Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-1253
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Grounds for sustaining action against board of county
Official statutory text
commissioners.
No suit shall be sustained to set aside any assessment, or to
contest the area of assessment, or to enjoin the board of county
commissioners from levying or collecting any such assessment, or
installment thereof, or interest or penalty thereon, or issuing the
bonds, or providing for their payment or contesting the validity
thereof on any ground, or for any reason, other than for the failure
of the board to adopt and publish the resolution declaring the
necessity for such improvements and the publication thereof as
provided in Section 6 of this act, and to give notice of the hearing
on the return of the appraisers unless such suit shall be commenced
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 535
not more than fifteen (15) days after the publication of the
resolution levying assessments and no suit shall be sustained after
the work has been completed and accepted by such county, except for
failure to give such notice of the preliminary resolution of
necessity or the failure to give the notice of the hearing on such
return of the appraisers; and provided, further, that in the event
any special assessment shall be found to be invalid or insufficient,
in whole or in part, for any reason whatever the board may, at any
time in such manner provided for levying an original assessment,
proceed to cause a new assessment to be made and levied which shall
have like force and effect as an original assessment.
No suit shall be sustained to set aside any assessment, or to
contest the area of assessment, or to enjoin the board of county
commissioners from levying or collecting any such assessment, or
installment thereof, or interest or penalty thereon, or issuing the
bonds, or providing for their payment or contesting the validity
thereof on any ground, or for any reason, other than for the failure
of the board to adopt and publish the resolution declaring the
necessity for such improvements and the publication thereof as
provided in Section 6 of this act, and to give notice of the hearing
on the return of the appraisers unless such suit shall be commenced
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 535
not more than fifteen (15) days after the publication of the
resolution levying assessments and no suit shall be sustained after
the work has been completed and accepted by such county, except for
failure to give such notice of the preliminary resolution of
necessity or the failure to give the notice of the hearing on such
return of the appraisers; and provided, further, that in the event
any special assessment shall be found to be invalid or insufficient,
in whole or in part, for any reason whatever the board may, at any
time in such manner provided for levying an original assessment,
proceed to cause a new assessment to be made and levied which shall
have like force and effect as an original assessment.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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