Oklahoma § 63-1056 - Petitions and elections to discontinue the construction

§ 63-1056. Petitions and elections to discontinue the construction

of additional public housing projects.

A. 1. Upon the filing of a petition by five percent (5%) of

the qualified voters of the city or county, as the case may be,

asserting there is need for limiting an authority to its existing

operations and prohibiting such authority from engaging in

additional projects or additions to existing projects, or upon its

own motion, the governing body of that city or county, as the case

may be, shall call an election of the qualified voters residing in

the area of the authority for the purpose of deciding whether or not

the authority shall be limited to its existing operations and

prohibited from engaging in additional projects or additions to

existing projects.

2. The date for such election shall be set by the governing

body by resolution; provided, that such election shall be held not

less than eight (8) weeks nor more than twelve (12) weeks after the

date such petition is filed.

B. If a protest to such petition is filed, the burden of

proving the insufficiency of such petition shall be upon the

protestants. The hearing on such protest shall be held and the

protest decided by the governing body within four (4) weeks after

the filing thereof.

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C.

1.

At such election the question before the voters shall

be:

Shall the Public Housing Authority of ___________ be limited to

its existing operations and prohibited from engaging in additional

projects or making additions to existing projects?

( ) YES

( ) NO

2. The question shall be decided by a majority of those voting

thereon.

D. The authority shall be limited to its existing operations

and prohibited from engaging in additional projects or additions to

existing projects upon certification that a majority of those voting

thereon have voted in the affirmative.

E. 1. If an authority has been so limited and prohibited as a

result of such an election the filing of a petition by five percent

(5%) of the qualified voters of the city or county, as the case may

be, asserting that there is a need for restoring the power of an

authority to engage in additional projects and additions to existing

projects, the governing body shall, by resolution, call an election

of the qualified voters residing in the area of the authority for

the purpose of deciding whether such power shall be restored.

2. Such election shall be held not less than eight (8) weeks

nor more than twelve (12) weeks after the date such petition is

filed.

3. If a protest to such petition is filed, the burden of

proving the insufficiency of such petition shall be upon the

protestants. The hearing on such protest shall be held and the

protest decided by the governing body within four (4) weeks after

the filing thereof.

4. At such election the question before the voters shall be:

a.

Shall the power of the Public Housing Authority of

______ to engage in additional projects and to make

additions to existing projects be restored?

( ) YES

( ) NO

b.

The question shall be decided by a majority of those

voting thereon.

F. No election under subsection C or E of this section shall be

called or held within twelve (12) months after the last election

thereunder.

G. A public housing authority whose powers have been limited by

an election held pursuant to this section prior to November 1, 1998,

shall have its powers fully restored by operation of law if a period

of at least fifteen (15) years has elapsed from the date the

election results were certified.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 251, § 6, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965. Amended

by Laws 1998, c. 99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.

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