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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.3. Adoption of annual priority plan and budget for construction of road, bridge, culvert and drainage projects - Amendment.

A. On or before September 30 of each year the board of county commissioners shall adopt an annual priority plan and budget for the construction of road, bridge, culvert and drainage projects during the next federal fiscal year and the four (4) years succeeding the next federal fiscal year, based upon available existing and estimated future funds administered by the Department of Transportation for county bridges and roads. The plan shall be filed by the board of county commissioners with the Department of Transportation and the county clerk.
B. The board of county commissioners may amend annual priority plans and budgets, but any amendment shall be filed with the Department of Transportation and county clerk.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 311, § 2. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 174, § 2, emerg. eff. May 16, 2005.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.4. Application of waste oil to streets and roads prohibited.

A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the practice of applying waste oil to any street or road in this state is hereby prohibited. Upon authorization of the Corporation Commission and compliance with the provisions of this section, a board of county commissioners of any county in this state may apply waste oil to any street or road in the county.
B. The Corporation Commission may issue authorization for the application of waste oil on any street or road in this state. No authorization shall be issued except upon proper application and a showing by the county requesting such authorization that the use of waste oil on the street or road is necessary for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the street or road, that such activity is in the public interest, and that the procedure for the application of the waste oil shall be made in such a manner so as to protect any adjoining public or private property from damage and made in such a manner so as to prevent the pollution of surface and subsurface waters.
C. The Corporation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations which are necessary to protect, from damage, public and private property adjoining any street or road upon which waste oil is to be applied and prevent the pollution of surface and subsurface waters and which are reasonable and necessary to effectuate and enforce the provisions of this section including but not limited to the types of waste oil which may be used in such applications and when the application of the waste oil shall be made. The Corporation Commission shall supervise the application of waste oil to ensure that such application is made in the manner required by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission pursuant to this section.
D. Any person who authorizes the application of or applies waste oil to any street or road without authorization of the Corporation Commission or in violation of any rule or regulation of the Corporation Commission promulgated pursuant to this section shall be held personally liable. A proven violation of the provisions of this section or of any rules or regulations promulgated thereto shall be punishable, in the first instance, by a fine not in excess of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00). A second proven violation in any calendar year shall result in a fine not in excess of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). A third proven violation in any calendar year shall result in a fine not in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and suspension of authority for up to thirty (30) days.
E. For the purpose of this section, "waste oil" includes crude petroleum oil or other hydrocarbons produced from or obtained or used in connection with the drilling, development, producing and processing of oil or any residue obtained from any oil storage facility. The term waste oil shall not include any hydrocarbon to which lead has been added.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 340, § 1, emerg. eff. July 30, 1985.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.5. Maintenance or improvement of private roads for school bus turn-arounds.

In order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the children of this state, the board of county commissioners shall be authorized to enter onto private property adjoining county roads in order to perform maintenance or improvements to an existing private road when:
1. The private road is used by a school bus to turn around;
2. The available right-of-way does not provide enough space for the school bus to turn around without endangering the occupants of the school bus; and
3. The owner of the private road agrees in writing to the necessary maintenance or improvements.
The maintenance or improvements to the private road shall be limited to the area necessary for the school bus to adequately turn around.
Added by Laws 1999, c. 341, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.6. Acceptance of public road or bridge project bids.

The board of county commissioners in every county in this state must notify the Department of Transportation at least twenty-one (21) days prior to accepting bids on any publicly let road or bridge work projects in the county. The Department shall make this information available to the public on their website.
Added by Laws 2010, c. 256, § 5, eff. July 1, 2010.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.7. Permits for harvesting of hay along right-of-way public roads.

A. The boards of county commissioners are authorized to issue permits which authorize and regulate the harvesting of hay along the right-of-way of public roads of the county highway system within their respective counties. Each permit shall authorize the permittee to harvest hay for the duration of the calendar year.
B. The applicant for a permit shall be informed in writing and shall sign a release acknowledging that he or she will assume all risk and liability for hay quality and for any accidents and damages that may occur as a result of the work and that the county and State of Oklahoma assume no liability for the hay quality or for work done by the permittee.
C. Any person who stores the harvested hay along the right-of-way for later removal shall store the harvested hay at the outer edge of the right-of-way and shall remove the harvested hay within two (2) days after harvesting.
D. The county shall obtain consent from the owner whose land abuts the right-of-way before issuing or reissuing a permit to harvest hay. The owner may revoke his or her consent at any time.
E. The owner or the owner's assignee of land abutting the right-of-way shall have priority to receive a permit for such land under this section.
F. The county may charge a permit fee in an amount calculated only to defray the actual costs of administering this section; provided, that any owner or owner's assignee shall be granted a permit at no cost when harvesting hay on the right-of-way abutting that owner's land. All fees received under this section shall be remitted to the county treasurer for credit to the county highway fund.
G. Counties shall require permitees to carry and keep in force liability insurance during the permit period. Counties shall determine required minimum amounts of such coverage, which shall be at least Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) for each occurrence of bodily injury and One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) for each occurrence of property damage.
H. Counties may establish regulations to carry out this section.
Added by Laws 2017, c. 218, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-601.8. Immunity from liability – Cattle guards or other devices.

