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19 OK Stat § 19-2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-2. Property of county.

|Any real or personal estate heretofore or which may be hereafter conveyed to any county shall be deemed the property of such county. |R.L. 1910, § 1498.
19 OK Stat § 19-3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-3. Powers of county exercised by board of commissioners - Contracts while not acting as a board.

|The powers of a county as a body politic and corporate shall be exercised by its board of county commissioners. |It is hereby declared to be contrary to law, and against public policy, for any individual county commissioner, or commissioners, when not acting as a board, to enter into any contract, or to attempt to enter into any contract, as to any of the following matters:(a) Any purchase of equipment, machinery, supplies or materials of any kind for any county or any commissioner's district, or districts, thereof;(b) Any contract or agreement relating to or for the leasing or rental of any equipment, machinery, supplies or materials for any county or any commissioner's district, or districts, thereof;(c) To do or transact any business relating to such county, or any commissioner's district, or districts thereof, or to make any contract or agreement of any kind relating to the business of such county, or any commissioner's district, or districts thereof;And none of such acts or attempted contracts as above set forth, done or attempted to be done, by an individual county commissioner or commissioners, when not acting as a board, shall ever be subject to ratification by the board of county commissioners, but shall be illegal, unlawful and wholly void.Provided that nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing the chairman of the board of county commissioners from performing such duty or duties as he may be required by law to perform as chairman of such board, but only after the board, by a majority vote thereof, shall have authorized and directed such performance by said chairman.R.L. 1910, § 1499. Amended by Laws 1955, p. 153, § 1.
19 OK Stat § 19-4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-4. County to sue or be sued in name of board.

|In all suits or proceedings by or against a county, the name in which a county shall sue or be sued shall be, "Board of County Commissioners of the County of _____," but this provision shall not prevent county officers, where authorized by law, from suing in their official name for the benefit of the county. Suit may be brought against a county by naming a county officer identified in Section 161 of this title when it is alleged that such officer in his or her official capacity is directly or vicariously liable to plaintiff in an action not arising out of contract. Otherwise, suit may be brought against a county by naming the Board of County Commissioners of the County of _____; in actions against the Board not arising out of contract, upon motion, the Court may substitute a county officer identified in Section 161 of this title in his or her official capacity for the Board upon a showing that such county officer is better suited to represent and defend the county under the particular facts of the case. |R.L. 1910, § 1500. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 171, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
19 OK Stat § 19-5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-5. Process - How served.

|In all legal proceedings against the county, process shall be served on the county clerk as the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and whenever suit or proceedings shall be commenced, it shall be the duty of the clerk, forthwith to notify the district attorney and lay before the board of county commissioners at their next meeting, all the information he may have in regard to such suit or proceedings. |R.L. 1910, § 1501.
19 OK Stat § 19-6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-6. Payment of judgment against county.

|When a judgment shall be rendered against the board of commissioners of any county, or against any county officer in any action prosecuted by or against him in his official name, where the same should be paid by the county, no execution shall issue upon the said judgment, but a tax sufficient to pay same shall be levied and collected in like manner as other county taxes, and when collected shall be paid by the county treasurer on the delivery of a proper receipt and the signing of an acknowledgment on the court record of said judgment, by the party in whose favor the judgment was rendered, or by his attorney of record, that same has been satisfied. |R.L. 1910, § 1502.
19 OK Stat § 19-7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-7. County Government Council.

|The board of county commissioners of each county is hereby authorized to enter into interlocal agreements to participate in the County Government Council. The Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma, Inc., may be designated the administrator of the County Government Council. |Added by Laws 1980, c. 302, § 4, eff. July 1, 1980.
19 OK Stat § 19-8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-8. Public works contracts.

