Current developments on Oklahoma water law. News for use by municipal water service providers. Wholesale and raw water transfers and contracts. Reports on litigation between rural water districts and municipal water service providers. Up to date information on the anticompetitive protection available through 7 U.S.C. section 1926(b).
Saturday, October 15, 2005
No authority to borrow
Rural water districts in Oklahoma lack the authority to borrow funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the loan carries with it Section 1926(b) protection. That is the result of two Oklahoma Supreme Court decisions, announced thirty years apart. The decisions are Coppage and Comanche County.