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69 OK Stat § 69-601.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-601.7. Permits for harvesting of hay along right-of-way public roads.

|A. The boards of county commissioners are authorized to issue permits which authorize and regulate the harvesting of hay along the right-of-way of public roads of the county highway system within their respective counties. Each permit shall authorize the permittee to harvest hay for the duration of the calendar year. |B. The applicant for a permit shall be informed in writing and shall sign a release acknowledging that he or she will assume all risk and liability for hay quality and for any accidents and damages that may occur as a result of the work and that the county and State of Oklahoma assume no liability for the hay quality or for work done by the permittee.C. Any person who stores the harvested hay along the right-of-way for later removal shall store the harvested hay at the outer edge of the right-of-way and shall remove the harvested hay within two (2) days after harvesting.D. The county shall obtain consent from the owner whose land abuts the right-of-way before issuing or reissuing a permit to harvest hay. The owner may revoke his or her consent at any time.E. The owner or the owner's assignee of land abutting the right-of-way shall have priority to receive a permit for such land under this section.F. The county may charge a permit fee in an amount calculated only to defray the actual costs of administering this section; provided, that any owner or owner's assignee shall be granted a permit at no cost when harvesting hay on the right-of-way abutting that owner's land. All fees received under this section shall be remitted to the county treasurer for credit to the county highway fund.G. Counties shall require permitees to carry and keep in force liability insurance during the permit period. Counties shall determine required minimum amounts of such coverage, which shall be at least Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) for each occurrence of bodily injury and One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) for each occurrence of property damage.H. Counties may establish regulations to carry out this section.Added by Laws 2017, c. 218, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
69 OK Stat § 69-601.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-601.8. Immunity from liability – Cattle guards or other devices.

|The state, county or political subdivision shall be immune from liability if a claim for damages results from the use, repair or maintenance of cattle guards or other device designed to impede the movement of livestock, wildlife or other animals on public roadways. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 293, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
69 OK Stat § 69-602 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-602. State and county highways - Connection with city paving - Federal aid.

|(a) A hard surfaced state or county highway may be extended into the corporate limits of a municipality to connect with the paving of such municipality under the following conditions: |(1) When any state or county highway within any county has been completed with hard surface to the limits of any municipality which maintains a system of street paving but none of the paved streets of which reach to or connect with such hard surfaced state or county highway; or(2) When such paved streets are not at a greater distance than two (2) miles from such hard surfaced highway; or(3) If the board of county commissioners of such county finds and so certifies of record that such municipality is unable to extend its paving to connect with such hard surfaced state or county highway by reason of the value of abutting real estate that would be liable for such paving being inadequate to sustain the cost thereof; or(4) If it will be for the best interests of the citizens and residents of such county that such hard surfaced highways be connected with the paving in such municipality by a hard surfaced road.(b) Provided, however, that the cost of such extension within such municipality as herein provided shall be borne by the county within which such municipality is located.(c) Provided, further, that when federal aid may be obtained, the board of county commissioners shall take such action as will secure federal aid available for the construction of any hard surfaced road or street as authorized by this section.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 602, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-603 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-603. Contracts for grading, etc., of streets within incorporated cities or towns.

|The board of county commissioners of any county may, under the direction of the Commission, contract for grading, draining or hardsurfacing any street within any municipality where such street is a continuation of or a connecting link in the State or County Highway System or if the county and the municipality have entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 36-113 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the construction, improvement, repair or maintenance of municipal streets. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 603, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 266, § 3, emerg. eff. May 13, 2010.
69 OK Stat § 69-604 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-604. Bonds authorized for roads and bridges - Procedure.

|The board of county commissioners may issue bonds of its county for the purpose of building, constructing, repairing or acquiring bridges, and for building and constructing state or county roads and bridges; provided, the issuance of such bonds shall first be approved by not less than three-fifths (3/5) of the qualified voters of the county voting on the question at an election held for such purpose. Such election shall be called and held, and the bonds shall be issued and sold, as in the case of bonds issued for the erection of county hospitals. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 604, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-605 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-605. Bridge contracts - Preliminary action.

|Whenever the board of county commissioners shall determine to construct a permanent bridge or culvert, the engineer's estimated cost of which exceeds the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), it shall adopt a resolution of necessity, containing substantially the following matters, to wit: |(a) The location of such bridge or culvert, which location shall be so plainly pointed out that the same can easily be determined.(b) The material of which such bridge or culvert is to be constructed.(c) The approximate width of the roadway and depth of fill, if any, over the crown or floor of the bridge or culvert.(d) The approximate length of span or arch of the bridge or culvert.(e) The approximate area of the watershed to be drained through the bridge or culvert.(f) The estimated cost of the bridge or culvert.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 605, operative July 1, 1968; Laws 1979, c. 92, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 1979.
69 OK Stat § 69-606 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-606. Bridges between adjoining counties.

