Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1709 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1709
Budget for each fund - Format - Summary - Estimate of
Status: in_force

revenues and expenditures - Determination of need for sinking fund

purposes.

A. At least thirty (30) days prior to the beginning of each

fiscal year, a budget for each fund of the district for which a

budget is required shall be completed by the board. Each budget

shall provide a complete financial plan for the budget year. The

budget format shall be as prescribed by the State Auditor and

Inspector. The format shall contain at least the following in

tabular form for each fund, itemized by department and account

within each fund:

1. Actual revenues and expenditures for the immediate prior

fiscal year;

2. Estimated actual revenues and expenditures for the current

fiscal year; and

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3. Estimated revenues and expenditures for the budget year.

B. The budget for each fund shall contain a budget summary. It

shall also be accompanied by a budget message from the board which

shall explain the budget and describe its important features.

C. The estimate of revenues in each fund for any budget year

shall include probable income by source which the district is

legally empowered to collect or receive at the time the budgets are

adopted. The estimate shall be based upon a review and analysis of

past and anticipated revenues of the district. Any portion of the

budget of revenues to be derived from ad valorem property taxation

shall not exceed the estimated amount of tax which is available for

appropriation or which can or must be raised as required by law.

The budget of expenditures for each fund shall not exceed the

estimated revenues for each fund. No more than ten percent (10%) of

the total budget for any fund may be budgeted for miscellaneous

purposes.

D. The board shall determine the needs of the district for

sinking fund purposes, pursuant to Section 9C of Article X of the

Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, and include these

requirements in the debt service fund budget for the budget year.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1502 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1502
Uniform identification system and inventory system for county supplies, materials,
Status: in_force

equipment, information technology and telecommunication goods - County road and bridgecounty supplies, materials, equipment, information technology and

telecommunication goods - County road and bridge inventory officer -

Duties of county commissioners.

A. 1. The board of county commissioners or a designated

employee shall:

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a. prescribe a uniform identification system for all

supplies, materials and equipment of a county used in

the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges,

and

b. create and administer an inventory system for all:

(1) equipment of a county having an original cost of

Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or

more for use in the construction and maintenance

of roads and bridges, and

(2) supplies and materials of a county purchased in

lots of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars

($2,500.00) or more for use in the construction

and maintenance of roads and bridges.

Such person shall be the county road and bridge inventory officer.

2. a. In counties having a county budget board created

pursuant to Section 1402 et seq. of this title, said

board may, upon an affirmative vote of a majority of

all the board members then in office, appoint a county

road and bridge inventory officer who shall be

employed by the county and shall have such duties as

are provided in subparagraphs a and b of paragraph 1

of this subsection. In the event the board does not

appoint a county road and bridge inventory officer the

board of county commissioners or designee shall be the

county road and bridge inventory officer. The

appointed county road and bridge inventory officer

shall be under the general supervision and direction

of the appointing authority.

b. The appointed county road and bridge inventory officer

shall be authorized necessary assistants to carry out

the duties and responsibilities provided by law and as

may be delegated by the appointing authority.

Provided, the employment of such assistants shall be

upon the approval of the appointing authority. The

salary of the county road and bridge inventory officer

and assistants shall be fixed by the appointing

authority.

c. The appointed county road and bridge inventory officer

shall, at the expense of the county, be authorized

adequate office space, furnishings, equipment and

supplies to carry out the duties and responsibilities

of the county road and bridge inventory officer as

provided by law and as may be delegated by the

appointing authority. Provided, the acquisition of

such furnishings, equipment and supplies shall be upon

the approval of the appointing authority and the

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acquisition of office space shall be upon the approval

of the board of county commissioners.

B. The board of county commissioners shall:

1. Prescribe a uniform identification system for all supplies,

materials, equipment and information technology and

telecommunication goods of a county not used in the construction and

maintenance of roads and bridges; and

2. Create and administer an inventory system for all:

a. equipment and telecommunication goods of a county

having an original cost of Two Thousand Five Hundred

Dollars ($2,500.00) or more and not used in the

construction and maintenance of roads and bridges,

b. information technology hardware and software of a

county having an original cost of Five Hundred Dollars

($500.00) or more and not used in the construction and

maintenance of roads and bridges, and

c. supplies and materials of a county purchased in lots

of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or

more and not used in the construction and maintenance

of roads and bridges.

The board of county commissioners may designate an employee of that

office to administer such inventory system.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-904.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-904.1
Creation of county jail trust authority - Election
Status: in_force

A. The board of county commissioners of any county, if the

board determines that such would be conducive to the promotion and

preservation of the public safety of the county, may call an

election at which shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the

county the question of whether to create a county jail trust

authority.

B. Notice of the election shall be given by publication in some

newspaper of general circulation in the county once a week for two

(2) consecutive weeks next preceding the date of the election. The

notice shall specify the date of the election. The election shall

be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of this

state. If a majority of the qualified voters of the county voting

on the question at an election called for such purpose by the board

of county commissioners approve, the county jail trust authority

shall be created.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-138.10 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-138.10
Payment and collection of costs
Status: in_force

A. The court shall order any person represented by a county

indigent defender to pay the costs of representation. In assessing

these costs, the court shall take into consideration the ability of

the defendant to pay and any likely hardship which would result.

The court may then order payment to be made in total or in

installments and, in the case of installment payments, set the

amount and due date of each installment.

B. Costs assessed pursuant to this section shall be collected

by the court clerk and deposited in the court fund.

C. Costs of representation shall be a debt against the person

represented until paid and shall be subject to any method provided

by law for the collection of debts.

D. Any order directing the defendant to pay costs of

representation shall be a lien against all real and personal

property of the defendant and may be filed against such property and

foreclosed as provided by law for such liens.

E. For purposes of collection of debts arising from the

provisions of this section, the court clerks for the district courts

of this state are authorized to utilize the procedures provided in

Section 205.2 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes in the same

manner and to the same extent as a state agency and the Oklahoma Tax

Commission is directed to provide the same service to court clerks

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attempting to collect such debts pursuant to Section 205.2 of Title

68 of the Oklahoma Statutes as it provides to state agencies.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-180.61 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-180.61
Classification of officers
Status: in_force

For purposes of fixing salaries under this act, county officers

shall be grouped in the following classifications:

1. Enforcement officers or those charged with enforcing the

laws relating to public peace and safety: the county sheriff, the

county treasurer, the county clerk, the court clerk, the county

assessor, and the members of the board of county commissioners; and

2. Other elective county officers.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.54 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.54
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this act, certain terms are defined as

provided in this section. Whenever appropriate, the singular

includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.

"Municipality" or "municipal" shall mean or relate only to

incorporated cities and towns. "Board" shall mean the board of

county commissioners. "Commission" shall mean the county planning

commission. "Area" shall mean all territory included within the

jurisdiction of the commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.4
Duties
Status: in_force

The district attorney, assistant district attorneys, or special

assistant district attorneys authorized by subsection C of Section

215.37M of this title, shall appear in all trial courts and

prosecute all actions for crime committed in the district, whether

the venue is changed or not; the district attorney or assistant

district attorneys shall prosecute or defend in all courts, state

and federal, in any county in this state, all civil actions or

proceedings in which any county in the district is interested, or a

party unless representation for the county is provided pursuant to

subsection A of Section 215.37M of this title; and the district

attorney or assistant district attorneys shall assist the grand

jury, if required, pursuant to Section 215.13 of this title. The

district attorney may at all times request the assistance of

district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, district attorney

investigators from other districts, or any attorney employed by the

District Attorneys Council who then may appear and assist in the

prosecution of actions for crime or assist in investigation of crime

in like manner as assistants or investigators in the district.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.19 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.19
Office of county attorney abolished
Status: in_force

The office of the county attorney in and for each county in

Oklahoma is hereby abolished, to become effective when the district

attorney, as provided for in this act, shall be elected and

qualified.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.5
Conduct of election - Certification of results - Orders
Status: in_force

Such elections shall be conducted in accordance with the general

election laws of the state and the regular election officials shall

be in charge at the usual polling place of each regular precinct, or

part of a precinct, which shall include lands within the boundaries

of such proposed district. The county election board shall certify

results of the election to the board of county commissioners who

shall meet on the second Monday next following such election and

proceed to determine the percentages of the vote cast.

If, upon such determination, it appears that at least three-

fifths (3/5) of all the votes cast are "Rural Road Improvement

District - Yes", the board shall, by order declare such territory

duly organized as a rural road improvement district under the name

theretofore designated. Such order shall be filed for record in the

office of the county clerk and from that date such district shall be

complete.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30-6 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.30-6
Special election to select offer
Status: in_force

A. If the corporate authority’s last best offer is not selected

by the arbitration board, that party may submit the offers which the

parties submitted to the arbitration board to the voters of the Fire

Protection District for their selection by requesting a special

election for that purpose. The request for an election must be

filed with the Clerk of the Board of Directors for the Fire

Protection District within ten (10) days of the date of the written

decision of the arbitration board. Written notice of the filing of

the request shall be given to the bargaining agent. If a request

for an election is not filed in a timely manner, the board’s

selection decision shall be final, and the last best offer it

selected shall constitute the agreements of the parties.

B. Upon receiving a request for an election pursuant to the

provision of this section, the District Clerk shall notify the

governing body of the Fire Protection District of the request.

Within ten (10) days of such notification the governing body shall

call for a special election. The election shall be governed by the

state laws on Fire Protection District elections and the election

shall be held as nearly as may be in conformity with the state law

provisions governing bond elections for the Fire Protection

District; provided, no informalities in conducting such election

shall invalidate the same if the election shall have been otherwise

fairly conducted. Only residents of the Fire Protection District

who are qualified electors in their respective precincts shall be

eligible to vote in said election. The ballot shall inform the

voters that they must choose either the last best offer of the

bargaining agent or the last best offer of the corporate authority.

The last best offer receiving a majority of the votes shall become

the agreement of the parties.

C. Concerning issues relating to money, such ballot shall

clearly state the total dollar amount of the offer from the union

and the total dollar amount of the offer from the employer. Such

ballot shall also disclose the percentage of increase or decrease

both offers have over or under the last contract of the two parties.

D. Agreements which are reached as a result of selection by the

arbitration board or by election shall be effective on the first day

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of the fiscal year involved regardless of the date of the final

selection.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-623 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-623
General duties - Direct deposit system
Status: in_force

It shall be his duty to receive all monies belonging to the

county from whatever source they may be derived, and other monies

which by law are directed to be paid to him, and all monies received

by him for the use of the county shall be paid by him only on the

warrants of the board of county commissioners, drawn according to

law, and all other monies shall be paid over by him as provided by

law. Counties may implement a direct deposit system to have

warrants transferred electronically to a financial institution. The

State Auditor and Inspector shall promulgate rules as necessary for

the implementation and administration of a direct deposit system.

R.L. 1910, § 1730. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 318, § 7, emerg. eff.

June 7, 1993.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-353.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-353.1
Counseling services for certain persons
Status: in_force

A. Upon the availability of county funds, the board of county

commissioners of each county and the sheriff of each county are

hereby authorized to hire counselors or contract for services of

counselors for the purpose of providing counseling services to

victims of crime, relatives of crime victims, witnesses to crimes,

inmates in county jails, mental health detainees in the custody of

the county and county employees whose official duties relate to law

enforcement or mental health, or immediate family members of such

employees; provided, such counseling services shall not be provided

at county expense for county employees or immediate family members

thereof except for counseling services necessary as a direct result

of such employee's performance of official duties.

B. For purposes of this section:

1. "Counselor" includes but is not limited to a licensed

professional counselor as defined in the Licensed Professional

Counselors Act, psychologist, social worker, chaplain, psychiatrist

or any other person trained or experienced in providing counseling

services; and

2. "Chaplain" means an ordained or authorized preacher,

minister, priest or other ecclesiastical dignitary of any

denomination who has been duly ordained or authorized to preach by

the church to which he belongs.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-28 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-28
Official neglect - Felony
Status: in_force

Any election officer who shall be appointed, or commissioner,

under the provisions of this act or the laws of Oklahoma, and who

shall knowingly and willfully fail or refuse to perform required

duties shall be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall, upon

conviction, be punished by imprisonment as provided for in

subsections B through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma

Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.37I — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.37I
Report of expenditures or encumbrances -
Status: in_force

Reimbursement.

Within five (5) working days after the end of each month, the

county clerk shall report to the District Attorneys Council the

amount expended or encumbered from the state reimbursable

appropriations during the preceding month. The report shall list

each warrant or purchase order number, the payee and the amount and

shall be totaled to show the full amount to be reimbursed to the

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county. Warrants or purchase orders issued from appropriations of a

prior fiscal year shall be listed separately in the report of the

month in which the warrants or purchase orders were issued. The

Council shall immediately reimburse the county from state funds

appropriated for that purpose.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-15 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-15
Election supplies - How furnished
Status: in_force

The county election board of any county, holding such special

election, shall furnish each voting precinct, or voting place in

said county, with three ballot boxes, one of said boxes to be used

for the depositing therein of the ballots on the formation of such

new county, or the transferring of territory as voted; one box for

the purpose of depositing therein the affidavits, as made, of all

qualified electors; and one box for the depositing therein of the

ballots for county and township officers as voted. All ballots,

affidavits, ballot boxes, and other election supplies, shall be

furnished by the county election board, as provided by law, for the

printing and furnishing of ballots in regular elections.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1504 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1504
Duties of receiving officer
Status: in_force

A. A receiving officer shall receive all purchased, lease-

purchased or rented items procured for the department and shall

identify such items received in a manner prescribed by the county

road and bridge inventory officer or board of county commissioners

or designee. The receiving officer shall also maintain a record of

all such items received, disbursed, stored and consumed by the

department.

B. The receiving officer shall comply with receiving procedures

provided by law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-132 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-132
Eligibility
Status: in_force

No person shall be eligible to any county office unless he shall

be, at the time of his election or appointment, a qualified voter of

the county.

R.L. 1910, § 1549.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.67A — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.67A
Board of county commissioners may establish fines and
Status: in_force

penalties.

A. A board of county commissioners may provide for enforcement

of its regulations and establish fines, penalties or other remedies

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

recoverable together with costs of suit.

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

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

establish and enforce fines and penalties for violation of its

zoning, subdivision, storm water and floodplain regulations,

including the issuance of citations by designated county personnel

for violations of its zoning, subdivision, storm water and

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floodplain regulations. A board of county commissioners may

additionally establish that any person who fails to correct a

violation for which a citation has been issued within the period

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

each ensuing day during which such failure or violation continues.

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

county employee shall proceed as follows:

a. the employee shall prepare a written citation to

appear in court, containing the name and address of

the cited person and the violation/offense charged,

and stating when the person shall appear in district

court. The time to appear specified in the citation

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

the citation,

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

to the person cited, and such person shall sign a

duplicate written citation which shall be retained by

the county employee, and

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

be filed with the district court specified therein and

one copy delivered to the prosecuting attorney.

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

designated time, a warrant for arrest shall be issued.

4. Violations and penalties shall be deemed misdemeanor

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

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

within the county.

5. Fines and penalties collected pursuant to this subsection

shall be deposited in the appropriate county fund.

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

shall in no way preclude other remedies or appropriate action or

proceedings to prevent or remove a violation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-953 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-953
Contributions by county - Use of funds - Return of
Status: in_force

employee funds.

A. Every county establishing a retirement fund and system and

having a population in excess of six hundred seventy-five thousand

(675,000) according to the latest Federal Decennial Census is hereby

authorized to contribute to such fund and to pay to the treasurer of

such fund for the use and benefit of the persons eligible for

retirement benefits such amounts as the board of trustees may

authorize by resolution not exceeding the limitation as provided in

Section 954 of this title. Money on hand in this fund shall not be

available for any other purpose and shall not be used for any

purpose other than for retirement benefits to eligible persons

except as provided in Section 952.2 of this title; provided that

should any county employee who has contributed to such retirement

fund cease, either by resignation, discharge or failure of re-

election, to be a county employee at any time before such employee

becomes eligible for retirement, such employee shall be entitled to

receive from the retirement fund an amount, without interest, equal

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to the sum deducted from his or her salary and credited to the

retirement fund, and the board of trustees is hereby authorized and

required, on written demand of such employee, to return to such

employee, without interest, all funds contributed by such employee;

and, provided further, that should any county employee whose

services as such employee shall have ceased prior to such employee

being eligible for retirement, and should such employee have

withdrawn his or her contribution to the retirement fund as provided

herein, such employee shall not thereafter become eligible for

retirement unless he or she shall have paid into the pension fund

all money previously withdrawn therefrom by such employee by

September 1, 1984, for those employees that again became county

employees prior to July 1, 1984, and within sixty (60) days after an

employee again becomes a county employee for those employees that

again become county employees on or after July 1, 1984.

