way granted or obtained for

such purpose, either within or without the limits of the

municipality;

3. Join with other municipalities or any improvement district

or sanitary district of the state, or any of its departments or

agencies, the federal government or any of its departments, agencies

or instrumentalities, as may be provided by law, in the

construction, operation or maintenance of improvements authorized by

the provisions of Sections 37-201 through 37-234 of this title; and

4. Accept from the state, or federal government, or any agency,

department or instrumentality of either, grants for or in aid of the

construction or engineering planning of any of the improvements

provided herein, and enter into contracts with the state, the

federal government, or any agency, department or instrumentality of

either or both, for the construction or supervision of construction

by the state, the federal government, or any agency, department or

instrumentality, for either or both of any such improvements, in

accordance with the plans, specifications, rules and regulations of

the state, the federal government, or any agency, department or

instrumentality or either or both, but reserving to the municipality

the right to assess against the property benefited by the

improvement and located within the municipality, that portion of the

cost of the improvement which does not qualify for aid under the

state or federal grant.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-115 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-115
Publication of income or loss statement and balance
Status: in_force

sheet.

Every private entity, organization, corporation or company

providing fire protection services to a municipality shall, within

ninety (90) days after the end of its fiscal year, publish one

insertion in a legal newspaper that services that municipality.

Such insertion shall be a statement of income or loss and a balance

sheet that relates only to the fire protection services being

provided to the municipality. The statement shall be prepared in

conformance with generally accepted accounting principles along with

an opinion of fair presentation by a certified public accountant.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-218 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-218
Assessment record
Status: in_force

As soon as the assessing ordinance is adopted, the municipal

clerk shall prepare a book which shall be known as the Street

Assessment Record in which he shall enter:

1. The names of each person owning the land to be assessed as

ascertained from the records of the county, or in case the name of

the owner is not known, a statement to that effect;

2. A description of the lot, tract or subdivision;

3. A blank space for entering the amount of the assessment; and

4. A suitable column for entering the payments which may be

made from time to time on account of the assessment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-121 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-121
Amount of first warrant pursuant to Section 49-120 -
Status: in_force

Eligibility of receive funds.

The amount of the first warrant drawn by the State Treasurer

pursuant to Section49-120 of this title shall never be less than

Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Any municipality having a

firefighting apparatus of a value of not less than One Thousand

Dollars ($1,000.00), may qualify and receive the benefits of the

funds made available by the provisions of Section 49-120 of this

title, by meeting all the other requirements thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-28-122 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-28-122
Trial Docket - Criminal courts to observe certain
Status: in_force

holidays.

A. The trial docket of the municipal criminal court of record

shall be prepared and set by order of the presiding judge at such

times and in such manner as he or she may prescribe.

B. Municipal criminal courts of record shall remain closed on

those holidays declared by the governing body of the municipality on

which the municipal offices shall be closed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-206 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-206
Protests - Determination of sufficiency - Effect of
Status: in_force

protests on the improvement.

A. Protests which have been filed in accordance with Section

36-204 of this title shall be heard and considered at the hearing on

the proposed improvement. The hearing may be continued from time to

time so that all protestants may be heard.

B. The findings of the governing body as to the sufficiency or

insufficiency of any protest shall be conclusive and binding for all

purposes and against all persons. At any hearing on such protests,

the governing body may compel the attendance of witnesses under oath

to determine the sufficiency thereof, and no action or suit to

question the findings of the governing body on the sufficiency of

the protests shall be commenced later than fifteen (15) days after

the finding.

C. Any number of streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or other

public places, or parts thereof, to be improved may be included in

the resolution of necessity; but protests or objections shall be

made and considered separately as to each street or way. For the

purpose of protest, disconnected parts of the same street shall be

treated as separate streets.

D. If any street, avenue, lane, alley, or other public place,

or part thereof, has been protested by the owners of more than fifty

percent (50%) of the land liable to assessment for the improvement,

the municipal governing body shall not include the same in

proceedings hereunder for a period of six (6) months except upon

petition by the owners as provided in Section 36-202 of this title.

E. If sufficient protests are filed as to any one or more of

such streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or public places, or parts

thereof, the same shall be eliminated from the proceedings, but the

other streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or other public places, or

parts thereof, as to which sufficient protests have not been filed

shall not be affected thereby.

F. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this section, when

a section of any street or avenue included in the resolution of

necessity does not exceed two (2) blocks, and does not exceed one

thousand (1,000) feet in length and at the ends or limits of the

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section to be improved there is paving already constructed on and

along the street or avenue to be improved, the governing body may

cause such improvement to be constructed and to charge the cost

thereof to the property liable for assessment as herein provided

regardless of the number of protests that are filed against the

proposed improvement of such section, street or avenue.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-225 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-225
Due date of first installment - Payment of assessments
Status: in_force

- Interest on delinquent installments.

A. The first installment of the assessment, together with

interest upon the whole assessment from the date of the passage of

the assessing ordinance to the first day of the next September,

shall be due and payable in cash on or before the first day of

September next succeeding the passage of the assessing ordinance. If

the assessing ordinance is not passed prior to the first day of July

in any year, the first installment of the assessment shall be due

and payable in cash with interest from the date of the passage of

the assessing ordinance to the first day of September of the

following year.

B. The assessments shall be payable as the several installments

become due, together with the interest thereon, to the municipal

clerk, who shall give proper receipts for the payments, and credit

the payments upon the Assessment Record. In case any installment or

interest is not paid when due, the installment so matured and unpaid

and the unpaid interest thereon shall draw interest at the rate of

twelve percent (12%) per annum from maturity until paid, except as

otherwise provided.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-100.4 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-100.4
Meetings - Special meetings - Notice - Quorum - Per
Status: in_force

diem - Expenses.

A. The State Board shall hold regular meetings in Oklahoma City

at least once each quarter, the dates, time, and place to be fixed

by the State Board. The State Board shall hold a regular meeting in

July of each year which meeting shall be the annual meeting at which

it shall elect its Chairman. Special meetings may be called upon

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written call of the Chairman or by agreement of any eight (8)

members of the State Board. Notice of a special meeting shall be

delivered to all State Board members in person or by registered or

certified United States mail not less than seven (7) days prior to

the date fixed for the meeting; provided, however, that notice of

such meeting may be waived by any member either before or after such

meeting and attendance at such meeting shall constitute a waiver of

notice of such meeting, unless a member participates therein solely

to object to the transaction of any business because the meeting has

not been legally called or convened.

B. Seven (7) State Board members shall constitute a quorum for

the transaction of business, but any official action of the State

Board shall be based upon a favorable vote by at least seven (7)

State Board members at a regular or special meeting of the State

Board.

C. Members shall receive per diem at the rate of Twenty-five

Dollars ($25.00) per day for each day in session and shall be

reimbursed for necessary expenditures including mileage to and from

meetings in accordance with the State Travel Reimbursement Act,

which shall be paid as an operating expense from the appropriate

operating fund of the System.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-48-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-48-106
Authorization to enact necessary ordinances
Status: in_force

The municipal governing body may enact any and all ordinances

necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-51-104a — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-51-104a
Employees - Duties and compensation - Operating
Status: in_force

expenditures.

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services, in cooperation

with the Chairman of the Public Employees Relations Board, is

authorized to appoint and fix the duties and compensation of

employees necessary to perform the responsibilities imposed upon the

Public Employees Relations Board by law. The Office of Management

and Enterprise Services is authorized to initiate or accept and

process claims for personal services, consulting services, supplies,

equipment, and other operating expenditures essential to the

accomplishment of the duties imposed upon the Public Employees

Relations Board by law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-26-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-26-105
Rules and ordinances - Penalties and fines
Status: in_force

The governing body may pass rules and ordinances to regulate,

protect, and govern the cemetery, the owners of the lots therein,

visitors therein, and to punish trespassers therein. The governing

body may limit the number of lots which may be owned by one person,

corporation or association at the same time, and may prescribe rules

for enclosing, adorning and erecting monuments and tombstones on

cemetery lots; but no religious test shall be made as to the

ownership of lots, the burial therein, or the ornamentation of

graves or lots. The governing body may prohibit any division of the

use of lots and any improper adornment thereof. The officers of the

municipality shall have full jurisdiction and power to enforce such

rules and ordinances as if they related to the municipality itself.

Penalties and fines not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or

thirty (30) days in jail may be imposed for violation of such rules

and ordinances.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-22-109.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-22-109.1
Location of adult novelty shops
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 157

A. As used in this act:

1. "Adult novelty shop" means a commercial establishment that

displays, sells, or offers for sale instruments, devices, or

paraphernalia designed or marketed primarily for use to stimulate

human genital organs or for use in connection with sadomasochistic

practices; and

2. "Sadomasochistic practices" means flagellation or torture by

or upon a person clothed or naked, or the condition of being

fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained on the part of

one so clothed or naked.

B. The location of an adult novelty shop shall be subject to

the nondiscriminatory zoning ordinances of the town or city in which

located, and the location of such entities is specifically

prohibited within one thousand (1,000) feet of:

1. Any building primarily and regularly used for worship

services and religious activities;

2. Any public or private school;

3. Any public park or playground;

4. Any public library; or

5. Any land zoned or used for residential purposes.

Provided, that if any such building used for worship and

religious activities, any public or private school, any public park

or playground, any public library or any land zoned or used for

residential purposes shall be established within one thousand

(1,000) feet of any such premises after the premises have been

established, this shall not be a bar to the continuation of the

business so long as it has been in continuous force and effect. The

distance indicated in this subsection shall be measured from the

nearest property line of such church or school to the nearest public

entrance door of the premises of the adult novelty shop along the

street right-of-way line providing the nearest direct route usually

traveled by pedestrians between such points. For purposes of

determining measured distance, property situated on the opposite

side of the street from such church or school shall be considered as

if it were located on the same side of the street with such church

or school.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-12-103.2 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-12-103.2
Notice of at large election of trustees - Ballot -
Status: in_force

Candidate elected.

A. Whenever the trustees of a town are to be nominated and

elected at large, the notice of election shall state the number of

trustees to be elected for four-year terms and the number of

trustees to be elected to fill unexpired terms, if any. Candidates

for the office of trustee shall state on the declaration of

candidacy the term of the office being sought.

B. The ballot shall state the number of offices of trustee to

be filled for each designated term and that the voters shall vote

for the number of offices to be filled.

C. The candidate who receives a plurality of the votes cast for

the office of trustee for the designated term shall be elected for

that designated term. If more than one office of trustee is to be

filled for a designated term, the candidates receiving the largest

pluralities shall be elected to those offices.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-27-129 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-27-129
Appeals
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 252

A. An appeal may be taken from a final judgment of the

municipal court by the defendant by filing in the district court in

the county where the situs of the municipal government is located,

within ten (10) days from the date of the final judgment, a notice

of appeal and by filing a copy of the notice with the municipal

court. In case of an appeal, a trial de novo shall be had, and

there shall be a right to a jury trial if the sentence imposed for

the offense was a fine of more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00),

plus costs, fees, and assessments.

B. Upon conviction, at the request of the defendant, or upon

notice of appeal being filed, the judge of the municipal court shall

enter an order on the docket fixing an amount in which bond may be

given by the defendant, in cash or sureties for cash in an amount of

not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than twice the

amount of such fine. Bond shall be taken by the clerk of the court

wherein judgment was rendered. Any pledge of sureties must be

approved by a judge of the court.

C. Upon appeal being filed the judge shall within ten (10) days

thereafter certify to the clerk of the appellate court the original

papers in the case. If the papers have not been certified to the

appellate court, the prosecuting attorney shall take the necessary

steps to have the papers certified to the appellate court within

twenty (20) days of the filing of the notice of appeal, and failure

to do so, except for good cause shown, shall be grounds for

dismissal of the charge by the appellate court, the cost to be taxed

to the municipality. The certificate shall state whether or not the

municipal judge hearing the case was a licensed attorney in

Oklahoma.

D. All proceedings necessary to carry the judgment into effect

shall be had in the appellate court.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-107 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-107
Primary elections - When held
Status: in_force

A primary election shall be held in cities and towns on the

second Tuesday of February in each odd-numbered year, at which time

the several political parties shall nominate candidates for offices

which are to be elected at the upcoming general municipal election.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-101A — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-101A
Physically disabled parking and access - Construction
Status: reserved

and signage.

