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James Lankford: “Typically, a city would go in and just abandon that property, would declare it abandoned and would clear the property.”

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
Typically, a city would go in and just abandon that property, would declare it abandoned and would clear the property.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses challenges with abandoned properties on fractionated lands.

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