Oklahoma § 82-861 - District created and territory included - Governmental

§ 82-861. District created and territory included - Governmental

agency and body politic - Powers - Designation of land and water.

There is hereby created within the State of Oklahoma a

conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Grand River

Dam Authority", hereinafter called the district, and consisting of

that part of the State of Oklahoma which is included within the

boundaries of the Counties of Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware,

Mayes, Muskogee, Ottawa, Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Lincoln, Logan,

Tulsa, Wagoner, Sequoyah, Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, McIntosh,

Creek, Okmulgee, Nowata, Washington and Rogers. Such district shall

be, and is hereby declared to be, a governmental agency of the State

of Oklahoma, body politic and corporate, with powers of government

and with the authority to exercise the rights, privileges and

functions hereinafter specified, including the control, storing,

preservation and distribution of the waters of the Grand River and

its tributaries, for irrigation, power and other useful purposes and

reclamation and irrigation of arid, semiarid and other lands needing

irrigation, and the conservation and development of the forests,

minerals, land, water and other resources and the conservation and

development of hydroelectric power and other electrical energy, from

whatever source derived, of the State of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 82. Waters and Water Rights

Nothing in this act or in any other act or law contained,

however, shall be construed as authorizing the district to levy or

collect taxes or assessments, or to create any indebtedness payable

out of the taxes or assessments, or in any manner to pledge the

credit of the State of Oklahoma, or any subdivision thereof.

All that body of land and the water impounded above the

Pensacola Dam, Pensacola Project, shall be hereafter designated and

known as "Grand Lake O'The Cherokees". All that body of land and

the water impounded above Robert S. Kerr Dam, Markham Ferry Project,

shall be hereafter designated and known as "Lake Hudson". All that

body of land and the water impounded above Chimney Rock Dam, Salina

Pumped-Storage Project, shall be designated and known as "W. R.

Holway Reservoir".

Laws 1935, p. 350, § 1; Laws 1937, p. 481, § 1; Laws 1941, p. 472, §

1; Laws 1941, p. 475, § 1; Laws 1949, p. 633, § 1; Laws 1957, p.

562, § 1; Laws 1978, c. 283, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 1978; Laws

1981, c. 204, § 9, emerg. eff. May 26, 1981.