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62 OK Stat § 62-363 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-363. Judgment prohibited until provisions complied with.

|No judgment shall be rendered against any municipality by any court until the provisions of Section 2 hereof, have been fully complied with. Any judgment rendered in violation of the provisions of this act shall be void and of no effect. |Laws 1925, c. 106, p. 155, § 3.
62 OK Stat § 62-364 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-364. Not applicable to small claims.

|The provisions of this act, except Section 3, shall not apply to any claim which is less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). |Laws 1925, c. 106, p. 155, § 4.
62 OK Stat § 62-365.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-365.1. Jurisdiction of actions.

|It is hereby provided that courts of record shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all actions for money judgment or for establishing any indebtedness against any county which, in counties with a population in excess of six hundred thousand (600,000) persons, hereby includes a jail trust created in Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes whose sole beneficiary is the county, if approved by the board of county commissioners, city, town, board of education, school district or other municipal subdivisions of the State of Oklahoma. The administrative law judges and the administrative agency designated by the State Legislature to administer workers' compensation laws of this state shall have exclusive jurisdiction, absent an appeal, in all workers' compensation actions against any county, city, town, board of education, school district or other municipal subdivisions of this state. |Added by Laws 1943, p. 144, § 1. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 195, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2020, c. 83, § 2, emerg. eff. May 20, 2020.
62 OK Stat § 62-365.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-365.2. Certified copy of journal entry - Transmission to municipal officers.

|Whenever a judgment against a county in this state or any other municipal subdivision thereof becomes final, the clerk of the court wherein such judgment was rendered, or the administrative law judge or the administrative agency designated by the State Legislature to administer the workers' compensation laws of this state, shall provide without cost a certified copy of the journal entry of such judgment or the administrative judgment, decision and determination to the judgment creditor or attorney for the judgment creditor who shall transmit same to each of the following municipal officers: |1. The clerk or secretary of the municipality defendant;2. The treasurer of such municipality; and3. The secretary of the county excise board.Added by Laws 1943, p. 144, § 2. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 277, § 9; Laws 2013, c. 195, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
62 OK Stat § 62-365.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-365.3. Record of judgments, levies and payments.

|Each of the three municipal officers specified in Section 365.2 of this title shall maintain, on forms prescribed by the State Auditor and Inspector, a record of such judgments and of levies made therefor and of payments made thereon. The record of the secretary of the county excise board shall be made to show, as to each such judgment, also the case number and date of final decree of either the Oklahoma Court of Tax Review or of the Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidating any levy or part of levy attempted to be made therefor, and it shall be his duty to notify the court clerk, forthwith, of such decree, who shall make note of the same on the docket sheet for the case in which the judgment was entered. |Added by Laws 1943, p. 145, § 3. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 100, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979; Laws 1994, c. 277, § 10.
62 OK Stat § 62-365.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-365.4. Levy invalidated - Revival by decree - Defense of levy by owner of judgment.

|If an attempted levy for any judgment has once been invalidated by final decree either by the Oklahoma Court of Tax Review, not appealed from, or of the Supreme Court, by reason of jurisdictional defeat, then such judgment shall not again be included in levy computation until revived by decree from the court of original jurisdiction; and provided further that, the owner and holder of such judgment is hereby authorized to defend such judgment levy before any court. |Laws 1943, p. 145, § 4.
62 OK Stat § 62-365.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-365.6. Levies to reimburse sinking fund.

|If all, or more than one-third (1/3) of a judgment be paid after the levy for the first third thereof becomes final, out of surplus cash as hereinbefore provided, levies to reimburse the sinking fund shall thereafter be made only if there be other outstanding indebtedness, in the same manner as if such prepayment had not been made, but levy for interest shall not be included on such prepaid portion other than for interest paid in excess of that already provided for by tax levy. |Laws 1943, p. 146, § 6.
62 OK Stat § 62-372 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-372. Fraudulent claims - Liability of public officers.

