Oklahoma Code § 20-644

Title 20. Courts: Courts or counties abolished or abandoned - Courts
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declared invalid - Transfer of pending cases.
Whenever any court is heretofore or may hereafter be created and
thereafter abandoned, or where any county is heretofore or hereafter

abandoned, all civil or criminal cases, which may be filed in such
created courts or in the courts of such created counties, shall be
transferred to the court of said county wherein such court town is
located, or, if the county is created and thereafter abandoned, the
cases filed, and the dockets and records of said court are hereby
transferred, and a new county created and thereafter abandoned, all
cases filed in the district court or in the county court, shall be
hereafter transferred into courts of such counties having
jurisdiction over the territory formerly under the jurisdiction of
such county and courts and such judge, of the newly organized
county, or the county in which the territory of such courts was
located, shall have complete jurisdiction over all cases therein
pending and dispose of same as if said cases were originally filed
in such court and dispose of things as fully and completely as if
such court had original jurisdiction of said matter.  Whenever a
court is created with jurisdiction concurrent to that of a district
court and such newly created court is later abandoned, abolished, or
declared invalid, all civil or criminal cases filed in such created
court shall be transferred to the district court of the district
wherein such created court exercised concurrent jurisdiction.  The
transfer of said cases shall be accomplished forthwith under the
direction of the district judge by the court clerk of the county in
which said created court is later abandoned, abolished, or declared
invalid, and said transfer to the district court shall have the same
effect as if said cases had been originally filed in the said
district court and no additional court costs shall be assessed for
such transfer or docketing in the district court.  Said district
court shall be the successor court for all purposes to the created
court which was later abandoned, abolished, or declared invalid.

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