Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 62-2022

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Eligibility to obtain funding

Official statutory text

A. A voluntary association of Oklahoma local governmental

jurisdictions or another legal entity, including a public trust or a

nonprofit corporation or other entity which performs functions for

the benefit of or which exists for the primary benefit of Oklahoma

local governmental jurisdictions and which is not described in

subsection B of this section, shall be eligible to obtain funding

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for rural hazard mitigation projects as authorized by Section 5 of

this act.

B. A voluntary association of Oklahoma local governmental

jurisdictions containing at least one municipality with a population

in excess of three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) persons

according to the latest Federal Decennial Census shall be eligible

to obtain funding as authorized by Section 5 of this act.

C. The entities described in subsection A or B of this section

and which are eligible for any funds authorized by Section 5 of this

act may make expenditures on behalf of any city or town using funds

deposited to the Oklahoma Disaster Mitigation and Recovery Matching

Fund created by Section 3 of this act.

D. An organization described in subsection A or B of this

section shall be authorized to make payment of funds obtained

pursuant to Section 5 of this act directly to a county if the funds

are used for the benefit of an unincorporated area located within

the county to which payment is made. After the county has provided

a request to an organization described in subsection A or B of this

section for funds to benefit an unincorporated area of the county,

together with a statement that the county has conducted a review of

the needs of unincorporated areas located within the county and that

the funding requested is consistent with the evaluation of

priorities for funds by the county, the funds requested may be paid

to the county. Any funds paid to a county pursuant to the

provisions of this subsection shall be expended by the county

exclusively for the purpose identified in the request and as

required by the provisions of this act.

E. No county to which funds are paid pursuant to the provisions

of subsection D of this section shall be liable to any person or

other legal entity for damages arising out of any condition, act,

omission, or other cause alleged to have arisen as a result of a

project upon which funds expended pursuant to the authority of

subsection D of this section were paid to the county.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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