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63 OK Stat § 63-685.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-685.8. Oaths.

|At the time of their designation, emergency interim successors and special emergency judges shall take such oath as may be required for them to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office to which they may succeed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, as a prerequisite to the exercise of the powers or discharge of the duties of an office to which he succeeds, shall be required to comply with any other provisions of law relative to taking office. |Laws 1959, p. 214, § 8; Laws 1963, c. 270, § 8, emerg. eff. June 13, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-685.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-685.9. Limitation on exercise of powers and duties by interim successors and special emergency judges - Termination of authority by Legislature.

|Officials authorized to act as Governor pursuant to this act, emergency interim successors and special emergency judges are empowered to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office as herein authorized only after an emergency or disaster occurs in the United States, as defined herein, has occurred. The Legislature by concurrent resolution may, at any time, terminate the authority of said emergency interim successors and special emergency judges to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of office as herein provided. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 214, § 9, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 270, § 9, emerg. eff. June 13, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 34, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-685.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-685.10. Removal of successors.

|Until such time as the persons designated as emergency interim successors or special emergency judges are authorized to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office in accordance with this act, including Section 9 hereof, said persons may be removed or replaced by said designating authority at any time, with or without cause. |Laws 1959, p. 214, § 10; Laws 1963, c. 270, § 10, emerg. eff. June 13, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-685.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-685.11. Disputes.

|Any dispute concerning a question of fact arising under this act with respect to an office in the executive branch of the state government (except a dispute of fact relative to the Office of Governor) shall be adjudicated by the Governor (or other official authorized under the Constitution and this act to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office of Governor) and his decision shall be final. Such disputes with respect to the Office of Governor shall be determined by the Supreme Court. |Laws 1959, p. 214, § 11; Laws 1963, c. 270, § 11, emerg. eff. June 13, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.1. Citation.

|This act shall be known as the "Emergency Management Interim Legislative Succession Act" and shall be cumulative to the Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 215, § 1, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 1, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 35, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.2. Declarations.

|The Legislature declares: |1. Because of existing possibilities of natural or man-made disasters or emergencies of unprecedented destructiveness, which may result in the death or inability to act of a large proportion of the membership of the Legislature; and2. Because to conform in time of emergency or disaster to existing legal requirements pertaining to the Legislature would be impracticable, and would jeopardize continuity of operation of a legally constituted Legislature; it is therefore necessary to adopt special provisions as hereinafter set out for the effective operation of the Legislature during natural or man-made disasters or emergencies.Added by Laws 1959, p. 215, § 2, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 2, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 36, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.3. Definitions.

|As used in this act: |1. ”Emergency” means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President of the United States or the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, federal or state assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property, public health and safety, or to lessen or avert threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state;2. “Man-made disaster” means a disaster caused by acts of man including, but not limited to, an act of war, terrorism, chemical spill or release, or a power shortage that requires assistance from outside the local political subdivision; and3. "Unavailable" means absent from the place of session, other than on official business of the Legislature, or unable, for physical, mental or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a legislator, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under existing constitutional or statutory provisions.Added by Laws 1959, p. 215, § 3, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 3, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 37, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.4. Designation of emergency interim successor.

|Each legislator shall designate not fewer than three nor more than seven emergency interim successors to his powers and duties and specify their order of succession. Each legislator shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designations of emergency interim successors to his powers and duties to insure that at all times there are at least three such qualified emergency interim successors. |Laws 1959, p. 215, § 4; Laws 1963, c. 340, § 4, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.5. Emergency interim successor defined - Qualification - Tenure.

|An emergency interim successor is one who is designated for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless he may, under the Constitution and statutes hold the office of the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed, but no constitutional or statutory provision prohibiting a legislator from holding another office or prohibiting the holder of another office from being a legislator shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor. An emergency interim successor shall serve at the pleasure of the legislator designating him or of any subsequent incumbent of the legislative office. |Laws 1959, p. 215, § 5; Laws 1963, c. 340, § 5, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.6. Maintaining minimum number of successors.

|Prior to an emergency or disaster, if a legislator fails to designate the required minimum number of emergency interim successors within sixty (60) days following the effective date of this act or, after such period, if for any reason the number of emergency interim successors for any legislator falls below the required minimum and remains below such minimum for a period of sixty (60) days, then the floor leader of the same political party in the same house as such legislator shall, by and with the consent of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, promptly designate as many emergency interim successors as are required to achieve such minimum number, but the floor leader shall not assign to any designees a rank in order of succession higher than that of any remaining emergency interim successor previously designated by a legislator for succession to the legislator’s own powers and duties. Each emergency interim successor designated by the floor leader shall serve at the pleasure of the designating person, but the legislator for whom the emergency successor is designated or any subsequent incumbent of the office may change the rank in order of succession or replace at the pleasure of the designating person any emergency interim successor so designated. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 215, § 6, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 6, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 38, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.7. Effective date of designations and removals - Recording.

