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11 OK Stat § 11-36-103 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-103. Sidewalk improvements generally.

|For constructing and repairing sidewalks, and bringing them to grade for that purpose, the governing body may: |1. Issue or sell bonds in the same manner as provided in Section 22-128 of this title for issuing bonds for public improvements; or2. Make assessments on all lots and pieces of ground abutting on the improvement, according to the front foot thereof, and proceed with improving sidewalks in the manner provided for "Street Improvements". When streets and sidewalks are graded, paved and built at the same time, assessments for such improvements shall be made at the same time and by the same appraisers.Amended by Laws 1982, c. 42, § 1, operative July 1, 1982.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-104 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-104. Emergency sidewalk repairs - How made - Notice to owner.

|Whenever the municipal governing body deems it necessary for the public safety to repair any sidewalk in the municipality which has been or may hereafter be constructed, it may declare, by resolution, an emergency to exist for the protection of the public safety, by reason whereof it is necessary to make the repairs immediately. Upon the adoption of the resolution, notice shall be given to the owner or occupant of the property directing him to make the repairs within three (3) days after the service of the notice. If the owner or occupant cannot be found, the notice may be served by posting a copy of the notice upon the lot or parcel or real property abutting upon the portion of the street where the sidewalk repairs are necessary. If the repairs are not completed within the three-day period, as directed in the notice, the municipality may proceed to construct or repair the sidewalk, or let a contract therefor without advertisement. The cost of making the repairs shall then be assessed against the abutting property in the manner provided for sidewalk improvements. All such assessments which amount to Ten Dollars ($10.00) or less shall be paid in one installment at the next tax paying period after the amount is certified. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-104, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-105. Granting right to close, alter or appropriate roads or streets for certain purposes.

|A. A municipal governing body, by and with the written approval of the State Highway Commission insofar as state and federal highways may be affected, may grant to the United States of America, or any irrigation district, conservancy district, or water users' association, organized under the laws of Oklahoma, the right to close, inundate, destroy, alter, or appropriate any municipal roads or streets in the municipality in connection with the construction, development, operation, or maintenance of any irrigation, reclamation, water conservation and utilization, flood control, military, or national defense project, for needful public buildings, or other public projects being constructed, operated, developed, or maintained by the United States of America, or any such district or association, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the governing body may determine to be just and proper. |B. The municipal governing body may authorize the execution of, and the mayor or other chief official shall in accordance with such authorization have the power to execute, any and all contracts, deeds, easements, and other instruments of conveyance as may be required in or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this section.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-105, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-106. Title to trees, shrubbery and parking abutting streets - Injury to - Powers of municipality.

|The owners of real estate situated in municipalities abutting upon public streets and avenues in the municipality shall have, subject to the lawful supervision of the municipality over its streets, such title to and right to property in |1. Growing trees situated in front of such real estate, but within the boundary line of the streets and avenues, and within the curb line; or2. Parking and ornamental shrubbery planted and cultivated within the curb line of the streets and avenues;so as to enable the owners, in case of wrongful injury or destruction of the trees, shrubbery or parking, to recover from the person or corporation causing the injury or destruction the full damages which the abutting property in front of which they are situated may sustain by reason thereof, notwithstanding the fee title to the land in such streets and avenues may not be in the owner of the abutting property. The abutting property owners shall also have, subject to the limitations provided in this section, the right of action in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin wrongful injury to or destruction of the trees, shrubbery or parking. The necessary trimming of such trees or shrubbery to permit the proper stringing and passage of utility and other wires shall not be considered as a wrongful injury. Nothing in this section shall deprive the municipal governing body of the ordinary supervision of its streets, or of the right to direct, by proper ordinance, the manner of planting or cultivating such trees, shrubbery or parking, on the part of the street where they shall be so planted and cultivated, and from exercising reasonable supervision of the same, and causing them to be trimmed and grown in such manner as not to interfere with public travel upon the streets and sidewalks or other public use.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-106, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-107. Encroachments and obstructions in streets.

