Oklahoma § 73-83.3 - Official master comprehensive plan - Agreements with City

§ 73-83.3. Official master comprehensive plan - Agreements with City

of Oklahoma City.

A. The Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission

shall make, adopt, maintain and revise from time to time an official

master comprehensive plan for the District for the purpose of

bringing about the coordinated physical development in accordance

with the present and future needs of the District. The master plan

shall be developed so as to conserve the natural resources of the

District, to ensure efficient expenditure of public funds, and to

promote the safety, convenience, prosperity and general welfare of

the inhabitants and property owners therein. Such master

comprehensive plan shall include, among other things, regulations

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 73. State Capital and Capitol Building

relative to the location, character and extent of highways,

railroads, transportation routes, utility services, buildings,

parks, and parkways within the District. The Commission may adopt

the master comprehensive plan in whole or in part and subsequently

amend or extend the adopted plan or portion thereof. After adoption

of the master comprehensive plan, or of any extension or amendment

thereof, an attested copy thereof shall be filed for record with the

county clerk of Oklahoma County. The Commission shall coordinate

such master comprehensive plan, to the greatest extent it deems

practical, with the master plan of the City of Oklahoma City and

that of the Oklahoma County Planning Commission and the eight-year

plan of the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission.

B. The Commission is hereby authorized and directed to enter

into agreements with the City of Oklahoma City providing for mutual

cooperation and joint regulation within the District with respect

to:

1. Planning and zoning;

2. Permission to build or to use land;

3. Enforcement of building, health and safety codes and

inspection to insure compliance therewith; and

4. Other matters within the jurisdiction of the Commission.

Such agreements may not cede the Commission's final authority and

responsibility over the matters entrusted to it by law.

Added by Laws 1953, p. 405, § 5, emerg. eff. June 8, 1953. Amended

by Laws 1970, c. 327, § 5, emerg. eff. April 28, 1970; Laws 2013, c.

209, § 12, eff. July 1, 2013.