|Each designation of an emergency interim successor shall become effective when the legislator or party floor leader making the designation files with the Secretary of State the successor's name, address and rank in order of succession. The removal of an emergency interim successor or change in order of succession shall become effective when the legislator or party floor leader, so acting, files this information with the Secretary of State. All such data shall be open to public inspection. The Secretary of State shall inform the Governor, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, the journal clerk of the house concerned and all emergency interim successors, of all such designations, removals and changes in order of succession. The journal clerk of each house shall enter all information regarding emergency interim successors for the house in its public journal at the beginning of each legislative session and shall enter all changes in membership or order of succession as soon as possible after the occurrence. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 216, § 7, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 7, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 39, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.8. Oaths.

|Promptly after designation each emergency interim successor shall take the oaths required for the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed. No other oath shall be required. The oath shall be administered (by the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the emergency interim successors designated for that house, and by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for the emergency interim successors designated to serve for the Senate.) |Laws 1959, p. 216, § 8; Laws 1963, c. 340, § 8, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.9. Successors to keep informed.

|Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current business of the Legislature, and each legislator shall assist his emergency interim successors to keep themselves so informed. |Laws 1959, p. 216, § 9; Laws 1963, c. 340, § 9, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.10. Changing place of session.

|Whenever, in the event of an emergency or disaster or upon finding that an emergency or disaster may be imminent, the Governor deems the place of session then prescribed to be unsafe, the Governor may change it to any place within the state which the Governor deems safer and more convenient. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 216, § 10, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 10, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 40, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.11. Calling of session - Limitations suspended.

|In the event of an emergency or disaster, the Governor shall call the Legislature into session as soon as practicable, and in any case within thirty (30) days following the inception of the emergency or disaster. Each legislator and each emergency interim successor, unless the Governor is certain that the legislator to whose powers and duties the legislator is designated to succeed or any emergency interim successor higher in order of succession will not be unavailable, shall proceed to the place of session as expeditiously as practicable. At such session or at any session in operation at the inception of the emergency or disaster, and at any subsequent session, limitations on the length of session and on the subjects which may be acted upon shall be suspended. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 216, § 11, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 11, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 41, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.12. Exercise of powers and duties by successors - Ouster provisions applicable.

|If, in the event of an emergency or disaster a legislator is unavailable, the emergency interim successor highest in order of succession who is not unavailable shall, except for the power and duty to appoint emergency interim successors, exercise the powers and assume the duties of such legislator. An emergency interim successor shall exercise these powers and assume these duties until the incumbent legislator, an emergency interim successor higher in order of succession, or a legislator appointed or elected and legally qualified can act. Each house of the Legislature shall, in accordance with its own rules, determine who is entitled under the provisions of this act to exercise the powers and assume the duties of its members. All constitutional and statutory provisions pertaining to ouster of a legislator shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor who is exercising the powers and assuming the duties of a legislator. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 216, § 12, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 12, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 42, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.13. Privileges and immunities - Compensation and allowances.

|When an emergency interim successor exercises the powers and assumes the duties of a legislator, the emergency interim successor shall be accorded the privileges and immunities, compensation, allowances and other perquisites of office to which a legislator is entitled. In the event of an emergency or disaster, each emergency interim successor, whether or not called upon to exercise the powers and assume the duties of a legislator, shall be accorded the privileges and immunities of a legislator while traveling to and from a place of session and shall be compensated for travel in the same manner and amount as a legislator. This section shall not in any way affect the privileges, immunities, compensation, allowances or other perquisites of office of an incumbent legislator. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 216, § 13, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 13, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 43, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-686.14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-686.14. Termination of authority.

|The authority of emergency interim successors to succeed to the powers and duties of legislators, the operation of the provisions of this act relating to quorum, the number of affirmative votes required for legislative action, and limitations on the length of sessions and the subjects which may be acted upon shall expire two (2) years following the inception of an emergency or disaster, but nothing herein shall prevent the resumption before such time of the filling of legislative vacancies and the calling of elections for the Legislature in accordance with applicable constitutional and statutory provisions. The Governor, acting by proclamation, or the Legislature, acting by concurrent resolution, may from time to time extend or restore such authority or the operation of any of such provisions upon a finding that events render the extension or restoration necessary, but no extension or restoration shall be for a period of more than one (1) year. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 217, § 14, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 14, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c. 329, § 44, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-687.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-687.1. Citation.

