§ 74-61.8. Reduction of property owned and leased by the state.

A.  The Long-Range Capital Planning Commission shall work to decrease the amount of property owned by Oklahoma state government, return state-owned property to private sector ownership, better maintain and utilize the state's needed capital assets and, whenever possible, eliminate the practice of state agencies leasing real property not owned by the state.

B.  Each year, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services at the direction of the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission, shall take action to approve the privatization of state-owned real property as identified pursuant to the Oklahoma State Government Asset Reduction and Cost Savings Program.  Proceeds from the liquidation of real properties shall be deposited into the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund.

C.  Prior to entering into or renewing a lease for real property, each state agency, board, commission, and public trust having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary shall receive approval for entering into the lease from the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

D.  Prior to making a purchase of real property or constructing a building, each state agency, board, commission, and public trust having the State of Oklahoma as a beneficiary shall receive approval for the purchase or construction from the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services; provided, if such purchase or construction is deemed by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to be within the authority of the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission, the Director shall not approve the purchase or construction and shall refer the request to the Commission for action.

E.  Prior to approval or referral pursuant to subsection C or D of this section, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall determine if the applicant entity can utilize already existing state-owned real property as an alternative to leasing non-state-owned real property or purchasing or constructing new real property.

F.  By February 1 of each year, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall publish a report for the preceding calendar year listing the parcels of previously state-owned property sold, detailing the reduction in the amount of space leased by the state, describing the source of funds and expenditures from the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund and showing the manner in which deferred maintenance needs are being met.  The report shall be provided to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate and placed on the documents.ok.gov web portal.

G.  This section shall not be applicable to the following or their lands, properties, buildings, funds or revenue:

1.  The Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority; and

2.  The Commissioners of the Land Office.

Added by Laws 2013, c. 209, § 2, eff. July 1, 2013.