Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-862

The district shall have and is hereby authorized to exercise the

following powers, rights and privileges:

1. To control, store and preserve, within the boundaries of the

district, the waters of Grand River and its tributaries, for any

useful purpose, and to use, distribute and sell the same within the

boundaries of the district; provided, however, that any municipal

corporation within the area included within the jurisdiction of the

Grand River Dam Authority shall be entitled to take water from the

Grand River and any of its tributaries in any quantities that may be

needed by such municipal corporation;

2. To develop and generate water power, electric power and

electric energy, from whatever source, within the boundaries of the

district; to acquire coal or other minerals to be used for the

purposes of providing energy sources for electrical generating

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plants; to acquire or lease any and all railroad connections,

equipment, rolling stock, trackage and otherwise, necessary to the

transporting of coal and other minerals to generating plant sites

within the district; and to buy, sell, resell, interchange and

distribute electric power and energy in order to carry forward the

business and functions of the district now or hereafter authorized

by law and may enter into contracts for such purposes, such

contracts to run for a period of not to exceed fifty (50) years

except those contracts provided for in paragraphs 6 and 7 of this

section. All contracts may contain such reasonable provisions,

limitations, qualifications, protective clauses and rights and

obligations of purchase and sale, and such provisions for the

dedication of the use of facilities and the construction of

additional facilities to serve the load requirements of all the

parties as may be deemed advisable by the district to safeguard the

business and properties of all the parties to such contracts, all

within the limits of sound business judgment and practice, good

conscience, and not contrary to the public policy of the state. The

district is further authorized to participate in the Southwest Power

Pool Integrated Marketplace or any other program established by a

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized Regional

Transmission Organization in which the district is a member and to

engage in the buying and selling of electricity products, fuel

commodities, and financial instruments as deemed necessary and

prudent by the district and specifically excludes any expansion of

retail activities of the district. The Board of Directors shall

adopt a hedging policy to enable the district to take advantage of

standard market products to reduce risk while preventing speculative

trading and potential abuses;

3. To prevent or aid in the prevention of damage to person or

property from the waters of the Grand River and its tributaries;

4. To forest and reforest and to aid in the foresting and

reforesting of the watershed area of the Grand River and its

tributaries and to prevent and to aid in the prevention of soil

erosion and floods within the watershed area;

5. To acquire by purchase, lease, gift, or in any other manner,

and to maintain, use and operate or to contract for the maintenance,

use and operation of any and all property of any kind, real,

personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, including trucks of any

size or weight and passenger vehicles and to own, construct, operate

and maintain any project or works in conjunction or jointly with, as

tenants in common, any public or private corporation duly authorized

and qualified to do business within this state including, but not

limited to, rural electric cooperatives of the State of Oklahoma or

the United States of America, or any department, subdivision or

agency of the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America, or

with any "public agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation
in common, any public or private corporation duly authorized

and qualified to do business within this state including, but not

limited to, rural electric cooperatives of the State of Oklahoma or

the United States of America, or any department, subdivision or

agency of the State of Oklahoma or the United States of America, or

with any "public agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation

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Act, within or without the boundaries of the district, necessary,

incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights,

privileges and functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam

Authority Act;

6. In addition to any other powers conferred, the district

shall have power and authority to participate and enter into

agreements with any public or private corporation duly authorized

and qualified to do business within the State of Oklahoma including,

but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives, the state or the

United States of America or any department, subdivision or agency of

the state or the United States of America, or with any "public

agency" as defined under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, for the

purpose of planning, acquiring, financing, owning, operating and

maintaining an undivided ownership of any electric generating plant

or plants or any facilities of every kind necessary, incidental or

convenient for the production, generation and transmission of

electric power and energy including, but not limited to, any and all

related transmission facilities, which shall be used as common

facilities. The agreements shall provide that the district and any

participants therein shall have the incidents of tenant in common to

any plant or facility. It shall also be provided in the agreements

that the district and any participant in the project shall own a

percentage of any common facility equal to the percentage of the

money furnished or the value of property supplied by it for the

acquisition and construction thereof and shall own a like percentage

of the electrical output thereof.

Each participant shall defray its own interest payments and

other payments required to be made or deposited in connection with

any financing undertaken by it to pay its percentage of the money

furnished or value of property supplied by it for the planning,

acquisition and construction of any common facility, or any

additions or betterments thereto. The agreement shall further

provide a uniform method of determining and allocating operation and

maintenance expenses of the common facility.

