{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-637","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-637","heading":"Maintenance assessment - Apportionment - To be additional","body":"tax.\n\nTo maintain, operate and preserve the reservoirs, ditches,\n\ndrains, dams, levees, canals or other improvements made pursuant to\n\nthis act and to strengthen, repair and restore the same, when\n\nneeded, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the\n\ndistrict, the board of directors may upon the substantial completion\n\nof said improvements and on or before the first day of October in\n\neach year thereafter, levy an assessment upon each tract or parcel\n\nof land and other property, upon corporate property, within the\n\ndistrict subject to assessments under this act, to be known as a\n\n\"Conservancy Maintenance Assessment\". Said maintenance assessment\n\nshall be apportioned upon the basis of the total appraisal of\n\nbenefits accruing for the original and subsequent construction,\n\nshall not exceed one percent (1%) thereof in any one year unless the\n\ncourt shall by its order find a necessity exists and authorize an\n\nassessment of a larger percentage, and shall be certified in\n\nduplicate to the county clerk of each county in which lands of said\n\ndistrict are situated, said maintenance assessment shall be entered\n\nin the same book as general assessments but in a separate column, or\n\nin a separate book kept for the purpose of maintenance assessments\n\nand if in a separate book, it shall be entered in like manner and at\n\nthe same time as the annual installment special assessment is\n\nentered. Said county clerk shall certify the same to the treasurer\n\nof the county at the same time that he certified the annual\n\ninstallment of the bond fund, and make return thereof and shall be\n\nliable for the same penalties for failure or neglect so to do, as\n\nmay be provided herein for the annual installment of the assessment.\n\nThe amount of the maintenance tax paid by any parcel of land shall\n\nnot be credited against the benefits assessed against such parcel of\n\nland; but the maintenance special assessment shall be in addition to\n\nany special assessment that has been or can be levied against the\n\nbenefit appraisal.","path":["OK Code","Title 82"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os82.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f99847b06dcae4f92c1cbdcde3c6b795fb9b042c99bf6630ae6d60e57bdab099","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-636.1","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-638"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}