A. Cities and towns are hereby authorized to construct and

provide parking spaces, curb cuts, ramps and signage for physically

disabled parking and access for use in conjunction with facilities,

both public and private, open to the general public. The city or

town may bear the cost of such construction, or at the option of the

city or town and the owner of such facilities, share the cost of

such construction with the owner of such facilities.

B. Beginning January 1, 2010, the posted signage for every

parking space that is designated and posted as a reserved area for

the parking of a motor vehicle operated by or transporting a

physically disabled person shall display sign R7-8, as provided in

the latest edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

published by the Federal Highway Administration of the United States

Department of Transportation, which includes the words “RESERVED

PARKING” and the blue and white international symbol of access.

Van-accessible physically disabled reserved parking spaces shall

also display sign R7-8a immediately below sign R7-8. Municipalities

shall adopt ordinances in compliance with this subsection by January

1, 2010. The provisions of this section shall be considered an

addition to any federal or state law, rule or regulation regarding

the signage requirements for physically disabled parking spaces and

shall not limit or amend any other applicable laws, rules or

regulations.

C. The blue and white international symbol of access,

accompanied by appropriate language including, but not limited to,

“Handicapped Parking”, “Reserved for Handicapped” and “Permit

Required-Towing Enforced” may be used in lieu of sign R7-8 if the

sign was erected prior to January 1, 2010.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-505 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-505
Activities of wireless providers within right-of-way
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this section shall apply to activities of

the wireless provider within the right-of-way.

B. A person owning, managing or controlling authority poles in

the right-of-way may not enter into an exclusive arrangement with

any person for the right to attach to such poles. A person who

purchases or otherwise acquires an authority pole is subject to the

requirements of this section.

C. An authority shall allow the collocation of small wireless

facilities on authority poles subject to the application process in

Section 4 of this act and the make-ready process in this section.

The rates, fees and terms for such collocations shall be

nondiscriminatory regardless of the services provided by the

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 362

collocating person, comply with this act and be made available to

wireless providers under Section 10 of this act.

D. The rates, fees and terms and conditions for the make-ready

work to collocate on an authority pole described in the application

shall be nondiscriminatory, competitively neutral and commercially

reasonable and must comply with this act. The authority may perform

the make-ready work necessary to enable the pole to support the

requested collocation by a wireless provider or require the wireless

provider to perform the make-ready work. If the authority elects to

perform the make-ready work, it shall provide a good-faith estimate

for the work, including pole replacement if necessary, within sixty

(60) days after receipt of a complete application. The authority

shall complete any make-ready work it elects to perform, including

any pole replacement, within sixty (60) days of written acceptance

of the good-faith estimate by the applicant. An authority may

require replacement of the authority pole only if it demonstrates

that the collocation would make the authority pole structurally

unsound. The authority may require that the replaced authority pole

have the same functionality as the pole being replaced. If the

authority pole is replaced, the authority shall take ownership of

the new pole and operate authority fixtures on the pole.

The person owning, managing or controlling the authority pole

shall not require more make-ready work than required to meet

applicable codes or industry standards. Fees for make-ready work

shall not include costs related to preexisting or prior damage or

noncompliance. Fees for make-ready work including any pole

replacement shall be reasonable and nondiscriminatory and shall not

exceed actual costs, which may include the amount the authority pays

a professional engineer registered in Oklahoma to review the

wireless provider's make-ready work plans.

E. A wireless provider shall comply with the following

requirements and specifications:

1. Requirements and specifications of the National Electrical

Safety Code, the National Electrical Code and the Occupational

Safety and Health Act, including amendments or revisions to such

requirements or specifications, and in the event of conflict, the

most stringent of such requirements and specifications;

2. Requirements and specifications of general application

adopted by the authority that do not conflict with this act,

including requirements and specifications that concern how equipment

shall be attached to electric distribution poles so they may be

climbed safely; and

3. Notwithstanding subsection D of this section, requirements

and specifications of general application adopted by the authority

concerning make-ready work for authority electric distribution

poles.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-201 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-201
Aldermanic cities with one councilmember per ward -
Status: in_force

Officers to be elected - Terms.

In a statutory aldermanic city with one (1) councilmember per

ward, the terms of the elected officers shall be staggered so that

at any one general municipal election, the following officers are to

be elected for four-year terms:

1. Councilmembers from odd-numbered wards;

2. The mayor;

3. The clerk;

4. The marshal; and

5. The street commissioner.

At the next general municipal election, the following officers

are to be elected for four-year terms:

1. Councilmembers from even-numbered wards; and

2. The treasurer.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 96

If the office of treasurer has been consolidated with any other

office, elections for the office of treasurer and the office with

which it has been consolidated shall be held at the time the

election to fill the other office is held. The term of the

consolidated office shall be concurrent with the term of the other

office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-4-102 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-4-102
Order calling for election on question - Notice
Status: in_force

Within thirty (30) days after filing the petition for

incorporation of a city, the board of county commissioners shall

call for an election for the purpose of submitting to the registered

voters of the proposed city the question of whether or not such town

or community of people shall become an incorporated city. The order

calling for the election shall name the date for the election and

shall be submitted to the secretary of the county election board for

the purpose of conducting the election. The order shall be

published in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed city

for a period of at least twenty (20) days prior to the election.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-122.4 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-122.4
Costs and expenses - Supplies and equipment
Status: in_force

A. All costs and expenses for the selection and compensation of

investment counselors, institutional custodian service and

commissions or other costs resulting from the purchase, sale or

other transfer of assets shall be paid from the fund.

B. Three percent (3%) of the funds disbursed to the State Board

under the provisions of Section 312.1 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall be retained by the State Board for the purpose of

paying all costs and expenses, other than those provided for in

subsection A of this section, incurred in the operation,

administration and management of the System. At the close of each

fiscal year, any surplus shall be transferred to the Oklahoma

Firefighters Pension and Retirement Fund.

C. The State Board is authorized to purchase such equipment and

supplies as it deems necessary for the efficient operation,

administration and management of the System. Payment for such

equipment and supplies shall be made from the operating funds of the

System.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-13-113 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-13-113
Charter revocation - Canvassing returns - Proclamation
Status: in_force

of Governor - Election of officers.

The secretary of the county election board shall, within five

(5) days after the canvass of the returns of the election, certify

to the Governor the results of the vote on the question. If a

majority of the votes cast are in favor of revoking the charter, the

Governor, within twenty (20) days after receiving the certification,

shall issue a proclamation stating that the municipality has revoked

its charter and adopted the statutory form of municipal government

specified in the question. The proclamation of the Governor shall

also direct the governing body of the municipality to divide the

municipality into the number of wards required and to hold primary

and general elections in the manner provided by the statutory form

of government which has been adopted. From the date of the

Governor's proclamation, the charter of the municipality shall be

revoked, and the municipality shall be governed under the laws

relating to the statutory form of government which the municipality

has adopted.Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 3
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-210 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-17-210
Protests - Failure to protest - Examination of filed
Status: in_force

budget.

Within fifteen (15) days after the filing of any municipal

budget with the State Auditor and Inspector, any taxpayer may file

protests against any levy of ad valorem taxes for creating sinking

funds in the manner provided by this section and Sections 24104

through 24111 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The fifteen-day

protest period begins upon the date the budget is received in the

Office of the State Auditor and Inspector. After receipt of a

taxpayer protest, the State Auditor and Inspector shall transmit by

certified mail one copy of each protest to the municipal clerk, and

one copy of each protest to the county treasurer and the excise

board of each county in which the municipality is located. The

taxpayer shall specify the grounds upon which the protest is based.

Any protest filed by any taxpayer shall inure to the benefit of all

taxpayers. Provided, the provisions of this section shall not delay

any budget expenditures of a municipality if the amount of revenue

from the ad valorem tax levy which is deposited in the municipal

general fund is less than five percent (5%) of the total revenue

accruing to the municipal general fund during the prior fiscal year.

If no protest is filed by any taxpayer within the fifteen-day

period, the budget and any appropriations thereof shall be deemed

legal and final until amended by the governing body or the county

excise board as authorized by law. Taxpayers shall have the right

at all reasonable times to examine the budget on file with the

municipal clerk or the State Auditor and Inspector for the purpose

of filing protests in accordance with this section and Sections

24104 through 24111 of Title 68.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-122 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-122
Contract with United States - Provisions authorized -
Status: in_force

Validation of existing contracts.

Any municipal governing body, or any agency, instrumentality or

public trust of which a municipality is beneficiary thereof, or

appropriate board or commission subject to the approval of the

municipal governing body, may enter into and do every act necessary

to carry out a contract with the United States of America or agency

thereof for furnishing a municipal water supply to the municipality,

all upon such terms as to use of water, payment therefor, and other

conditions as may be agreed upon between the United States or agency

thereof and the municipal governing body or any agency,

instrumentality or public trust of which a municipality is

beneficiary thereof. Incident to procuring a municipal water supply

in the manner provided herein, any contract authorized by this

section may provide for, but is not limited to, either or both of

the following:

1. The replacement or exchange of water or water rights; or

2. The transfer or conveyance by the municipality to the United

States of water, water rights, dams, easements or real or personal

property of any kind whatsoever needed by the United States in

connection with the construction or operation and maintenance of any

such irrigation project.

Any contract authorized by this section, heretofore entered into by

any municipality, is hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-51-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-51-109
Factors to be considered
Status: in_force

The arbitrators shall conduct the hearings and render their

decision upon the basis of a prompt, peaceful and just settlement of

all submitted disputes between the firefighters or police officers

and the corporate authorities. The factors, among others, to be

given weight by the arbitrators in arriving at a decision shall

include:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 698

1. Comparison of wage rates, insurance, retirement, other

fringe benefits or hourly conditions of employment of the fire

department or police department in question with prevailing wage

rates or hourly conditions of employment of skilled employees of the

building trades and industry in the local operating area involved;

2. Comparison of wage rates, insurance, retirement, other

fringe benefits or hourly conditions of employment of the fire

department or police department in question with wage rates or

hourly conditions of employment maintained for the same or similar

work of employees exhibiting like or similar skills under the same

or similar working conditions in the local operating area involved;

3. Comparison of wage rates, insurance, retirement, other

fringe benefits or hourly conditions of employment of the fire

department or police department in question with wage rates or

hourly conditions of employment of fire departments or police

departments in cities, towns or other political subdivisions of

comparable size and economic status both within and without the

State of Oklahoma;

4. Interest and welfare of the public and revenues available to

the municipality; or

5. Comparison of peculiarities of employment in regard to other

trades or professions, including specifically:

a. hazards of employment,

b. physical qualifications,

c. educational qualifications,

d. mental qualifications, and

e. job training and skills.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-117 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-117
City clerk - Creation and duties - Compensation
Status: in_force

The city clerk shall be an officer of the city, appointed by the

city manager for an indefinite term. The city clerk shall serve as

clerk for the council. Subject to regulations the council may

prescribe, the city clerk shall:

1. keep the journal of the proceedings of the council; and

2. enroll all ordinances and resolutions passed by the council

in a book or set of books kept for that purpose; and

3. have custody of documents, records, and archives, as may be

provided for by law or by ordinance, and have custody of the seal of

the city; and

4. attest and affix the seal of the city to documents as

required by law or by ordinance; and

5. have such other powers, duties, and functions related to his

statutory duties as may be prescribed by law or by ordinance. The

person who serves as city clerk may be employed by the city to

perform duties not related to his position as city clerk. The

salary, if any, for said duties shall be provided for separately by

ordinance.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-301 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-301
Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 15 of this act shall be known and may be

cited as the "Oklahoma Town Meeting Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-9-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-9-106
Mayor - Signing ordinances - Veto power
Status: in_force

The mayor may sign or veto any city ordinance or resolution

passed by the city council. Any ordinance or resolution vetoed by

the mayor may be passed over his veto by a vote of two-thirds (2/3)

of all the members of the council. If the mayor neglects or refuses

to sign any ordinance or return it with his objections in writing at

the next regular meeting of the council, the ordinance shall become

law without his signature.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-27-113 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-27-113
Procedure - Judicial notice of statutes and ordinances
Status: in_force

- Writs and process - Service of arrest warrant.

