Title 82, Title 82 — Waters and Water Rights

Dissolution - Limitation on obligations. (a) There is hereby established in each incorporated city and town and in each county of the state a public body corporate and politic which shall be an agency of the State of Oklahoma and shall be known as the "port authority" of the city…

Qualifications - Vacancies - Removal - Officers - Compensation. (a) A port authority created in accordance with this act shall be governed by a board of directors. Members of a board of directors of a port authority created by the exclusive action of a municipal corporation shall…

A port authority created in accordance with Section 2 shall employ and fix the qualifications, duties, and compensation of such employees and professional help as it may require to conduct the business of the port and may appoint an advisory board which shall serve without compen…

The area of jurisdiction of a port authority created in accordance with Section 2 of this act shall include all of the territory of the political subdivision or subdivisions creating it, together with any other property outside of said subdivision or subdivisions conveyed to it, …

Rules - Enforcement. A. The board of directors of a port authority shall have the authority to establish rules for the regulation of the use of vehicles within the real property under its direct control of the port authority. The rules shall be consistent with the laws of this st…

A port authority established pursuant to Section 1101 et seq. of this title shall have full power and authority to: 1. Purchase, construct, reconstruct, sell, lease, operate, and otherwise contract concerning docks, wharves, warehouses, piers, and other port, terminal, industrial…

improvement. The board of directors of a port authority shall prepare or cause to be prepared a plan for the future development, construction, and improvement of the port and its facilities, including such maps, profiles, and other data and descriptions as may be necessary to set…

The board of directors shall, from time to time after the adoption of said official plan, have the power to modify, amend or extend the same, provided that upon the making of any such modification, amendment or extension thereof, the board of directors shall cause notice to be gi…

The plan and any modification, amendment or extension thereof, when adopted by the board of directors after notice and hearing, shall be final and conclusive and its validity shall be conclusively presumed. Added by Laws 1959, p. 394, § 9, emerg. eff. July 15, 1959.

The port authority shall foster and encourage the participation of private enterprise in the development of the port facilities to the fullest extent it deems practicable in the interest of limiting the necessity of construction and operation of such facilities by the port author…

Nothing contained in Sections 1 to 14, inclusive, of this act shall: (a) Impair the provisions of law or ordinance directing the payment of revenues derived from public property into sinking funds or dedicating such revenues to specific purposes; (b) Enlarge, alter, diminish, or …

A. Public construction contracts as such term is defined by the Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974 and executed by a port authority created pursuant to Section 1102 of this title shall be subject to the Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974. B. 1. Except as otherwise provide…

(a) The board of directors of a port authority created in accordance with Section 2 of this Act shall annually prepare a budget for the port authority. (b) Rents and charges received by the port authority shall be used for the general expenses of the port authority and to pay int…

Before receiving any monies, the secretary of a port authority created in accordance with Section 1102 of this title shall furnish bond in such amount as shall be determined by the port authority, with sureties satisfactory to it, and all funds coming into the hands of said secre…

issue bonds. For the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of acquiring land or interests therein, and the cost of constructing, acquiring, equipping, and furnishing buildings, structures, plants, docks, wharves, warehouses, piers and other port, terminal and transportati…

Bonds authorized by this act may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times not exceeding forty (40) years from their date, may be in such denominations and in such form, either coupon or registered, may carry such registration …

United States Government. In the event any issue or series of bonds is issued under authority of this act pursuant to a loan agreement or bond purchase agreement with any agency of the United States Government, then and in that event, notwithstanding any other provision of law, t…

one project or facility - Payment from combined revenues. Bonds issued hereunder shall not be subject to taxation by the State of Oklahoma, or by any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof. The board of directors of a port authority may in its discretion authorize …

The board of directors of a port authority may issue bonds hereunder for the purpose of refunding any bonds or other obligations of the port authority theretofore issued pursuant to this act; or it may authorize a single issue of bonds hereunder for the purpose in part of refundi…

No provision of this act shall be construed to authorize the pledge or use of any appropriated funds of the State of Oklahoma, or any ad valorem tax revenues or any other tax revenues, for the payment or security of any bonds issued pursuant to this act. No bonds issued under pro…

of principal and interest. The board of directors of a port authority issuing bonds pursuant to the provisions of this act is authorized to pledge for the payment of principal of or interest on such bonds, all or any part of the revenues to be derived from the managements and ope…

The board of directors of a port authority may enter into any agreement or contract with the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof which it may consider advisable or necessary in order to obtain a grant of funds, a contract for purchase of its bonds, o…

Construction contracts. The proceeds to be derived from the sale of bonds herein authorized shall be segregated and used solely for the purpose for which the bonds are authorized. The board of directors of a port authority is authorized to make any contracts and execute all instr…

Incontestablility. All bonds issued hereunder shall contain the certificate required by Article 10, Section 29 of the Constitution of Oklahoma. Such bonds shall be submitted to the Attorney General of Oklahoma for examination, and when such bonds have been examined and certified …

