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19 OK Stat § 19-880 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-880. Subdistrict sewers - Petition - Profiles, plans and specifications - Contracts.

|Whenever such district sewer or sewers shall have been authorized, the said board of directors shall then proceed to employ a registered professional engineer licensed in the State of Oklahoma, and cause to be prepared profiles, plans and specifications for the work, together with a complete estimate of the cost. Upon the completion of such plans and specifications and their adoption by the said board of directors, they shall advertise for sealed bids for the performance of such work for at least ten (10) days, if published in a daily newspaper, or at least two (2) successive weeks if published in a weekly newspaper. In either case, such newspaper must be one of general circulation within the district and such notice may contain any reasonable conditions to be imposed by said board of directors with reference to the letting of such contracts and shall require the giving of a good and sufficient bond for the faithful execution of work and the performance of the contract and for the protection of the district and all property owners against any loss or damage by the negligent execution of such work. Such notice shall also advise all parties interested that they may appear and protest against such proposed improvement or any part thereof. At the time and place specified in the notice the board of directors shall award the contract to the lowest and best bidder for the work, which contract shall in no case exceed the aggregate estimate of cost submitted with the plans and specifications and shall be subject to the right of the board of directors to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for other bids, when none of the same is, in their judgment, satisfactory. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 221, § 10, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1949, p. 182, § 5, emerg. eff. May 12, 1949.
19 OK Stat § 19-881 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-881. Computation and apportionment of cost - Assessment - Special assessment bonds.

|As soon as any subdistrict sewer line or lines shall have been completed the engineer having charge of the work shall compute the whole cost thereof which shall also include the cost of advertising, appraising, engineering and such other expense necessary or essential or incident to the completion of such work and shall apportion the same against all of the lots or pieces of ground in such district in proportion to the area of the whole subdistrict, exclusive of the public highways, and such officer shall report the same to the board of directors and the said board of directors shall thereupon assess a special tax against each lot or piece of ground within said subdistrict, which assessment so made shall be published in some newspaper of the county of general circulation within said district for two consecutive weeks, during which time said assessments without interest may be paid to the clerk. If at the expiration of such time the amount named in such assessment together with the cost of publication, shall not be paid, then said board of directors shall cause special assessment bonds to be issued against such lots or pieces of ground in said subdistrict, which special assessment bond shall recite the date and fact of the making of such assessment, the amount of the assessment, the description of the property against which the same is made, and that the same will be charged or levied against said property in five equal annual installments with interest thereon at the rate of not to exceed six percent (6%) per annum, each of said installments to become due and payable on the 1st day of September in each year which shall become delinquent if not paid before October 1st in said year and said bonds shall be signed by the director of the board of directors and countersigned by the clerk and delivered to the contractor; provided, that the other expenses incurred by said district in addition to the contract price of the work shall be paid to the district by the contractor in cash and the aggregate amount of such bonds delivered to the contractor shall not exceed his contract price, and the amount of the expenses paid in cash to the district by the contractor; provided, further, that in no case shall said district be empowered to pay any such special bonds from any of the funds of said district, nor shall it be liable for the amount of such bonds, until the amount of said assessment shall be collected from the property described in said bonds. Said bonds shall bear four coupons evidencing respectively the first, second, third and fourth installments due thereon; together with interest on the same and interest on the unmatured installment or installments. The bond shall evidence the fifth payment and interest thereon. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 221, § 11, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-883 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-883. Suit to set aside assessment or bond - Limitation - New assessment.

|No suit shall be sustained to set aside any assessment made or special assessment bond for which any assessment is security, unless brought within thirty (30) days from the time such assessment is made; provided, that in the event any special assessment shall be set aside or be invalid, in whole or in part, the board of directors may, at any time, in the manner herein provided for levying an original assessment, proceed to cause a new assessment to be made, which shall have the like force and effect as an original assessment. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 223, § 13, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-886 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-886. Payment of bonds.