The state, county or political subdivision shall be immune from liability if a claim for damages results from the use, repair or maintenance of cattle guards or other device designed to impede the movement of livestock, wildlife or other animals on public roadways.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 293, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-602. State and county highways - Connection with city paving - Federal aid.

(a) A hard surfaced state or county highway may be extended into the corporate limits of a municipality to connect with the paving of such municipality under the following conditions:
(1) When any state or county highway within any county has been completed with hard surface to the limits of any municipality which maintains a system of street paving but none of the paved streets of which reach to or connect with such hard surfaced state or county highway; or
(2) When such paved streets are not at a greater distance than two (2) miles from such hard surfaced highway; or
(3) If the board of county commissioners of such county finds and so certifies of record that such municipality is unable to extend its paving to connect with such hard surfaced state or county highway by reason of the value of abutting real estate that would be liable for such paving being inadequate to sustain the cost thereof; or
(4) If it will be for the best interests of the citizens and residents of such county that such hard surfaced highways be connected with the paving in such municipality by a hard surfaced road.
(b) Provided, however, that the cost of such extension within such municipality as herein provided shall be borne by the county within which such municipality is located.
(c) Provided, further, that when federal aid may be obtained, the board of county commissioners shall take such action as will secure federal aid available for the construction of any hard surfaced road or street as authorized by this section.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 602, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-603. Contracts for grading, etc., of streets within incorporated cities or towns.

The board of county commissioners of any county may, under the direction of the Commission, contract for grading, draining or hardsurfacing any street within any municipality where such street is a continuation of or a connecting link in the State or County Highway System or if the county and the municipality have entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 36-113 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the construction, improvement, repair or maintenance of municipal streets.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 603, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 266, § 3, emerg. eff. May 13, 2010.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-604. Bonds authorized for roads and bridges - Procedure.

The board of county commissioners may issue bonds of its county for the purpose of building, constructing, repairing or acquiring bridges, and for building and constructing state or county roads and bridges; provided, the issuance of such bonds shall first be approved by not less than three-fifths (3/5) of the qualified voters of the county voting on the question at an election held for such purpose. Such election shall be called and held, and the bonds shall be issued and sold, as in the case of bonds issued for the erection of county hospitals.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 604, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-605. Bridge contracts - Preliminary action.

Whenever the board of county commissioners shall determine to construct a permanent bridge or culvert, the engineer's estimated cost of which exceeds the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), it shall adopt a resolution of necessity, containing substantially the following matters, to wit:
(a) The location of such bridge or culvert, which location shall be so plainly pointed out that the same can easily be determined.
(b) The material of which such bridge or culvert is to be constructed.
(c) The approximate width of the roadway and depth of fill, if any, over the crown or floor of the bridge or culvert.
(d) The approximate length of span or arch of the bridge or culvert.
(e) The approximate area of the watershed to be drained through the bridge or culvert.
(f) The estimated cost of the bridge or culvert.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 605, operative July 1, 1968; Laws 1979, c. 92, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 1979.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-606. Bridges between adjoining counties.

The board of county commissioners of any two or more adjoining counties may unite in the construction of a bridge, or bridges, over any stream forming the boundary line between such counties or flowing from one county into the other, and the said bridge, or bridges, may be located by them at any point or points on the stream not more than two (2) miles from the boundary line of the counties. If the board of county commissioners of each county so situated finds that a bridge across the stream is necessary and approves its construction, it shall be the duty of the boards of county commissioners, and each of them, to at once proceed with the construction of the bridge. Such counties shall bear the cost of the construction of the bridge, or bridges as agreed by said counties; such construction shall be under the supervision of the boards of county commissioners, which boards shall act in conjunction in such construction; and the bridge, when so constructed, shall remain the property of such counties, respectively, and shall be jointly maintained by such counties.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 606, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 302, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-607. Intercounty bridges - Proceedings (Boundary bridges).

