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11 OK Stat § 11-37-118 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-118. Acquisition of title or interest of land or water in adjoining states.

|For use in connection with the acquisition, establishment, betterment or expansion, and the maintenance or operation of its municipal waterworks system, any municipality may acquire title to, or any lesser interest in, any lands or water rights, or both, in any state adjoining the State of Oklahoma, which lie within any watershed from which the municipality obtains, or desires to obtain, its municipal water supply. The municipality may acquire any necessary easements or rights-of-way for pipelines to convey water from such water supply to a point or points within the State of Oklahoma, over and across lands not within such watershed, if, and to the extent, and in the manner, permitted by the laws of the adjoining state. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-118, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-119 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-119. Contracts for water - Provision for modification of rates - Outside users subject to rationing program of municipality.

|A. All contracts for the sale or furnishing of water from a source obtained by or on behalf of a municipality by permit or prior right under state law or by general obligation bonds shall be made in the name of the municipality as provided for by statute or by charter. |B. All such water sold and furnished to persons or public or private entities outside the corporate limits of the municipality shall be sold and furnished upon written contracts which shall provide for an annual review of the municipality's costs and contract modification of rates to permit rates to be increased or decreased to the purchasers as appropriate. Any modification shall be nondiscriminatorily allocated between the municipality's customers and the purchaser. Provided, however, that only those costs that are attributable to maintaining the ability of the municipality to provide water service to the purchaser shall be included in purchaser's rates.The contracts shall provide that the persons or public or private entities outside the corporate limits of the municipality shall be subject to a rationing program consistent with any rationing program ordered by the municipality.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-119, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 67, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1989, c. 74, § 1, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1991, c. 313, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1994, c. 339, § 1, eff. emerg. June 8, 1994.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-119a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-119a. Sale of water outside corporate limits - Failure to implement enterprise accounting system - Liability to purchaser.

|Beginning July 1, 1996, if a municipality selling water to persons or public or private entities outside its corporate limits has not implemented an enterprise accounting system to account for the cost of water supply, treatment and delivery to the point of delivery to the purchaser's water system, it shall be liable to the purchaser for the reasonable expenses of such an accounting exceeding the expense which the purchaser would have incurred using an enterprise accounting system. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 339, § 2.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-120 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-120. Extension of lines beyond limits - Contracts for furnishing water outside limits.

|Any municipality owning or operating its own waterworks plant and every municipality engaged in the distribution of water may extend its lines beyond the corporate limits of such municipality and may acquire, construct, own, maintain and operate all necessary lines, apparatus and equipment, and acquire rights of way, and do all things necessary and proper in carrying on the business and furnishing water to any person, firm, corporation or other municipality beyond the corporate limits of the municipality, to the same extent as it may now do within the corporate limits of the municipality. All water so sold and furnished to persons, firms, corporations and other municipalities beyond and without the corporate limits of the municipality so selling and furnishing the same shall be sold and furnished only under written contracts upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by negotiation between the municipality and such persons, firms, corporations or other municipalities. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impose any duty or obligation upon any municipality to sell or furnish water to any person, firm, corporation or municipality beyond its corporate limits except as the municipality may expressly undertake by the terms of the written contract. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-120, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-121 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-121. Contract or lease for purchase, sale and distribution of water - Extensions.

|The municipal governing body may enter into a contract or lease program as a governmental function for the purpose of buying, selling, or distributing water with any nonprofit organization, person, or water development or distribution corporation inside or outside of the municipal limits in areas that the municipality is not supplying or servicing with a source of water at the time that the contract and lease arrangement is made. The annual contracts for sale and purchase of water may be extended from year to year at the option of the contracting parties. All said facilities, contracts, leases, activities, programs, and performance thereof, on behalf of the municipality, shall be governmental in nature. |Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 68, eff. Nov. 1, 1984.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-122 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-122. Contract with United States - Provisions authorized - Validation of existing contracts.

