A. Except as prohibited by Section 1350.3 of this title, a bail enforcer license or an armed bail enforcer license may be issued to an applicant meeting the following qualifications. The applicant shall:
1. Be a citizen of the United States or an alien legally residing in the United States and have a minimum of six (6) months legal residence documented in this state;
2. Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age;
3. Have a high school diploma or GED, or offer proof sufficient to CLEET of equivalent GED qualifications, and have successfully completed the training and psychological evaluation requirements for the license applied for, as prescribed by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training;
4. Have no final victim protection orders issued in any state as a defendant;
5. Have no record of a felony conviction or any expungement or a deferred judgment or suspended sentence for a felony offense, unless at least fifteen (15) years have passed since the completion of the sentence and no other convictions have occurred or are pending. Provided, no person convicted of a felony offense shall be eligible for an armed bail enforcer license;
6. Have no record of conviction for assault or battery, aggravated assault or battery, larceny, theft, false pretense, fraud, embezzlement, false personation of an officer, any offense involving a minor as a victim, any nonconsensual sex offense, any offense involving the possession, use, distribution, or sale of a controlled dangerous substance, any offense of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence of intoxicating substance, any offense involving a firearm, or any other offense as prescribed by the Council.
7. Make a statement that the applicant is not currently undergoing treatment for a mental illness, condition, or disorder, make a statement whether the applicant has ever been adjudicated incompetent or committed to a mental institution, and make a statement regarding any history of illegal drug use or alcohol abuse. Upon presentation by the Council of the name, gender, date of birth, and address of the applicant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services shall notify the Council within ten (10) days whether the computerized records of the Department indicate the applicant has ever been involuntarily committed to an Oklahoma state mental institution. For purposes of this subsection, "currently undergoing treatment for a mental illness, condition, or disorder" means the person has been diagnosed by a licensed physician or psychologist as being afflicted with a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, psychological orientation, or memory that significantly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life and such condition continues to exist;
8. Make a statement regarding any misdemeanor domestic violence charges;
9. Provide proof of liability insurance or an individual bond in a minimum amount established by the Bail Enforcement and Licensing Act; and
10. Provide a statement of self-employment as a sole proprietor bail enforcer.
B. 1. A bail enforcer shall be required to maintain a physical address and phone number publically available and published in the city or county where the physical address is located. Only a licensed bail enforcer may accept a client contract to perform the services of a bail enforcer.
2. A licensed bail enforcer shall be required to maintain complete records of all clients, defendants and apprehensions, and agree such records shall be available to CLEET for inspection at any time during regular business hours.
C. 1. All bail enforcers shall obtain and maintain either a liability insurance policy or a surety bond that allows persons to recover for actionable injuries, loss, or damage as a result of the willful, or wrongful acts or omissions of the licensee and protects this state, its agents, officers and employees from judgments against the licensee, and is further conditioned upon the faithful and honest conduct of the licensee.
2. The liability insurance policy or surety bond required in this subsection shall be in the minimum amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).
3. Liability insurance policies or bonds issued pursuant to this subsection shall not be modified or canceled unless ten (10) days' prior written notice is given to the Council. All persons insured or bonded pursuant to this subsection shall be insured by an insurance carrier or bonded by a surety company licensed and authorized to do business in the state. Failure to obtain and maintain sufficient liability insurance or bond as provided in the Bail Enforcement and Licensing Act shall be grounds for revocation of a license.
D. Upon written notice, any license may be placed on inactive status.
Added by Laws 2013, c. 407, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 373, § 5, eff. July 1, 2014; Laws 2019, c. 363, § 48, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 59. Professions and Occupations
§59-15.1. Short title - Declaration of policy.
§59-15.1A. See the following versions:
§59-15.2. Oklahoma Accountancy Board - Membership - Qualifications - Terms.
§59-15.3. Vacancies - Disqualification - Removal.
§59-15.4. Officers - Meetings - Duties.
§59-15.6A. Confidentiality of investigations - Use as evidence – Disclosure of information.
§59-15.7. Disbursement of fees and monies.
§59-15.8. Application to take examination - Format - Fees - Qualifications.
