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82 OK Stat § 82-647 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-647. Borrowing of money - Approval.

|Conservancy districts may borrow money in any amount, which, exclusive of interest, does not exceed the assessments then levied but not collected, for any purpose incident to its powers and functions and for any purpose provided by law, and may evidence such debt by contract, agreement, notes or warrants payable within any term not to exceed forty (40) years, and to bear interest at not to exceed the market prime rate per year, provided that the interest rate not exceed twelve and one-half percent (12 1/2%) per year. To secure such loan or loans, the directors may pledge any assessment then levied but not collected by the district and may agree to such other terms and conditions, not incompatible with the provisions of this title. Before any such loan is entered into by the district, the board of directors shall make application to the district court having jurisdiction of said district for approval of such loan. The application shall set forth, the amount of the loan, the interest rate, the purpose for which the loan is needed and a plan of repayment. The application shall be set for hearing by the court and notice by publication given to all owners of land upon which assessment has been made by the district, without naming such owners individually. Upon said hearing, if the owners of land in the district upon which a majority of assessment has been made have not filed written protests before the date of the hearing, and if the court finds that such loan is necessary and in the best interests of the district, the court shall approve the application. |Amended by Laws 1987, c. 208, § 33, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 236, § 62, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987.
82 OK Stat § 82-648 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-648. Necessity and amount of assessments in master conservancy districts.

|The board of directors of any master conservancy district formed under the provisions of this act may determine, by resolution, the necessity and amount of assessments and the respective portions thereof to be paid by the component areas of said district, based upon the relative benefits anticipated for said component areas, and may be adjusted by said board, from time to time, as necessary to insure equitable allocation thereof. Funds secured in the manner herein provided shall be used to defray the expenses of initial organization, conducting project studies, investigations and payment of other expenses necessary to accomplish the objectives and purposes of the district. Such component areas through their governing bodies are hereby authorized to make the necessary contributions for defraying the expenses set forth above. |Added by Laws 1961, p. 629, § 14.
82 OK Stat § 82-649 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-649. Designation of fiscal year - Reports - Accounting.

|The board of directors shall designate the fiscal year for the district, which fiscal year shall not be changed except with approval of the district court. |Annually, or more often if the court shall order, and within thirty (30) days of the ending of the fiscal year, the board of directors shall make and file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of the district, a report of its proceedings and an accounting of the receipts and disbursements for such fiscal year, using forms approved by the State Auditor and Inspector. Any interested person may object to such report, in writing, within sixty (60) days of the ending of the fiscal year. When objections are filed, the Court may order the auditing of district accounts and may order a hearing on such objections, and after giving such notice as the court may direct.Laws 1967, c. 382, § 20, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967; Laws 1979, c. 30, § 158, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979.
82 OK Stat § 82-661 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-661. Lands in more than one district.

|The same land, if conducive to public health, safety, convenience or welfare, may be included in more than one district and be subject to the provisions of this act for each and every district in which it may be included, provided, that no district shall be organized under this act, in whole or in part, within the territory of a district already organized under this act until the court or courts determine whether the public health, safety, convenience or welfare demand the organization of an additional district, or whether it demand that the territory proposed to be organized into an additional district shall be added to the existing district, and in case the proceedings concerning two or more such districts are before the district court of two or more counties, such determination shall be as provided in the next section. |Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 193, § 58.
82 OK Stat § 82-662 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-662. Jurisdiction of courts as to districts being organized in same territory.

