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53	53		STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55		1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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57	57		SENATE BILL 254 By: Bullard
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63	63		AS INTRODUCED
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65	65		An Act relating to public ation of legal notices;
66	66		amending 19 O.S. 2011, Section s 350 and 444, which
67	67		relate to county commissioners and publication of
68	68		proceedings; modifying certain publication
69	69		requirement; amending 25 O.S. 2011, Sections 106 and
70	70		311, as last amended by Section 4, Chapter 3, O.S.L.
71	71		2020 (25 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section 311) , which relate
72	72		to newspapers and public notices and notices of
73	73		public bodies; modifying definition; requiring
74	74		publication of certain notices on certain websites;
75	75		amending 28 O.S. 2011, Section 121, which relates to
76	76		public printing; establishing maximum rate to be
77	77		charged for certain posting; establishing
78	78		requirements for online publication of legal notices;
79	79		establishing requirements for certain electronic mail
80	80		notifications; amending 68 O.S. 2011, Se ctions 3106,
81	81		as amended by Section 5, Chapter 25, O.S.L. 2020 and
82	82		3127 (68 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section 3106), whi ch relate
83	83		to collection of delinquent taxes; modifying
84	84		frequency of certain publication requirements ;
85	85		modifying certain procedures for public notices;
86	86		updating statutory language; and providing an
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93	93		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF TH E STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
94	94		SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011 , Section 350, is
95	95		amended to read as follows:
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147	147		Section 350. The county commissioners and members of the county
148	148		excise board of each county shall designate and publish or post on a
149	149		newspaper’s website or a government website between the 1st and 20th
150	150		of January each year which holidays the county offices will be
151	151		closed.
152	152		SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011 , Section 444, is
153	153		amended to read as follows:
154	154		Section 444. It shall be the mandatory duty of the board of
155	155		county commissioners to cause to be published publish in a newspaper
156	156		published in the county, or placed on a newspaper’s website or a
157	157		government website, a full and complete report of all its official
158	158		proceedings at each regular and special meeting, except blanket
159	159		purchase orders, within the time provided for in Sections 445 and
160	160		446 of this title, and the board o f county commissioners shall pay
161	161		for the same from the appropriation as provided in this se ction.
162	162		The board of county commissioners may also order the publication of
163	163		the official proceedings in a newspaper to be printed in any other
164	164		than the English Langu age whenever it shall deem it necessary for
165	165		the better information of the inhabitants. The board of county
166	166		commissioners may omit the listing of all employees and their
167	167		salaries approved for payment in the monthly publication of
168	168		proceedings. However, it shall be the mandatory duty of the board
169	169		of county commissioners to cause to be published a full and complete
170	170		report of all the county employees and their salaries paid ann ually.
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222	222		An asterisk shall be placed in front of the names of employees paid
223	223		for less than the full twelve (12) months of the preceding calendar
224	224		year. The listing shall reflec t the gross salary o f every employee
225	225		reported to the Internal Revenue Service on the W-2 Form of the
226	226		employee. Such annual publication of the employees and their
227	227		salaries shall be published annually in th e month of February for
228	228		the preceding calendar year in a newspaper of the county which meets
229	229		the requirements set forth in Section 1 06 of Title 25 of the
230	230		Oklahoma Statutes or placed on a newspaper ’s website or a government
231	231		website.
232	232		It shall also be the man datory duty of the board of county
233	233		commissioners and the county excise board, each fiscal year, to take
234	234		such steps as may be necessa ry and proper under the statutes
235	235		relating to estimates of needs and appropriations, to appropriate,
236	236		in the General Governmen t account within the general fund of the
237	237		county, an amount sufficient to pay for the publication of all such
238	238		proceedings during the fiscal year, at the legal rate therefor, but
239	239		in no event less than the total of lega l claims for publication of
240	240		such proceedings during the immediately preceding fiscal year .
