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§51-1. Beginning of term - Time of qualifying. - Except when otherwise specially provided, the regular term of all...
§51-3.1. Failure to qualify - Filling vacancy - Temporary appointment in case of military service. - When any person elected to a public office has died...
§51-5. Rights of parties in contest. - If there be a contest over the election, between a...
§51-6. Officers and deputies not to hold other offices - Exemptions. - A. Except as may be otherwise provided, no person holding...
§51-7. Place of office. - It shall be unlawful for any officer elected or appointed...
§51-8. Office vacant, when. - Every office shall become vacant on the happening of any...
§51-9. Resignations. - Resignations may be made as follows: 1. Of state officers,...
§51-10. Vacancies - Appointments - Special elections. - A. All vacancies in state offices, except in offices of...
§51-11. Vacancy within thirty days of election. - If a vacancy occurs within thirty (30) days previous to...
§51-12.1. Deceased officer's spouse - Eligibility for appointment. - If any officer of the state, district, county, city, town...
§51-13. How appointments made. - Appointments under the provisions of this chapter shall be made...
§51-14. Appointees to qualify. - Persons appointed to offices as herein provided, shall qualify in...
§51-15. Term of appointed officer. - Every appointed officer shall hold his office until the end...
§51-18. Violating Sections 16 and 17 - Penalty. - Any officer violating any of the provisions of the two...
§51-19. Successor to receive records, etc. - Upon the death, resignation, suspension or removal from office of...
§51-20. Books turned over to successor before salary paid. - No officer who receives, for the use of his office,...
§51-21. Oaths, officers authorized to administer. - The following officers are authorized to administer oaths: 1. Justices...
§51-22. Violations are misdemeanors. - Any officer violating any of the provisions of this chapter,...
§51-24.1. Suspension or forfeiture of office or employment upon conviction of felony - Vacancy - Salary and benefits - Governor notified in writing. - A. Any elected or appointed state or county officer or...
§51-24.3. Sale of real or personal property to state or political subdivision by certain persons prohibited. - No person, firm or corporation who is convicted of or...
§51-24.4. Directives interpreting county purchasing procedure to be issued. - Prior to November 1, 1981, the State Auditor and Inspector...
§51-24A.1. Short title. - Section 24A.1 et seq. of this title shall be known...
§51-24A.2. Public policy - Purpose of act. - As the Oklahoma Constitution recognizes and guarantees, all political power...
§51-24A.3. Definitions. - As used in the Oklahoma Open Records Act: 1. "Record"...
§51-24A.4. Record of receipts and expenditures. - In addition to other records which are kept or maintained,...
§51-24A.5. Inspection, copying and/or mechanical reproduction of records - Exemptions. - All records of public bodies and public officials shall be...
§51-24A.6. Public body maintaining less than 30 hours of regular business per week - Inspection, copying or mechanical reproduction of records. - A. If a public body or its office does not...
§51-24A.7. Personnel records - Confidentiality - Inspection and copying. - A. At the sole discretion of the public body, a...
§51-24A.8. Law enforcement records - Disclosure. - A. Law enforcement agencies shall make available for public inspection...
§51-24A.9. Personal notes and personally created material - Confidentiality. - Prior to taking action, including making a recommendation or issuing...
§51-24A.10. Full disclosure of voluntarily supplied information. - A. Any information, records or other material heretofore voluntarily supplied...
§51-24A.10a. Oklahoma Medical Center - Market research and marketing plans - Confidentiality. - The Oklahoma Medical Center may keep confidential market research conducted...
§51-24A.11. Library, archive or museum materials - Confidentiality. - A. A public body may keep confidential library, archive, or...
§51-24A.12. Litigation files and investigatory files of Attorney General, district or municipal attorney - Confidentiality. - Except as otherwise provided by state or local law, the...
§51-24A.13. Federal records - Confidentiality. - Records coming into the possession of a public body from...
§51-24A.14. Personal communications relating to exercise of constitutional rights - Confidentiality. - Except for the fact that a communication has been received...
§51-24A.15. Crop and livestock reports - Public warehouse financial statements - Confidentiality. - A. The Division of Agricultural Statistics, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,...
