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74 OK Stat § 74-9079 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-9079. Application to Oklahoma Supreme Court for approval of ratepayer-backed bonds.

|The Oklahoma Development Finance Authority shall file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma for the approval of ratepayer-backed bonds issued under this act, and exclusive original jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court to hear and determine each application. The Court shall give such an application precedence over the other business of the Court and consider and pass upon the application and any protests which may be filed against such application as speedily as possible. Notice of the hearing on each application shall be given by notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the state that on a day named by the Authority will ask the Oklahoma Supreme Court to hear its application and approve the bonds. The notice shall inform all persons interested that they may file protests against the issuance of the bonds and be present at the hearing and contest the legality thereof. The notice shall be published one time, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date named for the hearing, and the hearing may be adjourned from time to time at the discretion of the Court. If the Court shall be satisfied that the bonds or any portions thereof have been properly authorized in accordance with this act and the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, and that when issued they will constitute valid obligations in accordance with their terms, the Court shall render its written opinion approving the ratepayer-backed bonds and shall fix the time within which a petition for rehearing may be filed. The decision of the Court shall be a judicial determination of the validity of the bonds, shall be conclusive as to the Authority, the state, its officers, agents and instrumentalities, and all other persons, and thereafter the bonds so approved and the revenues pledged to their payment shall be incontestable in any court in this state. |Added by Laws 2021, c. 204, § 10, emerg. eff. April 23, 2021.
74 OK Stat § 74-9080 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-9080. Severability.

|Effective on the date the first ratepayer-backed bonds are issued under this act, if any provision in this act or portion of this act is held to be invalid or is invalidated, superseded, replaced, repealed or expires for any reason, that occurrence does not affect the validity or continuation of this act or other provisions of law that are relevant to the issuance, administration, payment, retirement or refunding of the ratepayer-backed bonds or to any actions of the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority or the regulated utility or their successors, assignees or collections agents. |Added by Laws 2021, c. 204, § 11, emerg. eff. April 23, 2021.
74 OK Stat § 74-9081 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-9081. Constitution amendments and alterations.

|If this act, or any provision hereof is, or may be deemed to be, in conflict or inconsistent with any of the provisions of Section 18 through Section 34, inclusive, of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, then, to the extent of any conflicts or inconsistencies, it is hereby expressly declared this entire act and this section are amendments to and alterations of such sections of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, as authorized by Section 35 of Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 2021, c. 204, § 12, emerg. eff. April 23, 2021.
74 OK Stat § 74-9100 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-9100. Unified State Law Enforcement Commission.

|A. There is hereby created, until December 1, 2022, the Unified State Law Enforcement Commission. The Commission shall be composed of the following eight (8) members: |1. The Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety or designee;2. The Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation or designee;3. The Director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control or designee;4. The Cabinet Secretary of Public Safety or designee;5. The Oklahoma Attorney General or designee;6. One member selected by the Governor, who shall serve as the chair of the Commission;7. One member designated by the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate who shall be a current member of the Senate; and8. One member designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives who shall be a current member of the House of Representatives.B. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business of the Commission. The Commission shall meet monthly and at such other times as may be called by the chair.C. Members of the Commission shall receive no compensation for serving on the Commission but shall receive travel reimbursement for necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties by their respective agencies in accordance with the State Travel Reimbursement Act.D. The Unified State Law Enforcement Commission shall:1. Study, evaluate and make recommendations regarding unification of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, and the Department of Public Safety;2. Study, evaluate and make recommendations regarding a recruitment, training and leadership development program for members of a unified state law enforcement agency that will enhance the efforts of the state to recruit, lead and retain highly qualified state law enforcement officers;3. Study, evaluate and make recommendations regarding how best to ensure accountability within a unified state law enforcement agency and to address public corruption; and4. Study, evaluate and make recommendations regarding any other matters determined by the Commission to be relevant to the purpose of this act.E. The Commission shall prepare a report of its findings and recommendations to be submitted to the Governor, President Pro Tempore of the State Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chair of the Public Safety Committees in both the State Senate and the House of Representatives, and the minority leaders of both the State Senate and the House of Representatives no later than December 1, 2021.F. Staffing for the Commission shall be provided by the State Senate.Added by Laws 2021, c. 86, § 1, emerg. eff. April 20, 2021.
74 OK Stat § 74-10001 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-10001. Government contracts with third-party vendors - Employment screening, background and credit checks.

