Claremore approves resolution authorizing court petition to abate long-running nuisance property

The Claremore City Council adopted Resolution No. 2026-1 authorizing the city's municipal prosecutor to file a petition in Rogers County District Court to seek abatement of a property previously declared a nuisance.

The municipal prosecutor, who identified themself in the hearing as the city's municipal prosecutor (no personal name was given in the transcript), told the council the city has engaged with the property owner for approximately a year and a half to two years without resolving the matter and that the nuisance has escalated into a public-health concern. "It is accumulation of tons of personal property, debris, trash, all sorts of things that are breeding' rodents," the prosecutor said.

The prosecutor said the nuisance declaration has already occurred and the property owner did not appeal that decision. The resolution gives the prosecutor and counsel authority to file the necessary pleadings under the statutory mechanism in Title 50 for the district court to issue an abatement order. "If you adopt the resolution, it gives me and my firm authority to go forward, file the necessary pleadings for the district court to issue that order," the prosecutor said.

Council moved, seconded and approved the resolution by roll-call vote. No public testimony from the property owner was recorded in the meeting.

Next steps: Filing the petition with the district court begins the court-ordered abatement process under Title 50; the prosecutor said the court remedy is the more practical and legally protective route than the city conducting abatement on its own.