Oklahoma § 80-8 - Flood control - Consent to acquisition of lands - Rights

§ 80-8. Flood control - Consent to acquisition of lands - Rights

reserved - Powers ceded.

The consent of the State of Oklahoma is hereby given to the

acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift, or condemnation

with adequate compensation, of such lands in Oklahoma, as in the

opinion of the federal government may be needed for programs and

works of improvement for runoff and waterflow retardation and soil

erosion prevention or other purposes, in the interest of flood

control, within the state in accordance with the programs provided

for such purpose in Section 13 of the Act of the Congress of the

United States approved December 22, 1944, and entitled "An Act

authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and

harbors for flood control, and for other purposes;" provided, that

the State of Oklahoma shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with

the United States in and over the lands so acquired, so far that

civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue

under the authority of the State of Oklahoma against any person

charged with the commission of any crime without or within said

jurisdiction, may be executed thereon in like manner as if this act

had not been passed. The state's concurrent jurisdiction over said

lands also shall include the power to tax property and transactions

not exempt from the taxing power of the state. Power is hereby

conferred upon the Congress of the United States to pass such laws

and to make or provide for the making of such rules and regulations,

of both a civil and criminal nature, and provide punishment thereof,

as in its judgment may be necessary for the administration, control

and protection of such lands as may be from time to time acquired by

the United States, under the provisions of this section.

Laws 1945, p. 395, § 1, emerg. eff. April 28, 1945.