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Opinion No. (1999)

Oklahoma Attorney General Reports

Decided June 15, 1999Published

1Opinion of the Court

Dear Representative Wright,

¶ 0 This office received a request for an official Attorney General Opinion from your predecessor, Representative Don Weese, addressing, in effect, the following questions:

1. May a charter municipality authorize a company, without avote of the people, to provide telecommunications services to thepublic pursuant to its existing franchise, which is a franchiseto own and operate a system for the manufacture, transmission,distribution, and sale of electricity to the municipality and thepublic generally, without violating the provisions of ArticleXVIII, § 5(a) of the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Blair v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  2. City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
  3. Oliver v. City of TulsaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1982
  4. Development Industries, Inc. v. City of NormanSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1966
  5. City Nat. Bank of Fort Smith v. Incorporated Town of KiowaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1924

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