The Oklahoma Military Department, with the approval of the Governor, attested by the Secretary of State thereon, is hereby authorized and directed to enter into, in the name of the state, and to take all actions necessary to execute the terms of a National Guard armory building construction or expansion, rehabilitation or conversion of existing building agreements with the United States of America, by and through the Department of the Army or other representative federal agency, under the provisions of Public Law 783, 81st Congress, and amendments thereto, under which agreements the United States of America will contribute a sum not in excess of seventy-five percent (75%) and the state will contribute a sum not in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the cost of constructing, erecting and completing of each armory building constructed by virtue hereof or the expansion, rehabilitation, or conversion of existing armory buildings; and any money so granted by the United States of America, in carrying out the objects of Sections 232.1 through 232.5 of this title, shall be used and expended in accordance with the requirements of the Department of the Army or other representative federal agency; provided, that the state, in addition to such contribution of twenty-five percent (25%), shall pay without federal participation or contribution, such sums as are necessary for the purpose of providing workable public utility lines, connections and installations for each of such armory buildings; provided, further, that the Oklahoma Military Department may pay from funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of Section 233.2 et seq. of this title, without federal participation, all such capital improvements, construction costs or expenses as may be reasonably and necessarily included in connection with such projects, where federal laws or regulations do not permit federal participation in payment of such capital improvements, construction costs or expenses and even though such capital improvements, construction costs or expenses exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total cost of the project.

Laws 1953, SB 233, p. 177, § 2, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953; Amended by Laws 1955, HB 592, p. 254, § 1, emerg. eff. March 18, 1955; Amended by Laws 1971, HB 1283, c. 216, § 1; Amended by Laws 1985, SB 107, c. 147, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1985.