241	241		SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2011, Section 106, is
242	242		amended to read as follows:
243	243		Section 106. No legal notice, advertisement, or publicatio n of
244	244		any kind required or provided for b y the laws of this state to be
245	245		published in a newsp aper shall have forc e or effect unless published
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297	297		in a legal newspaper of the coun ty. A legal newspaper of the county
298	298		is any newspaper which, during a period of one hundred four (104)
299	299		consecutive weeks imm ediately prior to the first publication of such
300	300		notice, advertisement, or publication:
301	301		1. has Has maintained a paid general subscri ption circulation
302	302		in the county; and
303	303		2. has Has been admitted to the United States mails as paid
304	304		second-class mail matter; and
305	305		3. has Has been continuously and uninterrupted ly published in
306	306		the county. If there is no legal newspaper in a county, then all
307	307		legal notices, advertisements, or publications of any kind required
308	308		or provided for by the laws of this state shall be publ ished in a
309	309		legal newspaper in an adjoining county o f this state, which
310	310		newspaper has general circulation in the county or political
311	311		subdivision in which such notice is required ; and
312	312		4. Has maintained a newspaper Internet website or has access to
313	313		a statewide Internet website established and maintained by a press
314	314		association in Oklahoma as a repository for such legal notices .
315	315		Nothing in this section shall invalidate the publication of such
316	316		legal notices, advertisements , or publications in a newspaper which
317	317		has moved its place of publication from one location in the county
318	318		to another location in the same county without breaking the
319	319		continuity of its regular issues for the requisite length of time,
320	320		or the name of which ma y have been changed when said the change of
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372	372		location was made as permitted by United States postal laws and
373	373		regulations. Failure to issue or publish said the newspaper for a
374	374		period of fourteen (14) days due to fire, accident, or other
375	375		unforeseen cause, or by reason of the pendency of mortgage
376	376		foreclosure, attachment, execution, or other legal p roceedings
377	377		against the type, presses, or other personal property used by the
378	378		newspaper, shall not be deemed a failure to maintain continuous and
379	379		consecutive publicat ion as required by the provisions of thi s
380	380		section, nor shall said the failure invalidate th e publication of a
381	381		notice otherwise valid. Failure to issue or publish a newspap er
382	382		qualified to publish legal notices, advertisements, or publications
383	383		of any kind, for a period totaling not more than four teen (14)
384	384		consecutive days during a calendar year s hall not be deemed a
385	385		failure to maintain continuous and consecutive publication a s
386	386		required by the provisions of this section, nor shall said the
387	387		failure invalidate the publication of a notice otherwise va lid.
388	388		SECTION 4. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2011, Section 311, as last
389	389		amended by Section 4, Chapter 3, O.S.L. 2020 (25 O.S. Supp. 2020,
390	390		Section 311), is amended to read as follows:
391	391		Section 311. A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law,
392	392		all regularly scheduled, continued or reconve ned, special or
393	393		emergency meetings of public bodies shall be preceded by public
394	394		notice as follows:
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446	446		1. All public bodies shall give notice in writing by December
447	447		15 of each calendar year of the schedule sh owing the date, time and
448	448		place of the regularly sch eduled meetings of such public bodies for
449	449		the following calendar year;
450	450		2. All state public bodies, including, but not limited to,
451	451		public trusts and other bodies with the state as beneficiary, shall
452	452		give such notice to the Secretary of State;
453	453		3. All county public bodies including, but not limited to,
454	454		public trusts and any other bodies with the county as beneficiary,
455	455		shall give such notice to the county clerk of the county wherein
456	456		they are principally locat ed;
457	457		4. All municipal public bodies, including, but not limited to,
458	458		public trusts and any other bodies with the municipality as
459	459		beneficiary, shall give such notice to the municip al clerk of the
460	460		municipality wherein they are principally located;
461	461		5. All multicounty, regional, areawide or district public
462	462		bodies including, but not limited to, district boards of education,
463	463		shall give such notice to the county clerk of the county where in
464	464		they are principally located, or if no office exists, to the county
465	465		clerk of the county or counties served by such public body ;
466	466		6. All governing boards of state institutions of higher
467	467		education, and committees and subcommittees thereof, shall give such
468	468		notice to the Secretary of State. All other public bodies covered
469	469		by the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act which exis t under
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521	521		the auspices of a state institution of higher education, but a
522	522		majority of whose members are not members of the institu tion’s
523	523		governing board, shall give such notice to the county clerk of the
524	524		county wherein the institution is principally located;
525	525		7. The Secretary of State and each county clerk or municipal
526	526		clerk shall keep a record of all notices received in a register o pen
