An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1064 By: Boles, Burns and Bell of
the House
and
Kidd of the Senate
An Act relating to counties and county officers;
amending 19 O.S. 2011, Sections 180.58, 180.59,
180.62, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 27, O.S.L.
2019, 180.63 and 180.68, as amended by Section 2,
Chapter 27, O.S.L. 2019 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020 , Sections
180.62 and 180.68), which relate to salary and
compensation; modifying applicability; modifying
description of certain property; modifying valuation
of certain property; increasing certain base salary
range; requiring increase in county officer salary;
reformulating salary increase ca lculation; updating
description of certain property ; modifying date
changes in salaries shall take effect; repealing 19
O.S. 2011, Sections 180.64A, 180.71, 180.72, 180.73,
180.74, as amended by Section 3, Chapter 27, O.S.L.
2019, 180.75, 180.76, 180.77, 180.78, 180.79, 180.80,
180.81, 180.82 and 180.83, as amended by Section 4,
Chapter 27, O.S.L. 2019 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020 , Sections
180.74 and 180.83), which relate to salary and
compensation; and providing an effective date.
SUBJECT: Counties and county officers
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011 , Section 180.58, is
amended to read as follows:
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Section 180.58 A. Sections 180.58 through 180.68 of this title
shall apply to all counties which do not approve an exemption of
household goods of the heads of families and livestock employed in
support of the family from ad valorem taxation pursuant to the
provisions of Section 6 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution .
B. The purpose of Sections 180.58 through 180.68 of this title
is to codify and revise the laws of the state relating to the
salaries and wages of county officers and their deputies and
employees, and to establish said salaries and wages by general law
applicable throughout the state under a uniform schedule fixing such
salaries and wages and future increases and reductions thereof upon
the following bases:
1. The available revenues of the several counties out of which
such salaries and wages may be paid;
2. The amount of services required to be performed;
3. The monetary value of such services in relation to that of
nongovernmental services of similar nature in the areas wherein such
services are performed; and
4. The relative amounts of services required of the various
county officers, their deputies and employees upon investigation and
full consideration of the applicable facts .
C. The Legislature has determined that the foregoing bases of
such schedule gradations generally are cognate to the combination of
the following factors:
1. The net gross assessed valuation of all tangible taxable
property of the county (total taxable valuation less homestead
exemption allowances except those additional homestead exemptions
authorized and allowed pursuant to Section 2890 of Title 68 of the
Oklahoma Statutes), hereinafter referred to as "service-ability";
and
2. The population of the county, hereinafter referred to as the
"service-load".
The application of said factors properly establishes a rational and
relevant formula for uniformity of salaries and wages and of future
increases and decreases thereof.
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SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011, Section 180.59, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 180.59 The net gross assessed total tangible property
valuation for ad valorem tax purposes in each county, or service -
ability factor, shall be determined from the co unty assessor's
certificate of such valuations as filed with the excise board of the
county for the purpose of computation of ad valorem tax levies of
each year, and no subsequent amendments thereto to effect an
increase or decrease in such valuations shal l have any effect for
such year whatsoever.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011, Section 180.62, as
amended by Section 1, Chapter 27, O.S.L. 2019 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020,
Section 180.62), is amended to read as follows:
Section 180.62 A. The basic salaries of county officers upon
which all salaries and future increases or decreases thereof shall
not be less than Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($19,000.00) per annum
nor shall they exceed Forty-four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($44,500.00) Forty-nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($49 ,500.00)
per annum.
B. The board of county commissioners, or if the county has
elected to come under the County Budget Act, the budget board
members of the county, shall set the salaries for all elected coun ty
officials within the limits allowed by law.
C. The annual salaries fixed by this act shall be paid either
monthly or twice a month, by order of the board of county
commissioners, for each month or fraction thereof the incumbent
lawfully occupies and h olds title to such office.
SECTION 4. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011, Section 180.63, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 180.63 In every county in this state, the salary of all
county officers named in paragraph 1 of Section 180.6 1 of this title
may shall be increased from the applicable basic salary named in
Section 180.62 of this title, for net gross assessed valuation or
serviceability, according to the following scale:
A. To the basic salary:
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1. Add the product of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) times each
One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) net gross assessed valuation, or
major fraction thereof , until a net gross assessed valuation of
Seventy-five Million Dollars ($75,000,000.00) is reached;
2. Thereafter add the product o f One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
times each additional Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) net gross
assessed valuation, or major fraction thereof , until a net gross
assessed valuation of Five Hundred Million Dollars ($500,000,000.00)
is reached;
3. Thereafter add the product of One Hundred Twenty -five
Dollars ($125.00) times each additional Seven Million Dollars
($7,000,000.00) net gross assessed valuation, or major fraction
thereof, until a net gross assessed valuation of Two Billion Dollars
($2,000,000,000.00) is reached; and
4. Thereafter as to all additional net gross assessed valuation
add the product of One Hundred Twenty -five Dollars ($125.00) times
each additional Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) net gross
assessed valuation, or major fra ction thereof.
B. Also, the salary of each county officer shall be
additionally increased from the basic salary named in Section 180.62
of this title, and the additions thereto heretofore provided in this
section, for population or service load according to the following
scale:
1. The product of Twelve Dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) times
each one thousand (1,000) population, or major fraction thereof ,
until a population of seventy -five thousand (75,000) is reached;
thereafter;
2. The product of Twe lve Dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) times
each additional five thousand (5,000) population, or major fraction
thereof, until a population of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000)
is reached; thereafter add ; and
3. The product of Twelve Dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) times
each additional ten thousand (10,000) population, or major fraction
thereof.
C. This section shall not reduce the present salary of any
county officer in Oklahoma during their present term of office.
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SECTION 5. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011, Section 180.68, as
amended by Section 2, Chapter 27, O.S.L. 2019 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020 ,
Section 180.68), is amended to read as follows:
Section 180.68 The date on which changes in the salaries and
rates of pay for county offic ers and their deputies, aides and
assistants under this act due to changes in population or, gross
assessed valuation or both population and gross assessed valuation
in any county shall take effect , shall be as of, on and or after the
first day of January July based upon the population as shown by the
latest Federal Decennial Census for the State of Oklahoma, and the
total net gross assessed valuations of tangible taxable properties
for such fiscal year as shown by the official certificate which the
county assessor files with the county excise board for the purpose
of computing appropriations and levies for such current fiscal year.
SECTION 6. REPEALER 19 O.S. 2011, Sections 180.64A,
180.71, 180.72, 180.73, 180.74, as amended by Sect ion 3, Chapter 27,
O.S.L. 2019, 180.75, 180.76, 180.77, 180.78, 180.79, 180.80, 180.81,
180.82 and 180.83, as amended by Section 4, Chapter 27, O.S.L. 2019
(19 O.S. Supp. 2020, Sections 180.74 and 180.83), are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 7. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 1st day of March, 2021.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 13th day of April, 2021.
Presiding Officer of the Sena te
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________