Okla. Stat. tit. 64, § 64-1038: Power of Commissioners to sue and be sued – Attorney

General to represent.

The Commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized to

employ attorneys or to engage private attorneys to bring or defend

suits in the name of the Commissioners of the Land Office and on

behalf of the State of Oklahoma in all matters affecting the public

lands of the state, and in all matters affecting the loaning,

investing or collecting of school land and state land monies, of,

and belonging to the state. It shall be the duty of the Attorney

General of the state, when requested by the Commissioners of the

Land Office, to represent the Commissioners, and the state in the

prosecution or defense of any suit or action so instituted, brought

or defended.