1. (a) On and after July 1, 1967, the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall be the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Authority of the State of Oklahoma, and is authorized to receive grants of federal funds for the purpose of combating or preventing mental illness, including but not limited to funds for the treatment, care, rehabilitation, or training of the mentally ill, or for the establishment or expansion of any program of facilities or research projects relating to the mentally ill, or for construction of research centers and other facilities for the mentally ill, and is authorized to cooperate in any reasonable manner with the federal agency or agencies granting such federal funds for such purposes, including compliance with any conditions prescribed by federal authorities for the granting of such funds. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall serve as the sole designated state agency for receiving, disbursing, or administering federal funds for any of the aforesaid purposes, provided federal law requires such an agency and the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is eligible to be such an agency under federal law. Construction projects, and applications therefor for any of the aforesaid purposes, shall not require the approval of any other state agency. Provided, that this section shall not prevent any other agency from receiving, disbursing, or administering federal grants for any of the aforesaid purposes in accordance with federal law.
2. (b) In order to provide for an orderly transition to the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services of such of the aforesaid functions as are now vested in other public agencies, this section shall not affect the construction by other public agencies of community mental health facilities, or the maintenance by other public agencies of programs for mental health, or the furnishing by other public agencies of mental health services in child guidance centers, or the receipt by other public agencies of federal funds for any of such purposes.

Added by Laws 1967, HB 641, c. 324, § 4, emerg. eff. May 16, 1967; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 24 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1990, SB 866, c. 51, § 30, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990.