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- Title: Speaker v. Board of County Commissioners
- Author : Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma
- Release Date : January 30, 1957
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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2 The procedure prescribed by statute for such an incorporation contemplates that it be accomplished only after the majority of qualified voters of the territory to be incorporated, have approved it at an election, or "meeting" called by the Board of County Commissioners. See Tit. 11 O.S. 1951 ? 971 [11-971] et seq. The cited law provides, among other things, that, in order to obtain the Boards calling of such an election, the applicants, or proponents of the incorporation, shall file their petition with the Board, verified by affidavits, and subscribed by themselves and not less than one-third of the qualified voters of the territory, setting forth the boundaries, quantity of land and resident population of the territory, according to a map, survey, and census which the law provides that the applicants shall have caused to be made. The cited law further provides that the application shall be presented to the Board at the time indicated in the notice thereof, "or as soon thereafter as the board can receive and consider" same. Sec. 975 of said law sets forth the procedure to be followed by the Board in hearing the application, and specifically provides that said body shall require proof that the aforesaid survey, map, and census were subject to examination by interested persons, for the period and in the manner prescribed in a previous section of said law. Said section, and those following it, further provide, among other things, that if the Board is satisfied that the requirements of the law have been fully complied with, "they shall * * * make an order" declaring "the territory shall become an incorporated town" if assented to by a majority of its qualified voters at the proposed election to be held "on some day within one month therefrom, to determine whether such territory shall be an incorporated town."