Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-4-102

A library system may be created by resolution or ordinance

approved by the boards of county commissioners or by the governing

bodies of all cities or towns of two thousand (2,000) or more

according to the latest U.S. Census within the proposed district, or

by the county seat town if no city or town within a county has a

population of at least two thousand (2,000), subject to approval by

the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board. Such resolution and

ordinances shall specify the type of system to be created, the

district to be served, organization of the governing board of the

system, proposed financing including agreement to call for a vote of

the people as necessary for special tax levies, and shall constitute

application for approval by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries

Board when submitted to the Board.

A library system may be created upon initiative of the county,

city and town governing bodies concerned, or upon presentation of

petitions to the board of county commissioners of each county signed

by not less than ten (10%) percent of of the qualified electors of

each county voting in the latest preceding general election. Upon

receipt of such petitions, the board of county commissioners of each

county shall forthwith call for a countywide vote on the proposed

library system.

When approval of the proposed system is granted by the Oklahoma

Department of Libraries Board, the county, city and town governing

bodies shall proceed with appointment of the system board and

financing.

After appointment of the governing board of the library system,

it may request demonstration library services by the Oklahoma

Department of Libraries before approval of special tax levies and/or

may request a grant of funds for interim services before collection

of special tax levies by the people of the district.

The boards of county commissioners and the governing bodies of

cities and towns involved in creation of a library system, and the

governing board of the library system, are authorized to enter into

contracts and agreements by and between such governing bodies and

with other such library systems, special and school and college

libraries, and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries in affecting the

purposes of this article and other articles of this Code.

After a system has been created, another county or counties may

be added to the system by action of the governing bodies of the

applicant counties and cities as provided in the procedure for

establishment.

Any library system created under the provisions of this Code may

be terminated, or a part thereof may withdraw and resulting special

tax levies shall be discontinued only by majority vote of qualified

electors voting in an election called by petitions signed by not

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less than twenty (20%) percent of the qualified electors voting in

the latest preceding general election of the county or counties

wishing to terminate or withdraw.

This provision for termination of all or a part of a library

system shall not prohibit the reorganization of any system, or the

transfer of part of a system to another system or the merging of

systems, by act of the county, city and town governing bodies with

approval of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board, provided

that such changes do not result in termination of library service in

any other area for which such service has been approved.