{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-17-102","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-17-102","heading":"Payment of invoice or account - Petty cash accounts","body":"A. Any invoice against a municipality must be presented in\n\nwriting and examined in the manner provided by municipal ordinance\n\nor in absence of such ordinance by other applicable law. The\n\nmunicipal ordinance shall establish an internal control structure\n\nadequate to provide reasonable assurance against unauthorized or\n\nillegal payments of invoices. Except as otherwise provided for in\n\nthis subsection, monies may be drawn from the municipal treasury\n\nonly upon a proper warrant as provided by law. In lieu of issuing\n\nsuch warrant, a municipality may process payment by check, wire\n\ntransfer, direct payroll deposit, or other instrument or method of\n\ndisbursement through the Federal Reserve System.\n\nB. The warrant, check, or other instrument shall be prepared\n\nand issued in accordance with procedures and requirements provided\n\nby municipal ordinance or in absence of such ordinance, by other\n\napplicable law. The municipal warrant or municipal check shall be\n\nsigned by the officer designated in the ordinance or in the absence\n\nof such ordinance, by the municipal treasurer. The provisions of\n\nstate law on uniform facsimile signatures of public officials,\n\nSections 601 through 606 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall\n\nbe applicable to instruments authorized by this section.\n\nC. Unless alternate procedures have been enacted by municipal\n\nordinance and a majority or all of governing body offices in a\n\nmunicipality become vacant, thereby preventing approval of amounts\n\nlawfully owing on invoices, the interim mayor or the remaining\n\ngoverning body members, as the case may be, may authorize emergency\n\npayments of amounts owing on invoices for a period not to exceed\n\nninety (90) days after the date that a majority of the offices\n\nbecome vacant or, if an election cannot be held within the ninety\n\n(90) days in accordance with state law, until successors to at least\n\na majority of the governing body offices have been elected and\n\nqualified. The interim mayor or the remaining governing body\n\nmembers may also authorize payment of payroll, utility bills, or\n\nother usual and regular obligations of the municipality. Any such\n\nauthorization and payment shall not exceed the unencumbered and\n\nunexpended balance of the appropriation made for that purpose, nor\n\nmay the total amount of such emergency authorizations and payments\n\nexceed fifteen percent (15%) of the total appropriations approved\n\nfor the town government for the fiscal year. Any warrant, check or\n\nother instrument issued pursuant to this section shall state that it\n\nis being issued under emergency circumstances and by special\n\nauthority of this section.\n\nD. A municipality shall have the authority to establish petty\n\ncash accounts in amounts established by the governing body for use\n\nin making payments for costs incurred in operating the municipality.\n\nThe petty cash accounts shall be reimbursed by utilizing properly\n\nitemized invoices or petty cash voucher slips and processing the\n\nreimbursement in accordance with the provisions of subsection A of\n\nthis section.","path":["OK Code","Title 11"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os11.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b79df2a639de867fda8ef499327ccf55cb43e1b9bc8f392500eb51579da1625c","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-17-101","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-17-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}