§ 62-423. Registration of bonds - Cancellation of refunded obligations - Preservation - Certificate of refunded obligations - Preservation - Certificate of issuance pursuant to law - Certification by State Auditor and Inspector.  


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  • The clerk or appointed agent of every county, city, town, township, board of education, school district, or other municipal corporation in this state, issuing bonds under Sections 421 et seq. of this title, shall register the same in his office.  Such bonds shall also, in every case, be registered by the county clerk or appointed agent, showing the date, number and amount thereof, rate of interest, to whom payable, where payable, and date of maturity; and all bonded indebtedness refunded under this act shall have the words "paid in full" marked in plain manner across the face of each bond refunded; and such canceled obligations shall be carefully preserved by the clerk or appointed agent of such municipality, or destroyed, upon resolution or ordinance therefor, as the case may be, after a registration of the number, amount and date of issuance having first been made by the clerk or appointed agent; and all bonds issued under Sections 421 et seq. of this title shall have endorsed thereon a certificate, signed by the county clerk and the district attorney of the county in which such issuing municipality is located, said bonds, or evidence of debt, are issued pursuant to law, and that said issue is within the debt limit.  Thereafter said refunding bonds shall be delivered to the State Auditor and Inspector and he shall register the same in his office in a book kept for that purpose and shall, under his seal of office certify upon such bonds the fact that they have been registered in his office according to law.  The provisions of the Registered Public Obligations Act of Oklahoma shall apply.

Amended by Laws 1983, c. 170, § 53, eff. July 1, 1983.