Municipal Government
Within Oklahoma there are two types of municipal governments: cities and towns. Population determines which type of government is in place. Both are municipal corporations in that they can both sue and be sued, may own and sell property, create debt, and may levy and collect taxes. They are the most basic level of government in Oklahoma and are also the most accessible.
The term of office of all municipal official is four years with elections held on the first Tuesday of April of each odd-numbered year.
Including both cities and towns, Oklahoma has 589 municipalities.
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Famous quotes containing the words municipal and/or government:
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)