Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3417: Agricultural research - Northeastern Oklahoma Pasture

Improvement Program - Anaplasmosis - General research.

(a) The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and

Mechanical Colleges, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the Extension

Division of the Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and Applied

Science are hereby authorized to establish and promote a pasture

program to be known as "Northeastern Oklahoma Pasture Improvement

Program": to be located within the various counties of Northeastern

Oklahoma and to be designated by the Director of the Oklahoma

Agricultural Extension Division. Monies hereinafter authorized and

appropriated to carry out the purpose of this section shall be

available for the purchase of machinery, equipment, supplies and to

cover rentals or any other necessary costs of operation of the

program herein authorized.

In order to control the development of said pasture program the

Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical

Colleges are authorized to enter into lease agreements with land

owners for such period of time as may be necessary to establish a

completed program, provided, however, any lease payment to any

individual land owner shall not exceed One Dollar ($1.00) per acre

per year for tract so leased.

The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and

Mechanical Colleges are authorized hereby to request and receive

cooperation and assistance of the United States and any of its

agencies, and of agencies of this state, in carrying out the work to

reach the objectives of the program and to accept donations, grants,

gifts, and contributions, in money, land, services or otherwise,

from the United States and any of its agencies, or from the state or

any of its agencies, and to accept contributions from

nongovernmental organizations or persons in order to carry out the

purposes of this section.

Said pasture program shall be operated under the direction and

supervision of the Oklahoma State University of Agriculture and

Applied Science and the programs carried on shall be designed to

determine the most practical means of restoring the desirable

physical properties of pasture land, to the end of reclaiming and

putting into profitable production said pasture land of Northeastern

Oklahoma, giving special attention to the various types of grasses

and legumes.

(b) The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and

Mechanical Colleges and the Experiment Station is authorized and

directed to make extensive and intensive research to discover

treatment or agent to immunize and/or to prevent anaplasmosis.

In order to carry out the purpose and provisions of this

section, contributions from persons, firms and corporations may be

accepted to carry on research and purchase equipment and materials

for this needed purpose. The Board is authorized to employ

personnel and to purchase equipment and materials necessary to make

whatever research the Board deems advisable to accomplish the

purposes of this act.