(a) Whenever the public convenience justly demands it and the need thereof shall be appropriately signified, as herein provided, then the board of county commissioners must proceed as follows with respect to intercounty bridges across streams serving in whole or in part as a boundary between two counties: After the presentation in the case of a bridge to cost not over One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), of a petition signed by at least fifty taxpayers of each county; to cost from One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), by seventy-five taxpaying signers in each county; to cost more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), by one hundred taxpaying signers in each county, to the board of county commissioners, it may within one (1) year proceed to act and construct the bridge if such levy as may be required for this purpose may be made within the constitutional limitation as to tax levies; and such petitions or actions, at whatever stage, shall bind and have equal force with the successors in office to those Commissioners originally receiving it. The cost of the bridge shall be apportioned between the counties upon the basis of their total valuation, unless the boards of county commissioners in the exercise of sound judgment shall agree to apportion it otherwise.
(b) The above proceeding shall not apply in the case of intercounty bridges where the total span is two hundred (200) feet or more, including approaches thereto of timber work or any material other than earth embankment, if there is another bridge of substantially equal size and importance over the same stream within six (6) miles of the proposed location.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 607, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-608. Repair of bridges, payment for by county.

The board of county commissioners may pay for the reconstruction or repairing of such county bridges as have been damaged or destroyed by floods. Provided, that the authority granted by this section shall apply only to claims for repairing or reconstructing bridges previously owned by the county on the same site.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 608, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-609. Allowance of accounts for repair or reconstruction of bridges.

The accounts for repairing or reconstructing such bridges destroyed or damaged shall be filed and allowed by the board of county commissioners upon accounts itemized and verified by affidavit as in other cases.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 609, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-610. Joint construction of bridges by county, city and public service corporation.

Any county, by act of the board of county commissioners, and any municipality within such county, by a majority of its governing board, and any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, may all or either of them jointly contract for the construction and maintenance of bridges across streams running through such county.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 610, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-611. Contracts for bridges with public service corporations authorized - Bond issue - Tax levy.

Any public service corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma may jointly contract with any municipality, county, or citizen of same, for the joint construction, maintenance, ownership and use of any bridge or bridge approaches over and across any stream, river, or creek, and any such public service corporation may contract with any municipality or county for the purchase of such bridge and for the joint ownership and use thereof by the public service corporation and the public; and the several parties so interested may contract and set aside the part of such bridge or bridges and approaches to be used or maintained by each, and such municipality or county may issue and sell bonds, or levy taxes, to pay for construction or purchase of such bridge or bridges, or interest therein, the same as bonds are issued or taxes levied for other bridge purposes.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 611, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-612. Bonds for bridges jointly constructed between county and municipality.

When the cost of such construction is apportioned respectively between the county and municipality, bonds may be voted for the same in like manner and form as otherwise provided by law for the construction of a bridge in its entirety by the county and municipality, respectively.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 612, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-613. Working convicts on county highways - Duties of officers.

The board of county commissioners of any county shall have authority to work any convicts confined in the county jail, either as punishment for crime or in lieu of payment of fine and costs, upon public highways in the county, and to employ such guards and other assistants as may be required. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, upon the order of the board of county commissioners, to deliver, to any person authorized to receive them for work, upon public highways, any persons sentenced and confined in the county jail either as punishment for crime or in lieu of payment of fine and costs.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 613, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-614. Convicts on rock pile or other public work.

When, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners, the expense of working the convicts upon the public highways is too great, on account of the small number thereof, or for any other reason, then it shall have authority to provide all necessary apparatus for working of such convicts upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, for the purpose of providing material for use upon the public highways of the county. Such authority shall be exercised in the same manner as is provided in the preceding section for the working of convicts upon the public highways, and the board of county commissioners shall have full authority as to how and where such materials shall be used; provided, it shall use same for no other purpose than the betterment of the public highways in the county; provided, further, that in any county where the working of convicts upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, is found impractical for any reason, then the board of county commissioners may provide for the working of the convicts upon any public work in which the county has an interest.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 614, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-615. Convicts to perform road work - Credit for work - Authority of road supervisors.