§51-24A.16. Educational records and materials - Confidentiality. - A. Except as set forth in subsection B of this...
§51-24A.16a. Higher education – Donor or prospective donor information – Confidentiality. - Institutions or agencies of The Oklahoma State System of Higher...
§51-24A.17. Violations - Penalties - Civil liability. - A. Any public official who willfully violates any provision of...
§51-24A.18. Additional recordkeeping not required. - Except as may be required in Section 24A.4 of this...
§51-24A.19. Research records - Confidentiality. - In addition to other records that a public body may...
§51-24A.20. Records in litigation or investigation file - Access. - Access to records which, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act,...
§51-24A.21. Increment district reports - Exemption from copying fees. - The fees that may be charged by a public body...
§51-24A.22. Public utilities - Confidential books, records and trade secrets. - A. The Corporation Commission shall keep confidential those records of...
§51-24A.23. Department of Wildlife Conservation - Confidentiality of information relating to hunting and fishing licenses – Exceptions – Disclosure of antler descriptions. - A. The Department of Wildlife Conservation shall keep confidential the...
§51-24A.24. Office of Juvenile System Oversight - Confidentiality of investigatory records and notes. - Unless otherwise provided by law, the Office of Juvenile System...
§51-24A.25. Order of court for removal of materials from public record. - Any order of the court for removal of materials from...
§51-24A.26. Intergovernmental self-insurance pools. - An intergovernmental self-insurance pool may keep confidential proprietary information, such...
§51-24A.27. Vulnerability assessments of critical assets in water and wastewater systems. - A. Any state environmental agency or public utility shall keep...
§51-24A.28. Confidential information – Exceptions. - A. The following information may be kept confidential: 1. Investigative...
§51-24A.29. Protective orders for pleadings, other materials - Microfilm records - Procedures - Storing of protected materials - Confidentiality. - A. Unless confidentiality is specifically required by law, any order...
§51-24A.30. Court records – Confidentiality – Sealed records – Order requirement. - All court records, as defined by Section 32.1 of Title...
§51-24A.31. Confidential Wine Shipment Reports. - Reports produced according to the provisions established in Section 3-106...
§51-24A.32. Confidential multidisciplinary child abuse reports or elderly and vulnerable adult abuse reports. - Any reports produced or information received by the multidisciplinary child...
§51-24A.33. Contact information for people or entities responsible for property. - Any contact information of persons or entities responsible for emergency...
§51-36.1. Persons required to take oath or affirmation. - Every officer and employee of the State of Oklahoma, or...
§51-36.2A. Form of loyalty oath or affirmation. - The oath or affirmation required by this act, same being...
§51-36.3. Filing oath or affirmation - Blanks. - A. The oath or affirmation required by Section 36.2A of...
§51-36.4. Payment of compensation or expenses - Notice - Duty of certifying officer. - No compensation or reimbursement for expenses earned or incurred on...
§51-36.5. False oath or affirmation. - Every public officer or employee who, in taking and subscribing...
§51-36.6. Violation of oath or affirmation. - Every public officer or employee having taken and subscribed to...
§51-46. Procedure authorized - Checks and balances preserved - Withholding and disbursing agents defined - Warrants - Reservation of funds - Transmission - Lost checks. - In every instance where the United States of America or...
§51-50. Short title - Personal Privacy Protection Act – Restrictions on public agencies – Exemptions – Civil actions - Violations. - A. This act shall be known and may be cited...
§51-51. Liability to impeachment - Grounds for impeachment. - The Governor and other elective state officers, including the Justices...
§51-52. Presiding officer of court of impeachment - Presentation of impeachment. - When sitting as a court of impeachment, the Senate shall...
§51-53. Oath - Concurrence of Senators. - When the Senate is sitting as a court of impeachment...
§51-54. Judgment - Criminal liability. - Judgment of impeachment shall not extend beyond removal from office,...
§51-55. Impeachment defined. - An impeachment is the prosecution, by the House of Representatives,...
§51-56. Articles of impeachment. - The articles of impeachment are the written accusation of the...
§51-57. Designation of offense. - The articles of impeachment shall state with reasonable certainty, the...
§51-58. Prosecution of impeachment - Board of managers. - When the articles of impeachment have been approved by the...
