Legal Opinion
Opinion No. (2009)
Oklahoma Attorney General Reports
Decided July 9, 2009Published
1Opinion of the Court
Dear Senator Corn:
This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:
May a charter municipality adopt a charter provision that prohibits any state or federal employee from running for and being elected to a position on that charter municipality's governing body?
Your question involves the legal authority, if any, delegated to or conferred upon charter municipalities to adopt a charter provision that prohibits the candidacy for and the election to a position on the charter municipality's governing body by any state…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- City of Sapulpa v. LandSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1924
- State Ex Rel. Trimble v. City of MooreSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1991
- Hampton by and Through Hampton v. HammonsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1987
- State Ex Rel. Reardon, Co. v. ScalesSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
- In Re UngerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
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