Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-39-102: Definitions

As used in the Improvement District Act, the singular includes

the plural and:

1. “Acquired” means the acquisition of property or interests in

property by purchase, gift, condemnation or other lawful means;

2. “City” means any city or town incorporated pursuant to the

laws of Oklahoma;

3. “Engineer” means a city engineer, city official, employee or

other person competent to advise and assist the governing body in

planning and making an improvement;

4. “Cost” means any cost necessarily or reasonably incurred in

making the improvement, including but not limited to cost of:

a. preparation of preliminary reports,

b. preparation of plans and specifications,

c. preparation and publication of notices of hearings,

resolutions, ordinances and other proceedings,

d. fees and expenses for engineers, attorneys, laborers

and other personal services,

e. rights-of-way, materials and other lawful expenses

incurred in making any improvement, and

f. capitalized interest, funding of reserves, premiums

for reserve surety bonds, and obtaining bond

insurance, letters of credit or other credit

enhancements or liquidity instruments;

5. “District” means an area designated by the governing body to

be benefited by an improvement and subjected to payment of special

assessments for all or a portion of the cost of the improvement;

6. “Governing body” means the city council, city commission or

board of trustees of an incorporated city or town;

7. “Improve” means to construct, reconstruct, maintain,

restore, replace, renew, repair, install, equip, extend, purchase,

alter or otherwise perform any work which provides a new facility,

or enhances, extends or restores the value or usefulness of an

existing facility;

8. “Improvement” means any type of improvement made by

authority of this Improvement District Act and includes

reimprovement of any prior improvement made pursuant to any other

act;

9. “Mail” means by first-class mail;

10. “Trustee” means a city acting pursuant to this act;

11. “Street” means any highway, street, alley, boulevard,

avenue, right-of-way, public ground, or other public facility, or

any part thereof; and

12. “Publish” or “publication” means printing in a newspaper

which maintains an office in the city or town and is of general

circulation within the city or town, or, if there is no newspaper

which maintains an office in the city or town, a newspaper of

general circulation within the city or town and in two (2) separate

issues thereof, at least seven (7) days apart.