{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-66-66-57","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 66, § 66-57","heading":"Eminent domain and condemnation proceedings by railroads","body":"The provisions of this article with reference to eminent domain\n\nshall apply to all corporations having the right to eminent domain,\n\nand shall apply to the State of Oklahoma and its various\n\neducational, reformatory, penal and eleemosynary institutions,\n\nincluding departments of state having the power to purchase real\n\nproperty for public purposes, and such institutions and departments\n\nshall have the right under this article to acquire fee simple title\n\nto the property taken. When the State of Oklahoma through the\n\nmanaging board or commission of the institution or department of\n\nstate concerned is unable to purchase any real property needed for\n\nany such institution or department, condemnation proceedings to take\n\nthe same and to pay damages therefor may be instituted in the name\n\nof the State of Oklahoma by the managing board or commission of the\n\ninstitution or department of state involved; and all such\n\ninstitutions and corporations shall have the right, under the\n\nprovisions of this article, to acquire right-of-way over, under,\n\nalong or across the property or right-of-way of any other such\n\ncorporation, not inconsistent with the purposes for which such\n\nproperty was taken or acquired. In all cases of condemnation of\n\nproperty for either public or private use, the determination of the\n\ncharacter of the use shall be a judicial question; and the procedure\n\nshall be as provided herein: Provided, that in case any corporation\n\nor municipality authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain\n\nshall have taken and occupied, for purposes for which it might have\n\nresorted to condemnation proceedings, as provided in this article,\n\nany land, without having purchased or condemned the same, the damage\n\nthereby inflicted upon the owner of such land shall be determined in\n\nthe manner provided in this article for condemnation proceedings.\n\nR.L. 1910, § 1404; Laws 1929, c. 24, p. 20, § 1, emerg. eff. March\n\n19, 1929.","path":["OK Code","Title 66"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os66.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"41b2c911a1aa320ff1a627d1b104d843a212d07956ddf81e951f6d7814754669","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-66-66-56","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-66-66-58"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}