The district shall have and is hereby authorized to exercise the following powers, rights and privileges:
1. To control, store and preserve, within the boundaries of the district, the waters of Grand River and its tributaries, for any useful purpose, and to use, distribute and sell the same within the boundaries of the district; provided, however, that any municipal corporation within the area included within the jurisdiction of the Grand River Dam Authority shall be entitled to take water from the Grand River and any of its tributaries in any quantities that may be needed by such municipal corporation;
2. To develop and generate water power, electric power and electric energy, from whatever source, within the boundaries of the district; to acquire coal or other minerals to be used for the purposes of providing energy sources for electrical generating plants; to acquire or lease any and all railroad connections, equipment, rolling stock, trackage and otherwise, necessary to the transporting of coal and other minerals to generating plant sites within the district; and to buy, sell, resell, interchange and distribute electric power and energy in order to carry forward the business and functions of the district now or hereafter authorized by law and may enter into contracts for such purposes, such contracts to run for a period of not to exceed fifty (50) years except those contracts provided for in paragraphs 6 and 7 of this section. All contracts may contain such reasonable provisions, limitations, qualifications, protective clauses and rights and obligations of purchase and sale, and such provisions for the dedication of the use of facilities and the construction of additional facilities to serve the load requirements of all the parties as may be deemed advisable by the district to safeguard the business and properties of all the parties to such contracts, all within the limits of sound business judgment and practice, good conscience, and not contrary to the public policy of the state. The district is further authorized to participate in the Southwest Power Pool Integrated Marketplace or any other program established by a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized Regional Transmission Organization in which the district is a member and to engage in the buying and selling of electricity products, fuel commodities, and financial instruments as deemed necessary and prudent by the district and specifically excludes any expansion of retail activities of the district. The Board of Directors shall adopt a hedging policy to enable the district to take advantage of standard market products to reduce risk while preventing speculative trading and potential abuses;
3. To prevent or aid in the prevention of damage to person or property from the waters of the Grand River and its tributaries;
4. To forest and reforest and to aid in the foresting and reforesting of the watershed area of the Grand River and its tributaries and to prevent and to aid in the prevention of soil erosion and floods within the watershed area;
5. To acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or in any other manner, and to maintain, use and operate or to contract for the maintenance, use and operation of any and all property of any kind, real, personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, including trucks of any size or weight and passenger vehicles and to own, construct, operate and maintain any project or works in conjunction or jointly with, as tenants in common, any public or private corporation duly authorized and qualified to do business within this state including, but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives of the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America, or any department, subdivision or agency of the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America, or with any "public agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, within or without the boundaries of the district, necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges and functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act;
6. In addition to any other powers conferred, the district shall have power and authority to participate and enter into agreements with any public or private corporation duly authorized and qualified to do business within the State of Oklahoma including, but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives, the state or the United States of America or any department, subdivision or agency of the state or the United States of America, or with any "public agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, for the purpose of planning, acquiring, financing, owning, operating and maintaining an undivided ownership of any electric generating plant or plants or any facilities of every kind necessary, incidental or convenient for the production, generation and transmission of electric power and energy including, but not limited to, any and all related transmission facilities, which shall be used as common facilities. The agreements shall provide that the district and any participants therein shall have the incidents of tenant in common to any plant or facility. It shall also be provided in the agreements that the district and any participant in the project shall own a percentage of any common facility equal to the percentage of the money furnished or the value of property supplied by it for the acquisition and construction thereof and shall own a like percentage of the electrical output thereof.
Each participant shall defray its own interest payments and other payments required to be made or deposited in connection with any financing undertaken by it to pay its percentage of the money furnished or value of property supplied by it for the planning, acquisition and construction of any common facility, or any additions or betterments thereto. The agreement shall further provide a uniform method of determining and allocating operation and maintenance expenses of the common facility.
