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19 OK Stat § 19-21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-21. Returns and ballot boxes - Custody of same - Report to Governor.

|Each of the special election commissioners shall be the custodians of the ballot boxes and affidavit boxes and of all certificates and returns of his precinct, and shall safely convey the same to the office of the county clerk, not later than twelve o'clock noon of the third day, next succeeding the day of election, and shall, at said time and place, meet with the other special election commissioners. Each special election commissioner, shall deliver to the county clerk, the ballot boxes containing the ballots, affidavits and returns, relating to the election of county and township officers, and the formation of a new county, or detaching territory, and take a receipt therefor; and thereafter the county clerk shall be the custodian of said ballot boxes, and, during the canvassing of the returns and thereafter, shall preserve said boxes intact for a period of ninety days, unless relieved by an order of the court. At said time and place, in the presence of said special election commissioners, said returns shall be canvassed by said county election board, as provided herein; and when said returns are canvassed and a transcript thereof has been prepared and signed by each said special election commissioners of said county, said special election commissioners shall select one of their number and commission him to proceed at once to the office of the Governor of the state, and to deliver to the Governor, said transcript of said election returns, and said special election commissioner so selected, shall immediately perform the duty assigned. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 78, § 11.
19 OK Stat § 19-22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-22. Proclamation of Governor - Designation of county seat - Officers.

|Upon the receipt by the Governor, of the transcript of all the returns, as provided herein, he shall proceed at once to declare the result of said special election, and, if said election shall have been held for the purpose of forming a new county, and sixty percent (60%) of the votes cast in each particular territory be in favor of the formation of said proposed new county, the Governor shall, within sixty (60) days thereafter, issue his proclamation, declaring said new county legally created, and shall, after five (5) days notice to each and every place which is an applicant for the county seat of said county, give each and every such applicant a hearing as to the merits of each place to become the county seat of said county, and shall decide from the merits thus presented, which place shall be the temporary county seat thereof, and shall designate the same the county seat thereof, which place so designated shall be and remain the county seat, unless afterwards changed, as provided by law; and the candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast at said election, as returned and certified to the Governor for the various offices, shall be declared elected, and, at once, enter upon their duties as such officers. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 79, § 12.
19 OK Stat § 19-23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-23. Selection of permanent county seats.

|In all new counties, created since the admission of the State of Oklahoma into the Union, and to be hereafter created, wherein temporary, or original county seat, has been, or will be, located or designated, other than by a vote of the people, an election shall be called and held to locate the permanent county seat, which election shall be called and held under the laws now in force governing the permanent location of county seats, included in Chapter Thirty-one, Article Four, of the Session Laws of 1907 and 1908; provided, that a majority of all the votes cast in the county, at such county seat election, shall be in favor of any town, such town shall thereafter be the county seat; provided, however, that where the temporary county seat theretofore designated, is within six (6) miles of the geographical center of the county (said geographical center to be determined by certificate from the Secretary of State, and said distance to be determined by measurement from said geographical center to the nearest corporate limits of such county seat) it shall require sixty percent (60%) of the total vote cast at such election by the competing town to effect the designation of such county seat, and unless such competing town be within six (6) miles of the geographical center of said county, in which event a majority vote shall suffice; provided, further, that those portions of Section 14, of Article Four of Chapter 31 of the Session Laws of 1907-1908 in conflict herewith, applying to counties created by the Constitution, shall have no force and effect with reference to elections to locate the permanent county seat of counties created since the adoption of the Constitution and since the admission of the State of Oklahoma into the Union. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 80, § 12a.
19 OK Stat § 19-24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-24. Supreme Court to decide controversies.

|Exclusive, original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court of Oklahoma over all controversies that may arise under the provisions of this act, and any person affected by such election shall have a right to a hearing before the Supreme Court upon application filed and presented within thirty (30) days after any such election shall be held. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 81, § 13.
19 OK Stat § 19-25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-25. Precedence in court.

