Okla. Stat. tit. 66, § 66-8
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Public Service Corporations - Capital stock - Indebtedness
Official statutory text
Public Service Corporations as defined by Section 34, Article
IX, of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, may, by proper
corporate action, and for lawful corporate purposes, borrow, from
time to time, such sums of money at such rates of interest and upon
such terms as may be deemed necessary or expedient and the total
amount of indebtedness of such corporation so created shall not in
any way be limited by the amount of their subscribed capital stock,
nor shall the total of said indebtedness affect in any way the right
of such corporations to reduce or increase their capital stock. Such
corporations shall have the power to execute trust deeds, or
mortgages, or both, as the occasion may require, on any of its
property, or parts thereof, constructed or in process of
construction, for amounts borrowed or owing by the corporation and
therein to make provisions granting, transferring, or mortgaging
their railroad track, right-of-way, depot ground, rights,
privileges, franchise, immunities, exemptions, machine houses, power
houses, rolling stock, transmission lines, furniture, tools,
implements, appendages and appurtenances used in connection with
such corporation's business in any manner whatever, then belonging
to the corporation or which may thereafter belong to it, as security
for any bonds or evidence of debt therein mentioned, in such manner
as the corporation or directors shall think proper, and such
instruments shall fully convey the same or so much thereof as shall
be therein described. In case of sale by virtue of any such trust
deed or upon foreclosure of any such mortgage, the persons acquiring
title under such sale and their associates, successors and assigns,
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or such corporation as they organize, according to law, with all the
powers conferred upon corporations by this article, shall thereafter
have, exercise and enjoy all such described grants which were
purchased at such sale, including all rights, privileges, grants,
franchises, immunities and advantages mentioned in such instruments
which were possessed by such corporation making the same or
contracting such debt, so far as the same relate or appertain to
that portion of property granted or mortgaged and purchased at such
sale and no further, as fully and absolutely in all respects as such
corporation, its shareholders, officers and agents might have done
if such sale had not taken place. And whenever the person so
acquiring title under any such sale shall own or represent a
majority in amount of the bonds or other evidence of debt secured by
any such trust deed or mortgage, and shall also include the persons
who owned at the time of the sale, a majority in amount of the
capital stock of such mortgage or corporation, such purchasers and
such corporation as they shall organize as aforesaid, shall also
have, possess and enjoy any exemption, privileges or immunity
previously granted by any law to such former corporation relating to
any of the property so acquired, to the same extent as if such
latter corporation had been named in such law as the grantee
thereof.
R.L. 1910, § 1383; Laws 1923-24, c. 90, p. 108, § 1, emerg. eff.
March 22, 1924.
IX, of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, may, by proper
corporate action, and for lawful corporate purposes, borrow, from
time to time, such sums of money at such rates of interest and upon
such terms as may be deemed necessary or expedient and the total
amount of indebtedness of such corporation so created shall not in
any way be limited by the amount of their subscribed capital stock,
nor shall the total of said indebtedness affect in any way the right
of such corporations to reduce or increase their capital stock. Such
corporations shall have the power to execute trust deeds, or
mortgages, or both, as the occasion may require, on any of its
property, or parts thereof, constructed or in process of
construction, for amounts borrowed or owing by the corporation and
therein to make provisions granting, transferring, or mortgaging
their railroad track, right-of-way, depot ground, rights,
privileges, franchise, immunities, exemptions, machine houses, power
houses, rolling stock, transmission lines, furniture, tools,
implements, appendages and appurtenances used in connection with
such corporation's business in any manner whatever, then belonging
to the corporation or which may thereafter belong to it, as security
for any bonds or evidence of debt therein mentioned, in such manner
as the corporation or directors shall think proper, and such
instruments shall fully convey the same or so much thereof as shall
be therein described. In case of sale by virtue of any such trust
deed or upon foreclosure of any such mortgage, the persons acquiring
title under such sale and their associates, successors and assigns,
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or such corporation as they organize, according to law, with all the
powers conferred upon corporations by this article, shall thereafter
have, exercise and enjoy all such described grants which were
purchased at such sale, including all rights, privileges, grants,
franchises, immunities and advantages mentioned in such instruments
which were possessed by such corporation making the same or
contracting such debt, so far as the same relate or appertain to
that portion of property granted or mortgaged and purchased at such
sale and no further, as fully and absolutely in all respects as such
corporation, its shareholders, officers and agents might have done
if such sale had not taken place. And whenever the person so
acquiring title under any such sale shall own or represent a
majority in amount of the bonds or other evidence of debt secured by
any such trust deed or mortgage, and shall also include the persons
who owned at the time of the sale, a majority in amount of the
capital stock of such mortgage or corporation, such purchasers and
such corporation as they shall organize as aforesaid, shall also
have, possess and enjoy any exemption, privileges or immunity
previously granted by any law to such former corporation relating to
any of the property so acquired, to the same extent as if such
latter corporation had been named in such law as the grantee
thereof.
R.L. 1910, § 1383; Laws 1923-24, c. 90, p. 108, § 1, emerg. eff.
March 22, 1924.
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