527	527		to the public for inspection during regular office hours, and, in
528	528		addition, shall make known upon any request of any person t he
529	529		contents of the register;
530	530		8. If any change is to be made of the date, time or place of
531	531		regularly scheduled meetings of publ ic bodies, then notice in
532	532		writing shall be given to the Secretary of State or county clerk or
533	533		municipal clerk, as required herein , not less than ten (10) days
534	534		prior to the implementation of any such change;
535	535		9. In addition to the advance public notice in w riting required
536	536		to be filed for regularly scheduled meetings, described in par agraph
537	537		1 of this subsection, all public bodies shal l, at least twenty-four
538	538		(24) hours prior to such regularly scheduled meetings, display
539	539		public notice of the meeting by at least one of the following
540	540		methods:
541	541		a. by posting information that includes date, t ime, place
542	542		and agenda for the meeting in prominent public view at
543	543		the principal office of the public body or at the
544	544		location of the meeting if no office exists, or
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596	596		b. by posting on the public body’s Internet website the
597	597		date, time, place and agenda for the meeting in
598	598		accordance with Section 3106.2 of Title 74 of the
599	599		Oklahoma Statutes. Additionally, the public body
600	600		shall offer and consistently maintain an email
601	601		distribution system for distribution of such notice of
602	602		a public meeting required by this subsecti on, and any
603	603		person may request to be included witho ut charge, and
604	604		their request shall be accepted. The emailed notice
605	605		of a public meeting required by this subsection shall
606	606		include in the body of the email or as an attachment
607	607		to the email the date, time, p lace and agenda for the
608	608		meeting and it shall be sen t no less than twenty -four
609	609		(24) hours prior to the meeting. Additionally, except
610	610		as provided in subparagraph c of this paragra ph, the
611	611		public body shall make the notice of a public meeting
612	612		required by this subsection available to the public in
613	613		the principal office of the public body or at the
614	614		location of the meeting during normal business hours
615	615		at least twenty–four (24) hours prio r to the meeting,
616	616		or
617	617		c. upon the effective date of this act on March 18, 2020,
618	618		and until November 15, 2020, or the Governor decla ring
619	619		the state of emergency to be terminated, whichever
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671	671		date first occurs, the public body shall not be
672	672		required to make the notice of a public me eting
673	673		available to the public in the principal office of th e
674	674		public body or at the location of the meeting dur ing
675	675		normal business hours at least twenty -four (24) hours
676	676		prior to the meeting;
677	677		10. The twenty-four (24) hours required in paragraph 9 of this
678	678		subsection shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays and holidays lega lly
679	679		declared by the State of Oklahoma. The posting or distribution of a
680	680		notice of a public meeting as described in paragraph 9 of this
681	681		subsection shall not preclude a public body from considering at its
682	682		regularly scheduled meeting any new business. “New business”, as
683	683		used herein, shall mean any matter no t known about or which could
684	684		not have been reasonably foreseen prior to the time of the posting;
685	685		11. In the event any meeting is to be continued or reconvened,
686	686		public notice of such action including date, time and place of the
687	687		continued meeting, shall be given by announcement at the original
688	688		meeting. Only matters appearing on the agenda of the meeting which
689	689		is continued may be discussed at the con tinued or reconvened
690	690		meeting;
691	691		12. Special meetings of publ ic bodies shall not be held without
692	692		public notice being given at least forty -eight (48) hours prior to
693	693		the meetings. Such public notice of date, time and place shall be
694	694		given in writing, in person or by telephonic means to the Secretary
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746	746		of State or to the county clerk or to the municipal clerk by public
747	747		bodies in the manner set forth in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of
748	748		this subsection. The public body also shall cause written notice of
749	749		the date, time and place of the meeting to be mailed or delivered to
750	750		each person, newspaper, wire service, radio station an d television
751	751		station that has filed a written request for notice of meetings of
752	752		the public body with the clerk or secretary of the public body or
753	753		with some other person designated by the public body. Such written
754	754		notice shall be mailed or delivered at lea st forty-eight (48) hours
755	755		prior to the special meeting. The public body may charge a fee of
756	756		up to Eighteen Dollars ($18.00) per year to persons o r entities
757	757		filing a written request for notice of meetings, and may require
758	758		such persons or entities to renew the request for notice annually.
759	759		In addition, all public bodies shall, at least twenty -four (24)
760	760		hours prior to such special meetings, display pu blic notice of the
761	761		meeting, setting forth thereon the date, time, place and agenda for
762	762		the meeting. Only matt ers appearing on the posted agenda may be
763	763		considered at the special meeting. Such public notice shall be
764	764		posted in prominent public view at the p rincipal office of the
765	765		public body or at the location of th e meeting if no office exists.
