Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-36-118

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Noncompliance by railway - Doing work at railway's

Official statutory text

expense - Lien on railway property.

A. If the owners of the railway shall fail or refuse to comply

with the order of the municipality to make such improvements by

paving, chatting, graveling, macadamizing, or building sidewalks as

the municipality may direct, or to repair such paving, graveling,

macadamizing or sidewalks, such work may be done by the

municipality. The cost and expense of such work done by the

municipality may be charged against the railway company and may be

collected in the district court in the county in which the

improvements have been made, by action of law, in the name of the

municipality against the railway company. In any such action at law

it shall be sufficient to declare generally for work or labor done,

or material furnished on the particular street, avenue, alley or

highway so improved.

B. In addition to the remedy provided in this section for

collection of costs and expenses, the municipality, or any one

authorized by it to do the work, shall be entitled to a lien upon

the property of the railway company. Such lien shall exist for the

full amount of the cost and expense against the property of the

railway company adjacent or contiguous to the improvement or

improvements so made. The lien may be enforced against the property

of the railway company by action in the district court in the county

in which the improvements have been made. In any action to enforce

the lien, it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the lien

exists for the amount of the cost and expense of the work and labor

done or material furnished on the particular improvement.

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