2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 74. State Government › §74-168. Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - Transfer of land - Indebtedness and bonds.

A. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services is hereby authorized to transfer to the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority, for the purpose of erecting, operating and maintaining a building for the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the land described as a part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 27, Township 12 North, Range 3 West of the Indian Meridian, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of the said NW 1/4 of the said Section 27; thence S 89 degrees 59' 33" W, a distance of 152.77 feet to a point; thence S 89 degrees 59' 29" W, a distance of 479.34 feet to a point; thence N 0 degrees 46' 09" E, a distance of 341.21 feet to the point and place of beginning; thence S 89 degrees 59' 29" W, a distance of 121.90 feet to a point; thence N 0 degrees 03' 26" W, a distance of 138.82 feet to a point; thence S 89 degrees 59' 29" W, a distance of 290.00 feet to a point; thence W 0 degrees 07' 52" W, a distance of 334.28 feet to a point; thence N 89 degrees 59' 29" E, a distance of 320.00 feet to a point; thence N 89 degrees 58' 51" E, a distance of 99.15 feet to a point; thence S 0 degrees 46' 09" W, a distance of 473.17 feet to the point and place of beginning, retaining an easement for vehicular access over and across a forty-foot-wide strip of land, said strip being the Westerly forty (40) feet of the above described property, containing three and fifty-nine one-hundredths (3.59) acres.
B. For the purpose of paying the costs of the project authorized in subsection A of this section, the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority is hereby authorized to borrow money on the credit of rental payments made by the Department of Human Services and, in anticipation of the collection of such rental payments, to issue negotiable bonds not to exceed the sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) as may be necessary for such purpose as determined by the Authority. The Authority may retain such legal counsel as it deems necessary for this purpose subject to all requirements of the Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974.
In order to prevent any defaults or threatened defaults in the payment of said bonds, the Authority is hereby authorized to require the State Department of Rehabilitation Services to be housed in said building and to pay rent for the use and occupancy of said building. Rents paid by the State Department of Rehabilitation Services shall be placed in the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority Fund for the purpose of maintenance of the building, retiring said bonds, and related expenses. When all bonds issued for the construction of this building have been paid in full, the building shall become the property of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services and shall thereafter be under the full and exclusive supervision of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services.
C. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized to purchase said negotiable bonds.
D. The interest rate on the bonds issued pursuant to this section shall not exceed ten percent (10%) per annum.
E. Insofar as they are not in conflict with the provisions of this section, the provisions of Section 151 et seq. of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall apply to this section.
Added by Laws 1987, p. 1726, S.J.R. No. 5, § 1. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 236, § 141, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987; Laws 1993, c. 364, § 22, emerg. eff. June 11, 1993; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 841.