|A. Any public works contract shall provide for partial payment based upon work completed. The contract shall provide that up to ten percent (10%) of all such partial payments made shall be withheld as retainage. At any time the contractor has completed in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the total contract amount, the retainage shall be reduced to not less than five percent (5%) of the amount earned to date if the owner or owner's duly authorized representative has determined that satisfactory progress is being made, and upon approval by the surety. The amount retained shall be sufficient to ensure payment of: |1. Any taxes due the State of Oklahoma;2. Personal property taxes or any municipal sales taxes due on the contractor's equipment and supplies;3. Any workers compensation coverage; and4. Any amount due and owing to any subcontractor who furnished any material or equipment to the contractor or performed any labor as a subcontractor, or as an artisan or day laborer in the employ of the contractor.B. For purposes of this section a public works contract means a contract between a county of this state and a contractor for the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, moving, wrecking or demolition of any highway, road, railroad, earthwork, building or other structure, project, development or improvement, whether it be in whole or in part. The provisions of this section shall not apply to railroad companies operating in this state.Added by Laws 1994, c. 72, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
19 OK Stat § 19-8.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-8.1. Short title.

|Sections 1 through 5 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "County Home Rule Charter Act". |Added by Laws 1992, c. 220, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
19 OK Stat § 19-8.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-8.2. Authority to adopt or amend county home rule charter.

|Any county in this state with a population of less than five hundred fifty thousand (550,000), according to the latest Federal Decennial Census, which contains a metropolitan area with a population of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) or more, according to the latest Federal Decennial Census, may adopt or amend a County Home Rule Charter for county government which specifies those powers appropriate for said government and which are not inconsistent with the Oklahoma Constitution and laws of this state. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 220, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
19 OK Stat § 19-8.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-8.5. Charter provision contrary to or inconsistent with sovereignty and public policy.

|Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to authorize the adoption of charter provisions contrary to or inconsistent with the sovereignty and established public policies of this state and no provision having such effect shall be valid. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 220, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
19 OK Stat § 19-11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-11. Vote by people - Taxable property - Area - Population.

|Before any new counties shall be established, or any county lines in this state shall be altered or changed, such question shall first be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors residing in the territory to be formed into such new county or transferred to another county, and shall be approved by the sixty percent (60%) of the votes cast in each particular territory sought to be taken from an existing county in said election; provided, no new county shall be formed of less than four hundred square miles taxable area, nor with a population of less than fifteen thousand people, nor with taxable wealth less than two and one-half million dollars, as shown by the current tax rolls. Nor shall any territory be taken from an existing county for any purpose bringing the newly created lines of such existing county nearer than ten miles to the county seat thereof. Nor shall the taxable area, population or taxable wealth of said existing county be reduced below that required for a new county. Nor shall any territory, in any case, be transferred from one county to an existing county, if, by such transfer of territory, the county from which the territory to be taken will then be smaller in area than the county to which the addition is made; provided, that when the territory is to be transferred from one existing county to either a new or an existing county, there must be sixty percent (60%) of the vote cast in such particular territory in favor of the transfer, and, in case the transfer to be to an existing county, the acceptance of such territory must first be approved by a majority vote of the electors of said county; provided, that any such election shall be governed by the general election laws, when same are not in conflict herewith. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 72, § 1.
19 OK Stat § 19-12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-12. Petition - Proclamation calling election - Counties excepted.

|Upon a petition or petitions in writing, signed by fifty-one percent (51%) of the qualified electors residing in each particular territory sought to be created into a new county, or transferred to another county, such percent to be determined by the total vote cast in said territory for the head of the state ticket in the next preceding election, and it being made to appear that said petitioners are qualified electors of said territory and are fifty-one percent (51%) of each particular territory thereof, and it being made to appear that if a new county is to be formed, that same will consist of not less than five hundred (500) square miles of taxable area and will contain a population of not less than twenty thousand (20,000) people and will have not less than Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00) of taxable wealth as shown by the current tax rolls; that if the change or changes sought to be made are for the purpose of creating a new county it will not bring the newly created lines of such existing county or counties from which said territory is taken nearer than twenty (20) miles to the county seat thereof; that if the change or changes sought to be made for the purpose of transferring territory from an existing county or counties to another county, it will not bring the newly created lines in such existing county or counties from which any territory is taken nearer than fifteen (15) miles to the county seat thereof; that the taxable wealth of such existing county or counties will not be reduced below that required for a new county, and if the object sought is to transfer territory from one county to an existing county, it shall be made to appear that the county from which said territory is sought to be taken, will not be less in area than the county to which the addition is made, and such petition and such showing have been filed with and made before the Governor, shall within thirty (30) days issue his proclamation, calling an election to be held in said territory not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy (70) days from the date of his proclamation. That nothing in this bill shall apply to counties now existing containing eighteen hundred (1,800) square miles in area, which counties shall be governed by the Constitutional limitations. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 73, § 2. Amended by Laws 1917, c. 120, p. 185, § 1; Laws 1919, c. 213, p. 309, § 1.
19 OK Stat § 19-13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-13. Form of petition.

