Oklahoma § 19-321 - County commissioners' districts - Reapportionment - Maps

§ 19-321. County commissioners' districts - Reapportionment - Maps

and resolutions depository.

A. Each county shall be divided by the board of county

commissioners into three (3) compact districts, as equal in

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers

population as practicable and numbered respectively one, two and

three. One commissioner shall be elected from each of the districts

by the voters of the district, as provided for by law.

B. 1. Each county shall be reapportioned by the board of

county commissioners on or before October 1 following the final

official publication of the Federal Decennial Census to this state

for the purposes of legislative redistricting. Provided, for

purposes of the 2021 reapportionment of counties, each county shall

be reapportioned by the board of county commissioners on or before

November 30, 2021, following the final official publication of the

Federal Decennial Census to this state for the purposes of

legislative redistricting. The reapportionment shall be recorded in

a resolution adopted by the commissioners. The resolution shall

include an effective date for the reapportioned county commissioner

districts. The effective date shall be January 1 of the following

year; provided, however, county election boards shall conduct

regular or special elections for county commissioner held after

April 5, 2022, in accordance with the reapportioned districts.

2. Beginning with the reapportionment following the 1990

Federal Decennial Census, all boundaries of county commissioner

districts shall follow clearly visible, definable and observable

physical boundaries which are based upon criteria established and

recognized by the Bureau of the Census of the United States

Department of Commerce for purposes of defining census blocks for

its decennial census.

3. If the commissioners fail to reapportion the county as

required by this subsection, the commissioners shall be subject to

the provisions of Sections 91 through 105 of Title 51 of the

Oklahoma Statutes and it shall be the duty of the county excise

board to perform the reapportionment.

C. There is hereby established a depository for county

commissioner district boundary maps and reapportionment resolutions

within the Office of Geographic Information within the Oklahoma

Conservation Commission.

R.L. 1910, § 1583. Amended by Laws 1925, c. 65, p. 97, § 1, emerg.

eff. April 3, 1925; Laws 1982, c. 165, § 1, emerg. eff. April 12,

1982; Laws 1983, c. 158, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1990, c. 213,

§ 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 185, § 1, emerg. eff.

May 13, 1991; Laws 2012, c. 190, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012; Laws 2021,

c. 366, § 1, emerg. eff. April 28, 2021; Laws 2021, 1st Ex. Sess.,

c. 5, § 2, emerg. eff. Nov. 22, 2021.