B. Every county establishing a retirement fund and system and

not having a population in excess of six hundred seventy-five

thousand (675,000) according to the latest Federal Decennial Census

is hereby authorized to contribute to such fund and to pay to the

treasurer of such fund for the use and benefit of the persons

eligible for retirement benefits such amounts as the board of

trustees may authorize by resolution not exceeding the limitation as

provided in Section 954 of this title. Money on hand in this fund

shall not be available for any other purpose and shall not be used

for any purpose other than for retirement benefits to eligible

persons except as provided in Section 952.2 of this title; provided

that should any county employee who has contributed to such

retirement fund cease, either by resignation, discharge or failure

of re-election, to be a county employee at any time before such

employee becomes eligible for retirement, such employee shall be

entitled to receive from the retirement fund an amount, without

interest, equal to the sum deducted from his or her salary and

credited to the retirement fund, and the board of trustees is hereby

authorized and required, on written demand of such employee, to

return to such employee, without interest, all funds contributed by

such employee; and, provided further, that should any county

employee whose services as such employee shall have ceased prior to

such employee being eligible for retirement, and should such

employee have withdrawn his or her contribution to the retirement

fund as provided herein, such an employee, otherwise meeting the

eligibility requirements for membership, who has withdrawn his or

her accumulated contributions at any period of time, and who wishes

to reinstate the creditable service covered by such contributions,

shall pay the system the full amount of contributions previously

withdrawn with interest thereon at the annual percentage rate of ten

percent (10%) from the date withdrawn. The withdrawn contributions

plus interest must be repaid by August 31, 1994 to reinstate such

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creditable service. Any increase in benefits resulting from

reinstatement of creditable service under this subsection shall be

prospective from the date of repayment. Nothing in this subsection

shall apply to alter any amount of benefits paid or due prior to

repayment of the withdrawn contributions.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.1
Metropolitan area planning commission - County board of
Status: in_force

adjustment.

For the purpose of cooperating with the State of Oklahoma in

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

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

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

Oklahoma in which there is no city having a population of more than

two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the last preceding

Federal Decennial Census or any future federal census, one or more

city and county planning and zoning commissions, in the manner

herein provided, and for the purpose there is hereby authorized to

be created in each of such counties city-county cooperative planning

commissions, which shall be designated "metropolitan area planning

commission", and a county board of adjustment with the respective

powers and duties as set out in this act. In the execution of its

purposes, such metropolitan area planning commission shall function

as an advisory, consultative and coordinating agency, established to

harmonize its planning activities with the planning activities of

departments, agencies and instrumentalities of federal, state and

local government; and to stimulate public interest and participation

in the development of the area. As used in Sections 866.1 through

866.36 of this title, the word "city" includes incorporated towns.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-868.18 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-868.18
Appeals to county board of adjustment
Status: in_force

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Appeals to the county board of adjustment may be taken by any

person aggrieved or by a public officer, department, board or bureau

affected by any decision of the county engineer in administering the

county zoning regulations. Such appeals shall be taken within a

period of not more than ten (10) days, by filing written notice with

the county board of adjustment stating the grounds therefor. An

appeal shall stay all proceedings in furtherance of the action

appealed from, unless the officer from whom the appeal is taken

shall certify to the board that by reason of facts stated in the

certificate a stay would, in his opinion, cause imminent peril to

life or property. The county board of adjustment shall have the

following powers and it shall be its duty:

1. To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is

error of law in any order, requirement, decision or determination

made by the county engineer in the enforcement of the county zoning

regulations;

2. To hear and decide requests for map interpretations or for

decisions on other special questions upon which it is authorized to

pass by the regulations adopted by the board of county

commissioners; and

3. Where, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness,

shape, topography or other extraordinary or exceptional situation or

condition of a specific piece of property, the strict application of

any regulation adopted under this act would result in peculiar and

exceptional difficulties to, or exceptional and demonstrable undue

hardship upon, the owner of such property, to authorize, upon an

appeal relating to such property, a variance from such strict

application so as to relieve such demonstrable difficulties or

hardships, provided such relief can be granted without substantial

detriment to the public good and without substantially impairing the

intent, purpose and integrity of the zoning plan as embodied in the

zoning regulations and map. For every variance granted, the county

board of adjustment shall state in detail as a matter of record the

exceptional and demonstrable undue hardship upon the owner of such

property.

In exercising the above powers, such board may, in conformity

with the provisions of the act, reverse or affirm wholly or partly

or may modify the order, requirement, decision or determination

appealed from and may make such order, requirement, decision or

determination as should be made, and to that end shall have all the

powers of the officer from whom the appeal is taken.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-266 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-266
Fees - Charges to state governmental entities
Status: in_force

The county clerk may charge any state agency or other state

governmental entity, except child support enforcement offices

operated by or for the benefit of the Oklahoma Department of Human

Services, rural water districts organized pursuant to the Rural

Water, Sewer, Gas and Solid Waste Management Districts Act and the

Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization for liens filed

pursuant to the Boll Weevil Eradication Act, the usual and customary

fee for filing any document with the county clerk and may charge the

usual and customary fee for making copies of any document.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.47 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.47
Classification of estimated revenue and appropriation
Status: in_force

expenditures.

Estimated revenue and appropriation expenditures in the budget

of each fund shall be classified in conformity with the accounting

system prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector. Revenues

shall be classified separately by source. Expenditures shall be

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departmentalized by appropriate functions and activities within each

fund and shall be classified within the following categories:

1. Salaries and wages, which may include expenses for salaries,

wages, per diem allowances and other forms of compensation;

2. Employee benefits paid to any member or employee of the

board for services rendered or for employment. Employee benefits

may include employer contributions to a retirement system,

insurance, vacation allowances, sick leave, terminal pay or similar

benefits;

3. Operating expenses, which may include materials and

supplies, articles and commodities which are consumed or materially

altered when used, such as office supplies, operating supplies and

repair and maintenance supplies, and all items of expense to any

persons, firm or corporation rendering a service in connection with

repair, sale or trade of such articles or commodities, such as

services or charges for communications, transportation, advertising,

printing or binding, insurance, public utility services, repairs and

maintenance, rentals, miscellaneous items and all items of operating

expense to any person, firm or corporation rendering such services;

4. Other services and charges, which may include all current

expenses other than those listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6 of

this section;

5. Capital outlays, which may include outlays which result in

acquisition of or additions to fixed assets purchased by the

district, including land, buildings, improvements other than

buildings, and all construction, reconstruction, appurtenances or

improvements to real property accomplished according to the

conditions of a contract, machinery and equipment, furniture and

autos and trucks; and

6. Debt service, which may include outlays in the form of debt

principal payments, periodic interest payments, paying agent's fees,

or related service charges for benefits received in part in prior

fiscal periods as well as in current and future fiscal periods.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.13 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.13
Recording of plats or deeds - Approval
Status: in_force

From and after the adoption of a plan for major streets or

highways as a part of the comprehensive plan for the physical

development of the area and the adoption of the rules and

regulations governing subdivision of land no plat or deed or other

instrument of a subdivision of land within the area shall be

accepted for record in the office of the county clerk until it shall

have been approved by such commission as being in accordance with

the officially adopted rules and regulations of the commission and

such approval endorsed in writing on the plat.

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The approval of the commission required by this section or the

refusal to approve shall take place within forty-five (45) days from

and after the submission of the subdivision of land for final

approval; otherwise said subdivision of land shall be deemed to have

been approved and the certificate of said commission as to the date

of the submission of the subdivision of land for approval and as to

the failure to take action thereon within such time shall be

sufficient in lieu of the written endorsement or evidence of

approval herein required. The ground of refusal of any subdivision

of land submitted, including citation to or reference to the rules

or regulations violated by the subdivision of land shall be stated

upon the record of the commission.

Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land

within the area, transfers or sells or agrees to sell, or negotiates

to sell any land by reference to or exhibition thereof, or by other

use of a plat of a subdivision or a contract for deed or other

instrument before such plat or deed or instrument has been approved

by the commission and filed of record in the office of the county

clerk, or whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of a parcel

of ground, transfers, or sells or agrees to sell, or negotiates to

sell any tract of land of less than ten (10) acres, except in

counties adjoining a county having a cooperative planning commission

formed under the provisions of 19 O.S. 1961, Section 863.2, in which

case upon order or rule of the city-county cooperative planning

commission a tract of less than two and one-half (2 1/2) acres where

such tract was not shown of record in the office of the county clerk

as separately owned at the effective date of the regulations

hereinafter provided for and not located within a subdivision

approved according to law and filed of record in the office of the

county clerk, or if so located, not comprising at least one entire

lot as recorded, without first obtaining the written approval of the

commission by its endorsement on the instrument of transfer, or

contract of sale or other agreement to transfer, shall be subject to

the penalties by this act provided; and such transaction shall be

unlawful and shall not be recorded by the county clerk; provided

that a tract of land which has not been subdivided, a tract of more

than ten (10) acres, except in counties adjoining a county having a

cooperative planning commission formed under the provisions of 19

O.S. 1961, Section 863.2, in which case upon order or rule of the

city-county cooperative planning commission a tract of more than two

and one-half (2 1/2) acres, may be transferred by the owner thereof

to any person without complying with the provisions of this act and

such transfer shall be duly recorded by the county clerk; and

provided, further, that such person may further transfer such tract

without complying with the provisions of this act, so long as such

transfer involves the whole of such tract and the transfer shall be

recorded by the county clerk, and thereafter any transfer shall be

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subject to existing law. Provided further, all deeds of record as

of January 1, 1963, which convey tracts of land not portions of an

approved or disapproved plat or subdivision, are hereby validated

insofar as the filings of the same are concerned, whether or not

first approved by the commission.

In its consideration of such transfers, referred to as "lot-

splits" the commission shall apply the same regulations as are

applied to subdivisions in order to accomplish the purpose of

planning as herein provided. No city board of adjustment or county

board of adjustment or any office representing such boards shall

require that easements be given to the city or county for major

street usages serving approval on a lot-split deed, and approving

such deeds shall not be deemed consideration for the transfer of

easements for road purposes, except in the case of streets platted

and dedicated by the owner in approved subdivision plans.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1278 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1278
Interest rate
Status: in_force

Bonds issued as provided in this act shall be made payable and

be issued as provided by law in the Registered Public Obligations

Act of Oklahoma, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed ten

percent (10%), per annum.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-80 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-80
Assignments - Duties of - Vacancies
Status: in_force

In selecting and commissioning said special election

commissioners, the governor shall assign each said commissioner to a

particular voting precinct, or voting place in said county,

proposing to hold such special election; and for the purpose of said

special election the said commissioner so selected, shall perform

the duties of an inspector of election in such precinct or voting

place so assigned, as provided by the general election laws when not

in conflict with the provisions of this article. It shall be the

duty of each such special election commissioner to present himself

to the special county election board at the office of the county

clerk at the present county seat of such county not later than ten

o'clock a.m., of the second day next preceding the date set for the

holding of such special election where he shall receive from said

board, and receipt therefor, the ballots, ballot boxes, poll books,

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tally sheets, stamps, pen, ink, pencils and other material necessary

for the proper holding of such election, and shall safely convey

such material so received to the precinct or voting place assigned

so that the polls may be duly and promptly opened on the day set for

the holding of said special election: Provided, that the words

"ballot" or "ballots" as used in this article, shall be construed to

mean the same as the words "ticket" or "tickets" as used in the

Constitution of the state with reference to elections for the

removal or change of county seats. In the event the special

election commissioner of any precinct shall fail to present himself

to the county election board for such election supplies and to

receive the same at the time in this article specified, then it

shall be the duty of the county election board to designate and

appoint in writing some qualified elector of the county to perform

all of the duties of said special election commissioner of such

precinct at said election.

R.L. 1910, § 1526.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-755 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-755
Effect of partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any part of this act is declared unconstitutional by the

Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, that part of said act not

declared unconstitutional shall remain in full force and effect.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.25a — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.25a
Inclusion of contiguous districts
Status: in_force

When the respective territories of any city or town and any

district are contiguous they may be included in the limits of the

district in the same manner as provided for the organization of fire

protection districts. Such territory shall not be included or added

to the territory of the district without the consent of the board of

directors, certified to the board of county commissioners. In case

any such territory is added to the district the property therein

shall immediately become subject to the lien for the payment of

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bonds theretofore authorized by the district in the same manner as

property within the district at the time of authorization of such

bonds.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.11 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.11
Rural road improvement district property record
Status: in_force

To permit retirement of the bonded indebtedness of the rural

road improvement district, it shall be the duty of the secretary of

the board to prepare and keep a record which shall be known as the

rural road improvement district property record. Such record shall

contain the names of the owners of the lands in the district as they

appear on the tax rolls of the county or upon the deed records, the

description of all property subject to ad valorem taxation, and the

assessed value of such property as shown by the records of the

county assessor. No error in the names of owners or in the

description thereof shall invalidate the levy of taxes provided for

in the Oklahoma Rural Road Improvement District Act if sufficient

description is given to identify such property.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1712 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1712
Cash surpluses
Status: reserved

If and when an actual cash surplus accrues in any fund for any

prior fiscal year, such surplus shall forthwith be transferred to

the same fund for the fiscal year next succeeding the year for which

the taxes were originally levied, and shall be used to pay any

warrants and interest thereon which may be outstanding and unpaid

for such year. After all warrants and interest on such warrants for

such year have been paid or reserved for, the surplus, if any, shall

forthwith be transferred to the next succeeding year for the same

purpose. This procedure shall be followed for each succeeding

fiscal year until all warrants issued prior to the current fiscal

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year are paid or reserved for, and then any cash surplus remaining

shall accrue and be transferred to the current fiscal year, to be

used to pay any legal warrant and interest charges of such year.

The term "actual cash surplus", as used herein, is hereby defined to

mean an excess of actual cash actually on hand over and above all

legal obligations. Taxes in process of collection shall not be

considered in determining the actual cash surplus for any fund for

any fiscal year or years.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1202 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1202
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Ambulance Service Districts Act unless the

context clearly requires otherwise:

1. "District" means a public ambulance service district as

licensed by the State Department of Health;

2. "Board" means the governing body of a district; and

3. "Board of county commissioners" and "county clerk" shall

mean, respectively, the board of county commissioners and county

clerk of the county in which the greatest portion of the territory

of any proposed district is located.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1704 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1704
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this act:

1. "Account" means an entity for recording specific revenues or

expenditures, or for grouping related or similar classes of revenues

and expenditures and recording them within a fund or department;

2. "Appropriation" means an authorization and allocation of

money to be expended for a purpose;

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3. “Audit” means a performance audit, a financial audit,

agreed-upon procedures, limited review, or examination of the books

and records;

4. "Board" means a board of trustees of an emergency medical

service district created pursuant to the provisions of Section 9C of

Article X of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma;

5. "Budget" means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal

year, including an estimate of proposed expenditures for given

purposes and the proposed means for financing them;

6. "Budget summary" means a tabular listing of revenues by

source and expenditures by fund and by department within each fund

for the budget year;

7. "Budget year" means the fiscal year for which a budget is

prepared or being prepared;

8. "Current year" means the year in which the budget is

prepared and adopted, or the fiscal year immediately preceding the

budget year;

9. "Deficit" means the excess of the liabilities, reserves,

contributions and encumbrances of a fund over its assets as

reflected by its book of account;

10. "Department" means a functional unit within a fund which

carries on a specific activity;

11. "District" means an emergency medical service district

created pursuant to the provisions of Section 9C of Article X of the

Constitution of the State of Oklahoma;

12. "Estimated revenue" means the amount of revenues estimated

to be received during the budget year in each fund for which a

budget is prepared. Revenue includes any appropriated fund balance

in the budget of revenues for a fund for the budget year;

13. "Fiscal year" means the annual period for reporting fiscal

operations which begins and ends on dates as the Legislature

provides;

14. "Fund" means an independent fiscal and accounting entity

with a self-balancing set of accounts to record cash and other

financial resources, together with all liabilities, which are

segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or

attaining certain objectives, or as otherwise defined in current

generally accepted accounting principles;

15. "Fund balance" means the excess of the assets of a fund

over its liabilities, reserves, contributions and encumbrances, as

reflected by its books of account;

16. "Immediate prior fiscal year" means the year preceding the

current year;

17. "Levy" means to impose ad valorem taxes or the total amount

of ad valorem taxes for a purpose or entity;

18. "Operating reserve" means that portion of the fund balance

which has not been appropriated in a budget year. The "operating

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reserve" will be equivalent to the "unappropriated fund balance" in

any fund for which a budget is prepared.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-898.3 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-898.3
Property of city or town upon consolidation - Former
Status: in_force

district offices vacated.