In carrying out the powers granted in this section, the district

and each participant shall be severally liable only for its own acts

and not jointly or severally liable for the acts, omissions or

obligations of others. No money or property supplied by the

district or any participant for the planning, financing, acquiring,

constructing, operating or maintaining of any common plant or

facility shall be credited or otherwise applied to the account of

any other participant therein, nor shall the undivided share of the

district or any participant therein be charged, directly or

indirectly, with any debt or obligation of any other participant or

be subject to any lien as a result thereof. No action in connection

with a common facility shall be binding upon the district except as

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expressly authorized and provided for in the participation

agreement;

7. In addition to the powers conferred in paragraph 6 of this

section, the district shall have power and authority to participate

and enter into agreements with any public or private corporation

duly authorized and qualified to do business within this state

including, but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives, the

State of Oklahoma or the United States of America or any department,
nt;

7. In addition to the powers conferred in paragraph 6 of this

section, the district shall have power and authority to participate

and enter into agreements with any public or private corporation

duly authorized and qualified to do business within this state

including, but not limited to, rural electric cooperatives, the

State of Oklahoma or the United States of America or any department,

subdivision or agency of the State of Oklahoma or the United States

of America, or with any "public agency" as defined under the

Interlocal Cooperation Act, for the purpose of planning, acquiring,

financing, owning, operating and maintaining undivided ownership

interests in any electric generating plant or plants or any other

facilities of every kind necessary, incidental or convenient for the

production, generation and transmission of electric power and energy

including, but not limited to, any and all related transmission or

other facilities which are to be used as common facilities and to

cooperate with other state agencies and public trusts to promote

economic development in the state and to assist in attracting

industry to the state. Such undivided ownership interests may be

created by an agreement entered into with respect to property to be

acquired by the district. Any such agreement may be a sale

agreement, with the purchase price payable at one time or in

installments at such time and over such period as shall be agreed to

by the parties thereto, a lease agreement, with a nominal purchase

option, or any other type of agreement. In addition to the purchase

price, the district shall be fully indemnified as to operation,

maintenance, administrative and other expenses incurred with respect

to such undivided interest. The district is hereby authorized to

enter into any such agreement in order to sell, lease or otherwise

convey undivided ownership interests in any such property. Any such

agreement shall specify the undivided interest to be owned or

acquired by each of the participants, provide for a waiver of

partition, prescribe the time of vesting of such interest and the

amount of electrical output to be owned and controlled by any

participant.

Each participant shall defray its own interest and other

payments required to be made or deposited in connection with any

financing undertaken by it to pay its percentage of the money

furnished or value of property supplied by it for the planning,

acquisition and construction of any common facility, or any

additions or betterments thereto. The agreement shall provide a

uniform method of determining and allocating operation and

maintenance expenses of the common facility.

In carrying out the powers granted in this section, the district

and each participant shall be severally liable only for its own acts

and not jointly or severally liable for the acts, omissions or

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obligations of others. No money or property supplied by the

district or any participant for the planning, financing, acquiring,

constructing, operating or maintaining of any common plant or

facility shall be credited or otherwise applied to the account of

any other participant therein, nor shall the undivided share of the

district or any participant therein be charged, directly or

indirectly, with any debt or obligation of any other participant or

be subject to any lien as a result thereof. No action in connection

with a common facility shall be binding upon the district except as

expressly authorized and provided for in the participation

agreement;

8. To acquire by condemnation any and all property of any kind,

real, personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, within or without

the boundaries of the district, necessary, incidental or convenient

to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges and functions

conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act, in the
ressly authorized and provided for in the participation

agreement;

8. To acquire by condemnation any and all property of any kind,

real, personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, within or without

the boundaries of the district, necessary, incidental or convenient

to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges and functions

conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam Authority Act, in the

manner provided by general law with respect to condemnation;

provided that nothing in the Grand River Dam Authority Act shall

ever be construed to authorize the district to acquire by

condemnation any privately, municipally or publicly owned electric

public utility system or any part thereof outside of the high-water

mark of a reservoir area or outside a properly located damsite,

except the districts may require the relocation of transmission

lines and substations so owned where such relocation is necessary

for the construction and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, levees,

spillways and floodways, and in such event just compensation shall

be paid. Provided that the Grand River Dam Authority shall have the

right to cross transmission lines of other electric utility

companies under proper engineering standards of construction as

approved by the Corporation Commission;

9. Subject to the provisions of the Grand River Dam Authority

Act, from time to time sell, which shall include, but not be limited

to, an installment sale agreement, lease with nominal purchase

options, or otherwise dispose of any property of any kind, real,

personal or mixed, or any interest therein, which shall not be

necessary to the carrying on of the business of the district;

10. To overflow and inundate any public lands and public

property and to require the relocation of roads and highways in the

manner and to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of the

Grand River Dam Authority Act; provided, that the district shall be

liable in damages to the State of Oklahoma or any subdivision

thereof for any injury occasioned or expense incurred by reason

thereof;

11. To construct, extend, improve, maintain and reconstruct, to

cause to be constructed, extended, improved, maintained and

reconstructed, and to use and operate any and all facilities of any

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kind necessary, incidental or convenient to the exercise of such

powers, rights, privileges and functions;

12. To sue and be sued in its corporate name in contracts,

reverse condemnation, tort, equity, mandamus and similar actions and

in its own name plead and be impleaded, provided, however, that any

and all actions of law or in an equity against the district shall be

brought in the county in which the principal office of the district

shall be located or in the county where the cause of action arose;

13. To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal;

14. To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its

affairs;

15. To appoint officers, agents and employees, to prescribe

their duties and to fix their compensation; and enter into contracts

with labor unions, provided, that contracts with labor unions shall

not abrogate the rights of the district to cooperate and carry out

Veterans on the Job Training;

