Oklahoma § 69-1502 - Authorized expenditures of funds and money

§ 69-1502. Authorized expenditures of funds and money

All funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation and

all funds credited to the State Highway Construction and Maintenance

Fund and all funds received from the United States Government under

contracts with the Federal Highway Administration are to be used and

expended by the Department to pay: Legal obligations in the

operation of the Department and the Commission, and in the

construction and maintenance of roads and highways; the expenses of

operating and maintaining the state highway system; expenses

incurred in constructing, repairing, and maintaining state highways,

farm-to-market roads and county highways as authorized by law;

matching federal funds for the annual Federal Highway Administration

allocation to the Center for Local Government Technology at Oklahoma

State University for the Federal Highway Administration Rural

Technical Assistance Program, up to seventy-five percent (75%) of

the amount of funding the state is required to provide; necessary

and convenient items not specifically mentioned herein; salaries,

wages, and lawful expenses of the members of the Commission, the

Director, the Departmental employees, the attorneys and other

professional help of the Department; for the purchase of office

supplies, furniture, fixtures, and equipment; for the construction,

maintenance, and repair of needed warehouses, garages, division

headquarters, and other needed buildings; for premiums on bonds,

workers' compensation insurance, public liability and property

damage insurance; for the purchase of materials, tools, machinery,

motor vehicles, and equipment necessary or convenient in the

operation of the Department and construction and maintenance of

roads and highways; for witnesses' fees, sheriffs' mileage, and

publication cost in actions to appropriate right-of-way, land or

materials needed in the construction or maintenance of roads and

highways; any expenses which may be necessary or convenient in

constructing and maintaining roads and highways and in accomplishing

the purposes for which the Commission and the Department were

created; for the acquisition by purchase of right-of-way and land

and relocation assistance to persons displaced as a result of such

acquisition; as shall be provided by commission regulations which

shall not exceed in amount similar assistance provided by federal

law and regulations, provided further that (1) all payments received

by persons displaced by reason of this act are not to be considered

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

as income for state income tax purposes; (2) nothing in this act

shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceeding

brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of value or

damage not in existence immediately prior to the date of enactment

of this act; (3) all final determinations made by the Commission as

to a person's eligibility for, or the amount of any benefit payable

by reason of this act, shall be determinative and not subject to

judicial review; any final judgment rendered by a court of competent

jurisdiction in eminent domain proceedings for the taking or

damaging of real or personal property for which the state is liable;

for the expense of audit as provided by law and for the satisfaction

of any and all lawful claims or demands of whatsoever kind or

character arising out of contracts with or judgments rendered

against the Commission or the State of Oklahoma as a result of the

construction and maintenance of roads and highways; and other

expenses authorized by law.

Amended by Laws 1988, c. 289, § 17, operative July 1, 1988; Laws

1989, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 1, § 18, eff. July 1, 1990.