Oklahoma § 19-1250 - Installments - Payment - Collecting agent - Duties

§ 19-1250. Installments - Payment - Collecting agent - Duties

The assessments provided for and levied pursuant to the

provisions of Sections 1230 through 1262 of this title shall be

payable as the installments become due, together with the interest

on said installments, to the county clerk who shall give proper

receipts for such payments and credit the same upon the road

assessment record. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to keep

an accurate account of all such collections made by the clerk and to

pay to the county treasurer daily the amounts of such assessments

collected by the clerk. The amounts so collected and paid to the

county treasurer shall constitute a separate, special fund to be

used and applied to the payment of such bonds and the interest

thereon, as provided by Sections 1257 through 1260 of this title.

It shall be the duty of the county clerk, not less than thirty (30)

days and not more than forty (40) days before the maturity of any

installment of such assessments, to publish in two successive issues

of a daily newspaper or in one issue of a weekly newspaper,

published in the county and of general circulation in said county, a

notice advising the record title holder of the land affected by such

assessment of the date when such installment and interest will be

due, and designating the road, street, streets, or public places, or

parts thereof, for the improvement of which such assessments have

been levied, and that unless such assessments shall be promptly

paid, said installment and interest shall bear interest at the rate

of fifteen percent (15%) per annum until paid, and proceedings taken

according to law to collect said installment and interest. It shall

also be the duty of the county clerk, not less than thirty (30) days

before the maturity of any installment of such assessments, to send

a notice by mail advising the record titleholder of the land

affected by such assessment of the date when such installment and

interest will be due, and designating the road, street, streets, or

public places, or parts thereof, for the improvement of which such

assessments have been levied, and that unless such assessments shall

be promptly paid, said installment and interest shall bear interest

at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum until paid, and

proceedings taken according to law to collect said installment and

interest. Failure of the owner to receive any notice shall not

invalidate any of the proceedings authorized in this title and shall

not invalidate any installment or interest that may be due. It

shall be the duty of the county clerk, promptly after the date of

maturity of any such installment and interest and on or before the

fifteenth day of September in each year, to certify such installment

and interest due to the county treasurer of the county in which the

improvement district is located, which installment and interest

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers

shall be placed by said county treasurer upon the November

delinquent tax list of the same year prepared by the treasurer of

said county and collected as other delinquent taxes are collected.

It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to collect such

installments of assessment, together with interest and penalty, so

certified to the treasurer by the county clerk, as provided for in

this section, but any taxpayer shall have the right to pay his ad

valorem taxes to the county treasurer regardless of the delinquency

of such assessments. Within thirty (30) days from the receipt of

such delinquent assessments, interest and penalty collected by the

county treasurer shall be disbursed in accordance with the

provisions of Sections 1230 through 1262 of this title. Failure of

the county clerk to publish notice of the maturing of any

installment and interest shall in no way affect the validity of the

proceedings to collect such installment and interest pursuant to the

provisions of this section. All payments to the county treasurer on

account of such assessments shall be certified by the treasurer to

the county clerk to be credited on the road assessment record.

Added by Laws 1978, c. 208, § 22, eff. Jan. 1, 1979. Amended by

Laws 1984, c. 43, § 12, emerg. eff. March 27, 1984; Laws 2010, c.

40, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.