|The governing body may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon the sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other property of the municipality, and may provide for the removal of all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters and crosswalks, at the expense of the owner or occupier of the grounds fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person placing the encroachment there. The governing body may also regulate the planting and protection of shade trees in streets, the building of bulkheads, cellar and basement ways, stairways, railways, windows and doorways, awnings, lamp posts, awning posts, and all other structures projecting upon or over and adjoining, and all other excavations through and under the sidewalks, or along any streets of the municipality. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-107, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-108. Encroachments not exceeding twenty-four inches - Quitclaim deed.

|A municipal governing body, in its discretion, may execute and deliver to the owners of a building, business or religious institution a quitclaim deed to that part of the municipality's streets or alleys which have been inadvertently encroached by such building or institution under the following conditions: 1. The governing body finds that a residential building, business, or religious institution located in the municipality has inadvertently encroached not to exceed twenty-four (24) inches on a street or alley of the municipality by constructing a part of a building thereon, which encroachment is of such limited character as not to interfere with traffic on the street, alley, or on any sidewalk located thereon; 2. All the building facing the street are in substantial line with each other; 3. The encroachment has existed continuously for more than fifteen (15) years last past; 4. In the opinion of the governing body the encroachment does not interfere with traffic on the street, alley, or sidewalk; and 5. Payment is made to the municipality of an amount which the governing body finds to be a reasonable cash value of the property so conveyed. This section shall no apply in cases of encroachments accomplishedafter May 27, 1975. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-108, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-109 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-109. Ordinances and rules for making assessments for improvements - Expense of connections.

|When a petition for improvement is presented, or when the municipal governing body shall have determined to pave or otherwise improve any street, avenue, lane, alley or other public place, and shall have passed the required resolution, the governing body shall then have the power to: |1. Enact all ordinances, and to establish all rules and regulations as may be necessary to require the owners of all property subject to assessment to pay the cost of such improvement; or2. Cause to be put in and constructed all utility lines and connections in and underneath the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, and other public places where the improvements are made.All cost and expense for making utility connections which are not paid for by the property owner may be contracted for by the municipality and shall be taxed as a direct charge against the property, and shall be included in and made a part of the assessment to cover the cost of the improvement.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-109, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-110 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-110. Contract for service of engineers for making improvements.

|A municipal governing body may contract for the services of consulting engineers to prepare the necessary surveys, plans, plats, profiles, estimates and all other details for the work of improvements and to supervise the work. The consulting engineer may be a person, firm or corporation, resident in or outside the State of Oklahoma, duly registered as an engineer in the State of Oklahoma. The consulting engineer may be employed also to furnish the necessary advertising, printing, appraising, transcripts and other expense as may be necessary. The municipality shall provide for the payment of such services and expenses from the assessments to be levied against the abutting property as part of the cost of the improvement. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-110, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-111 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-111. Change of grade - Compensation to abutting owners.

|No change of any grade previously established by a municipality shall be made without making due compensation to the owners of abutting property for any damage thereby caused to permanent improvements erected on the abutting property with reference to the grade previously established. However, the failure to make such compensation shall not invalidate any assessments on the property chargeable with costs of a grade change as provided by law on street improvements. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-111, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-112 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-112. Intersections and crossings - Participation by counties and state highway commission in street improvements.

|A. The municipal governing body, in its discretion, may provide for the payment of the cost for improving street intersections and alley crossings out of the general revenues. |B. The State Highway Commission is authorized in its sole discretion to enter into agreements with the governing body of any municipality for participation with State Highway Construction and Maintenance Funds in the cost of any improvements on streets which are a part of the State Highway System. Such agreements may provide for the award and supervision of the contract by the municipality. The state's share of the cost is to be due and payable upon completion of the project.C. Any board of county commissioners, in its discretion, may enter into agreements with the governing body of any municipality for participation with County Highway Funds in the cost of any improvements on streets which are in the limits of the municipality and are part of the County Highway System. Such agreements may provide for the award and supervision of the contract by the municipality. The county's share of the cost is to be due and payable upon completion of the project.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-112, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-113 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-113. Construction, improvement, repair or maintenance of municipal streets.

