{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-667","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-667","heading":"Annexation of additional land to a master conservancy","body":"district.\n\nAdditional territory may be annexed to a master conservancy\n\ndistrict in the following manner:\n\n(a) A petition praying for such annexation signed by fifty or a\n\nmajority of the qualified voters residing in the territory and who\n\nown taxable property therein, and who duly rendered the same for\n\ntaxes to the county or counties, (if not situated within a city or\n\ntown), shall be filed with the board of directors of the master\n\nconservancy district. The petition shall describe the territory by\n\nmetes and bounds or by other appropriate description, unless such\n\nterritory is the same as that of a city or town, in which event it\n\nshall be sufficient to state that the territory to be annexed is the\n\nsame as that which is contained within such city or town.\n\n(b) If the board of directors finds that the petition is signed\n\nby the required number of qualified persons and otherwise complies\n\nwith the foregoing subsection, that the annexation would be to the\n\ninterest of the territory and the master conservancy district, and\n\nthat the master conservancy district will be able to render service\n\nto the territory, it shall, provided a majority of all the board\n\nmembers vote in favor thereof, adopt a resolution stating the\n\nconditions, if any, under which such territory may be annexed to the\n\nmaster conservancy district, and declaring its intention to call an\n\nelection in the territory for the purpose of submitting the\n\nproposition of whether or not such territory shall be annexed to the\n\nmaster conservancy district, and fixing a time and place when and\n\nwhere a hearing shall be held on the question of whether the\n\nterritory will be benefited by the improvements, works and\n\nfacilities then owned and operated by the master conservancy\n\ndistrict. Railroad right-of-way, transmission lines and other\n\nproperty of telephone and telegraph and electric and gas utilities\n\nwhich are not situated within the defined limits of an incorporated\n\ncity or town that will not be benefited by improvements, works and\n\nfacilities which the master conservancy district is authorized to\n\nconstruct; therefore, no railroad right-of-way, or transmission\n\nlines, or other property of electric and gas utilities or right-of-\n\nway or other property and facilities of telephone and telegraph\n\nutilities shall thereafter be annexed to the master conservancy\n\ndistrict except such right-of-way, transmission lines and other\n\nproperty of electric and gas utilities as are contained within the\n\nlimits of an incorporated city or town then or thereafter annexed to\n\nthe master conservancy district.\n\n(c) Notice of the adoption of such resolution stating the time\n\nand place of such hearing, addressed to the citizens and owners of\n\nproperty in such territory shall be published once each week for\n\nthree (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper designated by the board\n\nof directors and having a general circulation in the territory, the\n\nlast publication to be at least ten (10) days prior to the date of\n\nsuch hearing. The notice shall describe the territory in the same\n\nmanner as hereinabove required or permitted for the petition. If no\n\nnewspaper is published in the territory to be annexed, it shall be\n\nsufficient if notices are posted at five public places therein and\n\npublished as aforesaid in a newspaper having general circulation in\n\nthe territory. The secretary shall also mail notice of such hearing\n\naddressed to the Mayor and governing body of each constituent city\n\nat least thirty (30) days prior to the hearing.\n, it shall be\n\nsufficient if notices are posted at five public places therein and\n\npublished as aforesaid in a newspaper having general circulation in\n\nthe territory. The secretary shall also mail notice of such hearing\n\naddressed to the Mayor and governing body of each constituent city\n\nat least thirty (30) days prior to the hearing.\n\n(d) All interested persons who reside in the master conservancy\n\ndistrict or in the territory seeking annexation may appear at such\n\nhearing and offer evidence for or against the intended annexation.\n\nSuch hearing shall proceed in such order and under such rules as may\n\nbe prescribed by the board of directors, and the hearing may be\n\nrecessed from time to time. If at the conclusion of the hearing,\n\nthe board of directors finds that all or a part of the lands in such\n\nterritory will be benefited by the present or contemplated\n\nimprovements, works or facilities of the master conservancy\n\ndistrict, it shall adopt a resolution calling an election in the\n\nterritory to be annexed, stating therein the date of the election,\n\nthe place or places of holding the same and appointing a presiding\n\njudge for each voting place, who shall appoint the necessary\n\nassistant judges and clerks to assist in holding the election.\n\n(e) Notice of said election, stating the date thereof, the\n\nproposition to be voted upon and the conditions under which the\n\nterritory may be annexed, or making reference to the resolution of\n\nthe board of directors for that purpose, and the place or places for\n\nholding the same, shall be published once each week for three (3)\n\nconsecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the territory to be\n\nannexed and designated by the board of directors, the last\n\npublication to be at least ten (10) days before the day set for the\n\nelection. If no newspaper is published in the territory to be\n\nannexed, it shall be sufficient if notices are posted at five public\n\nplaces therein and published as aforesaid in a newspaper having\n\ngeneral circulation in the territory.\n\n(f) Only qualified electors who reside in such territory, who\n\nown taxable property therein, and who have duly rendered the same\n\nfor taxes to the county or counties, in which it is situated (if not\n\nsituated within a city or town), shall be qualified to vote in said\n\nelection. Returns of said election shall be made to the board of\n\ndirectors.\n\n(g) The board of directors shall canvass the returns of the\n\nelection and adopt a resolution declaring the results thereof. If\n\nsuch resolution shows that a majority of the votes cast are in favor\n\nof annexation to the master conservancy district, such annexation\n\nshall thereafter be incontestable except in the manner and within\n\nthe time for contesting elections under the general election laws. A\n\ncertified copy of said order shall be recorded in the deed records\n\nof the county and/or counties in which a territory is situated.\n\n(h) In calling an election on the proposition for annexation of\n\nterritory, the board of directors may include as a part of the same\n\nproposition the assumption of its part of any obligations of the\n\nmaster conservancy district then outstanding and in force, and, in\n\nthe case of bonds, those theretofore voted but not yet sold, and for\n\nthe levy of ad valorem taxes on taxable property in said territory\n\non the same basis as taxes are levied in the remainder of the master\n\nconservancy district for the payment of such tax obligations. If\n\nthe proposition thus submitted carries by a majority vote, the\n\neffect thereof shall be the same as that resulting from the separate\n\nassumption election provided for in the next succeeding subparagraph\n\n(i).\nad valorem taxes on taxable property in said territory\n\non the same basis as taxes are levied in the remainder of the master\n\nconservancy district for the payment of such tax obligations. If\n\nthe proposition thus submitted carries by a majority vote, the\n\neffect thereof shall be the same as that resulting from the separate\n\nassumption election provided for in the next succeeding subparagraph\n\n(i).\n\n(i) After territory is added to the master conservancy district,\n\nthe board of directors of the master conservancy district shall call\n\nan election over the entire master conservancy district for the\n\npurpose of determining whether the entire master conservancy\n\ndistrict as enlarged shall assume the taxes and obligations then\n\noutstanding and in force, and, in the case of bonds, those\n\ntheretofore voted but not yet sold, and whether ad valorem taxes\n\nshall be levied, on the basis of benefits, upon all taxable property\n\nwithin the master conservancy district as enlarged for the payment\n\nthereof, unless such proposition is favorably voted along with the\n\nannexation election and becomes lawfully binding upon the territory\n\nannexed. Notice of the elections provided for in this and the next\n\npreceding subparagraph (h) shall be given and said election shall be\n\nheld in the same manner as elections for the issuance of bonds as\n\nprovided in the Conservancy Act of Oklahoma.","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":"c2bde7706814c4cb5dbfeb5bf43dab07040b15109188ff392ae2c8e7ccd20ce9","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-666","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-82-82-668"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}