The Oklahoma Historical Society, on behalf of the Will Rogers Memorial, may:
1. Acquire, hold, own, receive, accept or contract for real or personal property in the name of the Will Rogers Memorial;
2. Act in cooperation with federal, state, or local government or any agency thereof or any other legal entity in constructing, building, preserving, and maintaining the Will Rogers Memorial;
3. Accept gifts, grants, contributions, or donations from governmental sources, or any person, firm, corporation, or municipal subdivision of this state, or any group of persons for the purposes of constructing, maintaining, preserving, or displaying the collection and historical artifacts of the Will Rogers Memorial to be located at, or near, the town of Claremore, Oklahoma;
4. Enter into contracts and agreements with third parties as the Oklahoma Historical Society deems appropriate in the administration of its duties, including the authority to contract for the services of an electronic or online point-of-sale system; and
5. Furnish suitable quarters to house, display, and preserve the Will Rogers Collection.
Added by Laws 1975, c. 182, § 2, emerg. eff. May 22, 1975. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 262, § 3; Laws 2001, c. 198, § 3, emerg. eff. May 7, 2001; Laws 2016, c. 1, § 3, emerg. eff. March 7, 2016.
NOTE: Laws 2001, c. 198, § 15, emerg. eff. May 7, 2001 repealed the effective date (Aug. 1, 2001) of Laws 1999, c. 262, § 3.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 53. Oklahoma Historical Societies and Associations
§53-1.4. Additional powers and duties - Exchanges of duplicates.
§53-1.4a. Office of Tribal Relations.
§53-1.5. Arts and crafts programs, exhibits and shows on state property.
§53-1.6. Board of Directors - Membership - Succession - Agents of state.
§53-1.7. Accounts and reports.
§53-1.9. Title to locally-owned historical or recreational site - Approval of funding.
§53-1.10. Historical Society Revolving Fund.
§53-1.10a. Oklahoma Historical Society Capital Improvement and Operations Revolving Fund.
§53-1.15. Certified copies of records, papers and documents - Fees for certificates.
§53-1.16. Union soldiers' room - Purpose - Custodian - Agreements as to contents.
§53-1.17. Confederate soldiers' room - Purpose - Custodian - Agreements as to contents.
§53-1.18. Dispensation of funds - Limitations.
§53-1.20. Donation receptacles.
§53-1.21. Entry fees at museums and historical sites.
§53-1.22. Endowment to trade, sell or barter collection items.
§53-2.1. Violations - Penalties.
§53-4.7. Wiley Post Building - Public access.
§53-4.9. Property transferred to state.
§53-4.12. Robert S. Kerr Museum - Operation and management.
§53-5.1. Oklahoma Museum of History - Designation.
§53-5.2a. Sale of surplus property.
§53-5.2b. Authorization to transfer ownership of historic properties
§53-5.3. Participation in National History Day competition.
§53-6.1. Gravesite markers for deceased Governors of state.
§53-7.2. Administration - Public-private partnership - Geographic area.
§53-7.4. Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Corridor Fund.
§53-45.1. Transfer of property to Oklahoma Historical Society
§53-47. Amount - Procedures - Reimbursement.
§53-47.2. Powers of the Oklahoma Historical Society
§53-47.3. Preservation of property.
§53-47.4. Research library - Sales - Revolving fund.
§53-47.4A. Will Rogers Memorial Revolving Fund
§53-47.5. Inventory of material on exhibit and in storage.
§53-47.6. Maintenance - Director and other employees – Purchases - Manager - Admission charges.
§53-47.8. Will Rogers Homesite - Transfer of operation.
§53-47.9. Museum Collection - Transfers - Surplus Property
§53-81. Official Theater of the State of Oklahoma.
§53-82. Historical Society as official depository.
§53-163. Council - Membership - Tenure - Name change.
§53-167. Gifts, grants or bequests - Disposition.
§53-168. Expenditure - Personnel.
§53-169.1. Irrevocable endowment for nonconforming collection items.
§53-170. Filing of reports, studies, etc.
§53-171. Dispensation of funds - Contracts for goods and services.
§53-172. Scholarships for Summer Arts Institute.
§53-174. Visual arts programs in schools - Incentive grants.
§53-175. Oklahoma Arts Council Arts Education Revolving Fund.
§53-201A. Membership - Compensation.
§53-201B. Commission authority.
§53-201D. J.M. Davis Memorial Commission Revolving Fund.
§53-201F. Burial grounds for J.M. and Genevieve Davis.
§53-201H. J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum Endowment Fund.
§53-231. Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board.
§53-232. Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Revolving Fund.
§53-353. Oklahoma Historic Preservation Review Committee.
§53-354. State Historic Preservation Officer.
§53-355. State Register of Historic Places.
§53-361. Anthropological and archaeological projects.
§53-411. Short title - Heritage Preservation Act.
§53-412. Heritage Preservation Grant Program.
§53-413. Adoption of rules--Application evaluation.
§53-414. Entities eligible for grants.
§53-415. Permissible grant uses.