|Such bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by revenue derived from an annual assessment upon the real property of the district, and all the real property of the district shall be and remain liable to be assessed for such payments as herein provided. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 224, § 16, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-887 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-887. Annual assessment by county assessor.

|The county assessor must on or before the first Monday in May in each year assess all the real property in the district to the persons who own, claim, or have the possession or control thereof, at its full cash value. He must prepare an assessment book, in which must be listed all such property within the district in which must be specified in separate columns under appropriate heads the following: |1. The name of the person to whom the property is assessed. If the name of the owner is not known to the assessor the property must be assessed to "unknown owners".2. Land or township, range, section or fractional section and when such land is not a congressional division or subdivision, by metes and bounds, or other description sufficient to identify, giving an estimate of the number of acres.3. Lots in any subdivision by giving the number and block according to the system of numbering in the recorded plat of such subdivision.4. The cash value of real estate other than lots in any subdivision.5. The cash value of lots in any subdivisions.6. The cash value of all improvements on the real estate.7. The total value of the property after equalization.8. Such other things as the board of directors may require. Provided, however, that the assessment of any property in the name of the wrong person shall in no way invalidate the assessment thereon.Added by Laws 1947, p. 224, § 17, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-888 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-888. Equalization of assessments - Notice of meeting.

|On or before the 15th day of May in each year the assessor must complete his assessment book and deliver the same to the clerk of the board, who must immediately give notice thereof and of the time the board of directors, acting as a board of equalization, will meet to equalize assessments, by publication of such notice in a newspaper published in the county for two successive weeks. The time fixed for the meeting shall not be less than ten (10) nor more than (20) days from the date of the first publication of the notice and in the meantime the assessor's books shall remain in the office of the secretary for the inspection of all persons interested. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 225, § 18, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-889 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-889. Hearing and determination of objections - Changes.

|Upon the day specified in the notice required by the preceding section, the board of directors, which is hereby constituted the board of equalization for that purpose, shall meet and continue in session from day to day as long as may be necessary, not to exceed ten (10) days exclusive of Sundays, to hear and determine such objections to the valuation and assessments as may come before them and the said board may change the assessor's valuation in such manner as may be just and equitable. The clerk of the board shall be present during the sessions and note the changes made in the value of property and the name of the persons whose property is assessed and within ten (10) days after the close of the session he shall have the total values as finally equalized by the board extended into columns and added. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 225, § 19, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-891 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-891. Costs and expenses - Paid out of construction fund.

|The cost and expense of purchasing and acquiring property and constructing the works and improvements herein provided for shall be wholly paid in cash or in the bonds of said district issued as hereinbefore provided at their par value with accrued interest. The bonds may be issued in series or installments, and shall be turned over and delivered to the contractor in payment of the amount due in accordance with the terms of his contract, including advertising, engineering, and other expenses. Said bonds shall be executed and delivered from time to time on completion and approval of the work or any part thereof, to an amount equal to the cost and expense of purchasing and acquiring property and constructing the works and improvements so completed and accepted. Such bonds or any portion thereof may be sold for cash at not less than par and accrued interest, within the discretion of the board of directors. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 225, § 21, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1949, p. 185, § 7, emerg. eff. May 12, 1949.
19 OK Stat § 19-892 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-892. Tolls and charges.

|For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the organization of the district and the care, operation, management, repair and improvement of the property purchased and works constructed, including salaries of officers and employees, the board may fix rates of tolls and charges for the use of such system as they may deem expedient and may change such charges from time to time and the monies so received shall go into the general funds of the district. Such tolls or charges shall be payable either monthly or quarterly as determined by the board of directors and shall become delinquent thirty (30) days after they are payable and after delinquent shall be a lien against the separate lots or tracts of land connected with the sewerage system. The board of directors shall certify any delinquent tolls or charges to the county treasurer on or before the 1st day of September of each year which shall be collected as other delinquent taxes are collected. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 226, § 22, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-893 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-893. Notice for bids.