§51-59. Court of impeachment - Organization. - When articles of impeachment shall be presented to the Senate,...
§51-60. Hearing and summons. - The Senate, when sitting as a court of impeachment, shall...
§51-61. Witness - Evidence - Process. - The clerk of such court, at the request of the...
§51-62. Powers of court of impeachment - Orders and judgments - Power to enforce. - The Senate sitting as a court of impeachment shall have...
§51-63. Fees for witnesses and executions of processes. - Witnesses shall have the same compensation for travel and attendance,...
§51-64. Oath. - Before the Senate shall proceed to consider the articles of...
§51-65. Voting on judgment - Absence during trial. - The Senate when sitting as a court of impeachment shall...
§51-66. Costs - How paid - Cost of accused if acquitted. - If the accused is acquitted, he shall be entitled to...
§51-67. Recess - Trial after adjournment. - The Senate when organized and sitting as a court of...
§51-68. Trial after adjournment - Per diem of Senators - How paid. - In case the court of impeachment shall sit and hold...
§51-69. Managers of trial - Powers of after-adjournment trial. - If the Senate shall sit as a court of impeachment...
§51-70. Expenses - How paid. - All expenses of any impeachment proceedings, after the Legislature shall...
§51-71. Procedure - Vote - Records. - The Senate, when sitting as a court of impeachment, shall...
§51-91. Officers subject to removal. - All state officers not subject to impeachment under Section 1,...
§51-92. Supreme Court and district court - Jurisdiction. - The Supreme Court shall have and is hereby given concurrent...
§51-93. Official misconduct defined - Suspension. - Official misconduct within the meaning of this act is hereby...
§51-94. Attorney General - Duties. - It shall be the duty of the Attorney General of...
§51-95. Speedy trial - Continuances. - Said proceedings in ouster shall be tried in a speedy...
§51-96. Summons and pleadings. - Upon the filing of the complaint or petition for the...
§51-97. Defendant guilty - Judgment of ouster. - If the defendant shall be found guilty, judgment of ouster...
§51-98. Suspension during proceedings - Temporary appointment - Right to salary. - When the complaint or petition for removal is filed, if...
§51-99. Name in which action commenced. - All actions under the provisions of this act shall be...
§51-100. Attorney General - Powers. - The Attorney General of the state shall have the power,...
§51-101. Witnesses. - No person shall be excused from testifying before said Attorney...
§51-102. Ouster proceedings for open and notorious violation of penal laws. - The Attorney General shall have power and is hereby authorized...
§51-103. Jury trial. - Upon the trial either party shall be entitled to a...
§51-104. Evidence on motion to suspend - Taking of depositions. - The evidence procured by the Attorney General upon the separate...
§51-105. Prima facie evidence. - Proof that any of the penal statutes of the state...
§51-121. Declaration of policy. - In order to extend to employees of the state and...
§51-122. Definitions. - For the purposes of this act: (a) The term "wages"...
§51-123. Agreements with federal agencies and agencies of other states. - (a) Federal-State Agreement. The state agency, with the approval of...
§51-124. Contributions by state employees. - (a) Every employee of the state whose services are covered...
§51-125. Plans for coverage of employees of political subdivisions and of state and local instrumentalities. - (a) Each political subdivision of the state and each instrumentality...
§51-126. Contribution Fund. - (a) There is hereby established a special fund to be...
§51-127. Administrative appropriation. - For the purpose of administering the provisions of this act...
§51-128. Rules and regulations. - The state agency shall make and publish rules and regulations,...
§51-129. Studies and reports. - The state agency shall make studies concerning the problem of...
§51-130. Separability. - If any provision of this act, or the application thereof...
§51-131. Referenda and certification. - (a) With respect to employees of the state in positions...
§51-132. Withholding by board of education - Determination of coverage. - Upon request of any employee, the board of education of...
§51-151. Short title. - This act shall be known and may be cited as...
§51-152. See the following versions: - OS 51-152v1 (SB 1311, Laws 2022, c. 183, § 1)....
§51-152.1. Sovereign immunity. - A. The State of Oklahoma does hereby adopt the doctrine...
