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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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3 SENATE BILL 560 By: Jett
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to turnpikes; prohibiting turnpike
7 projects, routes, and extensions under certain
8 circumstances; requiring certain election be held in
8 certain areas; allowing authorization under certain
9 approval; providing time that certain approval exists
9 for construction purposes; stating how certain
10 elections shall be conducted relating to certain
10 projects; requiring proof of certain ownership of
11 real property; providing for codification; and
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14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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15 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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16 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1705.7 of Title 69, unless there
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18 A. No turnpike project or route, nor any extension of an
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19 existing turnpike, shall be authorized unless the Legislature shall
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20 receive, prior to such authorization, results of a special election
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21 from among property owners whose land is situated within a one-mile
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22 radius of the proposed turnpike route. Authorization shall be
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23 allowed only if the majority of landowners along the proposed
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24 turnpike route vote in the affirmative.
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1 B. The question at the special election shall be whether a
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2 majority of such affected landowners are in favor of or against the
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3 proposed turnpike route. Such special election is to be organized
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4 and conducted by the county election board in each county where the
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5 property of each affected landowner is located. Notice of such
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6 election shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general
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7 circulation in the county or counties in which the proposed route is
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8 located once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks preceding
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9 the date of such election, and by posting such notice in three
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10 public places in such county or counties for at least twenty (20)
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11 days prior to the date of such election. If more than four (4)
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12 years elapse from the time that a vote takes place prior to a
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13 project's or a route's legislative authorization, the prior vote
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14 shall be presumptively considered to have lapsed and a new special
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15 election in line with the above criteria must be held prior to any
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16 legislative authorization for the construction of any such turnpike
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17 or turnpike extension.
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18 C. For purposes of counting votes in such special election, in
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19 instances where fee simple title of an affected parcel of land is
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20 held in co-tenancy or in joint tenancy, any one of the owners may
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21 vote, but, in order for such vote to be given effect, it shall be
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22 necessary for the representative or representatives of such
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23 landowner to present to the county election board proxies or other
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24 reliable form of proof as shall be developed by the State Election
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1 Board and made available through all county election boards for use
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2 by all prospectively eligible voters.
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3 D. Acceptable proof shall include recorded deeds and other
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4 instruments of conveyance, recorded memoranda of trusts, final
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5 probate and divorce decrees, affidavits of surviving joint tenants,
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6 and affidavits of heirship. Where fee simple title is held by a
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7 married couple, either one of the two persons comprising such
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8 married couple shall be empowered to exercise the right to vote
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9 relative to the affected parcel of land. A landowner who,
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10 subsequent to the first official publication of notice of such vote,
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11 creates two or more separate tracts from a single parcel of land and
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13 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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