Opinion No. 80-117 (1980) Ag

The Attorney General's Office is in receipt of your request for an opinion wherein you ask the following questions: "1. Did House Joint Resolution 502 enacted by the Twenty-Sixth Legislature in 1957 create or establish, as a matter of substantive law or rule of law in Oklahoma, any preferred or prioritized uses of ground water? "2. Do the basic principles of a proposed water policy contained within House Joint Resolution 502 (1957), with particular respect to the "Priority of Water Uses" therein referred, constitute a declaration of the current ground water policy of the State of Oklahoma?…