Oklahoma § 19-879 - Bylaws, rules and regulations - Public, district and

§ 19-879. Bylaws, rules and regulations - Public, district and

private sewer lines.

The board of directors of such district is hereby authorized and

empowered to make all bylaws, rules and regulations, penal or

otherwise, that shall be necessary for the full protection,

maintenance, management and control of a sewerage system of said

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers

district, including the lines of conveyance, plant and other

property used in connection therewith and said board of directors

shall have the power to divide such sewer district system into three

(3) classes to be known as public, district and private sewer lines.

That the public sewer system shall consist only of the main lines of

conveyance to the sewage treatment or disposal plant or outside

system, and the main lines for general collection, including such

other property as may be necessary in connection therewith for the

proper maintenance and use of such sewage system throughout such

improvement district, and such public sewer lines shall be

established along the principal courses for collection at such

places to such extent and of such dimensions and under such

regulations, as may be provided for in the bylaws or regulations or

orders of said board of directors of said district, and such

principal lines of collection may be extensions or branches of lines

already constructed or entirely new throughout, as may be deemed

expedient. Such public main lines and sewage disposal or treatment

plant, including the other property necessary to operate such

system, shall be paid for by the district as a whole. District

sewer lines shall be established within the limits of all

subdistricts which subdistricts shall be prescribed by the bylaws,

regulations or orders of said improvement district and connected

with the public sewer lines or other subdistrict lines. Such

subdistricts may be again subdivided or may be enlarged or changed

by a bylaw regulations or orders of the improvement district at any

time previous to the construction of the district sewer line therein

and more than one sewer line may be laid in a subdistrict if deemed

necessary by the board of directors. The board of directors shall

cause district sewers to be constructed by petition or by resolution

as now provided by law for the construction of district sewers in

cities and towns. Private sewer lines connecting with the public

and district sewer lines may be constructed under such restrictions

and regulations as the board of directors may prescribe by general

bylaws, or regulations or orders; provided, that the expense of

constructing such lines shall be borne by the individual or

individuals desiring to construct them and providing further that

such improvement district shall be at no expense in the

construction, repair, or operation of the same.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 220, § 9, emerg. eff. May 16, 1947. Amended

by Laws 1949, p. 182, § 4, emerg. eff. May 12, 1949.