Whenever an entire county sewer improvement district shall be

consolidated with an adjacent city or town, the property, both real

and personal and effects of every nature and description of such

county sewer improvement district shall be the property of and

belong to such city or town; and the offices of the county sewer

improvement district shall become vacated and the duties now vested

by law to be performed by the officers of the county sewer

improvement district shall be vested in the governing board of said

adjacent city or town.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-460.6 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-460.6
Oklahoma Energy District Authority - Grants - Energy
Status: in_force

efficiency retrofits on tax exempt property.

A County Energy District Authority may make grants to nonprofit

organizations to perform energy efficiency retrofits on tax exempt

property.Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 13
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.18 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.18
Powers and duties concerning supervision and control of
Status: in_force

county roads.

Nothing in this act shall be deemed to exclude a county from

supervision and control of the county roads in a district or to

relieve the county from any duty or obligation to improve and

maintain such county roads. The authority and powers of such

districts shall be in addition to those of the counties and shall be

carried out in cooperation with such counties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-138.14 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-138.14
County political committee organization statements
Status: in_force

Every county political committee shall file a notarized

statement of organization with the Ethics Commission subject to the

same requirements as set forth for political committees 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. 19, § 19-864.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.1
Joint city-county electrical examining and appeals board
Status: in_force

- Authorization.

For the purpose of cooperating with the State of Oklahoma in

conserving the natural resources of the state and in promoting the

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

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

Oklahoma having within its boundaries a city having a population of

one hundred eighty thousand (180,000) or more, according to the last

preceding Federal Decennial Census or any future Federal Census, a

city or cities and county electrical examining and appeals board, in

the manner herein provided, and for the purpose there is hereby

authorized to be created in each of such counties a joint city-

county electrical examining and appeals board with the respective

powers and duties as set out in this act; provided, however, this

act shall not apply to any county containing any such city if that

city includes territory in more than four counties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-514.4v2 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-514.4v2
Court cost compliance program established – Contracts
Status: in_force

with court cost compliance liaisons – Recovery on outstanding cost-

related warrants – Payment in lieu of court appearance.

A. 1. Effective November 1, 2023, there is hereby established

a court cost compliance program. The purpose of the program shall

be to assist county sheriffs and the courts of this state with the

collection of fines, costs, fees, and assessments associated with

any case in which a warrant has been issued and the case has been

referred to the court cost compliance program pursuant to Section

983 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

2. County sheriffs of any county in this state may contract

with a statewide association of county sheriffs to administer

contracts with third parties who shall be known as court cost

compliance liaisons. The court cost compliance liaison may assist

with attempting to locate and notify persons of their outstanding

misdemeanor or cost-related warrants and recover and maintain

accounts relating to past due fines, fees, costs, and assessments.

County sheriffs contracting with a statewide association of county

sheriffs for the administration of third-party contracts may assign

their rights and duties regarding these contracts to the

association.

B. A person may make payment directly to the court, as allowed

by law, or the court cost compliance liaison, as allowed, shall be

authorized to accept payment on misdemeanor or cost-related warrants

on all cases referred pursuant to Section 983 of Title 22 of the

Oklahoma Statutes by various means including but not limited to

payment by phone, mail, or Internet, and in any payment form

including but not limited to personal, cashier’s, traveler’s,

certified, or guaranteed bank check, postal or commercial money

order, nationally recognized credit or a debit card, or other

generally accepted payment form. Any payment collected and received

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by the court cost compliance liaison shall be paid to the court

clerk of the court that issued the warrant within fifteen (15) days

after receipt of the payment and proof of funds. Any payment

collected and received by the court, where the court has referred

the case to a court cost compliance liaison, shall be reported to

the court cost compliance liaison within four (4) days of receipt of

the payment. Any payment returned due to insufficient funds shall

have all insufficient fund charges incurred added to the outstanding

balance of the defendant. If a credit card payment taken by a court

cost compliance liaison is determined to be a fraudulent use of the

credit card by the payor and the payment is reversed by the credit

card company or payor’s bank, the court clerk shall reverse the

transaction upon notification, return the payment to the court cost

compliance liaison, and the court cost compliance liaison shall

continue the collection process until paid. The court clerk shall

add any additional fees for the reversal of the transaction plus the

administration fees to the outstanding balance of the defendant.

Court cost compliance liaisons shall inform individuals of their

right to a cost hearing as provided in Section 983 of Title 22 of

the Oklahoma Statutes.

C. As provided for by this section, a person may pay in lieu of

appearance before the court and such payment accepted by the court

shall constitute a finding of guilt as though a plea of nolo

contendere had been entered by the defendant as allowed by law and

shall function as a written, dated, and signed plea form acceptable

to the court. Such payment shall serve as a written waiver of a

jury trial.

D. The court shall release or recall the outstanding

misdemeanor or cost-related warrant upon receipt of all sums due

pursuant to the warrant including the misdemeanor or cost-related

warrant, scheduled fine or sum due, all associated fees, costs and

statutory penalty assessments, and the administrative cost pursuantOklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 14to the court. Such payment shall serve as a written waiver of a

jury trial.

D. The court shall release or recall the outstanding

misdemeanor or cost-related warrant upon receipt of all sums due

pursuant to the warrant including the misdemeanor or cost-related

warrant, scheduled fine or sum due, all associated fees, costs and

statutory penalty assessments, and the administrative cost pursuant

to Section 514.5 of this title, or with a mutually agreeable monthly

payment plan and a down payment set at the discretion of the court

at an amount no less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by order

of the court. A single down payment shall be sufficient to recall

all cost-related warrants against a defendant pending in a single

jurisdiction.

E. The provisions of any contract entered into by a county

sheriff shall be administered by a statewide association of county

sheriffs in Oklahoma.

F. The provisions of this section and Section 514.5 of this

title shall be applicable to:

1. Any misdemeanor or cost-related warrant issued pursuant to

Section 983 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes or relating to any

proceeding pursuant to the State and Municipal Traffic, Water

Safety, and Wildlife Bail Bond Procedure Act;

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2. Any misdemeanor or cost-related warrant issued that allows a

defendant to resolve the matter by payment in lieu of a personal

appearance in court; and

3. Any cost-related warrant issued in a criminal case.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-868.8 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-868.8
Approval of plat of subdivided lands - Rules and
Status: in_force

regulations.

From and after the date of the adoption of a plan for major

streets or highways as a part of the master plan for the physical

development of the unincorporated areas of the county and the

adoption of the rules and regulations hereinafter in this section

provided for, no plat of a subdivision of land within the

unincorporated areas of said county shall be recorded in the office

of the county clerk until it shall have been approved by such county

planning commission and such approval be endorsed in writing on the

plat. The approval of the planning commission required by this

section or the refusal to approve shall take place within forty-five

(45) days from and after the submission of the plat for final

approval unless stipulation for additional time is agreed to by the

applicant; otherwise, said plat shall be deemed to have been

approved, and the certificate of the said county planning commission

as to the date of the submission of the plat for approval and the

failure to take action thereon within such time shall be sufficient

in lieu of the written endorsement or evidence of approval herein

required. The ground of refusal or approval of any plat submitted,

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including citation of or reference to the rule or regulation

violated by the plat, shall be stated upon the record of the

commission.

Such county planning commission shall adopt rules and

regulations of uniform application governing plats and subdivisions

of land falling within its jurisdiction. Such regulations shall

provide for: the proper arrangement of streets or other highways in

relation to existing or planned streets or highways or to the master

plan of the county; building lines; open spaces for traffic,

utilities, access of fire fighting apparatus, recreation and light

and air; and the avoidance of congestion of population, including

the minimum width and area of lots. Such rules and regulations

shall not require the dedication to the general public of open

grounds or space other than streets and ways and utility easements,

nor any requirement as to the minimum percentage of lot occupancy,

nor as to height, bulk, location or use of buildings; and minor

streets shall not be required to be wider than sixty (60) feet.

Said regulations may include provisions as to the extent to which

streets and other highways shall be graded and improved and to which

water, sewer and other utility mains, piping or other facilities

shall be installed or assured as a condition precedent to the

approval of the plat; and the board of county commissioners is

hereby authorized to prepare such specifications and to make such

orders, inspections, examinations and certificates as may be

necessary to protect and carry out such provisions and make them

effective. Such general rules shall provide for the modification

thereof by the county planning commission in specific cases where

unusual topographical or other exceptional conditions may require

the same. Said regulations shall provide for tentative approval of

the plat previous to the installation or assurance of such

improvements and facilities; provided that any such tentative

approval shall be revocable and shall not be entered upon the plat.

Such regulations shall provide that, in lieu of the completion of

the construction of the required improvements and facilities prior

to the final approval of the plat, the county planning commission

may accept bond of not less than ten percent (10%) and not to exceed

one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of construction of the

proposed improvements and facilities for the board of county

commissioners in the amount and with surety and conditions

satisfactory to it, providing for and securing to the board of

county commissioners the actual construction of such improvements

and facilities within a period specified by the county planning

commission, and the board of county commissioners is hereby granted

the power to enforce such bond by all legal and equitable remedies.

Such regulations shall be adopted, changed or amended only after a

public hearing has been held thereon. Upon adoption, said general

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rules shall be certified to the board of county commissioners and to

the county clerk.

If the governing body of a city or town protests against a

subdivision plat of any land lying within three (3) miles of the

limits of the incorporated area of such city or town, the plat shall

be approved only by a favorable vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the

whole membership of the county planning commission with the reasons

therefor spread upon its minutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-138.16 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-138.16
Organization statements and contribution and
Status: in_force

expenditure reports - Public records.

Statements of organization and reports of contributions and

expenditures required under the County Campaign Finance and

Financial Disclosure Act shall be public records. The Ethics

Commission shall maintain statements of organization and reports of

contributions and expenditures for four (4) years after the date on

which they are filed or prepared, at which time the documents may be

destroyed or retained at the discretion of the Ethics Commission.

The Ethics Commission may post copies of statements of organization

and reports of contributions and expenditures.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-285 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-285
Seal
Status: in_force

The register of deeds shall keep a seal, to be furnished by the

county, which seal shall contain the name of the county, the words

“Oklahoma” and “Register of Deeds”. Except as provided in the

Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, he or she shall

attach such seal to all instruments filed or recorded in his or her

office, together with his or her signature and certificate to all

certified copies of any instrument on file or of record in his or

her office, which he or she is required to issue.

R.L. 1910, § 1657. Amended by Laws 2023, c. 98, § 2, eff. Nov. 1,

2023.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1103.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1103.1
Executive director - Contract for services - Salary
Status: in_force

Any county establishing an economic development program may

contract for the services of an executive director for the program.

The executive director shall be employed by and serve at the

pleasure of the board of county commissioners; provided, said

employment shall be renewed on an annual basis. The salary of the

executive director shall be in an amount set by the board of county

commissioners; provided, travel and per diem shall be paid in

accordance with the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement

Act, Section 500.1 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 510

The provisions of this section shall not apply to counties with a

population of more than four hundred thousand (400,000) persons.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-130.3 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-130.3
Meetings - Chair - Quorum - Reimbursement
Status: in_force

The President of Oklahoma State University or his or her

designee shall serve as chair of the Commission on County Government

Personnel Education and Training. After the first meeting, the

Commission shall meet as it deems necessary or when called by the

chair or by any three members. Three members shall constitute a

quorum and no official action shall be taken by the Commission

unless there is a quorum present.

The representative of the County Officers Association shall be

reimbursed for mileage and per diem in accordance with the State

Travel Reimbursement Act when attending Commission meetings or other

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 64

activities associated with his or her duties. Other Commission

members shall not be reimbursed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-935 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-935
Provisions as cumulative
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall in no manner supersede or

repeal any laws now in force or effect, or any charter provisions of

any city relating to city parks or park boards, but shall be

cumulative to all such laws or charter provisions thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.12b — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.12b
Financing of improvements on pay-as-you-go basis
Status: in_force

A. Nothing in this act shall prevent the board of directors

from using the levy provided for in Section 902.15 of Title 19 of

the Oklahoma Statutes for financing improvements on a pay-as-you-go

basis provided the district has no outstanding bonds or other

evidences of indebtedness. Pay-as-you-go improvements shall be

subject to the assessment limits in Section 902.15 of Title 19 of

the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be approved in the same manner as

described in Section 902.12 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes and

shall not be approved for more than the actual estimated cost of

such purchase and construction. For the purposes of this section,

“pay-as-you-go improvements” shall be defined as improvements that

are constructed and paid for when necessary revenues are

accumulated.

B. A district choosing to finance improvements on a pay-as-you-

go basis shall not issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness

until a time following the financing and completion of pay-as-you-go

improvements.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 463
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-162 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-162
Deputies - Appointment - Compensation and salaries -
Status: in_force

Appropriations.

Subject to the approval of the county excise board, every county

officer shall appoint such regular and special deputies as are

essential to the performance of the duties of the office in an

efficient manner and shall fix their salaries and compensation. In

order to provide for parity among and between county offices, every

county which has established a county budget board pursuant to the

County Budget Act, Sections 1401 through 1421 of this title, may,

upon majority vote of the members of the budget board, institute

equivalent employee job descriptions and related salary levels for

all full-time employment positions for uniform application by each

county officer. It shall be the responsibility of the board of

county commissioners to cause such job descriptions and salary

levels to be established. The county officer shall annually make

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 88

request for appropriation for payment of salaries, traveling

expenses, supplies and equipment and other needs for performing his

official duties. The board of county commissioners and the county

excise board shall annually appropriate amounts that will enable a

county officer to hire and keep capable deputies, provide their

instruction, provide sufficient supplies and equipment for the

county officer and his deputies, provide reimbursement for traveling

expenses for the county officer or deputies whose assignments

require expenditures therefor, or provide a monthly travel allowance

for the county officer in lieu of reimbursed expenditures for travel

within this state.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.34 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.34
Apprentices
Status: in_force

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the

employment of apprentices to perform any of the work herein defined

provided said apprentice performs said work under the direct

supervision of a licensed electrical contractor or journeyman. No

license, examination or fees shall be required of such apprentices.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.26 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.26
Notice of public hearings
Status: in_force

A. Notice of all public hearings herein provided for shall be

given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in

the county at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date of such

hearing.

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 zoning change 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. 19, § 19-12 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-12
Petition - Proclamation calling election - Counties
Status: in_force

excepted.

Upon a petition or petitions in writing, signed by fifty-one

percent (51%) of the qualified electors residing in each particular

territory sought to be created into a new county, or transferred to

another county, such percent to be determined by the total vote cast

in said territory for the head of the state ticket in the next

preceding election, and it being made to appear that said

petitioners are qualified electors of said territory and are fifty-

one percent (51%) of each particular territory thereof, and it being

made to appear that if a new county is to be formed, that same will

consist of not less than five hundred (500) square miles of taxable

area and will contain a population of not less than twenty thousand

(20,000) people and will have not less than Four Million Dollars

($4,000,000.00) of taxable wealth as shown by the current tax rolls;

that if the change or changes sought to be made are for the purpose

of creating a new county it will not bring the newly created lines

of such existing county or counties from which said territory is

taken nearer than twenty (20) miles to the county seat thereof; that

if the change or changes sought to be made for the purpose of

transferring territory from an existing county or counties to

another county, it will not bring the newly created lines in such

existing county or counties from which any territory is taken nearer

than fifteen (15) miles to the county seat thereof; that the taxable

wealth of such existing county or counties will not be reduced below

that required for a new county, and if the object sought is to

transfer territory from one county to an existing county, it shall

be made to appear that the county from which said territory is

sought to be taken, will not be less in area than the county to

which the addition is made, and such petition and such showing have

been filed with and made before the Governor, shall within thirty

(30) days issue his proclamation, calling an election to be held in

said territory not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy (70)

days from the date of his proclamation. That nothing in this bill

shall apply to counties now existing containing eighteen hundred

(1,800) square miles in area, which counties shall be governed by

the Constitutional limitations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1500 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1500
County purchasing agent - Appointment - Training - Duties
Status: in_force

and responsibilities - Salary - Office space and equipment.

A. The county clerk of each county or an employee of that

office so designated by the county clerk shall be the county

purchasing agent. Provided, in counties having a county budget

board created pursuant to the County Budget Act, the board may, upon

an affirmative vote of a majority of all the board members then in

office, appoint a county purchasing agent. In the event the board

does not appoint a county purchasing agent, the county clerk or an

employee of that office so designated by the county clerk shall be

the county purchasing agent. The county purchasing agent shall be

under the general supervision and direction of the appointing

authority.

B. All persons serving as county purchasing agents on July 1,

1989, shall attend training seminars sponsored by the Oklahoma

Cooperative Extension Service prior to July 1, 1990. The training

seminars will cover the terminology, concepts, customs and practices

of the sellers of supplies, materials, equipment and information

technology and telecommunications goods commonly purchased for the

county. All county purchasing agents appointed after July 1, 1989,

shall attend the training seminars within one (1) year of their

appointment.

C. The county purchasing agent shall be authorized necessary

assistants to carry out the duties and responsibilities provided by

law and as may be delegated by the appointing authority. Provided,

the employment of such assistants shall be upon the approval of the

appointing authority. The salary of the county purchasing agent and

assistants shall be fixed by the appointing authority. Provided, if

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the county clerk is the county purchasing agent, the salary of the

county clerk shall remain as provided by law.

D. The county purchasing agent shall, at the expense of the

county, be authorized adequate office space, furnishings, equipment

and supplies to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the

county purchasing agent as provided by law and as may be delegated

by the appointing authority. Provided, the acquisition of such

furnishings, equipment and supplies shall be upon the approval of

the appointing authority, and the acquisition of office space shall

be upon the approval of the board of county commissioners.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-888 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-888
Equalization of assessments - Notice of meeting
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 402

On or before the 15th day of May in each year the assessor must

complete his assessment book and deliver the same to the clerk of

the board, who must immediately give notice thereof and of the time

the board of directors, acting as a board of equalization, will meet

to equalize assessments, by publication of such notice in a

newspaper published in the county for two successive weeks. The

time fixed for the meeting shall not be less than ten (10) nor more

than (20) days from the date of the first publication of the notice

and in the meantime the assessor's books shall remain in the office

of the secretary for the inspection of all persons interested.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-25 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-25
Precedence in court
Status: in_force

If any application for a hearing, upon any question arising

after such election has been held, is filed with the Supreme Court,

it shall be the duty of said court to make said matter special and

give it precedence over the other business of said court, and

consider and pass upon the same as speedily as is consistent with

the business of said court.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.3 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.3
Funds - Grants
Status: in_force

Any county of the state which is hereby authorized to avail

itself of the provisions of this act and to form with a city located

therein a cooperative planning commission may combine a portion of

its funds with a portion of the funds of such city, to be expended

for the purposes as herein set forth. Each such county and city is

hereby authorized to appropriate funds in the amounts necessary to

carry out the purpose of this act. The commission, upon approval of

the council or board, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to

contract for, receive, and utilize any grants or other financial

assistance from the federal or state government or from any other

source, public or private, in furtherance of its functions and may

incur necessary expenses in obtaining said grants and/or financial

assistance within the limits of its appropriations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-641 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-641
Embezzlement
Status: in_force

If any county treasurer or other officer or person charged with

the collection, receipt, safekeeping, transfer or disbursement of

the public money, or any part thereof, belonging to the state or to

any county, precinct, district, city, town or school district of the

state shall convert to the officer’s or person’s own use or to the

use of any other person, body corporate or other association, in any

way whatever, any of such public money, or any other funds,

property, bonds, securities, assets or effects of any kind received,

controlled or held by such officer or person by virtue of such

office or public trust for safekeeping, transfer or disbursement, or

in any other way or manner, or for any other purpose; or shall use

the same by way of investment in any kind of security, stocks, loan

property, land or merchandise, or in any other manner or form

whatever; or shall loan the same, with or without interest, to any

person, firm or corporation, except when authorized by law; or if

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any person shall advise, aid, or in any manner knowingly participate

in such act, such county treasurer, or other officer or person shall

be guilty of an embezzlement. Upon conviction thereof, such county

treasurer or other officer or person shall be guilty of a Class C2

felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for

in subsections B through F of Section 20M of Title 21 of the

Oklahoma Statutes.

R.L. 1910, § 7437. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 87, § 1, emerg. eff.

April 1, 1982; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 151, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws

1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 71, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2002, c.

460, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 203, eff. Jan. 1,

2026.

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

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 151 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.2 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.2
Counties and cities to which applicable - Metropolitan
Status: in_force

area planning commission - Contributions.

Any county of the state having within its boundaries more than

fifty percent (50%) of the incorporated area of a city having not

less than one hundred eighty thousand (180,000) population,

according to the last preceding Federal Decennial Census, or any

future Federal Decennial Census, is hereby authorized to avail

itself of the provisions of this act and to form a cooperative

planning commission with such city and may combine its funds with

the funds of such city, to be expended for the purposes as herein

set forth. The board of county commissioners of any such county in

this state may and they are hereby authorized to cooperate with the

council of any such city as herein provided, and the funds herein

referred to and named may be used in such work. Each county and

city forming a cooperative city-county planning commission, as

herein provided, shall, by resolution, at the beginning of the

fiscal year, or so soon thereafter as may be practicable, agree upon

contribution in equal amounts, appropriate funds for the amounts

necessary, and combine said funds. The board and council shall

contribute the funds appropriated to a common fund periodically as

may be agreed upon by the board and council, upon a claim being

filed by the commission with the respective board and council. The

contribution shall be made by warrant drawn by the appropriate

officer, after approval of the claim, payable to the city treasurer

or the county treasurer as may be agreed upon by the board and

council. Said common fund shall be maintained by either the city

treasurer or the county treasurer as may be agreed upon and shall be

disbursed upon vouchers drawn by such officer as may be agreed upon

by the board and council. Said vouchers shall be registered with

the city treasurer or county treasurer, as the case may be, before

delivery to the payee and shall be issued only in payment of claims

which have been executed in the manner prescribed by law for claims

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against the county or the city and after such claims have been

approved by the board and council. The officer designated by the

board and council to draw vouchers for payment of such claims shall

be bonded in an amount as may be required by the board and council

but not less than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). The

designated officer shall be governed by the same statutory

provisions for depository accounts as apply to county officials.

Nothing contained herein shall be construed as exempting the

contributions of the city and county to this common fund from the

application of the general statutes relating to appropriations. The

city-county cooperative planning commission shall be designated

"metropolitan area planning commission". Such city is hereby

empowered to adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry out a city plan

for such city. Such county is hereby empowered to adopt, amend,

extend, add to, or carry out a county plan within the unincorporated

area of such county, all as provided in this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30-4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.30-4
Arbitration hearing - Submission of arbitration
Status: in_force

statement - Evidence - Selection decision.

The arbitration board, acting through its chairperson, shall

call a hearing to be held within ten (10) days after the date of the

appointment of the chairperson and shall, acting through its

chairperson, give at least seven (7) days of notice in writing to

each of the other two arbitrators, the bargaining agent and the

corporate authorities of the time and place of such hearing. At

least seven (7) days before the date of the hearing the bargaining

agent and the corporate authorities shall submit to each other and

to the arbitration board members a written arbitration statement

listing all contract terms which the parties have resolved and all

contract issues which are unresolved. Each arbitration statement

shall also include a final offer on each unresolved issue. The

terms and offers contained in the arbitration statements shall be

known collectively as each parties’ last best offer. The hearing

shall be informal and the rules of evidence prevailing in judicial

proceedings shall not be binding. Any documentary evidence and

other data deemed relevant by the arbitrators may be received into

evidence. The arbitrators shall have the power to administer oaths

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and to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of

witnesses, the production of books, records, and other evidence

relative or pertinent to the issues presented to them for

determination. A hearing shall be concluded within twenty (20) days

from the time of commencement. Within seven (7) days after the

conclusion of the hearing, a majority of the arbitration board

members shall select one of the two last best offers as the contract

of the parties. The criteria to be used by the board in determining

which offer to select shall be limited to those in Section 6 of this

act. The arbitration board may not modify, add to or delete from

the last best offer of either party. Written notice of the

selection decision shall be mailed or delivered to the employer and

the union.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.24 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.24
Dissolution of district
Status: in_force

In the event of the dissolution of a district, the board of

directors of the district shall be trustees for the disposition of

the property and the proceeds of the disposition of such property

and all funds remaining on hand shall be deposited with the county

treasurer who shall thereupon succeed to the powers and duties of

the district treasurer and who shall annually collect from all of

the property which shall have been in the district at the time of

the authorization of any bond, an annual assessment sufficient to

pay the interest and amount necessary to retire such outstanding

bonds as the same may become due. Such annual assessment shall be

based upon the district appraisal record at the time of dissolution.

When all of the property of the district has been disposed of and

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the funds of the district deposited with the county treasurer, the

powers and functions of the district board, as trustees for

dissolution, shall cease and the board of county commissioners of

the county in which such district is located shall succeed to all of

the powers and duties of the district insofar as it shall be

necessary for them to wind up and conclude the affairs of the

district.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1201 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1201
Ambulance Service Districts Act
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the "Ambulance Service Districts Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-625 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-625
Other duties
Status: in_force

The treasurer shall be the collector of taxes, and shall keep

his office at the county seat. He shall be charged with the amount

of all tax lists in his hands for collection, and credited with the

amount collected thereon, and the delinquent list, and shall keep a

fair and accurate current account of the moneys by him received

showing the amount thereof, the time when, from whom, and on what

account received, in cash, warrants, county or road orders; and if

in warrants or orders, their kind, number or other designation,

amounts for which they were drawn, interest due thereon, and the

amounts of the receipts thereon endorsed, if any; also of all

disbursements by him made, showing the time when, to whom, on what

account, and the amounts paid; and he shall so arrange his books

that the amounts received and paid on account of each separate and

distinct fund or appropriation shall be exhibited in separate and

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distinct columns or accounts, and so as to show whether the same was

received or paid in cash, or warrants or orders, and if either of

the latter, their designation and other particulars as above

required; and the county treasurer shall at all times exhibit such

accounts when desired, to the state, county or school officers

entitled to examine the same and shall at any time pay over the

balance in his hands to them, upon receiving proper vouchers.

R.L. 1910, § 1732.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-768 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-768
State Auditor and Inspector - Budgets and estimates -
Status: in_force

Delivery to county clerk.

The State Auditor and Inspector is hereby authorized and

directed to deliver to the county clerk all county, school district,

city and township budgets and estimates in his possession for the

purpose of enabling the county to remake a portion of the financial

records lost or destroyed by fire, lightning, windstorm or by any

act of God, and the county clerk shall execute a receipt therefor

and retain the same in his possession for such a time as is

reasonable for the preparation of the records of said county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.35 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-901.35
Advice and services of State Auditor and Inspector
Status: in_force

The State Auditor and Inspector or his designee shall advise the

districts on procedural and technical matters relating to accounting

and budget procedures and shall prescribe all the forms of whatever

nature, including but not limited to, budget forms, supporting

schedules and other accounting books and records. It shall be the

duty of the district with notice of such advice to follow the

instructions or advice of the State Auditor and Inspector until

relieved of such duty by a court of competent jurisdiction or until

the Supreme Court shall hold otherwise.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1417 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1417
Classifying estimated revenues and expenditures
Status: in_force

Estimated revenues and appropriation expenditures in the budget

of each fund shall be classified in conformity with the accounting

system prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector. Revenues

shall be classified separately by source. Expenditures shall be

departmentalized by appropriate functions and activities within each

fund and shall be classified within the following categories:

1. Salaries and wages, which may include expenses for salaries,

wages, per diem allowances and other forms of compensation;

2. Employee benefits paid to any officer or employee for

services rendered or for employment. Employee benefits may include

employer contributions to a retirement system, insurance, vacation

allowances, sick leave, terminal pay or similar benefits;

3. Operating expenses, which may include materials and

supplies, articles and commodities which are consumed or materially

altered when used, such as office supplies, operating supplies and

repair and maintenance supplies, and all items of expense to any

persons, firm or corporation rendering a service in connection with

repair, sale or trade of such articles or commodities, such as

services or charges for communications, transportation, advertising,

printing or binding, insurance, public utility services, repairs and

maintenance, rentals, miscellaneous items and all items of operating

expense to any person, firm or corporation rendering such services;

4. Other charges consisting primarily of conduit type payments,

such as charity, food and clothing, claims and damages, death

benefits, grants and subsidies, reimbursements for food stamp

distribution, and similar payments;

5. Capital outlays, which may include outlays which result in

acquisition of or additions to fixed assets purchased by the county,

including land, buildings, improvements other than buildings, and

all construction, reconstruction, appurtenances or improvements to

real property accomplished according to the conditions of a

contract, machinery and equipment, furniture and autos and trucks;

and

6. Debt service, which may include outlays in the form of debt

principal payments, periodic interest payments, paying agent's fees,

or related service charges for benefits received in part in prior

fiscal periods as well as in current and future fiscal periods.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.4
Territorial jurisdiction
Status: in_force

The territorial jurisdiction of the municipality as respects

administering and enforcing of rules and regulations as in this act

provided, shall include all territory located in the municipality,

and all other territorial jurisdiction for the purpose of

administering and enforcing the rules and regulations as in this act

provided shall be exercised by the county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.9 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.9
Submission of proposals and plans - Advice and
Status: in_force

cooperation of other agencies.

To facilitate effective and harmonious planning of the

metropolitan area, the boards and the councils concerned and other

county, municipal and local governmental agencies concerned shall

submit to the metropolitan planning commission all proposals for

plans and amendments or revisions thereto, as well as other

proposals, recommendations and reports on matters with which the

planning commission is concerned. In the pursuance of its duties,

the metropolitan planning commission may seek the advice,

cooperation and collaboration of appropriate federal, state,

municipal and other local governmental offices, departments,

agencies, and instrumentalities, educational institutions and

research organizations, whether public or private, and of civic

groups and private persons and organizations. The planning

commission also shall cooperate and confer with, and upon request

supply information to, federal, state, municipal and other local

governmental agencies, and so far as possible cooperate with

planning agencies of adjoining areas, on matters of mutual interest

relevant to its activities. Whenever such cooperation or assistance

includes the rendering of technical services, such services may be

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rendered free or in accordance with an agreement for reimbursement.

The planning commission also shall advise and supply information, as

far as possible, to civic groups and private persons and

organizations who may request such information and advise, and who

study or otherwise concern themselves with the metropolitan area's

problems and development, insofar as such problems and development

may be relevant to the activities of the planning commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1260 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1260
Consent of registered owners of bond to payment of
Status: in_force

special assessments - Presentment for payment - Endorsement -

Cancellation.

Whenever the outstanding bonds in any series issued for the

payment of road or street improvements in any district have been

registered in accordance with the provisions of Section 1259 of this

title, all of the registered owners of all of such bonds may file

their consent in writing with the county clerk in which such

district is located, that bonds of such series may be used in

payment of special assessments in accordance with the provisions of

this act; and such written consent shall be binding upon any

transferee or assignee of any of such bonds, and upon all of the

registered owners signing the same, as to all payments made in

pursuance hereof, until written notice be filed with the clerk by

any such registered owner, or registered transferee or assignee, of

any such bond, terminating his consent thereto. After such written

consent is filed, as aforesaid, and until written notice of

termination is given as herein provided, the owner of any property

in any such road improvement district may, with the written consent

of the registered owner, or owners thereof, present to the county

clerk of such county, the bond bearing the lowest serial number of

the bonds outstanding in such series, or if the same be

insufficient, then he may present the next serially numbered bond,

or bonds, as the case may require, in payment of the special

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 539

assessment, or of any installment thereof, upon said owner's

property in such road improvement district, whether delinquent or

unmatured, with all interest and penalty thereon. The clerk of said

county shall endorse upon said bond, or bonds, the amount of the

installment, or installments, and interest and penalty thereon, for

which the registered owner, or owners, consent that said bond may be

tendered as payment, and thereupon the clerk shall issue a receipt

to the owner of such property to the extent of such installment,

together with interest and penalty, for which credit has been

endorsed, as aforesaid, upon said bond or bonds. Whenever the

credits upon any such bond so endorsed equals the principal amount

of such bond, together with all matured interest, said bond,

together with all interest, whether due or to become due, shall be

canceled by such clerk.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-686 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-686
Penalty for violation
Status: in_force

Any official or employee thereof or any member or employee of

any county board or county commission who shall fail, neglect or

refuse to comply with the requirements of Section 682 of this title,

or any other provision of this act, shall forfeit and pay to the use

of the county the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day for each and

every day that he shall so fail, neglect or refuse to comply with

the requirements of said act, and shall forfeit and be removed from

office; and, any such official who shall issue, sign, attest or

utter any false or illegal voucher against any monies deposited, as

in this act provided, shall be liable to the county on his official

bond for a sum double in amount of any such illegal or fraudulent

voucher, and shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and upon

conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in a sum of not less

than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand

Dollars ($1,000.00) and by imprisonment as provided for in

subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma

Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1007 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1007
Annual budget, contributions and expenditures - Tax levy
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the commission to prepare an annual

budget which shall be subject to the approval of the governing body

of the city and the board of county commissioners.

Each county and city establishing a city-county park and

recreation system, as herein provided, at the beginning of each

fiscal year or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, shall agree

upon the necessary contributions to be made by each for the

establishment, operation and maintenance of the city-county park and

recreation system, appropriate such funds as may be agreed upon, and

combine said funds with funds from any other source. Periodically,

as may be agreed upon, the city and county shall contribute their

appropriated funds to a common fund upon claims therefor being filed

by the commission with the governing body of the city and with the

board of county commissioners. After approval of the claims, the

contributions shall be made by warrants, issued by the appropriate

officers and made payable to the city treasurer or county treasurer,

as may be agreed upon by the city and county. Said common fund

shall be maintained as a depository account with either the city

treasurer or county treasurer, as may be agreed upon, and shall be

disbursed upon vouchers drawn by such officer or employee of the

commission as may be agreed upon by the city and county. Said

vouchers shall be issued only in payment of claims which have been

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executed in the manner prescribed by law for claims against the

county or the city, and after such claims have been approved by the

governing body of the city and the board of county commissioners,

and before delivery to the payee, shall be registered with the city

treasurer or county treasurer, as the case may be.

The officer or employee of the commission designated by the city

and county to draw vouchers in payment of such claims shall be

bonded in an amount as may be required by the city and county, but

not less than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). The designated

officer or employee shall be governed by the same statutory

provisions relating to depository accounts as apply to county

officials generally. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as

exempting from the application of the general statutes relating to

appropriations the funds contributed by the city and county to this

common fund.

Income of the city-county park and recreation system from fees,

sales of personal property, and other miscellaneous sources,

excluding income from sales of real property, shall not be

considered general revenue of either the city or the county. It

shall be deposited promptly with the city treasurer or the county

treasurer, as the case may be, and shall be credited directly to the

depository account of the commission without appropriation. Income

from this source shall constitute a revolving fund which shall not

be subject to fiscal limitations and which may be expended by the

commission for the replacement or repair of recreation equipment and

other personal property other than motor vehicles.

The board of county commissioners of any county availing itself

of the provisions of this act may provide for the erection of

buildings or other structures for recreational purposes or functions

by providing for a tax levy therefor under the provisions of Article

X, Section 10 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.14 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.14
Division into districts or zones
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission of such county shall make and certify to

the board of county commissioners of such county a zoning plan,

including both the full text of the zoning resolution and proposed

regulations and map or maps, representing the recommendations of the

commission for the regulation by districts or zones, of the

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

other structures in the areas of the county, not included within the

territorial jurisdiction of the municipality as herein defined, and

the percentage of the lot or area which may be occupied, the size of

yards, courts and other open spaces, the density and distribution of

population, the uses of buildings, structures and land for trade,

industry, residence, recreation, civic and public activities and

other purposes, then the board may exercise the powers granted and,

for the purposes mentioned in Section 13 of this act, may divide the

areas of such county not included within the territorial

jurisdiction of the municipality into districts or zones in such

number, shape and areas as it may determine and, for said purposes,

may regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, conversion,

alteration and uses of buildings and structures and the uses of

land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind

of buildings throughout each district, but the regulations in one

district may differ from those in other districts.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-5
Process - How served
Status: in_force

In all legal proceedings against the county, process shall be

served on the county clerk as the clerk of the board of county

commissioners, and whenever suit or proceedings shall be commenced,

it shall be the duty of the clerk, forthwith to notify the district

attorney and lay before the board of county commissioners at their

next meeting, all the information he may have in regard to such suit

or proceedings.

R.L. 1910, § 1501.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.5
Commission membership - Appointment and tenure - Compensation - Vacancies—
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 20

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 21Compensation - Vacancies—Removal.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission shall consist of

eleven (11) members, selected as follows: six shall be appointed by

the mayor and approved by the city council and three shall be

appointed by the board. The mayor of the municipality or a person

designated by the mayor as an alternate and the chair of the board

or a person designated by the chair of the board as an alternate

shall be ex officio members of the Commission and shall be entitled

to vote on all matters. Members selected by the mayor other than

the alternate of the mayor shall serve for terms of three (3) years,

except that the respective terms of the first two members appointed

shall be one (1) year, the next two members appointed two (2) years,

and the next two members three (3) years. Members selected by the

chair of the board other than the alternate of the chair, shall

serve for terms of three (3) years, except that the respective term

of the members first appointed shall be one, two, and three years.

All members of the Commission shall serve as such without

compensation, except the commissioners may receive a per diem as set

by the local board and council not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars

($25.00) for each meeting attended not to exceed One Hundred Dollars

($100.00) per month, and the appointed members other than the

alternates shall hold no other municipal or county office.

Vacancies occurring otherwise than through the expiration of term

shall be filled for the unexpired term by the official appointing

the original holder of said membership.

A member of such Commission, other than an alternate, once

qualified, can thereafter be removed during his or her term of

office only for cause and after a hearing held before the governing

body by which he or she was appointed.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 294
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-138.9 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-138.9
Counties of 200,000 or more
Status: in_force

In those counties with a population in excess of three hundred

thousand (300,000) under the latest Federal Decennial Census, the

county indigent defenders, for those counties subject to the

provisions of Section 138.1a of this title, shall perfect appeals

for those defendants which they represented in the trial court

unless an appellate conflict exists between two or more such

defendants, in which case the county indigent defender shall

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represent one defendant, the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System shall

represent one defendant, and the court may assign the appeal of the

case for any other defendants in the same manner as provided for

conflict at the trial level in Section 138.7 of this title. If an

appellate conflict of interest exists between the defendant and the

county indigent defender in a case in which the defendant has

received the death penalty, the district court may appoint the

Indigent Defense System to represent the defendant on appeal. The

Oklahoma Indigent Defense System shall also represent all indigent

defendants from such counties who were not represented at trial by

the county public defenders unless a conflict of interest on appeal

exists between defendants, in which case the Oklahoma Indigent

Defense System shall represent one defendant, the county indigent

defender shall represent one defendant and the court may assign the

appeal of the case for any other defendants in the same manner as

provided for conflict at the trial level in Section 138.7 of this

title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-171 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-171
Audit by State Auditor and Inspector - Scope of audit -
Status: in_force

County government financial audits.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 92

A. Each county of this state shall every two (2) years have an

audit made by the State Auditor and Inspector or a duly appointed

deputy or deputies of all of the books, records and accounts of all

the officers of each county of this state, which audit shall be

general in its nature and shall include an audit of the books,

records and accounts of all officers who collect or disburse monies,

fees, fines or public charges of any kind including therein a tax

roll audit, a claim audit, and an audit of each of the justices of

peace within the county.

B. 1. For purposes of this subsection, an audit shall be a

financial or performance audit defined as follows:

a. the financial audit shall be planned and conducted,

and the results of the work reported, in accordance

with auditing standards generally accepted in the

United States and Government Auditing Standards issued

by the Comptroller General of the United States,

b. the performance audit shall be planned and conducted,

and the results of the work reported, in accordance

with Government Auditing Standards issued by the

Comptroller General of the United States. The

performance audit shall encompass an audit of internal

controls and compliance with laws and regulations

based on an individual risk assessment.

The type of audit to be performed will be determined by the State

Auditor and Inspector.

2. Unless the county elects to prepare its financial statement

in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as

prescribed by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the

county shall present their financial statements in a regulatory

basis of accounting as prescribed in subsection C of this section.

C. 1. For county, primary government only, financial audits,

the financial statements shall be presented on a fund-basis format

with, at a minimum, the general fund and all other county funds

which represent ten percent (10%) or greater of total county

revenue. All other funds included in the audit shall be presented

in the aggregate.

2. The financial statements shall include but not be limited to

the following:

a. a statement of revenues or receipts, expenditures or

disbursements, and changes in cash balances for the

funds identified in the preceding paragraph, and

b. notes to the financial statements.

D. The report shall include but not be limited to the following

supplemental information:

1. A combining schedule detailing by fund the information

presented in the aggregate;

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2. A comparison of the final adopted budget to the actual

expenditures for all funds required by law to have an adopted

budget; and

3. Notes to the budget to actual schedule.

E. An audit may include a performance audit, a financial audit,

agreed-upon procedures, or limited review of the books and records.

In addition to the above, the State Auditor and Inspector may

require an audit of the books and records of any county official or

custodian of any of the funds of the county upon the death,

resignation or removal from office of the county official, covering

a period from the date of the last general audit up to the date of

the death, resignation or removal therefrom.

F. Each biennial county audit shall cover the two preceding

fiscal years beginning as of July 1st immediately preceding the year

in which the appropriation is made for the general audit, provided,

that nothing herein shall prevent the State Auditor and Inspector

from causing an audit to be made for any prior year of all the

books, records and accounts of the county official.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.37G — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.37G
Purchases from district attorney appropriations
Status: in_force

Purchases made from district attorney appropriations shall be

made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by statute for

county officers, departments and agencies except that neither the

purchases nor the expenditures for such purchases shall be subjected

to the approval of the board of county commissioners. It shall be

the mandatory duty for the designated county officials to issue,

sign, attest, register and pay the warrants required to pay such

obligations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-796 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-796
Financial assistance programs
Status: in_force

The board of control is authorized to participate in any

governmental assistance programs such as grants, loans or other

financial assistance programs as may become available.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.9 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.9
First assistant - Temporary appointments - Vacancies
Status: in_force

The district attorney shall designate one of the assistants in

his district to be his first assistant district attorney and file

such designation with the Secretary of State. Should the district

attorney be absent, unable to attend to his duties, or disqualified

to act, the first assistant district attorney may perform the duties

required by law to be performed by the district attorney. In the

event that the district attorney and all of his assistants are for

any reason disqualified to act in a particular matter, the Attorney

General of Oklahoma shall appoint a district attorney or assistant

district attorney from another district to act in such matter.

Whenever the office of district attorney shall be vacated by reason

of resignation or death of the district attorney, the Governor of

the State of Oklahoma shall appoint a qualified person to serve the

balance of the unexpired term of said office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.15a — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.15a
Renumbered as § 215.33 of this title by Laws 1982, c
Status: in_force

340, § 25, emerg. eff. June 2, 1982.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.65 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.65
Schedule of fees
Status: in_force

The board may establish a schedule of fees for inspections and

investigations, which said fees shall be reasonable and

proportionate to the services rendered and benefits involved, and

shall be paid into the general fund of the county.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-75 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-75
Form of petition for place on ticket
Status: in_force

The following shall be substantially the form for every petition

filed with the Governor asking that the name of any city, town or

place be placed upon the tickets to be voted at such election:

PETITION FOR CITY - FORM OF.

Petition asking that the city, town or place of _______ be

placed on the tickets to be voted in _____ County on the ____ day of

______ A.D. (year).

State of Oklahoma, )

)ss.

County of _________)

To the Governor of the State of Oklahoma:

I most respectfully represent that I am _____ years of age; and

am now and have been for _____ years a resident of said county and

state above mentioned; that I am now residing within the precinct or

ward in which I now propose to vote, and have resided thereat for

_____ years, and am a duly qualified elector in the precinct wherein

I reside; and I do most respectfully petition Your Excellency to

cause to be placed the name of ______ (city, town or place) upon the

tickets to be voted at the special election to be held in ________

County on the ____ day of _____, A.D. (year), for the purpose

of relocating the county seat of said county.

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Respectfully submitted,

Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of _______,

A.D. (year).

_______________

Notary public.

My commission expires .

R.L. 1910, § 1521. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 7, eff. Nov. 1,

1998.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1264 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1264
Annexation to road improvement district
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of a petition with the board of county

commissioners for a change in boundaries of any road improvement

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 540

district, signed by a majority of the assessed members of the

existing road improvement district, the board of county

commissioners shall cause notice to be published one time in a

newspaper printed and published in the county and of general

circulation in the area sought to be annexed, at least ten (10) days

before the time at which such petition will be heard. Such notice

shall state the time and place when and where the petition will be

heard by the board of county commissioners, a brief substance of the

petition and that all persons interested may appear and be heard.

The board of county commissioners shall have exclusive jurisdiction

to hear and determine all contests and objections pertaining to such

annexation. At such hearing the board of county commissioners shall

also determine whether or not the annexation of such area to such

road improvement district will be to the best interests of the

residents of the area affected, or beneficial to the public health

and welfare of said area as now exists, or to be developed, and if

said board of county commissioners determines that it will, then the

board of county commissioners shall make an order annexing such area

to said road improvement district, and such territory for all

purposes shall thereafter be a part of the road improvement

district. The annexed territory shall assume its proportion of all

legal indebtedness outstanding against the original road improvement

district, including bonded indebtedness.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-873 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-873
Conduct of election - Canvass of votes - Order organizing
Status: in_force

district.

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Such election shall be conducted in accordance with the general

election laws of the state and the regular election officials shall

be in charge at the usual polling place of each regular precinct or

part of a precinct, within the boundaries of said proposed district,

and shall make their return direct to the board of county

commissioners. The board of county commissioners shall meet on the

second Monday next following such election and proceed to canvass

the vote cast thereat, and if upon such canvass it appears that at

least a majority of all the votes cast are "Sewer Improvement

District _____ Yes", the board shall, by an order entered on their

minutes, declare such territory duly organized as a sewer

improvement district under the name and title theretofore

designated. The board of county commissioners shall cause a copy of

such order, duly certified, to be immediately filed for record in

the office of the county clerk and from and after the date of such

filing the organization of such district shall be complete. The

county clerk shall keep a record of all such districts so formed,

and they shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their

formation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-887 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-887
Annual assessment by county assessor
Status: in_force

The county assessor must on or before the first Monday in May in

each year assess all the real property in the district to the

persons who own, claim, or have the possession or control thereof,

at its full cash value. He must prepare an assessment book, in

which must be listed all such property within the district in which

must be specified in separate columns under appropriate heads the

following:

1. The name of the person to whom the property is assessed. If

the name of the owner is not known to the assessor the property must

be assessed to "unknown owners".

2. Land or township, range, section or fractional section and

when such land is not a congressional division or subdivision, by

metes and bounds, or other description sufficient to identify,

giving an estimate of the number of acres.

3. Lots in any subdivision by giving the number and block

according to the system of numbering in the recorded plat of such

subdivision.

4. The cash value of real estate other than lots in any

subdivision.