766	766		Twenty-four (24) hours prior public posting shall exclude Saturdays,
767	767		Sundays and holidays legally declared by the State of Oklahoma. In
768	768		lieu of the public posting r equirements of this paragraph, a public
769	769		body may elect to follow the requirements found in subparagraph b of
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821	821		paragraph 9 of this subsection, provided that forty -eight-hour
822	822		notice is required for special meetings and that the forty -eight-
823	823		hour requirement shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
824	824		legally declared by the State of Oklahoma; and
825	825		13. In the event of an emergency, an emergency meeting of a
826	826		public body may be held without the public notice heretofore
827	827		required. Should an emergency meeting of a public body be
828	828		necessary, the person calling such a meetin g shall give as much
829	829		advance public notice as is re asonable and possible under the
830	830		circumstances existing, in person or by telephonic or electronic
831	831		means.
832	832		B. 1. All agendas required pursuant to t he provisions of this
833	833		section shall identify all items of b usiness to be transacted by a
834	834		public body at a meet ing including, but not limited to, any proposed
835	835		executive session for the purpose of engaging in deliberations or
836	836		rendering a final or intermediat e decision in an individual
837	837		proceeding prescribed by the Ad ministrative Procedures Act.
838	838		2. If a public body p roposes to conduct an executive session,
839	839		the agenda shall:
840	840		a. contain sufficient information for the public to
841	841		ascertain that an executive session will be proposed,
842	842		b. identify the items of business and pu rposes of the
843	843		executive session, and
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895	895		c. state specifically the provision of Section 307 of
896	896		this title authorizing the executive session.
897	897		C. In addition to the requirements for publication of public
898	898		notice pursuant to this section , a public body or other g overnmental
899	899		entity shall publish any required notice on the website of the
900	900		public body or governmental entity , if available.
901	901		SECTION 5. AMENDATORY 28 O.S. 2011, Section 121, is
902	902		amended to read as follows:
903	903		Section 121. A. In all cases where publication of legal
904	904		notices is required or allowed by law, the person or official
905	905		desiring publication shall be required to pay:
906	906		1. For all matters other than tabular matter, fourteen c ents
907	907		($0.14) per word for first insertion, and thirte en cents ($0.13) per
908	908		word for each subsequent insertion , with each separate group of
909	909		numerals included in the matter to be counted as one word,
910	910		regardless of the num ber of digits involved;
911	911		2. Effective November 1, 2005, for all matters other than
912	912		tabular matter, fifteen cents ($0.15) per word for first insert ion,
913	913		and fourteen cents ($0.14) per word for each subsequent insertion,
914	914		with each separate group of numerals i ncluded in the matter to be
915	915		counted as one word, regardless of the number of digits involve d;
916	916		and
917	917		3. For all tabular matter, in not to exceed eig ht-point type,
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970	970		corporations whose personal property taxes are delinquent and lists
971	971		of lands and town lots upon which taxes are delinquent, sev enty
972	972		cents ($0.70) per line per newspaper column in wid th, for first
973	973		insertion, and sixty -five cents ($0.65) per line per newspaper
974	974		column in width, for each subsequ ent insertion.
975	975		B. The county treasure r shall collect the cost of publication
976	976		of lists of lands and town lots sold for delinquent taxes at
977	977		original sale or resale from the individuals purchas ing the lands
978	978		and town lots at the sale or resale involved, and s hall deposit all
979	979		monies collected to t he credit of the fund of the county which paid
980	980		the cost of publication. The publisher of the notice shall b e paid
981	981		for the publication of the notice from the general fund of the
982	982		county or, if monies are not available i n the general fund of the
983	983		county at the time of publication, from the “Resale-Property Fund”
984	984		of the county.
985	985		C. When a notice is required by statu te to be published by a
986	986		state or local governmental entity more than once and is paid for by
987	987		the entity and the cost of publication is not paid in advan ce by or
988	988		allowed to be recouped from private part ies, the governmental entity
989	989		may not be charged for the second and successive publications of th e
990	990		notice at a rate greater than fifty percent (50%) of the rate
991	991		charged for the first publication in the series .