§59-15.9. Issuance of certificate.
§59-15.10A. Fees – Application and test.
§59-15.11. Use of titles or abbreviations.
§59-15.12. Employees and assistants without certification or permit.
§59-15.14. Registration - Expiration and renewal - Fee.
§59-15.14B. Acts subject to penalty.
§59-15.15B. Designated manager - Succession of business.
§59-15.15C. Services provided by unregistered firm.
§59-15.16. Revocation or suspension of registration and permits of firm.
§59-15.24. Penalties - Reinstatement or termination of suspension.
§59-15.25. Misrepresentation or fraud - Violations of act - Penalty.
§59-15.26. False reports or statements - Penalty.
§59-15.27. Cease and desist order – Fine - Injunction.
§59-15.28. Prima facie evidence.
§59-15.29A. Unlawful use of titles or abbreviations - Injunction, restraining order, or other order.
§59-15.29B. Enforcement actions - Evidence of single act sufficient.
§59-15.35. Continuing professional education.
§59-15.36. Persons who may perform assurance services and audits or issue reports.
§59-46.1. Short title - State Architectural and Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act.
§59-46.6. Meetings - Officers - Salary - Quorum.
§59-46.7. Powers and duties of Board.
§59-46.8a. Unlawful practice or use of title - License—Reciprocity.
§59-46.10. Dues - Cancellation of license or registration for nonpayment.
§59-46.11. Renewal of license or certificate - Display.
§59-46.12. Reinstatement of license, registration or certificate.
§59-46.15. Appeals from Board - Jurisdiction of District Court of Oklahoma County.
§59-46.17. Criminal penalties.
§59-46.19. Board of Architects' Fund.
§59-46.21b. Architects required for certain buildings - Code Use Groups - Exempted buildings.
§59-46.26. Acceptance of compensation from other than client - Unlawful.
§59-46.29. Landscape architecture license required.
§59-46.30. Licensing of landscape architects - Temporary licenses - Certificate of qualification.
§59-46.32. Practice of landscape architecture - Not transferable.
§59-46.33. Restoration of license - Application.
§59-46.34. Seal of landscape architect.
§59-46.35. Unlawful compensation.
§59-46.38. Registration of commercial interior designers - Certificate of title.
§59-46.39. Alternative requirements for commercial interior designer registration.
§59-46.41. Unlawful use of commercial interior designer title.
§59-46.42. Registered commercial interior designer seal.
§59-46.43. Unlawful to receive compensation except from client.
§59-46.44. Unlawful to bid or hold financial interest in entities competitively bidding.
§59-46.45. Personal privilege – Registration nontransferable.
§59-46.46. Application for reissuance of registration.
§59-46.47. No authority to engage in practice of architecture or landscape architecture.
§59-61.5. Practice of barbering defined.
§59-61.6. Board of Barber Examiners - Licenses.
§59-137. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners - Membership - Qualifications - Terms - Removal.
§59-140. Employees of Board - Prosecutions - Materials and supplies - Bonds - Seal.
§59-142. Acts constituting practice of podiatric medicine - Exceptions.
§59-143. Unlawful practices - Penalty.
§59-144.1. Training license - Eligibility - Restrictions.
§59-145. Renewal of licenses - Fees - Suspension on nonpayment - Reinstatement - Records.
§59-145.1. Continuing education requirement for renewal of license - Exemptions.
§59-147. Penalties - Guidelines.
§59-148. Violations – Definitions.
§59-154. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-155. Investigations and hearings.
§59-158. Restraining orders and injunctions.
§59-159.1. Rules and regulations concerning casts for individual shoes.
§59-159.4. Inapplicability to manufacture or sale to persons generally.
§59-160.1. Interpretation of "podiatry" and "podiatric medicine".
§59-161.2. Scope of practice of chiropractic.
§59-161.4. Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
§59-161.5. Meetings of Board – Duties of officers - Bonding and liability.
§59-161.6. Powers of Board - Advisory Committee.
§59-161.7. Application for original license by examination – Definitions.
§59-161.8. Subjects covered by examination.
§59-161.9. Application for original license by relocation of practice.
§59-161.10a. Continuing education.