5. The cash value of lots in any subdivisions.

6. The cash value of all improvements on the real estate.

7. The total value of the property after equalization.

8. Such other things as the board of directors may require.

Provided, however, that the assessment of any property in the name

of the wrong person shall in no way invalidate the assessment

thereon.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.4
Notice of election - Qualified voters
Status: in_force

The county clerk shall cause notice of the election to be given

one (1) day a week for two (2) consecutive weeks by publication in a

newspaper of general circulation in the territory comprising the

proposed district. The notice shall state the time and place of

holding the election and set forth the description of the boundaries

of the proposed district and its general purpose and intention. All

persons who are residents of the proposed district and who are

registered voters in their respective precincts shall be qualified

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to vote on the proposition. If there are no persons who are

residents of the proposed district, all persons owning real property

within the proposed district who are registered voters shall be

qualified to vote on the proposition.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1801 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1801
Reverse auction bidding
Status: in_force

A. A county 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 or 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 county 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

county determines it is in the best interest of the county 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;

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2. The posting of all reverse auction bids electronically and

updating of bids on a real-time basis by the county;

3. The authorization for the county 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 county 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 county to determine

the criteria that will be used as the basis for making awards; and

6. The authorization for the county to determine it is in the

best interest of the county to allow it to accept an electronic bid

after the specified official closing date and time, in the event the

county determines that a significant error or event occurred that

affected the electronic receipt of any reverse auction bid by the

county.

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

county.

D. All remedies available to the county and suppliers through a

bid process pursuant to any other law of this state are also

available to the county reverse auction bidders in a reverse auction

bidding process.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-372 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-372
Minimum standards for operation and equipment - Personnel
Status: in_force

- Charges - Audits.

If the board(s) of county commissioners, and the governing body

of any city(ies) or town(s) shall enter into any contract as

provided in Section 1, then the board(s) of county commissioners and

the governing body of any city(ies) or town(s) shall, by resolution,

establish a minimum of standards for the operation and equipping of

said ambulances and for the qualifications and training of any

personnel operating said ambulances within the county(ies). The

board(s) of county commissioners and/or governing body of any

city(ies) or town(s) shall also have the authority to establish by

resolution the minimum charge to be made by any ambulance operator

with which it has a contract and to provide for an audit of the

books and the records of said operator. Said regulations shall be

in compliance with, or exceed, applicable state laws, rules and

regulations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1715 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1715
Adoption of budget - Filing - Effective date - Review of
Status: in_force

budget.

A. After the hearing and at least seven (7) days prior to the

beginning of the budget year, the board shall adopt the budget. The

board may add or increase items or delete or decrease items in the

budget. In all cases the proposed expenditures shall not exceed the

estimated revenues for any fund.

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B. The adopted budget shall be filed with the excise board of

each county in which the district is located on or before the first

day of the budget year. At the same time that the budget is filed

with the excise board, one copy of the budget as adopted shall be

transmitted to the State Auditor and Inspector and one copy shall be

kept on file in the office of the district.

C. The adopted budget shall be in effect on and after the first

day of the fiscal year to which they apply. The budgets as adopted

and filed with the excise board shall constitute an appropriation

for each fund, subject to final approval of the county excise board

as provided by law, and the appropriation thus made shall not be

used for any other purpose except as provided by law.

D. At the time required by law, the county excise board shall

review the budget for approval.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.10 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.10
Electrical inspector - Selection - Duties
Status: in_force

There is hereby authorized the creation of the office of

"electrical inspector" of the county or metropolitan area as defined

herein. Such electrical inspector shall be a person familiar with

all types of electrical installations and methods and shall be

familiar with the electrical code of any affected municipality or

county and shall have ten (10) years' practical experience in

electrical work as a contractor, engineer or Class A journeyman

electrician, and shall be licensed by the joint electrical examining

and appeals board.

A city electrical inspector shall be appointed by the governing

body of the city, a county electrical inspector shall be appointed

by the board of county commissioners and a metropolitan electrical

inspector shall be appointed in accordance with any written

agreement executed by the governing body of the city and board of

county commissioners creating such office. The governmental unit or

units authorized to make such appointments may employ such deputy

electrical inspectors who shall possess the same qualifications, for

such terms and at such compensation as the affected governmental

unit or units shall determine.

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It shall be the duty of any such electrical inspector and/or any

such deputy electrical inspectors to inspect all electrical

installations on new construction and on changes, revisions or

remodeling of existing structures lying within the jurisdiction of

the appointing governmental unit or units, to determine that all

such installations are in strict conformity with the requirements of

this act and to determine that all such installations are performed

by competent licensed workmen, according to the qualifications

herein contained; provided, any person who shall make a false

affidavit in order to obtain electrical inspection shall be guilty

of perjury and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as

provided by the statutes of this state relating to the crime of

perjury. Nothing contained herein should be construed as exempting

any unlicensed individual who is otherwise authorized from the

payment of regular inspection fees, or as exempting his electrical

work from compliance with the same standards of safety as are

applied to the inspection of electrical work by a licensed workman.

Any electrical inspector of the appropriate jurisdiction shall

have the authority to condemn any electrical wiring which is unsafe

within any city, county or metropolitan area within the terms of

this act, provided, however, that a county electrical inspector

shall not have jurisdiction in the corporate limits of or upon

property owned by any city having established an electrical

inspection department. Such city shall have jurisdiction upon

property owned by it whether located within or without its corporate

limits. Provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be

construed as extending the jurisdiction of any inspector of a city

having a population in excess of one hundred eighty thousand

(180,000) persons, the county or metropolitan inspector to areas

within the corporate limits of cities or towns having a population

less than one hundred eighty thousand (180,000) persons and located

within any affected county.

Notices shall be mailed to the property owner specifying any

necessary changes and a reasonable amount of time shall be given any

such owner to comply with the inspector's decision, and a copy of

the notice shall be filed with the utility supplying electrical

service. If compliance with the inspector's decision has not been

completed on or before the expiration of the time allowed, the

inspector shall have the authority to have the electrical service of

such property disconnected.

The affected governmental unit or units of any such county shall

determine and fix the reasonable fees to be charged for inspections,

which fees shall be sufficient to meet the expenses of operation of

the office or offices of the electrical inspector. All of such

inspection fees shall be payable to the general fund of the

authorizing and supervising governmental unit or units.

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The electrical inspector shall adopt such rules in regard to the

method of inspection and the time thereof as may be necessary and

proper to carry out the intent of this act, but all of such rules

and regulations shall be in strict accordance with the terms of this

act. After notice is received by the office of the electrical

inspector of the desire by any person for an electrical inspection,

the same shall be accomplished as soon as practicable. No public

utility shall furnish electrical service until such work has been

inspected and approved.

The chief electrical inspector of the city, county or

metropolitan area shall have the authority to designate one person,

qualified as an electrical inspector as provided herein, to act as

an investigator for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this

statute. Such person shall be responsible for presenting all cases

of violations to the city or district courts for prosecution. He

shall be bonded and shall carry a commission for this purpose.

No electrical inspector shall accept any gratuity for any

services performed, acts of commission or omission in connection

with the duties and obligations charged to be performed by his

office, or be connected in any way with any person, firm or

corporation engaged in the business of electrical contracting of any

classification.

Upon the application of any municipality which lies wholly or

partly within the county or metropolitan area and which is not

otherwise covered by this act, and upon the authorization of the

board of county commissioners, and the governing body of the city if

a metropolitan electrical inspection office has been created, the

electrical inspector may inspect electrical installations in such

excluded municipality, provided that such municipalities shall

collect and pay to the general fund of the county a fee for each

inspection in an amount determined by the board of county

commissioners.

This act shall apply to all counties having a population of over

three hundred thousand (300,000) according to the last decennial

census.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1606 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1606
Forms for applications for license and license
Status: in_force

certificate.

The court clerk in each county shall design and cause to be

printed appropriate forms for applications for licenses and for the

license certificates to be issued to applicants pursuant to the

Transient Merchant Licensing Act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-325 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-325
County seal
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners shall procure and keep a seal

with such emblems and devices as they may think proper, which shall

be the seal of the county, and no other seal shall be used by the

county clerk; and the impression of the seal hereby required to be

kept by the stamp, shall be sufficient sealing in all cases where

sealing is required.

R.L. 1910, § 1586.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.40 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.40
Plumbing inspector - Qualifications - Duties
Status: in_force

All plumbing materials, equipment and methods of installation

thereof in every county subject to the provisions of this act shall

be in strict conformity with approved standards for health and

safety to persons and property. Compliance with the plumbing code

as said code exists at the date of passage of this act of any city

having a population of from one hundred and eighty thousand

(180,000) to two hundred and forty thousand (240,000) according to

the last Federal Decennial Census located in any county as defined

herein shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence of compliance with

this act.

The board of county commissioners of any county within the

provisions of this act are hereby authorized to create, by

resolution duly adopted, the office of plumbing inspector for such

county. Such inspector shall be a person who holds a certificate of

master plumber under the provisions of the laws of this state,

relating to cities of two thousand (2,000) or more inhabitants, and

shall have had at least ten (10) years practical experience as a

master plumber. Such plumbing inspector is authorized to inspect

all plumbing installations in any county within the provisions of

this act, to determine that the same are done within the provisions

of this act. However, where any such plumbing installations are

subject to inspection by the duly qualified, appointed and acting

plumbing inspector of any city or town, having a system of water

supply or sewerage by reason of contract with the owner or builder

of such plumbing facilities or otherwise, approval by such municipal

plumbing inspector shall be deemed to establish compliance with this

act and inspection by the county plumbing inspector or county

plumbing permits will be unnecessary.

The board of county commissioners may, on recommendation of the

county plumbing inspector, adopt all necessary rules and regulations

to carry out purposes of this act and may prescribe the necessary

permits, notices and inspection procedure and set and determine the

fees therefor. Such fees shall be reasonable and shall be

sufficient to meet the expenses of operation of the office of county

plumbing inspector. The county commissioner shall be authorized to

hire such deputy plumbing inspectors for such terms and at such

compensation as they may deem reasonable. The county plumbing

inspector shall issue, without examination, certificates of

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competency to all persons holding such a certificate issued by any

city or town in the State of Oklahoma of two thousand (2,000) or

more inhabitants, provided that such certificate has been issued or

renewed for the year in which application therefor to the county

plumbing inspector is made.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.26 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.26
Defense duties - Evidence
Status: in_force

A. Before any such defense is undertaken, an inquiry shall be

made by the district attorney of the facts on which the action or

special proceedings are based. Unless the district attorney

determines that the employee was acting in good faith and in the

course of his employment, representation shall not be provided

pursuant to this act.

B. It shall be the duty of any county law enforcement agency to

provide investigators at the request of the district attorney to

assist him in carrying out the provisions of this act.

C. No findings or reports of the district attorney or persons

making inquiry under his direction pursuant to the provisions of

this section shall be admissible as evidence in any such action or

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special proceedings and no reference thereto shall be made in any

such trial or hearing.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-332 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-332
Account with county treasurer
Status: in_force

The said commissioners shall keep a distinct account with the

treasurer of the county, in a book provided for that purpose,

commencing from the day on which the treasurer became qualified and

continuing until the same or another person is qualified as

treasurer, in which account they shall charge the treasurer with all

sums paid him and for all sums for which the treasurer is

accountable to the county, and they shall credit him with all

warrants returned and canceled, with all monies paid and with all

vouchers presented by him and with all matters with which the

treasurer is to be credited on account; and the said board in their

settlement with the treasurer shall keep the general, special and

road tax separate, that any citizen of the county may see how the

same is expended.

R.L. 1910, § 1593.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-265 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-265
County Clerk's Lien Fee Account
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a cash account to be known as the

"County Clerk's Lien Fee Account". Monies from the account shall be

expended by the county clerk in the lawful operation of his office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.20 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.20
Election of district attorney - Tenure
Status: in_force

At the primaries and general elections held in 1966, and each

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

each and every district attorney's district in the State of

Oklahoma, a district attorney, who shall hold office for a term of

four (4) years, beginning on the first Monday of January following

his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-339.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-339.5
Landfills - Restrictions and enforcement
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of any county in which there

is located within an unincorporated area of the county a

construction/demolition landfill that receives more than two hundred

(200) tons per day of solid waste, or the board of county

commissioners of any adjacent county, to the extent that roads in

the county commonly provide access to the landfill, may, with

respect to unincorporated areas of the county, enact and enforce

ordinances and regulations to restrict and control noise, dust and

traffic associated with the landfill and to limit the impact of

these factors on the aesthetic and economic interests of adjacent or

nearby neighborhoods or businesses.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1233 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1233
Consulting engineer - Bond attorneys' or fiscal agents'
Status: in_force

services.

The board of county commissioners shall have authority to

contract for the services of consulting engineers to prepare the

necessary surveys, plans, plats, profiles, estimates, and all other

details for said work or improvements and to supervise said work.

The consulting engineer may be a person, firm, or corporation,

resident in or outside of the State of Oklahoma, duly registered as

an engineer in the State of Oklahoma. The board of county

commissioners shall have authority to contract for the services of

bond attorneys or fiscal agents to prepare and sell the bonds of the

assessment district as provided for by law. These services shall

include the preparation of documents and transcripts, printing,

advertising, appraising, delivering, and such other expenses as may

be necessary to issue and to sell bonds of the assessment district.

The compensation for the engineering services shall not exceed

the guidelines established by the Oklahoma Society of Professional

Engineers. The compensation for the bond attorneys and fiscal

agents shall be consistent with statutes prescribing fees for

similar services for general obligation bonds issued by cities and

counties. The county shall provide for the payment of such services

and expenses from the assessments to be levied against the property

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as part of the cost of the improvements or from available county

road funds.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-365 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-365
Solid waste management – Authority of political
Status: in_force

subdivisions – Condemnation proceedings.

A. Pursuant to Section 2-10-102 of Title 27A of the Oklahoma

Statutes, it is the policy of this state to regulate the management

of solid waste in order to protect the public health, safety and

welfare. For this purpose and for purposes of this section, the

collection of solid waste shall be a matter of statewide interest.

B. For the purpose of this section “political subdivision”

shall include counties and trusts that provide or contract for solid

waste collection services.

C. No political subdivision shall displace or pass an ordinance

to displace a private company providing solid waste collection

service without first:

1. Holding at least one public hearing seeking comment on the

advisability of the political subdivision providing such service;

2. Providing at least forty-five (45) days’ written notice of

the hearing, delivered by first-class mail to all private solid

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waste collection companies which provide service in the political

subdivision; and

3. Providing public notice of the hearing.

Following the final public hearing held pursuant to this

section, but in no event longer than one (1) year after the date of

the hearing, if the political subdivision elects to provide such

solid waste collection services and displace the private solid waste

collection company, the political subdivision shall purchase by

condemnation the private solid waste collection services as set

forth in this section.

D. A political subdivision shall have the authority to acquire

by purchase, donation, or condemnation such interests in any private

company providing solid waste collection services operating within

the limits of the political subdivision. The political subdivision

shall give the owner of the displaced private solid waste collection

company the opportunity to sell the displaced private solid waste

collection services to the political subdivision at an agreed upon

or negotiated price or the political subdivision may acquire the

business by condemnation as provided in this section.

E. If the political subdivision seeks to condemn the displaced

private solid waste collection services, the district judge of the

county in which the displaced services are located, upon petition of

either party, shall direct the sheriff of the county to summon three

disinterested freeholders, to be selected by the judge as

commissioners, and who shall not have a conflict of interest. The

commissioners shall be sworn to perform their duties impartially and

justly. The commissioners shall inspect the company and the

displaced services and consider the injury which the owner may

sustain by reason of the condemnation, and they shall assess the

just compensation to which the owner is entitled. The commissioners

shall make a report in writing to the clerk of the court, setting

forth the quantity, boundaries, and just compensation for the

property or services taken, and amount of injury done to the

business, either directly or indirectly, which they assess to the

owner. The report shall be filed and recorded by the clerk.

F. Immediately upon payment to the clerk of the court of the

sum assessed by the commissioners, the political subdivision shall

be authorized to collect solid waste in the area serviced by the

owner of the business. If the owner refuses to cease collection of

solid waste pursuant to this section, the court shall issue an

order, upon proof, enjoining the owner from collecting solid waste

in the areas subject to such condemnation.