|Any agency, board, commission, higher education institution, career technology or common education institution may contract with a third-party vendor who is a member in good standing with the National Association of Professional Background Screeners to perform any and all employment screenings, background checks and credit checks. |Added by Laws 2012, c. 297, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
74 OK Stat § 74-11000 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 74. State Government|§74-11000. Interagency transfers – Commissioned law enforcement officers.

|The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement (ABLE) Commission are hereby authorized to enter into interagency transfers among commissioned law enforcement officers. These interagency transfers shall be bilateral agreements between the appointing authorities of each agency. No transfer shall be for a period of two (2) years or less and the temporary assignment period shall not exceed five (5) years in length. Agencies authorized by this act shall have authority to promulgate rules for the interagency transfer process. |Added by Laws 2021, c. 95, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
75 OK Stat § 75-11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-11. Statutes defined.

|The Statutes of Oklahoma are hereby defined to be: |First. Original acts enacted by the Legislature.Second. Statutes taken from other sources and adopted and enacted by the Legislature as statutes of this state.R.L. 1910, § 8147.
75 OK Stat § 75-11a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-11a. Construction of statutes - Severability.

|In the construction of the statutes of this state, the following rules shall be observed: |1. For any act enacted on or after July 1, 1989, unless there is a provision in the act that the act or any portion thereof or the application of the act shall not be severable, the provisions of every act or application of the act shall be severable. If any provision or application of the act is found to be unconstitutional and void, the remaining provisions or applications of the act shall remain valid, unless the court finds:a.the valid provisions or application of the act are so essentially and inseparably connected with, and so dependent upon, the void provisions that the court cannot presume the Legislature would have enacted the remaining valid provisions without the void one; orb.the remaining valid provisions or applications of the act, standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable of being executed in accordance with the legislative intent.2. For acts enacted prior to July 1, 1989, whether or not such acts were enacted with an express provision for severability, it is the intent of the Oklahoma Legislature that the act or any portion of the act or application of the act shall be severable unless:a.the construction of the provisions or application of the act would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature;b.the court finds the valid provisions of the act are so essentially and inseparably connected with and so dependent upon the void provisions that the court cannot presume the Legislature would have enacted the remaining valid provisions without the void one; orc.the court finds the remaining valid provisions standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable of being executed in accordance with the legislative intent.Added by Laws 1989, c. 154, § 1, operative July 1, 1989.
75 OK Stat § 75-11c (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-11c. Local and special laws defined.

|For purposes of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes the constitutional provision found in Section 46 of Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution dealing with the prohibition of local and special laws on certain subjects is restricted to the following definition and all case law to the contrary is hereby null and void: |1. "Local laws" shall mean those laws confined in their application to a geographic subunit of the State of Oklahoma; and2. "Special laws" are those that favor a particular person or corporation without reference to location.Added by Laws 2014, c. 208, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
75 OK Stat § 75-12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-12. Original acts shall govern.

|In all cases where there is a conflict between the original acts and adopted statutes, the original acts shall govern, and the adopted statutes shall be deemed as repealed, amended, or modified thereby, without reference to the date of the approval of such original acts. For purposes of this section, "original acts" means the enrolled documents of the acts as produced by the house of origin. |R.L. 1910, § 8148; Laws 1983, c. 164, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983.
75 OK Stat § 75-13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-13. Oklahoma Statutes and Session Laws - Secretary of State authorized to provide electronic publication.

