Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-686
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For the sake of convenience:
(a) In any orders of the court the words, "The court now here
finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject
matter of this proceeding," shall be equivalent to a finding that
each jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing
and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order
containing such recital, have been scrutinized by the court and
found to meet every legal requirement imposed by this act.
(b) No other or further evidence of the legal hypothecation of
the special assessment to the payment of the bonds shall be required
than the passage of a bonding resolution by the board of directors
and the issuance of bonds in accordance therewith.
(c) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal roll the
usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors and abstractors
may be used.
(d) Where properly to describe any parcel of land it would be
necessary to use a long description, the appraisers, after locating
the land generally may refer to the book and page of the public
record of any instrument in which the land is described, which
reference shall suffice to identify for all the purposes of this act
the land described in this public record referred to.
(e) It shall not be necessary in any notice required by this act
to be published to specify the names of the owners of the lands or
of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be
addressed, "To All Persons Interested," with like effect as though
such notice named by name every owner, of any lands within the
territory specified in the notice and every person interested
therein, and every lienor, actual or inchoate, except that the
notice of assessments or appraisals shall be as provided otherwise
herein.
(f) Every district heretofore created or hereinafter declared
upon hearing to be a conservancy district shall be an improvement
district as provided in Article 16 of the Constitution of Oklahoma,
and shall be invested with all the powers and privileges conferred
upon such districts by the Constitution of Oklahoma and this act.
(a) In any orders of the court the words, "The court now here
finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject
matter of this proceeding," shall be equivalent to a finding that
each jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing
and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order
containing such recital, have been scrutinized by the court and
found to meet every legal requirement imposed by this act.
(b) No other or further evidence of the legal hypothecation of
the special assessment to the payment of the bonds shall be required
than the passage of a bonding resolution by the board of directors
and the issuance of bonds in accordance therewith.
(c) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal roll the
usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors and abstractors
may be used.
(d) Where properly to describe any parcel of land it would be
necessary to use a long description, the appraisers, after locating
the land generally may refer to the book and page of the public
record of any instrument in which the land is described, which
reference shall suffice to identify for all the purposes of this act
the land described in this public record referred to.
(e) It shall not be necessary in any notice required by this act
to be published to specify the names of the owners of the lands or
of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be
addressed, "To All Persons Interested," with like effect as though
such notice named by name every owner, of any lands within the
territory specified in the notice and every person interested
therein, and every lienor, actual or inchoate, except that the
notice of assessments or appraisals shall be as provided otherwise
herein.
(f) Every district heretofore created or hereinafter declared
upon hearing to be a conservancy district shall be an improvement
district as provided in Article 16 of the Constitution of Oklahoma,
and shall be invested with all the powers and privileges conferred
upon such districts by the Constitution of Oklahoma and this act.
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