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69 OK Stat § 69-1306 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1306. Engineering.

|(a) The governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall have authority to contract for the services of consulting engineers to make the necessary surveys, plats, plans, profiles, specifications, estimates, furnish construction stakes and supervise construction at a cost not to exceed six percent (6%) of the total cost of construction, exclusive of acquisition, and shall provide for the payment of such engineering services as a part of the cost of the limited access facility. |(b) The engineers may also be employed to supervise and coordinate all nonconstruction work necessary to each project, such as advertising, printing, typing, appraising, assistance in the preparation of the appraisers' report, abstract work, all procedure, clerical work, acquisition of right-of-way and all other work which is necessary or essential to the completing of such limited access facility.(c) The city or county may cause the engineering and other work provided for herein to be performed by the city or county engineer and may cause the cost thereof to be included in the cost of that part of the work financed by special assessments, on the same basis as herein provided, for consulting engineers.(d) The term "engineer" shall include the city engineer, county engineer, or the consulting engineer, as the case may be.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1306, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1307 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1307. Necessity resolution.

|(a) Upon the filing of such plans and estimates with the City or county clerk, the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall examine the same and if found satisfactory shall, by resolution, adopt and approve the same. |(b) The resolution shall be published in six consecutive issues of a daily newspaper or two consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city.(c) The resolution so published shall provide that if the owners of more than one-half in area of the land liable to assessment shall not within fifteen (15) days after the last publication of the resolution file with the clerk of the city or county, as appropriate, their protest in writing against such improvement, then the city or the county shall have the power to cause the improvements to be made and to contract therefor and to levy benefit assessments under the provisions of this article for the payment of all or part of the cost thereof.(d) If the improvement shall have been protested by the owners of more than fifty percent (50%) in area of the land, the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall not advertise the same again for a period of six (6) months.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1307, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1308 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1308. Action to contest.

|The governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall promptly rule on the sufficiency of any such protest. No action or suit to question the ruling on such sufficiency or to contest the action of the governing body or the Board in adopting and approving the plans, specifications or profiles shall be commenced later than fifteen (15) days after the ruling. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1308, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1309 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1309. Acquisition.

|To the extent that the governing body or board of county commissioners deems the acquisition of property necessary in the establishment of such limited access facility, the city or the county shall have full authority under the laws of eminent domain to acquire the real estate; provided, that to the extent that the cost of the acquisition shall be intended to be paid for by assessments in the manner provided for in this article, the city or county shall have authority to secure funds to the extent, and to the extent only, of the amount required for such acquisition by condemnation, in the manner provided in this article. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1309, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1310 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1310. Resolution for ordering improvement.

|(a) After the expiration of time for objection on the part of the property owners, or if insufficient protest is filed, the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution determining that no protest has been filed, or that such protest, if filed, was insufficient, and expressing the determination of the governing body or board to proceed with the acquisition or construction, or both, of the limited access facility. |(b) The resolution shall state that the facility will be acquired or constructed, or both, in accordance with the plans, profiles and specifications theretofore adopted therefor, and shall state the material to be used in the construction thereof.(c) The resolution shall set forth any reasonable terms or conditions that the governing body or the board shall determine proper with reference to letting the contract and the provisions thereof and shall provide that the contractor shall furnish, from time to time thereafter, as required by the governing body or board of county commissioners, such funds, in cash, as are by the city or county needed in its condemnation proceedings in the acquisition of the necessary sites and rights-of-way.(d) The resolution shall provide that the contractor shall execute to the city or to the county good and sufficient bonds, in the amount to be stated in the resolution, for the faithful furnishing of such condemnation monies and also conditioned for the full and faithful execution of the work and the performance of the contract, and a further bond for the maintenance in good condition of such facility for a period of not less than five (5) years from the date of its completion.(e) The resolution shall also require the execution of a good and sufficient bond to the State of Oklahoma conditioned on the payment of all labor and material used in the construction of the facility in the full amount of the contract price thereof.(f) The resolution shall also direct the city or county clerk to advertise for sealed proposals for furnishing the materials and performing the work necessary in the construction of the facility. The notice for such proposals shall state the time and place where the same will be considered by the governing body or the board of county commissioners and shall be published in two consecutive Thursday issues of a daily newspaper or two consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper published in the county and of general circulation in the city or county.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1310, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1311 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1311. Award of contract.

|(a) At the time and place specified in the notice to contractors, the governing body or the board of county commissioners shall examine all bids received and, without unnecessary delay, award the contract to the lowest and best bidder, who will perform the work and furnish the materials which have been selected and perform all the conditions imposed by the governing body or the board, as prescribed in the resolution for work and the notice for proposals. |(b) The aggregate amount of the contract shall not exceed the aggregate estimate of cost submitted by the engineer for the improvement and, in the event of any excess in cost over the engineer's estimate, such excess shall be void and no assessments for such excess levied.(c) In the event any acquisition of site is necessary, the award of the contract may be made before or after the time such eminent domain proceedings as may be required are completed.(d) The governing body or board of county commissioners shall have the right to award a contract for all or a portion of such limited access facility, or to reject any or all bids, and to readvertise for such further bids as in its judgment are desirable.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1311, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1312 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1312. Appeals to district court.