Any person in this state convicted of a crime who, as a result of such conviction, is confined as a prisoner in a county jail of any county may, at the discretion of the board of county commissioners of such county in which the jail is located, be required by the board of county commissioners to perform road work on the public highways of the county and upon the streets of any municipality located in the county. When such prisoner shall perform the road work in a satisfactory manner, under the supervision of any road supervisor of the county or municipality having jurisdiction over the person, the prisoner shall be entitled to two (2) day's credit on his time in the jail for each day consisting of eight (8) hours of road work performed by the person and he shall be recorded as having served two (2) days in the jail on his judgment and sentence. Any road supervisor having under his supervision any prisoner or prisoners for the purpose of performing road work, as herein provided, shall be deputized as a deputy sheriff or special police officer with full authority of law as deputy sheriff or police officer for the purpose of properly carrying out the provisions of this section and shall be responsible under the law in the same manner as other officers are responsible for safekeeping of prisoners and shall be subject to the same penalties.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 615, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-616. Supplies for convicts doing road work.

The board of county commissioners shall purchase supplies for feeding and maintaining county convicts while at work, from the lowest and best bidder, after reasonable public notice shall have been given. No contract for furnishing supplies at a higher price than the ordinary selling price of the articles furnished shall be valid.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 616, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-617. Food for convicts - Medical attention.

The board of county commissioners shall furnish wholesome food in sufficient quantity and variety to all convicts working upon the public roads to maintain them in good health and vigor, and shall furnish medical attention when required in accordance with the standards promulgated pursuant to Section 192 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 617, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 244, § 28, eff. July 1, 1978.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-618. Other service may be required of convicts.

Any of the convicts whether male or female, mentioned in the preceding sections may be required to perform service in or around the county jail or other place of confinement, or at any camp or commissary where convicts are kept or fed.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 618, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-619. City and town prisoners employed by counties - Credit for work.

The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of the state shall have authority to receive by agreement with the governing board of any municipality, the prisoners of the municipality, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the municipality's jail, either as punishment or in lieu of payment of fine and costs for the violation of any municipal ordinance, and such board of county commissioners shall have authority to work any such prisoners on the public highways or upon a rock pile, or rock crusher, for the purpose of providing material for use upon public highways or any public institution of such county, or upon any public work in which the county is interested. Any such person so imprisoned for nonpayment of fine and costs shall receive credit upon his or her fine and costs of One Dollar ($1.00) for each day so confined in prison or worked upon the public highways, rock pile, rock crusher, or other public work; provided, the board of county commissioners shall not pay for the services of such prisoners, except the cost of their transportation and maintenance.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 619, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-620. Unexpended funds - Transfer to other road projects.

Whenever there remains in the State Treasury to the credit of the Commission, in the account of any county in this state, an unexpended balance of any special fund, being an amount in excess of the contract price of any federal aid road or bridge project and the purpose for which it was created has been fully observed, and there remains no further use for such balance, the Commission shall make a certificate to the board of county commissioners of the county showing the amount of the balance, and it shall then be lawful for the board of county commissioners, by resolution, to transfer such balance to any other federal aid road or bridge project of the county.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 620, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-621. Maintenance and construction by adjoining counties.

All county highways on county lines in this state shall be maintained and constructed by the counties adjoining. County commissioners of each of the counties or other jurisdictions between which such roads are located may enter into agreements to provide for said maintenance and construction.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 415, § 621, operative July 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 302, § 2, eff. July 1, 2015.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-622. Duties of counties to maintain roads - Expenditures - Division of roads.

(a) It shall be the duty of each board of county commissioners to maintain the section of each county line road assigned to it by the aforesaid agreement. The expenditures on such roads shall be governed by the laws relating to expenditures by boards of county commissioners as expenditures on roads within the boundaries of such counties.
(b) Provided, that when the board of county commissioners of any county is notified by the Board of an adjoining county that an agreement relating to division of county line roads as provided in the preceding section is desired, the boards shall within thirty (30) days of such notice proceed with the division in the manner agreed upon between the respective boards.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 622, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries › §69-623. Division when counties fail to agree.

Should the boards of county commissioners fail to agree upon an equitable division of such roads or upon the expense of maintenance and construction of such roads after the division has been made, the Director shall be authorized to settle such disputes, when called upon to do so by the board of county commissioners of either county, and his decision in such cases shall be final and binding upon both counties.
Laws 1968, c. 415, § 623, operative July 1, 1968.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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 Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) or more, or any culvert or bridge reconstruction is to be accomplished at an estimated cost of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) 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 Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000.00) or more, in either event, engineering plans and specifications shall be prepared by the county engineer to ensure 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 ensure 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; Laws 2022, c. 108, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
2023 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; and
2. 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.