In carrying out the powers granted in this section, the district and each participant shall be severally liable only for its own acts and not jointly or severally liable for the acts, omissions or obligations of others. No money or property supplied by the district or any participant for the planning, financing, acquiring, constructing, operating or maintaining of any common plant or facility shall be credited or otherwise applied to the account of any other participant therein, nor shall the undivided share of the district or any participant therein be charged, directly or indirectly, with any debt or obligation of any other participant or be subject to any lien as a result thereof. No action in connection with a common facility shall be binding upon the district except as expressly authorized and provided for in the participation agreement;
7. In addition to the powers conferred in paragraph 6 of this section, the district shall have power and authority to participate and enter into agreements with any public or private corporation duly authorized and qualified to do business within this state including, but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives, the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America or any department, subdivision or agency of the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America, or with any "public agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, for the purpose of planning, acquiring, financing, owning, operating and maintaining undivided ownership interests in any electric generating plant or plants or any other facilities of every kind necessary, incidental or convenient for the production, generation and transmission of electric power and energy including, but not limited to, any and all related transmission or other facilities which are to be used as common facilities and to cooperate with other state agencies and public trusts to promote economic development in the state and to assist in attracting industry to the state. Such undivided ownership interests may be created by an agreement entered into with respect to property to be acquired by the district. Any such agreement may be a sale agreement, with the purchase price payable at one time or in installments at such time and over such period as shall be agreed to by the parties thereto, a lease agreement, with a nominal purchase option, or any other type of agreement. In addition to the purchase price, the district shall be fully indemnified as to operation, maintenance, administrative and other expenses incurred with respect to such undivided interest. The district is hereby authorized to enter into any such agreement in order to sell, lease or otherwise convey undivided ownership interests in any such property. Any such agreement shall specify the undivided interest to be owned or acquired by each of the participants, provide for a waiver of partition, prescribe the time of vesting of such interest and the amount of electrical output to be owned and controlled by any participant.
Each participant shall defray its own interest and other payments required to be made or deposited in connection with any financing undertaken by it to pay its percentage of the money furnished or value of property supplied by it for the planning, acquisition and construction of any common facility, or any additions or betterments thereto. The agreement shall provide a uniform method of determining and allocating operation and maintenance expenses of the common facility.
In carrying out the powers granted in this section, the district and each participant shall be severally liable only for its own acts and not jointly or severally liable for the acts, omissions or obligations of others. No money or property supplied by the district or any participant for the planning, financing, acquiring, constructing, operating or maintaining of any common plant or facility shall be credited or otherwise applied to the account of any other participant therein, nor shall the undivided share of the district or any participant therein be charged, directly or indirectly, with any debt or obligation of any other participant or be subject to any lien as a result thereof. No action in connection with a common facility shall be binding upon the district except as expressly authorized and provided for in the participation agreement;
8. To acquire by condemnation any and all property of any kind, real, personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, within or without the boundaries of the district, necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges and functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act, in the manner provided by general law with respect to condemnation; provided that nothing in the Grand River Dam Authority Act shall ever be construed to authorize the district to acquire by condemnation any privately, municipally or publicly owned electric public utility system or any part thereof outside of the high-water mark of a reservoir area or outside a properly located damsite, except the districts may require the relocation of transmission lines and substations so owned where such relocation is necessary for the construction and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, levees, spillways and floodways, and in such event just compensation shall be paid. Provided that the Grand River Dam Authority shall have the right to cross transmission lines of other electric utility companies under proper engineering standards of construction as approved by the Corporation Commission;
9. Subject to the provisions of the Grand River Dam Authority Act, from time to time sell, which shall include, but not be limited to, an installment sale agreement, lease with nominal purchase options, or otherwise dispose of any property of any kind, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein, which shall not be necessary to the carrying on of the business of the district;
10. To overflow and inundate any public lands and public property and to require the relocation of roads and highways in the manner and to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of the Grand River Dam Authority Act; provided, that the district shall be liable in damages to the State of Oklahoma or any subdivision thereof for any injury occasioned or expense incurred by reason thereof;
11. To construct, extend, improve, maintain and reconstruct, to cause to be constructed, extended, improved, maintained and reconstructed, and to use and operate any and all facilities of any kind necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of such powers, rights, privileges and functions;
12. To sue and be sued in its corporate name in contracts, reverse condemnation, tort, equity, mandamus and similar actions and in its own name plead and be impleaded, provided, however, that any and all actions of law or in an equity against the district shall be brought in the county in which the principal office of the district shall be located or in the county where the cause of action arose;
13. To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal;
14. To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs;
15. To appoint officers, agents and employees, to prescribe their duties and to fix their compensation; and enter into contracts with labor unions, provided, that contracts with labor unions shall not abrogate the rights of the district to cooperate and carry out Veterans on the Job Training;
16. To make contracts and to execute instruments necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges and functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act;
17. To borrow money for its corporate purposes and, without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, to borrow money and accept grants from the United States of America, or from any corporation or agency created or designated by the United States of America, and, in connection with any such loan or grant, to enter into such agreements as the United States of America or such corporation or agency may require; and to make and issue its bonds, notes, loans, commercial paper, and credit or liquidity support for money borrowed, in the manner provided in the Grand River Dam Authority Act. Nothing in the Grand River Dam Authority Act shall authorize the issuance of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the district, except as specifically provided in the Grand River Dam Authority Act;
18. To prescribe and enforce rules for the use for recreational and commercial purposes of the lakes created by the district by impounding the waters of the lakes, and the shorelands of the district bordering thereon, including the use of firearms, the inspection of all boats of every character proposing to operate or operating on the lakes, the issuance of permits for the operation of boats, surfboards, aquaplanes, sea-skis or similar devices on the lakes for hire; the charging and collection of fees for the inspection or operation of such boats, surfboards, aquaplanes, sea-skis or other similar devices on the lakes for hire; preventing the launching or operation of any commercial or for-hire boat, surfboard, aquaplane, sea-ski or similar device for hire, on the waters of the lakes, without a certificate of inspection and a permit for such use; prescribing the type, style, location and equipment of all wharves, docks and anchorages along the shores and upon the water of the lakes; the issuance of permits for wharfage, dock or anchorage privileges and charging fees for such commercial or private permits; and the establishment and maintenance of public wharves, docks or anchorages and the charging and collection of fees for the use thereof by the public; to appoint or employ such persons, including CLEET-certified volunteer reserve officers, as the district may deem proper and suitable for the purpose of enforcing such rules and regulations as may be issued hereunder, or as may be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Boating Safety Regulation Act, and for the enforcing of the provisions of the Grand River Dam Authority Act, and all violations of criminal laws occurring within the boundaries of the counties where real property owned or leased by the Grand River Dam Authority is located, which employees shall have the power of peace officers during the performance of those duties, except in the serving or execution of civil process.
Any municipal, county or state law enforcement officer employed by the Grand River Dam Authority to serve as a part-time or seasonal commissioned peace officer shall be exempt from the restrictions on dual office holding as provided for in paragraph 16 of subsection A of Section 6 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
19. To do any and all other acts or things necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges or functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act or any other act or law. Provided the district shall be liable for damage caused by the district, its agents, servants and employees in creating, constructing, maintaining or operating the district to any corporation, partnership, person or individual whose property, either real or personal, within or without said district, has been damaged and the damages may be determined by appropriate action as provided by law. Nothing in the Grand River Dam Authority Act shall be construed as rendering the district liable for damage where it is not liable on general principles of law or statute or Constitutional provision.
Provided, however, that in the course of exercising its powers as herein enumerated, the district shall at all times consider the rights and needs of the people living within and upon the land lying within the watershed of the rivers or streams developed by the district; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent the district from selling for irrigation purposes within the boundaries of the district any water impounded by it under authority of law, provided that nothing herein contained shall authorize the state to engage in agriculture except for educational and scientific purposes and for the support of its penal, charitable, and educational institutions;
20. To support and assist the efforts of state, regional and local development organizations, political subdivisions, industrial committees, chambers of commerce, tourism organizations, agricultural organizations, environmental organizations, educational institutions and other similar public and private agencies to obtain new and foster expansion of existing service, industrial and manufacturing facilities, businesses and enterprises to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of the district and the state. Provided, support and assistance shall be limited to an amount not to exceed a total of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) per year for one or more projects or efforts that are for the benefit of or impact the quality of life for each city or community located within the boundaries of the district; and
21. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Chief Executive Officer, department heads and other essential employees of the district, as designated by the Chief Executive Officer, may be permitted to use a district owned vehicle to provide transportation between the employee's residence and the assigned place of employment and between the residence and any location other than the assigned place of employment to which the employee travels in the performance of the employee's official duty.
Added by Laws 1935, p. 351, § 2. Amended by Laws 1941, p. 472, § 2; Laws 1945, p. 413, § 2; Laws 1947, p. 622, § 1, emerg. eff. May 21, 1947; Laws 1949, p. 634, § 2, emerg. eff. April 21, 1949; Laws 1957, p. 563, § 1, emerg. eff. May 22, 1957; Laws 1970, c. 263, § 1, emerg. eff. April 23, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 204, § 10, emerg. eff. May 26, 1981; Laws 1986, c. 276, § 19, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1990, c. 94, § 1, emerg. eff. April 18, 1990; Laws 1998, c. 391, § 13, emerg. eff. June 10, 1998; Laws 2003, c. 459, § 2; Laws 2004, c. 524, § 1; Laws 2008, c. 301, § 1, emerg. eff. June 2, 2008; Laws 2012, c. 217, § 1; Laws 2016, c. 297, § 2, eff. July 1, 2016; Laws 2017, c. 42, § 39; Laws 2019, c. 507, § 2, eff. July 1, 2019.
NOTE: Laws 2016, c. 266, § 1 repealed by Laws 2017, c. 42, § 40.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 82. Waters and Water Rights
§82-1B. Moratorium on sale or exportation of surface water and/or groundwater.
§82-1D. Oklahoma River - Designation of portion of North Canadian River.
§82-1E. Protection of water – Preemption by Legislature.
§82-105.1A. Purpose of law - Legislative intent.
§82-105.2. Right to use water - Domestic use - Priorities.
§82-105.3. Right of eminent domain.
§82-105.4. Diversion of water.
§82-105.5. Impairment of water rights - Suits in district court.
§82-105.6. Adjudication of rights - Suit.
§82-105.7. Parties to suit - Intervention - Orders.
§82-105.8. Decree - Contents - Copies to be filed.
§82-105.9. Application for water rights.
§82-105.10. Rules governing applications.
§82-105.11. Notice of application - Protest - Hearing.
§82-105.12A. Permits to use water outside of state.
§82-105.14. Denial of permit - Approval of application for lesser amount - Appeal.
§82-105.15. Time for commencement of works.
§82-105.16. Time for putting water to beneficial use.
§82-105.17. Reversion of water to public.
§82-105.18. Loss of right to use water - Notice - Hearing.
§82-105.19. Surrender of water rights.
§82-105.22. Severance and transfer of water right.
§82-105.23. Use of water for other purposes.
§82-105.24. Assignment of appropiation permit - Transfer of title to land.
§82-105.25. Notice of completion - Inspection.
§82-105.26. Certificate of completion.
§82-105.27. Unsafe works to be changed - United States works not subject to inspection.
§82-105.28. Measurement of water.
§82-105.29. Appropriations of water by the United States.
§82-105.30. Extension of period of withdrawal under national emergency.
§82-105.31. Records of Oklahoma Water Resources Board open to public.
§82-105.32. Effect of act on forfeited water rights and priority dates.
§82-110.2. Legislative intent.
§82-110.4. Dams subject to regulation under this act.
§82-110.5. Oklahoma Water Resources Board - Powers and duties.
§82-110.6. Effect of act on liability of dam owners.
§82-110.7. Supervision of dam safety program.
§82-110.8. Notice of completion of construction - Certification.
§82-110.9. Records - Disclosure to Board - Notice of flood events.
§82-110.10. Failure, neglect or refusal to comply with act - Orders - Penalties - Judicial relief.
§82-110.11. Appeals of orders.
§82-110.12. Effect of act on other laws and rules.
§82-277.2. Proposal by titleholders to organize irrigation district.
§82-277.3. Petition - Contents.
§82-277.4. Hearing - Notice - Order.
§82-277.7. Assessments - Collection - Delinquent assessments - Certificate.
§82-277.8. Collection of assessments and delinquent assessments - Reports.
§82-277.9. Liens - Collection of delinquent assessments - Invalid assessments - Deeds.
§82-277.10. Money judgments against district.
§82-277.11. Construction and assessment elections.
§82-277.12. Water delivery prohibited in delinquent cases.
§82-277.14. Irregularity or error in land description not jurisdictional.
§82-277.15. Payment of claims against district.
§82-277.19. Inactive districts.
§82-277.20. Holding and conveyance of property.
§82-277.21. Conflict of interest.
§82-277.23. Electors, who may become.
§82-277.24. Salt water - Exemption.
§82-277.25. Reclassification of land - Procedure.
§82-277.26. Transfer and substitution of land unsuitable for irrigation.
§82-502. Organization of districts - Petition - Notice.
§82-503. Hearing on petition - Order for formation of district.
§82-504. Decree to describe district - State Board as directors.
§82-505. State Board to control district - Redress accorded persons injuriously affected.
§82-506. Jurisdiction of courts over creation of districts.
§82-508. Appeal from organization of district - Collateral attack.
§82-521. County commissioners - Duties concerning conservation - Cooperation with State Board.
§82-526.1. Ratification and adoption of Compact.
§82-526.2. Notice of approval of compact.
§82-526.3. Approval by Texas and New Mexico - Consent of Congress.
§82-531. Short title - Definitions.
§82-541. Conservancy Districts - Master Conservancy Districts - Purpose - Board of Directors.
§82-541.1. Board of directors - Federal contracts.
§82-541.2. Organization of master conservancy districts.
§82-542. Petition - Signatures - Contents - Transfer by Supreme Court to district court.
§82-544. Notice of hearing on petition.
§82-546. Decree of incorporation filed with Secretary of State.
§82-547. Irrigation districts - Formation.
§82-548. Amendment of district boundaries to include other necessary lands - Validation.
§82-549. Amendment of district boundaries to include other necessary lands - Validation.
§82-561. Appointment of directors - Election of successors.
§82-562. Board of Directors to organize - Records.
§82-564. Secretary and other employees or staff.
§82-565.1. Dissolution of conservancy districts.
§82-566. Execution of plan - Powers of directors.
§82-567. Entry upon lands for surveys and examinations.
§82-568. Protection, reclamation or irrigation of lands - Petition and notice of action.
§82-570. Dominant right of eminent domain.
§82-571. Condemnation under general law.
§82-571.1. Condemnation for easement purposes - Damages.
§82-572. Regulations to protect works - Enforcement - Penalty.
§82-573. Bridges or other structures - Changes - Notice - Damages - Appeal.
§82-574. Passing equipment through bridge or grade - Notice to owner.
§82-575. Establishing stream and rain gauges, etc. - Surveys and investigations.
§82-576. Cooperation with federal government or other agencies - Outlets in other states.
§82-601. Appraisers - Appointment - Organization - Additional board.
§82-602. Appraisals, how made - Duties of appraisers.
§82-603. Lands outside district, appraisement of - Bringing in additional owners.
§82-604. Hearing on land excluded from or taken into district - Notice.
§82-605. Report of appraisers - Contents - Filing.
§82-606. Notice of hearings on appraisals.
§82-607. Hearing on appraisals.
§82-608. Decree on appraisals.
§82-610. Payment before entry.
§82-612. Change of official plan - Powers and duties of directors.
§82-613. Appeal not to delay proceedings - Appeal by directors - Waiver by failure to appeal.
§82-614. Lands exempt and later liable to assessment.
§82-615. Subsequent appraisals - Procedure.
§82-616. Defects and irregularities, how cured.
§82-630. Funds, how carried - Vouchers.
§82-631. Abandonment of project - Sale of lands and property.
§82-632. Preliminary work, loans for.
§82-635. Owners may pay assessments in full - Bonding resolution for unpaid assessments.
§82-636. Bonds - Issuance - Election - Sale of bonds.
§82-636.1. Authority to contract indebtedness.
§82-637. Maintenance assessment - Apportionment - To be additional tax.
§82-638. Petition for readjustment of maintenance assessment - Notice and hearing.
§82-639. Annual levy of special assessment - Special assessment book.
§82-640. Collection of assessments - Duties of county officers - Delinquents.
§82-641. Bond of county treasurer.
§82-642. Lien of assessments - Correcting irregular assessments - Deeds.
§82-643. Assessment book to be prima facie evidence.
§82-645. Use of surplus funds.
§82-646. Compensation of officials.
§82-647. Borrowing of money - Approval.
§82-648. Necessity and amount of assessments in master conservancy districts.
§82-649. Designation of fiscal year - Reports - Accounting.
§82-661. Lands in more than one district.
§82-662. Jurisdiction of courts as to districts being organized in same territory.
§82-663. Union of districts - Petition - Notice - Order.
§82-663.1. Union or conversion of drainage districts.
§82-663.2. Order for union or conversion of drainage district - Rights, remedies, and obligations.
§82-664. Remedy for injury by district - Procedure.
§82-665. Subdistricts - Administration.
§82-666. Other improvements may come under act - Procedure.
§82-667. Annexation of additional land to a master conservancy district.
§82-669. Suits for or against district - Name - Service of process.
§82-671. Directors may police district.
§82-672. Injury to survey marks prohibited - Penalty.
§82-673. Owners liable for damage to district - Repairs.
§82-674. Fraud or other illegal acts of officials - Fine.
§82-675. Officials removed for cause.
§82-676. Performance of duties enforced by mandamus.
§82-681. Faulty notice - How corrected.
§82-682. Questions of validity of districts to be expedited in court.
§82-683. Act to be liberally construed.
§82-685. Repeals - Certain laws not affected.
§82-686. Short forms and abbreviations.
§82-687. Forms and suggestions.
§82-688. Exemption from taxation.
§82-688.1. Exemption from payment of sales, use and vehicle excise taxes - Registration of vehicles.
§82-861A. Grand River Dam Authority - Designation as state agency.
§82-862. Powers, rights and privileges of district.
§82-862.1. Grand River Dam Authority - Exemptions.
§82-863.2. Board of Directors.
§82-864.1. Retired employees - Payment of health insurance premiums.
§82-865. District funds - Deposit - Official bonds - Surety.
§82-867. Officers and employees to have no interest in contracts - Fine.
§82-869. Sources for payment of obligations of district.
§82-870.1. Bond anticipation notes.
§82-874.1. Watercraft landing on leased land.
§82-874.2. Licenses for real property encroachment.
§82-876. Bonds exempted from taxation except inheritance taxes - Bonds and securities.
§82-877. Act to constitute only authority for bond issues - Other acts inapplicable.
§82-888. Distribution of copies of resolution.
§82-889. Permits for maintaining docks, wharves, vessels, etc. - Limitation - Rules.
§82-890. Control of segment of Grand River downstream from Fort Gibson Dam.
§82-895. Certain municipal annexations prohibited.
§82-896.2. Fees for use of flotation devices upon scenic rivers.
§82-896.3. Powers and duties for purposes of the Scenic Rivers Act
§82-896.6. Legislative intent - Construction, operation or maintenance of dams or related projects.
§82-896.8. Prohibited containers - Littering - Penalties
§82-896.9. Property rights of private landowners
§82-896.11. Scenic rivers - Statement of purpose
§82-896.12. Construction of act
§82-896.13. Powers of cities, incorporated towns and counties
§82-896.14. Authority to provide funds for the Scenic Rivers Act
§82-896.16. User fees - Licenses - Fines
§82-1020.2. Declaration of policy - Applicability.
§82-1020.2A. Taking and use of water from aquifers - Permits
§82-1020.3. Domestic use - Spacing of wells and waste.
§82-1020.4. Hydrologic surveys and investigations.
§82-1020.5. Determination of maximum annual yield.
§82-1020.6. Hearings on annual yield.
§82-1020.7. Application for permit to take and use groundwater.
§82-1020.8. Decree - Contents - Copies to be filed.
§82-1020.9. Approval of application.
§82-1020.10. Temporary or special permits - Limited quantity groundwater permits.
§82-1020.11. Types of permits - Fees.
§82-1020.12. Report of water used.
§82-1020.13. Surrender of permits.
§82-1020.14. Prior use of groundwater.
§82-1020.15. Waste prohibited - Enforcement.
§82-1020.16. Commercial drilling or plugging license – Inspections - Deposit of fees - Penalties.
§82-1020.18. Location exceptions.
§82-1020.19. Metering of wells.
§82-1020.20. Unitizing and communitizing of land for water production purposes.
§82-1020.21. Wells within municipalities.
§82-1020.23. Taking and using marginal water to augment water supply.
§82-1021.1. Short title - Groundwater Irrigation District Act.
§82-1021.3. Petition to organize a groundwater irrigation district – Composition of districts.
§82-1021.4. Content of petition.
§82-1021.5. Receipt of petition – Verification – Approval of petition.
§82-1021.6. Bylaws – Minimum requirements.
§82-1021.7. Promulgation of rules.
§82-1084.1. Waters of state - Public policy.
§82-1085.2. Authority of Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
§82-1085.2A. Temporary employees.
§82-1085.3. State to be divided into water districts.
§82-1085.4. Fixing of fees - Schedule.
§82-1085.7. Oklahoma Water Resources Board Fee Revolving Fund.
§82-1085.7A. Community Water Infrastructure Development Revolving Fund
§82-1085.7B. OWRB Revolving Fund.
§82-1085.7C. Phase II Arbuckle-Simpson Hydrology Study Revolving Fund.
§82-1085.8. Oklahoma Water Resources Board annual report.
§82-1085.10. Procedures and appeals.
§82-1085.11. Compilation, indexing and publishing of data.
§82-1085.12. Executive Director - Qualifications - Powers and duties.
§82-1085.12a. Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board; absence or vacancy.
§82-1085.14. Continuing study of water laws - Recommendations and proposals.
§82-1085.17. State policy - Purpose.
§82-1085.18. Commission created - Status - Membership - Expenses.
§82-1085.19. Meetings - Quorum - Record of proceedings.
§82-1085.20. Review of proposed projects or plans - Storage of surplus water.
§82-1085.21. Agreements with federal agencies - Cost of reimbursement.
§82-1085.22. Sale, transfer or lease of storage facilities.
§82-1085.23. Water Conservation Storage Fund - Investment certificates.
§82-1085.24. Purchase of certificates by State Treasurer.
§82-1085.25. Examination of proceedings by Attorney General - Incontestability.
§82-1085.26. Execution of certificates and contracts - Audits.
§82-1085.28. Contracts with Secretary of Agriculture for repayment of water storage costs.
§82-1085.29. Federal Clean Water Act Program - Official state agency.
§82-1085.30. See the following versions:
§82-1085.30a. Water standards.
§82-1085.30v1. Classification of water uses - Oklahoma Water Quality Standards.
§82-1085.30v2. Classification of water uses - Oklahoma Water Quality Standards.
§82-1085.33. Water Resources Fund.
§82-1085.35. Investment certificates - Purchase - Sale.
§82-1085.37. Certification of investment certificate proceedings and sale.
§82-1085.38. Assumption of obligations of Water Conservation Storage Commission.
§82-1085.41. Investment certificates - Security and collateral.
§82-1085.42. Judical review - Jurisdiction - Notice and hearing.
§82-1085.43. Application of subsection 1085.33 to 1085.42.
§82-1085.45. Compliance with Central Purchasing act.
§82-1085.47. Investment certificates - Issuance - Consideration of needs of certain entities.
§82-1085.48. Contingent effectiveness of Section 1085.44.
§82-1085.49. Investment certificates - Acquisition by brokers or dealers.
§82-1085.50. Additional powers and duties of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
§82-1085.51. Legislative intent.
§82-1085.53. Creation of account - Composition - Purpose - Investment.
§82-1085.55. Powers and duties of Board - Cost-effective analyses.
§82-1085.56. Rules - Minimum requirements.
§82-1085.57. Management of funds - Investment certificates.
§82-1085.59. Investment certificates - Review and approval of issuance.
§82-1085.61. Default - Collection actions by Attorney General.
§82-1085.62. Establishment of criteria for determination of interest rates on loans - Annual report.
§82-1085.63. Intended use plan - Annual report.
§82-1085.65. Loan applications for nonpoint source management programs.
§82-1085.73. Creation - Monies and other sums - Investments.
§82-1085.74. Authorized uses of funds in account.
§82-1085.75. Powers and duties of Department.
§82-1085.76. Eligibility and priority of entities for drinking water treatment projects - Rules.
§82-1085.77. Powers and duties of Board.
§82-1085.79. Application of Oklahoma Bond Oversight and Reform Act.
§82-1085.81. Default in payments.
§82-1085.82. Joint operating agreement between Department and Board.
§82-1085.83. Annual intended use plan and biennial report.
§82-1085.84A. Drinking Water Treatment Loan Administrative Fund.
§82-1085.91. Legislative intent.
§82-1085.93. Flood Hazard Mitigation Account – Source, use and investment of monies.
§82-1085.94. Powers and duties of Water Resources Board.
§82-1085.96. Use of monies for security and collateral for investment certificates.
§82-1086.1. Policy of state as to use of surplus and excess water - State water plan.
§82-1086.2. Powers of Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
§82-1086.3. Transaction of certain business for profit by members prohibited.
§82-1086.5. Existing rights unimpaired.
§82-1086.6. Grand River Dam Authority - Exemption.
§82-1087.4. Continued conduct of research and development activities.
§82-1087.7. Necessity for licenses and permits.
§82-1087.9. Issuance of licenses.
§82-1087.10. Issuance of permits.
§82-1087.11. Separate permits - Notice of intention.
§82-1087.12. Contents of notice of intention.
§82-1087.13. Publication of notice of intention.
§82-1087.14. Proof of financial responsibility.
§82-1087.16. Records and reports.
§82-1087.17. Monitoring by United States Government.
§82-1087.18. Revocation or suspension of licenses or permits - Modification of permits.
§82-1087.19. Certain liabilities not imposed or rights affected.
§82-1088.11. Water for 2060 Act.
§82-1088.14. Water for 2060 Advisory Council.
§82-1105. Area of jurisdiction.
§82-1105.1. Regulation of vehicles within area of jurisdiction - Rules - Enforcement.
§82-1106. Port authority - Powers.
§82-1107. Plan for future development, construction and improvement.
§82-1108. Modification, amendment or extension of plan.
§82-1109. Conclusiveness and validity of plan.
§82-1110. Participation of private enterprise.
§82-1113. Budget - Disposition of rents and charges.
§82-1114. Bond of secretary - Deposit of funds - Disbursements.
§82-1121. Authorization for port authority to borrow money and issue bonds.
§82-1122. Terms, maturities, form, etc. of bonds.
§82-1123. Bonds issued pursuant to loan or purchase agreement with United States Government.
§82-1126. Bonds as special obligation of port authority concerned.
§82-1127. Powers of board of directors in connection with payment of principal and interest.
§82-1128. Agreements or contracts with United States.
§82-1129. Segregation and use of proceeds from bond sales - Construction contracts.
§82-1130. Approval of bonds by Attorney General - Incontestablility.
§82-1131. Lawful securities for investments.
§82-1132. Interim notes and conditions of issue.
§82-1133. Public bids for bonds sold.
§82-1134. Trustees - Oath of office - Fidelity bond.
§82-1135. Meetings and records of authority open to public.
§82-1136. Limitation on liability of trustee or beneficiary.
§82-1141. McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System Infrastructure Revolving Fund.
§82-1267. Purpose of district - Activities.
§82-1268. Interlocal agreements.
§82-1273. Right of aggrieved persons to petition district court.
§82-1274. Exemption from taxes and assessments.
§82-1275. Rates and charges - Disposition of revenues.
§82-1276. Annexation of additional territory.
§82-1277. Annual written report.
§82-1278. Dissolution of district.
§82-1281. Conflict of interest.
§82-1283. Contracts and agreement for purchase of district services or products.
§82-1284. Issuance and sale of bond obligations.
§82-1285. County sales tax revenues - Application to facilities.
§82-1286. Annual audit, report and meeting.
§82-1287. Applicable statutory provisions.
§82-1288. Exemption from Corporation Commission jurisdiction.
§82-1324.3. Purpose of districts - Organization.
§82-1324.4. Petition for incorporation of petition - Contents.
§82-1324.5. Notice of filing and pendency of petition - Public hearing - Notice of hearing.
§82-1324.6. Duties of board of commissioners at hearing - Declaration of incorporation.
§82-1324.7. Board of directors - Bylaws.
§82-1324.8. Filing of water purchase contracts.
§82-1324.10. Powers of district.
§82-1324.13. Annexation of additional territory - Petition.
§82-1324.14. Notice of filing of annexation petition.
§82-1324.15. Hearing on annexation petition.
§82-1324.16. Term of office - Annual meeting - Elections - Training workshops - Nepotism.
§82-1324.19. Dissolution of district prior to acquisition of assets.
§82-1324.20. Dissolution of district - Disposition of facilities and property.
§82-1324.21. Release of lands from district - Petition - Notice.
§82-1324.22. Exemption from taxes and assessments.
§82-1324.23. Exemption from jurisdiction and control of Corporation Commission.
§82-1324.24. Validating provisions.
§82-1324.25. Annexation of additional territory - Petition.
§82-1324.26. Enlargement of purposes and powers - Procedure.
§82-1324.31. Organization of district.
§82-1324.33. Dissolution of corporation - Transfer of assets, property, obligations and benefits.
§82-1324.34. Order constituting rural water districts.
§82-1324.35. Continuation of certain services.
§82-1324.44. Board approval of acquisition - Conditions for disapproval - Public hearing.
§82-1324.45. Notice of public hearing - Payment of expenses - Security.
§82-1324.48. Power of Board - Expenses of analysis or investigation - Payment.
§82-1324.49. Authority to enjoin violations and enforce compliance.
§82-1324.50. Willful and knowing violations - Penalties.
§82-1401. Approval of compact - Text.
§82-1421. Approval of compact - Text.
§82-1422. Amendment - Ratification.
§82-1431. Approval and ratification - Text of compact.
§82-1501-205.1. Definitions - State Geographic Information Council.
§82-1501-205.2. Geographic Information Revolving Fund.
§82-1501-801. Liberal interpretation.
§82-1501-802. Act not to limit authority of other agencies.
§82-1501-803. Effect of headings.
§82-1501-901. Salary increases.
§82-1604. County and municipal floodplain boards – Floodplain management.
§82-1605. County, municipal and state floodplain board - Composition - Term - Compensation.
§82-1607. Floodplain definitions and one-hundred-year flood elevations to be submitted.
§82-1608. Floodplain management regulations - Requirements - Contents.
§82-1609. Cooperative agreements for delineation of floodplains and adoption of regulations.
§82-1610. Promulgation of floodplain management rules - Procedure.
§82-1611. Redefining floodplain upon completion of flood control protective work.
§82-1612. Construction or development in floodplain area prohibited - Exceptions.
§82-1613. Existing prior use may continue - Conditions.
§82-1618. Application of act - Accreditation of administrators.
§82-1620. Floodplain administrators.
§82-1620.1. Accreditation standards for floodplain administrators.
§82-1623. Comprehensive state flood plan.
§82-1624. State Flood Resiliency Revolving Fund.
§82-1630. Assessment on property within district - Exemptions.
§82-1801.2. Weather Modification Division – Director - Powers.