992	992		1. If a newspaper maintains an Internet website or has access
993	993		to a statewide Internet website established and maintained by a
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1045	1045		press association that is displaying the contents of the newspaper,
1046	1046		then, at no additional charge, each notice shall be placed on the
1047	1047		newspaper’s Internet website on the same d ay that the notice appears
1048	1048		in the printed newspaper. A hyperlink to legal notices shall be
1049	1049		provided on the front page of the newspaper ’s Internet website that
1050	1050		provides access to the legal notices without charge. If there is a
1051	1051		specified size and placement required for a printed legal notice,
1052	1052		the size and placement of the notice on the newspaper ’s Internet
1053	1053		website should optimize its online visibility in keeping with the
1054	1054		print requirement. The newspaper’s Internet website shall contain a
1055	1055		search function to facilitate searching legal notices and shall
1056	1056		present the legal notices as the dominant subject matter of those
1057	1057		pages that contain such notices.
1058	1058		2. Upon request of a person, newspapers that publish notices
1059	1059		shall provide electronic mail notification to tha t person of legal
1060	1060		notices when such notices are printed in the newspaper and added to
1061	1061		the newspaper’s Internet website. The electronic mail notification
1062	1062		shall be provided without charge and notification for the electronic
1063	1063		mail registry shall be available on the front page of the legal
1064	1064		notices section of the n ewspaper’s Internet website. For any legal
1065	1065		notice required to be published more than once, electronic mail
1066	1066		notification required by this subsection shall apply only to the
1067	1067		first publication in the ser ies of that notice.
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1119	1119		3. Any error in the placement of a governmental legal notice on
1120	1120		a newspaper’s Internet website shall be considered harmless error
1121	1121		and the requirement of proper legal notice shall be deemed to have
1122	1122		been met.
1123	1123		SECTION 6. AMENDATORY 68 O.S. 2011, Section 3106, as
1124	1124		last amended by Section 5, Chapter 25, O.S.L. 2020 (68 O.S. Supp.
1125	1125		2020, Section 3106), is amended to read as follo ws:
1126	1126		Section 3106. A. Except for periods governed by the provisions
1127	1127		of subsection C of Sect ion 3148 of this title, the county treasurer,
1128	1128		according to the law, shall give notice of delinquent t axes and
1129	1129		special assessments by publication once a week for two (2)
1130	1130		consecutive weeks at any time after April 1, but prior to the end of
1131	1131		September following the year the taxes were first due and payable,
1132	1132		in some newspaper in the county to be designated by the county
1133	1133		treasurer. Such notice shall contain a notification that all lands
1134	1134		on which the taxes are delinquent and remain due and unpaid will be
1135	1135		sold in accordance with Section 3105 of this title, a list of the
1136	1136		lands to be sold, the name or names of the last record owner or
1137	1137		owners as of the preceding December 31 or later as reflected by the
1138	1138		records in the office of the county assessor, which records shall be
1139	1139		updated based on real property conveyed after Octob er 1 each year
1140	1140		and the amount of taxes due and delinquent. If the sale involves
1141	1141		property upon which is located a manufactured home the no tice shall
1142	1142		contain the following language: “The sale hereby advertised
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1194	1194		involves a manufactured home which may be subj ect to the right of a
1195	1195		secured party to reposses s. A holder of a perfected security
1196	1196		interest in such manufactured home may be able to pay ad valorem
1197	1197		taxes based upon the value of the manufactured home a part from the
1198	1198		value of real property.” In addition to said the published notice,
1199	1199		the county treasurer shall give notice by mailing to the record
1200	1200		owner of said the real property as of the prec eding December 31 or
1201	1201		later as reflected by the records in the of fice of the county
1202	1202		assessor, which records shall be up dated based on real property
1203	1203		conveyed after October 1 each year, a notice stating the amount of
1204	1204		delinquent taxes owed and informing the ow ner that the subject real
1205	1205		property will be sold as provided for in Section 3105 of this title
1206	1206		if the delinquent taxes are not paid and showing the legal
1207	1207		description of the property of the own er being sold. Failure to
1208	1208		receive said the notice shall not inva lidate said the sale. The
1209	1209		county treasurer shall charge and col lect in cash, cashier’s check
1210	1210		or money order, in addit ion to the taxes, interest and penalty, the
1211	1211		publication fees as provided by the p rovisions of Section 121 of
1212	1212		Title 28 of the Oklahoma Stat utes, and Five Dollars ($5.00) plus
1213	1213		postage for mailing the noti ce, which shall be paid into the county
1214	1214		treasury or whatever fund the publication and mailing fee exp enses
1215	1215		came from, and the county sh all pay the cost of the publication of
1216	1216		such notice. But in no case shall the county be liable for more
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1268	1268		than the amount charged to the delinquent lands for advertising and
1269	1269		the cost of mailing.
