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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 616 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to local bond elections; amending 11
O.S. 2011, Section 16 -112, as amended by Section 4,
Chapter 380, O.S.L. 2015 (11 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section
16-112), which relates to municipal special
elections; modifying date when certain special
elections may be conducted; amending 70 O.S. 2011,
Section 15-102, which relates to educa tion bond
elections; specifying date on which certain el ections
may be conducted; updating statutory language;
providing an effective date ; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 11 O.S. 2011, Section 16 -112, as
amended by Section 4, Chapter 380, O.S.L. 2015 (11 O.S. Supp. 20 20,
Section 16-112), is amended to read as follows:
Section 16-112. When the municipal governing body shall deem it
advisable, it may, b y resolution or ordinance, authorize the mayor
to call a special election on a date established in Section 3 -101 of
Title 26 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the purpose of submitting to
the registered voters of the municipality the question of issuing
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municipal bonds, of granting of any franchise, or for any other
purpose authorized by law.
Notwithstanding any other law, f or purposes of submitting to the
registered voters of the municipality t he question of issuing
municipal bonds or any tax, the governing bod y may, by resolution
ordinance, authorize the mayor to call a special election on a state
or federal election day in November in an odd or even -numbered year.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2011, Section 15 -102, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 15-102. The Notwithstanding any other law, the board of
education shall call an election to be held on a state or federal
election day in November in an odd or even -numbered year, and to be
conducted by the county election board in all respects as other
elections, for the purpose of t aking the sense of the district upon
the question of issuing such bonds, naming in the proclamation of
such election the amount of bonds to be voted on and the purpose for
which they are to be issued; and i t shall cause to be published in a
newspaper of general circulation in said the district the time and
place of such election, such notices to be given at least ten (10)
days before such election. In all instances where proclamations for
elections for boards of education are required by statute of the
mayor of a city, and in all instances where elections for boards of
education are provided for by statute wherein the mayor and city
clerk are denominated, the president of the board of education shall
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be substituted for the mayor and the clerk of the board of education
shall be substituted for the city clerk. Boards of education are
hereby declared to be free and independent of cities in all matters
relating to school elections legally called upon all school matters,
and presidents of boards of education shal l have full power to issue
proclamations calling school elections; provided, that no election
shall be called on the same proposition within four (4) months after
such proposition has been defeated at an e lection by the school
district electors. The provi sions of this act section as to the
waiting period shall not apply where the school facilities have been
destroyed by an act of God. The cost of such elections, together
with the cost of such proclamation s, publication, notices or other
expenses required, shall be legal costs of boards of education.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 202 1.
SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is h ereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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