Except as otherwise provided for by law, the code of procedure

in the municipal court shall be the same as is provided for by law

for the trial of misdemeanors. The court shall take judicial notice

of state statutes and the ordinances of the municipality in which it

is located. Writs and processes of the court may be issued by the

judge or clerk thereof to any proper officer. All writs and

processes of the municipal court in which a violation of a municipal

ordinance is charged shall be directed to the chief of police of the

municipality, a county sheriff, or to some other appropriate peace

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 244

officer. A law enforcement officer of the municipality or county

sheriff may serve an arrest warrant issued by the municipal court

any place within this state. If the warrant is served by a county

sheriff, the municipality shall pay the Sheriff's Service Fee

Account a fee of Twenty Dollars ($20.00).
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-214 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-17-214
Funds - Operating reserve
Status: in_force

A municipality may create an operating reserve for the purpose

of providing a fund or reserve out of which to meet emergency

expenditures.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-40-106.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-40-106.1
Powers of redevelopment trust
Status: in_force

In order to carry out the purposes of this act, and any

redevelopment plan adopted by a city or town pursuant hereto, a

redevelopment trust may exercise all powers of a public trust

pursuant to the provisions of Sections 176 et seq. and 175.1 et seq.

of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-43-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-43-105
Amendments or changes of regulations, restrictions and
Status: repealed

boundaries - Protests.

A. Regulations, restrictions and district boundaries of

municipalities may be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or

repealed. The requirements of Section 43-104 of this title on

public hearings and notice shall apply to all proposed amendments or

changes to regulations, restrictions or district boundaries.

B. Protests against proposed changes shall be filed at least

three (3) days before the date of the public hearings. If protests

are filed by:

1. the owners of twenty percent (20%) or more of the area of

the lots included in a proposed change, or

2. the owners of fifty percent (50%) or more of the area of the

lots within a three hundred (300) foot radius of the exterior

boundary of the territory included in a proposed change;

then the proposed change or amendment shall not become effective

except by the favorable vote of three-fourths of all the members of

the municipal governing body where there are more than seven members

in the governing body, and by three-fifths favorable vote where

there are seven or less members in the governing body.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-22-122 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-22-122
Trees
Status: in_force

The municipal governing body may enact ordinances for the

purpose of regulating, planting and maintaining trees in the

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streets, avenues or public grounds of the municipality. Planting

and maintaining trees may also be petitioned for in the manner

provided for petitioning sidewalks; and the governing body may make

assessments and collect taxes in order to pay for planting and

maintaining trees in the manner provided for sidewalk assessments

and taxes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-26-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-26-103
Conveyance of cemetery lots - Abandoned lots
Status: in_force

A. As used in this section, “lot” means a tract of land as

defined in Section 1 of this act.

B. Lots in a municipal cemetery shall be conveyed by

certificate signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk,

under the seal of the municipality. The certificate shall show the

price for which the lots are sold and specify that the person to

whom it is issued is the owner of the lot or lots described therein

by number, as laid down in the plat, for the purpose of interment.

The certificate shall vest in the purchaser and heirs of the

purchaser a right to the lot or lots, for the sole purpose of

interment, under the regulations of the governing body or board of

cemetery trustees. The certificate shall be entitled to record in

the office of the county clerk of the county in which the lot is

situated without further acknowledgment, and the description of lots

by number shall be sufficient for the purpose of record. All

abandoned lots shall revert to the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-103.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-103.1
Withholding certain monies from city or town that
Status: in_force

fails to hold municipal election or biennial town meeting.

No monies shall be distributed pursuant to Section 1104 of Title

47 and Section 504 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes to any

incorporated city or town which has failed to hold a general or

special municipal election to elect officers as provided in Section

16-101 et seq. of this title or a biennial town meeting as provided

by the Oklahoma Town Meeting Act, on the dates required by law for

four (4) or more years, if a general or special municipal election,

or for two consecutive biennial town meetings. Such monies shall be

remitted to the county in which the incorporated city or town is

located and deposited to the county highway fund of that county to

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be used as otherwise provided by law. An incorporated city or town

shall henceforth send the county treasurer of the county in which it

is located a copy of the municipality's notice of a biennial town

meeting or resolution calling for its regular municipal elections,

whichever is appropriate. The copy of the resolution shall include

a notation by the county election board showing that the resolution

was received and the date it was received.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-9-116 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-9-116
Compensation of elective officers
Status: in_force

The compensation of all elective city officers shall be fixed by

ordinance.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-232 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-232
Delivery of bonds to contractor
Status: in_force

The cash prepayments and the bonds in the amount that may be

necessary for the purpose shall be turned over and delivered to the

contractor or assigns at par and accrued interest in payment of the

amount due in accordance with the terms of the contract, provided

that the contractor has paid to the municipal clerk all advertising,

engineering, appraising, right-of-way and easements and other costs,

including consulting attorneys fees and special attorney and audit

fees.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-18-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-18-103
Ballots - Certification of results - Order
Status: in_force

The question submitted to the registered voters of the

municipality shall be substantially in the following form:

Shall the City of ______ change to the statutory

___________ (name of proposed statutory form) form of city

government?

( ) Yes.

( ) No.

The secretary of the county election board shall, within five (5)

days after the canvass of returns, certify the results of the

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election on the question to the governing body. If a majority of

the votes cast are in favor of adopting the proposed form of

government, the governing body shall, within twenty (20) days after

receiving the certification, adopt a resolution stating that the

city has changed its form of government to the form adopted. The

governing body by ordinance shall divide the city into the number of

wards required under the statutory form of government which has been

adopted.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-27-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-27-105
Prohibition on change of venue - Disqualification of
Status: in_force

judge.

A. No change of venue shall be allowed from any municipal

court, but the judge of the municipal court may be disqualified

under the same terms and conditions as are now provided by law for

courts of record.

B. In the event of an ethical disqualification by a municipal

judge, the senior municipal judge may appoint, on a case-by-case

basis, a sitting municipal judge in another municipality within the

same county or an adjacent county to act as a special judge for the

purposes of hearing the case.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-111 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-47-111
Miscellaneous powers and duties of commission
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power to promote public interest in

and understanding of the plan and to that end may publish and

distribute copies of the plan or of any report and may employ other

means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of

the commission, when duly authorized by the commission, may attend

city planning conferences or meetings of city planning institutes or

hearings upon pending city planning legislation, and the council, by

resolution spread upon its minutes, may authorize and pay the

reasonable traveling expenses incident to attendance at authorized

meetings. The commission from time to time shall recommend to the

appropriate public officials programs for public structures and

improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall be part of its

duties to consult and advise with public officials and agencies,

public utility companies, civic, education, professional and other

organizations, and with citizens with relation to the protecting or

carrying out of the plan. The commission shall have the right to

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accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public

officials shall furnish the commission, upon request and within a

reasonable time, available information as it may require for its

work. The commission, its members, officers, and employees, in the

performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make

examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments

and marks thereon. In general, the commission shall have the powers

as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote

municipal planning, or carry out the purposes of this article.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-404 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-404
Hearing - Correction and confirmation of apportionment
Status: in_force

- Right of action.

At the hearing on the assessment and apportionment, the

governing body shall give full opportunity to hear any and all

protests that may be urged against the levy of assessments for the

cost of the improvement and shall have the right to hear witnesses

until a full and complete hearing shall be had thereon. The

protests shall be in writing, specifically setting forth the nature

of the objection raised. After the conclusion of the hearing, the

governing body shall adjudicate the objections and may make such

order on the levy of assessments as may be just and proper. Any

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objection shall be deemed waived unless presented at the time and in

the manner prescribed herein. Any owner of land liable to

assessment shall have the right to institute an action to contest

the validity of the amount of the assessment at any time within ten

(10) days after the final adjudication thereof by the governing

body, but no suit may be maintained to contest the validity or the

amount of the assessment, or any other matter pertaining to the

proposed improvement after the expiration of the ten-day period.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-117.4 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-117.4
Maximum years of credited service
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision in Section 49-100.1 et seq.

of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the maximum number of years of

credited service taken into account under the System shall not

exceed thirty (30) years.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-105.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-105.1
Executive Director - Employees - Acceptance of gifts
Status: in_force

or gratuities - Actuary - Legal services.

A. The State Board shall appoint an Executive Director.

Subject to the policy direction of the State Board, the Executive

Director shall be the managing and administrative officer of the

System and as such shall have charge of the office, records, and

supervision and direction of the employees of the System.

B. The Executive Director shall recommend to the State Board

the administrative organization, the number and qualifications of

employees necessary to carry out the intent of this article, and the

policy direction of the State Board. Upon approval of the

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 619

organizational plan by the State Board, the Executive Director may

employ such persons as are deemed necessary to administer this

article.

C. The members of the State Board, the Executive Director and

the employees of the System shall not accept gifts or gratuities

from an individual organization with a value in excess of the amount

per year permitted by the Ethics Commission for all state officials

and employees. The provisions of this section shall not be

construed to prevent the members of the State Board, the Executive

Director or the employees of the System from attending educational

seminars, conferences, meetings or similar functions which are paid

for, directly or indirectly, by more than one organization.

D. The State Board may select and retain a qualified actuary

who shall serve at its pleasure as its technical advisor or

consultant on matters regarding the operation of the System. The

actuary may at the direction of the State Board:

1. Make an annual valuation of the liabilities and reserves of

the System, and a determination of the contributions required by the

System to discharge its liabilities and administrative costs under

this article, and recommend to the State Board rates of employer

contributions required to establish and maintain the System on an

adequate reserve basis;

2. As deemed necessary by the State Board, make a general

investigation of the actuarial experience under the System,

including mortality, retirement, employment turnover, and interest,

and recommend actuarial tables for use in valuations and in

calculating actuarial equivalent values based on such investigation;

and

3. Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the State

Board.

E. The State Board may retain an attorney licensed to practice

law in this state. The attorney shall serve at the pleasure of the

State Board for such compensation as set by the State Board. The

Attorney General shall furnish such legal services as may be

requested by the State Board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-44-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-44-109
Procedure for appeals to the board of adjustment
Status: in_force

The municipal governing body shall provide by ordinance for

appeals from any action or decision of an administrative officer

acting pursuant to any zoning ordinance to the board of adjustment

in the following manner:

1. Appeals from the action of any administrative officer to the

board of adjustment may be taken by any person aggrieved or by any

officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality affected by

any decision of the administrative officer;

2. An appeal shall be taken within the time limits as fixed by

municipal ordinance by filing with the officer from whom the appeal

is taken and by filing with the board of adjustment a notice of

appeal specifying the grounds therefor. The officer from whom the

appeal is taken shall forthwith transmit to the board of adjustment

certified copies of all the papers constituting the record of the

matter, together with a copy of the ruling or order from which the

appeal is taken;

3. An appeal stays all proceedings in furtherance of the action

appealed from, unless the officer from whom the appeal is taken

certifies to the board of adjustment after the notice of appeal has

been filed with him 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 the proceedings shall not be stayed

otherwise than by a restraining order which may be granted by the

board of adjustment or by a court of record on application or notice

to the officer from whom the appeal is taken and on due cause shown;

and

4. The board of adjustment shall fix a reasonable time for the

hearing of the appeal, give public notice thereof, as well as due

notice to the parties in interest, and decide the same within a

reasonable time. Upon the hearing any party may appear in person or

by agent or by attorney.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-28-120 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-28-120
Compliance with criminal code of procedure
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise specifically provided, the municipal court

of record shall comply with the criminal code of procedure, as in

the district court for misdemeanor cases.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-215 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-215
Right of property owner to institute action in district
Status: in_force

court.

Any property owner shall have the right to institute an action

in the district court in the county in which the situs of the

municipal government is located at any time not later than fifteen

(15) days after the action of the municipal governing body in

adopting and approving the plans, profiles, specifications,

estimates and assessment plat, to contest such action. Any suit

instituted after the expiration of the fifteen (15) days shall not

be maintained to question the plans, profiles, specifications,

estimates or assessment plat, and the property owners liable for

assessment shall be deemed to have waived all objections thereto.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-106
Title to trees, shrubbery and parking abutting streets
Status: in_force

- Injury to - Powers of municipality.