|In case any district or districts are being organized within or partly within and partly without, the same territory in which some other district or districts have been or are being organized, then one district judge of each judicial district in which said conservancy districts have been or are being organized shall confer at the earliest convenient moment after they ascertain the possibility of a conflict in jurisdiction, the sitting to be had in the county having the largest assessed valuation in the proposed district or districts. |At such conference the several judges shall determine to what extent the several districts should be consolidated or to what extent the boundaries should be adjusted in order to most fully carry out the purposes of this act, and they shall by suitable orders make such determination effective. In the event notices have been issued or jurisdiction acquired in any proceedings concerning territory which is transferred to the district court of another county, such notice shall not become void and jurisdiction so acquired shall not be lost, but in each case the court acquiring jurisdiction over such transferred territory shall hold the same without further notice, as if originally embraced in said district.At such conferences the decision of the majority of the judges shall be necessary for the determination of any matter, and from such decision or from a failure to decide, appeal may be taken.The provisions of this and the preceding section shall not operate to delay or to interrupt any proceedings under this act until the question of jurisdiction has been fully determined by the court or courts.Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 193, § 59.
82 OK Stat § 82-663.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-663.1. Union or conversion of drainage districts.

|The provisions of Title 82 Oklahoma Statutes, Section 663, relating to the union of conservancy districts shall apply equally to drainage districts organized under the provisions of Title 82 Oklahoma Statutes. Any drainage district so organized may unite with a conservancy district under those provisions, or any drainage district may become a conservancy district and henceforth be under and governed by the provisions of Title 82 Oklahoma Statutes, Sections 531-687 by following those provisions. |Said petition to unite or convert the form of organization and government need contain no other allegations than that the governing board or boards desire to accept the provisions of this act.Laws 1955, p. 471, § 1.
82 OK Stat § 82-663.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-663.2. Order for union or conversion of drainage district - Rights, remedies, and obligations.

|If such union or reorganization is ordered by the court, the order shall set out the fact that all pending litigation and claims, and outstanding bonds, refunding bonds, warrants, assessments, and obligations shall continue in their status quo, and that all rights, remedies, and obligations are preserved as under the former organization. Such order shall set the effective date of such change, and on such date all funds, levies, taxes, and assessments shall become operative under the newly formed or organized conservancy district. |Laws 1955, p. 471, § 2.
82 OK Stat § 82-664 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-664. Remedy for injury by district - Procedure.

|Except as otherwise provided or authorized by the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, any person or public corporation injuriously affected in any manner whatsoever by an act performed by any official or agent of a district established pursuant to the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, or by the execution, maintenance or operation of the official plan, pursuant to the provisions of the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma, may seek relief for such injury. Any such remedy shall be subject to the provisions of the Governmental Tort Claims Act. |Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 195, § 61. Amended by Laws 1967, c. 382, § 18, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967; Laws 2000, c. 59, § 3, emerg. eff. April 14, 2000.
82 OK Stat § 82-665 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-665. Subdistricts - Administration.

|Whenever it is desired to construct improvements wholly within or partly within and partly without any district organized under this act, which improvements will affect only a part of said district, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, subdistricts may be organized upon petition of the owners of real property, within or partly within and partly without the district, which petition shall fulfill the same requirements concerning the subdistricts as the petition outlined in Section 4 of this act is required to fulfill concerning the organization of the main district, and shall be filed with the clerk of the same district court, and shall be accompanied by a bond as provided for in Section 5 of this act. All proceedings relating to such subdistricts shall conform in all things to the provisions of this act relating to the organization of districts. Whenever the court shall, by its order duly entered of record, declare and decree such subdistricts to be organized, the clerk of said court shall thereupon give notice of such order to the directors of the district, who shall thereupon act also as directors of the subdistricts. Thereafter, the proceedings in reference to the subdistricts shall in all matters conform to the provisions of this act; except that in appraisal of benefits and damages for the purposes of such subdistricts, in the issuance of bonds, in the levying of assessments or taxes, and in all other matters affecting only the subdistricts, the provisions of this act shall apply to this subdistrict as though it were an independent district, and it shall not, in these things be amalgamated with the main district. |The board of directors, board of appraisers, chief engineer, attorney, secretary and other agents and employees of the district shall, so far as it may be necessary, serve in the same capacities for such subdistrict, and contracts and agreements between the main district and the subdistrict may be made in the same manner as contracts and agreements between two districts. The distribution of administrative expense between the main district and subdistrict shall be in proportion to the interests involved and the amount of service rendered, such division to be made by the board of directors with an appeal to the court establishing the district. This section shall not be held to prevent the organization of independent districts for local improvements under other laws, within the limits of a district organized under this act, as provided in Sections 59 and 60 of this act.Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 196, § 62.
82 OK Stat § 82-666 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-666. Other improvements may come under act - Procedure.

