OSCN Found Document:Contracts for Water - How Made - Provision Abrogation
Title 11. Cities and Towns

Oklahoma Statutes Citationized
  Title 11. Cities and Towns
    Chapter 1 - Oklahoma Municipal Code
        Article Article XXXVII - Sewer and Water Systems
        Section 37-119 - Contracts for Water - How Made - Provision Abrogation
Cite as: O.S. §, __ __


A. All contracts for the sale or furnishing of water from a source obtained by or on behalf of a municipality by permit or prior right under state law or by general obligation bonds shall be made in the name of the municipality as provided for by statute or by charter.

B. All such water sold and furnished to persons or public or private entities outside the corporate limits of the municipality shall be sold and furnished upon written contracts which shall provide for an annual review of the municipality's costs and contract modification of rates to permit rates to be increased or decreased to the purchasers as appropriate. Any modification shall be nondiscriminatorily allocated between the municipality's customers and the purchaser. Provided, however, that only those costs that are attributable to maintaining the ability of the municipality to provide water service to the purchaser shall be included in purchaser's rates.

The contracts shall provide that the persons or public or private entities outside the corporate limits of the municipality shall be subject to a rationing program consistent with any rationing program ordered by the municipality.

Historical Data


Laws 1977, HB 1100, c. 256, § 37-119, eff. July 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 984, HB 1669, c. 126, § 67, eff. November 1, 1984; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1119, c. 74, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1536, c. 313, § 2, eff. September 1, 1991; Amended by Laws 1994, SB 834, c. 339, § 1, eff. emerg. June 8, 1994.

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Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals Cases
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 2011 OK CIV APP 65, 257 P.3d 1011, OKFUSKEE COUNTY RURAL WATER DISTRICT NO. 3 v. CITY OF OKEMAHDiscussed at Length
 2014 OK CIV APP 86, 337 P.3d 103, RURAL WATER DISTRICT NO. 1 v. CITY OF LAWTONCited
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