|The board of county commissioners of any two or more adjoining counties may unite in the construction of a bridge, or bridges, over any stream forming the boundary line between such counties or flowing from one county into the other, and the said bridge, or bridges, may be located by them at any point or points on the stream not more than two (2) miles from the boundary line of the counties. If the board of county commissioners of each county so situated finds that a bridge across the stream is necessary and approves its construction, it shall be the duty of the boards of county commissioners, and each of them, to at once proceed with the construction of the bridge. Such counties shall bear the cost of the construction of the bridge, or bridges as agreed by said counties; such construction shall be under the supervision of the boards of county commissioners, which boards shall act in conjunction in such construction; and the bridge, when so constructed, shall remain the property of such counties, respectively, and shall be jointly maintained by such counties. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 606, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 302, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.
69 OK Stat § 69-607 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-607. Intercounty bridges - Proceedings (Boundary bridges).

|(a) Whenever the public convenience justly demands it and the need thereof shall be appropriately signified, as herein provided, then the board of county commissioners must proceed as follows with respect to intercounty bridges across streams serving in whole or in part as a boundary between two counties: After the presentation in the case of a bridge to cost not over One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), of a petition signed by at least fifty taxpayers of each county; to cost from One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), by seventy-five taxpaying signers in each county; to cost more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), by one hundred taxpaying signers in each county, to the board of county commissioners, it may within one (1) year proceed to act and construct the bridge if such levy as may be required for this purpose may be made within the constitutional limitation as to tax levies; and such petitions or actions, at whatever stage, shall bind and have equal force with the successors in office to those Commissioners originally receiving it. The cost of the bridge shall be apportioned between the counties upon the basis of their total valuation, unless the boards of county commissioners in the exercise of sound judgment shall agree to apportion it otherwise. |(b) The above proceeding shall not apply in the case of intercounty bridges where the total span is two hundred (200) feet or more, including approaches thereto of timber work or any material other than earth embankment, if there is another bridge of substantially equal size and importance over the same stream within six (6) miles of the proposed location.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 607, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-608 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-608. Repair of bridges, payment for by county.

|The board of county commissioners may pay for the reconstruction or repairing of such county bridges as have been damaged or destroyed by floods. Provided, that the authority granted by this section shall apply only to claims for repairing or reconstructing bridges previously owned by the county on the same site. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 608, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-609 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-609. Allowance of accounts for repair or reconstruction of bridges.

|The accounts for repairing or reconstructing such bridges destroyed or damaged shall be filed and allowed by the board of county commissioners upon accounts itemized and verified by affidavit as in other cases. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 609, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-610 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-610. Joint construction of bridges by county, city and public service corporation.

|Any county, by act of the board of county commissioners, and any municipality within such county, by a majority of its governing board, and any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, may all or either of them jointly contract for the construction and maintenance of bridges across streams running through such county. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 610, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-611 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-611. Contracts for bridges with public service corporations authorized - Bond issue - Tax levy.

|Any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma may jointly contract with any municipality, county, or citizen of same, for the joint construction, maintenance, ownership and use of any bridge or bridge approaches over and across any stream, river, or creek, and any such public service corporation may contract with any municipality or county for the purchase of such bridge and for the joint ownership and use thereof by the public service corporation and the public; and the several parties so interested may contract and set aside the part of such bridge or bridges and approaches to be used or maintained by each, and such municipality or county may issue and sell bonds, or levy taxes, to pay for construction or purchase of such bridge or bridges, or interest therein, the same as bonds are issued or taxes levied for other bridge purposes. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 611, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-612 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-612. Bonds for bridges jointly constructed between county and municipality.

|When the cost of such construction is apportioned respectively between the county and municipality, bonds may be voted for the same in like manner and form as otherwise provided by law for the construction of a bridge in its entirety by the county and municipality, respectively. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 612, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-613 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-613. Working convicts on county highways - Duties of officers.

|The board of county commissioners of any county shall have authority to work any convicts confined in the county jail, either as punishment for crime or in lieu of payment of fine and costs, upon public highways in the county, and to employ such guards and other assistants as may be required. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, upon the order of the board of county commissioners, to deliver, to any person authorized to receive them for work, upon public highways, any persons sentenced and confined in the county jail either as punishment for crime or in lieu of payment of fine and costs. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 613, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-614 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-614. Convicts on rock pile or other public work.

|When, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners, the expense of working the convicts upon the public highways is too great, on account of the small number thereof, or for any other reason, then it shall have authority to provide all necessary apparatus for working of such convicts upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, for the purpose of providing material for use upon the public highways of the county. Such authority shall be exercised in the same manner as is provided in the preceding section for the working of convicts upon the public highways, and the board of county commissioners shall have full authority as to how and where such materials shall be used; provided, it shall use same for no other purpose than the betterment of the public highways in the county; provided, further, that in any county where the working of convicts upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, is found impractical for any reason, then the board of county commissioners may provide for the working of the convicts upon any public work in which the county has an interest. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 614, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-615 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-615. Convicts to perform road work - Credit for work - Authority of road supervisors.