|A. The Secretary of State is authorized to provide for the annual compilation, codification and annotation of the Oklahoma Statutes and the Oklahoma Session Laws in the form of electronic publication accessible to the public free of charge. |B. The Secretary of State is authorized to select an appropriate vendor for the electronic publication and annual maintenance of compiling, codifying and annotating the Oklahoma Constitution, Oklahoma Statutes and Oklahoma Session Laws; provided, such annotations shall include all versions of a statute or constitutional amendment amended after commencement of the electronic publication. The selection of a vendor by the Secretary of State shall be exempt from the competitive bidding requirement of The Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act.C. The Secretary of State is authorized to fulfill any existing contractual obligations and terms currently in place with the state for printed versions of the Oklahoma Statutes and Oklahoma Session Laws.R.L. 1910, § 8149. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 164, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 1983; Laws 2014, c. 361, § 1; Laws 2020, c. 44, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
75 OK Stat § 75-22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-22. Conflicting provisions.

|If the provisions of any code, title, chapter or article conflict with or contravene the provisions of any former code, title, chapter or article, the provisions of the latter code, title, chapter or article must prevail as to all matter and questions arising thereunder out of the same subject matter. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 40, § 1, emerg. eff. April 19, 1985.
75 OK Stat § 75-23.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-23.1. Merging different versions of statute.

|Except as otherwise provided by specific vote of the Legislature, a bill introduced for purposes of incorporating and merging different versions of a statute amended in more than one measure at the same or different sessions of the Legislature, which do not purport to amend other enacted versions of the same statute shall not be subject to regular legislative cutoff dates, shall be limited to such provisions as may be necessary for the purpose of incorporating and merging such versions of the same statute, and shall contain no other provisions. |Laws 1989, c. 353, § 13, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989.
75 OK Stat § 75-25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-25. Emergency laws - Distribution to court clerks as soon as possible.

|It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as possible after receipt by his or her office of any act or resolution, any Civil Probate or Criminal Procedure Act passed by the Oklahoma Legislature as an emergency measure, to provide access by the United States mail, facsimile, or electronic mail transmission to the court clerk of each county of this state a copy of such act or resolution. |Laws 1953, p. 425, § 1, emerg. eff. June 10, 1953; Laws 2005, c. 125, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005.
75 OK Stat § 75-26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26. Emergency laws - Binder for public examination - Duty of court clerks.

|Immediately upon receipt from the Secretary of State of the acts and resolutions referred to in Section 1 hereof, it shall be the duty of the court clerk of each county to place the same in a binder, which shall be available for examination by the public. |Laws 1953, p. 425, § 2, emerg. eff. June 10, 1953.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.1. Duty of Attorney General to construe certain acts upon request - Blank forms.

|It shall be the duty of the Attorney General after each session of the Legislature, upon request of the State Auditor and Inspector, or a member of the Legislature, officially to construe any act enacted by said session of the Legislature affecting the authority and duties of officers and departments of the state, the several counties, cities and towns, or school districts; and, when requested by the State Auditor and Inspector, the Attorney General shall assist the State Auditor and Inspector in the preparation of blank forms required for the administration of said acts and instructions for the administration and enforcement thereof. |Laws 1957, p. 550, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31, 1957; Laws 1979, c. 30, § 156, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.2. Opinions and instructions to be distributed by State Auditor and Inspector.

|The State Auditor and Inspector, as soon as practicable after the receipt of any opinion of the Attorney General addressed to the State Auditor and Inspector, shall mail a copy thereof together with any applicable instructions to such governing boards or other officers on their request or if they may be affected by such opinion; and the State Auditor and Inspector may cause the publication and distribution of any official opinions of the Attorney General. |Laws 1957, p. 550, § 2, emerg. eff. May 31, 1957; Laws 1979, c. 30, § 157, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.11. Prefiling of bills and resolutions.

|Beginning on the 15th day of November of each even-numbered year and ending at the time of sine die adjournment of the second regular session during the following even-numbered year, members of the first regular legislative session who have taken the required oath of office therefor and holdover members of the Senate are hereby authorized to prefile legislative bills and resolutions for introduction. Such bills and resolutions shall be in the form required by the rules of the respective houses of the Legislature. |Laws 1959, p. 490, § 1; Laws 1965, c. 37, § 1, emerg. eff. Mar. 8, 1965; Laws 1967, c. 173, § 1, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967; Laws 1981, c. 272, § 38, eff. July 1, 1981.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.12. Manner and place of filing.

