Okla. Stat. tit. 72, § 72-165: Union Soldiers Cemetery – Certification as State Veterans

Cemetery – Transfer to Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.

The veterans cemetery known historically as the Union Soldiers

Cemetery located on the corner of Northeast 36th Street and Martin

Luther King Avenue in Oklahoma City shall remain under the

supervision and care of the Adjutant General of the State of

Oklahoma until such time as the executive director of the Oklahoma

Department of Veterans Affairs certifies to the Oklahoma Veterans

Commission receipt of such funds and clear title to property as are

necessary to meet the standards established by the United States

Department of Veterans Affairs to designate the property as a State

Veterans Cemetery. The title to all property, real and personal

included in and with the Union Soldiers Cemetery owned by the

Military Department of the State of Oklahoma, being a tract of land

in the Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 12 North, Range 3

West of the Indian Meridian, Oklahoma County, being more

particularly described as: beginning at the northwest corner of the

Northwest Quarter; thence North 89°30'53" East, along the north line

of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of 510.00 feet; thence South

00"13'08" East, parallel with the west line of the Northwest

Quarter, a distance of 280.00 feet; thence South 89"30'53" West,

parallel with the north line of the Northwest Quarter, a distance of

510.00 feet to the west line of the Northwest Quarter; thence North

00°13'08" West, along the west line of the Northwest Quarter, a

distance of 280.00 feet to the point of beginning, containing an

area of 142,799 square feet or 3.2782 acres, more or less, shall be

transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs within

ninety (90) days after the certification provided for in this

section is executed by the Executive Director.