G. The report of the commissioners may be reviewed by the

district court, on written exceptions filed by either party in the

clerk's office within thirty (30) days after the filing of the

report. The court, after a hearing, shall make such order as right

and justice may require, either by confirmation, rejection, or by

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ordering a new appraisal on good cause shown. In the event a new

appraisement is ordered, the political subdivision shall have the

continuing right of possession obtained under the first appraisal,

unless and until its right to condemn has finally been determined

otherwise. Either party may, within sixty (60) days after the

filing of such report, file with the clerk a written demand for a

trial by jury, in which case the amount of damages shall be assessed

by a jury, and the trial shall be conducted and judgment entered in

the same manner as civil actions in the district court. If the

party demanding the trial does not recover a verdict more favorable

to such party than the assessment of the commissioners, all costs in

the district court shall be taxed against such party. If, after the

filing of exceptions to the report of commissioners as provided in

this section, the political subdivision shall fail to establish its

right to condemn such business, the owner shall be restored to

possession of the business, or part thereof, and the political

subdivision shall pay the owner for any damages sustained through

the occupation by the political subdivision. If such damages cannot

be determined by amicable settlement, the damages shall be

determined by jury trial in the same proceedings.

H. Either party aggrieved may appeal to the Supreme Court from

the decision of the district court on exceptions to the report of

commissioners, or jury trial. The review or appeal shall not delay

the work of the political subdivision in question if the award of

commissioners, or jury, as the case may be, has been deposited with

the clerk for such owner. In no case shall the political

subdivision be liable for the costs on the review or appeal unless

the owner of the business shall be adjudged entitled, upon either

review or appeal, to a greater amount of damages than was awarded by

the commissioners. The political subdivision shall in all cases pay

the cost of the commissioners' fees and expenses, for their

services, as determined and ordered paid by the judge of the

district court in which such case is pending. However, poundage

fees and condemnation fees shall only be paid by the political

subdivision in the event of appeal resulting in a jury verdict in

excess of the commissioners' award. Under no circumstances shall

any poundage fees or condemnation fees be assessed against the

recipient of the award. In case of review or appeal, a certified

copy of the final order or judgment shall be transmitted by the

clerk of the court to the county clerk and be filed.

I. As used in this section:

1. "Displace" or "displacement" means a political subdivision’s

provision of a service which prohibits a private company from

providing the same service and which the company is providing at the

time the decision to displace is made. Displace or displacement

does not mean:

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a. competition between the political subdivision and

private companies for individual contracts,

b. situations where a political subdivision, at the end

of a contract with a private company, does not renew

the contract and either awards the contract to another

private company, or, decides to provide for such

services itself,

c. situations where action is taken against the private

company because the company has acted in a manner

threatening to the public health, safety and welfare

of the citizens of the political subdivision or

resulting in a substantial public nuisance,

d. situations where action is taken against the private

company because the company has materially breached

its contract with the political subdivision, or

e. entering into a contract with a private company to

provide solid waste collection so long as the contract

is not entered into pursuant to an ordinance which

displaces or authorizes the displacement of another

private company providing solid waste collection;

2. "Just compensation" means the value of the business taken,

and in addition, any injury to any part of the business not taken.

Any special and direct benefits to the part of the business not

taken may be offset only against any injury to the business not

taken. If only a part of the business is taken, just compensation

shall be ascertained by determining the difference between the fair

market value of the whole business immediately before the taking and

the fair market value of that portion left remaining immediately

after the taking; and

3. "Solid waste" shall have the same meaning as provided in

Section 2-10-103 of Title 27A of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-904.8 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-904.8
Dissolution of the authority
Status: in_force

In the event of the dissolution of the authority, the board of

directors of the authority shall be trustees for the disposition of

the property and the proceeds of the disposition of such property

and all funds remaining on hand shall be deposited with the county

treasurer who shall thereupon succeed to the powers and duties of

the treasurers of the authority. When all of the property of the

authority has been disposed of and the funds of the authority

deposited with the county treasurer, the powers and functions of the

board of directors of the authority, as trustees for dissolution,

shall cease and the board of county commissioners shall succeed to

all of the powers and duties of the authority insofar as it shall be

necessary for them to wind up and conclude the affairs of the

authority.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-180.68 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-180.68
Date changes in salaries and rates of pay to take
Status: in_force

effect.

The date on which changes in the salaries and rates of pay for

county officers and their deputies, aides and assistants under this

act due to changes in population, gross assessed valuation or both

population and gross assessed valuation in any county shall take

effect, shall be as of, on or after the first day of July based upon

the population as shown by the latest Federal Decennial Census for

the State of Oklahoma, and the total gross assessed valuations of

tangible taxable properties for such fiscal year as shown by the

official certificate which the county assessor files with the county

excise board for the purpose of computing appropriations and levies

for such current fiscal year.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-871 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-871
Proposal for organization - Powers
Status: in_force

Whenever fifty persons, resident of a given area, or a majority

of the holders of title to lands in such area, in any county

susceptible of being furnished sewer systems for domestic use by the

same system or by a combined system of sewer lines, desire to

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provide for a common sewerage system, they may propose the

organization of a sewer improvement district, under the provisions

of this act, and when so organized each district shall have the

powers conferred herein or that may hereafter be conferred by law

upon such sewer improvement districts.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1249 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1249
Due date of first installment - Delinquent installments -
Status: in_force

Collection of installments - Limitation of actions.

The first installment of the assessment, together with interest

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

assessing resolution 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 resolution. If such assessing

resolution is not passed prior to the first day of July, the first

installment of such assessment shall be due and payable in cash with

interest from the date of the passage of such assessing resolution

to the first day of September of the following year. 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 fifteen percent (15%) per annum from

maturity until paid, except otherwise provided. All assessments and

interest shall be collected by the county clerk and shall be paid to

the county treasurer who shall keep the same in a separate special

fund for the purpose of paying the bonds and interest thereon,

issued against such assessments. After the payment of all bonds and

interest thereon, any surplus remaining in said fund shall be used

for the purpose of repairing and maintaining any improvement for

which assessments have been levied, and for no other purpose. No

statute of limitations shall commence to run against any installment

until after the maturity of all installments.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-4 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-4
County to sue or be sued in name of board
Status: in_force

In all suits or proceedings by or against a county, the name in

which a county shall sue or be sued shall be, "Board of County

Commissioners of the County of _____," but this provision shall not

prevent county officers, where authorized by law, from suing in

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their official name for the benefit of the county. Suit may be

brought against a county by naming a county officer identified in

Section 161 of this title when it is alleged that such officer in

his or her official capacity is directly or vicariously liable to

plaintiff in an action not arising out of contract. Otherwise, suit

may be brought against a county by naming the Board of County

Commissioners of the County of _____; in actions against the Board

not arising out of contract, upon motion, the Court may substitute a

county officer identified in Section 161 of this title in his or her

official capacity for the Board upon a showing that such county

officer is better suited to represent and defend the county under

the particular facts of the case.

R.L. 1910, § 1500. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 171, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2019.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-952 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-952
Control and management
Status: in_force

Every county establishing a retirement fund and system under the

terms of this act is authorized and directed to provide for the

control and management of such system by resolution which in

addition to other provisions shall provide for:

1. The qualifications of the persons eligible for retirement

benefits;

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2. The minimum age for retirement of employees;

3. The limitations of amounts to be paid to persons eligible

for retirement benefits;

4. A board of trustees to administer the fund to be selected as

provided for in Section 952.1 of this title;

5. The amount of contributions to be made by the county and the

amount to be made by the employees; and

6. Such rules, regulations, policies, and procedures as the

board of trustees shall determine necessary for the proper

regulation of the retirement fund and system.

Such fund and system shall be known as the "Employees'

Retirement System of _________ County, Oklahoma", and by such name

all of its business shall be transacted, all funds handled and all

of its cash and securities and other property held.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-271 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-271
Employment of general counsel
Status: in_force

The county clerk in a county shall have the authority to employ

a general counsel through an outside law firm, to advise or

represent the county clerk and his or her office in the performance

of the official duties of that office. The Board of County

Commissioners shall approve all contracts for outside counsel. A

general counsel employed pursuant to this section shall be

compensated from the funds of the employing county office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1721 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1721
Amendment of budget
Status: in_force

A. The board may amend the budget to make supplemental

appropriations to any fund up to the amount of additional revenues

which are available for current expenses as shown by a fund balance

for the fund due to:

1. Revenues received from sources not anticipated in the budget

for that year;

2. Revenues received from anticipated sources but in excess of

the budget estimates therefor; or

3. Unexpended unencumbered cash balances on hand at the end of

the preceding fiscal year which had not been anticipated in the

budget. Any appropriation authorizing the creating of an

indebtedness shall be governed by the applicable provisions of

Article X of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.

B. If at any time during the budget year it appears probable

that revenues available will be insufficient to meet the amount

appropriated, or that due to unforeseen emergencies there is

temporarily insufficient money in a particular fund to meet the

requirements of appropriation for the fund, the board shall take

action as it deems necessary. For that purpose, it may amend the

budget to reduce one or more appropriations, but no appropriation

for debt service may be reduced and no appropriation may be reduced

by more than the amount of the unencumbered and unexpended balance

thereof. No transfer shall be made from the debt service fund to

any other fund except as may be permitted by the terms of the bond

issue or applicable law.

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C. A budget amendment as provided in this section authorizing

supplemental appropriations or a decrease or change in appropriation

or funds shall be adopted at a meeting of the board and filed with

the district, the county excise board of each county in which the

district is located and the State Auditor and Inspector.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-866.25 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-866.25
Zoning regulations to govern
Status: in_force

Whenever the zoning regulations made under authority of this act

require a greater width of size of yards, courts, or other open

spaces or require a lower height of building or a less number of

stories or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied

or require a lower density of population, or require a more

restricted use of land, or impose other higher standards than are

required in any other statute, local order of regulation, private

deed restrictions or private covenants, the regulations made under

the authority of this act shall govern.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-177.1 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-177.1
Purpose of law
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared to be the purpose and intention of the

Legislature to strengthen the system of checks and balances upon

receipt and disbursement of county funds through audit by the

independent state agency of the department of the State Auditor and

Inspector and to that end and by this act mandatorily require the

appropriation and dedication of certain funds to that purpose in

order to provide more nearly adequate and sufficient means for

complete annual audit and report thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-401 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-401
Rental of quarters - Attendants, fuel, light and
Status: in_force

stationery.

In any county where there is no courthouse or jail erected by

the county, or where those erected have not sufficient capacity, it

shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to provide

for court room, jail, and offices for the following named officers:

sheriff, treasurer, register of deeds, district clerk, county clerk,

district attorney, superintendent of public schools and judge of the

district court, to be furnished by the county in a suitable building

or buildings, for the lowest rent to be obtained at the county seat,

or to secure and occupy suitable rooms at a free rent within the

limits of the county seat or any of the additions thereto, until

such county builds a courthouse. They shall also provide the courts

appointed to be held therein, with attendants, fuel, lights and

stationery, suitable and sufficient for the transaction of their

business. If the commissioners neglect, the court may order the

sheriff to make such necessary provision, and the expenses incurred

by him in carrying the order into effect, when certified by the

court, shall be a county charge.

R.L. 1910, § 1617.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.5
Examination fees - Renewals
Status: in_force

The fee for the examination and issuance of the initial

certificate of competency shall be Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for a

Class A electrical contractor, Class B electrical contractor,

appliance repair shop, electrical sign contractor or motor shop, and

Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each of the following: Class A journeyman

electrician, Class B journeyman electrician, electrical appliance

repairman, journeyman sign electrician.

Such fees shall be paid to the joint electrical examining and

appeals board for the use and benefit of the city and/or county on

such terms and conditions as they may provide and the articles of

agreement referred to herein. Such fees shall be paid before any

applicant will be permitted to take any examination. When good

cause is shown the fees provided by this section may be increased or

decreased from time to time by mutual agreement of the city and

county.

The certificate of competency provided herein, once issued,

shall be subject to renewal without further examination on an annual

basis upon payment of the renewal fee to said joint board in the

amount of Ten Dollars ($10.00) for a Class A electrical contractor,

Class B electrical contractor, appliance repair shop, electrical

sign contractor or motor shop, and Five Dollars ($5.00) for each of

the following: Class A journeyman electrician, Class B journeyman

electrician, electrical appliance repairman, journeyman sign

electrician. If the renewal fee is not paid the certificate and all

rights thereunder shall expire upon the conclusion of term of

issuance. The period of issuance shall not exceed one year. An

expired certificate shall be reinstated within one year from the

date of expiration thereof without further examination upon

application therefor and payment of the renewal fee; provided

further, that any such holder of a certificate of competency must

qualify by examination as provided herein before reissuance of any

such certificate which has been allowed to lapse or expire for a

period of more than one year.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1244 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1244
Property of cities, towns, counties, boards of education
Status: in_force

or school districts - Assessment against.

Any property which a city, town, county, or any board of

education or school district shall hold title to shall be treated

and considered the same as the property of other record title

holders. Such city, town, county, school district, or board of

education within the district to be assessed may pay the total

assessment against its property without interest within thirty (30)

days from the date of the publication of the resolution levying the

assessment or, in the event the assessment is not paid in full

without interest within the thirty-day period, the city, town,

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county, school district, or board of education shall annually

provide by the levy of taxes in a sufficient sum to pay the maturing

installments of assessments and interest on said assessments.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1705 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1705
Advice on procedural and technical matters
Status: in_force

The State Auditor and Inspector, or his designee, shall advise

districts on procedural and technical matters relating to accounting

and budget procedures. It shall be the duty of the employees of the

districts with notice of such advice to follow the instructions or

advice of the State Auditor and Inspector until relieved of such

duty by a court of competent jurisdiction or until the Supreme Court

shall hold otherwise.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-342 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-342
May sell unused lands of county
Status: in_force

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The board of county commissioners is authorized to sell any

unused town lots or parcels of ground not needed for courthouse or

jail purposes of any county to the highest bidder for cash, in the

manner hereinafter provided. Before any such sale shall be made the

board of county commissioners, in regular or special session, shall

adopt a resolution declaring that said real estate is not needed for

courthouse or jail purposes of the county; said resolution to be

published with other proceedings of said board and a copy of said

resolution shall be certified by the county clerk to the judge of

the district court of such county, and said judge shall appoint

three disinterested freeholders of said county to appraise said real

estate, said appraisement to be returned by said appraisers to the

board of county commissioners.

R.L. 1910, § 1603.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.58 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.58
Adoption and amendment of plan - Notice and hearing -
Status: in_force

Public record.

The commission may adopt the plan or plans, in whole or part,

and subsequently amend or extend the adoption plan or portions

thereof. Before the adoption, amendment, or extension of the plan

or portions thereof, the commission shall hold at least one public

hearing thereon. Such hearing may be adjourned from time to time.

Prior to said hearing or hearings, the commission shall give

reasonable notice in all papers of general circulation in the

county, stating time, place and purpose of the hearing, and stating

where copies of the proposed plan or plans may be acquired. The

adoption of the plan or portions thereof shall be by resolution

carried by not less than four (4) members of the commission,

including the ex officio member thereof. Before such plan or plans

or parts thereof shall have the status of an official plan, it shall

be submitted to and shall have the approval of the board of county

commissioners. The board may approve the plan in whole or in part,

or return the plan or any portion thereof to the commission for

further consideration. Any part so approved shall immediately

become in full force and effect and as to the area covered by the

approved portion of such plan. Should the board fail to act upon

such plan within forty-five (45) days from the date of its

submission by the commission, such plan shall be deemed to be

approved by said board and shall have the status of an official plan

or plans for the area. After the adoption of the plan or plans, or

part thereof, an attested copy shall be certified by the commission

and by the board and shall be certified to the county clerk of such

county for safekeeping and as a public record.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-865.60 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-865.60
Rules and regulations for enforcement
Status: in_force

The commission is hereby empowered to promulgate and adopt rules

and regulations for the implementation and enforcement of plan or

plans adopted in accordance with this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-902.7 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-902.7
Officers of board of directors - Term - Compensation
Status: in_force

The board of directors of the district shall elect from its

members a president, a vice-president and a secretary. The county

treasurer of the county in which the district is located shall serve

as treasurer, but shall not be a member of the board. The term and

duties of the president, vice-president and secretary shall be fixed

in the bylaws. The officers and members of the board shall serve

without compensation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-377 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-377
IT staff and data processing technicians
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of any county may employ

competent information technology (IT) staff and a data processing

technician who shall perform the duties of IT management or data

processing management as prescribed and directed by the board of

county commissioners. The IT staff and data processing technician

shall receive as compensation salaries to be fixed by the board of

county commissioners for their services, to be paid out of the

general operating fund of the county. The compensations of the IT

staff and data processing technician shall not be governed by the

"Comprehensive Salary Code".

