{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-45-104","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-45-104","heading":"Public improvements and plats of land - Planning","body":"commission review - Subdivision regulations - Rural land not served\n\nby municipal water and sewer facilities.\n\nA. Before final action may be taken by any municipality or\n\ndepartment thereof on the location, construction, or design of any\n\npublic building, statue, memorial, park, parkway, boulevard, street,\n\nalley, playground, public ground, or bridge, or the change in the\n\nlocation or grade of any street or alley, the question shall be\n\nsubmitted to the planning commission for investigation and report.\n\nCounties and school districts may be exempted from the payment of a\n\nfee to obtain any license or permit required by a zoning, building,\n\nor similar ordinance of a municipality.\n\nB. All plans, plats, or replats of land laid out in lots or\n\nblocks, and the streets, alleys, or other portions of the same,\n\nintended to be dedicated to public or private use, within the\n\ncorporate limits of a municipality, shall first be submitted to the\n\nmunicipal planning commission for its approval or rejection. Before\n\nsaid plans, plats, or replats shall be entitled to be recorded in\n\nthe office of the county clerk, they shall be approved by the\n\nmunicipal governing body. It shall be unlawful to offer and cause\n\nto be recorded any such plan, plat, or replat in any public office\n\nunless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the\n\napproval of the municipal governing body. Any plat filed without\n\nthe endorsed approval of the municipal governing body shall not\n\nimport notice nor impose any obligation or duties on the\n\nmunicipality. The disapproval of any such plan, plat, or replat by\n\nthe municipal governing body shall be deemed a refusal of the\n\nproposed dedication shown thereon.\n\nC. The municipal planning commission may exercise jurisdiction\n\nover subdivision of land and adopt regulations governing the\n\nsubdivision of land within its jurisdiction. Any such regulations,\n\nbefore they become effective, shall be approved by the municipal\n\ngoverning body and shall be published as provided by law for the\n\npublication of ordinances. Such regulations may include provisions\n\nas to the extent to which streets and other ways shall be graded and\n\nimproved and to which water, sewer, and other utility mains, piping,\n\nor other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to\n\nthe approval of the plat. The regulations may provide for a\n\ntentative approval of the plat before such installation. Any such\n\ntentative approval shall be revocable for failure to comply with\n\ncommitments upon which the tentative approval was based and shall\n\nnot be entered on the plat. In lieu of the completion of any\n\nimprovements or utilities prior to the final approval of the plat,\n\nthe commission may accept an adequate bond with surety, satisfactory\n\nto the commission, to secure for the municipality the actual\n\nconstruction and installation of the improvements or utilities at a\n\ntime and according to specifications fixed by or in accordance with\n\nthe regulations of the commission, and further conditioned that the\n\ndeveloper will pay for all material and labor relating to the\n\nconstruction of the improvements. The municipality may enforce said\n\nbond by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. Nothing in\n\nthis section shall be construed as granting to any municipality or\n\nplanning commission the power to direct any public utility to extend\n\nits services to any particular area.\n\nD. Upon adoption of the regulations governing the subdivision\n\nof land as provided in subsection C of this section, no plat or deed\n\nor other instrument concerning the subdivision of land within the\n\ncorporate limits of a municipality shall be filed with the county\n\nclerk until it has been approved by the municipal planning\n\ncommission of that municipality in accordance with the officially\n\nadopted regulations of subdivisions of that commission. If such\n\napproval is needed, the approval shall be endorsed on the face of\nor deed\n\nor other instrument concerning the subdivision of land within the\n\ncorporate limits of a municipality shall be filed with the county\n\nclerk until it has been approved by the municipal planning\n\ncommission of that municipality in accordance with the officially\n\nadopted regulations of subdivisions of that commission. If such\n\napproval is needed, the approval shall be endorsed on the face of\n\nthe plat, or in the case of a deed or other instrument, in the form\n\nof a special subdivision certificate. If the adopted regulations\n\nexempt a certain subdivision of land from the approval requirement,\n\nthe municipal planning commission shall provide to the county clerk\n\nan exemption statement to accompany the deed or instrument to be\n\nfiled.\n\nE. A municipality which contains large areas of rural land not\n\nserved by water and sewer facilities by the municipality shall\n\nauthorize the use of private roadways in either platted or unplatted\n\nareas and shall issue building permits to property owners whose\n\nproperty is abutting upon the private roadways, without complying\n\nwith standards as provided for dedicated streets, subject to the\n\nfollowing conditions:\n\n1. The private roadway easement shall be at least fifty (50)\n\nfeet in width; and\n\n2. The property abutting upon the private roadway shall contain\n\nnot less than two (2) acres; provided, however, if the covenants of\n\nthe subdivision allow for Evapotranspiration Absorption Systems or\n\nan Aerobic Wastewater Treatment System, the property abutting upon\n\nthe private roadway may contain not less than one (1) acre; and\n\n3. The property shall be more than one-fourth (1/4) mile from\n\nsewer and water facilities furnished by the municipality; and\n\n4. The private roadway shall not be dedicated to the public but\n\nreserved for future dedication and, until such future dedication,\n\nshall be the private roadway of the owners of the abutting property;\n\nand\n\n5. The private roadway shall be maintained by the owners of the\n\nproperty within the subdivision; and\n\n6. The municipality shall have no responsibility for the\n\nmaintenance or repair of the private roadway; and\n\n7. If the property is platted, there shall be emblematized on\n\nthe face of the plat, clearly conspicuous, a notice that the streets\n\nand drives have not been dedicated to the public and that the\n\nstreets shall be maintained by the private property owners within\n\nthe subdivision. Said streets shall always be open to police, fire,\n\nand other official vehicles of all state, federal, county, and\n\nmunicipal agencies; and\n\n8. Every deed shall clearly acknowledge that the roadway is\n\nprivate and not maintained by the municipality; and\n\n9. Prior to the sale of any parcel of land in the subdivision,\n\na conspicuous sign shall be posted at the entrance to the\n\nsubdivision: “Private roadway not maintained by __________ (the\n\nmunicipality)”. At any time after the municipality permits the use\n\nof said private roadway, a petition of the owners of at least sixty\n\npercent (60%) of the area of the land to improve and dedicate the\n\nstreet shall bind all of the owners thereby to permanently improve\n\nthe street or roadway in compliance with the requirements of the\n\nmunicipality; and\n\n10. The planning commission may require the developer of such\n\nproperty to reserve appropriate utility easements for water, sewer,\n\nand any other utility installations as may be required for present\n\nand future development.","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":"5810315c0fa9763061c0781567f9b229bec030189ac1804de9c751c10e5483ff","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-45-103","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-45-106"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}