Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-3-2-101

A. There is hereby established, to serve as an agency of the

state and to perform the functions conferred upon it in the

Conservation District Act, the Oklahoma Conservation Commission,

which commission shall succeed to all the powers, duties and

property of the State Soil Conservation Board. The Commission shall

consist of five (5) members whose qualifications and manner of

appointment shall be hereinafter designated. The State of Oklahoma

is hereby divided into five state areas for the purpose of selecting

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the members of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Each of the

state areas shall be composed of the following counties:

State Area No. 1 comprising fifteen counties:

Cimarron Woodward Blaine

Texas Dewey Alfalfa

Beaver Canadian Grant

Harper Woods Garfield

Ellis Major Kingfisher

State Area No. 2 comprising fifteen counties:

Kay Oklahoma Love

Noble Cleveland Seminole

Logan McClain Garvin

Payne Lincoln Murray

Pawnee Pottawatomie Carter

State Area No. 3 comprising sixteen counties:

Osage Rogers Cherokee

Creek Wagoner Sequoyah

Washington Muskogee Adair

Tulsa Craig Delaware

Okmulgee Mayes Ottawa

Nowata

State Area No. 4 comprising fifteen counties:

Roger Mills Custer Comanche

Beckham Washita Cotton

Greer Kiowa Grady

Harmon Tillman Stephens

Jackson Caddo Jefferson

State Area No. 5 comprising sixteen counties:

Okfuskee Atoka Latimer

Hughes Bryan Pushmataha

Pontotoc Pittsburg Choctaw

Johnston McIntosh Le Flore

Marshall Haskell McCurtain

Coal

B. The entire territory of this state shall be included within

conservation districts.

C. The Governor shall appoint one member from each of the five

state areas as herein created, and each such member so appointed

shall be, at the time of his appointment a Conservation District

Director. Each member of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission shall

be a Conservation District Director during the entire term as a

Commission member. No fewer than three members of said Board shall

be actively engaged in the practice of farming and/or ranching or

shall derive at least a majority of their income from farming and/or

ranching. As a condition to their appointment, such members shall

be residents of the state area from which they are appointed. Such

appointments shall be made by the Governor and shall be subject to

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confirmation by the Senate and such appointments shall be made by

the Governor within thirty (30) days after the expiration of the

terms of office of said members. Each member shall serve for a

period of five (5) years, and shall be removed only for cause. In

the event of a vacancy, the vacancy shall be filled in the same

manner as the original appointment was made and by the same

appointing authority.

D. The Commission shall keep a record of its official actions,

shall adopt a seal, which seal shall be judicially noticed, and may

perform such acts, hold such public hearings and promulgate such

rules and regulations as may be necessary for the execution of its

functions under the Conservation District Act.