|A. The Department of Transportation may, or the board of county commissioners of any county or federally recognized tribal government shall, by agreement with the governing body of a municipality having a population less than five thousand (5,000) persons, construct, improve, repair or maintain any of the streets of the municipality. |B. The board of county commissioners may construct, improve, repair, or maintain any of the streets of a municipality having a population of less than five thousand (5,000) persons subject to agreement between the governing bodies of the county and the municipality without regard to whether the municipality has passed a sales tax with proceeds earmarked to construct, improve, repair or maintain any of the streets or roadways of such municipality.C. The board of county commissioners may construct, improve, repair or maintain any of the streets of a municipality having a population of greater than five thousand (5,000) persons but less than fifteen thousand (15,000) persons if the municipality has passed a sales tax or fee with the proceeds earmarked to construct, improve, repair or maintain any of the streets or roadways of such municipality; provided, that the county has a population of less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) persons.D. Notwithstanding any provision of this section, the board of county commissioners may construct, improve, repair, or maintain any of the streets of a municipality if the county has a population in excess of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) persons according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census. The agreements entered into pursuant to the provisions of this subsection may be performed without regard to whether the municipality has passed a sales tax with proceeds earmarked to construct, improve, repair or maintain any of the streets or roadways of such municipality.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-113, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 123, § 1, emerg. eff. April 9, 1982; Laws 1989, c. 162, § 1, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 2001, c. 22, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 387, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 2003; Laws 2010, c. 266, § 1, emerg. eff. May 13, 2010; Laws 2012, c. 129, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 2012; Laws 2017, c. 23, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2019, c. 375, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-114 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-114. Use of money from motor fuel excise tax and motor vehicle license and registration tax.

|A municipal governing body which receives money from the state under the motor fuel tax or under the motor vehicle license and registration tax act may expend such money out of the street and alley fund or the street and alley account of the general fund of the municipality for construction, maintenance, repair, improvement, or lighting of streets and alleys. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-114, eff. July 1, 1978; Laws 1991, c. 124, § 18, eff. July 1, 1991.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-115 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-115. Lighting of state and federal highways in unincorporated areas.

|The municipal governing body may contract and pay for the lighting of state and federal highways in unincorporated areas adjacent to the municipality. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-115, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-116 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-116. Duties of railways as to paving and street improvements.

|When a railway occupies any portion of a street with its tracks running in the general direction of the street, either on or adjacent thereto, the railway company shall improve the space between its tracks, and two (2) feet on either side thereof, in the same manner that the remainder of the street is to be improved, or with such other material as the municipality may require. Where any railway company occupies an alley with its track or tracks, the company shall be required to improve, gutter, drain, grade or pave, chat or gravel such alley in the manner that may be required by the ordinances of the municipality. Where any railway company crosses any street that is being or has been paved, the governing body may require the railway company to pave so much of the street as may be occupied by its track or tracks and two (2) feet on each side, and when more than one track crosses the street within a distance of one hundred (100) feet, measuring from inside rail to inside rail, the railway company shall grade, gutter, drain, curb, pave, chat or gravel, or improve between its tracks in the same manner as the municipality may be improving or has improved the other portion of the street. Provided however, any municipality may, at the time of the construction of the tracks, the granting of any street railway franchise, or at the time of the publication of the resolution, waive any or all of the requirements of this section if it deems it to be in the best interests of the municipality to do so. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-116, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-117 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-117. Sidewalks - Construction by railroad - Maintenance of improvements.

