Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-321
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County commissioners' districts - Reapportionment - Maps
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and resolutions depository.
A. Each county shall be divided by the board of county
commissioners into three (3) compact districts, as equal in
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 162
population as practicable and numbered respectively one, two and
three. One commissioner shall be elected from each of the districts
by the voters of the district, as provided for by law.
B. 1. Each county shall be reapportioned by the board of
county commissioners on or before October 1 following the final
official publication of the Federal Decennial Census to this state
for the purposes of legislative redistricting. Provided, for
purposes of the 2021 reapportionment of counties, each county shall
be reapportioned by the board of county commissioners on or before
November 30, 2021, following the final official publication of the
Federal Decennial Census to this state for the purposes of
legislative redistricting. The reapportionment shall be recorded in
a resolution adopted by the commissioners. The resolution shall
include an effective date for the reapportioned county commissioner
districts. The effective date shall be January 1 of the following
year; provided, however, county election boards shall conduct
regular or special elections for county commissioner held after
April 5, 2022, in accordance with the reapportioned districts.
2. Beginning with the reapportionment following the 1990
Federal Decennial Census, all boundaries of county commissioner
districts shall follow clearly visible, definable and observable
physical boundaries which are based upon criteria established and
recognized by the Bureau of the Census of the United States
Department of Commerce for purposes of defining census blocks for
its decennial census.
3. If the commissioners fail to reapportion the county as
required by this subsection, the commissioners shall be subject to
the provisions of Sections 91 through 105 of Title 51 of the
Oklahoma Statutes and it shall be the duty of the county excise
board to perform the reapportionment.
C. There is hereby established a depository for county
commissioner district boundary maps and reapportionment resolutions
within the Office of Geographic Information within the Oklahoma
Conservation Commission.
R.L. 1910, § 1583. Amended by Laws 1925, c. 65, p. 97, § 1, emerg.
eff. April 3, 1925; Laws 1982, c. 165, § 1, emerg. eff. April 12,
1982; Laws 1983, c. 158, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1990, c. 213,
§ 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 185, § 1, emerg. eff.
May 13, 1991; Laws 2012, c. 190, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012; Laws 2021,
c. 366, § 1, emerg. eff. April 28, 2021; Laws 2021, 1st Ex. Sess.,
c. 5, § 2, emerg. eff. Nov. 22, 2021.
A. Each county shall be divided by the board of county
commissioners into three (3) compact districts, as equal in
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers Page 162
population as practicable and numbered respectively one, two and
three. One commissioner shall be elected from each of the districts
by the voters of the district, as provided for by law.
B. 1. Each county shall be reapportioned by the board of
county commissioners on or before October 1 following the final
official publication of the Federal Decennial Census to this state
for the purposes of legislative redistricting. Provided, for
purposes of the 2021 reapportionment of counties, each county shall
be reapportioned by the board of county commissioners on or before
November 30, 2021, following the final official publication of the
Federal Decennial Census to this state for the purposes of
legislative redistricting. The reapportionment shall be recorded in
a resolution adopted by the commissioners. The resolution shall
include an effective date for the reapportioned county commissioner
districts. The effective date shall be January 1 of the following
year; provided, however, county election boards shall conduct
regular or special elections for county commissioner held after
April 5, 2022, in accordance with the reapportioned districts.
2. Beginning with the reapportionment following the 1990
Federal Decennial Census, all boundaries of county commissioner
districts shall follow clearly visible, definable and observable
physical boundaries which are based upon criteria established and
recognized by the Bureau of the Census of the United States
Department of Commerce for purposes of defining census blocks for
its decennial census.
3. If the commissioners fail to reapportion the county as
required by this subsection, the commissioners shall be subject to
the provisions of Sections 91 through 105 of Title 51 of the
Oklahoma Statutes and it shall be the duty of the county excise
board to perform the reapportionment.
C. There is hereby established a depository for county
commissioner district boundary maps and reapportionment resolutions
within the Office of Geographic Information within the Oklahoma
Conservation Commission.
R.L. 1910, § 1583. Amended by Laws 1925, c. 65, p. 97, § 1, emerg.
eff. April 3, 1925; Laws 1982, c. 165, § 1, emerg. eff. April 12,
1982; Laws 1983, c. 158, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1990, c. 213,
§ 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 185, § 1, emerg. eff.
May 13, 1991; Laws 2012, c. 190, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012; Laws 2021,
c. 366, § 1, emerg. eff. April 28, 2021; Laws 2021, 1st Ex. Sess.,
c. 5, § 2, emerg. eff. Nov. 22, 2021.
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