Oklahoma § 75-11 - Statutes defined

§ 75-11. Statutes defined

The Statutes of Oklahoma are hereby defined to be:

First. Original acts enacted by the Legislature.

Second. Statutes taken from other sources and adopted and

enacted by the Legislature as statutes of this state.

R.L. 1910, § 8147.

§75-11a. Construction of statutes - Severability.

In the construction of the statutes of this state, the following

rules shall be observed:

1. For any act enacted on or after July 1, 1989, unless there

is a provision in the act that the act or any portion thereof or the

application of the act shall not be severable, the provisions of

every act or application of the act shall be severable. If any

provision or application of the act is found to be unconstitutional

and void, the remaining provisions or applications of the act shall

remain valid, unless the court finds:

a.

the valid provisions or application of the act are so

essentially and inseparably connected with, and so

dependent upon, the void provisions that the court

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cannot presume the Legislature would have enacted the

remaining valid provisions without the void one; or

b.

the remaining valid provisions or applications of the

act, standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable

of being executed in accordance with the legislative

intent.

2. For acts enacted prior to July 1, 1989, whether or not such

acts were enacted with an express provision for severability, it is

the intent of the Oklahoma Legislature that the act or any portion

of the act or application of the act shall be severable unless:

a.

the construction of the provisions or application of

the act would be inconsistent with the manifest intent

of the Legislature;

b.

the court finds the valid provisions of the act are so

essentially and inseparably connected with and so

dependent upon the void provisions that the court

cannot presume the Legislature would have enacted the

remaining valid provisions without the void one; or

c.

the court finds the remaining valid provisions

standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable of

being executed in accordance with the legislative

intent.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 154, § 1, operative July 1, 1989.

§75-11b. Renumbered as § 3921 of Title 74 by Laws 1999, c. 59, §

23, eff. July 1, 1999.

§75-11c. Local and special laws defined.

For purposes of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes the

constitutional provision found in Section 46 of Article V of the

Oklahoma Constitution dealing with the prohibition of local and

special laws on certain subjects is restricted to the following

definition and all case law to the contrary is hereby null and void:

1. "Local laws" shall mean those laws confined in their

application to a geographic subunit of the State of Oklahoma; and

2. "Special laws" are those that favor a particular person or

corporation without reference to location.

Added by Laws 2014, c. 208, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.