|Senate bills and resolutions may be prefiled with the Secretary of the Senate; House of Representatives bills and resolutions may be prefiled with the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. Bills and resolutions are prefiled when delivered in person by the author or principal author thereof or mailed to the appropriate legislative official as provided herein; provided, however, the electronic transmission of bills and resolutions, including, but not limited to electronic mailing, by the author or author’s designee shall satisfy the requirements of this section. |Added by Laws 1959, p. 490, § 2. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 117, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.13. Numbering.

|The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives shall, upon receipt of bills and resolutions for prefiling, number said bills and resolutions consecutively in the same manner as during regular legislative sessions and shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the such bills and resolutions. |Laws 1959, p. 490, § 3.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.14. Referring of bills upon convening of session - Introduction and reading.

|Immediately upon the convening of each regular session of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives shall refer all prefiled bills and resolutions to the respective presiding officers of the two (2) houses of the Legislature. All bills and resolutions prefiled, in accordance herewith, shall, prior to the introduction of bills and resolutions, be placed immediately upon first reading in the same manner as bills and resolutions introduced after the convening of the Legislature. Bills and resolutions introduced after the first reading of prefiled bills and resolutions shall be numbered consecutively with said prefiled bills and resolutions, respectively, in the manner provided by legislative rules for bills and resolutions introduced after the convening of the Legislature. |Laws 1959, p. 490, § 4; Laws 1981, c. 272, § 39, eff. July 1, 1981.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.41 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.41. Submission of the question - Procedure.

|When a question, "Shall the Legislature of this state ratify a proposed amendment of the Constitution of the United States," is for legislative decision, said matter shall be introduced by joint resolution. In each house the joint resolution submitting said proposal shall be read in full on three (3) different days but, in either house, the first reading may be dispensed with by two-thirds (2/3) vote of the quorum present. Following the second reading the joint resolution by which the proposed Constitutional amendment is presented shall be assigned to committee. After favorable committee report, the joint resolution by which the proposed amendment of the United States Constitution is presented shall be placed on the calendar for third reading and final passage. When the joint resolution is considered on final passage, the question shall be "Shall the proposed amendment of the United States Constitution be ratified?", which question shall be decided by roll call vote, opportunity being given first for debate. Unless a majority of the members elected to and constituting the membership of the body considering the question vote in favor of ratifying the amendment of the Constitution, the same shall have failed. If a majority of the members elected to and constituting the membership of the body indicate their approval, the presiding officer shall sign the joint resolution and direct that it be made available to the other, or second, legislative house. |The procedure shall be the same in each legislative house except that the presiding officer of the second house that has by vote approved said ratification of the amendment of the United States Constitution shall sign the joint resolution and attest to the state's action, through its Legislature, of ratifying the said Constitutional amendment.Laws 1974, c. 182, § 1.
75 OK Stat § 75-26.42 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-26.42. Expiration of approval - Rescission of ratification.

|The joint resolution shall expire on the date of sine die adjournment of the 2nd Session of the Legislature by which it was adopted unless the resolution states another expiration date. The joint resolution shall not be counted in favor of ratification after the expiration date thereof. The Legislature may rescind any ratification resolution previously approved; in which event, the ratification resolution shall not be counted in favor of ratification if such rescission occurs before the proposed amendment becomes part of the United States Constitution. |Laws 1974, c. 182, § 2.
75 OK Stat § 75-27 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-27. Declaration and designation of reports of decisions of Supreme Court and Criminal Court of Appeals.

|From and after the effective date of this act the Supreme Court and the Criminal Court of Appeals shall have authority, in such manner as they deem advisable, to declare the published volumes of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Criminal Court of Appeals of the State of Oklahoma, as the same may be published by one or more persons, firms or corporations, and containing only the decisions of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and/or the Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, to be official reports of the decisions of said Courts, whether the decisions of said Courts are published in separate volumes or the same volume. |Laws 1953, p. 425, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.
75 OK Stat § 75-30 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 75. Statutes and Reports|§75-30. Right to publish, edit or bind reports.

|Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the publication, editing or binding of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the Criminal Court of Appeals by any person, firm or corporation. |Laws 1953, p. 426, § 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.