|Any person in this state convicted of a crime who, as a result of such conviction, is confined as a prisoner in a county jail of any county may, at the discretion of the board of county commissioners of such county in which the jail is located, be required by the board of county commissioners to perform road work on the public highways of the county and upon the streets of any municipality located in the county. When such prisoner shall perform the road work in a satisfactory manner, under the supervision of any road supervisor of the county or municipality having jurisdiction over the person, the prisoner shall be entitled to two (2) day's credit on his time in the jail for each day consisting of eight (8) hours of road work performed by the person and he shall be recorded as having served two (2) days in the jail on his judgment and sentence. Any road supervisor having under his supervision any prisoner or prisoners for the purpose of performing road work, as herein provided, shall be deputized as a deputy sheriff or special police officer with full authority of law as deputy sheriff or police officer for the purpose of properly carrying out the provisions of this section and shall be responsible under the law in the same manner as other officers are responsible for safekeeping of prisoners and shall be subject to the same penalties. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 615, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-616 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-616. Supplies for convicts doing road work.

|The board of county commissioners shall purchase supplies for feeding and maintaining county convicts while at work, from the lowest and best bidder, after reasonable public notice shall have been given. No contract for furnishing supplies at a higher price than the ordinary selling price of the articles furnished shall be valid. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 616, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-617 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-617. Food for convicts - Medical attention.

|The board of county commissioners shall furnish wholesome food in sufficient quantity and variety to all convicts working upon the public roads to maintain them in good health and vigor, and shall furnish medical attention when required in accordance with the standards promulgated pursuant to Section 192 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 617, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 244, § 28, eff. July 1, 1978.
69 OK Stat § 69-618 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-618. Other service may be required of convicts.

|Any of the convicts whether male or female, mentioned in the preceding sections may be required to perform service in or around the county jail or other place of confinement, or at any camp or commissary where convicts are kept or fed. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 618, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-619 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-619. City and town prisoners employed by counties - Credit for work.

|The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of the state shall have authority to receive by agreement with the governing board of any municipality, the prisoners of the municipality, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the municipality's jail, either as punishment or in lieu of payment of fine and costs for the violation of any municipal ordinance, and such board of county commissioners shall have authority to work any such prisoners on the public highways or upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, for the purpose of providing material for use upon public highways or any public institution of such county, or upon any public work in which the county is interested. Any such person so imprisoned for nonpayment of fine and costs shall receive credit upon his or her fine and costs of One Dollar ($1.00) for each day so confined in prison or worked upon the public highways, rock pile, rock crusher, or other public work; provided, the board of county commissioners shall not pay for the services of such prisoners, except the cost of their transportation and maintenance. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 619, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-620 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-620. Unexpended funds - Transfer to other road projects.

|Whenever there remains in the State Treasury to the credit of the Commission, in the account of any county in this state, an unexpended balance of any special fund, being an amount in excess of the contract price of any federal aid road or bridge project and the purpose for which it was created has been fully observed, and there remains no further use for such balance, the Commission shall make a certificate to the board of county commissioners of the county showing the amount of the balance, and it shall then be lawful for the board of county commissioners, by resolution, to transfer such balance to any other federal aid road or bridge project of the county. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 620, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-621 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-621. Maintenance and construction by adjoining counties.

|All county highways on county lines in this state shall be maintained and constructed by the counties adjoining. County commissioners of each of the counties or other jurisdictions between which such roads are located may enter into agreements to provide for said maintenance and construction. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 621, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 302, § 2, eff. July 1, 2015.
69 OK Stat § 69-622 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-622. Duties of counties to maintain roads - Expenditures - Division of roads.

|(a) It shall be the duty of each board of county commissioners to maintain the section of each county line road assigned to it by the aforesaid agreement. The expenditures on such roads shall be governed by the laws relating to expenditures by boards of county commissioners as expenditures on roads within the boundaries of such counties. |(b) Provided, that when the board of county commissioners of any county is notified by the Board of an adjoining county that an agreement relating to division of county line roads as provided in the preceding section is desired, the boards shall within thirty (30) days of such notice proceed with the division in the manner agreed upon between the respective boards.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 622, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-623 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-623. Division when counties fail to agree.

|Should the boards of county commissioners fail to agree upon an equitable division of such roads or upon the expense of maintenance and construction of such roads after the division has been made, the Director shall be authorized to settle such disputes, when called upon to do so by the board of county commissioners of either county, and his decision in such cases shall be final and binding upon both counties. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 623, operative July 1, 1968.