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Oklahoma · Snapshot open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14

Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-34: County commissioners may settle differences

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  1. OK Code
  2. Title 19

It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the counties

between which a settlement should be made by virtue of any transfer

to meet and determine the amount due from one county to the other,

and if a majority of said commissioners agree upon an amount found

to be due, the commissioners of the county found to be indebted to

the other county are hereby authorized and empowered to draw a

warrant on the general fund of their county in favor of the county

entitled to the same for the amount so found due: Provided, that

either county through its proper officers may within sixty days

appeal from said finding to the district court of the county

appealing: Provided, further, that if a majority of said boards of

county commissioners should fail to agree upon an amount due from

one county to the other each of said boards of county commissioners

shall file with the respective county clerks a report showing its

finding, and also the finding of the commissioners of the other

county and the county claiming an indebtedness shall, within six

months after the filing of said report with the county clerk,

institute suit in the district court of any county in the district

in which the debtor county is situated, to recover the amount to be

due by the board of county commissioners of said county.

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