|The municipality may require, in addition to the improvement of streets as required in Section 36-116 of this title, that a railway company shall construct sidewalks crossing the tracks or right-of-way of its railways, with such material as the municipality may require by ordinance, upon either or both sides of the street; and that the railway company shall maintain such improvements, keeping the same in repair at its own expense, using for such purpose the same material as is used for the original paving, graveling or macadamizing, or sidewalks, or such other material as the municipality may order. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-117, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-118 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-118. Noncompliance by railway - Doing work at railway's expense - Lien on railway property.

|A. If the owners of the railway shall fail or refuse to comply with the order of the municipality to make such improvements by paving, chatting, graveling, macadamizing, or building sidewalks as the municipality may direct, or to repair such paving, graveling, macadamizing or sidewalks, such work may be done by the municipality. The cost and expense of such work done by the municipality may be charged against the railway company and may be collected in the district court in the county in which the improvements have been made, by action of law, in the name of the municipality against the railway company. In any such action at law it shall be sufficient to declare generally for work or labor done, or material furnished on the particular street, avenue, alley or highway so improved. |B. In addition to the remedy provided in this section for collection of costs and expenses, the municipality, or any one authorized by it to do the work, shall be entitled to a lien upon the property of the railway company. Such lien shall exist for the full amount of the cost and expense against the property of the railway company adjacent or contiguous to the improvement or improvements so made. The lien may be enforced against the property of the railway company by action in the district court in the county in which the improvements have been made. In any action to enforce the lien, it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the lien exists for the amount of the cost and expense of the work and labor done or material furnished on the particular improvement.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-118, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-119 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-119. Waiver of penalties on delinquent assessments.

|Whenever the municipal governing body deems it to be in the best interest of the municipality to waive or cancel any part or portion of the penalty or penalties belonging to the municipality from delinquent special assessments, the governing body by resolution may waive or cancel such part or portion of the penalty or penalties; except that any penalties which have been set aside by law for the purpose of paying bonds issued in the respective districts, together with the interest thereon which has accrued upon any delinquent special assessment or installment thereof, or for the purpose of securing bonds or warrants for street improvement purposes or sewers, may not be waived or cancelled by the governing body. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-119, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-120 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-120. Compromise of assessments and penalties.

|If all the bonds or warrants secured by assessments in any special assessment district in a municipality have been paid off and retired, and there are any special assessment, assessments or installments thereof remaining in the special assessment district which have not been paid off or discharged, then the governing body, in its discretion, may compromise and discharge the assessment, assessments or installments therof, including penalties, for such sum as the governing body determines to be in the best interest of the municipality. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-120, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-121 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-121. Resolution waiving penalties - Entries on record.

|When any assessment, assessments, installments thereof, or penalties thereon shall be cancelled, compromised or waived by the governing body, a copy of its resolution, certified by the municipal clerk, shall be presented to the municipal or county official charged with the collection of such special assessment, assessments, installments or penalties. The official shall forthwith make the necessary entries in the records and books of his office as may be required to carry out the purposes of the resolution. |Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 68, eff. Nov. 1, 1984.
11 OK Stat § 11-36-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-36-201. Definitions of terms used.

|The following terms, when used in Sections 36-201 through 36-226, shall have the meanings respectively provided for them in this section, unless a different definition is given: |1. "Abutting property" shall mean all property within a block liable for assessments for both front and side street improvements. Where the property abutting upon an improvement is not divided into lots and blocks, the property liable to assessment shall be to the distance of three hundred (300) feet from the street, avenue, lane or alley upon which improvements are made, extending along both sides of the distance of the street or way so improved.2. "Draining" shall mean the construction and connection of all necessary inlets, catch basins, manholes, underground drainage, sewer and utility pipes so as to provide for the collection, carriage and disposal of all surface water falling on or carried to any permanently improved street or way, to the most available existing outlet therefor.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 36-201, eff. July 1, 1978.