Oklahoma § 70-4001 - Acquisition, construction and equipment of buildings,

§ 70-4001. Acquisition, construction and equipment of buildings,

additions, public utilities, etc. - Fees and charges - Sale of

surplus commodities and services - Cooperative agreements.

A. Subject to and in accordance with the terms hereof, the

boards of regents for all state educational institutions for and in

behalf of any university, college, school or institution under the

jurisdiction of each of the said boards are hereby authorized from

time to time to set aside such portion of their respective campuses

or of the campuses under the jurisdiction of said boards, or any

other land owned or leased by said boards, as may be necessary and

suitable for the construction thereon of dormitories, student

housing, cooperative group housing, parking facilities, adult

education facilities, kitchens, dining halls, auditoriums, student

union buildings, field houses, stadiums, public utility plants and

systems for the supplying of water, gas, heat or power and other

self-liquidating projects and other revenue-producing buildings for

the university, college or institution or related institution, which

may include public, nonprofit or private entities, deemed necessary

by said boards for the comfort, convenience and welfare of their

students, and suitable for the purposes for which said institutions

were established, including additions to existing buildings used for

such purposes; to acquire through construction, purchase,

condemnation or any combination thereof such dormitories, student

housing, cooperative group housing, parking facilities, adult

education facilities, kitchens, dining halls, auditoriums, student

union buildings, field houses, stadiums, public utility plants and

systems and other revenue-producing buildings and acquire or

construct additions, improvements and extensions to existing

buildings and structures used for such purposes and to equip,

furnish, maintain and operate all such buildings and structures; and

to acquire through purchase, condemnation or otherwise any land,

rights-of-way, easements, licenses and permits needed for the

present or future use of such buildings, structures, plants and

systems; provided, that such boards of regents shall not construct

or acquire, for their respective institutions, such utility plants

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or systems whose capacity is in excess of the present or reasonably

contemplated future needs of such institutions or related

institutions, except as provided in subsection C hereof.

B. When in the opinion of the board of regents of any such

institution any of the buildings, structures, plants and systems

constructed, acquired, improved, extended, added to, furnished or

equipped as above authorized are deemed necessary by the said board

for the comfort, convenience and welfare of the student body as a

whole, or for any specified class or part thereof, the board of

regents shall have authority to charge and collect from all students

in attendance at the university, college, school or institution, or

related institutions, or from any specified class or part thereof

for which such facilities are so deemed necessary, fees and charges

for the use or availability of such buildings and structures and for

the services or commodities to be made available by such plants,

systems or facilities. The proceeds of all such fees and charges

shall be considered as revenues within the meaning of Section 4004

of this title and the provisions of said section shall be applicable

thereto. Where the commodities and services supplied by any such

plant and system temporarily shall be found to be in excess of the

requirements of the university, college, school or institution, or

related institutions, the board of regents may sell the surplus to

other public or nonprofit consumers, including incorporated

municipalities, and in that connection may enter into such

agreements as it may consider advisable. All revenues received from

the sale of such surplus shall likewise be considered and treated as

other revenues under Section 4004 of this title. Such board of

regents may also enter into agreements for the purchase of water,

electricity, gas, heat, or power to be distributed through the

medium of any such plant or systems, provided only that no agreement

entered into under the provisions of this paragraph shall pledge the

credit of the State of Oklahoma.

C. Other state agencies or subdivisions of the state may enter

into cooperative agreements with the regents of the universities or

colleges on projects for the primary benefit of such university or

college, and make use of facilities and services financed by bonds

issued by the university or college, as authorized herein and under

the terms and conditions of this section.

D. It is the intent of the Legislature that no additional

public trusts having the state as beneficiary be created to finance

the purchase of land or facilities or the construction of facilities

at institutions of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or

their agencies and that no beneficial interest in a public trust be

accepted on behalf of the State of Oklahoma or any agency thereof

involving an institution of higher learning; and that no additional

projects be authorized for existing public trusts having the state

as beneficiary now operating for the direct or indirect benefit of

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any institution of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or

its agencies, except that the heating-cooling plant at the Oklahoma

Health Sciences Center may be repaired or expanded, if approved by

the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and except as

provided in Section 4017 of this title.

Amended by Laws 1986, c. 245, § 4, emerg. eff. June 12, 1986; Laws

1988, c. 272, § 12, operative July 1, 1988.