Okla. Stat. tit. 12 § 21
In compliance with 66 O.S. § 55 and 69 O.S. §§1203 and 1708 the following form is approved for use in condemnation cases:
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
IN ___________ COUNTY,
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
____________________________ | ) |
Plaintiff, | ) |
) | No. _____________________ |
____________________________ | ) |
Defendant | ) |
NOTICE IN CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING
TO: (Here list the name and mailing address of the condemnor's lawyer and of each condemnee's lawyer, as well as the name and mailing address of each unrepresented condemnee.)
You will take notice that court-appointed commissioners (appraisers) filed in this case their report on ______________, 20_____.
A copy of this report, as it pertains to the tract in which you have an interest, is attached to this notice.
If you wish to present a legal challenge to the attached report or contest the condemnor's right to take, you or your lawyer must file a written exception to it in this office at the courthouse not later than thirty (30) days after the date the attached report was filed. Should you desire a jury trial on the amount of damages to be awarded, you or your lawyer must file a written demand for it in this office at the courthouse not later than sixty (60) days after the date the attached report was filed.
You are advised that in computing the time limits for filing the papers mentioned in this notice the date the commissioners' report was filed is to be excluded and the last day of the prescribed period included.
If you fail to file an exception to the attached report or a demand for jury trial within the time limits given in this notice, your property that is sought to be taken in this case may pass to the condemnor for the amount stated in the attached commissioners' report.
____________________________
(name of town and date of notice)
____________________________
(name of Court Clerk)
Court Clerk of __________________ County
By ______________________________
(Deputy)
I certify that copy hereof, together with a copy of the Report of Commissioners, was mailed by me this date, postage prepaid, to each of the persons herein named at the address above indicated which is the last known address of each of them; and
I certify that a copy hereof was published one (1) time in the ____________ on the __________ day of ________________ 20____.
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(Date) | (Deputy) |
(INSTRUCTIONS: The certificate shown at the bottom of this form is to be added only on the original that is filed by the clerk in the case; copies of this notice to be used for mailing or publishing shall not show this certificate. It is not necessary to publish a copy of this notice if no party was served by publication.)
Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 21