{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-666","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-666","heading":"Other improvements may come under act - Procedure","body":"Any territory in which a proceeding has been instituted or is\n\npending for construction of a single or joint or interstate, or\n\ncounty ditch, or township ditch, or underground drain, or levee, or\n\ncounty sewer, or for the cleaning of drains and water courses, or\n\nfor the removal of drifts, or for the drainage of marshes; or for\n\nany sewer district outside of a municipality, or organized under any\n\nother law of this state, may become a district or subdistrict under\n\nthis act, or may be absorbed in and amalgamated with any district\n\norganized under the terms of this act in the following manner:\n\nWhen the officials in charge of any such improvement, or in the\n\nboard of directors of any district organized under this act, which\n\nmay desire to annex or absorb such territory, petition the court in\n\nwhich such district was organized under this act, or the court\n\nhaving jurisdiction over all or part of the territory affected by\n\nthe proceedings which is desired to bring under this act, for an\n\norder making the territory affected by any of the improvements above\n\nnoted a district or subdistrict under the terms of this act, or for\n\namalgamating such territory with an existing district, organized\n\nunder the terms of this act, the court clerk shall give notice of\n\nthe pendency of said petition and of a hearing thereon in the same\n\nmanner as herein provided for notice and hearing on a petition for\n\nthe organization of a district under this act. At the time of such\n\nhearing the court shall hear the evidence and shall grant the\n\npetition or deny the same, as seems most advantageous to all the\n\ninterests affected thereby.\n\nThe court, in its order shall specify whether such territory\n\nshall be organized into a district or subdistrict under the terms of\n\nthis act, or whether it shall be absorbed in or amalgamated with an\n\nexisting district, organized under this act. Thereafter the\n\nterritory affected by said order and the improvements for which said\n\nterritory was assessed, or for which contracts have been let\n\ntherein, shall be subject to the terms of this act, and all such\n\norders and procedure shall be had, as are necessary for fulfilling\n\nthe requirements of this act; provided, that no order of the court\n\nshall be made under this section, which shall lessen the security of\n\nany issue of bonds or other obligations issued under the terms of\n\nthis or any other statute.\n\nIf a proceeding sought to be joined to or amalgamated with a\n\nproceeding under this act is under the jurisdiction of a district\n\ncourt other than the one having jurisdiction of the district\n\norganized under this act, then at such hearing the district judge or\n\njudges of the county or counties in which such ditch or other\n\nimprovements is located shall sit with the judge in whose county the\n\ndistrict was established under this act, and a majority of those\n\nsitting shall be necessary to a decision; and from such decision or\n\nfrom a failure to decide appeal may be taken.","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":"749c9d7661bf0044294ce0636f3fda14b3567254bdcfafae972c46764c2956e2","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-665","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-667"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}