|The following shall be substantially the form for every petition, or petitions, filed with the Governor, asking that an election be called for the purpose of creating such new county, or detaching territory from one county, for the purpose of adding same to another; provided, that this section shall not apply to petitions on file with the Governor, upon which an election has been called: |"Petition asking that an election be called for the creation of the proposed county of _____; said proposed county to embrace the following described territory. (Here describe proposed county by metes and bounds)", or, if the election is to be called for detaching territory from an existing county, the heading of petition shall be as follows: "Petition asking that an election be called to detach the following described territory (Here describe territory, proposed to be detached by metes and bounds) from the county of _____, for the purpose of having said described territory added to the county of _____."State of Oklahoma, )) ss.County of ______________)To the Governor of the State of Oklahoma:I most respectfully represent that I am ______ years of age; and am now, and have been for ____ years, a resident of such county and state above mentioned; that I am now residing within the precinct, or ward, in which I now propose to vote and have resided thereat for ____ years, and am a duly qualified elector in the precinct wherein I reside; and I do most respectfully petition Your Excellency to call an election for the purpose of creating the proposed county of ______; (or in event territory is to be detached from an existing county, and added to an existing county), to call an election for the purpose of detaching a portion of ______ county and adding same to ______ county; and I have not signed any other petition asking that an election be held under the provisions of this act.Respectfully submitted__________________________Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ day of ____ A.D.   (year).__________________________Notary Public.My commission expires __________.Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 73, § 3. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
19 OK Stat § 19-14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-14. Form of ballot - Election of officers.

|The Governor shall cause to be placed upon the ballots, to be voted at any such election, the metes and bounds of the proposed new county, or the territory sought to be transferred, and if said election is for the purpose of creating a new county, the ballot shall contain the words "Shall said territory be formed into a new county?" followed by |"Yes""No"If such election is for the formation of a new county, there shall also, and at the same time be held an election for the purpose of electing a full quota of county officers, for said proposed county, and there shall be separate ballots prepared for said purpose, containing the names of the various candidates to be voted for at said election, which said ballots, when voted, shall be placed in a separate box. If the change sought to be made is the transfer of territory from one county to an existing county, said ballots shall contain the words, "Shall said territory become a part of ________ county?" (filling in the name of the county, to which said territory is sought to be transferred), followed by the words"Yes""No"Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 75, § 4.
19 OK Stat § 19-15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-15. Election supplies - How furnished.

|The county election board of any county, holding such special election, shall furnish each voting precinct, or voting place in said county, with three ballot boxes, one of said boxes to be used for the depositing therein of the ballots on the formation of such new county, or the transferring of territory as voted; one box for the purpose of depositing therein the affidavits, as made, of all qualified electors; and one box for the depositing therein of the ballots for county and township officers as voted. All ballots, affidavits, ballot boxes, and other election supplies, shall be furnished by the county election board, as provided by law, for the printing and furnishing of ballots in regular elections. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 75, § 5.
19 OK Stat § 19-16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-16. Election commissioners - Qualifications - Oath.