|If any application for a hearing, upon any question arising after such election has been held, is filed with the Supreme Court, it shall be the duty of said court to make said matter special and give it precedence over the other business of said court, and consider and pass upon the same as speedily as is consistent with the business of said court. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 81, § 14.
19 OK Stat § 19-26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-26. Election expenses - How paid - Commissioners' compensation.

|All special election commissioners, selected and commissioned as provided herein, shall receive as compensation for their services, the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per day for each and every day necessarily employed in the work connected with the holding of such election, including the time spent in going to and returning from said county, and the actual and necessary traveling expenses, and for maintenance in the performance of such duties. Such commissioner shall prepare and file with the Governor a sworn itemized statement of time employed and expenses incurred, which said statement shall be by the Governor, forwarded to the county clerk of the county holding such election. The expenses connected with the holding of any such special election, including the per diem and expenses of all such special election commissioners, shall be borne and paid for by the county out of any funds in the hands of the county treasurer. The expenses of holding said election shall be paid, if the proposition is to create a new county, by the new county so created, if the proposition is successful; if the proposition is to detach territory from one county and add to another, by the county to which said territory is added, if the proposition is successful. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 81, § 15.
19 OK Stat § 19-27 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-27. Challengers - Watchers - Poll book holders - How appointed.

|In any such special election, the organization favoring the formation of such new county, or the detaching thereof any such territory, may appoint and designate one qualified elector in any precinct, or voting place, to act as challenger at such precinct, and may appoint or designate one poll book holder and one special watcher in any such precinct or voting place, and the organization opposing the formation of any such county, or the detaching of any such territory, shall have like privileges; provided, that the challenger, poll book holder and watcher shall perform duties as provided by law, governing any general election. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 82, § 16.
19 OK Stat § 19-28 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-28. Official neglect - Felony.

|Any election officer who shall be appointed, or commissioner, under the provisions of this act or the laws of Oklahoma, and who shall knowingly and willfully fail or refuse to perform required duties shall be guilty of a felony. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 82, § 17. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 144, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 144 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
19 OK Stat § 19-29 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-29. What constitutes bribery.

|Any person or corporation offering money or other thing of value, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of influencing any voter for or against any proposition in such election shall be guilty of the felony of bribery. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 82, § 18. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 145, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 145 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
19 OK Stat § 19-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-31. Vote for transfer of territory.

|If the object sought be to transfer territory from one county to an existing county, and if sixty percent (60%) of the votes cast at said election vote "Yes", the Governor shall within ten (10) days after declaring the result of said election issue his proclamation calling an election to be held in the county to which said territory is sought to be transferred, which said election shall be held not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty (40) days thereafter. |R.L. 1910, § 1507.
19 OK Stat § 19-32 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-32. Vote to accept new territory.

|Upon the holding of any election in any county to vote upon the acceptance of the territory which is seeking to be transferred to said county, the board of canvassers shall certify and return said vote to the Governor as required by law, who shall thereupon, and within ten (10) days thereafter, declare the result of said election, and if it appears that a majority of the votes cast at said election be in favor of accepting said territory, he shall, within ten (10) days thereafter, issue his proclamation declaring said territory legally transferred to said existing county, and cause the will of the election to be carried into effect. |R.L. 1910, § 1508.
19 OK Stat § 19-33 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-33. Division of assets and liabilities.

|Upon the transfer of territory from a county to a new county or an existing county, said new county to which said territory is transferred shall be entitled to such proportionate part of the net assets of the county from which said territory is taken as the taxable wealth of the territory so transferred bears to the taxable wealth of the county from which said territory is taken, but if, as shown by the current tax rolls, the liabilities of the county from which said territory is taken shall exceed its resources at the time of the transfer, the county to which said transfer is made shall pay to said county that proportionate part of said excess as the taxable wealth of the territory received bears to the taxable wealth of said county. |R.L. 1910, § 1509.
19 OK Stat § 19-34 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-34. County commissioners may settle differences.