The owners of real estate situated in municipalities abutting

upon public streets and avenues in the municipality shall have,

subject to the lawful supervision of the municipality over its

streets, such title to and right to property in

1. Growing trees situated in front of such real estate, but

within the boundary line of the streets and avenues, and within the

curb line; or

2. Parking and ornamental shrubbery planted and cultivated

within the curb line of the streets and avenues;

so as to enable the owners, in case of wrongful injury or

destruction of the trees, shrubbery or parking, to recover from the

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person or corporation causing the injury or destruction the full

damages which the abutting property in front of which they are

situated may sustain by reason thereof, notwithstanding the fee

title to the land in such streets and avenues may not be in the

owner of the abutting property. The abutting property owners shall

also have, subject to the limitations provided in this section, the

right of action in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin

wrongful injury to or destruction of the trees, shrubbery or

parking. The necessary trimming of such trees or shrubbery to

permit the proper stringing and passage of utility and other wires

shall not be considered as a wrongful injury. Nothing in this

section shall deprive the municipal governing body of the ordinary

supervision of its streets, or of the right to direct, by proper

ordinance, the manner of planting or cultivating such trees,

shrubbery or parking, on the part of the street where they shall be

so planted and cultivated, and from exercising reasonable

supervision of the same, and causing them to be trimmed and grown in

such manner as not to interfere with public travel upon the streets

and sidewalks or other public use.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-120 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-120
Appointments and removals
Status: in_force

Appointments and promotions in the service of a statutory

council-manager city shall be made solely on the basis of merit and

fitness; and removals, demotions, suspensions, and layoffs shall be

made solely for the good of the service. The council by ordinance

may establish a merit system and provide for its organization and

functioning, and provide for personnel administration and regulation

of personnel matters.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-8-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-8-105
Certain officers to give bond
Status: in_force

The municipal governing body shall require the municipal

treasurer, any officer or employee designated by ordinance to sign

municipal warrants or municipal checks, and any other officers and

employees as the governing body may designate by ordinance, to give

bond for the faithful performance of his duties within ten (10) days

after his election or appointment, in such amount and form as the

governing body shall prescribe. The municipality shall pay the

premiums on such bonds.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-38-119 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-38-119
Law governing
Status: in_force

Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with

the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this article

shall be controlling. The powers conferred by this article shall be

in addition and supplemental to the power conferred by any other

law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-119 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-119
Departments included in council-manager government
Status: in_force

In a statutory council-manager city, there shall be a police

department, a fire department, a department of law headed by a city

attorney, and other administrative departments, offices and agencies

as the council may establish.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-21-114 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-21-114
Petition to annex unincorporated territory enclosed by boundaries of other
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 6boundaries of other municipality - District court action.

A. The majority of the owners of a subdivision or property

owners located in unincorporated territory which is enclosed by the

boundaries of a municipality may petition for annexation in writing

to another municipality if:

1. The width of the boundary is less than twenty (20) feet; and

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2. The property is contiguous to the other municipality except

for the boundary.

B. The governing body of the other municipality may grant the

petition after notifying the enclosing municipality in writing at

least thirty (30) days prior to adoption of the annexation

ordinance. The boundary of the enclosing municipality shall recede

to the extent of the annexation. The enclosing municipality at any

time may reestablish its boundary within unincorporated territory

enclosed by it on or after July 1, 2001. The enclosing municipality

may bring an action in district court to invalidate the annexation.

If the district court finds that the conditions for annexation exist

and that the enclosing municipality has not demonstrated a

substantial governmental interest in the use of the property, it

shall uphold the annexation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-131 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-131
Transfer of assets to State Board
Status: in_force

Any municipality having a Police Pension and Retirement Fund

prior to January 1, 1981, shall transfer all assets of such fund to

the State Board on January 1, 1981. Assets shall be transferred in

the form of cash, negotiable securities and such other specific

assets as permitted by the State Board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-101.2 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-101.2
Certain volunteers to be considered paid firefighters - Physical and agility
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 20- Physical and agility requirements - Fire chief qualifications.

Any member serving as an active volunteer firefighter who

receives annual compensation from the fire department the

firefighter is enrolled in as a member of the System for services

related to firefighting, other than reimbursement of expenses in

excess of five and one-half (5 1/2) times the annual pension benefit

paid by the System to a retired volunteer firefighter with twenty

(20) years credited service, shall be considered a paid firefighter

and must meet the physical and agility requirements pursuant to

Section 49-116 of this title to continue as an active member of the

System. Credited service earned as a paid firefighter pursuant to

this section shall not be considered actual experience as a paid

firefighter for purposes of meeting the qualifications of a paid

fire chief as provided in Section 29-102 of this title. No fire

department of a participating municipality shall employ a volunteer

firefighter from another fire department to perform services

relating to firefighting for any compensation of any kind.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-507 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-507
Exemption for investor-owned electric utilities or
Status: in_force

cooperatives.

This act does not impose or otherwise affect any tariff,

contractual obligation or right, or federal or state law regarding

utility poles, similar structures or equipment of any type owned or

controlled by an investor-owned electric utility or electric

cooperative.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-134 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-134
Operation, administration and management of System -
Status: in_force

Responsibilities.

A. The State Board shall be responsible for the operation,

administration and management of the System.

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1. In order to carry out the responsibilities imposed upon them

by law, the State Board shall appoint such advisors, consultants,

agents and employees, each of whom may be such individual, firm or

corporation as shall be deemed necessary or advisable and approved

by the State Board. Such individuals, firms or corporations may be

retained or employed in such manner and upon such terms as shall

seem appropriate and proper to the State Board, either by contract

or retainer, by regular full- or part-time employment or by such

other arrangements as shall be satisfactory to the State Board and

shall be subject to such bonding requirements as shall be

established by the State Board. The fees, commissions, salaries and

other compensation of such advisors, consultants, agents or

employees shall be paid by the State Board from the Fund.

2. Notwithstanding any statute, regulation or rule to the

contrary, the State Board may obtain from any participating

municipality and the Council on Law Enforcement Education and

Training information for the purpose of the System performing an

audit to determine any person's eligibility for membership in the

System pursuant to Section 50-112 of this title. The State Board

also may obtain from any participating municipality information for

the purpose of the System performing an audit of such participating

municipality to ensure compliance with the System's statutes or

rules, including, but not limited to, information with respect to

member compensation necessary to determine the amounts that should

be included in or excluded from a member's paid base salary and the

accuracy of amounts upon which member contributions are made. Any

information received by the State Board pursuant to this paragraph

shall be kept confidential by the System to the extent required by

any applicable statute, regulation or rule.

B. The Executive Director shall perform the duties and services

indicated below and such other duties and services as may, from time

to time, be requested or directed by the State Board, and who shall

be responsible to the State Board and shall attend all regular

meetings of the State Board.

The Executive Director shall be responsible to the State Board

for the day-to-day operation of the System, and shall on behalf of

the State Board:

1. Be responsible for the transmittal of communications from

the State Board to the participating municipalities;

2. Receive payroll and employment reports from participating

municipalities and maintain current employment, earnings and

contribution data on each covered member of each participating

municipality;

3. Coordinate the activities of all other advisors,

consultants, agents or employees appointed by the State Board;

4. Maintain all necessary records reflecting the operation and

administration of the System and submit detailed reports thereof to

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the State Board at each regular meeting of the State Board and at

such other time or times as requested by the State Board;

5. Process all claims for payment of benefits or expenses for

approval by the State Board;

6. File on behalf of the State Board such reports or other

information as shall be required by any state or federal law or

regulations; and

7. Demand on behalf of the State Board information under

paragraph 2 of subsection A of this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-8-107 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-8-107
Removal of officers
Status: in_force

A municipal elected official may be removed from office for any

cause specified by applicable state law for the removal of officers,

and by the method or methods prescribed thereby.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-25-102 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-25-102
Municipal energy district authority - Trustees
Status: in_force

A. The governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, may

establish a municipal energy district authority for the

municipality. The authority shall be a public trust as provided for

in Sections 176 through 180.3 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

B. The authority shall consist of five trustees as follows:

1. The mayor of the municipality;

2. Two members of the governing board of the municipality; and

3. Two persons appointed by the mayor of the municipality who

shall be residents of the municipality and shall not be elected

officials.

C. The mayor of the municipality shall serve as chair of the

authority.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-2-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-2-106
Incorporation procedure for municipality situated in two
Status: in_force

or more counties.

If a proposed town or city is situated in two or more counties,

the petition for incorporation may be presented to the board of

county commissioners of any county in which any part of the proposed

municipality is situated. The board shall act upon the petition in

the same manner as if the proposed municipality were situated wholly

within the county where the petition is presented. The county clerk

shall immediately certify the proceedings relating to the

incorporation of the municipality to the board of commissioners of

each other county in which any part of the municipality is situated,

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and each board which receives this certification shall enter the

proceedings upon its records.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-39-114 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-39-114
Transfer of revenues to general fund
Status: in_force

The governing body may transfer to the general fund of the city

any money obtained from the levy of an assessment for a district if:

1. Bonds were issued to finance the improvement; and

2. The funds obtained by the bonds were spent for the

improvement; and

3. The assessments were levied and collected for the payment of

the bonds; and

4. Either the bondholders are barred by the statute of

limitations or a court judgment or decree from collecting the

indebtedness; or

5. The bonded indebtedness has been paid.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-44-107 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-44-107
Variances
Status: in_force

A variance from the terms, standards and criteria that pertain

to an allowed use category within a zoning district as authorized by

the zoning ordinance may be granted, in whole, in part, or upon

reasonable conditions as provided in this article, only upon a

finding by the board of adjustment that:

1. The application of the ordinance to the particular piece of

property would create an unnecessary hardship;

2. Such conditions are peculiar to the particular piece of

property involved;

3. Relief, if granted, would not cause substantial detriment to

the public good, or impair the purposes and intent of the ordinance

or the comprehensive plan; and

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4. The variance, if granted, would be the minimum necessary to

alleviate the unnecessary hardship.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-30-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-30-103
Organization of board
Status: in_force

The board of control shall, immediately after the appointment

and qualification of its members, meet and organize by electing one

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 281

member as president and one member as secretary. The municipal

treasurer shall act as treasurer of the board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-143.6 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-143.6
Increase in benefits - July 1, 2008 - Offset
Status: repealed

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section and

except for persons receiving benefits pursuant to Section 49-101 of

Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes, effective July 1, 2008, any

person receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and

Retirement System as of June 30, 2007, who continues to receive

benefits on or after July 1, 2008, shall receive a four-percent

increase in said benefits on July 1, 2008.

B. Any increase in benefits a person is eligible to receive

pursuant to repealed Section 49-136 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma

Statutes after June 30, 2006, shall be used to offset the increase

in benefits provided in subsection A of this section.

C. Effective July 1, 2008, any persons receiving benefits

pursuant to Section 49-101 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes

shall each receive a benefit equal to Seven Dollars and fifty-three

cents ($7.53) for each year of credited service not to exceed thirty

(30) years of service.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-9-111 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-9-111
Vacancy in the office of mayor
Status: in_force

When a vacancy occurs in the office of the mayor less than

ninety (90) days before the next regular municipal election, the

president of the city council shall act as mayor until the next

regular municipal election, at which time the registered voters of

the city shall elect a person to fill any unexpired term, and until

a mayor is elected and qualified for office. If the vacancy in the

mayor's office occurs more than ninety (90) days before the next

regular municipal election, the acting mayor shall cause a special

election to be held for the purpose of electing a mayor for the

duration of the unexpired term. The acting mayor shall be entitled

to receive the same compensation as the mayor would be entitled to.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-105.6 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-105.6
Deposit of contributions and dedicated revenues -
Status: in_force

Warrants and vouchers.

A. All employee and employer contributions and dedicated

revenues shall be deposited in the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement Fund in the State Treasury. The State Board shall have

the responsibility for the management of the Oklahoma Police Pension

and Retirement Fund, and may transfer monies used for investment

purposes by the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System from

the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Fund in the State

Treasury to the custodian bank or trust company of the System.

