Opinion No. 80-122 (1980) Ag

The Attorney General has received your opinion request which asks, in effect: Does the Aeronautics Commission Act, 3 O.S. 81 [3-81] et seq. (1971), authorize the Aeronautics Commission to fund public heliports ? A cardinal rule is that public officers, boards, and commissions, created by statute, "have only such authority as is conferred upon them by law." Tulsa Exposition and Fair Corp. v. Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa County, Okl., 468 P.2d 501 (1970); Shaw v. Grumbine, 137 Okl. 95, 278 P. 311 (1929). They have, in addition, such "implied powers as are necessary for due and…