Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3413: Experimental stations and projects - Assent to federal

acts.

The Board of Regents for Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical

Colleges may operate agricultural experiment stations, and shall

receive federal funds and comply with federal requirements for such

purposes; and may continue to operate all such experiment stations

in existence when this Code becomes effective. As specifically

provided herein the State of Oklahoma assents to and accepts the

provisions of acts of Congress providing funds, services, and

property to states for the purpose of establishing or operating such

experimental stations, and the Board of Regents may enter into

agreements with federal agencies for such purposes.

(a) The agricultural experiment station established in

connection with the Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and

Applied Science under the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma

Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges shall be operated for the

purpose of conducting experiments in agriculture according to the

terms of the acts of Congress establishing agricultural colleges and

universities and experimental stations, and any rules and

regulations promulgated under authority granted in the aforesaid

federal acts.

(b) The provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to

establish agricultural experimental stations in connection with the

colleges established in the several states" under the provisions of

an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, chapter

314, and the acts supplementary thereto, approved March second,

eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and as amended by the Act, August

11, 1955, chapter 790, Public Law 84-352, and any other federal

authorizations providing federal funds to state experiment stations,

are accepted by the State of Oklahoma; and the state hereby agrees

and obligates itself to comply with all the provisions of said acts,

and any rules and regulations promulgated under authority granted in

the aforesaid federal acts.

(c) The assent of the Legislature of Oklahoma is hereby given,

in pursuance of the requirements of Section Nine of the Act of

Congress, approved March 2, 1887, and amended August 11, 1955, to

the grants of money therein made, and to the establishing of an

experimental station, in accordance with Section One of both Acts,

and assent is hereby given to carry out all and singular provisions

of all these Acts of Congress. The Board of Regents for the

Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges acting for and on

behalf of the Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and Applied

Science is hereby authorized and empowered to receive the grants of

monies appropriated under said Acts for the use and benefit of the

State Experiment Station of the Oklahoma State University of

Agriculture and Applied Science, and to use them in accordance with

the terms and conditions expressed in the Acts of Congress,

aforesaid, and any rules and regulations promulgated under authority

granted in the aforesaid federal acts.