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.
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 […]
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 […]
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the original acts and adopted statutes, the original acts shall govern, and the adopted statutes shall be deemed as repealed, amended, or modified thereby, without reference to the date of the approval of such original acts.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 […]
A. Bills and resolutions referred to in Section 35, Article V of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, after their passage but before they are signed by the presiding officer of each house of the Legislature as provided in said section, shall be correctly enrolled either in permanent ink on appropriate paper or in […]
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 […]
A. The Oklahoma Statutes shall be certified by the Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and adopted as the official Statutes of the State of Oklahoma and after certification be in full force and effect. Provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to repeal or in any way affect or modify any special […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
A. This section and Sections 250.1 through 323 of this title shall be known and may be cited as the “Administrative Procedures Act”. B. All statutes hereinafter enacted and codified as part of the Administrative Procedures Act shall be considered and deemed part of the Administrative Procedures Act. Added by Laws 1987, c. 207, § […]
A. The Administrative Procedures Act shall be composed of two Articles. Sections 250, 250.1, 250.3, 250.4, 250.5 and 250.8 of this title are applicable to both Articles I and II. Article I relating to agency filing and publication requirements for rules shall consist of Sections 250.2, 250.6, 250.7 and 250.9 through 308.2 of this title […]
The Governor by Executive Order or either house of the Legislature or both houses of the Legislature by resolution, or a small business, may request an agency to review its rules to determine whether or not the rules in question should be amended, repealed or redrafted. The agency shall respond to requests from the Governor […]
A. Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution vests in the Legislature the power to make laws, and thereby to establish agencies and to designate agency functions, budgets and purposes. Article VI of the Oklahoma Constitution charges the Executive Branch of Government with the responsibility to implement all measures enacted by the Legislature. B. In creating […]
As used in the Administrative Procedures Act: 1. “Administrative head” means an official or agency body responsible pursuant to law for issuing final agency orders; 2. “Adopted” means a proposed emergency rule which has been approved by the agency but has not been approved or disapproved by the Governor as an emergency rule as provided […]
A. 1. Except as is otherwise specifically provided in this subsection, each agency is required to comply with Article I of the Administrative Procedures Act. 2. The Corporation Commission shall be required to comply with the provisions of Article I of the Administrative Procedures Act except for subsections A, B, C and E of Section […]
Any agency exempt from all or part of the Administrative Procedures Act pursuant to subsection A of Section 250.4 of this title shall maintain and make available for public inspection its exempt rules at its principal place of business and on any website associated with the agency. Added by Laws 1997, c. 206, § 6, […]
This act shall not apply to municipalities, counties, school districts, and other agencies of local government; nor to specialized agencies, authorities, and entities created by the legislature, performing essentially local functions, such as, but not limited to, Urban Renewal Authorities, Port Authorities, City and City-County Planning Commissions, Conservancy and other Districts, and public trusts having […]
A. 1. The Commission for Human Services may promulgate a preemptive rule pursuant to the provisions of this section: a.when the Commission for Human Services is required by federal law, federal rules, a state law enacted pursuant to federal law or federal rule, or order of a court of competent jurisdiction to adopt a rule, […]
A. Prior to publication in the “Code” or any of its supplements, in cases where there is a conflict between the finally adopted rules filed with the Office pursuant to Section 251 of this title and rules published in “The Oklahoma Register”, the rules published in “The Oklahoma Register” pursuant to Section 255 of this […]