|After adopting the plans for the construction of the district sewer lines, sewerage disposal, or treatment plant, or parts thereof, and other work in connection therewith, and after determining the property necessary to be acquired, and after the bonds as hereinbefore provided for, have been authorized, the board of directors shall give notice by publication thereof in some newspaper published in said county, calling for bids for the construction of said work, or any portion thereof, and to pay the expense of purchasing and acquiring the necessary property, if any. Said notice shall be published in three (3) issues of a daily newspaper or two (2) issues in a weekly newspaper, the last publication to be at least ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for receiving bids. The notice shall set forth that plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the clerk and that the board will receive sealed proposals therefor, and that the contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, stating the time and place for receiving and opening said proposals in public. Said notice shall set forth any reasonable terms and conditions that the board shall deem proper to impose with reference to the letting of the contract and the provisions thereof. Said notice shall further set forth the nature of the performance and statutory bonds required to be furnished. As soon as convenient thereafter the board shall let such contract, either in part or in whole to the lowest responsible bidder, and it may reject any and all bids and readvertise for proposals. The person or persons to whom the contract shall be awarded, shall enter into a bond with good and sufficient sureties, in an amount equal to one hundred per cent (100%) of the contract price for the faithful performance of the contract, and also a good and sufficient bond to the State of Oklahoma for the payment of all labor and material used in the construction of such improvement. All such construction work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer employed by said board and be approved by the board. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 226, § 23, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1949, p. 185, § 8, emerg. eff. May 12, 1949.
19 OK Stat § 19-894 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-894. Presentation and allowance of claims - Warrants.

|No claims shall be paid by the clerk of said district until the same shall have been presented and allowed by the board of directors and only upon warrants signed by the president and countersigned by the clerk, and if the district treasurer has not sufficient money on hand to pay such warrants when presented, he shall endorse thereon "not paid for want of funds" and endorse thereon the date presented, over his signature, and from the time of such presentation until paid such warrant shall draw interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum. All claims against the district shall be verified the same as is required in the case on claims filed against the counties in this state, and the clerk of the district is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths to the parties verifying such claims the same as a county clerk or a notary public might do. The district clerk shall keep a register in which he shall enter each warrant presented for payment, showing the date and amount of such warrant, to whom payable, the date of the presentation for payment, the date of payment, and the amount paid in redemption thereof, and all warrants shall be paid in the order of their presentation for payment to the district clerk. All warrants shall be drawn and payable to the claimant or bearer. |Added by Laws 1947, p. 226, § 24, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947.
19 OK Stat § 19-896 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-896. Approval of bonds by Supreme Court.

|That the board is authorized in its discretion to file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma for the approval of any bonds or series of bonds to be issued hereunder, and exclusive original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court to hear and determine each such application. It shall be the duty of the Court to give such applications precedence over the other business of the court and to consider and pass upon the applications and any protests which may be filed thereto as speedily as possible. Notice of the hearing on each application shall be given by a notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county that on a day named the board will ask the court to hear its application and approve the bonds. Such notice shall inform all persons interested that they may file protests against the issuance of the bonds and be present at the hearing and contest the legality thereof. Such notice shall be published one (1) time not less than ten (10) days prior to the date named for the hearing and the hearing may be adjourned from time to time in the discretion of the court. If the court shall be satisfied that the bonds have been properly authorized in accordance with this act and that when issued they will constitute valid obligations in accordance with their terms, the court shall render its written opinion approving the bonds and shall fix the time within which a petition for rehearing may be filed. The decision of the court shall be a judicial determination of the validity of the bonds, shall be conclusive as to the board, its officers and agents, and thereafter the bonds so approved and the revenues pledged to their payment shall be incontestable in any court in the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1949, p. 186, § 11, emerg. eff. May 12, 1949.
19 OK Stat § 19-897 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-897. County clerks to record instruments without fee.

