{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-46-104","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-46-104","heading":"Public improvements and plats of land - Regional","body":"planning commission review - Rural land not served by municipal\n\nwater and sewer facilities - Punishment for violation.\n\nA. Before final action shall be taken by any municipal or\n\ncounty government or department thereof on the location and design\n\nof any public buildings, statue, memorial, park, parkway, boulevard,\n\nplayground, public grounds, or bridge, within such regional\n\ndistrict, the question shall be submitted to the regional planning\n\ncommission for investigation and report.\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 such\n\nregional district, shall first be submitted to the regional planning\n\ncommission and approved by it before it shall be entitled to record\n\nin the office of the county clerk. It shall be unlawful to receive\n\nor record any such plat, plan or replat in any public office unless\n\nthe same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the\n\napproval of the regional planning commission. The disapproval of\n\nany such plan, plat or replat by the regional planning commission\n\nshall be deemed a refusal of the proposed dedication shown thereon.\n\nC. In any regional district which contains large areas of rural\n\nland not served by water and sewer facilities by any governmental\n\nentity, the use of private roadways in either platted or unplatted\n\nareas shall be recognized and authorized and building permits to\n\nproperty owners abutting upon the private roadways shall be issued\n\nwithout complying with standards as provided for dedicated streets\n\nunder the following conditions:\n\n1. The private roadway easement shall be at least fifty (50)\n\nfeet in width;\n\n2. The property abutting the private roadway shall contain not\n\nless than two (2) acres;\n\n3. The property shall be more than one-fourth (1/4) mile from\n\nsewer and water facilities furnished by the governmental entity;\n\n4. The private roadway shall not be dedicated to the public but\n\nreserved for future dedication and, until such future dedication, be\n\nthe private roadway of the abutting property owners;\n\n5. The private roadway shall be maintained by the owners of the\n\nproperty within the subdivision;\n\n6. No municipality or county shall have responsibility for the\n\nmaintenance and repair of the private roadway;\n\n7. If the property is platted, there shall be emblemized on the\n\nface of the plat, clearly conspicuous, a notice that the streets and\n\ndrives have not been dedicated to the public, and that the streets\n\nshall be maintained by the private property owners within the\n\nsubdivision, but that the streets shall always be open to police,\n\nfire, and other official vehicles of all state, federal, county and\n\nmunicipal agencies;\n\n8. Every deed shall clearly acknowledge that the roadway is\n\nprivate and not maintained by any municipality or county;\n\n9. Prior to the sale of any parcel in the subdivision, a\n\nconspicuous sign shall be posted at the entrance to the subdivision:\n\n\"Private roadway not maintained by __________ (the municipality or\n\ncounty).\" At any time after use of such private roadway is\n\nrecognized and authorized pursuant to law, a petition of at least\n\nsixty percent (60%) of the owners, in area, to improve and dedicate\n\nthe street shall bind all of the owners thereby to permanently\n\nimprove the street or roadway in compliance with the applicable\n\nrequirements of the municipality or county. All other ordinances\n\nand planning commission regulations pursuant to the provisions of\n\nthis article relating to subdivisions not in conflict herewith shall\n\nbe applicable in such cases. The provisions of any ordinance,\n\nplanning commission regulation or statute relating to subdivisions\n\nwhich are in conflict with this section are hereby superseded; and\n\n10. The planning commission may require the developer of such\ns\n\nand planning commission regulations pursuant to the provisions of\n\nthis article relating to subdivisions not in conflict herewith shall\n\nbe applicable in such cases. The provisions of any ordinance,\n\nplanning commission regulation or statute relating to subdivisions\n\nwhich are in conflict with this section are hereby superseded; 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.\n\nD. Any person, partnership or corporation violating any of the\n\nprovisions of Sections 46-101 through 46-104 of this title, upon\n\nconviction thereof, shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars\n\n($200.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or\n\nimprisoned in the county jail for a term not less than thirty (30)\n\ndays, nor more than six (6) months, or may be subjected to both such\n\nfine and imprisonment.","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":"e22226a4cdc9d2b702b468950378092fb384f7efe2fe352ae1e1e26efe999eec","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-46-103","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-46-105"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}