§59-161.11. Annual renewal license - Fee - Suspension and reinstatement - Disciplinary guidelines.
§59-161.12. Penalties - Grounds for imposition.
§59-161.12a. Certificate – Chiropractic claims consultant.
§59-161.13. Suspension of license because of mental illness.
§59-161.14. Practice without license - Penalties – Injunction.
§59-161.15. Doctors of chiropractic governed by public health laws.
§59-161.16. Chiropractic Education Scholarship Program.
§59-161.17. Chiropractic Undergraduate Preceptorship Program.
§59-161.18. Listing in publications.
§59-161.20. Board of Chiropractic Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-199. Short title – Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act.
§59-199.2. State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
§59-199.4. Executive director.
§59-199.5. Positions and salaries.
§59-199.6. Rules - Implementation - Unlawful acts - Penalties.
§59-199.7. Cosmetology and barber schools.
§59-199.9. Inspection of facilities – Licensure required.
§59-199.10. Expiration and renewal of licenses
§59-199.11. Grounds for denial of license, certificate or registration – Definitions.
§59-199.13. Reciprocity licenses - Criteria for issuing licenses without examination.
§59-199.15. State Cosmetology and Barbering Fund.
§59-199.18. Services provided in a private residence.
§59-328. Designation of parts.
§59-328.1. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.7. Board of Dentistry - Membership - Tenure - Nomination and election districts - Vacancies.
§59-328.10. Officers - Election - Tenure - Meetings - Bond - Liability - Expenses.
§59-328.15A. Board investigators - Powers.
§59-328.15B. Executive Director - Authority.
§59-328.17. Standing committees – Composition - Functions.
§59-328.19. Acts constituting practice of dentistry - Acts not prevented.
§59-328.21. Application for license – Qualifications - Examination.
§59-328.22. Specialty license.
§59-328.23. Emergency temporary licenses for dentistry or dental hygiene.
§59-328.23a. Special volunteer licenses.
§59-328.23b. Retired volunteer licenses.
§59-328.24. Dental assistant permits - Expanded duty permits.
§59-328.25. Oral maxillofacial surgery assistant permits.
§59-328.26. Dental student intern, resident or fellowship permits.
§59-328.27. Faculty licenses and faculty specialty licenses.
§59-328.28a. Applicant criminal background check.
§59-328.31. Professional entities formed for practice of dentistry.
§59-328.31a. Use of trade names – Rules regulating advertisements.
§59-328.31b. Patient record keeping requirements.
§59-328.32. Dentists - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.36. Permit to operate dental laboratory.
§59-328.36a. Laboratory prescriptions.
§59-328.39. Dental laboratory permit holders or technicians - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.39a. Dental laboratory permit holders - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.40a. Registration for mobile dental clinics.
§59-328.41. Renewal certificate - Continuing education requirements – Fee - Automatic cancellation.
§59-328.42. State Dental Fund.
§59-328.43a. Complaints - Review and investigative panels - Panel authority.
§59-328.43b. Patient fatalities - Adverse Outcomes Review and Investigation Panel.
§59-328.44a. Penalties - Judicial review.
§59-328.44b. Surrender of license, permit or certificate.
§59-328.48. Annual statement of receipts and expenditures.
§59-328.49. Unlawful practices - Criminal and civil actions.
§59-328.53. Dentists - Professional malpractice liability insurance.
§59-328.54. Dental practice - Diagnosis via the Internet.
§59-328.55. Death of patient - Notification of Board.
§59-328.56. Unauthorized or forged prescribing of controlled dangerous substances.
§59-328.57. Providing care during a pandemic, disaster or emergency – Administering vaccinations.
§59-328.60. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.61. Declaration of public policy.
§59-328.62. Definitions - Mediation committee - Powers.
§59-328.63. Voluntary status - Protections from liability.
§59-328.64. Proceedings of mediation committee privileged - Exceptions.
§59-328.66. Recommendations of mediation committee.
§59-328.67. Appeal to state mediation appeals committee.
§59-328.68. Request for final appeal.
§59-328.69. Review and hearing by the Board of Governors of Registered Dentists.
