Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1265.9

materials or public utilities.

Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal

corporation or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in

or preparing to engage in the manufacture, transportation or storage

of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or

any of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of

war by the United States, or in the manufacture, transportation,

distribution of storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity or water, or

any of said natural or artificial persons operating any public

utility, who has property so used which he or it believes will be

endangered if public use and travel is not restricted or prohibited

on one or more highways or parts thereof upon which such property

abuts, may petition the highway commissioners of any city, town or

county to close one or more of said highways or parts thereof to

public use and travel or to restrict by order the use and travel

upon one or more of said highways or parts thereof.

Upon receipt of such petition, the highway commissioners shall

set a day for hearing and give notice thereof by publication in a

newspaper having general circulation in the city, town or county in

which such property is located, such notice to be at least seven

days prior to the date set for hearing. If after hearing the

highway commissioners determine that the public safety and the

safety of the property of the petitioner so require, they shall, by

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suitable order, close to public use and travel or reasonably

restrict the use of and travel upon one or more of said highways or

parts thereof; provided, the highway commissioners may issue written

permits to travel over the highways so closed or restricted to

responsible and reputable persons for such term, under such

conditions and in such form as said commissioners may prescribe.

Appropriate notices in letters at least three (3) inches high shall

be posted conspicuously at each end of any highway so closed or

restricted by such order. The highway commissioners may at any time

revoke or modify any order so made.