{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1403","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 69-1403","heading":"Public utilities on state highways - Notice of","body":"improvement or construction of highway - Location and removal of\n\nfacilities.\n\nA. The location and removal of all telephone, telegraph,\n\nelectric light and power transmission lines, poles, wires and\n\nconduits, water, sewers and all pipelines erected, constructed or in\n\nplace upon, across or under any state highway shall be under the\n\ncontrol and supervision of the Department of Transportation; and the\n\nlocation and removal of any facility placed under rights granted\n\nhereunder on county highways shall be under the jurisdiction of the\n\nparticular board of county commissioners involved insofar as same\n\naffects the public travel or interferes with the construction and\n\nmaintenance of such highway.\n\nB. Prior to conducting the design survey for a proposed\n\nimprovement, construction, or reconstruction of a highway, the\n\nauthority having jurisdiction over the highway shall notify any\n\nperson, firm, or corporation overseeing the operating or maintaining\n\nof any facility within the proposed project boundaries. Upon\n\nreceipt of notice or from a date specified in the notice, the\n\nperson, firm, or corporation shall have ten (10) days to locate and\n\nmark the facilities.\n\nC. Whenever the authority having jurisdiction over a particular\n\nhighway plans an improvement or construction or reconstruction of\n\nthe highway, and before the work is started, it shall serve a\n\nwritten notice upon the person, firm or corporation owning or\n\nmaintaining any such facility, which notice shall contain a plan or\n\nchart indicating the places on the right-of-way where the facilities\n\nmay be maintained. The notice shall state the time when the work of\n\nimproving the highway is proposed to commence, and a reasonable time\n\nshall be allowed to the owner of the facility to remove and relocate\n\nits property. The effect of any change ordered by the public\n\nauthority shall not be to exclude the facilities from the right-of-\n\nway of highways.\n\nD. The removal and relocation of all the facilities located\n\nwithin the public right-of-way prior to the planned improvement,\n\nconstruction or reconstruction shall be made at the cost and expense\n\nof the owners, unless otherwise provided by law or order of the\n\nDepartment of Transportation, and in the event of the failure of\n\nsuch owners to remove the same at the time set out in the notice,\n\nthey may be removed by the public authority and the cost of the\n\nremoval collected from the owners, and the authority shall not be\n\nliable in any way to any person for the locating or relocating of\n\nthe facilities at the places prescribed. Any corporation or\n\nassociation, or the officers or agents of such corporation or\n\nassociation, or any other person who shall erect or maintain any\n\nsuch lines, poles, wires, conduits, pipelines, equipment or other\n\nfacilities within the right-of-way of such highways in a manner not\n\nin complete accordance with the orders of the respective public\n\nauthority shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\nE. The Department of Transportation may promulgate such rules\n\nas it may deem necessary for the planting of trees and shrubbery and\n\nparking along such state highways.\n\nF. Rural water districts, nonprofit water corporations, and all\n\nmunicipally owned utilities serving municipalities with a population\n\nof ten thousand (10,000) or less, according to the latest Federal\n\nDecennial Census, or their beneficial trusts shall be exempt from\n\nthe payment of the costs and expenses for the removal and relocation\n\nof municipally owned utilities constructed or in place in the public\n\nright-of-way when the removal and relocation of such facilities is\n\nnecessary for the improvement, construction or reconstruction of any\n\nroad or highway which is part of the state highway system or\n\nturnpike project as defined in subsection A of Section 501 and\ne payment of the costs and expenses for the removal and relocation\n\nof municipally owned utilities constructed or in place in the public\n\nright-of-way when the removal and relocation of such facilities is\n\nnecessary for the improvement, construction or reconstruction of any\n\nroad or highway which is part of the state highway system or\n\nturnpike project as defined in subsection A of Section 501 and\n\nSection 1705 of this title. Any costs and expenses, including any\n\nunpaid on July 1, 1990, shall be paid by the public authority having\n\njurisdiction over the particular road or highway.","path":["OK Code","Title 69"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os69.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"eacbd118e9b016c4fccd775e32b4a1e8713cf933a20611c3570d83e506f4291a","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1402","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-1501"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}