Oklahoma Code § 11-36-118

Title 11. Cities And Towns: Noncompliance by railway - Doing work at railway's
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expense - Lien on railway property.
A.  If the owners of the railway shall fail or refuse to comply
with the order of the municipality to make such improvements by
paving, chatting, graveling, macadamizing, or building sidewalks as
the municipality may direct, or to repair such paving, graveling,
macadamizing or sidewalks, such work may be done by the
municipality.  The cost and expense of such work done by the
municipality may be charged against the railway company and may be
collected in the district court in the county in which the
improvements have been made, by action of law, in the name of the
municipality against the railway company.  In any such action at law
it shall be sufficient to declare generally for work or labor done,
or material furnished on the particular street, avenue, alley or
highway so improved.
B.  In addition to the remedy provided in this section for
collection of costs and expenses, the municipality, or any one
authorized by it to do the work, shall be entitled to a lien upon
the property of the railway company.  Such lien shall exist for the
full amount of the cost and expense against the property of the
railway company adjacent or contiguous to the improvement or
improvements so made.  The lien may be enforced against the property
of the railway company by action in the district court in the county
in which the improvements have been made.  In any action to enforce
the lien, it shall be sufficient to declare generally that the lien
exists for the amount of the cost and expense of the work and labor
done or material furnished on the particular improvement.

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