Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 1 - EXECUTIVE ORDERS › Section 1:2013-36

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
I, Mary Fallin, 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 Texas, Harmon, Greer, Jackson, and Tillman Counties of Oklahoma, I hereby
			 invoke the provisions of Oklahoma law regarding the use of the Emergency
			 Drought Relief Fund.
It is hereby ordered:
1.
		  An Emergency Drought Commission is to be immediately formed and shall exist for
		  a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days. 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 public entities located, or operating, within one, or more, of
		  the following Oklahoma counties: Texas, Harmon, Greer, Jackson, or Tillman.
		  Further, the use of any Emergency Drought Commission funds pursuant to this
		  declaration must be expended solely on efforts to relieve drought conditions
		  within Texas, Harmon, Greer, Jackson, and/or Tillman Counties.
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. 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.
This Executive Order shall terminate at the end of one hundred
			 and eighty (180) days.
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 15 day
			 of October, 2013.
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Mary Fallin
ATTEST:
Chris Morriss
Assistant Secretary of State
Added at 31 Ok Reg 97, eff
				10-15-13