Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-565: Plan of improvements - Inspection - Objections - Hearing -

Dissolution in certain cases - Proceedings concerning plan.

Upon their qualification, the board shall prepare or cause to be

prepared a plan for the improvements for which the district was

created. Such plans shall include such maps, profiles, plans and

other data and descriptions as may be necessary to set forth

properly the location and character of the work, and of the property

benefited or taken or damaged, with estimates of cost and

specifications for doing the work.

In case the board of directors finds that any former survey made

by any other district or in any other manner is useful for the

purposes of the district, the board of directors may take over the

data secured by such survey, or such other proceedings as may be

useful to it, and may pay therefor an amount equal to the value of

such data of such district. No construction shall be made under the

authority of this act which will cause the flooding of any land,

village or city or which will cause the water to back up into or on

any land, village or city, unless the board of directors shall have

acquired and paid for the right to use the land affected for such

overflow purpose and shall have paid all damages incident thereto.

No railroad shall be required to be constructed with a grade in

excess of the ruling grade then existing upon that division of said

railroad whereon said change is required, without just compensation.

Upon the completion of such plan, the board shall file a copy of the

plan with the court clerk of the court having jurisdiction of such

district and cause the court clerk to give notice by publication as

provided herein in each county of said district, of the completion

of said plan, and shall permit the inspection thereof at his office,

by all persons interested. Said notice shall fix the time and place

for the hearing by the court of all objections to said plan, not

less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days after the

last publication of said notice. Any owner of land which will be

benefited or directly affected by the construction, operation and

maintenance of works proposed in said plan, whether inside or

outside of said district, may object to the approval of said plan.

All objections to said plan shall be in writing and be filed with

the said court clerk at least five (5) days before the date of

hearing fixed in said notice, provided, however, that the court, for

good cause shown, shall have authority to extend the time for filing

said objections in its discretion. If at said date the owners of a

majority of the area of land in the said district shall file a

protest and objection to the plan as a whole, then the court shall

order an assessment of the properties in said district sufficient to

pay the cost of the proceedings up to said time, said costs to be

fixed by the court, and to be prorated equally upon the property

included in said district, provided, however, that no assessment for

said purpose shall be more than twenty cents ($0.20) per acre on

agricultural lands. Upon the collection of said assessments the

court shall order said district dissolved. If said district be not

dissolved by the court, the court shall hear said objections and

adopt, reject or refer back said plan to said board of directors.

If said court shall reject said plan, then said board shall proceed

as in the first instance under this section to prepare another plan.

If the court should refer back said plan to said board for

amendment, then the court shall continue the hearing to a day

certain without publication of notice.

If the court refers back said plan to said board, then a

certified copy of said journal entry of said court shall be filed

with the secretary of the board of directors, and by him be

incorporated into the records of the district. The official plan

should refer back said plan to said board for

amendment, then the court shall continue the hearing to a day

certain without publication of notice.

If the court refers back said plan to said board, then a

certified copy of said journal entry of said court shall be filed

with the secretary of the board of directors, and by him be

incorporated into the records of the district. The official plan

may be altered in detail from time to time until the assessment roll

is filed, and of all such alterations the appraisers shall take

notice. But after the assessment roll has been filed in court, no

alterations of the official plan shall be made except as provided

herein.