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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1845 By: Thompson (Kristen)
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to cities and towns; amending 11 O.S.
2021, Section 43-104, which relates to notice and
public hearing for zoning changes; providing for
online publication of certain notice; increasing
distance subject to certain notice requirements ; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 11 O.S. 2021, Section 43 -104, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 43-104. A. Parties in interest and citizens shall have
an opportunity to be heard at a public hearing before a ny district
regulation, restriction, or boundary shall be come effective. At
least fifteen (15) days ’ notice of the date, time, and place of the
hearing shall be published in a newsp aper of general circulation in
the municipality. A municipal governing body that maintains an
Internet website shall make notices prepared pursuant to this
section regularly available on the website for a peri od not less
than fifteen (15) successive days prior to the date of the public
hearing. The notice shall include a ma p of the area to be affected
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which indicates street names or numbers, streams, or o ther
significant landmarks in the area.
B. In addition to the notice required in subsection A of this
section, if the zoning change requested permits the use of treatment
facilities, multiple family facilities, transitional living
facilities, halfway houses and any housing or facility that may be
used for medical or nonmedical detoxification as these terms are
defined pursuant to Section 3 -403 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma
Statutes, the entity proposing the change in district regulati on,
restriction, or boundary shall mail a written notice within thirty
(30) days of the hearing to all real property own ers within one-
quarter (1/4) one-half (1/2) of a mile where the area to be affected
is located and shall be responsible for all costs in curred in
mailing this notice.
For purposes of this subsection, “entity” means any individual,
corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, state
agency, government instrumentality or agency, institution, county,
incorporated municipality o r municipal authority or trust in whic h
any governmental entity is a beneficiary, venture, or other legal
entity however organi zed.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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