B. All benefits payable pursuant to the provisions of the

Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System, refunds of

contribution and overpayments, and all administrative expenses in

connection with the System shall be paid from the Oklahoma Police

Pension and Retirement Fund upon warrants or vouchers signed by two

persons designated by the State Board. The State Board may transfer

monies from the custodian bank or trust company of the System to the

Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Fund in the State Treasury

for the purposes specified in this subsection.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-11-115 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-11-115
City treasurer - Creation and duties - Compensation
Status: in_force

The city treasurer shall be an officer of the city, appointed by

the mayor for an indefinite term. The council may provide by

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 63

ordinance that the same person may hold both the office of city

clerk and the office of city treasurer. Said council may also

provide by ordinance that the city clerk shall be ex officio city

treasurer and that an acting city clerk shall be ex officio acting

city treasurer. Subject to such regulations as the council may

prescribe, the city treasurer shall deposit daily funds received for

the city in depositories as the council may designate. The city

treasurer shall have such other powers, duties, and functions

related to his statutory duties as may be prescribed by law or by

ordinance. The person who serves as city treasurer may be employed

by the city to perform duties not related to his position as city

treasurer. The salary, if any, for said duties shall be provided

for separately by ordinance.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-43-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-43-104
Notice and public hearing of proposed regulations
Status: in_force

A. Parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity

to be heard at a public hearing before any district regulation,

restriction, or boundary shall become effective. At least fifteen

(15) days' notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing shall

be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the

municipality. The notice shall include a map of the area to be

affected which indicates street names or numbers, streams, or other

significant landmarks in the area.

B. In addition to the notice required in subsection A of this

section, if the zoning change requested permits the use of treatment

facilities, multiple family facilities, transitional living

facilities, halfway houses and any housing or facility that may be

used for medical or nonmedical detoxification as these terms are

defined pursuant to Section 3-403 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma

Statutes, the entity proposing the change in district regulation,

restriction, or boundary shall mail a written notice within thirty

(30) days of the hearing to all real property owners within one-

quarter (1/4) of a mile where the area to be affected is located and

shall be responsible for all costs incurred in mailing this notice.

For purposes of this subsection, "entity" means any individual,

corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, state

agency, government instrumentality or agency, institution, county,

incorporated municipality or municipal authority or trust in which

any governmental entity is a beneficiary, venture, or other legal

entity however organized.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-109
Mandatory compilation of penal ordinances
Status: in_force

The penal ordinances of every municipality shall be compiled and

published in a permanent form, either printed or typed,

periodically, but not less than once each ten (10) years. Each

municipality shall also publish biennial supplements to the

permanent volume of compiled penal ordinances. No municipal

ordinance shall be enforced if it is not reflected in such a

permanent volume or supplement if the ordinance was adopted before

the latest compilation or supplement. A codification of municipal

ordinances which includes all penal ordinances is sufficient for

complying with this compilation requirement if the code is issued as

a permanent volume with biennial supplements and if the procedures

for filing and notice, as outlined in Section 14-110 of this title,

have been complied with. Provided, further, the ten-year

codification requirement shall be satisfied if the code complies

with the compilation requirement and the biennial supplements are

made a part of the permanent volume which are maintained in

permanent form either bound or in a loose-leaf form.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-105
Ordinance book - Entries
Status: in_force

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Every ordinance enacted by a municipal governing body shall be

entered in an ordinance book immediately after its passage. The

entry shall contain the text of the ordinance and shall state the

date of its passage, the page of the journal containing the record

of the final vote on its passage, the name of the newspaper in which

the ordinance was published, and the date of the publication.

Compilations or codes of municipal law or regulations need not be

enrolled in full in the book of ordinances, but the ordinance

adopting by reference or enacting such compilation or code shall be

entered and a copy of the compilation or code shall be filed and

kept in the office of the municipal clerk.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-208 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-208
Council-manager cities - Officers to be elected -
Status: in_force

Terms.

In a statutory council-manager city, the terms of the elected

officers shall be staggered so that at any one general municipal

election, the following officers are to be elected for four-year

terms:

1. Councilmembers from Wards One, Two and Five (if one).

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At the next general municipal election, the following officers are

to be elected for four-year terms:

1. Councilmembers from Wards Three, Four and Six (if one); and2. The councilmember at large.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-110 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-110
Contract for service of engineers for making
Status: in_force

improvements.

A municipal governing body may contract for the services of

consulting engineers to prepare the necessary surveys, plans, plats,

profiles, estimates and all other details for the work of

improvements and to supervise the work. The consulting engineer may

be a person, firm or corporation, resident in or outside the State

of Oklahoma, duly registered as an engineer in the State of

Oklahoma. The consulting engineer may be employed also to furnish

the necessary advertising, printing, appraising, transcripts and

other expense as may be necessary. The municipality shall provide

for the payment of such services and expenses from the assessments

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to be levied against the abutting property as part of the cost of

the improvement.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-309 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-309
Refunding street improvement bonds - Authority
Status: in_force

Any municipality which has issued street improvement bonds by

virtue of the authority of any law or charter provision is

authorized to refund the bonds. In refunding such bonds, the

governing body may provide for:

1. The levy and collection of assessments to pay the bonds;

2. The retirement of the street improvement bonds originally

issued;

3. The cancellation of any or all prior assessments, and

penalties and interest, together with interest and penalties that

have accrued thereon, by and with the written consent and under

written contract with the holders of any series of the street

improvement bonds;

4. A written "Agreement to Accept Street Improvement Refunding

Bonds" in exchange for the bonds originally issued; and

5. The procedure for such refunding in accordance with

applicable law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-34-101.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-34-101.1
Certification of police officers – Psychological
Status: in_force

evaluation.

For purposes of the certification of municipal police officers

pursuant to state law, the employing municipality shall use a

psychological instrument approved by the Council on Law Enforcement

Education and Training. The employing municipality shall administer

such psychological instrument in accordance with standards

established within the test document. To aid the evaluating

psychologist in interpreting the test results, including automated

scoring and interpretations, the municipal employer shall provide

the psychologist a statement confirming the identity of the

individual taking the test as the person who is employed or seeking

to be employed as a police officer of the municipality and attesting

that it administered the psychological instrument in accordance with

standards within the test document. The psychologist shall report

to the employing municipality the evaluation of the assessment

instrument and may include any additional recommendations to assist

the employing municipality in determining whether to certify to the

Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training that the person

being evaluated is suitable to serve as a police officer. No

additional procedures or requirements shall be imposed for

performance of the psychological evaluation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-108
Volunteer fire fighters with less than 10 years'
Status: in_force

service - Pension rights.

A. Any volunteer firefighter who is appointed as a paid

firefighter and serves less than ten (10) years as a paid

firefighter shall be entitled to receive one-twentieth (1/20) of a

volunteer pension earned over twenty (20) years for each full year

served as a volunteer firefighter and one-twentieth of one-half

(1/20 of 1/2) of the average salary received for each full year the

firefighter served as a paid firefighter.

B. Any volunteer firefighter who is appointed as a paid

firefighter after May 15, 1992, and serves ten (10) or more years as

a paid firefighter, shall be entitled to credit no more than five

(5) years of volunteer time to complete a twenty-year paid service

pension with remaining volunteer time computed at one-twentieth

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(1/20) of a volunteer pension earned over twenty (20) years for each

additional volunteer year.

C. For purposes of determining benefits pursuant to this

section, total credited service for paid and volunteer service shall

not exceed thirty (30) years; provided, the most recent years of

service shall be used in determining total credited service for paid

and volunteer service.

D. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to

create an eligibility for pension which is not otherwise provided by

law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-20-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-20-104
Change adopted by initiative petition
Status: in_force

Within thirty (30) days after an election adopting the question

in the initiative petition requesting a change in the name,

boundaries or number of wards, the municipal governing body by

ordinance shall make the requested changes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-201 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-201
Oklahoma Volunteer Firefighters Act - Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Oklahoma Volunteer Firefighters Act, Sections

29-201 through 29-205 of this title, is to provide for a uniform

system of fire protection for the lives and property of the people

of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-205 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-37-205
Payment of construction and maintenance of public
Status: in_force

sewers and water lines - Petition.

Except as otherwise provided, the construction and maintenance

of public sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and public waterlines shall

be paid for as follows:

1. Unless otherwise provided for in this section, all mains and

submains constructed by a municipality shall be paid for by the

municipality. If a petition signed by the owners of more than one-

half (1/2) of the area of the land that will be drained or benefited

by the construction of such mains or submains is filed with the

governing body or the governing body finds that certain property

will be specially benefited thereby, the governing body may create a

district and order the construction of such mains and submains and

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provide for the payment therefor to be made by the owners of the

property included within the district in accordance with the

procedure for the construction of and payment for district sewers

and district waterlines. The petition shall be filed with the city

clerk. The petition shall state in bold, capitalized letters at the

top of the page that the cost of the proposed improvements shall be

assessed against the property benefited by the improvements;

2. Laterals shall be paid for by the owners of the property

abutting on such laterals in the manner provided for by law for the

estimate of cost and assessments for district sewers and district

waterlines;

3. If a main or submain is constructed in any alley or other

place where a lateral would otherwise have been constructed and the

main or submain serves the purpose of a lateral for the property

abutting thereon, the owners of the property shall be assessed in

amounts equal to that which they would have been required to pay for

a sufficient lateral; and

4. If any private connection is made with a main or submain

instead of with a lateral, the owner of the premises so connected

shall pay to the municipality an amount equal to that which he would

have been required to pay for a lateral so constructed as to provide

similar service. The amounts to be charged for connections with

mains and submains, or for mains or submains used as laterals, shall

be ascertained by the municipal engineer or the engineer in charge

of such work and assessed against the property and collected in the

manner provided for by law in the case of district sewers.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-501 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-501
Short title - Oklahoma Small Wireless Facilities
Status: in_force

Deployment Act.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Small

Wireless Facilities Deployment Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-15-105 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-15-105
Ballot title
Status: in_force

A. The parties submitting a petition for either initiative or

referendum shall also prepare and file a ballot title for the

measure. The ballot title may be filed with the clerk prior to

circulating the petition, but it must be submitted no later than the

time that the signed copies of the petition are filed with the

clerk. The ballot title shall contain the gist of the proposition

couched in language that may be readily understood by persons not

engaged in the practice of law. The ballot title shall contain

language which clearly states that a "yes" vote is a vote in favor

of the proposition, and a "no" vote is a vote against the

proposition. The ballot title may not:

1. Exceed one hundred fifty (150) words;

2. Reflect partiality in its composition or contain any

argument for or against the measure; or

3. Contain language whereby a "yes" vote is, in fact, a vote

against the proposition and a "no" vote is, in fact, a vote in favor

of the proposition.

B. The clerk shall immediately forward a copy of the

proposition and ballot title to the municipal attorney. Within

three (3) days after the filing of the ballot title, the attorney

shall notify the clerk in writing whether or not the proposed ballot

title is in legal form and in harmony with the law. If the ballot

title is not in proper form, in the opinion of the attorney, he

shall prepare and file a ballot title which does conform to the law

within the three-day period.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-140 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-140
Rejection for reinstatement - Examination by
Status: in_force

physicians.