1270	1270		B. If personal property taxe s become delinquent on a
1271	1271		manufactured home which is located on property not owned by the
1272	1272		owner of the manufactured home and the county treasurer provides
1273	1273		notice pursuant to Sections 3102 and 3103 of this title , such notice
1274	1274		shall also be sent to the last -known address of the owner of the
1275	1275		real property on which the manufactured home is located.
1276	1276		SECTION 7. AMENDATORY 68 O. S. 2011, Section 3127, is
1277	1277		amended to read as follows:
1278	1278		Section 3127. The county treasurer, according to the law, shall
1279	1279		give notice of the resale of such real estate by publication of said
1280	1280		the notice once a week for four (4) two (2) consecutive weeks
1281	1281		preceding such sale, in some newspaper, or newspaper Internet
1282	1282		website as described in Section 106 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma
1283	1283		Statutes, having been continuously published one hundred four (104)
1284	1284		consecutive weeks with admission to the United States mails as
1285	1285		second-class mail matter, with paid circulation and published in the
1286	1286		county where delivered to the mails, to be designated by the county
1287	1287		treasurer; and if there be no paper published in the county, or
1288	1288		publication is refused, the county treasurer shall give noti ce by
1289	1289		written or printed notice posted on the door of the courthous e.
1290	1290		Such notice shall contain a de scription of the real estate to be
1291	1291		sold, the name of the record owner of said the real estate as of the
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1343	1343		preceding December 3l or later as shown by the reco rds in the office
1344	1344		of the county assessor, which records shall be up dated based on real
1345	1345		property conveyed after October 1 each year, the time and place of
1346	1346		sale, a statement of the date on which said the real estate taxes
1347	1347		first became due and payable as prov ided for in Section 2913 of this
1348	1348		title, the year or years for which taxes have been assessed but
1349	1349		remain unpaid and a statement that the same has not been redeemed,
1350	1350		the total amount of all deli nquent taxes, costs, penalties and
1351	1351		interest accrued, due and unp aid on the same, and a statement that
1352	1352		such real estate will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. It
1353	1353		shall not be necessary to set forth the amount of taxes, penalties,
1354	1354		interest and costs a ccrued each year separately, but it shall be
1355	1355		sufficient to publish the total amount of all due and unpaid taxes,
1356	1356		penalties, interest and costs. The county treasurer shall, at least
1357	1357		thirty (30) days prior to such resale of real estate, give notice by
1358	1358		certified mail, by mailing to the record owner of said the real
1359	1359		estate, as shown by the records in the county assessor’s office,
1360	1360		which records shall be updated based on r eal property conveyed after
1361	1361		October 1 each year, and to all mortgagees of record of said the
1362	1362		real estate a notice stating the time and place of said the resale
1363	1363		and showing the legal description of the real property to be s old.
1364	1364		If the county treasurer does not know and cannot, by the exercise of
1365	1365		reasonable diligence, ascertain the address of any mortgagee of
1366	1366		record, then the county treasurer shall cause an a ffidavit to be
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1418	1418		filed with the county clerk, on a form approved by t he State Auditor
1419	1419		and Inspector, stating such fact, which affidavit shall suffice,
1420	1420		along with publication as provided for by t his section, to give any
1421	1421		mortgagee of record notice of such resa le. Neither failure to send
1422	1422		notice to any mortgagee of record of said the real estate nor
1423	1423		failure to receive notice as provided for by this section shall
1424	1424		invalidate the resale, but the resale tax deed shall be ineffective
1425	1425		to extinguish any mortgage on said the real estate of a mortgagee to
1426	1426		whom no notice was sent. Begin ning on April 24, 2008, no
1427	1427		encumbrancer of real property in this state shall be permitted to
1428	1428		file any instrument purporting t o encumber real property in any
1429	1429		county of the state with any cou nty clerk unless the instrument
1430	1430		states on its face the mailing addr ess of such encumbrancer.
1431	1431		SECTION 8. This act shall become effective November 1, 20 21.
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