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56 OK Stat § 56-27.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-27.11. Conflicts with federal law.

|If any of the provisions of this act shall be in conflict with any applicable federal statutes, rules and regulations, such federal statutes, rules and regulations shall prevail and be controlling, until such time as the federal statute, rules and regulations shall be revised to conform to this act. |Added by Laws 1967, c. 236, § 11, emerg. eff. May 4, 1967.
56 OK Stat § 56-28.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-28.1. Planned parenthood - Educational materials and information.

|Whenever a person receiving public assistance makes a request therefor, the Department of Public Welfare shall furnish to such person educational materials and information with respect to achieving a planned parenthood; or refer such person to a Family Planning Center, organization or agency where the same may be obtained. Every such person shall be advised that he or she is a free agent to accept or not to accept advice and counsel thus furnished or obtained; and that his or her refusal or failure to avail himself or herself of such materials, information or advice will in no way affect the person's right to receive assistance, or his or her right to take advantage of any other public program. |Added by Laws 1967, p. 723, H.J.R. No. 522, § 1.
56 OK Stat § 56-28.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-28.2. Medical services.

|The Department of Public Welfare is hereby authorized to pay, within the scope of its medical programs, for medical services rendered by licensed medical and osteopathic physicians in furtherance of such planned parenthood. |Added by Laws 1967, p. 723, H.J.R. No. 522, § 2.
56 OK Stat § 56-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-31. Overseers of the indigent.

|The county commissioners of the counties of this state shall be overseers of the indigent for their respective counties, and shall perform all the duties with reference to the indigent of their counties that may be prescribed by law and under such restrictions as the county commissioners shall consider most advantageous for the interests of their respective counties and the welfare of the people therein. |R.L. 1910, § 4525. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-32 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-32. Duties of overseers.

|The overseers of the indigent in each county shall have the oversight and care of all the indigent persons in their county so long as such persons remain a county charge. Such overseers shall see that the indigent are taken care of in the manner provided by law, and under such restrictions as the county commissioners shall consider most advantageous for the interests of their respective counties and the welfare of the people therein. |R.L. 1910, § 4526. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-32.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-32.1. Authority to establish county department.

|In all counties of this state having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000), as shown by the last Federal Decennial Census, the boards of county commissioners are hereby given authority in their respective counties to establish a department which shall be known as the "Human Services Center" or "Social Services Center," wherein may be housed the "Indigent Care Facility" and any other services for the care of the indigent which the board of county commissioners may deem to be in the best interests of their respective counties and the welfare of the people therein. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-32.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-32.2. Director of Human Services - Social Services.

|A. Whenever, under the provisions of Section 5 of this act, a Human Services Center or Social Services Center for the indigent has been established in a county by the board of county commissioners, the board shall employ a person who is a resident of the county in which the center is established to take charge of such center upon such terms and under such restrictions as the board shall consider most advantageous for the interests of their respective counties and the welfare of the people therein. Such person shall also serve as overseer of the indigent. |B. The person so employed shall be called the Director of Human Services/Social Services of said center and shall be appointed wholly on the basis of ability and experience qualifying him or her for the position of director. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the board and the salary of the director shall be fixed by the board of county commissioners. The salary of the director shall be exempt from the provisions of the comprehensive salary code as provided in Section 180.67 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes, but shall not exceed ninety percent (90%) of the salary of the county commissioner.Added by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-32.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-32.3. Employment of pharmacists and doctors – Compensation – Blanket bond.