|Any municipal governing body, or any agency, instrumentality or public trust of which a municipality is beneficiary thereof, or appropriate board or commission subject to the approval of the municipal governing body, may enter into and do every act necessary to carry out a contract with the United States of America or agency thereof for furnishing a municipal water supply to the municipality, all upon such terms as to use of water, payment therefor, and other conditions as may be agreed upon between the United States or agency thereof and the municipal governing body or any agency, instrumentality or public trust of which a municipality is beneficiary thereof. Incident to procuring a municipal water supply in the manner provided herein, any contract authorized by this section may provide for, but is not limited to, either or both of the following: |1. The replacement or exchange of water or water rights; or2. The transfer or conveyance by the municipality to the United States of water, water rights, dams, easements or real or personal property of any kind whatsoever needed by the United States in connection with the construction or operation and maintenance of any such irrigation project.Any contract authorized by this section, heretofore entered into by any municipality, is hereby ratified, validated and confirmed.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-122, eff. July 1, 1978; Laws 1980, c. 90, § 1.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-123 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-123. Use of water outside corporate limits for park purposes.

|Any municipality owning and operating waterworks or water plants for the purpose of supplying the municipality and the inhabitants thereof with water may make use of such water for park or other public purposes without the corporate limits of the municipality. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-123, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-124 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-124. Joint construction and operation of waterworks - Election.

|Any municipality may conduct an election, in the manner provided by law for municipal elections, for the purpose of securing approval of the registered voters within its corporate limits to enter into a contract with any other municipality to finance the construction, maintenance, control and operation of waterworks necessary to provide such municipalities with an adequate supply of water for public purposes. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-124, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-125 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-125. Joint financing of waterworks.

|Waterworks which are jointly constructed, maintained, controlled or operated by two or more municipalities may be financed by the issue and sale of bonds and collection of water charges, as provided in Sections 37-106 through 37-109 of this title. The governing bodies of such municipalities are hereby specifically authorized to enter into agreement and contract as to the amount of each municipality's indebtedness and proportionate share of cost of construction, maintenance, control and operation of any waterworks jointly acquired under the provisions of Section 37-124 of this title; provided that in all cases where a proposition is submitted to the registered voters of any municipality for the voting of bonds to defray costs of such a joint contract, the election notice and ballot shall so state. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-125, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-126 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-126. Joint construction deemed supplemental.

|The provisions of Sections 37-124 and 37-125 of this title, authorizing the joint construction and financing of waterworks and water supplies, shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby, and shall be construed as supplemental and additional to all other powers granted by law. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-126, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-127 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-127. Municipalities outside Oklahoma - Purchase of lands for water in Oklahoma.

|An incorporated municipality of a state adjoining the State of Oklahoma is hereby granted permission, if authorized or empowered by the laws of such adjoining state to do so, to acquire by purchase from a private corporation which may be furnishing water to water users in the municipality, or which may be furnishing water to the municipality for resale to water users therein, the title to, or lesser interest in, lands that the private corporation owns in the State of Oklahoma. The municipality may also acquire any easements or rights-of-way then owned by such corporation over and across other lands within the State of Oklahoma necessary for pipelines to convey water from a reservoir to a point or points outside the State of Oklahoma. Such lands, easements and rights-of-way acquired by the municipality may be used in connection with, but only used in connection with, the establishment, betterment or expansion of a municipally-owned water supply or system; the necessary protection of the water supply from pollution; or the maintenance and operation of the municipally-owned water supply or system. The municipality may continue to hold lands, easements and rights-of-way so acquired as long as the same are so used. In order to transfer or convey any of its interests in Oklahoma lands, the private corporation shall have owned the title to, or any lesser interest in, lands within the State of Oklahoma as of April 25, 1957, upon which is located, in whole or in part, a reservoir from which such water or portion thereof is obtained, which reservoir has been in existence on the lands for more than one (1) year prior to April 25, 1957, and which land, or interest therein, has been owned by the corporation for more than fifteen (15) years prior to April 25, 1957. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-127, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-201. Authorization to establish lines and facilities - Joint efforts - Acceptance of grants.