§59-328.70. Reasonable procedural rules to be followed.
§59-328.73. Election of remedies - Patient's rights.
§59-353. Short title - Purpose - Declaration of pharmacy as profession.
§59-353.1a. Advanced practice nurses - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.1b. Certified registered nurse anesthetist - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.3. Board of Pharmacy - Membership - Qualifications - Terms of office - Appointments.
§59-353.5. State Board of Pharmacy – Elections and terms - Executive Director.
§59-353.7. State Board of Pharmacy - Powers.
§59-353.7a. Licensure fees for certain entities.
§59-353.10. Assistant pharmacists.
§59-353.11. License renewal - Fee
§59-353.11a. Continuing education requirements - Inactive renewal certificates
§59-353.16A. Incapacity of pharmacist - Effect on license.
§59-353.17. Unlawful use of titles relating to pharmacy.
§59-353.17A. Unlawful impersonation of a pharmacist.
§59-353.18A. Pharmacy technicians - Permits.
§59-353.20.1. Recording of prescriptions - Prescription label requirements.
§59-353.25. Violation of act - Penalty - Perjury.
§59-353.29.1. Veterinary prescription drugs.
§59-353.29.2. Prescriptions for ocular abnormalities.
§59-355.1. Dispensing dangerous drugs - Procedure - Registration - Exemptions.
§59-355.2. Violations of act – Adoption of rules.
§59-355.4. Substituting interchangeable biological products for prescribed biological products.
§59-356. Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act.
§59-356.1. Definitions – Purpose - Application.
§59-356.3. Appeals process - Dismissal - Fraud or willful misrepresentation - Application of act.
§59-356.4. Extrapolation audit prohibited.
§59-356.5. Retrospective application – Audits not covered by act.
§59-358. Pharmacy benefits management licensure – Procedures – Penalties for noncompliance.
§59-360. Pharmacy benefits manager – Contractual duties to provider.
§59-367.3. Program for utilization of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.4. Criteria for accepting unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.7. Promulgation of rules – Donation of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.8. Maintenance of drugs in emergency kits by pharmacies.
§59-368. Access to prescription drugs for low income Oklahomans.
§59-369. Emergency contraceptive prescription.
§59-374. Medication services procedures.
§59-375.1. Short title - Oklahoma Durable Medical Equipment Licensing Act.
§59-375.3. Supplier license – Inspections – Promulgation of rules.
§59-375.5. Application of act.
§59-396. Oklahoma Funeral Board - Appointment - Term - Qualifications.
§59-396.1A. Removal of Board members.
§59-396.1B. Expenses of Board members - Executive director - Other personnel.
§59-396.1C. Executive director of Board - Powers and duties – Collection and disposition of funds.
§59-396.2a. Board - Additional powers and duties.
§59-396.3a. Persons and businesses required to be licensed.
§59-396.5. Expiration of license - Renewal.
§59-396.5b. Continuing education courses.
§59-396.6. License required - Employment of licensed embalmer – Display of license or certificate.
§59-396.8. Reciprocity – Definitions.
§59-396.10. Application - Rules of Board - Publication of changes in rules.
§59-396.11. Apprenticeship - Application - Certificate - Rules.
§59-396.12c. Refusal to issue or renew, revocation or suspension of license – Grounds – Definitions.
§59-396.12d. Violations - Penalties - Liabilities.
§59-396.12e. Administrative penalty and costs - Surrender of license in lieu of penalty.
§59-396.16. Records of Board - Contents - Public inspection.
§59-396.17. Board - Officers - Rules.
§59-396.19. Act inapplicable when.
§59-396.20. Suspicion of crime - Embalming body without permission unlawful.
§59-396.22. Meetings of Board.
§59-396.23. Schools - Privileges.
§59-396.24. Violations - Penalties.
§59-396.26. Partial invalidity.
§59-396.27. Risk of transmission of communicable disease - Precautions.
§59-396.28. Funeral directors and embalmers from other states – Temporary permit.
§59-396.31. Rules for licensing, inspection, and regulation of crematories.
§59-396.32. Residue of cremated body.
§59-396.33. Cremation without license and permit a felony.
