Opinion ID: 2520215
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Heading: motion to dismiss clerk

Text: ¶ 9 The Proponents are seeking to have the Clerk dismissed as a respondent. Section 15-102 permits cities to provide their own procedures for exercising their initiative and referendum powers. Oklahoma City adopted the procedures set forth in title 34 of the 1951 Oklahoma Statutes. If appeal is taken from a city clerk's decision, the procedures require the appellant to serve notice on the city clerk. [4] Under this provision, not only does the Clerk have standing as a defendant, but is a necessary party. [5] By virtue of the ordinance, the Clerk is brought into Court, rendered subject to the Court's jurisdiction, and subject to any orders involving the performance of the Clerk's duties which may be enforced against the Clerk. [6] Thus, the motion to dismiss is denied.