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62 OK Stat § 62-57.42 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.42. Approval of bonds by Supreme Court.

|The Commission is authorized in its discretion to file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma for the approval of any 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 such applications and any protests which may be filed thereto as speedily as possible. Notice of the hearing on each application shall be given by notice published in an newspaper of general circulation in the state that on a day named the Commission 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 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 Section 34, Article X, of the Constitution of Oklahoma, 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 State of Oklahoma, its officers, agents and instrumentalities, and thereafter the bonds so approved and the revenues pledged to their payment shall be incontestable in any court in the State of Oklahoma. |Laws 1961, p. 467, § 12.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.43 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.43. Attorney General as representative of Commission.

|It is provided that the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma shall represent the said Building Bonds Commission in the discharge of its functions provided by this act, and said Building Bonds Commission shall not employ a private attorney or attorneys. |Laws 1961, p. 467, § 13.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.51 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.51. Intent and purpose.

|It is the intent and purpose of this act to vitalize Section 36 of Article X of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, adopted at the special election held for such purpose on the 3rd day of December 1963, and to invoke and exercise the powers conferred upon the Legislature thereby. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 293, § 1, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.52 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.52. Building Bonds Commission as agency - Indebtedness - Purposes.

|The State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission, acting for and on behalf of the State of Oklahoma, shall be the agency by and through which the State of Oklahoma shall incur indebtedness to the extent of the sum of Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00) as principal, for the purpose of constructing, equipping and furnishing new buildings and other capital improvements, and for equipping, remodeling, modernizing and repairing any and all existing buildings and capital improvements at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 293, § 2, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.54 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.54. Form and terms - Call and redemption - Negotiability - Tax exemption.

|Bonds issued under this act shall be serial coupon bonds and shall bear a rate of interest three and one-half percent (3 1/2%) per annum. Said bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable at the Office of the State Treasurer. Said bonds may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, not earlier than July 15, 1965, shall mature as follows: Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) on July 15, 1968, and Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) on the 15th day of July of each year thereafter to and including July 15, 1989, and Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00) July 15, 1990, with interest payable semiannually on January 15 and July 15 of each year, may be in such denomination or denominations, may provide for a reserve to assure prompt payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, may be in such form either coupon or registered, may carry such registration or conversion privileges, may be executed in such manner, may be payable in such medium or payment at such place or places, as may be provided by resolution or resolutions to be adopted by the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission. Provided, that all such bonds maturing on and after ten (10) years from their dates may be subject to call and redemption, in inverse order of bond numbers, at par and accrued interest, with the detailed provisions for such calling and redemption thereof to be fixed by the Commission in the resolution or resolutions for the issuance of such bonds. Until such time as the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds of 1965 Sinking Fund shall be sufficient to retire all outstanding bonds and interest coupons, there shall be paid into said sinking fund during each fiscal year, from the sources hereinabove pledged such amounts as may be necessary to pay the interest and principal payable during the next succeeding fiscal year, and an amount sufficient to satisfy the reserve requirements as fixed and provided by the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission in its resolution authorizing the issuance of said bonds. All bonds issued pursuant to this act shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable paper, and neither said bonds nor the interest earned thereon shall be subject to taxation by the State of Oklahoma or any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof. |Laws 1965, c. 293, § 4, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.55 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.55. Sale of bonds to State Treasurer.

|The State Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma shall purchase from the commission at a private sale all of said bonds at par as an investment of the public monies in his possession. The State Treasurer shall buy, and the commission is authorized and directed to, sell to the State Treasurer at private sale, as provided in this section, all of the bonds authorized by this act. All interest earned by such bonds as are held by the State Treasurer pursuant to such investment shall, as collected, be paid into the State of Oklahoma General Fund. |Laws 1965, c. 293, § 5, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.56 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.56. Certificate of Attorney General - Signatures and seals.

|Within ten (10) days after the sale or sales of said bonds, the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma shall examine all of the proceedings of the Commission and all resolutions passed and actions taken by it in connection with the authorization and issuance and sale of such bonds and shall, if he finds such bond proceedings and sale to be constitutional and lawful, execute his certificate and file the same of record in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Oklahoma, which said certificate shall read substantially as follows: "I have examined all proceedings had in connection with the issuance of the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds of 1965 in the aggregate principal amount of Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00) dated ____, authorized and sold pursuant to Section 36, Article X, Constitution of Oklahoma, and laws of the State of Oklahoma enacted pursuant thereto, and find said proceedings and sale to be constitutional, lawful and regular in all particulars and that said bonds will be valid legal general obligations of the State of Oklahoma. Unless suit thereon shall be brought in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma within thirty (30) days from the date of this certificate, said bonds shall be incontestable for all purposes. Date ____, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma". Upon the filing of such certificate, bonds issued pursuant to proceedings so examined by the Attorney General, shall be incontestable for all purposes upon the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of such certificate, unless suit be brought in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma prior to the expiration of said period as provided herein. |A facsimile of such Attorney General's certificate shall appear on each bond so issued. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction over any litigation involving the validity of any bonds issued under this act. All bonds shall bear the signature of the Governor and of the Secretary of State and shall bear the certificate required by Section 29, Article X, of the Constitution of Oklahoma. Such bonds shall also be registered by the Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma and a statement of such registration shall appear on the back of each bond. The Commission may, by resolution, prescribe that the seal of the State of Oklahoma, or the seals of any of the officers thereof, and any or all signatures required to appear on the bonds or coupons, with the exception of the Governor's signature on the bonds, may be facsimile seals and signatures.Laws 1965, c. 293, § 6, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.57 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.57. Delivery of bonds upon payment - Deposit and investment of proceeds - Interest.

