Oklahoma Code § 8-12

Title 8. Cemeteries: Election of officers - Votes and eligibility of lot owners -
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Control by original corporators or successors.
At each subsequent election of officers of any such corporation,
held after the first annual election, the owner or owners of a lot
in the cemetery, and none other, shall be entitled to one vote at
such election, or for any other purpose, and no more than one vote;
and shall, by virtue of such proprietorship, be a member of the
corporation, and eligible to any of its offices; but if there be
more than one proprietor of any such lot, then such one of the
proprietors as the majority of them shall designate may cast the one
vote as aforesaid; and each trustee or director shall be the sole
proprietor of a lot in such cemetery: Provided, that whenever less
than five (5) persons reside within five miles of any cemetery own
lots therein, the original corporators or their successors may
control and manage said cemetery.

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