Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-23
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Selection of permanent county seats
Official statutory text
In all new counties, created since the admission of the State of
Oklahoma into the Union, and to be hereafter created, wherein
temporary, or original county seat, has been, or will be, located or
designated, other than by a vote of the people, an election shall be
called and held to locate the permanent county seat, which election
shall be called and held under the laws now in force governing the
permanent location of county seats, included in Chapter Thirty-one,
Article Four, of the Session Laws of 1907 and 1908; provided, that a
majority of all the votes cast in the county, at such county seat
election, shall be in favor of any town, such town shall thereafter
be the county seat; provided, however, that where the temporary
county seat theretofore designated, is within six (6) miles of the
geographical center of the county (said geographical center to be
determined by certificate from the Secretary of State, and said
distance to be determined by measurement from said geographical
center to the nearest corporate limits of such county seat) it shall
require sixty percent (60%) of the total vote cast at such election
by the competing town to effect the designation of such county seat,
and unless such competing town be within six (6) miles of the
geographical center of said county, in which event a majority vote
shall suffice; provided, further, that those portions of Section 14,
of Article Four of Chapter 31 of the Session Laws of 1907-1908 in
conflict herewith, applying to counties created by the Constitution,
shall have no force and effect with reference to elections to locate
the permanent county seat of counties created since the adoption of
the Constitution and since the admission of the State of Oklahoma
into the Union.
Oklahoma into the Union, and to be hereafter created, wherein
temporary, or original county seat, has been, or will be, located or
designated, other than by a vote of the people, an election shall be
called and held to locate the permanent county seat, which election
shall be called and held under the laws now in force governing the
permanent location of county seats, included in Chapter Thirty-one,
Article Four, of the Session Laws of 1907 and 1908; provided, that a
majority of all the votes cast in the county, at such county seat
election, shall be in favor of any town, such town shall thereafter
be the county seat; provided, however, that where the temporary
county seat theretofore designated, is within six (6) miles of the
geographical center of the county (said geographical center to be
determined by certificate from the Secretary of State, and said
distance to be determined by measurement from said geographical
center to the nearest corporate limits of such county seat) it shall
require sixty percent (60%) of the total vote cast at such election
by the competing town to effect the designation of such county seat,
and unless such competing town be within six (6) miles of the
geographical center of said county, in which event a majority vote
shall suffice; provided, further, that those portions of Section 14,
of Article Four of Chapter 31 of the Session Laws of 1907-1908 in
conflict herewith, applying to counties created by the Constitution,
shall have no force and effect with reference to elections to locate
the permanent county seat of counties created since the adoption of
the Constitution and since the admission of the State of Oklahoma
into the Union.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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