|The bonds and interest coupons attached thereto shall be delivered to the State Treasurer upon payment of par and accrued interest to the date of delivery thereof. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be deposited in the State Treasury of the State of Oklahoma, in a fund which is hereby created and designated the "1965 Building Bond Fund", where they shall remain subject to disposition to be provided for by the Legislature of Oklahoma, provided that the State Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, when so directed by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education acting on behalf of the governing board, as to the amounts available for investment shall invest said designated amounts of the 1965 Building Bond Fund in direct obligations of the United States of America or in certificates of deposits from banks in the State of Oklahoma acceptable as depositories by the State Treasurer when such certificates of deposits are secured by acceptable collateral and yield as much or more than direct obligations of the United States of America, and provided further that, all such investments of said monies must be so made that the same shall mature in time to enable the State of Oklahoma to issue warrants for payment of the valid indebtedness incurred for the purpose for which said bonds are issued, when the said indebtedness has been incurred pursuant to legislative authority. It shall be the duty of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to promptly certify to the State Treasurer the amount of all sums not needed for payment of construction and other legal expenditures payable from the 1965 Building Bond Fund to meet the construction payment schedule, and upon receipt of such certification the State Treasurer shall forthwith make the afore-mentioned investment. All interest received by the State Treasurer upon the above-mentioned securities shall be deposited in the said sinking fund. |Laws 1965, c. 293, § 7, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.58 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.58. Investment of sinking fund monies.

|The State Treasurer shall invest all sinking fund monies in direct obligations of the United States of America or in certificates of deposits from banks in the State of Oklahoma acceptable as depositories by the State Treasurer when such certificates of deposits are secured by acceptable collateral and yield as much or more than direct obligations of the United States of America, to mature in time to meet the principal and interest payments on the 1965 Building Bonds, which earnings shall be deposited in the General Fund. |Laws 1965, c. 293, § 8, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.59 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.59. Approval of bonds by Supreme Court.

|The Commission is authorized in its discretion to file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma for the approval of any 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 such applications and any protests which may be filed thereto as speedily as possible. Notice of the hearing on each application shall be given by notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the state that on a day named the Commission 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 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 Section 34, Article X, of the Constitution of Oklahoma, 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 State of Oklahoma, its officers, agents and instrumentalities, and thereafter the bonds so approved and the revenues pledged to their payment shall be incontestable in any court in the State of Oklahoma. |Laws 1965, c. 293, § 9, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.60 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.60. Attorney General as representative of Commission.

|It is provided that the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma shall represent the said Building Bonds Commission in the discharge of its functions provided by this act, and said Building Bonds Commission shall not employ or pay any private attorney or attorneys directly or indirectly. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 293, § 10, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.61 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.61. Purpose.

|It is hereby declared to be the purpose of this act to vitalize the constitutional amendment indentified as House Joint Resolution No. 552 of the 30th Oklahoma Legislature, if, as and when the same shall be approved by the people of the State of Oklahoma. |Laws 1965, c. 515, § 1.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.62 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.62. Building Bonds Commission as agency - Indebtedness - Purposes.

|The State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission, created by Title 62, Oklahoma Statutes 1961, Section 57.1 acting for and on behalf of the State of Oklahoma shall be the agency by and through which the State of Oklahoma shall incur indebtedness to the extent of the sum of Fifty-four Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($54,750,000.00) as principal, for the purpose of constructing new buildings and other capital improvements, and for equipping, remodeling, modernizing and repairing any and all existing buildings and capital improvements, and purchase of land, equipment and furnishings necessary for such new construction or remodeling, as follows: |At the constituent institutions of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education in the sum of....... $38,500,000.00At the institutions under the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in the sum of............... 6,500,000.00The Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley, the Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid and The Hissom Memorial Center..................... 1,000,000.00State Department of Health............2,275,000.00Oklahoma State Library................2,150,000.00Oklahoma State Penitentiary...........150,000.00Oklahoma State Reformatory............150,000.00Oklahoma School for the Blind.........550,000.00Oklahoma School for the Deaf..........550,000.00Oklahoma Educational TelevisionAuthority...........................250,000.00Oklahoma Historical Society...........125,000.00Western Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium.......................... 150,000.00Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium.......................... 150,000.00Department of Public Health for the Building of Community Social Service Centers 1,500,000.00Purchase of Land in and about the Capital Improvement and Zoning District and Medical Center Improvement Zoning District and for Public Parks, Veterans Memorial Area and Landscaping 750,000.00Laws 1965, c. 515, § 2, emerg. eff. July 21, 1965; Amended by Laws 1990, c. 51, § 124, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 307, § 8, eff. July 1, 1992.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.64 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.64. Form and terms - Call and redemption - Negotiability - Tax exemption.

