2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 27A. Environment and Natural Resources
§27A-3-3-107. District as local agency.
A. Any district organized under the Conservation District Act shall have power to serve as a local agency for operating and maintaining any project or program concerned with the conservation of renewable natural resources that is administered by any local, state, interstate or federal public agency, by entering into a contract or other appropriate administrative arrangement with the agency administering such project or program.
B. In serving as such local agency for any such project or program, the district may use any authority or funds available to it under the Conservation District Act which are required for such purposes.
C. 1. Any agency of the government of this state and any local political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized to make such arrangements with any district, through contract, regulation or other appropriate means, wherever it believes that such arrangements will promote administrative efficiency or economy.
2. In connection with any such arrangements, any state or local agency or political subdivision of this state is authorized, within the limits of funds available to it, to contribute funds, equipment, property or services to any district; and to collaborate with a district in jointly planning, constructing, financing or operating any work or activity provided for in such arrangements and in jointly acquiring, maintaining and operating equipment or facilities in connection therewith.
D. Any district may receive funds, property, equipment and services from any local, state, interstate or federal public agency, or from private donors, for use in serving as the local agency for operating and maintaining a program or project under any such contract or other arrangement.
Added by Laws 1971, c. 346, § 15-503, operative July 1, 1971. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 221, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 82, § 1501-503 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.
