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11 OK Stat § 11-25-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-25-105. Application of act.

|A. The Oklahoma Municipal Energy Independence Act shall apply to developed property located within the borders of the municipality on which property taxes are paid and on which the owners of the property are current in the payment of the property taxes. |B. The trustees of a municipal energy district authority may enter into an agreement with a county to collect repayment of any loan made pursuant to the Oklahoma Municipal Energy Independence Act upon such terms as may be agreed to by the property owner and the municipal energy district authority.C. Any loan made pursuant to the Oklahoma Municipal Energy Independence Act shall constitute a lien on the property which is the subject of the loan only upon the recording of a mortgage covering the property in the office of the county clerk. Any mortgage securing a loan shall be junior and inferior to all previously recorded liens or mortgages of any kind. The exclusive method of enforcing a lien for failure to repay any loan made pursuant to the Oklahoma Municipal Energy Independence Act shall be by judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure as provided by law.D. Only appliances or energy-efficient improvements that are permanently affixed to the property shall be eligible for financing pursuant to the Oklahoma Municipal Energy Independence Act.Added by Laws 2011, c. 103, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
11 OK Stat § 11-25-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-25-106. Energy-efficiency audits or retrofits.

|A municipal energy district authority may make grants to nonprofit organizations to perform energy-efficiency audits or retrofits on tax-exempt property. |Added by Laws 2011, c. 103, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
11 OK Stat § 11-25-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-25-107. Participation in program - Requirements.

|A municipal energy district authority shall require those property owners participating in the program to: |1. Have an energy audit conducted on the property to be improved to demonstrate the value of the project; and2. Submit proof that the improvements at a minimum meet “Energy Star” ratings.Added by Laws 2011, c. 103, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-101 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-101. Authority to purchase and regulate.

|A municipal governing body shall have the power to purchase, lay out and regulate cemeteries. The powers over cemeteries which are granted to a municipal governing body in this section include, but are not limited to, cemeteries used or dedicated for interment of animal remains. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-101, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-102 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-102. Power to acquire and control land for cemeteries.

|A municipal governing body may acquire, by purchase, donation or otherwise, and control lots or parcels of land within and without the limits of the municipality as the governing body deems necessary for cemetery purposes. When lots or parcels are so acquired, the title shall vest in the municipality. The governing body may subdivide or plat any of the lots or lands into suitable parcels for burial purposes and make such disposition thereof as will in the judgment of the governing body best serve the purpose for which they were acquired. Any lands so acquired shall thereafter be exempt from taxation, and the governing body may pay and discharge any assessments against the lands for the improvement of streets or the construction of sewers. The governing body shall provide for the grading, fencing, ornamenting and improving of all burial and cemetery grounds owned by the municipality and the avenues leading thereto, and may construct walks and plant and protect ornamental trees and shrubs therein, and provide for paying the cost thereof. |Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-102, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-103 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-103. Conveyance of cemetery lots - Abandoned lots.

|A. As used in this section, “lot” means a tract of land as defined in Section 1 of this act. |B. Lots in a municipal cemetery shall be conveyed by certificate signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the municipality. The certificate shall show the price for which the lots are sold and specify that the person to whom it is issued is the owner of the lot or lots described therein by number, as laid down in the plat, for the purpose of interment. The certificate shall vest in the purchaser and heirs of the purchaser a right to the lot or lots, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the governing body or board of cemetery trustees. The certificate shall be entitled to record in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the lot is situated without further acknowledgment, and the description of lots by number shall be sufficient for the purpose of record. All abandoned lots shall revert to the municipality.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-103, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 47, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-104 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-104. Conveyance or devise of lot in trust.

|A. As used in this section, “lot” means a tract of land as defined in Section 1 of this act. |B. Any burial lot in any cemetery owned by a municipality, or by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes under the laws of Oklahoma, may be conveyed or devised by the owner back to and held by such company, municipality, or association in perpetual trust for the purpose of its preservation as a place of burial. The lot so conveyed shall thereafter remain forever inalienable by act of the parties, but the right to use the same as a place of burial of the dead of the family of the owner and his descendants from generation to generation shall remain, unless the deed of conveyance in trust shall provide that interments in such lot shall be confined to the bodies of specified persons, in which case the lot shall be forever preserved as the burial place of the persons specified in the deed and shall never be used for any other purpose whatever. However, no conveyance in trust shall be made without the consent of the cemetery company or association in whose cemetery the burial lot is located, or of the governing body or board of cemetery trustees of the municipality.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-104, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 47, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-105. Rules and ordinances - Penalties and fines.

|The governing body may pass rules and ordinances to regulate, protect, and govern the cemetery, the owners of the lots therein, visitors therein, and to punish trespassers therein. The governing body may limit the number of lots which may be owned by one person, corporation or association at the same time, and may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning and erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots; but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of lots, the burial therein, or the ornamentation of graves or lots. The governing body may prohibit any division of the use of lots and any improper adornment thereof. The officers of the municipality shall have full jurisdiction and power to enforce such rules and ordinances as if they related to the municipality itself. Penalties and fines not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or thirty (30) days in jail may be imposed for violation of such rules and ordinances. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-105, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-106. Board of cemetery trustees - Appointment and creation.