§51-152.2. Agreements with charitable health care providers - Care for medically indigent persons - Rules - Claims not to affect insurance rates. - A. 1. The State Department of Health, or a city-county...
§51-152.3. Agreements with community health care providers - Rendition of professional services without compensation - Rules - Status of provider as employee of state - Professional liability insurance of providers. - A. 1. The State Department of Health may enter into...
§51-152v1. Definitions. - As used in The Governmental Tort Claims Act: 1. "Action"...
§51-152v2. Definitions. - As used in The Governmental Tort Claims Act: 1. "Action"...
§51-153. Liability - Scope - Exemptions - Exclusivity. - A. The state or a political subdivision shall be liable...
§51-153.1. Housing of federal inmates from another state - Private prison facilities - Public trusts - Action or recovery barred. - Nothing in the Governmental Tort Claims Act shall be construed...
§51-154. Extent of liability – Wrongful criminal felony convictions resulting in imprisonment - Punitive or exemplary damages - Joinder of parties - Several liability. - A. The total liability of the state and its political...
§51-155. Exemptions from liability. - The state or a political subdivision shall not be liable...
§51-155.1. Claims relating to roads, streets or highways - Limitation. - Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as allowing...
§51-155.2. Liability of state for Y2K failure. - A. Except as provided in subsection C, D or E...
§51-156. Presentation of claim - Limitation of actions - Filing - Notice - Wrongful death. - A. Any person having a claim against the state or...
§51-157. Denial of claim - Notice. - A. A person may not initiate a suit against the...
§51-158. Settlement or defense of claim – Settlement payout - Liability insurance - Public records. - A. The state or a political subdivision, after conferring with...
§51-159. Enforcement of judgments. - A. Judgments recovered against the state or political subdivisions under...
§51-160. Recovery of payments from employees. - The state or political subdivision shall have the right to...
§51-161.1. Duty to defend, save harmless and indemnify employees - Payment of settlements and judgments. - When the state has a duty to defend any action...
§51-162. Defense of employees - Costs - Indemnification of employees - Punitive or exemplary damages - Privileges and immunities not waived. - A. The state or any political subdivision, subject to procedural...
§51-163. Venue - Parties - Real party in interest - Service of process. - A. Venue for actions against the state within the scope...
§51-164. Application of Oklahoma laws and statutes and rules of procedure. - The laws and statutes of the State of Oklahoma and...
§51-165. Exempt claims. - This act does not apply to any claim against any...
§51-166. Governmental and proprietary functions of political subdivisions - Application of act. - The distinction existing between governmental functions and proprietary functions of...
§51-167. Insurance. - A. The governing body of any municipality may: 1. Insure...
§51-169. Counties - Insurance. - A. The governing body of any county may: 1. Insure...
§51-170. Application of laws. - This act is exclusive and supersedes all home rule charter...
§51-171. Existing remedies, causes of action or claims not affected. - Nothing in this act shall abrogate or amend in any...
§51-172. Rural water supply and sewage disposal corporations - Insurance. - A. The governing body of any corporation organized not for...
§51-200. Settlements - Legislative approval - Involvement of Attorney General. - A. 1. No agency, board or commission, public officer, official...
§51-251. Short title. - This act may be cited as the “Oklahoma Religious Freedom...
§51-252. Definitions. - In this act: 1. “Demonstrates” means the burdens of going...
§51-253. See the following versions: - OS 51-253v1 (SB 368, Laws 2021, c. 235, § 1)....
§51-253v1. Burden upon free exercise of religion. - A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section,...
§51-253v2. Burden upon free exercise of religion. - A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section,...
§51-254. Correctional facility regulation - Compelling state interest. - A state or local correctional facility’s regulation must be considered...
§51-255. See the following versions: - OS 51-255v1 (SB 1503, Laws 2022, c. 190, § 16)....
§51-255v1. Construction. - A. Nothing in this act shall be construed to: 1....
§51-255v2. Construction. - A. Nothing in this act shall be construed to: 1....
§51-256. Remedies – Costs - Attorney Fees. - A. Any person whose exercise of religion has been substantially...
§51-257. Frivolous or fraudulent claims. - Any person found by a court of competent jurisdiction to...
§51-258. Governmental authority. - Notwithstanding any provision of this act, a governmental entity has...