§ 63-2054. Community Social Service Center Authority - Powers, rights and privileges.  


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  • The State Health Department is hereby designated as the Oklahoma Community Social Service Center authority and is authorized to exercise the following powers, rights, and privileges in carrying out the purposes of this act:

    (a) To prepare and publish guidelines, procedures, priorities, and regulations following consultation with other state departments and approval by the State Board of Health.

    (b) To acquire by purchase, lease, sublease, or gift, any and all property, real, personal, or mixed, necessary to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions conferred upon it by this act.

    (c) To acquire, build, extend, and improve any and all facilities which, in the judgment of the Authority, will benefit the people of the state, or which are necessary to the accomplishment of the purpose of this act.

    (d) To maintain and operate or enter into contracts with official or nonprofit public bodies to maintain and operate facilities acquired under the provisions of this act.

    (e) To fix and contract concerning annual charges to tenants occupying space in facilities acquired under the provisions of this act.

    (f) To enter into agreements with any person or entity for the acquisition of property to accomplish the purposes of this act.

    (g) To receive, allocate, or otherwise expend appropriations made by the Government of the State of Oklahoma to accomplish the purposes of this act.

    (h) To apply for and receive directly, or through public bodies in which the state has taken a beneficial interest, grants or allocations from instrumentalities of the Government of the United States which will assist in accomplishing the purposes of this act.

    (i) To deposit all funds received by it from Community Social Service Centers properties in a special account in the Office of the State Treasurer, which said account in the Office of the State Treasurer, which said account hereby is authorized and designated the County Social Service Centers Account.  Any funds in said account shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer at the direction of the authority for expenditures relative to the establishment, improvement, maintenance and operation of County Social Service Centers.

Laws 1967, c. 211, § 4, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967.