Oklahoma § 61-322 - Easement and right-of-way grants - Exemptions

§ 61-322. Easement and right-of-way grants - Exemptions

A. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services is hereby authorized to grant easements, rights-of-way, and

enter into contracts authorizing the construction and maintenance of

telephone, electric transmission and distribution lines, railroad

lines, telegraph lines, and pipelines across any state lands under

the management of said Director, and all lands set apart for the use

and benefit of any state agency, department, or institution

including all lands set apart for use of colleges, universities,

hospitals, and eleemosynary institutions. Said easements and

rights-of-way grants shall be for a period not to exceed twenty (20)

years and shall provide for such considerations, terms, and

conditions including privileges and conditions of renewal, as the

Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may

determine advisable for the best interests of the state institutions

in possession thereof.

B. The Commissioners of the Land Office, the Oklahoma Ordnance

Works Authority, the Midwestern Oklahoma Development Authority, the

Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Turnpike

Authority, the Northeast Oklahoma Public Facilities Authority and

the Department of Wildlife Conservation and their lands shall be

exempt from the application of this section.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 587, § 1. Amended by Laws 1951, p. 249, § 1;

Laws 1983, c. 304, § 137, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 1985, H.J.R. No.

1039, p. 1682, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 245, § 8,

emerg. eff. June 12, 1986; Laws 1997, c. 292, § 6, eff. July 1,

1997; Laws 1998, c. 203, § 7, emerg. eff. May 11, 1998; Laws 2012,

c. 304, § 814. Renumbered from § 126.1 of Title 74 by Laws 2013, c.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 61. Public Buildings and Public Works

209, § 34, eff. July 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 286, § 3,

eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2016, c. 336, § 1.