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69 OK Stat § 69-624 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-624. County engineer - Appointment - Compensation - Removal - Qualifications - Joint employment - Agreement for engineering services.

|A. The board of county commissioners of each county shall employ one or more full- or part-time county engineers, who shall perform the duties as provided by law. The county engineer shall receive as compensation a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners for his services on road and bridge and other work appertaining thereto, and all necessary and actual expenses incident thereto. |B. Any person employed as county engineer may be relieved of his duties by the board of county commissioners.C. The county engineer shall be registered as a professional engineer or certified as an engineer-in-training by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors pursuant to Sections 475.1 et seq. of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and shall have a practical knowledge of civil engineering, be skilled in bridge, culvert and road building and in laying of drains and general road work and be active and diligent in the discharge of his duties.D. The boards of county commissioners may enter into an agreement to jointly employ a county engineer. Such agreement shall be written and entered in the minutes of each participating board of county commissioners. The engineer employed under such agreement shall be the designated county engineer for each of the respective counties.E. In the event a board of county commissioners determines that it cannot afford to employ a full-time county engineer, or if it cannot enter into an agreement with other counties to jointly employ a part-time county engineer, then said board shall enter into an agreement with the Department of Transportation for the provision of necessary county engineering services. Any engineering services provided by the Department of Transportation shall be furnished without cost or expense to the county. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve a board of county commissioners of the responsibilities or costs associated with the efficient and necessary construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, culverts and drainage projects within its jurisdiction, or as otherwise provided by law. Road funds shall be withheld from any county failing to employ or utilize county engineering services as provided herein.Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 624, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 311, § 1; Laws 2006, c. 63, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
69 OK Stat § 69-625 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-625. Bond of county engineer.

|Before entering upon the performance of his duties the county engineer shall execute and deliver to the board of county commissioners a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the board of county commissioners with sufficient surety to be approved by the board, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties as such engineer, and that he will account for and deliver to his successor in office, at the expiration of his term, all books, papers and other property belonging to the county. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 625, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-626 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-626. Duties of county engineer.

|(a) The county engineer shall, when requested by the board of county commissioners, give instruction or advice with reference to the construction, building or repairing of any roads or bridges. |(b) When requested by the board of county commissioners, the county engineer shall personally inspect the condition of any of the roads, culverts and bridges within his county, and shall upon the board's request make such surveys and perform such other duties in connection with his office as may be required as herein provided, and he shall, if required, make his report of such examination in writing, together with such recommendations as he may offer relative to the construction, repairing or building of any such road or bridge.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 626, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-627 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-627. Cost records of road work, engineer to keep.

|The county engineer shall keep, prepare and submit cost records upon all road work in his charge in order that the best and most economical method of doing the work may be thus ascertained and put into practice. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 627, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-628 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-628. Power of county commissioners to open roads.

|The board of county commissioners shall have power and authority upon its own motion to open and establish public roads on section lines anywhere in the county and obtain right-of-way therefor, either by amicable settlement or condemnation proceedings as provided by law. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 628, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-629 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-629. Width of roads.

|The board of county commissioners shall at the time of establishing public roads make an order fixing the width thereof and definitely describing such roads. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 629, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-630 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-630. Interest of officers in contracts prohibited.

|No member of the Department, or any person in the employ of the Department, no county commissioner, county engineer, road superintendent, or any person in their employ, or one holding an appointment under them, shall be either directly or indirectly interested in any contract for the construction or building of any bridge or culvert, or of any improvement of any road or parts of road coming under the provisions of this Code. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 630, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-631 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-631. Use of bridges by public utilities or service corporations - Supervision by county board.