If any person feels aggrieved by the findings of the physician

giving the examination provided for in the preceding section, he may

by written notice served upon the head of the fire department within

thirty (30) days after he has been rejected for reinstatement, name

one licensed physician to act with said examining physician, and the

two said physicians shall, within eight (8) days thereafter, select

a third physician, and the three said physicians shall, within ten

(10) days thereafter, jointly examine said person, and within five

(5) days thereafter certify to the State Board their findings. The

findings of any two of said physicians shall be binding on all

parties as to the physical and mental conditions of such person. If

the two examining physicians first selected are unable to agree upon

a third, then the presiding judge of the Oklahoma County district

court shall name the third physician.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-22-113 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-22-113
Fire hazards and building location restrictions
Status: in_force

The municipal governing body may regulate the construction or

suppression, and cleaning of any apparatus, fixtures, or equipment

used in any building, manufactory, or business which may cause or

promote fires, may prescribe limits within which dangerous or

hazardous businesses may be carried on, and may adopt fire

prevention codes and regulations. The governing body may impose

penalties for the violation of such ordinances and may remove or

abate any buildings constructed or located in violation of its

ordinances.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-24-104 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-24-104
Members
Status: in_force

A. 1. Election Committee. The Oklahoma Municipal Power

Authority shall be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of

seven members or such greater number, but in no event more than

eleven members, as provided in the bylaws of the Authority as in

effect from time to time. Members of the Board of Directors of the

Authority shall be eligible to succeed themselves and shall be

elected by the election committee as hereinafter provided in this

section. On or before the 90th day following June 2, 1981, each of

those eligible public agencies which shall have, prior to such 90th

day, by proper resolution of its governing body or its public trust,

declared its intention to participate, or to have any public trust

operating its electric system participate, with the Authority in the

development of power supply resources, shall designate one person as

its representative on the election committee. All such resolutions

of declaration of intention to participate with the Authority shall

be filed with the Secretary of State and shall be presented to the

election committee at its first meeting which shall be held in the

office of the Municipal Electric Systems of Oklahoma at 11:00 a.m.

on the first Tuesday following such 90th day. At such meeting the

election committee shall organize and elect a chairman and such

other officers as may be desirable in the determination of the

election committee. The election committee shall then determine the

sufficiency of the resolutions presented to it.

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2. Election Committee Voting. For purposes of voting upon any

matter which may properly come before the election committee, each

representative shall have one vote unless otherwise provided in the

bylaws of the Authority as in effect from time to time. The

presence at any meeting of the election committee of representatives

entitled to cast a majority of the total votes to which the election

committee shall be entitled shall, unless otherwise provided in the

bylaws of the Authority as in effect from time to time, constitute a

quorum of the election committee.

3. Bylaws of the Authority.

a. The bylaws of the Authority shall be adopted by the

election committee of the Authority by a majority vote

of the election committee and may thereafter be

amended at any time and from time to time in whole or

in part by the election committee or by the Board of

Directors by a majority of the total votes entitled to

be cast at any properly called and constituted meeting

thereof; provided, however, that any such amendment

shall not violate the provisions of Section 24-119 of

this title.

b. The bylaws of the Authority shall provide the

following:

(1) the time, place, manner of calling, notice,

quorum and voting provisions, and other

procedural rules for regular and special meetings

of the election committee of the Authority,

(2) the time, place, manner of calling, notice,

quorum and voting provisions, and other

procedural rules for regular and special meetings

of the Board of Directors of the Authority,

(3) provisions for the number, election, term of

office and removal of members of the Board of

Directors and for filling vacancies on the Board

of Directors,

(4) the titles, duties and manner of election,

removal and replacement of officers of the

Authority,

(5) provisions governing when the Authority may

dissolve and the disposition of property of the

Authority and the procedures to be followed in

the event of such a dissolution; provided,

however, that any such dissolution shall not

violate the provisions of Section 24-119 of this

title, and

(6) such other rules for regulating the affairs of

the Authority as the election committee or the

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Board of Directors may deem necessary or

advisable.

4. Board of Directors. The initial members of the Board of

Directors of the Authority shall be elected by the election

committee of the Authority. Members of the Board of Directors of

the Authority shall be residents of this state. Members of the

Board of Directors of the Authority may, but need not, be members of

the election committee. Each member of the Board of Directors of

the Authority shall hold office until the adjournment of the annual

meeting of the Board of Directors held at, or nearest to, the

expiration of the Director's term of office as provided in the

bylaws of the Authority and until a successor is elected.

B. Additional Members of Election Committee. Each eligible

public agency declaring its intention, by proper resolution of its

governing body, to participate, or to have any public trust

operating its electric system participate, with the Authority in the

development of power supply resources shall promptly file such

resolution with the Secretary of State and give written notice to

the Authority of the adoption of such resolution and shall then

designate one person as an additional member of the election

committee whose term shall begin with the first meeting of the

election committee which is held following the expiration of ten

(10) days from the date of receipt of notice of the adoption of such

resolution by the Authority. Members of the election committee

shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body of the eligible

public agency by which they were appointed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-42-110 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-42-110
Power to close public ways or easements by ordinance -
Status: in_force

Reopening - Rights of utilities.

A. The municipal governing body by ordinance may close to the

public use any public way or easement within the municipality

whenever deemed necessary or expedient. The procedure for closing a

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public way or easement shall be established by ordinance or

resolution adopted by the municipality.

B. The municipality shall give written notice of any proposed

closing of a public way or easement to any holder of a franchise or

others determined by the governing body to have a special right or

privilege granted by ordinance or legislative enactment to use the

public way or easement at least thirty (30) days prior to passage of

any ordinance providing for closing of a public way or easement.

C. The municipality shall retain the absolute right to reopen

the public way or easement without expense to the municipality. The

public way or easement may be reopened by ordinance whenever:

1. The municipal governing body deems it necessary; or

2. An application of the property owners owning more than one-

half in area of the property abutting on the public way or easement

previously closed is filed with the governing body.

D. Closing of the public way or easement shall not affect the

right to maintain, repair, reconstruct, operate or remove utility,

public service corporation, or transmission company facilities of

service therein, nor shall a closing affect private ways existing by

operation of law unless released in writing executed by the owners

thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-32-106 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-32-106
Surveys and plans of proposed parking stations
Status: in_force

Before establishing an improvement district for parking

stations, the governing body may conduct a survey and investigation

for the purpose of determining:

1. Suitable locations for parking stations;

2. The approximate cost of acquiring and improving the land

therefor;

3. The area to be included in the improvement district or

districts; or

4. The percentage of the costs of acquiring and improving such

parking stations which shall be paid by the municipality and the

property owners within the district.

A written report on such survey and investigation shall be filed in

the office of the municipal clerk. For the purpose of the survey

and investigation, the governing body may employ appraisers,

engineers, and other persons as it may deem necessary. The cost of

the survey and investigation shall be included as a part of the cost

of acquiring and improving the land for parking stations; except

that if no land be acquired, the costs may be paid from the general

fund of the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-301 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-301
Definitions
Status: in_force

A. As used in this section and Section 4 of this act:

1. “Combination fire department” means a fire department which

has in its employ more than two full-time salaried firefighters and

at least one but not more than twenty-five volunteer firefighters.

However, a fire department that would otherwise be considered a

“combination fire department” under this definition but for the fact

that it had more than twenty-five (25) volunteer firefighters on

June 1, 2003, shall be considered a “combination fire department” as

long as it does not exceed the number of volunteer firefighters that

it had on June 1, 2003; and

2. “Volunteer firefighter of a combination fire department”

means a person who is enrolled as a volunteer member of a

combination fire department and who serves in such capacity without

receiving a regular salary. The person, who is a salaried employee

of a municipality, shall not serve as a volunteer firefighter of a

combination fire department if such service as a volunteer

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firefighter is a condition of employment with the municipality. A

person, who is a salaried public safety employee of a municipality,

shall not serve as a volunteer firefighter of a combination fire

department unless the person is off duty and such service is not a

condition of employment.

B. For the purposes of this subsection, a public safety

employee is a person employed to serve as a salaried firefighter,

police or other law enforcement officer or emergency medical

technician.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-102 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-102
Fire chief - Duties - Qualifications - Activity report
Status: in_force

forms.

All cities having a paid fire department shall have one full-

time fire chief who shall supervise and administer the fire

department in accordance with the policies and procedures prescribed

by the governing body or by the city manager. The fire department

shall be under the direction and control of the fire chief who shall

not serve as fire chief and also as police chief, city manager,

mayor or any other position that impairs the ability to perform the

duties of a fire chief. The fire chief, whether permanent or

interim, of any paid municipal fire department shall have had at

least three (3) years' actual experience as a paid fire fighter

before assuming the position of fire chief. It shall be the duty of

the fire chief to file the appropriate activity reports utilizing

the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) with the

Office of the State Fire Marshal in Oklahoma City. The activity

report forms shall include, but not be limited to, the amount of

property and vehicle fire loss, types of fires, inspections and

investigations that occurred. The report shall include notification

of all fire-related civilian deaths and injuries in the respective

jurisdiction and of fire fighter deaths in the line of duty and of

fire fighter injuries in the line of duty requiring the services of

a hospital or physician or both, and these fire-related burn

injuries and death reports shall be completed within forty-eight

(48) hours of the incident.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-44-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-44-108
Notice and hearings - Contents of notice - Minor
Status: in_force

variances or exceptions.

A. Notice of public hearing before the board of adjustment

shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation

in the municipality where the property is located and by mailing

written notice by the clerk of the board of adjustment to all owners

of property within a three hundred (300) foot radius of the exterior

boundary of the subject property. A copy of the published notice

may be mailed in lieu of written notice; however, the notice by

publication and written notice shall be published and mailed at

least ten (10) days prior to the hearing.

B. The notice, whether by publication or mail, of a public

hearing before the board of adjustment shall contain:

1. Legal description of the property and the street address or

approximate location in the municipality;

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2. Present zoning classification of the property and the nature

of the appeal, variance or exception requested; and

3. Date, time and place of the hearing.

C. On hearings involving minor variances or exceptions, notice

shall be given by the clerk of the board of adjustment by mailing

written notice to all owners of property adjacent to the subject

property. The notice shall be mailed at least ten (10) days prior

to the hearing and shall contain the facts listed in subsection B of

this section. The board of adjustment shall set forth in a

statement of policy what constitutes minor variances or exceptions,

subject to approval or amendment by the municipal governing body.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-27-122.2 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-27-122.2
Community service in lieu of fine or in conjunction
Status: in_force

with imprisonment - Violation of community service conditions.

Whenever any person is convicted in municipal court for

violation of a municipal ordinance, the court may order the

defendant to a term of community service or remedial action in lieu

of fine or in conjunction with imprisonment. If the defendant fails

to perform the required community service or if the conditions of

community service are violated, the judge may impose a sentence of

imprisonment, not to exceed the maximum sentence allowable for the

violation for which the defendant was convicted.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-46-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-46-103
Duties and powers of regional planning commission -
Status: in_force

Employees and expenses.

The regional planning commission shall prepare from time to time

plans for the systematic development and betterment of the regional

district for residence, manufacturing or business purposes. It may

consider and investigate any subject matter tending to the

development and betterment of such regional district and make

recommendations as it may deem advisable concerning the adoption

thereof to any department of the municipal or county government, and

for any purpose make or cause to be made surveys, maps or plans. The

commission shall have the power and authority to employ attorneys,

engineers, clerks and a secretary, and to pay for their services,

and to pay for such other expenses as the commission may lawfully

incur, including the necessary disbursements incurred by its members

in the performance of their duties as members of the commission. It

shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners to appropriate

money for the expenses of such regional planning commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-14-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-14-101
Municipal ordinances - Authority
Status: repealed

The municipal governing body may enact ordinances, rules and

regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of

Oklahoma for any purpose mentioned in Title 11 of the Oklahoma

Statutes or for carrying out their municipal functions. Municipal

ordinances, rules or regulations may be repealed, altered or amended

as the governing body ordains.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-21-121 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-21-121
Furnishing retail electric service to certain electric
Status: in_force

consuming facilities prohibited.

Except as provided in this section, municipal corporations or

public trusts thereof, the Grand River Dam Authority, rural electric

cooperatives or investor-owned electric utilities shall not furnish

retail electric service to an electric consuming facility which is

currently being served, or which was being served and the electric

facilities are in place to render such a service, by a municipal

corporation or public trust thereof, the Grand River Dam Authority,

a rural electric cooperative or an investor-owned electric utility

unless the entities involved have agreed by mutual consent, in

writing, to such transaction. For purposes of this section, the

term "electric consuming facility" means everything that utilizes

electric energy from a central station source.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-10-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-10-103
Qualifications of councilmembers
Status: in_force

The councilmembers shall be residents and registered voters of

the city. The councilmembers from wards shall be actual residents

of their respective wards at the time of their candidacy and

election; but removal of a councilmember from one ward to another

within the city after his election, or a change in ward boundaries,

shall not disqualify him from completing the term for which he was

elected.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-56-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-56-101
Short title - Municipal Campaign Finance and Financial
Status: in_force

Disclosure Act.