The IT staff and data processing technician shall be covered by

the county blanket bond.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-180.90 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-180.90
National disaster leave
Status: in_force

A. The board of county commissioners may grant leave with pay

not to exceed fifteen (15) working days to a county employee who is

affected by a presidentially declared national disaster in Oklahoma

after May 1, 1999, if:

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1. The employee suffered a physical injury as a result of the

disaster;

2. A relative or household member of the employee suffered a

physical injury or died as a result of the disaster; or

3. The domicile of the employee or the domicile of a relative

of the employee was damaged or destroyed as a result of the

disaster.

B. As used in this section:

1. “Relative of the employee” shall be limited to the spouse,

child, stepchild, grandchild, grandparent, stepparent, or parent of

the employee; and

2. “Household members” means those persons who reside in the

same home, who have reciprocal duties to and do provide financial

support for one another. This term shall include foster children

and legal wards even if they do not live in the household. The term

does not include persons sharing the same general house, when the

living style is primarily that of a dormitory or commune.

C. The authority to grant leave with pay pursuant to subsection

A of this section shall extend for a period of not more than six (6)

months after the date of a presidentially declared national

disaster.

D. Annual leave, sick leave, or compensatory time which was

charged to a county employee as a result of the presidentially

declared national disaster resulting from the May 3, 1999, tornadoes

that would have otherwise been eligible for the leave provision in

subsection A of this section, may be reinstated by the board of

county commissioners. A county employee entitled to leave with pay

pursuant to this section who was charged leave without pay shall be

compensated at the base rate of pay of the employee.

E. The board of county commissioners may amend an existing leave

sharing program or establish a leave sharing program to allow county

employees to share sick or annual leave with county employees who

are eligible for leave pursuant to subsection A of this section.

The disaster-related leave sharing plan shall be subject to the

following conditions:

1. An employee eligible for disaster-related leave may receive

up to fifteen (15) days donated leave;

2. The donated leave must be used for disaster-related injuries

or matters;

3. The eligible employee shall not be required to take or

exhaust any of the employee’s regular sick, personal, or emergency

leave in order to receive donated leave;

4. Donated leave may be used to reinstate regular emergency,

sick, or personal leave an employee used after May 1, 1999, for

disaster-related injuries or matters;

5. An eligible employee who was required to take leave without

pay for disaster-related injuries or matters may be compensated for

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up to fifteen (15) days if leave is donated to cover the leave

without pay; and

6. The county may require documentation to support a request to

use donated leave pursuant to this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-16 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-16
Election commissioners - Qualifications - Oath
Status: in_force

When any such special election is called, it shall be the duty

of the Governor to select and commission one special election

commissioner for each voting precinct or voting place in such county

so holding such election as provided in this act; provided, that no

such special election commissioner shall be, or have been a resident

of the county or counties to be affected by such special election,

and shall not be interested in any manner in the result thereof.

Every such commission shall be in writing and shall be signed by the

Governor. Before any such special election commissioner shall

assume the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe to the

following oath:

Oath.

I, ________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support,

obey and defend the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma

and will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and to the

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best of my ability; that I am not now and never have been a resident

of the proposed county of ________; that I am not now and have never

been a resident of the county or counties to be affected by such

election; and that I am not now interested in any manner, in any

business proposition, or in any institution located in any county to

be affected by such election.

__________________________

Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of ______ A. D.

19__.

__________________________

Notary Public.

My commission expires ______.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-78 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-78
Special election commissioners - Oath
Status: in_force

When any such special election is called it shall be the duty of

the Governor to select and commission one special election

commissioner for each voting precinct or voting place in such county

so holding such election as provided in this article. Every such

commission shall be in writing and shall be signed by the Governor.

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Before any such special election commissioner shall assume the

duties of his office he shall take and subscribe to the following

oath:

OATH.

I, _________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support,

obey and defend the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma,

and will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and to the

best of my ability; that I am not now and have never been a resident

of the County of ______, that I am not interested in any manner in

any business proposition or in any institution located in any city,

town or place, or otherwise interested in any such city, town or

place which is a candidate for the location of the county seat in

said county of ___________.

____________________

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______ day of ______ A.D.

19__.

____________________

Notary public.

My commission expires ________.

R.L. 1910, § 1524.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1011 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1011
Act as cumulative
Status: in_force

This act is intended to be cumulative and in addition to any

other law heretofore passed on recreational facilities and shall not

repeal any law on this subject.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1252 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1252
Penalties for delinquent taxes - Disposition
Status: in_force

All penalties for delinquent taxes, including penalties on

special assessments and the interest of bonds for paving or other

special assessment bonds, over and above the amount specified in the

face thereof, shall be and become the property of the county and

shall be collected by the county treasurer.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-756 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-756
Powers of cities and counties not limited by act
Status: in_force

Nothing herein shall limit in any way any of the power of said

cities and counties now existing.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-383 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-383
Mode of submitting questions to voters
Status: in_force

The mode of submitting questions to the people contemplated by

the last two sections shall be the following: The whole question,

including the sum desired to be raised, the amount of tax desired to

be authorized, the rate per annum, and the whole regulation,

including the time of its taking effect or having operation, if it

be of a nature which can be set forth, and the penalty of its

violation if there be one, is to be published at least four (4)

weeks in some newspaper published in the county. If there be no

such newspaper, the publication is to be made by posting up in at

least one of the most public places in each election precinct in the

county; and in all cases the notices shall name the time when such

question will be voted upon, and the form in which the question

shall be taken, and a copy of the question submitted shall be posted

up at each place of voting during the day of election.

R.L. 1910, § 1610.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1010 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-1010
Retirement system - Workers' compensation
Status: in_force

If, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 37 of Title 11 of the

Oklahoma Statutes or of any statute supplemental thereto or of any

charter provision of the city, a retirement system is established

for the employees of the city, the employees of the city-county park

and/or recreation system may be included in that retirement system

on the same basis applicable to employees of the city, if the

commission so recommends and the board of county commissioners and

the governing body of the city approve. Nothing otherwise provided

by law shall operate to prohibit the appropriation of county funds

for the payment of the county's pro rata share of the contribution

to be made to the retirement fund on behalf of the employees of the

city-county park and/or recreation system. The city-county park and

recreation commission may, from funds appropriated for its use and

operation, procure and make available coverage for its employees

under the Workers' Compensation Act either by purchase of insurance

or by contract or plan of self insurance.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.5 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.5
Advice to county officers
Status: in_force

The district attorney or his assistants shall give opinion and

advice to the board of county commissioners and other civil officers

of his counties when requested by such officers and boards, upon all

matters in which any of the counties of his district are interested,

or relating to the duties of such boards or officers in which the

state or counties may have an interest.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 119
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.37D — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-215.37D
Incorporation of district attorney's requested
Status: in_force

estimate of needs into county general fund's estimate of needs.

The district attorney's requested estimate of needs shall be

incorporated without change in the county general fund's estimate of

needs in the same manner as the estimate of needs of the various

offices, departments and agencies of the county are compiled for

submission to the county excise board. The amount certified by the

District Attorneys Council as being available to the county shall

also be included in the estimate of the county general fund's

miscellaneous revenue receivable.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-168 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-168
Volunteer - Protection of sovereign immunity - Travel and
Status: in_force

training expenses.

Persons who are not county employees, but who are performing

substantial and necessary services to the county on a voluntary

basis without compensation which have been directed and approved by

a county officer, shall enjoy the protection of sovereign immunity

of the state to the same extent as a paid employee. Such persons

may be reimbursed for expenses incurred during authorized official

travel pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act, Section 500.1

et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or for training

expenses, provided it is indicated on the claim the person is not a

county employee, a description of services performed is entered, and

the officer, by his approval of the claim, certifies such services

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were substantial, necessary and germane to the duties and functions

of the county office.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-863.44D — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-863.44D
Sprinkler systems required - Exceptions
Status: in_force

Every high-rise building to be constructed within this state

after the effective date of this act must be equipped with a water

sprinkler system as defined herein, provided this act shall not

apply to buildings primarily housing electric generating or

transforming equipment or to buildings primarily housing telephone

company equipment of public utilities or public service corporations

which are subject to regulation by the State Corporation Commission,

but such buildings shall contain fire prevention devices of near

equal safety factors as may be required by the State Fire Marshal

Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-905 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-905
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma

Regional Jail District Act”.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-864.3 — OK Code / Title 19 / Section 19-864.3
Creation - Board - Duties - Review of Decisions -
Status: in_force

Expenses of operation.

Joint city-county electrical examining and appeals board:

a. The board of county commissioners and the governing body of

any city having a population of one hundred eighty thousand

(180,000), or more, according to the last preceding Federal

Decennial Census or any future Federal Census, may, by an agreement

in writing, create a joint city-county electrical examining and

appeals board. The agreement may contain such provisions for the

creation and manner of dissolution of the board and such other

matters as may be agreed upon, and shall provide for the

appropriations to be made by the city and county for the operation

of the board. Where used herein, the term board shall have

reference to the joint city-county electrical examining and appeals

board unless otherwise specifically noted.

The board shall be composed of seven (7) members. Two members

shall be required to be holders of certificates of competency as

Class A electrical contractors. Two members shall be holders of

certificates of competency as Class A journeyman electricians. The

board of county commissioners shall appoint one person certified as

Class A electrical contractor and one person certified as a Class A

journeyman electrician. The governing body of the city shall

appoint one person certified as a Class A electrical contractor and

one person certified as a Class A journeyman electrician. The

remaining three members shall be appointed by the governing body of

the city with the consent of the board of county commissioners,

provided however, that if the governing body of the city and the

board of county commissioners do not concur in such appointments

within thirty (30) days of any such vacancy the appointments may be

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made by a majority of the members of the board. One member of said

board shall be a registered professional engineer with experience or

training in the field of electrical engineering, one member of said

board shall be a lawyer admitted to practice before the courts of

this state, and one member shall be a licensed architect. The

initial terms of the Class A electrical contractors and the Class A

journeyman electricians appointed by the governing body of the city

and appointed by the board of county commissioners shall be for a

period of two (2) years and the initial term of the remaining three

appointments shall be for a term of one year. The term of such

initial appointees and of all subsequent appointees of the city and

county shall expire as of July 31 of that calendar year in which the

terms expire, regardless of the calendar date upon which the

appointments are made. Subsequent appointments of the city and

county shall be for terms of two (2) years, except in the case of an

appointment to fill a vacancy in the membership of the board which

latter appointment shall be for the unexpired term of the member

whose death, resignation, or removal has created the vacancy.

Following the expiration of the term for which he was appointed, any

member shall continue to serve until his successor has been

appointed and qualified; provided, however, that no person shall

serve more than two successive terms as a member of said board.

A quorum of such board necessary to conduct business or take

action of a discretionary nature shall be four members.

b. It shall be the duty and within the authority of said board

to perform any or all of the following acts:

(1) To give written examinations to persons desiring to obtain a

certificate of competency to engage in or work at that phase or

classification of the electrical business designated and as the same

is herein defined as to the applicant's skill and knowledge and

entitlement to such certificate of competency.

(2) To re-examine any applicant who fails to pass an examination

required herein. Provided, however, that such person will be

ineligible for re-examination until the expiration of ninety (90)

days from the date of such prior examination. Payment of the

examination fees established herein must be made for each separate

examination or re-examination.

(3) To hear appeals on technical disputes arising between the

inspectors of the city, county or metropolitan area and electrical

contractors, property owners or lessees, as to the interpretation

and effect of the electrical code as the same is established.

(4) To prepare and issue interpretative opinions relative to the

technical aspects of the electrical code, but to perform this

function only in the event some real dispute has arisen between

affected parties.

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(5) To act as a permanent code committee and to investigate and

suggest to the proper legislative authority such changes in the

electrical code as may be desirable.

(6) To formulate its own rules and regulations pertaining to

procedure within the limits set forth in this act, provided all

examinations required herein upon which a determination or

conclusion is reached by the board shall be reduced to writing

subject to review in accordance with provisions hereof and not

otherwise in conflict therewith.

(7) To employ necessary clerical personnel subject to the joint

approval of the city, county or metropolitan area authority, and to

expend funds for necessary technical and professional services and

equipment within the limits of appropriations made therefor; all of

which shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement

creating such board.

(8) The board may, upon its own motion or upon a charge in

writing by any person, consider charges against any licensee or

certificate of competency holder that such person has been guilty of

repeated wilful violations of this act or of a transfer of license

in violation of this act. At all times and in all proceedings the

board shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 8, Title 75,

Oklahoma Statutes, otherwise known as the Administrative Procedures

Act, and specifically the board shall be required to comply with and

have the powers and duties of the provisions of Sections 309 et

seq., Title 75, Oklahoma Statutes, in connection with any hearing

authorized by this act. If the board finds from the evidence

presented that the charges have been sustained by the evidence

presented, it shall then file such findings with the district court

clerk styled: In Re: The matter of the suspension or revocation of

the license or certificate of competency of "__________", (inserting

the name of the person, firm or corporation so charged). Such

matter shall be docketed and considered as any other civil matter

within the equity jurisdiction of the district court. The matter

shall be considered de novo by the district court. The charges and

findings of the board filed with the district court clerk and any

response or answer filed by the person, firm or corporation so

charged shall constitute the issues for trial by the district court.

If the district court finds that the evidence sustains the charges,

the district court may suspend, revoke, or impose sanctions upon the

license or certificate of competency of any person, firm or

corporation found guilty of such charges, and provided for the

conditions for the reinstatement, restoration or removal of

sanctions as a part of any such judgment.

(9) To issue, reissue or renew licenses, under the terms of this

act, and to receive and account for all license and examination fees

paid to it. Funds so received shall be deposited as provided in the

agreement establishing the board.

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(10) Proceedings of the board shall be in writing with minutes

kept of all meetings, both regular and special. Copies of

proceedings, including findings, determinations and interpretations

shall be public records, and all meetings, both regular and special,

shall be open to the public, except during those meetings when the

examination of applicants for certificates of competency are being

conducted or personnel matters are being considered.

c. Any ruling, requirement, decision or interpretation of the

board shall be final and binding upon all parties thereto unless

appealed to the district court of competent jurisdiction within

fifteen (15) days from the rendition of such rule, requirement,

decision or interpretation, in the manner and form now provided by

statute for appeals generally. In the event of an appeal, any party

aggrieved by the action of the board shall serve a copy of the

petition of appeal upon the secretary or any member of the board

within fifteen (15) days following the action from which an appeal

is taken.

Any appeal from a judgment, decision, action or determination of

the board considered by the board under the provisions of Section 3,

subsection b., (3), of this act in regard to technical disputes

shall be to the district court sitting as an appellate tribunal.

All other appeals shall be to the district court for hearing and

trial de novo.

Any contractor, property owner or lessee who appeals the

decision of the board relating to electrical code requirements to

the district court must, upon order of the district court, file with

the clerk of the district court a bond in an amount as determined by

the district court to be sufficient to place the work in condition

to satisfy the requirements of the code. Upon failure to file a

bond as herein required, the appeal shall be dismissed. Anyone

taking an appeal from the board must pursue the appeal diligently

and in the event the appeal is not heard within six (6) months, due

to failure of the appellant to diligently pursue the appeal, the

court shall thereupon dismiss said appeal with prejudice and order

the action appealed from enforced.

d. The filing of a notice of appeal from a decision of the

electrical inspector or the board shall stay any order of the

electrical inspector or board if such order is based upon a

technical violation of the electrical code. If the board or a court

of competent jurisdiction shall determine that such order is based

on a present and immediate danger to life and property, then any

appeal as permitted herein shall not stay the order of the

electrical inspector, provided, however, that any such order shall

be made in writing and served on the affected parties.

e. The expenses of operating the board shall be provided for

under the terms of the agreement creating such board. Necessary

funds will be appropriated by the city or county, or both, as the

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case may be, for the purpose of defraying approved operating

expenses. The manner in which claims shall be presented and

approved for payment shall be provided by the agreement creating the

board. Members of the board shall be compensated for attendance at

meetings in an amount fixed by the agreement creating the board not

to exceed Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per diem, and such compensation

shall be limited to two meetings per calendar month.

f. All actions, decisions and opinions of the board which have

become final shall be binding upon the electrical inspectors and

upon all of the parties to the proceeding in which the action,

decision or opinion has been given, shall remain in force and be

binding thereafter until otherwise changed, overruled, modified or

cancelled.