§59-475.1. Registration as engineer or land surveyor - Privilege.
§59-475.3. State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
§59-475.4. Qualifications of Board members.
§59-475.6. Removal of Board members - Vacancies.
§59-475.7. Meetings - Officers - Quorum.
§59-475.8. Powers and authority of Board.
§59-475.9. Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Fund - Expenditures - Audits.
§59-475.12a. Licensure or certification as professional engineer.
§59-475.12b. Licensure or certification as professional land surveyor.
§59-475.12c. Qualifications to use title Professional Structural Engineer.
§59-475.13. Application form - Certified council record in lieu of form - Fees.
§59-475.15. Certificate of licensure - Seal - Intern certificate.
§59-475.16. Terms of certificates – Maintaining certificates.
§59-475.17. Lost or destroyed certificates - Replacement.
§59-475.18. Disciplinary actions - Grounds - Rules of Professional Conduct – Definitions.
§59-475.19. Allegations of violations - Notice and hearing - Appeal.
§59-475.20. Criminal and administrative penalties - Legal counsel.
§59-475.21. Condition for practice of engineering or land surveying by firm.
§59-475.22a. Land surveying documents - Conditions of filing.
§59-478.1. Establishment of physician-patient relationship through telemedicine.
§59-480. Short title - Intent - Definitions.
§59-481. State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision - Members.
§59-481.1. Statutory references.
§59-482. Tenure - Appointment list - Persons ineligible.
§59-485. Organization - Officers.
§59-488. Meetings of Board - Determining qualifications of applicants.
§59-489. Rules - Fees - Increasing or changing educational requirements.
§59-490. Administration of oaths - Evidence and witnesses.
§59-491. Practicing without a license - Penalties.
§59-493.1. Contents of application - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.2. Foreign applicants - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.3. Licensure by endorsement - Temporary and special licensure.
§59-493.5. Special volunteer license.
§59-493.5a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-493.6. Enactment of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-493.7. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-494.1. Medical licensure examinations.
§59-495. Issuance of licenses.
§59-495a.1. License reregistration.
§59-495c. Reregistration fees - Depository funds - Disposition.
§59-495d. Suspension in absence of reregistration - Reinstatement.
§59-495e. Appeal from rejection of reregistration.
§59-500. Notice of practice location and address - Proof of licensure.
§59-503. Sanctions for unprofessional conduct.
§59-503.1. Emergency suspension of licensure.
§59-503.2. Authority to prescribe administrative remedies for licensee violations.
§59-504. Process - How served - Depositions - Subpoenas.
§59-505. State as party to actions - Board as trial body - Rulings - Record.
§59-506. Decisions of Board - Suspension and reinstatement - Narcotics conviction.
§59-508. Revocation for fraud, misrepresentation or mistake - Misdemeanor.
§59-508.1. Reinstatement on Board's own motion.
§59-508.2. Reinstatement on application of person whose license is suspended or revoked.
§59-509. Unprofessional conduct - Definition.
§59-509.1. Disciplinary actions.
§59-510. Corporations - Firms - Practice of medicine.
§59-511. Deposit of fees and other monies - Payments from fund - Disposition of balance.
§59-512. Salary of secretary - Personnel - Investigators - Travel expenses.
§59-518. Emergency care or treatment - Immunity from civil damages or criminal prosecution.
§59-518.1. Allied Professional Peer Assistance Program – Committees - Records.
§59-519.3. Physician Assistant Committee - Powers and duties.
§59-519.4. Licensure requirements.
§59-519.7. Temporary approval of a license and application to practice.
§59-519.7a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-519.8. License renewal - Fees.
§59-519.9. Preexisting certificates.
§59-519.10. Violations - Penalties.
§59-519.11. Construction of act.
§59-521.1. Primary care provider.
§59-521.2. Billing and payment.
§59-521.3. Emergency or state or local disaster medical care – Liability immunity.
§59-521.4. Physician supervision required – Practice agreement with delegating physician.
§59-524. Abortion - Infant prematurely born alive - Right to medical treatment.
§59-528. Board - Powers and duties.
§59-529. Athletic Trainers Advisory Committee.