|Any territory in which a proceeding has been instituted or is pending for construction of a single or joint or interstate, or county ditch, or township ditch, or underground drain, or levee, or county sewer, or for the cleaning of drains and water courses, or for the removal of drifts, or for the drainage of marshes; or for any sewer district outside of a municipality, or organized under any other law of this state, may become a district or subdistrict under this act, or may be absorbed in and amalgamated with any district organized under the terms of this act in the following manner: |When the officials in charge of any such improvement, or in the board of directors of any district organized under this act, which may desire to annex or absorb such territory, petition the court in which such district was organized under this act, or the court having jurisdiction over all or part of the territory affected by the proceedings which is desired to bring under this act, for an order making the territory affected by any of the improvements above noted a district or subdistrict under the terms of this act, or for amalgamating such territory with an existing district, organized under the terms of this act, the court clerk shall give notice of the pendency of said petition and of a hearing thereon in the same manner as herein provided for notice and hearing on a petition for the organization of a district under this act. At the time of such hearing the court shall hear the evidence and shall grant the petition or deny the same, as seems most advantageous to all the interests affected thereby.The court, in its order shall specify whether such territory shall be organized into a district or subdistrict under the terms of this act, or whether it shall be absorbed in or amalgamated with an existing district, organized under this act. Thereafter the territory affected by said order and the improvements for which said territory was assessed, or for which contracts have been let therein, shall be subject to the terms of this act, and all such orders and procedure shall be had, as are necessary for fulfilling the requirements of this act; provided, that no order of the court shall be made under this section, which shall lessen the security of any issue of bonds or other obligations issued under the terms of this or any other statute.If a proceeding sought to be joined to or amalgamated with a proceeding under this act is under the jurisdiction of a district court other than the one having jurisdiction of the district organized under this act, then at such hearing the district judge or judges of the county or counties in which such ditch or other improvements is located shall sit with the judge in whose county the district was established under this act, and a majority of those sitting shall be necessary to a decision; and from such decision or from a failure to decide appeal may be taken.Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 196, § 63.
82 OK Stat § 82-668 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-668. Payment of monies due United States from master conservancy districts - Levies and assessments.

|All payments to become due to the United States under any federal contract entered into between a master conservancy district and the United States may be paid from revenues or derived from assessments upon the real property of the district, as provided in the Conservancy Act. It shall be the duty of the board of directors of a contracting district, pursuant to the provisions of the Conservancy Act, to make and establish all levies, assessments, tolls or charges to meet each year the contract indebtedness and obligation as the same may be provided for in any federal contract heretofore or hereafter entered into by a contracting district and to do any and all acts necessary to carry out the provisions of any such federal contract. |Laws 1961, p. 626, § 10.
82 OK Stat § 82-669 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-669. Suits for or against district - Name - Service of process.

|In all suits in any court for damages, condemnation or other proceedings, whether brought for or against such conservancy district, the same shall be brought in the name of the conservancy district as fixed and established by the decree of incorporation, and shall be under the direction of its board of directors and in all suits against such conservancy district service of summons shall be issued and served upon the president of the board of directors; or, if the president of said board of directors is not found in the county, then upon a member of the board of directors of said district, or if none of the aforesaid directors can be found, then by serving the secretary or treasurer and by leaving a copy thereof at the principal office or usual place of business of said district, with the person having charge thereof. |Added by Laws 1967, c. 382, § 19, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967.
82 OK Stat § 82-671 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-671. Directors may police district.

|The board of directors shall have the right to police the works of the district, and in times of great emergency may compel assistance in the protection of such work, and shall, also, have the right to prevent persons, vehicles or live stock from passing over the works of the district in any manner which would result in damage thereto. |Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 197, § 64.
82 OK Stat § 82-672 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-672. Injury to survey marks prohibited - Penalty.