16. To make contracts and to execute instruments necessary,

incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights,

privileges and functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam

Authority Act;

17. To borrow money for its corporate purposes and, without

limitation of the generality of the foregoing, to borrow money and

accept grants from the United States of America, or from any

corporation or agency created or designated by the United States of

America, and, in connection with any such loan or grant, to enter

into such agreements as the United States of America or such

corporation or agency may require; and to make and issue its bonds,
out

limitation of the generality of the foregoing, to borrow money and

accept grants from the United States of America, or from any

corporation or agency created or designated by the United States of

America, and, in connection with any such loan or grant, to enter

into such agreements as the United States of America or such

corporation or agency may require; and to make and issue its bonds,

notes, loans, commercial paper, and credit or liquidity support for

money borrowed, in the manner provided in the Grand River Dam

Authority Act. Nothing in the Grand River Dam Authority Act shall

authorize the issuance of any bonds, notes or other evidences of

indebtedness of the district, except as specifically provided in the

Grand River Dam Authority Act;

18. To prescribe and enforce rules for the use for recreational

and commercial purposes of the lakes created by the district by

impounding the waters of the lakes, and the shorelands of the

district bordering thereon, including the use of firearms, the

inspection of all boats of every character proposing to operate or

operating on the lakes, the issuance of permits for the operation of

boats, surfboards, aquaplanes, sea-skis or similar devices on the

lakes for hire; the charging and collection of fees for the

inspection or operation of such boats, surfboards, aquaplanes, sea-

skis or other similar devices on the lakes for hire; preventing the

launching or operation of any commercial or for-hire boat,

surfboard, aquaplane, sea-ski or similar device for hire, on the

waters of the lakes, without a certificate of inspection and a

permit for such use; prescribing the type, style, location and

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equipment of all wharves, docks and anchorages along the shores and

upon the water of the lakes; the issuance of permits for wharfage,

dock or anchorage privileges and charging fees for such commercial

or private permits; and the establishment and maintenance of public

wharves, docks or anchorages and the charging and collection of fees

for the use thereof by the public; to appoint or employ such

persons, including CLEET-certified volunteer reserve officers, as

the district may deem proper and suitable for the purpose of

enforcing such rules and regulations as may be issued hereunder, or

as may be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Boating

Safety Regulation Act, and for the enforcing of the provisions of

the Grand River Dam Authority Act, and all violations of criminal

laws occurring within the boundaries of the counties where real

property owned or leased by the Grand River Dam Authority is

located, which employees shall have the power of peace officers

during the performance of those duties, except in the serving or

execution of civil process.

Any municipal, county or state law enforcement officer employed

by the Grand River Dam Authority to serve as a part-time or seasonal

commissioned peace officer shall be exempt from the restrictions on

dual office holding as provided for in paragraph 16 of subsection A

of Section 6 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

19. To do any and all other acts or things necessary,

incidental or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights,

privileges or functions conferred upon it by the Grand River Dam

Authority Act or any other act or law. Provided the district shall

be liable for damage caused by the district, its agents, servants

and employees in creating, constructing, maintaining or operating

the district to any corporation, partnership, person or individual

whose property, either real or personal, within or without said

district, has been damaged and the damages may be determined by

appropriate action as provided by law. Nothing in the Grand River

Dam Authority Act shall be construed as rendering the district

liable for damage where it is not liable on general principles of

law or statute or Constitutional provision.
rship, person or individual

whose property, either real or personal, within or without said

district, has been damaged and the damages may be determined by

appropriate action as provided by law. Nothing in the Grand River

Dam Authority Act shall be construed as rendering the district

liable for damage where it is not liable on general principles of

law or statute or Constitutional provision.

Provided, however, that in the course of exercising its powers

as herein enumerated, the district shall at all times consider the

rights and needs of the people living within and upon the land lying

within the watershed of the rivers or streams developed by the

district; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent the

district from selling for irrigation purposes within the boundaries

of the district any water impounded by it under authority of law,

provided that nothing herein contained shall authorize the state to

engage in agriculture except for educational and scientific purposes

and for the support of its penal, charitable, and educational

institutions;

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20. To support and assist the efforts of state, regional and

local development organizations, political subdivisions, industrial

committees, chambers of commerce, tourism organizations,

agricultural organizations, environmental organizations, educational

institutions and other similar public and private agencies to obtain

new and foster expansion of existing service, industrial and

manufacturing facilities, businesses and enterprises to enhance the

quality of life for the citizens of the district and the state.

Provided, support and assistance shall be limited to an amount not

to exceed a total of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) per

year for one or more projects or efforts that are for the benefit of

or impact the quality of life for each city or community located

within the boundaries of the district; and

21. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Chief

Executive Officer, department heads and other essential employees of

the district, as designated by the Chief Executive Officer, may be

permitted to use a district owned vehicle to provide transportation

between the employee's residence and the assigned place of

employment and between the residence and any location other than the

assigned place of employment to which the employee travels in the

performance of the employee's official duty.