Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-501: State Board authorized to organize conservancy districts -

Members of board as directors of districts.

In addition to the powers conferred upon the Conservation Commission

of the State of Oklahoma by Article 5, Chapter 70, Oklahoma Statutes

of 1931, as amended by House Bill Number 84, of the Fifteenth

Legislature, the said Conservation Commission of the State of

Oklahoma is hereby authorized and empowered to determine and map

proposed water conservancy and/or water improvement districts and/or

soil erosion prevention districts and to perfect the organization of

such proposed districts in the manner as hereinafter prescribed. For

the purposes of this act and other Laws in connection therewith, the

members of the Conservation Commission of the State of Oklahoma may

be, by the courts upon which jurisdiction is hereinafter conferred,

appointed directors of the conservancy districts hereafter created

under the authority of this act.