Okla. Stat. tit. 73, § 73-168: Acquisition of land and erection of buildings for

specified state agencies.

The Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority is hereby authorized

and directed to plan, acquire land for and erect, operate and

maintain buildings for the use of the following state agencies, and

to borrow money on the credit of the income and revenues to be

derived from such projects in the amounts indicated for each such

project and, in anticipation of the collection of such income and

revenues, to issue negotiable bonds not to exceed the amounts

indicated for each such project or so much of each indicated amount

as may, in the opinion of the Authority, be necessary for such

purpose:

(a) For the State Department of Highways, the sum of Seven

Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000.00) to be used

(1) first, to acquire all of the land which is bounded by

Lincoln Boulevard on the east, Northeast Twenty-first Street on the

north, Walnut Avenue on the west and the alley north of Northeast

Sixteenth Street on the south which is not now owned by the State of

Oklahoma or its agencies or the City of Oklahoma City, and

(2) second, to plan and erect thereon a building or buildings

for the use of the State Department of Highways with appropriate

improvements for utilities, parking and access to serve such

building or buildings.

(b) For the State Department of Education primarily, and

secondarily for those agencies related to education including but

not limited to the School Land Commission, the Teachers' Retirement

System, etc., the sum of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00) to be

used

(1) first, to acquire all of the land which is bounded by

Lincoln Boulevard on the east, Northeast Twenty-sixth Street on the

north, Stiles Avenue on the west and Northeast Twenty-fourth Street

on the south which is not now owned by the State of Oklahoma or its

agencies or the City of Oklahoma City, and

(2) second, to plan and erect thereon a building for the use

primarily of the State Department of Education and secondarily for

the use of such other agencies related to education including but

not limited to those named above as may in the opinion of the

Authority be appropriate, desirable and feasible, with appropriate

improvements for utilities, parking and access to serve such

building.

(c) For the Oklahoma Tax Commission the sum of Four Million

Dollars ($4,000,000.00) to be used

(1) first, to acquire all of the land which is bounded by

Lincoln Boulevard on the west, Northeast Twenty-sixth Street on the

north, Lindsay Avenue on the east and Northeast Twenty-fourth Street

on the south which is not now owned by the State of Oklahoma or its

agencies or the City of Oklahoma City, and

(2) second, to plan and erect thereon a building for the use of

the Oklahoma Tax Commission with appropriate improvements for

utilities, parking and access to serve such building.

(d) For the planning of and the remodeling and renovation of the

Jim Thorpe Office Building and the State Capitol Building, including

equipment, the sum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00).

(e) The Authority may, in its discretion, exchange the locations

of the buildings described in (b) and (c) above.