ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3148	By:	Steele of the House  

				and

			Bingman of the Senate  

An Act relating to statutes and reports; providing for the Oklahoma Statutes 2011; repealing 75 O.S. 2011, Sections 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184 and 185, which relate to prior versions of the Oklahoma Statutes; providing for codification; and declaring an emergency.

SUBJECT:  Oklahoma Statutes

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 192 of Title 75, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  The “Oklahoma Statutes 2011” certified by the Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court on November 7, 2011, are hereby adopted as the official Statutes of the State of Oklahoma and are declared to be in full force and effect.  Provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to repeal or in any way affect or modify any special or local laws or any law making an appropriation or any law relating to any special election or validating act, or any law affecting any bond issue or by which any bond issue may have been authorized, nor to affect any pending proceedings or any existing rights or remedies, nor the running of the statutes of limitations in force at the time of the approval of this section; but all such local and special laws, laws making appropriations, laws relating to special elections, validating acts, and laws relating to or authorizing bond issues, pending proceedings, and existing rights and remedies, and statutes of limitations running and in force at the time of the approval of this section shall continue and exist in all respects as if this section had not been passed.  Provided, further, that this section shall not be construed to alter, change, impair, disparage, vest or divest, or in any way affect any right or interest in the United States, the State of Oklahoma, any Indian tribes or Nations of Indians within the State of Oklahoma, nor shall the same be construed to repeal any act of the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma enacted subsequent to the adjournment of the First Regular Session of the Fifty-third Legislature of the State of Oklahoma.

B.  The Secretary of State shall issue a proclamation and publish it in a newspaper of general circulation within the State of Oklahoma stating the date upon which the statutes were published.

SECTION 2.     REPEALER     75 O.S. 2011, Sections 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184 and 185, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed the House of Representatives the 14th day of May, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 18th day of May, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate