Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-37-104
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Acquiring lands - Protection from contamination
Official statutory text
Any municipality may purchase or condemn and hold the perpetual
right to use any lots or lands, either within or without the
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 369
corporate limits of the municipality, which the municipal governing
body determines by resolution to be necessary for acquisition by the
municipality in order to locate and build or enlarge, at the time or
in the future, waterworks and every auxiliary part thereof,
including reservoir site or sites to be flooded, and the lands
adjacent thereto and within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the
margin of the reservoir at maximum high water. The governing body
may protect from possible contamination or pollution and police any
such lands in order to protect any reservoir already constructed or
proposed to be constructed or enlarged as a part of any municipal
waterworks plant or water supply, the waters thereof, and the waters
flowing therein or percolating or seeping thereto. The property and
land so acquired before and after the passage of this subarticle,
insofar as such lands are within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the
margin of a reservoir at maximum high water and necessary for
natural drainage into the reservoir, shall not be used by the
municipality, its lessees or assigns, or other persons or
corporations, for any purpose other than the protection of the
reservoir and the waters thereof from contamination and pollution.
No structures shall be placed on such lands by the municipality,
individual or corporation, except as are necessary in the
furtherance of the protection of the reservoir from contamination or
pollution, and in the use of the water.
right to use any lots or lands, either within or without the
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 11. Cities and Towns Page 369
corporate limits of the municipality, which the municipal governing
body determines by resolution to be necessary for acquisition by the
municipality in order to locate and build or enlarge, at the time or
in the future, waterworks and every auxiliary part thereof,
including reservoir site or sites to be flooded, and the lands
adjacent thereto and within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the
margin of the reservoir at maximum high water. The governing body
may protect from possible contamination or pollution and police any
such lands in order to protect any reservoir already constructed or
proposed to be constructed or enlarged as a part of any municipal
waterworks plant or water supply, the waters thereof, and the waters
flowing therein or percolating or seeping thereto. The property and
land so acquired before and after the passage of this subarticle,
insofar as such lands are within six hundred sixty (660) feet of the
margin of a reservoir at maximum high water and necessary for
natural drainage into the reservoir, shall not be used by the
municipality, its lessees or assigns, or other persons or
corporations, for any purpose other than the protection of the
reservoir and the waters thereof from contamination and pollution.
No structures shall be placed on such lands by the municipality,
individual or corporation, except as are necessary in the
furtherance of the protection of the reservoir from contamination or
pollution, and in the use of the water.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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