A. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services is hereby authorized to grant easements, rights-of-way, and enter into contracts authorizing the construction and maintenance of telephone, electric transmission and distribution lines, railroad lines, telegraph lines, and pipelines across any state lands under the management of said Director, and all lands set apart for the use and benefit of any state agency, department, or institution including all lands set apart for use of colleges, universities, hospitals, and eleemosynary institutions. Said easements and rights-of-way grants shall be for a period not to exceed twenty (20) years and shall provide for such considerations, terms, and conditions including privileges and conditions of renewal, as the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may determine advisable for the best interests of the state institutions in possession thereof.
B. The Commissioners of the Land Office, the Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority, the Midwestern Oklahoma Development Authority, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, the Northeast Oklahoma Public Facilities Authority and the Department of Wildlife Conservation and their lands shall be exempt from the application of this section.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 587, § 1. Amended by Laws 1951, p. 249, § 1; Laws 1983, c. 304, § 137, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 1985, H.J.R. No. 1039, p. 1682, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1986, c. 245, § 8, emerg. eff. June 12, 1986; Laws 1997, c. 292, § 6, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 203, § 7, emerg. eff. May 11, 1998; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 814. Renumbered from § 126.1 of Title 74 by Laws 2013, c. 209, § 34, eff. July 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 286, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2016, c. 336, § 1.