Okla. Stat. tit. 34, § 34-4

When any such signed initiative or referendum petition pamphlets

shall be offered for filing, the Secretary of State, in the presence

of the person offering the same for filing, shall detach the sheets

containing the signatures and affidavits and cause them all to be

attached to one or more printed copies of the measure so proposed by

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initiative or referendum petition. If the aforesaid sheets shall be

too bulky for convenient binding in one volume, they may be bound in

two or more volumes, those in each volume to be attached to a single

printed copy of such measure; the detached copies of such measures

shall be delivered to the person offering the same for filing. Each

of the volumes and each signature sheet therein shall be numbered

consecutively, and a cover sheet shall be attached, showing the

purported number of signature sheets, the series of numbers assigned

to the signature sheets and the total number of signatures counted

per volume. The Secretary of State shall render a signed receipt to

the person offering the petition for filing, which receipt shall

include a report, volume by volume, showing the number of signature

sheets in each volume, the series of numbers assigned to the

signature sheets in each volume, and the number of purported

signatures in each volume. Duplicate copies of the cover sheets,

with necessary corrections, may be used as receipts. If the volume

of signatures is sufficiently large, the Secretary of State shall

seal the petitions in such manner that they cannot be opened unless

the seal is broken, and if requested by those filing said petition,

they shall not be opened before 9:00 a.m. on the day following the

date said petitions are filed and said procedure shall continue

until such time as the Secretary shall be able to receipt the

petitions so filed; but additional signature sheets shall not be

accepted after 5:00 p.m. on the ninetieth day. The Secretary of

State shall not provide any copies of signature sheets to anyone

until the sheets have been bound as provided in this section.

Provided, that whenever reference is made in this act to the

Secretary of State, such reference shall include the Secretary of

State or any officer constitutionally designated to perform the

duties herein prescribed.

R.L. 1910, § 3371. Amended by Laws 1961, p. 265, § 4, emerg. eff.

May 17, 1961; Laws 1970, c. 185, § 1, emerg. eff. April 13, 1970;