|It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the counties between which a settlement should be made by virtue of any transfer to meet and determine the amount due from one county to the other, and if a majority of said commissioners agree upon an amount found to be due, the commissioners of the county found to be indebted to the other county are hereby authorized and empowered to draw a warrant on the general fund of their county in favor of the county entitled to the same for the amount so found due: Provided, that either county through its proper officers may within sixty days appeal from said finding to the district court of the county appealing: Provided, further, that if a majority of said boards of county commissioners should fail to agree upon an amount due from one county to the other each of said boards of county commissioners shall file with the respective county clerks a report showing its finding, and also the finding of the commissioners of the other county and the county claiming an indebtedness shall, within six months after the filing of said report with the county clerk, institute suit in the district court of any county in the district in which the debtor county is situated, to recover the amount to be due by the board of county commissioners of said county. |R.L. 1910, § 1510.
19 OK Stat § 19-35 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-35. Meetings of commissioners to settle differences.

|The meeting of the boards of county commissioners herein provided for shall be called by the chairman of the board of commissioners of the county to which said territory has been transferred, to meet in the county seat of said county not less than sixty (60) days from the date of issuance of the Governor's proclamation declaring said territory legally transferred, and said chairman shall give ten (10) days' written notice to each of the county commissioners of the said counties specifying the time and place of said meeting and shall be continued from day to day until their labors are concluded. |R.L. 1910, § 1511.
19 OK Stat § 19-36 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-36. Change in watercourse bounding counties as not changing taxable situs of property.

|After the first day of January, 1963, where any county is bounded by the middle of the channel of any stream or watercourse, any change of such channel, whether by accretion, reliction, or avulsion, shall not bring about a change in the taxable situs of the property, and for all county and state purposes the boundary line will remain as originally shown on the tax rolls. Provided, that, as to such property which may have become subject to litigation as a result of being carried on the tax rolls of two or more counties prior to the enactment of this section, or shall subsequently become subject to litigation as a result of being carried on the tax rolls of two or more counties without either being prior in point of time, such dispute shall be resolved by final decree of the court. |Added by Laws 1963, c. 123, § 1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1963.
19 OK Stat § 19-61 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-61. Jurisdiction and powers of Supreme Court - Summons - Scope of inquiry.

|Original and exclusive jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court to hear and determine any action that may be brought for the purpose of equitably dividing and distributing the property, assets and liabilities, derived through the process of taxation, bonds, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness, of any county formerly existing in the Territory of Oklahoma, between such county and any new county or counties created by the Constitution in whole or in part out of the territory of such county; and for the purpose of rendering and enforcing complete justice in any such action, the Supreme Court shall have the power to make and render all necessary orders, judgments and decrees, and to issue and enforce all necessary process, mesne, and final: |Provided, that the Supreme Court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all actions involving the custody of, or the right to transcribe the tax rolls or other records of any such county or counties, and the ownership and distribution of the taxes assessed and collectable therein:Provided further, that, for the purpose of hearing and receiving evidence and reporting findings of law and fact, the Supreme Court may appoint a special master in chancery in such case.The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall issue summons which shall be served on the defendants in any such action in the same manner as is provided by law for the issuance and service of summons in the district courts of this state:Provided, that the Supreme Court shall inquire into and determine whether or not public property, derived through public or private donation or otherwise, shall be subject to division under the terms of this article; and unless the court so determine, it shall not take into consideration, in dividing the property, assets and liabilities, any property so derived, and, in the event the court so determines, it shall have jurisdiction to, and shall take all such property into consideration in dividing the property, assets and liabilities aforesaid; provided, that the provisions of this act shall apply to counties created, or attempted to be created, as provided by law, and subsequently dissolved by judicial decree; and provided further, that such property, assets and liabilities acquired by any such county created and dissolved shall be divided between or among such counties as were affected by the creation and dissolution of such new county; and provided further, that where a portion of such territory formerly embraced in any such new county is now a portion of some county other than the county from which it was originally proposed to be taken to form such new county, then such other county now embracing such territory shall be construed to have been affected by the creation and dissolution of such new county as provided herein.R.L. 1910, § 1512. Amended by Laws 1917, c. 142, p. 226, § 1.
19 OK Stat § 19-62 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-62. Method of division - Agreements as to division.