|This act shall be known as the "Emergency Interim Relocation Act", and shall be cumulative to the Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003. |Added by Laws 1961, p. 587, § 1, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 45, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-687.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-687.2. Definitions.

|As used in this act: |1. “Emergency” means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President of the United States or the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, federal or state assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property, public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state; and2. “Man-made disaster” means a disaster caused by acts of man including, but not limited to, an act of war, terrorism, chemical spill or release, or power shortage that requires assistance from outside the local political subdivision.Added by Laws 1961, p. 587, § 2, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 46, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-687.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-687.3. Temporary disaster locations for seat of state government.

|A. Whenever a disaster makes it imprudent or impossible to conduct the affairs of state government at its seat in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Governor may proclaim temporary locations for the seat of state government at any place he deems advisable, either inside or outside of the state. The Governor may issue necessary orders for orderly transition of the affairs of government to any temporary emergency or man-made disaster location, which remains the seat of state government until the Legislature establishes a new location, or until the emergency or man-made disaster is declared ended by the Legislature and the seat is returned to its normal location in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |B. Any official act or meeting required to be performed at the seat of state government is valid when performed at a temporary emergency or man-made disaster location under this section.Added by Laws 1961, p. 588, § 3, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 47, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-687.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-687.4. Temporary disaster locations for seat of local government.

|A. Whenever an emergency or man-made disaster makes it imprudent or impossible to conduct the affairs of any local government at its regular location, the governing body may meet at any place, inside or outside the limits of the political subdivision, at the call of the presiding officer or any two members of the governing body, and designate by ordinance a temporary emergency or man-made disaster location of the local government, which remains the seat of the local government until the governing body establishes a new location or until the emergency or man-made disaster is declared ended by the Legislature and the seat is returned to its normal location. |B. Any official act or meeting required to be performed at the seat of the local government is valid when performed at a temporary emergency or man-made disaster location under this section.Added by Laws 1961, p. 588, § 4, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 48, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
63 OK Stat § 63-690.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-690.1. Short title – Purposes.

|A. Sections 7 through 12 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Flood Hazard Mitigation Program”. |B. The purposes of the Oklahoma Flood Hazard Mitigation Program are to provide:1. An orderly and continuing means of assistance by the state government to political subdivisions of this state in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate the suffering and damage that result from flooding by:a.providing state assistance programs for public losses and needs sustained in flood disasters,b.encouraging the development of comprehensive disaster preparedness and assistance plans, programs, capabilities, and organizations by the state and political subdivisions,c.achieving greater coordination and responsiveness of flood disaster preparedness and relief programs, andd.encouraging hazard mitigation measures, such as development of land-use and construction regulations, floodplain management, and environmental planning, to reduce losses from flood disasters in municipalities;2. For the protection of life and property and to limit the repetitive expenditures of public funds in areas that are subject to chronic flooding and other flood disasters;3. Financial assistance to local governments for the development and implementation of flood hazard mitigation projects;4. For the cooperation of state environmental agencies and other state and federal agencies in the development and implementation of the Oklahoma Flood Hazard Mitigation Program; and5. For the establishment of land development principles which will eliminate inappropriate and unsafe real estate development in municipal areas subject to repetitive or chronic flooding.Added by Laws 1999, c. 57, § 7, eff. July 1, 1999.
63 OK Stat § 63-690.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-690.2. Definitions.

|For purposes of the Oklahoma Flood Hazard Mitigation Program: |1. "Board" means the Oklahoma Water Resources Board;2. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management;3. "Dwelling unit" means a place of residence and may be a single- or multiple-dwelling building;4. "Flood" or "flooding" means general and temporary conditions of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of lakes, streams, rivers, or any other inland waters and from surface run-off;5. "Flood hazard mitigation" means any cost-effective measure which will reduce or eliminate the effects of a flood disaster;6. "Flood hazard mitigation projects" means those projects designed to correct, alleviate or eliminate a condition or situation which poses a repetitive threat to life, property, or public safety from the effects of a flood disaster;7. "Flood disaster" means any flood catastrophe, including but not limited to high water, flood waters, or wind-driven water which causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant flood hazard mitigation or the use of resources of the federal government, or the state and political subdivisions thereof to alleviate the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby;8. "Political subdivision" means any county, city, town, or municipal corporation of the State of Oklahoma;9. "Real property" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature which is appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein including terms for years; and10. "State Hazard Mitigation Team" means the entity created pursuant to Section 683.6 of this title.Added by Laws 1999, c. 57, § 8, eff. July 1, 1999. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 49, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.