The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is authorized to discontinue farm operations or any portion of the farm operations at any time it feels it is in the best interest of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and this state. The Board may declare equipment and land which are surplus to the needs of the Department to the Department of Central Services. The Department of Central Services shall dispose of these surpluses as provided by law. The Department of Central Services shall be the purchasing agency for all facilities for which appropriations are made in the Mental Health Law, but shall not have authority to determine the propriety of purchases of institutions over which the Department of Central Services is not the controlling entity. The Board is authorized to spend funds for the development of recreational facilities on state-owned land outside the facility grounds.

Added by Laws 1967, HB 641, c. 324, § 5, emerg. eff. May 16, 1967; Amended by Laws 1983, SB 305, c. 304, § 13; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 25 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1990, SB 866, c. 51, § 29, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Amended by Laws 2002, SB 1624, c. 488, § 6, eff. November 1, 2002 (superseded document available).