|Every officer of the state and of any county, city, town or school district, who shall hereafter order or direct the payment of any money or transfer of any property belonging to the state or to such county, city, town or school district, in settlement of any claim or in pursuance of any unauthorized, unlawful or fraudulent contract or agreement made, for the state or any such county, city, town or school district, by any officer thereof, known to such officer to be fraudulent or void, and every person, having notice of the facts, with whom such unauthorized, unlawful or fraudulent contract shall have been made, or to whom, or for whose benefit such money shall be paid or such transfer of property shall be made, shall be jointly and severally liable to the state, county, city, town or school district affected, for triple the amount of all such sums of money so paid, or triple the value of property so transferred, as a penalty, to be recovered at the suit of the proper officers of the state or such county, city, town or school district, or of any resident taxpayer thereof, pursuant to Section 373 of this title; provided, however, no action for personal liability shall lie against any such officer for a transaction approved in good-faith reliance on advice of legal counsel for the public entity authorizing the transaction or which has been submitted to a court of competent jurisdiction for determination of legality. |R.L.1910, § 6777. Amended by Laws 1955, p. 346, § 1, emerg. eff. May 23, 1955; Laws 1982, c. 86, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1982; Laws 1991, c. 124, § 23, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 2008, c. 367, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2011, c. 73, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
62 OK Stat § 62-373 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-373. Taxpayer may institute suit on failure of officers.

|Upon the refusal, failure, or neglect of the proper officers of the state or of any county, city, town, or school district, after written demand signed, verified and served upon them by a number of registered voters of the state or such county, city, town, or school district equal to one hundred (100), or two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) of the registered voters living within the state or such county, city, town or school district, whichever is less, to institute or diligently prosecute proper proceedings at law or in equity for the recovery of any money or property belonging to the state, or such county, city, town, or school district, paid out or transferred by any officer thereof in pursuance of any unauthorized, unlawful, fraudulent, or void contract made, or attempted to be made, by any of its officers for the state or any such county, city, town, or school district, any resident taxpayer of the state or such county, city, town, or school district affected by such payment or transfer after serving the notice aforesaid and after giving security for cost, may in the name of the State of Oklahoma as plaintiff, institute and maintain any proper action which the proper officers of the state, county, city, town, or school district might institute and maintain for the recovery of such property; and the state or such county, city, town or school district shall in such event be made defendant. If a court of competent jurisdiction determines the claims to be meritorious, the contract shall be deemed void and the money or property, if previously transferred, shall be returned to the state, county, city, town or school district. The state, county, city, town or school district shall be liable to the resident taxpayer or taxpayers for reasonable attorney fees and court costs incurred in the prosecution of the action. If all claims stated by the resident taxpayers in the written demand are determined in a court of competent jurisdiction to be frivolous, the resident taxpayers who signed such demand and who are parties to the lawsuit in which such claims are determined to be frivolous shall be jointly and severally liable for all reasonable attorney fees and court costs incurred by any public officer or officers or any other person alleged in such demand to have paid out, transferred, or received any money or property belonging to the state, or such county, city, town or school district in pursuance of any alleged unauthorized, unlawful, fraudulent, or void claim paid or contract or conveyance made, or attempted to be made, by such officer or officers. |R.L.1910, § 6778. Amended by Laws 1955, p. 346, § 2, emerg. eff. May 23, 1955; Laws 2000, c. 351, § 9, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000; Laws 2011, c. 73, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
62 OK Stat § 62-374 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-374. Civil actions - Limitations.

|Civil actions filed by taxpayers for the recovery of real or personal property can only be brought if the written demand upon the proper officers is made by the required resident taxpayers within two (2) years of the transfer of the property, and the civil suit is filed within six (6) months following the refusal, failure, or neglect of the proper officers to act upon the written demand. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 277, § 12.
62 OK Stat § 62-381 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-381. Bonds legalized.

|All bonds issued or voted in good faith by any municipal corporation, county, township or school district, in this state, since the admission of this state into the Union, where the amount thereof does not exceed the limit prescribed by the constitution, and where the election at which the same were voted was conducted in substantial compliance with the law, and where the proceedings of the municipal authorities of any such municipal corporation, county, township or school district calling any such election were conducted in substantial compliance with the law, and the bonds were authorized by the requisite vote as required by the constitution and laws of Oklahoma, and when the full contract purchase price has been paid to the municipal corporation, county, township or school district issuing the same, are hereby made legal and valid, notwithstanding any irregularities in the proceedings of the authorities of such municipal corporation, county, township or school district in calling any such election or in holding the same. |R.L.1910, § 379.
62 OK Stat § 62-382 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-382. 1935 validating act - Citation.

|This act may be cited as "The 1935 Validating Act." |Laws 1935, p. 128, § 1.
62 OK Stat § 62-383 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-383. Public body defined - Bond defined.