|Boards of county commissioners in their respective counties shall have the supervision over bridges and the approaches thereto constructed upon county highways within their respective counties which have been erected by the voting of bonds by the county and may permit any public utility or public service corporation to cross any such bridges and the approaches thereto or jointly use any such bridge and the approaches thereto with the public for an adequate consideration, and upon such terms and conditions as may be satisfactory to it in agreement with any such public utility or public service corporation, and no public utility or public service corporation shall have the right to use or cross any bridge or the approaches thereto, located over any stream in Oklahoma, when such bridge or approaches thereto has been erected by the voting of bonds by the county for that purpose, unless the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, determine that in its judgment the bridge and approaches thereto may be safely so used and without any substantial detriment to the public interest. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 631, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-632 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-632. Public utilities and public service corporations to pay tolls.

|(a) The board of county commissioners may require any public utility or public service corporation, using any such bridge or approaches thereto, to pay such toll or rental for the use of such bridge and the approaches thereto as it may agree upon with the public utility or public service corporation and may make such agreement and stipulation as to the use of the bridge and the approaches thereto with such utility or public service corporation as in its judgment shall conserve the public interest. |(b) Provided, that no public utility or public service corporation shall use any such bridge or approaches thereto unless and until it shall have so agreed with the board of county commissioners as to the tolls, rentals and use of the bridge and the approaches thereto, and then during such time only as it shall make payment therefor and comply with its contract.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 632, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-633 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-633. Plans and specifications - Letting contract - Building by county board - Advisory services - Warrants for payroll.

|A. When any culvert or bridge is to be constructed at an estimated cost of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) or more, or any culvert or bridge reconstruction is to be accomplished at an estimated cost of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) or more, or grade-and-drainage project is to be developed, or reconstruction, replacement or major repairs are to be accomplished by the board of county commissioners acting alone or in cooperation with the state or federal government, at an estimated cost of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00) or more, in either event, engineering plans and specifications shall be prepared by the county engineer to insure sound engineering practices. The project shall be advertised for bids pursuant to Section 1101 of this title, and the contract shall be let only after notice at a public letting. If the construction work can be completed for a cost below or equal to the estimate of the engineer or below any bid submitted at a public letting and so entered in its journal, nothing in this title shall prevent the board from causing the same to be built by day labor, force account, and purchase by the county of materials as provided by law. |B. If the board of county commissioners deems it necessary, it may consult and seek the advice of the Department of Transportation regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the project, and the Department of Transportation may furnish advice for any of the projects to insure sound engineering practices. If provided, the services shall be furnished without cost or expense to the county.C. The board may authorize the county clerk to draw warrants for the amount of payrolls for labor furnished under the day labor system, when the payrolls are certified to as correct by the engineer or person in charge of the work, and the payroll shall be passed upon by the board following certification.Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 633, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 103, § 1, emerg. eff. April 26, 1971; Laws 1975, c. 338, § 1, operative July 1, 1975; Laws 1979, c. 92, § 2, emerg. eff. April 24, 1979; Laws 1981, c. 1, 1st Ex.Sess., § 5, emerg. eff. Sept. 8, 1981; Laws 1982, c. 286, § 1; Laws 1984, c. 71, § 3; Laws 2004, c. 419, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2005, c. 174, § 1, emerg. eff. May 16, 2005; Laws 2009, c. 231, § 2, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 253, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 2010.
69 OK Stat § 69-634 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-634. Bond of contractor.

|The board of county commissioners shall require each contractor to furnish a bond pursuant to the provisions of Section 1 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes but made payable to the county. If the contractor fails to comply with the terms of the contract, the bond shall be forfeited to the county treasurer for credit to the county highway fund. Unless otherwise provided for by contract, the surety on any bond shall be held, to consent without notice to: |1. an extension of time given to the contractor to perform the contract if each extension does not exceed sixty (60) days; and2. any change in the plans, specifications, or contract if such change does not involve an increase of more than twenty percent (20%) of the total contract price. If such increase is more than twenty percent (20%) of the total contractprice, the surety shall be released only as to such increase in price that is in excess of a twenty percent (20%) increase.Amended by Laws 1983, c. 125, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1983.
69 OK Stat § 69-635 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-635. Violation by officials - Punishment - Suspension and forfeiture of office.