|A. A person employed as a pharmacist by a board of county commissioners to distribute medical prescriptions and medical supplies to indigents in any county of this state having a population greater than three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) persons according to the last federal decennial census, shall receive as compensation a salary to be fixed by the board of county commissioners for his or her services. Such compensation shall be paid out of the general operating fund of the county. The compensation of the pharmacist shall be exempt from the provisions of the Comprehensive Salary Code as provided in Section 180.67 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. The board of county commissioners of any county of this state having a population greater than five hundred thousand (500,000) persons according to the last Federal Decennial Census, may employ an Oklahoma licensed allopathic or osteopathic doctor to provide professional medical services, as directed by the commissioners, for indigent patient care and care for adult and juvenile offenders. The allopathic or osteopathic doctor shall also provide education, training, and other necessary services, as directed by the commissioners, to enhance the health and well-being of county employees and county citizens. Compensation for an allopathic or osteopathic doctor who is employed by the county shall be set by the board of county commissioners and paid out of the general operating fund of the county. The compensation of an allopathic or osteopathic doctor employed by the commissioners shall be exempt from the provisions of the Comprehensive Salary Code pursuant to Section 180.67 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes.C. The pharmacist or allopathic or osteopathic doctor shall be covered by the blanket bond of the county.Added by Laws 2002, c. 40, § 1, emerg. eff. April 11, 2002. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 45, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.
56 OK Stat § 56-33 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-33. County to support indigent persons - Power to provide indigent care facility.

|Every county of this state shall relieve and support all indigent persons lawfully residing therein, whenever they shall actually need assistance, and shall allow such temporary relief to persons not residing therein as shall be actually necessary pending the ascertainment of his or her legal residence. The boards of county commissioners of the respective counties of this state may, if they deem it to be in the best interests of the county, purchase land for a county indigent care facility and erect such buildings and make such other improvements thereon as shall be necessary to establish a county indigent care facility for such indigent of the county. The board of county commissioners is hereby given authority in their respective counties to place all indigent persons who are desirous of, needing and entitled to support from the county in such facility; and to receive into such facility all indigent and homeless persons who are in need of shelter or a place to convalesce; provided, however, that the boards of county commissioners shall not establish any county indigent care facility in any county of this state, having a valuation of less than Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00), at a greater expense to the county, for lands and improvements thereon, than the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00); in counties having a valuation of more than Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00), and less than Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00), at a greater expense to the county, for lands and improvements thereon, than the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); in counties having a valuation of Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00), and up to Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00), at a greater expense to the county, for lands and improvements thereon, than the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00); and in counties having Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00), valuation or more, at a greater expense to the county, for lands and improvements thereon, than the sum of Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00), without having submitted the proposition for the establishment of such facility to a vote of the people of the county at some general election, at which it shall take a majority of all votes cast to carry the proposition. |R.L. 1910, § 4527. Amended by Laws 1910-11, c. 13, p. 30, § 1; Laws 1994, c. 87, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-34 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-34. County may rent indigent care facility.

|Such counties of the State of Oklahoma as are not ready or able to purchase or erect an indigent care facility, but which desire a place to keep the indigent of the county together, are authorized to rent a suitable place and establish an indigent care facility in all other respects the same as though such county or counties had purchased an indigent care facility, and thus obtained a facility for the indigent, except that instead of levying a tax to pay for such facility, the overseers shall levy a tax annually to pay the rental of such facilities. |R.L. 1910, § 4528. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-35 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-35. Where county has no indigent care facility.

|It shall be the duty of the overseers of the indigent in counties where no common indigent care facility is established, two (2) weeks next preceding the first Monday of April, in each year, to give public notice by having published in the newspaper or newspapers in their respective counties, or in case no such newspaper is published in the county, by posting upon three public places in the county, an advertisement certifying the indigent that are to be provided for and asking for sealed proposals for their maintenance during the coming year. The sealed proposals shall be opened and acted upon by the overseers of the indigent at their regular meeting, beginning on the said first Monday in April; but nothing herein contained shall prohibit any overseers of the indigent from receiving and accepting propositions at any time for the keeping of such indigent persons as may in the interim become a county charge, or of rejecting the propositions of such persons as they know to be unable to fulfill their obligations to the indigent. |R.L. 1910, § 4529. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-36 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-36. Form of relief.

|The overseers of the indigent shall examine any application made to them by or on behalf of any indigent person for relief, and if such applicant has a residence in the county, they shall determine whether such relief is temporary and such as may be supplied by said overseers, or the applicant, if desired, shall be removed to the county indigent care facility. If, in such case, the relief sought is temporary, or the person seeking relief cannot be removed, the relief shall be furnished by said overseers; if otherwise, and such indigent person can be removed, he or she shall be placed in the county indigent care facility. |R.L. 1910, § 4530. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-37 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-37. Overseers to receive person removed - Appeal.