|(a) From the action of the governing body or the board of county commissioners there shall be allowed an appeal to the district court by any person owning lands in the assessment area, upon filing a bond with sufficient penalty, not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), with two or more sureties to be approved by the city or county clerk, as the case may be, conditioned that the appellant will prosecute his appeal without delay and pay all costs and damages that he may be adjudged to pay in the district court. |(b) The appeal shall be taken within ten (10) days after the order awarding the contract by serving a written notice on the city clerk or county clerk, as the case may be, which notice shall set out in detail, in numbered paragraphs, the grounds on which the appellant will rely on the appeal. A copy of the notice, together with a certified transcript of the proceedings before the board, shall be immediately transmitted by the clerk to the clerk of the district court, who shall docket it as other cases and set the same for speedy trial.(c) The remedy herein provided shall be exclusive. No action or suit to question the jurisdiction of the governing body or board of county commissioners or their action in awarding the contract, or any part of their proceedings, shall be commenced and no appeal taken after the expiration of the ten-day period herein provided.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1312, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1313 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1313. Funds for acquisition.

|(a) All monies required to be paid by the governing body of the board of county commissioners by reason of condemnation proceedings, and to the extent that the same are to be eventually paid by assessments levied in accordance with this article, shall be furnished by the contractor as from time to time needed in the progress of the condemnation proceedings. |(b) Upon the furnishing of any such sums there shall be delivered to the contractor by the governing body or the board of county commissioners an interim certificate, in the amount of the sum so furnished, naming the contractor as payee, dated of even date, and bearing six percent (6%) interest per annum. The certificate shall provide that it is issued in accordance with the provisions of this article, and payable only in the manner herein provided. The certificate shall be signed by the mayor or chairman of the governing body or board, as appropriate, and attested by the city or county clerk. It shall be in all respects negotiable, and shall be conclusive evidence of the fact that the sums were so furnished by the payee for the purpose aforesaid.(c) If through default or failure of the city or county to complete the acquisition of the necessary property or shall fail to complete the limited access facility, the owner or holder of the certificate shall then, and in that event only, be entitled to personal judgment against the city or county so issuing the certificate, which judgment may be collected as provided by law.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1313, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1314 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1314. Railroads and street railways to pave - Warning signals.

|(a) When a railroad or railway shall occupy any portion of a limited access facility with its tracks, either running in a general direction thereto or otherwise, the governing body or the board of county commissioners or the Commission may require such railroad or railway company to pave so much of the facility as may be occupied by its track or tracks and three (3) feet on each side, and when more than one track crosses within a distance of (one hundred) 100 feet, measuring from inside rail to inside rail, the company shall grade, gutter, drain, curb, pave or otherwise improve between its tracks in the same manner as the facility itself. |(b) The Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma may require warning signals at grade crossings at intersections of railroad and limited access facilities and may require grade separations at intersections of railroads and limited access facilities. The determination of whether such warning signals and grade separations shall be required, the location thereof, the type thereof, and the distribution of the cost thereof shall be determined by the Corporation Commission in accordance with the provisions of 17 O.S.1961, Sections 81 to 84, inclusive.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1314, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1315 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1315. Appointment of appraisers.

|(a) After the work covered by the contract has been completed, the engineer shall prepare and file with the city or county clerk a final, complete and accurate statement of the cost of the work covered by the contract. Such statement shall cover the engineering, appraising, advertising, and the expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by the city or county incident thereto, but shall exclude the cost of acquisition. The engineer shall file at the same time a statement of the portion thereof previously determined by the governing body or the board of county commissioners to be assessed. Upon the filing of the statements by the engineer, the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall adopt and confirm the same if found to be correct. |(b) The engineer's report shall also include a proposed schedule of estimated assessments proposed to be made against each lot, tract and parcel of land included in the district. The governing body or the board shall, by resolution, appoint commissioners to appraise and apportion for the benefits of the several lots or tracts of land, exclusive of streets and alleys, located within the assessment district. The commissioners shall consist of three disinterested freeholders of the city or county, not owners of any of the property to be assessed. Such commissioners shall be paid not to exceed Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each day while actually employed in such service. The act of a majority of the commissioners shall have like force and effect as the act of all.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1315, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1316 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1316. Report.

