Okla. Stat. tit. 61, § 61-322
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Easement and right-of-way grants - Exemptions
Official statutory text
A. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
Services is hereby authorized to grant easements, rights-of-way, and
enter into contracts authorizing the construction and maintenance of
telephone, electric transmission and distribution lines, railroad
lines, telegraph lines, and pipelines across any state lands under
the management of said Director, and all lands set apart for the use
and benefit of any state agency, department, or institution
including all lands set apart for use of colleges, universities,
hospitals, and eleemosynary institutions. Said easements and
rights-of-way grants shall be for a period not to exceed twenty (20)
years and shall provide for such considerations, terms, and
conditions including privileges and conditions of renewal, as the
Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may
determine advisable for the best interests of the state institutions
in possession thereof.
B. The Commissioners of the Land Office, the Oklahoma Ordnance
Works Authority, the Midwestern Oklahoma Development Authority, the
Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Turnpike
Authority, the Northeast Oklahoma Public Facilities Authority and
the Department of Wildlife Conservation and their lands shall be
exempt from the application of this section.
Services is hereby authorized to grant easements, rights-of-way, and
enter into contracts authorizing the construction and maintenance of
telephone, electric transmission and distribution lines, railroad
lines, telegraph lines, and pipelines across any state lands under
the management of said Director, and all lands set apart for the use
and benefit of any state agency, department, or institution
including all lands set apart for use of colleges, universities,
hospitals, and eleemosynary institutions. Said easements and
rights-of-way grants shall be for a period not to exceed twenty (20)
years and shall provide for such considerations, terms, and
conditions including privileges and conditions of renewal, as the
Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may
determine advisable for the best interests of the state institutions
in possession thereof.
B. The Commissioners of the Land Office, the Oklahoma Ordnance
Works Authority, the Midwestern Oklahoma Development Authority, the
Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Turnpike
Authority, the Northeast Oklahoma Public Facilities Authority and
the Department of Wildlife Conservation and their lands shall be
exempt from the application of this section.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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