|If any person be removed by process under this article, from any county in the state to any other county therein, as hereinbefore provided, the overseers of the poor of the county to which such poor person is removed, shall receive such person: Provided, that if the overseers of any county to which a poor person has been removed, shall feel aggrieved over said removal, they may appeal from said order of removal to the district court of the county whence the removal was made within twenty (20) days after notice of said removal, which appeal shall in other respects be taken as other appeals are taken from the probate court to the district court, and there be tried as other appeals are by law tried. |R.L. 1910, § 4531.
56 OK Stat § 56-38 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-38. Time of hearing appeal.

|Such appeal shall be heard at the term of the court next after the same is filed therein, if in the opinion of the court reasonable notice of the appeal has been given the opposite party; but if not thus given, the cause shall stand continued until the next term of court, and notice of the appeal be then given, if not before done. |R.L. 1910, § 4532.
56 OK Stat § 56-39 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-39. Court may amend order of removal.

|If the order of removal is defective, the court shall permit the same to be amended without costs, and after such amendment is made the appeal shall be heard and determined as if such order had not been defective. |R.L. 1910, § 4533.
56 OK Stat § 56-41 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-41. Commissioners to bring suits.

|All suits and proceedings under this article, for the purpose of determining residence for obtaining relief, or resisting the same shall be in the name of the board of county commissioners of the county or counties concerned. |R.L. 1910, § 4535.
56 OK Stat § 56-42 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-42. Administrator of indigent care facility.

|Whenever, under the provisions of this title, an indigent care facility for the indigent has been established by the overseers of the indigent of any county in this state, the overseers shall employ a resident of the county wherein the indigent care facility is erected to take charge of the same upon such terms and under such restrictions as such overseers shall consider most advantageous for the interests of the county and the welfare of the indigent persons residing in said facility. The party so employed shall be called administrator of the county indigent care facility, and shall protect the property of the county in his or her charge and under his or her control, and shall faithfully discharge his or her duties as guardian of the indigent. He or she shall be appointed by the Director of Human Services/Social Services and shall serve at his or her discretion. At the end of each fiscal year, he or she shall make and transmit to the Director who shall file with the county clerk, to be considered by the board of county commissioners, a complete report of all business transacted by him or her as such administrator, and shall attach to such report an invoice of all the personal property in his or her possession as such administrator. The administrator shall have authority to solicit as volunteers the indigent persons residing in such indigent care facility, who are able to do so, to labor in and about such facility, under his or her direction. Said administrator shall have such salary as the said overseers shall fix, and in accordance with such laws regulating the salaries of county employees. |R.L. 1910, § 4536. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-44 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-44. Tax levy for indigent care facility.

|The board of county commissioners may provide for a special tax each year, not to exceed one-half (1/2) mill on the dollar, of the assessed valuation of said county, to be applied to the payment for an indigent care facility and improvements, thereon, until said facility is fully paid for. |R.L. 1910, § 4538. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-46 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-46. Duties when complaint is made.

|In any county in this state where the indigent are cared for pursuant to the provisions of Section 33 of this title, it shall be the duty of the overseers of the indigent, on any complaint made to them in behalf of the indigent, to examine the grounds of such complaint, and if, in their judgment, the indigent have not been sufficiently provided with the common necessities of life, or have in any respect been ill-treated by the person or persons under whose charge they shall have been placed, the overseers have the authority to withhold any part of the compensation allowed to such person or persons for keeping them, as such overseers may deem reasonable and proper, and remove said indigent and place them in the care of some other person. |R.L. 1910, § 4540. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-47 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-47. Overseers to maintain documentation concerning indigent.

|The overseers of the indigent shall compile and maintain documentation concerning the indigent of their respective counties who are unable to care for themselves, and who shall, in their judgment, be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of this title, together with the date of such entry. |R.L. 1910, § 4541. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-48 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-48. Poor person may apply to district court.