Sections 56-101 through 56-110 of this title shall be the

provisions of the Local Government Campaign Finance and Financial

Disclosure Act applicable to municipalities and shall be known as

the “Municipal Campaign Finance and Financial Disclosure Act”.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-51-111 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-51-111
Agreements - Contents
Status: in_force

Any agreement actually negotiated between the bargaining agent

and the corporate authorities either before or within thirty (30)

days after arbitration shall constitute the collective bargaining

contract governing fire fighters or police officers in the

municipality for the period stated therein; provided that such

period shall not exceed one (1) year. Any collective bargaining

agreement negotiated under the terms and provisions of this article

shall specifically provide that the fire fighters or police officers

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who are subject to its terms shall have no right to engage in any

work stoppage, slowdown or strike, the consideration for such

provision being the right to a resolution of disputed questions. All

rules, regulations, fiscal procedures, working conditions,

departmental practices and manner of conducting the operation and

administration of fire departments and police departments currently

in effect on the effective date of any negotiated agreement shall be

deemed a part of said agreement unless and except as modified or

changed by the specific terms of such agreement. Every such

agreement shall contain a clause establishing arbitration procedures

for the immediate and speedy resolution and determination of any

dispute which may arise involving the interpretation or application

of any of the provisions of such agreement or the actions of any of

the parties thereunder. In the absence of such negotiated procedure

such dispute may be submitted to arbitration in accordance with the

provisions of Sections 51-107 through 51-110 of this title, except

that the arbitration board shall be convened within ten (10) days

after demand therefor by the bargaining agent upon the corporate

authority or authorities. In such case the arbitration board's

determination shall be final.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-17-103
Actions against municipality
Status: in_force

No costs may be recovered against a municipality, in any action

brought against it, for any unliquidated claim which has not been

presented to the governing body for auditing, nor for claims allowed

in part unless the recovery shall be for a greater sum than the

amount allowed with the interest due. No action may be maintained

against a municipality in exercising or failing to exercise any

corporate power or authority where such action would not lie against

a private individual under like circumstances.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-21-202 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-21-202
Approval of plat - Special election
Status: in_force

The owners of a tract of land located not more than ten (10)

miles from the nearest limits of the municipality, or located at any

greater distance which is reasonable under the circumstances in

order to secure the most desirable site, may present to the

governing body a plat of the tract of land prepared in the same

manner as a plat for a proposed municipal incorporation. The

governing body shall examine the plat and may require amendments and

changes as it deems expedient. If the governing body finds that the

area contained in the plat is a suitable and desirable site for the

municipality, it shall call for a special election on the question

of whether the territory comprised within the plat shall be annexed

to the municipality and serve as the new site for the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-12-103 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-12-103
Qualifications of trustees
Status: in_force

The trustees who are nominated from wards shall be actual

residents of their respective wards. Removal of a trustee from the

ward for which he was elected shall not cause a vacancy in the

office of that trustee.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-118 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-118
Noncompliance by railway - Doing work at railway's
Status: in_force

expense - Lien on railway property.

A. If the owners of the railway shall fail or refuse to comply

with the order of the municipality to make such improvements by

paving, chatting, graveling, macadamizing, or building sidewalks as

the municipality may direct, or to repair such paving, graveling,

macadamizing or sidewalks, such work may be done by the

municipality. The cost and expense of such work done by the

municipality may be charged against the railway company and may be

collected in the district court in the county in which the

improvements have been made, by action of law, in the name of the

municipality against the railway company. In any such action at law

it shall be sufficient to declare generally for work or labor done,

or material furnished on the particular street, avenue, alley or

highway so improved.

B. In addition to the remedy provided in this section for

collection of costs and expenses, the municipality, or any one

authorized by it to do the work, shall be entitled to a lien upon

the property of the railway company. Such lien shall exist for the

full amount of the cost and expense against the property of the

railway company adjacent or contiguous to the improvement or

improvements so made. The lien may be enforced against the property

of the railway company by action in the district court in the county

in which the improvements have been made. In any action to enforce

the lien, it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the lien

exists for the amount of the cost and expense of the work and labor

done or material furnished on the particular improvement.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-304 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-304
Notice - Publication - Posting - Contents
Status: in_force

Notice of the biennial town meeting or special town meeting for

the purposes of electing officers and considering initiative or

referendum questions shall be given by the governing body of the

municipality in accordance with the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act,

Section 301 et seq. of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The

notice shall be signed by a majority of the members of the governing

body.

In addition to the requirements of the Oklahoma Open Meeting

Act, notice of the biennial town meeting and any special town

meeting shall be given by publishing notice of the meeting stating

the date, time, place and agenda in a newspaper of general

circulation in the municipality at least ten (10) days before the

date of the meeting. If there is no newspaper of general

circulation in the municipality, the notice shall be given by

posting a copy of the notice and agenda in at least five (5) public

places in the municipality. The notice shall list the offices to be

filled, including the number of officers to be elected for four-year

terms and the number of officers to be elected to fill unexpired

terms, and the questions to be voted on, if any.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-40-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-40-109
Relocation assistance plan
Status: in_force

Before any redevelopment project shall be initiated under this

act, a relocation assistance plan shall be approved by the

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redevelopment trust proposing to undertake the project. Such

relocation assistance plan shall:

1. Provide for relocation payments to be made to persons,

families and businesses who move from real property or who move

personal property from real property as a result of the acquisition

of the real property by the city in carrying out the provisions of

this act, the plan to specify the time and manner of any such

payments agreed to;

2. Provide that no persons or families residing in the project

area shall be displaced unless and until there is a suitable housing

unit available and ready for occupancy by such displaced person or

family at rents within their ability to pay. Such housing units

shall be suitable to the needs of such displaced persons or families

and must be a decent, safe, sanitary and otherwise standard

dwelling;

3. Provide for the payment of any damages sustained by a

retailer by reason of the liquidation of inventories necessitated by

relocation; and

4. Provide for conformance with requirements promulgated under

the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition

Policies Act of 1970, as amended.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-33-115 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-33-115
Public recreation law cumulative
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 33-101 through 33-115 of this title

shall in no manner supersede or repeal any laws now in force or

effect or any charter provisions of any municipality relating to

municipal parks or park boards, but shall be cumulative to all such

laws and charter provisions thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-213 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-213
Property chargeable with cost - Rules for apportioning
Status: in_force

costs.

A. For the purpose of determining the area of assessment, a

block shall be deemed to be the area bounded on all sides by streets

and avenues, or municipal limits, irrespective of the designation

thereof. The lots, pieces or parcels of land fronting or abutting

upon any improvement shall be chargeable with the cost thereof to

the center of the block where the abutting way is on the exterior of

the block.

B. Each quarter block shall be charged with its due proportion

of the cost of improving both the front and side streets on which

the block abuts, together with the areas formed by street

intersections and alley crossings, except such portions of street

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intersections and alley crossings as may be chargeable to railway

companies. Each quarter block shall bear:

1. Its due proportion of the cost of paving, curbing, and

guttering the same;

2. The cost of grading in proportion to the cost of grading the

entire street being improved; and

3. The proportionate cost for construction of catch basins,

manholes, inlet and drainage pipes, sewers and utility connections

in proportion to the cost of the entire area of the improvement

drained.

The board of appraisers shall determine the amount of benefits to

each quarter block on account of the grading thereof and the

installation and construction of necessary drainage therefor.

C. When triangular or other irregularly shaped lots or tracts

are to be assessed for an improvement, the cost of the improvement

in excess of the benefits accruing to the lots shall be assessed

against and borne by the municipality.

D. If the improvement is made in an alley or other public way

in the center of the block, the assessment shall be made upon the

property abutting the alley to the exterior of the block. In case

of an alley not in the center of the block, or if more than one

alley is improved in the block, then the assessment shall be made

against the property which fronts and abuts the alley according to

the area specially benefited by the improvement as the board of

appraisers shall determine and as confirmed by the governing body.

E. If any of the property abutting upon an improvement shall

not be a part of a block, or shall be a part of a block which is not

square or rectangular in shape or shall be a part of a block which

is not uniformly platted or subdivided, the governing body shall

include such property in quarter block districts as nearly as

practicable for the purpose of appraisement and assessment, and it

shall determine the area of the property benefited by the

improvement and the depth to which the property shall be assessed.

In such cases the property shall be subject to assessment according

to benefits as determined by the board of appraisers and as

confirmed by the governing body and irrespective of whether or not

the property immediately abuts upon the improvement. All such

property within six hundred (600) feet of the improvement shall be

deemed to be abutting thereon for the purposes of assessment.

F. If a fractional part of a lot, parcel, or tract of land is

within an assessment area, the benefit shall be computed for the

fractional part; but the entire lot, parcel or tract of land under

the same ownership of which the fractional part is a part shall be

subject to assessment for such benefit.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-506 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-506
Authority's rates and fees for placement of a wireless
Status: in_force

facility, support structure or utility pole.

A. This section shall govern an authority's rates and fees for

the placement of a wireless facility, wireless support structure or

utility pole.

B. An authority may not require a wireless provider to pay any

rates, fees or compensation to the authority or other person other

than what is expressly authorized by this act for the right to use

or occupy a right-of-way, for collocation of small wireless

facilities on utility poles in the right-of-way or for the

installation, maintenance, modification, operation and replacement

of utility poles in the right-of-way.

C. Application fees shall be subject to the following

requirements:

1. An authority may charge an application fee only if such fee

is required for similar types of commercial development or

construction within the authority's jurisdiction;

2. An application fee may not include:

a. travel expenses incurred by a third party in its

review of an application, or

b. direct payment or reimbursement of third-party rates

or fees charged on a contingency basis or a result-

based arrangement;

3. An application fee for a collocation shall be limited to the

cost of granting a permit for similar types of commercial

development or construction within the authority's jurisdiction.

The application and permit fees for collocation of small wireless

facilities on an existing or replacement authority pole shall not

exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) each for the first five small

wireless facilities on the same application and One Hundred Dollars

($100.00) for each additional small wireless facility on the same

application; and

4. The application and permit fees for the installation,

modification or replacement of a utility pole and the collocation of

an associated small wireless facility that are permitted uses in

accordance with the specifications in subsection D of Section 3 of

this act shall not exceed Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) per

pole for access to the right-of-way.

D. The rate for occupancy of the right-of-way shall not exceed

Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year per small wireless facility.

E. The rates to collocate on authority poles in the right-of-

way shall not exceed Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per authority pole per

year.

F. There shall be no rate charged for the installation,

placement, maintenance, operation or replacement of micro wireless

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facilities that are strung on cables between existing utility poles,

in compliance with the National Electrical Safety Code.

G. Rates provided in this section do not include any applicable

charges for electric power. A wireless provider must pay separately

for such services.

H. An authority may adjust the fees and rates it adopts under

this section ten percent (10%) every five (5) years rounded to the

nearest dollar.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-212 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-212
Appointment of appraisers - Duties - Preparation of
Status: in_force

assessment roll - Conclusiveness.

A. After the approval of the final statement of cost and the

roster designating the property in the improvement district, the

governing body by resolution shall appoint a board of appraisers to

appraise and apportion the benefits to the several lots and tracts

of land described in the roster. The board of appraisers shall

consist of three (3) disinterested freeholders of the municipality

who are not owners of property to be assessed for the improvement.

B. The appraisers shall take and subscribe an oath to make a

true and impartial appraisement and apportionment. The appraisers

may be paid for their services. The act of a majority of the

appraisers shall have like force and effect as the act of all.

C. Within five (5) days after being notified of their

appointment, the appraisers shall proceed to appraise and apportion

the benefits to such lots and tracts of land as have been designated

by the governing body. The cost of the improvement shall be

apportioned among the lots and subdivisions of each quarter block,

as provided in Section 36-213 of this title, according to the

ownership thereof as it appears on the roster and according to the

benefits to be assessed to each lot or parcel. The appraisers shall

prepare and file an assessment roll containing the amount of the

apportionment and assessment of each tract or parcel of land listed

on the roster with the municipal clerk within ten (10) days after

being notified of their appointment.

D. The determination by the board of appraisers, as confirmed

by the governing body, of the property to be assessed and of the

amount of benefits shall be conclusive upon the owners of the

property assessed and shall not be subject to review by any court.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-114 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-114
Conduct of special elections held for electing
Status: in_force

officers.