|(a) Any road, county, or other official charged with duties herein who shall violate any of the terms or provisions of this Article the punishment for which is not prescribed elsewhere in this Code, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each offense, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days, or suffer both such fine and imprisonment. |(b) Upon presentation in court of complaint in legal form, alleging violation of any provision of this Article, any road official charged with the duties herein shall be, at the option of the court, immediately suspended from office pending final judgment, and upon being found guilty shall forfeit his office in addition to any punishment imposed.Laws 1968, c. 415, § 635, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.1. County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund.

|There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be known and designated the "County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund", which shall consist of all appropriations and deposits made for the purposes hereinafter designated and shall also include all proceeds resulting from the lease, lease-purchase, sale or resale of equipment purchased out of monies in the revolving fund. The revolving fund shall be a continuing fund and shall be nonfiscal in character. The fund shall be invested in whatever instruments are authorized by law for investments by the State Treasurer and the interest earned by any investment of monies from the fund shall be credited to the fund for expenditure as provided by law. |Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 2. Amended by Laws 2006, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 45, § 8, eff. July 1, 2007.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.2. Revolving fund to be used to purchase road and bridge construction and maintenance machinery and equipment.

|The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to use the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund to purchase new or used road and bridge construction and maintenance machinery and equipment for lease or lease-purchase to counties. Such machinery and equipment shall include, but not be limited to, the following: asphalt pavers, automobiles, backhoes, bridge painting machines, cranes, elevating graders, fork lifts, front-end loaders, motorized weed sprayers, mowers, paving breaker tampers, pickups, power shovels, snow plows, street sweepers, trucks and wheel and crawler tractors. The Department of Transportation may make such purchases only if requested to do so by a board of county commissioners or circuit engineering districts pursuant to the provisions of Section 302.1 of this title, and may not act in behalf of any county in the purchase of any road machinery or equipment except as provided for in this act. |Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 3. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 117, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.4. Department authorized to lease or lease-purchase road equipment and machinery - Eligibility of counties - Sales - Rental rate - Interest - Disposition of proceeds.

|A. The Department of Transportation may enter into a written lease or lease-purchase agreement providing new, surplus or used road machinery and equipment for the use by a county during the then current fiscal year. Any county leasing road machinery or equipment from the Department shall be eligible to enter into a like contract for the ensuing fiscal year, and shall also be eligible to purchase the same such units, as provided for herein. |B. The Department of Transportation may sell any particular unit of road machinery or equipment to a county at any time after such unit has been leased for one (1) fiscal year for an amount not less than the original total cost of purchase, less rentals actually paid for the use of the unit, or any expenses incurred in reconditioning the unit; provided however, in so selling such unit, preference shall be given to the county leasing the unit during the then preceding fiscal year.C. Whenever the Department of Transportation has agreed to sell a unit of road machinery or equipment to a county, the title to said machinery or equipment shall be transferred to the county upon receipt of the final payment by the Department.D. Road machinery and equipment leased or lease-purchased by a county shall be leased or lease-purchased at the annual rental rate, which shall be fixed at an amount not less than that required to amortize the original purchase cost of the unit by ten (10) years' rental thereof.E. The Department of Transportation may charge a county interest on any lease or lease-purchase agreement for road machinery or equipment provided the Oklahoma Department of Transportation County Advisory Board determines and approves the rate to be charged.F. All proceeds derived from the lease or lease-purchase of road machinery and equipment by the Department of Transportation shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to be credited to the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund.Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 5. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 179, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.5. Use and care of equipment and machinery - Liability of leasing county - Return.

