Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-12
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Petition - Proclamation calling election - Counties
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excepted.
Upon a petition or petitions in writing, signed by fifty-one
percent (51%) of the qualified electors residing in each particular
territory sought to be created into a new county, or transferred to
another county, such percent to be determined by the total vote cast
in said territory for the head of the state ticket in the next
preceding election, and it being made to appear that said
petitioners are qualified electors of said territory and are fifty-
one percent (51%) of each particular territory thereof, and it being
made to appear that if a new county is to be formed, that same will
consist of not less than five hundred (500) square miles of taxable
area and will contain a population of not less than twenty thousand
(20,000) people and will have not less than Four Million Dollars
($4,000,000.00) of taxable wealth as shown by the current tax rolls;
that if the change or changes sought to be made are for the purpose
of creating a new county it will not bring the newly created lines
of such existing county or counties from which said territory is
taken nearer than twenty (20) miles to the county seat thereof; that
if the change or changes sought to be made for the purpose of
transferring territory from an existing county or counties to
another county, it will not bring the newly created lines in such
existing county or counties from which any territory is taken nearer
than fifteen (15) miles to the county seat thereof; that the taxable
wealth of such existing county or counties will not be reduced below
that required for a new county, and if the object sought is to
transfer territory from one county to an existing county, it shall
be made to appear that the county from which said territory is
sought to be taken, will not be less in area than the county to
which the addition is made, and such petition and such showing have
been filed with and made before the Governor, shall within thirty
(30) days issue his proclamation, calling an election to be held in
said territory not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy (70)
days from the date of his proclamation. That nothing in this bill
shall apply to counties now existing containing eighteen hundred
(1,800) square miles in area, which counties shall be governed by
the Constitutional limitations.
Upon a petition or petitions in writing, signed by fifty-one
percent (51%) of the qualified electors residing in each particular
territory sought to be created into a new county, or transferred to
another county, such percent to be determined by the total vote cast
in said territory for the head of the state ticket in the next
preceding election, and it being made to appear that said
petitioners are qualified electors of said territory and are fifty-
one percent (51%) of each particular territory thereof, and it being
made to appear that if a new county is to be formed, that same will
consist of not less than five hundred (500) square miles of taxable
area and will contain a population of not less than twenty thousand
(20,000) people and will have not less than Four Million Dollars
($4,000,000.00) of taxable wealth as shown by the current tax rolls;
that if the change or changes sought to be made are for the purpose
of creating a new county it will not bring the newly created lines
of such existing county or counties from which said territory is
taken nearer than twenty (20) miles to the county seat thereof; that
if the change or changes sought to be made for the purpose of
transferring territory from an existing county or counties to
another county, it will not bring the newly created lines in such
existing county or counties from which any territory is taken nearer
than fifteen (15) miles to the county seat thereof; that the taxable
wealth of such existing county or counties will not be reduced below
that required for a new county, and if the object sought is to
transfer territory from one county to an existing county, it shall
be made to appear that the county from which said territory is
sought to be taken, will not be less in area than the county to
which the addition is made, and such petition and such showing have
been filed with and made before the Governor, shall within thirty
(30) days issue his proclamation, calling an election to be held in
said territory not less than sixty (60) nor more than seventy (70)
days from the date of his proclamation. That nothing in this bill
shall apply to counties now existing containing eighteen hundred
(1,800) square miles in area, which counties shall be governed by
the Constitutional limitations.
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