2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 72. Soldiers and Sailors
§72-226. Veterans Center at Clinton - Establishment - Employees.

There is hereby established, in addition to the Oklahoma Veterans Centers established by Section 221 of Title 72 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Oklahoma Veterans Center at Clinton, Oklahoma, on the site of the former Western Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium. All persons serving as employees of the Western Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium under provisions of the State Merit System of Personnel Administration shall continue to serve as employees of the Oklahoma Veterans Center at Clinton, provided that such employees shall remain in the classified service. All employees hired by the Oklahoma Veterans Center at Clinton on or after the effective date of this act shall be under the Oklahoma Merit System of Personnel Administration, except one superintendent, one principal assistant or deputy, one private secretary, part-time physicians and other professional personnel engaged in clinical and consultant services. The buildings and equipment and the following described land of the Western Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium are hereby transferred to the Oklahoma Veterans Center at Clinton:

A strip, piece or parcel of land lying in the NE 1/4 of Section 26, T 12 N, R 17 W, in Custer County, Oklahoma, said parcel of land being described by metes and bounds as follows:

Beginning at the point where the present east right-of-way line of US Highway 183 intersects the north line of said NE 1/4 a distance of 2,142.3 feet west of the NE corner of said NE 1/4, thence southwesterly along said right-of-way line along a curve to the right having a radius of 2,914.9 feet a distance of 155.2 feet, thence S 28 degrees 14' W along said right-of-way line a distance of 106.5 feet, thence S 51 degrees 46' E along said right-of-way line a distance of 10.0 feet, thence S 28 degrees 14' W along said right-of-way line a distance of 279.0 feet, thence S 21 degrees 46' E a distance of 180.0 feet, thence S 01 degree 38' E a distance of 608.5 feet, thence S 83 degrees 54' E a distance of 2,323.6 feet to a point on the east line of said NE 1/4, thence north along the east line of said NE 1/4 to the NE corner of said NE 1/4 a distance of 1,503.5 feet, thence west along the north line of said NE 1/4 a distance of 2,142.3 feet to the point of beginning.

Containing 73.09 acres more or less.

Laws 1972, c. 100, § 6, operative April 1, 1972.