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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 728 By: Paxton
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to county districts; amending 19 O.S.
2011, Section 321, as amended by Section 1, Chapter
190, O.S.L. 2012 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section 321),
which relates to county commissioner districts ;
modifying date of reapportionment completion; and
providing an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 19 O.S. 2011, Section 321, as
amended by Section 1, Chapter 190, O.S.L. 2012 (19 O.S. Supp. 2020,
Section 321), is amended to read as follows:
Section 321. A. Each county shall be divided by the board o f
county commissioners into three (3) compact distr icts, as equal in
population as practicable and numbered respectively one, two, and
three. One commissioner shall be elected from each of said the
districts by the voters of the district, as provided for by law.
B. 1. Each county shall be reapportioned by the board of
county commissioners on or befor e October 1 November 30 following
the final official publication of the Federal Decennial Census to
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the State of Oklahoma for the purposes of legislative red istricting.
The reapportionment shall be recorded in a resolution adopted by the
commissioners. The resolution shall include an effective date for
the reapportioned county commissioner districts. The effective date
shall be January 1 of the following ye ar.
2. Beginning with the reapportionment followin g the 1990
Federal Decennial Census, all boundar ies of county commissioner
districts shall follow clearly visible, definable and observable
physical boundaries which are based upon criteria established and
recognized by the Bureau of the Census of the Unit ed States
Department of Commerce for purposes of defining census blocks for
its decennial census.
3. If the commissioners fail to reapportion the county as
required by this subsection, the commissioners s hall be subject to
the provisions of Sections 91 th rough 105 of Title 51 of the
Oklahoma Statutes and it shall be the duty of the county excise
board to perform the reapportionment.
C. There is hereby established a depository for county
commissioner district boundary maps and reapportionment resolutions
within the Office of Geographic Information withi n the Oklahoma
Conservation Commission.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preserv ation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
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declared to exist, by reas on whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage an d approval.
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