|The municipal governing body may: |1. Authorize the construction of mains, submains and laterals for sewers, also ditches, drains, conduits, pipelines and channels for sanitary and drainage purposes, or either or both thereof, with lift stations, outlets, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, connecting sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, channels and other appurtenances in, under, over or through any street, or any land of the municipality or any right-of-way granted or obtained for such purpose, either within or without the limits of the municipality;2. Authorize the construction of mains, submains and laterals for water distribution lines, water distribution systems or waterworks, and water supply facilities for same; also ditches, canals, channels, conduits, pipelines and siphons, together with the necessary or usual appurtenances for carrying storm water or water from irrigation ditches, water courses, streams, springs, wells, lakes, treating plants or other sources of supply into, through or out of the municipality in, under, over or through any street or any land of the municipality or any right-of-way granted or obtained for such purpose, either within or without the limits of the municipality;3. Join with other municipalities or any improvement district or sanitary district of the state, or any of its departments or agencies, the federal government or any of its departments, agencies or instrumentalities, as may be provided by law, in the construction, operation or maintenance of improvements authorized by the provisions of Sections 37-201 through 37-234 of this title; and4. Accept from the state, or federal government, or any agency, department or instrumentality of either, grants for or in aid of the construction or engineering planning of any of the improvements provided herein, and enter into contracts with the state, the federal government, or any agency, department or instrumentality of either or both, for the construction or supervision of construction by the state, the federal government, or any agency, department or instrumentality, for either or both of any such improvements, in accordance with the plans, specifications, rules and regulations of the state, the federal government, or any agency, department or instrumentality or either or both, but reserving to the municipality the right to assess against the property benefited by the improvement and located within the municipality, that portion of the cost of the improvement which does not qualify for aid under the state or federal grant.Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-201, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-202. Public and district sewers - Public and district water distribution lines.

|In all municipalities where a system of public waterworks is maintained and operated, or created, the municipal governing body shall have power to cause a general sanitary, storm or combination sewer system to be established, which shall be composed of two classes of sewers: public and district sewers. The governing body may also cause a water distribution system and water supply facilities to be established composed of public and district water distribution lines. Such systems may be created separately or in conjunction with each other. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-202, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-203 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-203. Location of public sewers - Dimensions - Regulations.

|Public sewers shall be established along the principal courses of drainage, at such points, to such extent, of such dimensions and under such regulations as may be determined by the governing body. These public sewers may be extensions or branches of sewers already constructed or entirely new throughout as may be deemed expedient by the municipal governing body. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-203, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-204 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-204. Location of public water distribution system - Main lines of conveyance.

|The public water distribution system shall consist only of the main lines of conveyance from the sources of supply, and the main lines for general distribution, including such other property as may be necessary in connection therewith for the proper maintenance and use of the water distribution system throughout the municipality. The public distribution lines shall be established along the principal courses of distribution, or of supply, at such points, to such extent, of such dimensions and under such regulations as may be provided by the governing body; and these principal lines of distribution may be extensions or branches of lines already constructed or entirely new throughout as may be deemed expedient and necessary by the municipal governing body. |Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-204, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-205. Payment of construction and maintenance of public sewers and water lines - Petition.