|Bonds issued under this act shall be serial coupon bonds. Said bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable at such place or places as may be designated by the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission. Said bonds shall be issued in series bearing such date or dates, as set forth in Section 3 herein, and shall mature as follows: |SERIES ASERIES B7/15/68$225,000.007/15/69$300,000.00$200,000.007/15/70$300,000.00$200,000.007/15/71$500,000.00$200,000.007/15/72$500,000.00$200,000.007/15/73$500,000.00$200,000.007/15/74$500,000.00$200,000.007/15/75$500,000.00$500,000.007/15/76$500,000.00$500,000.007/15/77$500,000.00$500,000.007/15/78$800,000.00$500,000.007/15/79$800,000.00$500,000.007/15/80$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/81$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/82$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/83$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/84$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/85$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/86$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/87$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/88$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/89$800,000.00$700,000.007/15/90 $1,500,000.00 $1,300,000.00Said bonds shall have interest payable semi-annually on January 15 and July 15 of each year, may be in such denomination or denominations, may provide for a reserve to assure prompt payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, may be in such form either coupon or registered, may carry such registration or conversion privileges, may be executed in such manner, may be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places, as may be provided by resolution or resolutions to be adopted by the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission. Provided, that all such bonds maturing on and after ten (10) years from their dates may be subject to call and redemption, in inverse order of bond numbers, at par and accrued interest, with the detailed provisions for such calling and redemption thereof to be fixed by the Commission in the resolution for the issuance of such bonds. Until such time as the State of Oklahoma Institutional Building Bonds of 1965 Sinking Fund shall be sufficient to retire all outstanding bonds and interest coupons, there shall be paid into said sinking fund during each fiscal year, from the sources hereinabove pledged such amounts as may be necessary to pay the interest and principal payable during the next succeeding fiscal year, and an amount sufficient to satisfy the reserve requirements as fixed and provided by the State of Oklahoma Building Bonds Commission in its resolution authorizing the issuance of said bonds. All bonds issued pursuant to this act shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable paper, and neither said bonds nor the interest earned thereon shall be subject to taxation by the State of Oklahoma or any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof.Laws 1965, c. 515, § 4.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.65 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.65. Advertisement and sale of bonds.

|The Commission shall advertise said bonds for sale in the manner hereinafter provided. Notice of such sale shall be published at least twenty (20) days prior to the date fixed for such sale. Such notice shall be published for at least two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the State of Oklahoma, and at least once in a financial periodical or newspaper known to have general circulation among bond dealers and bond purchasers. Such notice shall state the time and place when and where the Commission will receive written bids for the purchase of the bonds so offered for sale and shall also state that the bonds will be sold to the bidder bidding the lowest interest rate to the State of Oklahoma, stating also, however, that the Commission may, in its discretion, reject all bids submitted and readvertise the bonds for sale. Such notice may contain such other conditions, information and details as the Commission deems appropriate and desirable to secure understanding of the offer and to assure maximum competition between bidders. Upon acceptance of the low bid (which shall not exceed an average rate of interest exceeding four percent (4%) per annum), the bonds shall be issued in accordance therewith and shall be delivered to said purchaser upon payment of the purchase price thereof, which shall be not less than par plus accrued interest to date of delivery. Provided, however, no tender of the bonds shall be valid until after the expiration of the period of contestability, provided for herein. All bidders shall be required to submit with their bids such good faith deposit as may to the Commission seem appropriate. Upon the acceptance of a bid, the Commission shall return to all of the unsuccessful bidders the deposits so made by them. All such deposits by the successful bidder shall become the property of the State of Oklahoma, and shall be credited upon the purchase price of the bonds so sold and with the further agreement that if the purchaser shall fail for five (5) days after the tender of the bonds to pay the balance of the purchase price, said sale shall be thereby annulled and the deposit shall in such event be retained by the State of Oklahoma and credited to the General Revenue Fund of the state. |Laws 1965, c. 515, § 5.
62 OK Stat § 62-57.66 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 62. Public Finance|§62-57.66. Interim bonds.

|The Commission is authorized to issue one or more interim bonds representative of the bonds so sold, which interim bonds may be in any denomination, shall have all the qualities and be secured by all the covenants and pledges made to secure the bonds so sold, but said interim bonds shall represent the bonded debt only until such time as the definite bonds are printed, executed and delivered to the purchaser thereof. No tender of any such interim bonds shall be valid until the expiration of the period of contestability provided in this act. Simultaneously with delivery of the definitive bonds, any such interim bonds shall be surrendered for cancellation and canceled by the State Treasurer of Oklahoma. |Laws 1965, c. 515, § 6.