|(a) Within five (5) days after being notified of their appointment, the commissioners shall proceed to appraise and apportion the benefits to such lots and tracts of land, exclusive of streets and alleys, as are located within the assessment district, after having taken an oath to make a full and impartial apportionment. Any error in the description of a lot, parcel or tract of land liable for assessment shall not invalidate such assessment or lien thereof. |(b) The commissioners shall use as a guide the estimated assessments theretofore prepared by the engineer, but the estimates shall not be binding upon the commissioners.(c) The commissioners shall have full and complete authority to vary the total assessment as between the various tracts, pieces and parcels of land, depending upon their nearness or remoteness to the facility, and nearness or remoteness to points of access to the limited access facility and any other factors that to the commissioners may appear as resulting in greater benefit to one such tract or parcel of ground than another.(d) A written report of such apportionment shall be returned and filed with the city or county clerk, within fifteen (15) days from the date of the notice to them of their appointment.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1316, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1317 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1317. Hearing objections.

|When the report shall have been so returned, the governing body of the city or board of county commissioners shall appoint a time for holding a session to hear any complaints or objections that may be made concerning the apportionment. Notice of such hearing shall be published by the city or county clerk in five consecutive issues of a daily newspaper or in two consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper published in the county and in general circulation in the city or county. The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than five (5) days nor more than fifteen (15) days from the date of the last publication. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1317, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1318 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1318. Correction of apportionment.

|The governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners at such session, or at any adjournment thereof, shall have the power to review, modify or correct the appraisement and apportionment, and to raise or lower the same as to any lots or parcels of land, as it shall deem just, and shall, by resolution, confirm the same as so revised and corrected. At such session any party interested may file objections in writing against the validity or amount of any proposed assessment and shall have full opportunity to be heard thereon; and any objections to the regularity of the proceedings with reference to the construction of the improvements or the validity or the amount of the assessment shall be waived unless presented at the time and in the manner herein specified. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1318, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1319 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1319. Public property.

|Any property which shall be owned by the city or county, or a school district, shall be treated and considered the same as the property of other owners, and such city, county, or school district within such district to be assessed shall annually provide by the levy of taxes in sufficient sum to pay the maturing assessment and interest thereon, until paid. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1319, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1320 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1320. Manner of assessments.

|Assessments in conformity to the appraisement and apportionment as corrected and confirmed by the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall be payable, in cash, in ten equal installments, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed seven percent (7%) per annum until paid, payable in each year at such time as the several installments are made payable. The governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners shall by ordinance or resolution levy assessments in accordance with the appraisement and apportionment, as so confirmed, against the various tracts, pieces and parcels of land liable therefor, exclusive of streets and alleys. The ordinance or resolution shall provide that the owners of the property so assessed shall have the privilege of paying the amounts of their respective assessments without interest at any time within thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of the ordinance or resolution. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1320, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1321 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1321. Assessments for cost of acquisition.

|(a) In the event condemnation proceedings have been instituted in connection with the construction of such limited access facility and interim certificates have been issued by the governing body or board of county commissioners in accordance with this article, at such time as all the proceedings become final and it may thus be determined with definiteness the exact amount of money so advanced by the contractor for that purpose, the governing body or the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, determine the exact sum, together with accrued interest, due to the owners and holders of the outstanding certificates, and shall appoint a time for holding a session to apportion such total sum, and to hear objections thereto. |(b) Notice of such hearing shall be published by the city or county clerk in five consecutive issues of a daily newspaper or in two consecutive issues of a weekly newspaper published in the county and in general circulation in the city or county. The time fixed for hearing shall not be less than five (5) days nor more than fifteen (15) days from the date of the last publication.(c) At the time and place specified in such notice the governing body or the board of county commissioners shall apportion the amount among the tracts, pieces and parcels of land in exact ratio and pro rata to the apportionments theretofore made in accordance with this article for the cost of construction; and objections and complaints shall be limited to whether or not such apportionments are, or are not, in strict ratio or in identical proportions to such previous assessment.(d) The apportionments shall be levied by ordinance or resolution, which shall provide that the owners of the property so assessed shall have the privilege of paying the amounts of their respective assessments without interest at any time within thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of the ordinance or resolution.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1321, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-1322 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-1322. Assessments - How payable.

|(a) All special assessments made under the provisions of this article and each installment and interest thereon are hereby declared to be a lien against the lots, tracts and pieces of land so assessed from the date of the publication of the ordinances or the adoption of the resolution levying the same, coequal with the lien of other taxes and prior and superior to all other liens, and such lien shall continue until the same shall be fully paid, but unmatured installments shall not be deemed to be within the terms of any general covenant or warranty. |(b) As soon as each or either of the assessing ordinances or resolutions is adopted, the city or county clerk shall prepare a book which shall be known as the "limited access assessment record", in which shall be entered the description of each lot, tract or parcel of land with a blank space for entering the amount of assessment and suitable columns for entering each installment thereof and date regarding the payments thereon.(c) With respect to assessments made by the board of county commissioners, within fifteen (15) days after the adoption of the assessing resolution a full and complete copy thereof, together with the "limited access assessment record", shall be certified by the county clerk to the county treasurer and shall thereafter be a permanent record of his office and all collections thereunder shall be made and disbursed by the county treasurer.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1322, operative July 1, 1968.