Bonds issued under the provisions of this act are hereby made securities in which all banks, trust companies, trust and loan associations, investment companies, and others carrying on a banking business; all insurance companies and insurance agencies and others carrying on an ins…

Whenever the board of directors of a port authority shall have adopted a resolution authorizing the issuance of any series of bonds hereunder and said bonds have been sold but prior to the time as of which the bonds can be delivered, the board of directors of a port authority fin…

All bonds sold hereunder shall be awarded to the best bidder, based upon an open competitive public offering. Notice of sale of such bonds shall be advertised at least fourteen (14) days in advance of the time of receiving bids and said notice shall appear at least once a week fo…

Any trustee, as provided herein, first shall take the oath of office required of an elected public officer and shall be under a good and sufficient fidelity bond, to be approved by the Attorney General, in a surety company authorized to transact surety business in the State of Ok…

After the effective date of this act, meetings of an organized port authority shall be open to the public to the same extent as is required by law of other public boards and commissions. All records of said authority shall be public records and shall be kept in a place, the locat…

No trustee or beneficiary shall be charged with any liability whatsoever by reason of any act or omission committed or suffered in the performance of such trust or in the operation of the trust property, except for willful or grossly negligent breach of trust; provided, however, …

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Department of Transportation to be designated the “Oklahoma Ports Infrastructure Revolving Fund (OPIRF)”. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, for the purpose of pool…

Navigation System (MKARNS) – Creation - Duties. A. There is hereby created the Tri-State Commission on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS). It is anticipated that the State of Arkansas and the State of Kansas will enact legislation in order to complete th…

In this act unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "District" means a regional water district organized pursuant to the provisions of this act. A district is a body corporate and an instrumentality of each of the public agencies which establish it by interlocal agreement; 2. "…

Public regional water districts may be organized under this act for the purpose of engaging in the following activities: 1. Acquiring water rights or acquiring and developing water facilities or any interest therein, from any and all available sources, and storing water in reserv…

A. Two or more counties, by interlocal agreement made pursuant to the provisions of the Interlocal Cooperation Act and in accordance with the provisions of Sections 1266 through 1288 of this title, may establish a regional water district to carry out activities and projects autho…

Each district shall have power to: 1. Sue and be sued, complain and defend, in its corporate name; 2. Adopt a seal which may be altered at pleasure, and to use it, or a facsimile thereof, as required by law; 3. Acquire water rights, construct, erect, purchase, lease as lessee and…

Any person aggrieved by the service furnished or rates charged by said water district shall have the right to petition said grievance from the decision or action of said water district, to the district court wherein said water district was formed, and upon said petition being fil…

Districts formed hereunder shall be exempt from all excise taxes of whatsoever kind or nature, and further, shall be exempt from payment of assessments in any general or special taxing district levied upon the property of the district, whether real, personal or mixed. Any and all…

A. Districts formed pursuant to this act shall be operated without profit, but the rates, revenues, fees, rents or other charges for water or sewage services or facilities, supplies, equipment or other services furnished by the water district shall be sufficient at all times: 1. …

Additional territory may be annexed to and embraced by a district established and operating under this act by the addition of new public agencies as members of the interlocal agreement, and appropriate amendment and, without further review by any agency or office, filing as requi…

Within sixty (60) days after the close of each calendar year any water district organized and in operation under this act shall make a written report to the Oklahoma Water Resources Board at its office and shall include the following: 1. The total volume of water contracted for f…

A regional water district may be dissolved by the district court for the county in which fifty percent (50%) or more of the real property of the district is located upon application for that purpose filed by a majority of the members of the board of directors of such district. Th…

If a district is inactive, the judge of the district court for the county in which fifty percent (50%) or more of the real property of the district is located may designate a board of directors who shall act with the same authority in dissolving the district as if they had been a…

The district shall hold title to its property in its corporate name for the uses and purposes of the district. The formation of a district shall not transfer water rights to the district. Any district which contracts with the State of Oklahoma or the United States may convey dist…

Except for contracts of employment, directors and employees shall not have a financial interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract entered into by the district. Directors and employees shall not receive any bonus, gratuity or bribe. They shall not spend funds of the distric…

provide certain services - Purchase of certain facilities. A. Once a district has been organized under this act, any one or more public agencies not joining in the original organization agreement may subsequently join the district by becoming a signatory to the interlocal agreeme…

or products. A. In order to accomplish the purposes of this act, any public agency, subject to any applicable restrictions of Article X, Sections 17, 26 and 27 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, may enter into and carry out contracts and agreements for the purchase fro…

A. The district may from time to time issue its obligations in such principal amounts as the district shall deem necessary to provide sufficient funds to carry out any of its corporate purposes and powers and to pay for any costs or expenses of the district incident to and necess…

A. Any county of this state, the territorial limits of which are totally within the boundaries of a regional water district organized under the provisions of this act, and which is qualified to levy a county sales tax pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1370, 1371 and 1372 of …

A. The board shall cause to be prepared by an independent certified accountant an annual certified audit of the funds, assets, books and records of the district. The audit shall be completed and filed after the close of each fiscal year of the district. A copy of the audit shall …