Title 56 — Title 56 — Poor Persons

A. The Governor shall have the power and duty to select a Director of Human Services who shall serve as executive and administrative officer of the Department of Human Services. The Director shall be appointed wholly on the basis of ability, training and experience qualifying him…

Welfare Commission and Director. (a) The Department of Public Welfare shall also be known as, and may perform official acts and transact official business in the name of, Department of Human Services. (b) The Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission shall also be known as, and may perf…

Director of Human Services. Whenever the name of Department of Institutions, Social and Rehabilitative Services appears in any law contract or other document it shall be deemed to refer to the Department of Human Services. Whenever the name of the Commission for Institutions, Soc…

- Disability issues - Administration. A. There are hereby created four Department of Human Services Citizens Advisory Panels to evaluate core program and administrative areas of the Department and to develop recommendations to improve the programs and administration of the Depart…

Powers. The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to appoint campus police for institutions, county office buildings and any other buildings and their adjacent grounds under the jurisdiction of the Department, in the same manner and with the same powers as campus …

Employees of the Department of Human Services serving as police officers shall obtain a certificate as provided for in Section 3311 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 1985, c. 68, § 2, emerg. eff. May 16, 1985.

The Director of the Department of Human Services shall have the authority to commission certified employees within the Office of the Inspector General of the Department as peace officers. The authority of employees so commissioned shall include the authority to investigate crimes…

Architecture and Engineering Planning Unit - Authority to contract with Oklahoma Medical Center. The Institutional Maintenance and Construction Unit and the Architecture and Engineering Planning Unit of the Department of Human Services, or its successors, shall have authority to …

5, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.

The Commission may appoint in each county a county board consisting of either three, five, or seven members, the majority of whom shall constitute a quorum. These members shall serve without salary at the pleasure of the Commission. No candidate for office nor any elective office…

The Department of Human Services shall authorize the establishment of local satellite meal sites for the purpose of encouraging older Oklahomans to congregate in order to eat meals prepared at another location and delivered to the local satellite meal site. The Department of Huma…

This section and Sections 2 and 3 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Josephine Meade Anti-Hunger Act". Added by Laws 2013, c. 339, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 2013.

The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules authorizing the patrons of senior nutrition project sites to take home leftover food. The Department may also seek ways to receive for distribution to patrons donated packaged or nonperishable food as well as natural fresh f…

A. Assistance shall be given under this act: 1. To any needy person who has attained the age of sixty-five (65) years; provided, however, that when authorized by federal law or regulations, and in conformity therewith, the age requirement for needy persons under this act shall be…

A. 1. The amount of assistance which any person shall receive under the provisions of this act shall be determined with due regard to the resources, to income and need of the individual and other conditions existing in each case and in accordance with funds available and rules of…

Application for assistance under this act shall be made to the county department of the county in which the applicant resides. The application shall be in writing, signed by the applicant or legal guardian and shall be in a manner and upon the form prescribed by the State Departm…

child. Any person who makes application with the Department of Human Services for medical assistance resulting from the birth of any child shall provide the name of the person or persons legally responsible for the support of such child prior to receipt of any such medical assist…

If a person who is on active duty with the United States Armed Forces makes an application to the Department of Human Services to receive any type of state or federal assistance, either for himself or herself or for an immediate family member, and the person has previously made t…

The Department shall promptly investigate all applications for assistance, and shall determine whether the applicant is eligible for assistance under the provisions of this act, the amount of assistance, if any, and the date such assistance shall begin. The applicant shall be not…

The Department of Human Services, with the written consent of the client, may request a copy of the financial records or any other records specified in said written consent from a financial institution or other agency regulated by federal or state law. The request shall be for th…

A. In any investigation relating to crimes committed against the Department of Human Services or crimes committed in the course of any program administered by the Department, or in investigations of Medicaid recipient fraud, the Inspector General of the Department, if approved by…

A. Any applicant or recipient adversely affected by a decision of the Department of Human Services on benefits or services provided pursuant to the provisions of this title, shall be afforded an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section …

All assistance grants made under this act shall be reinvestigated by the Department as frequently as may be required by the Commission. In all cases, the Department shall have the power to modify or revoke its former grant. The same right of hearing shall be accorded an aggrieved…

1939.

payments resulting from misrepresentation or concealment - Notice of sale or encumbrance. Any applicant for assistance under this act shall set forth upon the form prescribed by the Department of Human Services all his real and personal property and income from whatever sources. …

A grant of assistance to any recipient of Old-Age Assistance or Aid to the Blind, found to be incompetent, may be paid to a guardian appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction. Added by State Question No. 226, Initiative Petition No. 155, § 12, adopted July 7, 1936. Amended b…

All rights to assistance under this act shall be inalienable by any assignment, sale or transfer; and said assistance shall not be subject to execution, attachment, garnishment or other process, and in the case of bankruptcy, the assistance shall not pass to or through any truste…

Any recipient who moves to another county in this state shall be entitled to receive assistance in the county in which he has moved and the county department of the county from which he has moved shall transfer with due dispatch all necessary records relating to the recipient to …

It shall be the duty of the county department in the several respective counties in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission to take the initiative in ascertaining the need for assistance of persons eligible for assistance under the provisions of subsection (c)…

The Commission is authorized to set up a division for the protection and care of homeless, dependent and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent and to provide an adequate child welfare service to accomplish the purposes herein set forth. Added by State …

adoption of children - Fee. If the district court requests or orders the Department of Human Services to perform any investigation or study involving the custody, placement, adoption, or other pertinent matter, with regard to a child or children with whom the Department is not ot…

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The Commission shall have the authority to accept grants from the federal government of money or services for the purpose of augmenting assistance granted hereunder or to reimburse the state for assistance granted hereunder and to conform to the requirements of any federal agency…

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56 O.S. § 181 Repealed by Laws 1941, p. 467, § 17

1982.

It shall be unlawful for any person to charge or receive any fee for representing an applicant for or recipient of assistance under the provisions of this act, except as to criminal proceedings brought against an applicant or recipient under the penal provisions of this act, with…

Misuse of information. A. This section shall be known and may be cited as “Kelley’s Law”. B. All applications, information and records concerning any applicant or recipient obtained pursuant to law or as authorized by law by the Department of Human Services or any other public or…

56 O.S. § 183.1 Repealed by Laws 1967, c. 85, § 2, eff. April 18, 1967

1980.

A. Any person who: 1. Obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids, abets or assists any person to obtain, by means of a false statement or representation, by false impersonation, by a fictitious transfer, conveyance or encumbrance of property or income, by a knowing and willful failur…

Any person who violates any provision of this act for which no penalty is specifically provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Added by State Question No. 226, Initiative Petition No. 155, § 27, adopted July 7, 1936.

56 O.S. § 187 Repealed by Laws 1978, c. 244, § 42, eff. July 1, 1978

§ 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.

The provisions of this act are severable, and if any section, paragraph, sentence or provision hereof be held to be void by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of the court shall not affect the validity of this act as a whole, or any part thereof, other than the por…

This act may be cited as the "Oklahoma Social Security Act." Added by State Question No. 226, Initiative Petition No. 155, § 30, adopted July 7, 1936.