|For the purpose of this article, the property, assets and liabilities of the counties, as referred to in the preceding section, at the time of the admission of the state into the Union, shall be deemed the property, assets and liabilities of the original county or counties in Oklahoma Territory, and the new county or counties created, in whole or in part out of such original county or counties; and the decree of the Supreme Court in all such actions shall be based, as near as may be, upon the fair and reasonable value of such of the property and assets belonging to such counties, and the taxable value of the property in the counties, or parts of counties, affected by such divisions or distribution, so that each county shall be charged with liability and awarded assets in the proportion which the taxable value of its property bears to the taxable value of other counties affected by and interested with it in the divisions and distribution of property, assets and liabilities, as shown by the tax rolls for the year 1907; and such decree shall be so framed as to fix and describe the assets awarded to each county and the liabilities which shall be borne by it, and determine whether such liabilities shall be borne by any such county separately or jointly with another county, and determine the amount and proportion of liabilities. All property of a permanent and fixed nature, as mentioned herein, shall be decreed to and the title thereto be vested in the county in which the same shall be situated: Provided, however, that the board of county commissioners in any such county are hereby authorized to confer and agree upon such a division of any and all such property, assets and liabilities as may to them seem just and equitable, and when such agreement shall have been reached it shall be reduced to writing, subscribed by a majority of the members of the board of county commissioners of each of the counties that is a party to such agreement; and the same shall be entered at length upon the records of the proceedings of the board of county commissioners of the respective counties; a certified copy of such agreement shall thereupon be transmitted by one or more of the county clerks of any such county or counties to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, within thirty days of the date of such agreement; and the Supreme Court shall, thereupon, render a final judgment decreeing the division and distribution of any and all such assets and the apportionment of such liabilities according to the terms of such agreement, and vesting the title to any property mentioned in such agreement as therein provided; and such judgment shall be final and conclusive in law and equity, and no rehearing shall ever be allowed in any such case. |R.L. 1910, § 1513.
19 OK Stat § 19-63 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-63. Parties to action - Duties of district attorney.

|Any suit commenced under the provisions of this article, shall be brought in the name of the board of county commissioners of any county interested in the subject matter of the suit, as plaintiff, and any or all counties having any interest adverse to the plaintiff may be joined as defendant. The district attorney of such county, at the direction of the board of county commissioners, shall commence and prosecute, or defend, as the case may be, to final judgment and determination, any and all suits that may be instituted under authority of this article. |R.L. 1910, § 1514.
19 OK Stat § 19-64 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-64. Commissioners may institute certain actions.

|The board of county commissioners of any of the counties referred to in the preceding section shall have the right and power to prosecute any and all necessary actions against the county treasurer of any such counties, or against any other officer, person, firm or corporation for and on behalf of any school district, road district, municipal township, city or town, and all sums of money that may be recovered by any such board of county commissioners shall be forthwith paid over to the county treasurers of such counties for the use and benefit of the school district, road district, municipal township, city or town, to which such money shall belong; and the board of county commissioners of any such counties shall have the authority to make demand for any and all sums of money belonging to any such school district, road district, municipal township, city or town, of and from such officer, person, firm or corporation, and exclusive original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court to hear and determine all actions authorized by this article. |R.L. 1910, § 1515.
19 OK Stat § 19-65 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-65. Penalty for refusing to pay over monies.

|If any officer, person, firm or corporation having custody, control or possession of any money belonging to any school district, road district, municipal township, city or town in any such counties, shall withhold and fail to pay over the same after lawful demand shall have been made therefor, such officer, person, firm or corporation shall be liable to a penalty equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of the money wrongfully withheld, which shall belong to such county, school district, road district, municipal township, city or village, and which penalty may be recovered in any action brought to recover such money. |R.L. 1910, § 1516.
19 OK Stat § 19-71 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-71. Laws governing.

|Any county desiring to hold a special election for the purpose of relocating the county seat shall be governed by the general election laws when same are not in conflict herewith. |R.L. 1910, § 1517.