A. When the office of a municipal elected official is to be

filled at a special partisan election, the resolution or order of

the governing body calling the election shall contain the following

facts:

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1. A filing period of three (3) days which shall begin not more

than twenty (20) days from the date the resolution or order is

required to be filed with the county election board;

2. The date of the special primary election, not less than

forty-five (45) days after the close of the filing period; and

3. The date of the special general election, not less than

forty-five (45) days after the date of the primary election. A copy

of the resolution or order shall be filed with the secretary of the

county election board not less than sixty (60) days preceding the

date of the special primary election. The election shall be

conducted under the laws applicable to general municipal elections.

B. When the office of a municipal elected official is to be

filled at a special nonpartisan election, the resolution or order of

the governing body calling the election shall contain the following

facts:

1. A filing period of three (3) days which shall begin not more

than twenty (20) days from the date the resolution or order is

required to be filed with the county election board;

2. The date of the special general election, not less than

forty-five (45) days after the close of the filing period. A copy

of the resolution or order shall be filed with the secretary of the

county election board not less than sixty (60) days preceding the

date of the special general election.

C. Special municipal elections may be called only on dates

established by subsection B of Section 3-101 of Title 26 of the

Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-157 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-157
Assessment lien
Status: in_force

Every assessment levied under the authority of this act shall be

a lien against the tract of land on which it has been levied, until

paid, and the lien shall be coequal with the lien of ad valorem and

other taxes including special assessments, and prior and superior to

all other liens, and the assessment shall draw interest and shall be

collected in the same manner as ad valorem taxes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-151 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-151
Short title - Oklahoma Public Safety Protection
Status: in_force

District Act.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Public

Safety Protection District Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-15-110 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-15-110
Conflicting measures proposed by governing body
Status: in_force

Along with each initiative measure the municipal governing body

may submit a competing bill or resolution. If conflicting

ordinances or charter amendments are submitted to the registered

voters, and two or more of such conflicting measures are approved by

the registered voters, then the measure which receives the greatest

number of affirmative votes shall be paramount in all particulars as

to which there is a conflict, even though such measure may not have

received the greatest majority.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-136.7 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-136.7
Increase in benefits - July 1, 2006 - Offset
Status: repealed

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, any

person receiving benefits from the Oklahoma Police Pension and

Retirement System as of June 30, 2005, who continues to receive

benefits on or after July 1, 2006, shall receive a four-percent

increase in said benefits beginning in July 2006.

B. Any increase in benefits a person is eligible to receive

pursuant to repealed Section 50-120 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma

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Statutes, after June 30, 2004, shall be offset by the increase in

benefits, if any, provided by this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-9-109 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-9-109
Council - Meetings
Status: in_force

The council shall meet regularly at least monthly at such times

as it may prescribe by ordinance or otherwise. The mayor or any

three (3) councilmembers may call special meetings. The call for

special meetings must be in writing and specify the subjects to be

considered. No business other than that specified in the call shall

be transacted at the special meeting.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-13-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-13-108
Deposit of copies for record - Judicial notice
Status: in_force

After the approval of the charter by the Governor, duplicate

copies shall be made and one shall be deposited in the office of the

Secretary of State, and the other, after being recorded in the

office of the county clerk of the county in which the situs of the

municipality is located, shall be deposited in the archives of the

municipality. Thereafter the charter shall be judicially noticed in

all court proceedings.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-39-121 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-39-121
Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The Improvement District Act is intended to afford another and

additional method of making improvements and is not to be construed

as repealing or qualifying any other charter or statutory

authorization granting a city authority to make improvements.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-16-309 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-16-309
Filing of list of municipal officers elected -
Status: in_force

Notification of changes in list.

The municipal clerk shall file with the secretary of the county

election board a list of the names and addresses of the municipal

officers elected and shall notify the secretary of the county

election board of any changes in the list as filed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-38-120 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-38-120
Designation of tax increment allocation district
Status: in_force

A. At the time of adoption of an urban renewal plan pursuant to

this act, or subsequent thereto, the municipal governing body may

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designate the urban renewal area to be a tax increment allocation

district by either resolution or ordinance.

B. Before a municipality may designate a tax increment

allocation district, the municipal governing body shall hold a

public hearing thereon, after public notice thereof by publication

at least one time not less than fifteen (15) days prior to the date

of such public hearing, in a newspaper having general circulation in

the area of operation of the municipality, and by posting not less

than five public notice signs, each having at least nine (9) square

feet of display area, for a period of fifteen (15) successive days

including the day of the public hearing for which notice is being

given, in the area to be included in the proposed tax increment

allocation district. Public notice may be combined with public

notice of a hearing on an urban renewal plan or an amendment

thereto.

C. Following such hearing, the municipal governing body may

designate an urban renewal area to be a tax increment allocation

district if it finds that the designation of such district is

necessary or desirable in achieving the objectives of one or more

urban renewal or urban redevelopment projects.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-15-101 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-15-101
Initiative and Referendum - Powers
Status: reserved

The powers of initiative and referendum, reserved by the

Oklahoma Constitution to the people, are reserved to the people of

every municipal corporation with reference to all legislative

authority which it may exercise and amendments to municipal

charters.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-22-101.1 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-22-101.1
Political activities by municipal employees -
Status: in_force

Restrictions.

Municipal employees may attend and express their views at city

council meetings, or any other public meetings of municipal

entities.

Any municipal employee may actively participate in partisan and

nonpartisan political activities. Provided, the political activity

in which the employee participates shall be exercised only during

off-duty hours and while not in uniform. Any federal statutes

restricting the political activities of certain municipal employees

shall supersede the provisions of thissection as to such employees.

Municipal corporations may establish employment requirements

requiring municipal employees to refrain from filing as a candidate

for public office while employed by said municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-33-102 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-33-102
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of Sections 33-101 through 33-115 of this

title, the term "governing body" means any city council, city

commission, town board of trustees, board of county commissioners,

school board, or other body acting in lieu thereof, in the State of

Oklahoma. The term "governmental unit" means any city, town, school

district, or county in the State of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-26-201 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-26-201
Trusts for special care of specified lots - Perpetual
Status: in_force

care fund - Use.

Donations, deposits or bequests may be made in trust for the

special care of specified lots, monuments or mausoleums in any

cemetery. These funds shall be segregated and set aside as a

permanent fund to be known as the "Perpetual Care Fund". A separate

account shall be kept of each amount so deposited, donated and

bequeathed for special care of specified lots. The perpetual care

fund may be invested in like manner as the cemetery care fund, and

only the interest derived from the fund shall be used in the care,

maintenance and repair of such lots, monuments and mausoleums,

unless otherwise specified by the donor.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-50-105.2 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-50-105.2
Administration of System - Rules and regulations -
Status: in_force

Accounts and records - Open meetings - Actuarial tables - Decisions

of Board - Actions.

A. The State Board shall be responsible for the policies and

rules for the general administration of the System, subject to the

provisions of this article.

B. The State Board shall establish rules and regulations for

the administration of the System and for the transaction of its

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business consistent with law, which rules and regulations shall be

filed with the Secretary of State.

C. The State Board shall be responsible for the installation or

provision of a complete and adequate system of accounts and records.

D. All meetings of the State Board shall be open to the public.

The State Board shall keep a record of its proceedings.

E. The State Board may adopt all necessary actuarial tables to

be used in the operation of the System as recommended by the actuary

and may compile such additional data as may be necessary for

required actuarial valuation calculations.

F. All decisions of the State Board as to questions of fact

shall be final and conclusive on all persons except for the right of

review as provided by law and except for fraud or such gross mistake

of fact as to have effect equivalent to fraud.

G. The State Board shall take all necessary action upon

applications for pensions, disability benefits, refund of

accumulated contributions and shall take action on all other matters

deemed necessary by the State Board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-122.5 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-49-122.5
Operation, administration and management of System -
Status: in_force

Responsibilities.

The State Board shall be responsible for the operation,

administration and management of the System.

In order to carry out the responsibilities imposed by law upon

them, the State Board shall appoint such advisors, consultants,

agents and employees, each of whom may be such individual, firm or

corporation as shall be deemed necessary or advisable and approved

by the State Board. Such individuals, firms or corporations may be

retained or employed in such manner and upon such terms as shall

seem appropriate and proper to the State Board, either by contract

or retainer, by regular full- or part-time employment or by such

other arrangements as shall be satisfactory to the State Board and

shall be subject to such bonding requirements as shall be

established by the State Board.

The Executive Director shall perform the duties and services

indicated below andsuch other duties and services as may, from time

to time, be requested or directed by the State Board, and who shall

be responsible to the State Board and shall attend all regular

meetings of the State Board.

The Executive Director shall be responsible to the State Board

for the day-to-day operation of the System, and shall on behalf of

the State Board:

1. Be responsible for the transmittal of communications from

the State Board to the local board;

2. Receive payroll and employment reports from participating

municipalities and maintain current employment, earnings and

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contribution data on each covered member of each participating

municipality;

3. Coordinate the activities of all other advisors,

consultants, agents or employees appointed by the State Board;

4. Maintain all necessary records reflecting the operation and

administration of the System and submit detailed reports thereof to

the State Board at each regular meeting of the State Board and at

such other time or times as requested by the State Board;

5. Process all claims for payment of benefits or expenses for

approval by the State Board; and

6. File on behalf of the State Board such reports or other

information as shall be required by any state or federal law or

regulation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-221 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-36-221
Collection of payments - Bond of clerk - Special fund
Status: in_force

The municipal clerk shall be required to execute a good and

sufficient bond, with sureties, and in an amount to be approved by

the governing body, payable to the municipality, conditioned for the

faithful performance of the duties conferred upon the clerk as

collector of the assessments.

The municipal clerk shall keep an accurate account of all

assessment collections made by him, and shall pay to the municipal

treasurer daily the amounts of the assessments collected by him. The

amounts so collected and paid to the municipal treasurer shall

constitute a separate, special fund to be used and applied to the

payment of the bonds and interest coupons which are issued against

the assessments. After the payment of all bonds and interest

thereon, any surplus remaining in the fund shall be used for the

purpose of repairing and maintaining any improvement for which

assessments have been levied, and for no other purpose whatsoever.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-29-108 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-29-108
Fire department answering calls outside corporate
Status: in_force

limits considered agent of state - Liability for damages.

A municipal fire department answering any fire alarms or

performing fire prevention services or rescue, resuscitation, first

aid, inspection or any other official work outside the corporate

limits of its municipality shall be considered an agent of the State

of Oklahoma, and acting solely and alone in a governmental capacity.

Said municipality shall not be liable in damages for any act of

commission, omission, or negligence while answering or returning

from any fire or reported fire or doing or performing any fire

prevention work or rescue, resuscitation, first aid, inspection or

any other official work.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-8-116 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-8-116
Part-time city manager or planner
Status: in_force

Any municipality with a population of less than five thousand

(5,000) according to the latest Federal Decennial Census may employ

a part-time city manager or a part-time city planner. The duties of

the part-time city manager shall be determined by the governing body

of the municipality, or pursuant to Section 10-113 of this title for

municipalities governed by the council-manager form of government.

The duties of the part-time city planner shall be determined by the

governing body of the municipality.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-120 — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-47-120
Status of existing platting statutes
Status: in_force

After a city planning commission has control over subdivision as

provided in Section 47-114 of this title, the jurisdiction of the

commission, as herein conferred over plats shall be exclusive within

the territory under its jurisdiction.
Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-107A — OK Code / Title 11 / Section 11-17-107A
Special Investigative Unit Auditing Revolving Fund
Status: in_force

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund

for the State Auditor and Inspector to be designated the "Special

Investigative Unit Auditing Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a

continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall

consist of all monies received by the State Auditor and Inspector

from funds withheld from a municipality's allocations of gasoline

taxes as provided in Section 17-107 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma

Statutes and all monies received from legislative appropriations for

the purpose of conducting investigative municipal audits. All

monies accruing to the credit of such fund are hereby appropriated

and may be budgeted and expended by the State Auditor and Inspector

for the purpose of offsetting expenses incurred from special

investigative audit activities relating to municipal government.

Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the

State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the

Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for

approval and payment.