There is hereby created, with respect to each rural electric cooperative in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of such rural electric cooperative to be known as the “housing authority” of said cooperative which shall be an agency of the State of Oklahoma possessing all powers, rights and function provided by law for city and county housing authorities. No rural electric cooperative housing authority shall transact any business or exercise any powers unless the governing board of said cooperative, by proper resolution, declares that there is a need for an authority to function for said cooperative.

Except as otherwise provided in this act,¹ all the provisions of law applicable to housing authorities created for cities and counties and the commissioners of such authorities shall be applicable to rural electric cooperative housing authorities and the commissioners thereof unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context. The chief executive officer of each rural electric cooperative is authorized to exercise all appointing and other powers with respect to a rural electric cooperative housing authority that are vested by law in the mayor of a city relating to a city housing authority.