2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 11. Cities and Towns
§11-16-103.1. Withholding certain monies from city or town that fails to hold municipal election or biennial town meeting.

No monies shall be distributed pursuant to Section 1104 of Title 47 and Section 504 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes to any incorporated city or town which has failed to hold a general or special municipal election to elect officers as provided in Section 16-101 et seq. of this title or a biennial town meeting as provided by the Oklahoma Town Meeting Act, on the dates required by law for four (4) or more years, if a general or special municipal election, or for two consecutive biennial town meetings. Such monies shall be remitted to the county in which the incorporated city or town is located and deposited to the county highway fund of that county to be used as otherwise provided by law. An incorporated city or town shall henceforth send the county treasurer of the county in which it is located and the chairman of the Oklahoma Tax Commission, or a persondesignated by the Oklahoma Tax Commission to receive service of process, a copy of the municipality's notice of a biennial town meeting or resolution calling for its regular municipal elections, whichever is appropriate. The copy of the resolution shall include a notation by the county election board showing that the resolution was received and the date it was received.

Added by Laws 1984, c. 126, § 30, eff. Nov. 1, 1984. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 75, § 2, eff. July 1, 1987; Laws 1988, c. 105, § 22, eff. Nov. 1, 1988; Laws 1988, c. 152, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.