|All instruments and deeds filed for record in the office of the county clerk by or under the direction of the board of directors of any sewer improvement district located in such county shall be filed and recorded without any filing or recording fee being charged therefor. |Added by Laws 1953, p. 87, § 3.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.1. Consolidation with adjacent city or town.

|A county sewer improvement district lying adjacent to a city or town may consolidate and become one municipal corporation with such city or town, with all the powers, obligations and duties of the adjacent city or town whose name shall be assumed and adopted in the proceedings herein provided. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 181, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.2. Request for consolidation - Election - Terms - Ordinance.

|The board of directors of any county sewer improvement district, or the resident citizens liable to pay a majority of the taxes assessed, as shown by the last preceding tax roll of the county, on real property situated within the boundaries of such county sewer improvement district, may ask of the city council or other governing board of any adjacent city, or the board of trustees of any adjacent town, for a consolidation, setting forth the terms of such consolidation which shall include assumption by the district property of the legal bonded indebtedness of the city or town and the assumption by the city or town of the legal public sewer bonded debt of the district. It shall be lawful for the said city council or other governing board of the city or board of trustees of the town so addressed (after first requesting the board of directors of the county sewer improvement district and it does submit the question of such consolidation and the terms and conditions thereof including assumption of each other's legal bonded debt, to a vote of the qualified voters of the county sewer improvement district affected and a majority thereof having voted in favor of such consolidation) by ordinance to consolidate such adjacent county sewer improvement district upon the terms and conditions so submitted. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 181, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.3. Property of city or town upon consolidation - Former district offices vacated.

|Whenever an entire county sewer improvement district shall be consolidated with an adjacent city or town, the property, both real and personal and effects of every nature and description of such county sewer improvement district shall be the property of and belong to such city or town; and the offices of the county sewer improvement district shall become vacated and the duties now vested by law to be performed by the officers of the county sewer improvement district shall be vested in the governing board of said adjacent city or town. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 181, § 3, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.4. Assumption of legal bonded indebtedness.

|The property within the county sewer improvement district consolidated under the provisions of this act shall assume its full proportion of all legal bonded indebtedness of the city or town to which it is consolidated, and the city or town to which it is consolidated shall assume all legal bonded indebtedness of the county sewer improvement district so consolidated. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 182, § 4, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.5. Compliance with former district bond resolutions.

|In the event of such consolidation, the city or town shall comply with provisions of bond resolutions pertaining to outstanding county sewer improvement district bonds and shall remit the sum due for debt requirements as set out therein. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 182, § 5, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.6. Bonds affected.

|The bonds of the county sewer improvement district referred to in this act pertain only to bonds issued under authority of Title 19, Oklahoma Statutes 1951, Section 884, which consist of bonds issued for public main lines and sewage disposal or treatment plant, including the other property necessary to operate such system, which are paid for by the district as a whole. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 182, § 6, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-898.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-898.7. Mineral rights not affected.

|The consolidation of a county sewer improvement district with an adjoining city or town under the provisions of this act, shall not affect or qualify the rights of any owner or owners of mineral interests or mineral estates, or interests therein, in and to the land covered in any such county sewer improvement district to develop, operate and further develop their property for oil and gas purposes, and any consolidation effected hereunder shall not diminish the rights of any such owner or owners. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 182, § 7, emerg. eff. June 6, 1955.
19 OK Stat § 19-901.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-901.1. Organization authorized.

|Whenever twenty-five percent (25%) of the holders of title to lands outside of the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town shall petition the board of county commissioners of the county in which such area owned by them is located for the formation of a fire protection district, and compliance had with the provisions of this act, the said board of county commissioners shall enter its order organizing such district, and when so organized such district shall have the powers conferred herein or such as hereafter may be conferred by law upon such fire protection districts. |Added by Laws 1949, p. 153, § 1.