Whenever fifty persons, resident of a given area, or a majority of the holders of title to lands in such area, in any county susceptible of being furnished sewer systems for domestic use by the same system or by a combined system of sewer lines, desire to provide for a common sewerage system, they may propose the organization of a sewer improvement district, under the provisions of this act, and when so organized each district shall have the powers conferred herein or that may hereafter be conferred by law upon such sewer improvement districts.
Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 871