|The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following meaning: |(a) The term "public body" means a county, city, town, school district, independent school district, consolidated school district, joint school district, union graded school district, board of education, or drainage district, or any educational institution heretofore authorized by statute to issue bonds.(b) The term "bond" includes bonds, notes, warrants, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, temporary bonds, temporary notes, interim receipts, interim certificates and all instruments or obligations evidencing or representing indebtedness or evidencing or representing the borrowing of money, or evidencing or representing a charge, lien or encumbrance on specific revenues, income or property of a public body, including all instruments or obligations payable from a special fund.Laws 1935, p. 128, § 2.
62 OK Stat § 62-384 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-384. Emergency public works - Validation of bonds and proceedings for authorization and issuance.

|All bonds heretofore issued for the purpose of financing or aiding in the financing of any work, undertaking or project by any public body to which any loan or grant has heretofore been made by the United States of America through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works for the purpose of financing or aiding in the financing of such work, undertaking or project, including all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of such bonds, and the sale, execution and delivery thereof, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power (other than constitutional) of such public body, or the governing board or commission or officers thereof, to authorize and issue such bonds, or to sell, execute or deliver the same, and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities (other than constitutional) in such proceedings, or in such sale, execution or delivery; and such bonds are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of such public body. |Added by Laws 1935, p. 128, § 3, emerg. eff. April 27, 1935.
62 OK Stat § 62-385 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-385. Counties of 200,000 to 300,000 - Payment of bonds notwithstanding running of Statute of Limitations.

|In counties having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) and less than three hundred thousand (300,000) according to the last Federal Decennial Census of 1950, or any succeeding Federal Decennial Census, and a net valuation of Two Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000.00) or more, any municipal corporation, county, township or school district in this state which has issued or may hereafter issue general obligation bonds which have or may hereafter become due and payable and against the payment of which the statute of limitations has or shall have run, may at its option, authorize the payment of said bonds not withstanding the fact that the statute of limitations has run and pay said bonds out of any money on hand in the sinking fund of said municipal corporation, county, township or school district available for the payment of such bonds; provided that the governing body of said municipal corporation, county, township or school district shall, by resolution duly adopted, authorize said payment. |Laws 1953, p. 288, § 1.
62 OK Stat § 62-391 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-391. Refund of indebtedness authorized - Issue of new bonds.

|Every county, every city or town, the board of education of every city, every township, and every school district, is hereby authorized and empowered to refund its indebtedness, including bonds, judgments and warrants, as hereinafter provided, upon such terms as can be agreed upon, and to issue new bonds with interest in payment for any sum so refunded; which bonds shall be sold at no less than par, and shall not be for a longer period then twenty-five (25) years, shall not exceed in amount the actual amount of outstanding indebtedness, inclusive of accrued interest and shall not draw a greater interest than the maximum rate provided by Section 498.1 of this title. |Amended by Laws 1983, c. 170, § 46, eff. July 1, 1983.
62 OK Stat § 62-392 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-392. Notice of issue - Determination of indebtedness.

|Notice of the issuance of bonds provided for in this act, shall be given by publication in a newspaper published at the county seat, or, if no newspaper is published at the county seat, then such publication shall be made in the official newspaper of such county, and by posting a copy of the same in five public places in the municipality, stating that on the day named therein the municipality will proceed before the county court of the county, if the amount be less than One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00), or before the district court, if the amount exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00), to make a showing and ask the court to hear and determine the amount of the outstanding legal indebtedness of said municipality, and to sign the bonds to be issued in payment of the same; and any person interested may remonstrate against the issuance of the same. Such notice shall be given for at least ten (10) days before the day named for said hearing. |R.L.1910, § 363; Laws 1913, c. 39, p. 76, § 1.
62 OK Stat § 62-393 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-393. Proof of outstanding indebtedness - Statement and finding - Signing and delivery of bonds - Treasurer chargeable - Appeals.

