Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-4-101

Counties, cities and towns are hereby authorized and empowered

to join in creation, development, operation and maintenance of

public libraries to serve multicounty systems, and to appropriate

and allocate funds for the support of such systems. Such systems

shall provide equitable library services to all persons in the

district.

To insure the effective development of library service in all

rural and urban areas, the creation and organization of library

systems and the district to be served shall be subject to approval

by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board in accordance with the

provisions of Article X, Section 10A of the Oklahoma Constitution.

After establishment, library systems shall be subject to

accreditation by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries Board.

Parts of an adjacent county may be added to or included in

multicounty systems if these additions are determined by agreement

of the system board, the petitioning parties, and the Oklahoma

Department of Libraries Board to be the most feasible way to provide

public library services to such part of a county.

Special levies of any and all taxes authorized to be levied by

counties, cities and towns under this and other Oklahoma Statutes as

amended and the Oklahoma Constitution as amended are hereby

authorized to be levied for support of library systems.

When any multicounty system is established under provisions of

this act, existing public libraries in the district may be

incorporated into the system under a unified administration by act

of local governing bodies or vote of the people as provided in the

procedure for establishment. Existing public libraries not

incorporated into the system shall have the same relationship to the

system as similar public libraries outside the district have to the

local system and to other systems.