Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 373 - Taxpayer May Institute Suit on Failure of Officers

• Cite as: Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 373

Upon the refusal, failure, or neglect of the proper officers of the state or of any county, city, town, or school district, after written demand signed, verified and served upon them by a number of registered voters of the state or such county, city, town, or school district equal to one hundred (100), or two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) of the registered voters living within the state or such county, city, town or school district, whichever is less, to institute or diligently prosecute proper proceedings at law or in equity for the recovery of any money or property belonging to the state, or such county, city, town, or school district, paid out or transferred by any officer thereof in pursuance of any unauthorized, unlawful, fraudulent, or void contract made, or attempted to be made, by any of its officers for the state or any such county, city, town, or school district, any resident taxpayer of the state or such county, city, town, or school district affected by such payment or transfer after serving the notice aforesaid and after giving security for cost, may in the name of the State of Oklahoma as plaintiff, institute and maintain any proper action which the proper officers of the state, county, city, town, or school district might institute and maintain for the recovery of such property; and the state or such county, city, town or school district shall in such event be made defendant. If a court of competent jurisdiction determines the claims ...