2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74. State Government
§74-5220. Striking out or correcting of land description – Enlarging and contracting of geographical limits – Application for exclusion – Consent to organization or establishment of municipality – Furnishing of telephone service and electric power to annexed areas.

A. The Board of Directors may at any time strike out or correct the description of any land within or claimed to be within the boundary lines of any spaceport territory upon the consent and writing of the owners of all the land that would be included or excluded from the boundary lines of any spaceport territory or otherwise affected by the taking of such action, and of the owners of not less than the majority in acreage of all lands within any spaceport territory. The Board may enlarge the geographical limits of any spaceport territory to include lands not then within any spaceport territory as follows:

1. Upon the written consent of the simple majority of owners of all the land to be included in any spaceport territory and of not less than a majority in acreage of all the land then within any spaceport territory; or

2. By resolution of the Board approved at a special election called for such purpose, by vote of a majority of landowners residing within the area to be annexed and a majority of landowners residing within any spaceport territory.

B. The Board may contract the geographical limits of any spaceport territory so as to exclude from any spaceport territory any land then within any spaceport territory as follows:

1. Upon the written consent of the owners of all of the land to be so excluded and of the owners of not less than a majority in acreage of all the land within any spaceport territory;

2. By resolution of the Board approved at a special election called for any purposes, by vote of a majority of landowners residing within the area to be excluded and a majority of the landowners residing within any spaceport territory; or

3. By resolution of the Board approved by the owners of not less than a majority in acreage of the land within the spaceport territory.

C. Any owner of land located within the geographic limits of the spaceport territory may within ninety (90) days following the initial meeting of the Board, held pursuant to Section 7 of this act, make written application to the Board to have the land of such owner excluded from the boundaries of the spaceport territory. In the event such written application is made within the ninety-day period, the Board shall exclude the land of such owner from the spaceport territory and revise the boundaries thereof accordingly. No application under this subsection shall be granted if made later than the ninety-day period.

D. Nothing in this section shall permit the annexation or exclusion of lands contrary to the terms, covenants or conditions of any of the bonds or obligations of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority, or in any manner that would impair the security of the holders of any bonds or other obligations of the Authority.

E. No town, city or other municipality having any of the powers of the Authority, or any like powers, shall hereafter be organized or established by any proceedings under the general laws of this state if upon such organization or establishment the territorial limits of such municipality would lie wholly or partly within the geographic boundaries of any spaceport territory, except upon the consent in writing given by the owners of a majority in acreage of the lands within such spaceport territory proposed to be so incorporated within such municipality. No land within the geographic boundaries of any spaceport territory shall be annexed to or incorporated by any proceeding under any general or special law, now or hereafter enacted into any town, city or other municipality, now existing or hereafter created, except upon the consent in writing given by the owners of a majority in acreage of the lands within such spaceport territory to be so annexed or incorporated.

F. In the event that the geographic boundaries of the spaceport territory, as set forth in Section 13 of this act, are revised so as to include within the spaceport territory any areas not presently contained within the spaceport territory, the Authority shall not engage in the business of furnishing telephone service in such annexed area unless the Authority offers to purchase from any telephone company that is at the time engaged in the business of furnishing telephone service within such annexed area such portion of its plant and property suitable and used for such business in connection therewith as lies within the limits of such annexed area.

G. In the event that the geographic limits of the spaceport territory, as set forth in Section 13 of this act, are revised so as to include within any spaceport territory any areas not presently contained within any spaceport territory, the Authority shall not engage in the business of furnishing electric power for sale in such annexed area, unless the Authority offers to purchase from any person who is at the time engaged in the business of making, generating or distributing electricity for sale within such annexed area, such portion of its electric plant and property suitable and used for business in connection therewith as lies within the limits of such annexed area.

Added by Laws 1999, c. 164, § 20, eff. July 1, 1999.