2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 72. Soldiers and Sailors
§72-165. Union Soldiers Cemetery – Certification as State Veterans Cemetery – Transfer to Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.

The veterans cemetery known historically as the Union Soldiers Cemetery located on the corner of Northeast 36th Street and Martin Luther King Avenue in Oklahoma City shall remain under the supervision and care of the Adjutant General of the State of Oklahoma until such time as the executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs certifies to the Oklahoma Veterans Commission receipt of such funds and clear title to property as are necessary to meet the standards established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to designate the property as a State Veterans Cemetery. The title to all property, real and personal included in and with the Union Soldiers Cemetery owned by the Military Department of the State of Oklahoma, being a tract of land in the Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 12 North, Range 3 West of the Indian Meridian, Oklahoma County, being more particularly described as: beginning at the northwest corner of the Northwest Quarter; thence North 89°30'53" East, along the north line of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of 510.00 feet; thence South 00"13'08" East, parallel with the west line of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of 280.00 feet; thence South 89"30'53" West, parallel with the north line of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of 510.00 feet to the west line of the Northwest Quarter; thence North 00°13'08" West, along the west line of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of 280.00 feet to the point of beginning, containing an area of 142,799 square feet or 3.2782 acres, more or less, shall be transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs within ninety (90) days after the certification provided for in this section is executed by the Executive Director.

Laws 1939, p. 362, § 3, emerg. eff. May 10, 1939. Amended by Laws 2022, c. 76, § 1, emerg. eff. April 25, 2022.