|When any such special election is called, it shall be the duty of the Governor to select and commission one special election commissioner for each voting precinct or voting place in such county so holding such election as provided in this act; provided, that no such special election commissioner shall be, or have been a resident of the county or counties to be affected by such special election, and shall not be interested in any manner in the result thereof. Every such commission shall be in writing and shall be signed by the Governor. Before any such special election commissioner shall assume the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe to the following oath: |Oath.I, ________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma and will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity and to the best of my ability; that I am not now and never have been a resident of the proposed county of ________; that I am not now and have never been a resident of the county or counties to be affected by such election; and that I am not now interested in any manner, in any business proposition, or in any institution located in any county to be affected by such election.__________________________Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of ______ A. D. 19__.__________________________Notary Public.My commission expires ______.Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 76, § 6.
19 OK Stat § 19-17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-17. Duties of commissioners - Substitutes.

|In selecting and commissioning said special election commissioners, the Governor shall assign each said commissioner to a particular voting precinct, or voting place in said territory, proposing to hold such special election; and for the purpose of said special election, the said commissioner so selected, shall perform the duties of an inspector of election in such precinct or voting place so assigned, as provided by the general election laws, when not in conflict with the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of each such special election commissioner to present himself to the county election board, at the office of the clerk of the county wherein said special election is to be held, not later than ten o'clock a. m. of the second day next preceding the date set for the holding of such special election, where he shall receive from said board and receipt therefor, the ballots, ballot boxes, poll books, tally sheets, stamps, pen, ink, pencils, and other material necessary for properly holding such election, and shall safely convey such material, so received, to the precinct, or voting place assigned, so that the polls may be duly and promptly opened on the date set for the holding of said special election. In the event the special election commissioner of any precinct shall fail to present himself to the county election board for such election supplies and to receive the same at the time in this act specified, then it shall be the duty of the county election board to designate and appoint in writing, some qualified elector of the county, to perform all of the duties of said special election commissioner of such precinct at said election. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 76, § 7.
19 OK Stat § 19-18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-18. Booths and conveniences - Election officers - How appointed - Oath - Fees.

|On the day set for the holding of said special election, it shall be the duty of said special election board, to see that each precinct, or voting place in said county, is supplied with booths and other necessary conveniences, for the proper holding of such election. It shall be their duty to select two judges and two clerks for such said special election in each precinct or voting place; said judges and clerks, so acting, shall receive the fees as prescribed for like services in any general election. It shall be the duty of the special election commissioner, to administer the oath to said judges or clerks of said election. One of said judges and one of said clerks at each voting precinct shall be selected from a list submitted to said board by the organization favoring the formation of such new counties or the detaching of said territory, and one of said judges, and one of said clerks in each precinct, shall be selected from a list submitted by the organization opposing the formation of such new county or the detaching of said territory. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 77, § 8.
19 OK Stat § 19-19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-19. Voting - Electors' affidavits - Form.

|Every person desiring to vote at such special election, after having passed the challengers whose duty shall be the same as prescribed by law governing any general election, and being admitted to the room, shall, before being given a ballot, permit the clerks to fill out an affidavit and the intended voter shall subscribe and swear to the affidavit before the special election commissioner, after which such person shall be given tickets and permitted to prepare the same and deliver the ballots to the special election commissioner who shall, in the presence of the voter, deposit the ballot in the proper ballot box, and shall deposit the affidavit in the box provided for that purpose. The form of affidavit required of all persons presenting themselves to vote at such special election shall be substantially as follows: |Affidavit.State of Oklahoma, County of ______ ss.______ of lawful age, first being duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says: That he or she is a citizen of the United States, is over the age of eighteen years, that he or she has been for one year last past a bona fide resident of this state, of the county six months, and in ________ precinct thirty (30) days next preceding this date; that he or she came to his or her present residence from _______ and is a legally qualified elector in the precinct on this day and has not voted in the election.___________________Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of ______ A.D.   (year).Special Election Commissioner.Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 78, § 9. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
19 OK Stat § 19-20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 19. Counties and County Officers|§19-20. Count - Canvass of returns.

|Upon the holding of any such special election, the precinct board of canvassers, shall canvass the vote, make and certify the returns upon the election of county and township officers, and shall make and certify the returns upon the formation of such new county, or the detaching of said territory, to their respective county election board, which said board shall, immediately, in the presence of said special election commissioners canvass all such returns of elections held, as provided herein. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 40, p. 78, § 10.