The Commissioner of Public Safety shall have the exclusive rights to enter into all contracts incident to real estate gifted to the state for use by the Department of Public Safety in rural Pottawatomie County adjacent to the Wes Watkins Reservoir, hereafter referred to as “the premises”, including any and all architectural, engineering, design consultant, construction manager, and construction contracts concerning construction of a gun range on the premises.
The Department shall have exclusive jurisdiction, custody, responsibility and control over all construction, repair, maintenance, management and operation of the premises and all fixtures thereon incident to the gun range.
In the construction, repair, maintenance, and operation of the gun range, the Department and the premises shall be exempt from any and all real estate construction requirements and provisions, to the extent they could be applicable to the acquisition of goods or services incident to the construction, repair, maintenance and operation, as set forth in the Oklahoma Statutes, including but not limited to Sections 101 through 138 and Sections 202 through 220 of Title 61 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and subsections B, C and E of Section 63 and Sections 85.1 through 85.45j of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Added by Laws 2008, c. 319, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.