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21. Decorte v. Robinson , 1998 OK 87. 22. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §155 (1)-(37) (2011). 23. George J. Meyer, “Sovereign Immunity for Tort Actions in Oklahoma: The Governmental Tort Claims Act,” 20 Tulsa L. J. 561 (2013). 24. Farley v. City of Claremore 2020 OK 30, 465 P. 3d 1213. 25. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §154 A. 26. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §154 (C) (2011). 27. Okla. Stat. tit. 12 §95(3). 28. See Crawford v. OSU Medical Trust , 2022 OK 5 stating, “Notice was untimely, and as a result, the Plaintiff’s claims against OSUMC are forever barred. We affirm dismissal of OSUMC for lack of jurisdiction.” 34. Payne v. Kerns , 2020 OK 31, 467 P.3d 659. 35. See also Rocket Properties v. LaFortune , 2022 OK 5, wherein a unanimous Supreme Court held, “The question before this Court is whether the GTCA applies to inverse condemnation claims in light of the 2014 legislative amendments to the GTCA following this Court’s decision in Bosh v. Cherokee County Gov. Building Auth ., 2013 OK 9, 305 P.3d 994. We hold that it does not … condemnation proceedings do not involve a tort. Condemnation involves the taking of private property for public use.” 29. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §157(B) (1995). 30. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §156 (2011). 31. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §156 (D) (2011). 32. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §157 (A) (2011). 33. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §157 (B).

1. Robert G. Spector, “State Sovereign Immunity in Tort: Oklahoma’s Long and Tortuous Road,” 34 Okla. L. Rev. 526 n. 6 (1981). 2. U.S. Constitution, Amendment XI. 3. Vanderpool v. Oklahoma Historical Society , 1983 OK 82, 672 P. 2d 1153. 4. Id. 5. George J. Meyer, “Sovereign Immunity for Tort Actions in Oklahoma: The Governmental Tort Claims Act,” 20 Tulsa L. J. 561, p. 568 (2013). 6. Title 51 Oklahoma Statutes §§151 – Section 172. 7. Okla. Stat. tit. 51, §152.1. 8. Okla. Stat. tit. 51, §152 (14). 9. Tort, Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019). 10. Okla. Stat. tit. 51, §152.1 (2011). 11. Kampus v. Town of Granite , 2022 OK 45, wherein the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled a town has no duty to secure a headstone in a town-operated cemetery where the town did not own the headstone. 12. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §151.2 (2011). 13. See Act of April 21, 2014, ch. 77, §§1-2, 2014 O.S.L. 245, 249-250 (codified at 51 O.S. Supp. 2014 §§152(4), 153(B)). 14. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §153 (2011). 15. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §151 (7) (2011). 16. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §152 (12) (2011). 17. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §152 (7). 18. Okla. Stat. tit. 51 §152 (12) (2011). 19. Parker v. Midwest City , 1993 OK 29. 20. Nail v. City of Henryetta , 1996 OK 12.

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