Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-731

The board of county commissioners is authorized to provide for

the construction or repairing of courthouses, jails or other

necessary buildings, and make contracts on behalf of the county for

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building or repairing the same, and for the purpose of providing a

fund for the payment of the cost of the same such board of county

commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the

levy of a tax and to continue such provision from year to year for a

period not exceeding five (5) years: Provided, that such levy for

such purpose, together with the levies for all other purposes shall

not exceed the amount authorized by law: Provided, further, that

the money, raised by such levy, shall constitute a separate and

distinct fund from all others in the hands of the county treasurer

until the obligation assumed by the board of county commissioners

under authority of this section shall have been discharged. And

provided, further, that no levy of taxes for the purposes of this

section shall be made until after a majority of the legally

qualified voters of said county, voting upon said proposition, shall

have voted in favor of the expenditures whose payment is to be

provided for by said levy or levies of taxes, at a general election

at which said proposition shall be submitted, or at a special

election called for the purpose of voting upon said proposition.

The proposition submitted at such general or special election shall

be whether or not the board of county commissioners shall be

authorized to expend the sum desired (stating such sum) for the

building of a courthouse, jail, or other necessary building, and

shall be arranged on the ballot in suitable and convenient form for

voting. Such special election shall be held as nearly as possible

in conformity to the general election laws of the state; and at any

such general or special election the votes upon the proposition

submitted shall be counted and canvassed, the returns thereof made,

and the results declared as nearly in conformity to the general

election laws of the state as possible: Provided, that notice of

the submitting of such proposition to the voters of the county shall

be given by the county clerk by publication in at least two

newspapers published in said county and having a general circulation

therein, for not less than thirty (30) days immediately prior to

said election: And provided, further, that if there is only one

paper published in such county, publication in that paper for the

required time shall be sufficient; and if no paper be published

therein, notice of such election shall be given by posting up

written or printed notices thereof for the required time, at least

one in each voting precinct of such county at the most public places

in said precinct.

R.L. 1910, § 1619.