Oklahoma § 69-1331 - Powers of state and governing bodies

§ 69-1331. Powers of state and governing bodies

Within their respective jurisdictions, the State of Oklahoma

through the Commission, and the governing body of every city within

the provisions of this article, and the board of county

commissioners of each county, acting alone, or in cooperation with

any federal, state, county or city agency having authority to

participate in the construction or maintenance of highways, shall

have authority to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate,

alter, improve, maintain and provide limited access facilities; and

may designate the whole or any part or parts thereof as parkways, or

as heavy traffic highways, or may otherwise limit or specify the

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 69. Roads, Bridges, and Ferries

type of traffic entitled to use the same. For the purposes of this

article, each city within the provisions of this article, and every

county within the state, shall have authority to acquire property

and rights-of-way for limited access facilities by gift, devise,

purchase or condemnation in the same manner as may be authorized by

law for the acquisition of such property or property rights for

highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions. The

decision by any such governing body that any such limited access

facility constructed, or to be constructed, is a public utility

shall be final and conclusive.

Laws 1968, c. 415, § 1331, operative July 1, 1968.