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Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-607

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Hearing on appraisals

Official statutory text

Any property owner may accept the appraisals in his favor of

benefits, made by the appraisers, and shall be construed to have

done so unless he shall before the date set for hearing in the

notice by publication provided for in the preceding section, file

exceptions to said report or to any appraisals of benefits. All

exceptions shall be heard by the court, on the day set for hearing,

or in case of necessity on order of the court, beginning not less

than twenty (20) nor more than thirty (30) days after the date set

for the hearing herein, and determined in advance of other business

so as to carry out, liberally, the purposes and needs of the

district. The court may, if it deems necessary, return the report

to the Board of appraisers for their further consideration and

amendment, and enter its order to that effect, and new notice shall

be published as provided herein as to any changes made, but shall

not be necessary as to the whole report. If, however, the appraisal

roll as a whole is referred back to the appraisers, the court shall

not resume the hearing thereon, but new notice shall be given. But,

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the court may, without losing jurisdiction over the roll, or without

giving new notice, order the appraisers to recast the roll when the

order of the court specified the precise character of the changes

thereof.

The district, by its Board of directors and any property owner

may accept the appraisals of damages and of the value of lands to be

taken made by the appraisers by filing their written acceptance with

the proper court clerk. And if within thirty (30) days both the

district and the said owner or public or private corporation shall

not have filed written acceptance as above, the district, through

its Board of directors, shall bring condemnation proceedings to

acquire the rights appraised as provided for by the condemnation

laws of the state.

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