|Where a cemetery is owned by a municipality, the governing body may provide by ordinance for the creation and appointment of a board of cemetery trustees. The board of cemetery trustees shall consist of three (3) members. The term of each member shall be six (6) years, except that when the board is first appointed, one member shall serve a term of two (2) years, one member shall serve a term of four (4) years, and one member shall serve a term of six (6) years. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-106, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-107. Powers and duties of cemetery trustees.

|The board of cemetery trustees shall have charge of and control of the municipal cemetery, and shall be authorized to: |1. Make rules and regulations governing the management, improvement and establishment of the cemetery;2. Fix the price for which lots shall be sold or for which an interment shall be made; and3. Appoint all officers necessary for the control and management of cemeteries, including a cemetery superintendent, subject to the approval of the municipal governing body.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-107, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-108. Cemetery expenses and collections.

|All monies received by the board of cemetery trustees from the sale of lots or from interments or from any other source shall be paid daily to the municipal treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the municipal treasury. Expenses incurred for the upkeep, repair, and adornment of the municipal cemetery may be paid by the municipal treasurer upon proper warrants. |Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 51, eff. Nov. 1, 1984.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-109 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-109. Cemetery Care Fund - Purchase of lands - Investment of fund.

|In all municipally owned cemeteries where lots are sold or charges made for interments, not less than twelve and one-half percent (12.5%) of all monies received from the sale of lots and interments shall be segregated and set aside as a permanent fund to be known as the "Cemetery Care Fund". The Cemetery Care Fund principal shall be expended for purchasing lands for cemeteries and for making capital improvements as defined in Section 17-110 of this title, if necessary. The balance of the fund may be invested in the manner provided by law for investment of municipal funds. The interest from the investments shall be used for the same purposes as the principal or in improving, caring for, and embellishing the lots, walks, drives, parks, and other necessary improvements on such cemeteries. |Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-109, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 52, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1991, c. 124, § 14, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 23, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-110 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-110. Reports of the cemetery board of trustees.

|The board of cemetery trustees shall, on the first Mondays in January and July of each year, make a full report to the municipal governing body of all lots sold, interments made, and all moneys received and expended by the board in and about the cemetery. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-110, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-111 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-111. Lien on cemetery lots for upkeep charges - Enforcement.

|A. Any municipality which owns a cemetery, or any board of cemetery trustees of a cemetery owned by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes under the laws of Oklahoma, shall have a lien on any unused lot when a written contract provides for upkeep payments on such lot and the upkeep payments have been unpaid for a continuous period of five (5) years. Where more than one lot has been purchased in a group of lots, and at least one of the lots has been used in that group of lots, the provisions of this section shall not apply. |B. After filing the lien with the clerk of the district court in the county in which the cemetery lot is situated, the lien may be enforced by civil action. The practice, pleading and proceedings for foreclosure in such action shall conform to the rules prescribed by the code of civil procedure as far as they may be applicable.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-111, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-112 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-112. Removal of remains to other gravesites - Unmarked graves.

|When the bodily remains of an unknown person are discovered in an unidentified and unmarked grave of a municipally owned and operated cemetery, the remains may be removed to some other gravesite within the cemetery, at the expense of the municipality, if no record exists as to a sale or conveyance of the lot and the municipality is without knowledge that a body had been buried in the gravesite, in the event the lot is sold to another person. An application for approval of the disinterment and removal of the bodily remains shall be first filed with, and approval obtained from, the State Health Department. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-112, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-201. Trusts for special care of specified lots - Perpetual care fund - Use.

|Donations, deposits or bequests may be made in trust for the special care of specified lots, monuments or mausoleums in any cemetery. These funds shall be segregated and set aside as a permanent fund to be known as the "Perpetual Care Fund". A separate account shall be kept of each amount so deposited, donated and bequeathed for special care of specified lots. The perpetual care fund may be invested in like manner as the cemetery care fund, and only the interest derived from the fund shall be used in the care, maintenance and repair of such lots, monuments and mausoleums, unless otherwise specified by the donor. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-201, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-202. Trustee of perpetual care fund - Appointment - Duties.

|Any municipality which owns a cemetery, or twenty-five of the lot owners in the cemetery, may petition the district court in the county where the cemetery is situated for the appointment of a trustee to be the trustee of the perpetual care fund. The trustee of the fund shall receive the perpetual care funds, as provided in Section 26-201 of this title, and any other funds which may be donated, deposited or bequeathed to the cemetery or any part thereof, as a perpetual care fund. The trustee shall invest, manage and control the fund under the direction of the judge of the district court. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-202, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-203 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-203. Perpetual care fund receipts - Cemetery records.

|Every trustee of a perpetual care fund shall execute and deliver to the donor a receipt showing the amount of money received, and the use to be made of the net proceeds from the money. The receipts shall be attested by the clerk of the court granting letters of trusteeship and a copy thereof shall be signed by the trustees of the cemetery board. The receipts so attested shall then be filed with and recorded by the court clerk in a book to be known as the "Cemetery Records," in which shall be recorded all reports and other papers, including orders made by the court or judge relative to cemetery matters. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-203, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-204 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-204. Perpetual care fund loans - Approval.