|If any poor person shall suppose that he is entitled to the benefit of the laws for the relief of the poor, and the overseers of the poor of the county in which he resides, shall refuse to give such person the benefit thereof, upon applicant of such person, the judge of the district court of the county, may, if he shall think proper, direct the said overseers of the poor to receive such person on the poor list, on his application therefor. |R.L. 1910, § 4542.
56 OK Stat § 56-49 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-49. Proceedings when legal residence not known.

|If anyone within the description of indigent persons specified in this title, shall be found in any county, and the overseers of the indigent of such county shall be unable to ascertain and establish the last place of legal residence of such person, they shall proceed in their discretion to provide for such indigent person, in the same manner as other persons are hereby directed to be provided for by law and under such restrictions as the county commissioners shall consider most advantageous for the interests of their respective counties and the welfare of the people therein. |R.L. 1910, § 4543. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-50 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-50. Temporary relief.

|Whenever any person entitled to temporary relief as an indigent person shall be in any county in this state in which he or she is not a legal resident, the overseers of the indigent thereof may, if the same is deemed advisable, grant such relief by placing him or her temporarily in the indigent care facility of such county, if there be one; but if there be no indigent care facility then they shall provide the same relief as is customary in cases where a legal residence has been obtained. |R.L. 1910, § 4544. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-51 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-51. Overseers' account.

|In any county in this state where the indigent are cared for pursuant to Section 33 of this title, the overseers of the indigent shall make an account to the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the sums of money required by the indigent of their respective counties, within fifteen (15) days after such contract hereinbefore provided for shall have been made, which sums shall be paid quarterly out of the county treasury, upon the order of the board of county commissioners in the same manner as other claims against the county are paid. |R.L. 1910, § 4545. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-52 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-52. Compensation of overseers.

|In any county in this state where the indigent are cared for pursuant to the provisions of Section 33 of this title, the overseers of the indigent in such county shall be entitled to receive the prevailing rate of pay per day for each and every day during which they shall be necessarily employed in the discharge of their several duties as such. |R.L. 1910, § 4546. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-53 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-53. Submission of accounts and sworn statements of overseers.

|In any county in this state where the indigent are cared for pursuant to the provisions of Section 33 of this title, the overseers of the indigent shall annually, at the first session of the board of county commissioners in the year, submit their accounts and make a sworn statement of their proceedings for the past year, which report shall be presented to the clerk of the board of county commissioners at least one (1) day prior to the meeting of said board. The board may then credit and allow the accounts so presented, and may draw on the county treasurer therefor, whose duty it shall be to pay the same out of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated. |R.L. 1910, § 4547. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 87, § 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
56 OK Stat § 56-54 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 56. Poor Persons|§56-54. Sickness or death of poor stranger.

|A. It shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor, on complaint made to them that any person not an inhabitant of their county is lying sick therein or in distress, without friends or money, so that he will likely suffer, to examine into the case of such person and grant such temporary relief as the nature of the same may require; and if any person shall die within any county, who shall not have money or means necessary to defray his funeral expenses, it shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of such county to employ some person to provide for and superintend the burial of such deceased person. Public cemeteries shall provide a burial plot at no cost at the request of the overseers of the poor or the person employed by the overseers of the poor to provide for and superintend the burial. Public cemeteries shall also provide the service of opening and closing the grave for the purpose of interring the remains of the poor or indigent person. The overseers of the poor of each county shall establish the necessary and reasonable expenses of the opening and closing services which shall be paid by the county treasurer upon the order of such overseers. |B. As used in this section, "public cemeteries" means cemeteries located in any county with a population of three hundred thousand (300,000) or more, according to the latest Federal Decennial Census, which sell burial plots to the general public and which are exempt from taxation under the laws of this state. "Public cemeteries" shall not include any municipal, fraternal, religious, rural, community, township, state, county or nonprofit cooperative cemeteries, or free community burial grounds.R.L. 1910, § 4548. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 2, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.