Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 1 - EXECUTIVE ORDERS › Section 1:2022-23

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
EXECUTIVE ORDER 2022-23
I, J. Kevin Stitt, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, pursuant
			 to the authority vested in me by Sections 2 and 8 of Article VI of the Oklahoma
			 Constitution and Title 27A O.S. Section
			 2250
			 et seq., do hereby declare the following:
Due to the current, and persistent, emergency drought conditions
			 in all 77 Counties of Oklahoma, I hereby invoke the provisions of Oklahoma law
			 regarding the use of the Emergency Drought Relief Fund.
It is hereby ordered, to the fullest extent permitted by
			 law:
1. An Emergency Drought Commission
		  is to be immediately formed and shall exist until it is determined by the
		  Governor that a drought emergency no longer exists. Upon expiration of its
		  term, the Emergency Drought Commission shall cease to exist subject only to
		  extensions granted by the Governor or a new declaration of Emergency Drought
		  Conditions.
2. The Emergency
		  Drought Commission shall consist of the Executive Director of the Oklahoma
		  Conservation Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Executive
		  Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.
3. The Emergency Drought Commission shall
		  have the authority to consider requests for use of Emergency Drought Relief
		  Funds only from proposed projects to be located, or operating, within one, or
		  more, of Oklahoma's 77 counties. Further, the use of any Emergency Drought
		  Commission funds pursuant to this declaration must be expended solely on
		  efforts to relieve drought conditions.
4. The Emergency Drought Commission shall
		  have full discretion to determine the amount and nature of the expenditures to
		  be made from the Emergency Drought Relief Fund, subject to written concurrence
		  by the Governor. Further, the Emergency Drought Commission shall establish such
		  procedures and requirements as it deems necessary. The Commission shall have
		  the sole power to determine the appropriate agency or entity to receive
		  Emergency Drought Relief Funds.
5.
		  The Chair of the Emergency Drought Commission shall be the Secretary of
		  Agriculture who will have the sole power to call meetings of the Commission, as
		  necessary. The Commission shall be provided support staff from the Oklahoma
		  Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry. The Chair of the Emergency
		  Drought Commission shall also have the sole discretionary power to terminate
		  the Commission.
This declaration may be amended as conditions warrant.
Copies of this Executive Order shall be distributed to the
			 Executive Director of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, the Secretary of
			 Agriculture, and the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board,
			 who shall cause the provisions of this order to be implemented by all
			 appropriate agencies of state government.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
			 Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma to be affixed at Oklahoma City, this
			 12th day of September, 2022.
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
J. Kevin Stitt
ATTEST:
Brian Bingman
Secretary of State