|The perpetual care fund trustee may loan moneys received by him under the direction and with the approval of the court, but only as such loans may be secured by first mortgages upon Oklahoma real estate. No loan shall be made or approved unless it be made to appear to the court that the real estate is ample security for the loan applied for, and that the title to the real estate is good of record and in fact in the party making application for the loan. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-204, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-205. Bond and oath of perpetual care fund trustee.

|The trustee of the perpetual care fund, before entering on the discharge of his duties or at any time thereafter when required by the court or judge, shall give bond in such amount as may be required by the court, to be approved by the court clerk, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties imposed upon the trustee by law. The trustee shall take and subscribe an oath the same in substance as the condition of the bond. The oath and bond shall be filed with the court clerk. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-205, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-206 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-206. Clerk to advise court on sufficiency of trustee's bond.

|The court clerk, at the time of filing each receipt as provided in Section 26-203 of this title, shall immediately advise the court or judge as to the amount of the principal fund in the hands of the trustee, the amount of bond filed, and whether or not the bond is good and sufficient for the amount given. The court or judge may require, if it seems best, a new and additional bond of the perpetual care fund trustee. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-206, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-207 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-207. Payment of trustee's expenses.

|The trustee of a perpetual care fund shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for services rendered, but may, out of the income received, pay all proper items of expense incurred in the performance of his duties, including cost of bond, if any. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-207, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-208 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-208. Trustee reports.

|Every perpetual care fund trustee shall make a full report to the district court of his doings in the matter of his trusteeship in the months of January and July following his appointment, and in January and July of each successive year. In each of the reports he shall apportion the net proceeds received from the sum total of the permanent fund and make proper credit to each of the separate funds assigned to him in trust. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-208, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-26-209 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-26-209. Removal or death of trustee.

|A perpetual care fund trustee may be removed by the court or judge thereof at any time for cause. In the event of removal or death, the court or judge must appoint a new trustee and require his predecessor or his personal representative to make full accounting for all the property belonging to the trustee. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 26-209, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-101 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-101. Creation of municipal court not of record.

|A municipality may create a Municipal Court, as provided in this article, which shall be a court not of record. This court may be created in addition to a Municipal Criminal Court of Record. References in Sections 27-101 through 27-131 of this title to the municipal court shall mean the municipal court not of record established under the authority of the provisions of this article. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 27-101, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-102 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-102. Resolution of governing body.

|Before a municipal court not of record may be put into operation, the municipal governing body shall determine by resolution that the efficient disposition of cases involving the violation of municipal ordinances necessitates putting the court into operation. The governing body shall cause a certified copy of the resolution to be filed in the office of the county clerk of each county in which the municipality is located. The resolution and the filing thereof shall be judicially noticed in all courts of this state. |Amended by Laws 1988, c. 21, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1988. d
11 OK Stat § 11-27-103 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-103. Jurisdiction.

|The municipal court shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions wherein a violation of any ordinance of the municipality where the court is established is charged. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 27-103, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-105. Prohibition on change of venue - Disqualification of judge.

|A. No change of venue shall be allowed from any municipal court, but the judge of the municipal court may be disqualified under the same terms and conditions as are now provided by law for courts of record. |B. In the event of an ethical disqualification by a municipal judge, the senior municipal judge may appoint, on a case-by-case basis, a sitting municipal judge in another municipality within the same county or an adjacent county to act as a special judge for the purposes of hearing the case.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 27-105, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 54, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 2012.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-106. Acting judge - Alternate judge - Compensation.

|In the event of disqualification of the judge in a particular case, or his absence or inability to act, the mayor of the municipality may appoint some person, qualified as provided in Section 27-104 of this title, as acting municipal judge of the court in the place of the judge during his absence or inability to act or in a case wherein the judge is disqualified; or, in its discretion, the municipal governing body may provide by ordinance for the appointment of an alternate judge of the court, in the same manner and for the same term as the judge and possessing the qualifications prescribed by Section 27-104 of this title, who shall sit as acting judge of the court in case of the absence, inability or disqualification of the judge. If both the judge and the alternate judge are unable to sit, the mayor may appoint an acting judge as provided in this section. The municipal governing body, by ordinance, shall provide for the compensation of an acting judge of the court. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 27-106, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-107 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-107. Vacancies in office of judge.

|Vacancies in the office of the judge of any municipal court shall be filled in the same manner as provided for the appointment of the judge in the first instance. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 27-107, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-27-108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-27-108. Municipal attorney as prosecutor.

|The municipal attorney of each municipality where a municipal court is established may be the prosecutor of the municipal court. The prosecutor shall have full power to prosecute for the violations of any ordinance of the municipality in the municipal court and shall have the power to prosecute and resist appeals and proceedings in error and review from the municipal court. |Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 53, eff. Nov. 1, 1984.