Okla. Stat. tit. 27A, § 27A-3-3-107: District as local agency

A. Any district organized under the Conservation District Act

shall have power to serve as a local agency for operating and

maintaining any project or program concerned with the conservation

of renewable natural resources that is administered by any local,

state, interstate or federal public agency, by entering into a

contract or other appropriate administrative arrangement with the

agency administering such project or program.

B. In serving as such local agency for any such project or

program, the district may use any authority or funds available to it

under the Conservation District Act which are required for such

purposes.

C. 1. Any agency of the government of this state and any local

political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized to make

such arrangements with any district, through contract, regulation or

other appropriate means, wherever it believes that such arrangements

will promote administrative efficiency or economy.

2. In connection with any such arrangements, any state or local

agency or political subdivision of this state is authorized, within

the limits of funds available to it, to contribute funds, equipment,

property or services to any district; and to collaborate with a

district in jointly planning, constructing, financing or operating

any work or activity provided for in such arrangements and in

jointly acquiring, maintaining and operating equipment or facilities

in connection therewith.

D. Any district may receive funds, property, equipment and

services from any local, state, interstate or federal public agency,

or from private donors, for use in serving as the local agency for

operating and maintaining a program or project under any such

contract or other arrangement.