2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 8. Cemeteries
§8-133. Members - Election or appointment.

The county cemetery association in each county organized under this Act shall consist of two (2) members from each commissioners' district who shall be residents of the commissioners' district from which they are selected, and qualified electors of the county, and who shall be elected at a mass meeting called by each county commissioner on the first Monday in May of each odd numbered year. Said mass meeting shall be called by each of the county commissioners upon a petition of twenty-five (25) resident citizens of the county and after the presentation of said petition to the board of county commissioners, each county commissioner shall call a mass meeting in his respective commissioners' district for the purpose of electing two (2) members of the county cemetery association. The call for such mass meeting shall be by posting notices in at least three (3) public places in the commissioners' district or by both posting notices and publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Such notices and publications shall state the purpose of the mass meeting, the time and place of holding same and such notices and/or publication must be made at least one (1) week before the date of meeting. The county commissioner shall preside at such meeting and shall certify to the county clerk the names of the two (2) members of the county cemetery association elected at said mass meeting within one (1) week after said election is held. The members so elected at said mass meeting shall hold their office for a period of two (2) years and until their successors are elected and qualified except when any county cemetery association shall be formed and organized under the provisions of this act on an even numbered year, the officers elected on such even numbered year shall hold office for a period of one (1) year and provided further that it shall not be necessary to petition the board of county commissioners to hold an election in any county in this state after such county has organized a county cemetery association pursuant to the provisions of this act, but it shall be the duty of each county commissioner in any county having a county cemetery association organized under the provisions of this Act to call an election as herein provided on each odd numbered year.

Provided, however, that if, for any reason, no election or mass meeting is held after the petition is duly filed with the board of county commissioners as hereinabove provided the county commissioner that represents the district so failing to hold an election is hereby authorized to appoint two (2) resident qualified electors from his commissioners' district as members of the county cemetery association and in such event shall certify their names to the county clerk as if they had been elected at a mass meeting and the members so appointed by any county commissioner shall have the same authority as if they had been regularly elected at a mass meeting and they shall likewise hold office for the same period of time as those elected at a mass meeting. Provided further that the county commissioners shall have the authority to fill vacancies that occur on the board of directors of said association.

Laws 1949, p. 48, § 3.