Oklahoma Code § 11-37-127

water in Oklahoma.
An incorporated municipality of a state adjoining the State of
Oklahoma is hereby granted permission, if authorized or empowered by
the laws of such adjoining state to do so, to acquire by purchase
from a private corporation which may be furnishing water to water
users in the municipality, or which may be furnishing water to the

municipality for resale to water users therein, the title to, or
lesser interest in, lands that the private corporation owns in the
State of Oklahoma.  The municipality may also acquire any easements
or rights-of-way then owned by such corporation over and across
other lands within the State of Oklahoma necessary for pipelines to
convey water from a reservoir to a point or points outside the State
of Oklahoma.  Such lands, easements and rights-of-way acquired by
the municipality may be used in connection with, but only used in
connection with, the establishment, betterment or expansion of a
municipally-owned water supply or system; the necessary protection
of the water supply from pollution; or the maintenance and operation
of the municipally-owned water supply or system.  The municipality
may continue to hold lands, easements and rights-of-way so acquired
as long as the same are so used.  In order to transfer or convey any
of its interests in Oklahoma lands, the private corporation shall
have owned the title to, or any lesser interest in, lands within the
State of Oklahoma as of April 25, 1957, upon which is located, in
whole or in part, a reservoir from which such water or portion
thereof is obtained, which reservoir has been in existence on the
lands for more than one (1) year prior to April 25, 1957, and which
land, or interest therein, has been owned by the corporation for
more than fifteen (15) years prior to April 25, 1957.

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