|The willful destruction, injury or removal of any bench marks, witness marks, stakes or other reference marks, placed by surveyors or engineers of the district, or by contractors in constructing the works of the district, shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). |Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 197, § 65.
82 OK Stat § 82-673 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-673. Owners liable for damage to district - Repairs.

|All persons and corporations shall be liable for damage done to works of the district by themselves, their agents, their employees, or by their livestock. All persons guilty of willful damage shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be fined not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and costs, and shall be liable for all damages and costs. The board of directors shall have authority to repair such damage at the expense of the person or corporation committing it. |Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 198, § 66.
82 OK Stat § 82-674 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-674. Fraud or other illegal acts of officials - Fine.

|The making of profit, directly or indirectly, by any officer of any district organized under this act, or by any public officer within the state, out of any contracts entered into by the district, or by use of any contracts entered into by the district, or by use of any money belonging to a district by lending it or otherwise using it, or by depositing the same in any manner, contrary to law, or by removal of any money by any such officer or by his consent and placing elsewhere than is prescribed either by law or by the official acts of the board of directors for the purpose of profit, or any person who shall misrepresent any material fact concerning the proposed project to any property owner when procuring signatures to a petition to inaugurate such project, shall constitute a felony, and on conviction thereof shall subject such officer to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding two (2) years, or a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment, and the officer offending shall be liable personally and upon his official bond for all losses to such district and for all profits realized by such unlawful use of monies. |Added by Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 198, § 67. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 593, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 429, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 593 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
82 OK Stat § 82-675 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-675. Officials removed for cause.

|Any director or appraiser of any district organized under this act may be removed for cause upon a motion filed in the original case where said district was organized after a hearing. |Laws 1923-1924, c. 139, p. 198, § 68.
82 OK Stat § 82-676 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-676. Performance of duties enforced by mandamus.

|The performance of all duties prescribed in this act concerning the organization and administration or operation of the district may be enforced against any officer or against any person or corporation refusing to comply with any order of the board by mandamus at the instance of the board or of any person or corporation interested in any way in such district or proposed district. And the board may institute such proceedings in the court in the first instance. |Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 198, § 69.
82 OK Stat § 82-681 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-681. Faulty notice - How corrected.

|In any and every case where a notice is provided for in this act, if the court finds that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceedings in question shall not thereby be void; but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as such notice shall be properly given and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance. |In case any individual appraisal or appraisals, assessment or assessments, or levy or levies, shall be held void for want of legal notice, or in case the board may determine that any notice with reference to any land or lands may be faulty, then the board may file a motion in the original cause asking that the court order notice to the owner of such land or lands given and set a time for hearing as provided in this act. And in case the original notice as a whole, was sufficient, and was faulty with reference to publication as to certain tracts, only the owners of and persons interested in those particular tracts need be notified by such subsequent notice, and if the publication of any notice in any county was defective or not made in time, republication of the defective notice need be had only in the county in which the defect occurred.Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 199, § 71.
82 OK Stat § 82-682 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-682. Questions of validity of districts to be expedited in court.

|All cases in which there arises a question of validity of the organization of conservancy districts shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard in all courts at the earliest practicable moment. |The court shall be open at all times for the purpose of this act.Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 199, § 72.
82 OK Stat § 82-683 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-683. Act to be liberally construed.

|This act being necessary for securing the public health, safety, convenience or welfare, and being necessary for the prevention of great loss of life and for the security of public and private property from floods and other uncontrolled waters, it shall be liberally construed to effect the control and conservation and drainage of the waters of this state. |Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 199, § 73.
82 OK Stat § 82-684 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-684. Partial invalidity.

|In case any section or sections or part of any sections of this act shall be found to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the act shall not thereby be invalidated, but shall remain in full force and effect. |Laws 1923-24, c. 139, p. 199, § 74.