|On the day named in the notice referred to in the preceding section, the officers authorized to issue bonds under this article shall go before the court named in said notice and make proof, to the satisfaction of the court, of the existence, character and amount of the outstanding legal indebtedness of said municipality. On such proof being made the court shall cause to be made, upon the records of the court, a statement and finding to that effect and shall then, in open court, proceed to sign each bond to be issued, up to the amount of said indebtedness so proven and approved, and shall, after expiration of the time for taking appeals, if no appeal be taken, deliver the same to the treasurer of said municipality issuing the same, who shall be chargeable therefor, and shall be liable on his official bond for said bonds. Appeals from the judgment of the court shall be allowed as provided by law, upon the giving of a bond for costs and damages in such sum as the court shall require; and if an appeal is taken as herein provided, then said bonds shall not be delivered to the treasurer of said municipality until the final determination of said appeal. R.L.1910, Sec. 364. |R.L.1910, § 364.
62 OK Stat § 62-394 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-394. Attestation - Denominations - Term of bonds - Recitals.

|Bonds issued under this article by any county shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, and attested by the county clerk under the seal of the county. Bonds issued by any city or town shall be signed by the mayor or president of the board and attested by the city or town clerk, under the seal of the city or town, as the case may be. Bonds issued by any township shall be signed by the trustee, attested by the township clerk, and countersigned by the township treasurer. Bonds issued by the board of education of any city shall be signed by the president, and attested by the clerk of the board under the seal of such board. Bonds issued by any school district shall be signed by the director, attested by the clerk and countersigned by the treasurer of such school district board; and coupons shall be signed by the mayor, president, director, trustee or chairman of the board of county commissioners, and the clerks, respectively. Such bonds may be in any denomination from One Hundred ($100.00) to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), and made payable at such place as may be designated upon the face thereof, and they shall contain a recital that they are issued under this article. |R.L.1910, § 365.
62 OK Stat § 62-395 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-395. Duty to issue bonds as agreed - Bonded indebtedness which may be refunded - Limitations on issuance of bonds.

|When a refunding has been agreed upon, it shall be the duty of the proper officers to issue such bonds at the rate agreed upon, to the holder of such indebtedness, in the manner prescribed in this article; but no bonds shall be issued under this article until the proper evidence of the indebtedness for which the same are to be issued shall be delivered up for cancellation: Provided, that no bonded indebtedness shall be refunded by the board of county commissioners or any mayor and city council or any board of trustees of any town, township or any school district board, or board of education, under this article, except such as have been issued and outstanding at least two (2) years at the time of such refunding; and Provided, further, that except for the refunding of outstanding debt, including outstanding bonds and matured coupons thereof, or judgments thereon, or warrants, no bonds of any class or description shall hereafter be issued where the total bonded indebtedness of said county, city, town, township, school district or board of education would thereby exceed five percent (5%) of the assessment for taxation as shown by the last finding and determination by the proper board of equalization for state and county purposes. |R.L.1910, § 366.
62 OK Stat § 62-396 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-396. Registration of bonds.

|The clerk of every county, city, town, township, school district and board of education, issuing bonds under Sections 391 et seq. of this title shall register the same in his office. Such bonds shall also, in every case, be registered by the county clerk, showing the date, number and amount thereof, rate of interest, to whom payable, where payable, date of maturity, and, if optional, under what conditions; and all indebtedness refunded under this article shall have the words "paid in full" marked in a plain manner across the face of each bond, or warrant refunded; and such canceled obligations shall be carefully preserved in the office of the county clerk or destroyed by the county commissioners, a register of the number, amount and date of issue having been first made by the county clerk. The proper officer shall, at the time of issuing refunding bonds, make out and transfer to the State Auditor and Inspector a certified statement of all proceedings had by the proper board or city council as shown of record and that said bonds have been issued for value in all respects in conformity to this article for certain indebtedness to be surrendered, definitely describing the bonds issued and the indebtedness to be surrendered, in exchange therefor and that they have been duly registered by the attesting clerk and the county clerk as required herein; which statement shall be in such form and include such other information as the State Auditor and Inspector may require, and be signed by all the officers whose signatures are attached to such bonds, and attested by the proper clerk, with the corporate seal of the county, city, town, township, school district or board of education, if any, and duly acknowledged before the county clerk. And the State Auditor and Inspector shall, upon being satisfied that such bonds have been issued according to the provisions of this article, and that the signatures thereto of the officers signing the same are genuine, register the same in his office in a book kept for that purpose and shall, under his seal of office, certify upon such bonds the fact that they have been registered in his office according to law. Nothing in Sections 391 et seq. of this title shall be construed to prohibit options available under the Registered Public Obligations Act of Oklahoma. |Amended by Laws 1983, c. 170, § 47, eff. July 1, 1983.