|A. Any county leasing road machinery and equipment from the Department of Transportation shall use and care for said machinery and equipment in a careful and prudent manner and shall pay all operating and maintenance expenses including any and all repairs during the time said machinery or equipment is in its possession. |B. The leasing county assumes all risk and liability for and shall hold the Department of Transportation and its agents harmless from all damages to property and injuries and death to persons arising out of the use, possession or transportation of said road machinery or equipment.C. When road machinery or equipment is returned to the Department of Transportation prior to the payment in full of the contract purchase price the county must notify the Department of Transportation and request an inspection and appraisal of any such unit of equipment or machinery. At the appointed time of inspection of equipment or machinery being returned, a county commissioner, a Department representative and an independent appraiser will determine the fair market value of said equipment and machinery.Should the appraised value not meet or exceed the balance remaining on the contract for lease-purchase, the county shall be assessed the difference and shall not be permitted to participate in the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund until such difference is paid in full. The extent of the financial obligation by the county will be based on the appraisal of equipment and road machinery at the time of inspection.The county may elect to remedy any deficiencies noted at the inspection meeting and request a subsequent inspection and appraisal after the deficiencies are corrected.D. All risk physical damage insurance shall be carried on all equipment and road machinery purchased through the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund. The Department is authorized to arrange such coverage and include the cost of premium in the lease-purchase contract. The county is authorized to request such coverage through the Department or provide said coverage through a county insurance plan.Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 6. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 75, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.6. Disposal of surplus road machinery and equipment.

|A. Any surplus road machinery and equipment in excess of the needs of the Department of Transportation which was purchased pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be offered for sale to all counties before it is disposed of. Whether sold to a county or sold as otherwise provided by law, the proceeds derived from selling surplus road machinery and equipment shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to be credited to the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund. |B. Whenever any county owns road machinery and equipment which it deems as surplus it may request the Department of Transportation to dispose of said equipment. If so requested, the Department in turn shall issue notice to all counties of county-owned surplus road machinery or equipment available at fair market value. If no other county offers to purchase said machinery or equipment the Department may, at the request of the county owning the road machinery or equipment, sell said machinery or equipment as otherwise provided by law and return the proceeds to the county to whom the machinery or equipment belonged.C. If a county disposes of its surplus road machinery and equipment, it shall do so pursuant to Sections 421 et seq. of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes.Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 7. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 71, § 4.
69 OK Stat § 69-636.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-636.7. Storage of road machinery and equipment - Costs and expenses.

|A. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to acquire space for storing road machinery and equipment while not in possession of a county and to pay the necessary costs thereof from the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund. |B. Any costs or expenses necessarily incurred by the Department of Transportation in the administration of the foregoing provisions relating to the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund may be paid from the fund.C. Any costs or expenses necessarily incurred by the Department of Transportation in the administration of a county inventory system for materials, supplies and equipment used for the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges as provided in Section 658 of this title may be paid from the County Road Machinery and Equipment Revolving Fund.Added by Laws 1982, c. 286, § 8. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 75, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1998, c. 28, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
69 OK Stat § 69-638 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-638. Hard surfacing farm-to-market roads - Conditions.

|When any county road within the state, which shall have been designated as a part of the federal aid secondary highway system, is brought to standard grade and drain by the county in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Commission, and where sufficient right-of-way is provided by the county wherein the road is located, and where state and federal funds are available, such road shall be hard surfaced by the Department. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 638, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-639 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-639. Maintenance by county.

|Whenever any road shall have been hard surfaced as provided for in the preceding section, it shall then become the duty of the county in which the road is located to maintain such road in a manner satisfactory to the Commission and the Bureau of Public Roads. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 639, operative July 1, 1968.
69 OK Stat § 69-640 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries|§69-640. Use of road machinery by farmers.

|If there be located in any county less than six private operators actively engaged and registered with the governmental bureau or department having supervision of soil conservation, and available for contracting for rendering soil conservation services, the board of county commissioners may permit farmers in such counties to use the county road machinery and equipment in constructing and maintaining terraces and ditches in the county. |Laws 1968, c. 415, § 640, operative July 1, 1968.