{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-36-106","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-106","heading":"Title to trees, shrubbery and parking abutting streets","body":"- Injury to - Powers of municipality.\n\nThe owners of real estate situated in municipalities abutting\n\nupon public streets and avenues in the municipality shall have,\n\nsubject to the lawful supervision of the municipality over its\n\nstreets, such title to and right to property in\n\n1. Growing trees situated in front of such real estate, but\n\nwithin the boundary line of the streets and avenues, and within the\n\ncurb line; or\n\n2. Parking and ornamental shrubbery planted and cultivated\n\nwithin the curb line of the streets and avenues;\n\nso as to enable the owners, in case of wrongful injury or\n\ndestruction of the trees, shrubbery or parking, to recover from the\n\nperson or corporation causing the injury or destruction the full\n\ndamages which the abutting property in front of which they are\n\nsituated may sustain by reason thereof, notwithstanding the fee\n\ntitle to the land in such streets and avenues may not be in the\n\nowner of the abutting property. The abutting property owners shall\n\nalso have, subject to the limitations provided in this section, the\n\nright of action in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin\n\nwrongful injury to or destruction of the trees, shrubbery or\n\nparking. The necessary trimming of such trees or shrubbery to\n\npermit the proper stringing and passage of utility and other wires\n\nshall not be considered as a wrongful injury. Nothing in this\n\nsection shall deprive the municipal governing body of the ordinary\n\nsupervision of its streets, or of the right to direct, by proper\n\nordinance, the manner of planting or cultivating such trees,\n\nshrubbery or parking, on the part of the street where they shall be\n\nso planted and cultivated, and from exercising reasonable\n\nsupervision of the same, and causing them to be trimmed and grown in\n\nsuch manner as not to interfere with public travel upon the streets\n\nand sidewalks or other public use.","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":"0414d7f3c36f7a5866eba7a2f9e408131b12a9314ddc9c42c8f2b592106c659e","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-36-105","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-36-107"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}