Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-47-111: Miscellaneous powers and duties of commission

The commission shall have power to promote public interest in

and understanding of the plan and to that end may publish and

distribute copies of the plan or of any report and may employ other

means of publicity and education as it may determine. Members of

the commission, when duly authorized by the commission, may attend

city planning conferences or meetings of city planning institutes or

hearings upon pending city planning legislation, and the council, by

resolution spread upon its minutes, may authorize and pay the

reasonable traveling expenses incident to attendance at authorized

meetings. The commission from time to time shall recommend to the

appropriate public officials programs for public structures and

improvements and for the financing thereof. It shall be part of its

duties to consult and advise with public officials and agencies,

public utility companies, civic, education, professional and other

organizations, and with citizens with relation to the protecting or

carrying out of the plan. The commission shall have the right to

accept and use gifts for the exercise of its functions. All public

officials shall furnish the commission, upon request and within a

reasonable time, available information as it may require for its

work. The commission, its members, officers, and employees, in the

performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make

examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments

and marks thereon. In general, the commission shall have the powers

as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote

municipal planning, or carry out the purposes of this article.