Oklahoma § 63-2054 - Community Social Service Center Authority - Powers,

§ 63-2054. Community Social Service Center Authority - Powers,

rights and privileges.

The State Health Department is hereby designated as the Oklahoma

Community Social Service Center authority and is authorized to

exercise the following powers, rights, and privileges in carrying

out the purposes of this act:

(a) To prepare and publish guidelines, procedures, priorities,

and regulations following consultation with other state departments

and approval by the State Board of Health.

(b) To acquire by purchase, lease, sublease, or gift, any and

all property, real, personal, or mixed, necessary to the exercise of

the powers, rights, privileges, and functions conferred upon it by

this act.

(c) To acquire, build, extend, and improve any and all

facilities which, in the judgment of the Authority, will benefit the

people of the state, or which are necessary to the accomplishment of

the purpose of this act.

(d) To maintain and operate or enter into contracts with

official or nonprofit public bodies to maintain and operate

facilities acquired under the provisions of this act.

(e) To fix and contract concerning annual charges to tenants

occupying space in facilities acquired under the provisions of this

act.

(f) To enter into agreements with any person or entity for the

acquisition of property to accomplish the purposes of this act.

(g) To receive, allocate, or otherwise expend appropriations

made by the Government of the State of Oklahoma to accomplish the

purposes of this act.

(h) To apply for and receive directly, or through public bodies

in which the state has taken a beneficial interest, grants or

allocations from instrumentalities of the Government of the United

States which will assist in accomplishing the purposes of this act.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety

(i) To deposit all funds received by it from Community Social

Service Centers properties in a special account in the Office of the

State Treasurer, which said account in the Office of the State

Treasurer, which said account hereby is authorized and designated

the County Social Service Centers Account. Any funds in said

account shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer at the direction

of the authority for expenditures relative to the establishment,

improvement, maintenance and operation of County Social Service

Centers.

Laws 1967, c. 211, § 4, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967.