|Except as otherwise provided, the construction and maintenance of public sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and public waterlines shall be paid for as follows: |1. Unless otherwise provided for in this section, all mains and submains constructed by a municipality shall be paid for by the municipality. If a petition signed by the owners of more than one-half (1/2) of the area of the land that will be drained or benefited by the construction of such mains or submains is filed with the governing body or the governing body finds that certain property will be specially benefited thereby, the governing body may create a district and order the construction of such mains and submains and provide for the payment therefor to be made by the owners of the property included within the district in accordance with the procedure for the construction of and payment for district sewers and district waterlines. The petition shall be filed with the city clerk. The petition shall state in bold, capitalized letters at the top of the page that the cost of the proposed improvements shall be assessed against the property benefited by the improvements;2. Laterals shall be paid for by the owners of the property abutting on such laterals in the manner provided for by law for the estimate of cost and assessments for district sewers and district waterlines;3. If a main or submain is constructed in any alley or other place where a lateral would otherwise have been constructed and the main or submain serves the purpose of a lateral for the property abutting thereon, the owners of the property shall be assessed in amounts equal to that which they would have been required to pay for a sufficient lateral; and4. If any private connection is made with a main or submain instead of with a lateral, the owner of the premises so connected shall pay to the municipality an amount equal to that which he would have been required to pay for a lateral so constructed as to provide similar service. The amounts to be charged for connections with mains and submains, or for mains or submains used as laterals, shall be ascertained by the municipal engineer or the engineer in charge of such work and assessed against the property and collected in the manner provided for by law in the case of district sewers.Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-205, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 69, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 2001, c. 54, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-206 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-206. Establishment of district sewer and water distribution lines - Petition.

|District sewers and district water distribution lines shall be established within the limits of the districts, to be prescribed by ordinance. District sewers shall connect with public sewers or other district sewers, or with the natural course of drainage, as each case may be. District water distribution lines in contiguous or noncontiguous areas may connect with public distribution lines, or other district distribution lines. The governing body shall cause sewers and/or district water distribution lines to be constructed in each district whenever the record owners of more than one-half the area of land liable to assessments for the improvement shall petition therefor. The petition shall be filed with the city clerk. The petition shall state in bold, capitalized letters at the top of the page that the cost of the proposed improvements shall be assessed against the property benefited by the improvements. The districts may include mains and submains where the same are within the limits of the district or are necessary outlets or supply lines thereto. |Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-206, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 54, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-207 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-207. Costs of district sewer and water distribution lines.

|The costs of district sewers and district water distribution lines, including mains and submains properly included in the district, shall be assessed and collected as hereinafter provided. The municipality shall incur no liability for building district sewers, except when the municipality is the owner of a lot within the district, and in that case the municipality shall be liable for the costs of the sewer in the same manner as other property owners within the district. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-207, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-208 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-208. Construction of lines through private property - Condemnation.

|No sewer or water line shall run diagonally through private property when it is practicable, without injury to the sewer or water line, to construct it parallel with one of the exterior lines of such property; nor shall any public sewer or public water line be constructed through private property when it is practicable to construct it along or through a street, alley or other public highway. The municipal governing body shall have the power to condemn private property for public use, occupation or possession in the construction and repair of public and district sewers and water distribution lines, in the same manner as other property is condemned within the municipality for public uses. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-208, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-209 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-209. District sewer or water lines without petition - Preliminary plans and costs.

|Whenever the governing body deems district sewers or district water distribution lines necessary, it may proceed with such work without petition, and shall require, by resolution, the municipal engineer, or other registered professional engineer, to prepare and file preliminary plans, showing a preliminary estimate of the cost of such improvement, and an assessment plat showing the area to be assessed. In the event noncontiguous areas are included in the same district, separate preliminary estimates shall be filed as to each area. The governing body may adopt any material or methods for the construction of such work. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-209, eff. July 1, 1978.
11 OK Stat § 11-37-210 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 11. Cities and Towns|§11-37-210. Special attorneys, auditors or consulting engineers.

|The municipal body may contract for the services of special attorneys, auditors or consulting engineers to make the necessary surveys, and prepare plans, plats, profiles, estimates and all other details for the work of improvements and to supervise the work. Any such consulting engineer shall be a person, firm or corporation, resident in the State of Oklahoma, and duly registered as an engineer in the State of Oklahoma. A consulting engineer may be employed also to furnish the necessary advertising, printing, transcripts, legal fees, preparation of assessment rolls, and such other expense as may be necessary. The municipality shall provide for the payment of such services and expenses from the assessments to be levied as part of the cost of such improvments, except as otherwise provided. |Laws 1977, c. 256, § 37-210, eff. July 1, 1978.