{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-62-62-373","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 62-373","heading":"Taxpayer may institute suit on failure of officers","body":"Upon the refusal, failure, or neglect of the proper officers of\n\nthe state or of any county, city, town, or school district, after\n\nwritten demand signed, verified and served upon them by a number of\n\nregistered voters of the state or such county, city, town, or school\n\ndistrict equal to one hundred (100), or two and one-half percent (2\n\n1/2%) of the registered voters living within the state or such\n\ncounty, city, town or school district, whichever is less, to\n\ninstitute or diligently prosecute proper proceedings at law or in\n\nequity for the recovery of any money or property belonging to the\n\nstate, or such county, city, town, or school district, paid out or\n\ntransferred by any officer thereof in pursuance of any unauthorized,\n\nunlawful, fraudulent, or void contract made, or attempted to be\n\nmade, by any of its officers for the state or any such county, city,\n\ntown, or school district, any resident taxpayer of the state or such\n\ncounty, city, town, or school district affected by such payment or\n\ntransfer after serving the notice aforesaid and after giving\n\nsecurity for cost, may in the name of the State of Oklahoma as\n\nplaintiff, institute and maintain any proper action which the proper\n\nofficers of the state, county, city, town, or school district might\n\ninstitute and maintain for the recovery of such property; and the\n\nstate or such county, city, town or school district shall in such\n\nevent be made defendant. If a court of competent jurisdiction\n\ndetermines the claims to be meritorious, the contract shall be\n\ndeemed void and the money or property, if previously transferred,\n\nshall be returned to the state, county, city, town or school\n\ndistrict. The state, county, city, town or school district shall be\n\nliable to the resident taxpayer or taxpayers for reasonable attorney\n\nfees and court costs incurred in the prosecution of the action. If\n\nall claims stated by the resident taxpayers in the written demand\n\nare determined in a court of competent jurisdiction to be frivolous,\n\nthe resident taxpayers who signed such demand and who are parties to\n\nthe lawsuit in which such claims are determined to be frivolous\n\nshall be jointly and severally liable for all reasonable attorney\n\nfees and court costs incurred by any public officer or officers or\n\nany other person alleged in such demand to have paid out,\n\ntransferred, or received any money or property belonging to the\n\nstate, or such county, city, town or school district in pursuance of\n\nany alleged unauthorized, unlawful, fraudulent, or void claim paid\n\nor contract or conveyance made, or attempted to be made, by such\n\nofficer or officers.","path":["OK Code","Title 62"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os62.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"2e873f052fc0b26b9a88c20731529cd6b69257014941c32240419a0a876c42a7","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-62-62-372","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-62-62-374"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}