Title 63 — Title 63 — Public Health and Safety

A. Section 142.1 et seq. of this title recognizes the value of and authorizes the establishment of a statewide notification center. B. Upon establishment, the notification center shall operate twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. Notification, as required by Secti…

Notwithstanding anything which may be contained in this act to the contrary, public agencies and their contractors engaged in work within the public right-of-way which work is a preengineered project, certified project or routine maintenance shall be exempt from the provisions of…

63 O.S. § 142.12 Repealed by Laws 2016, c. 151, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016

The Corporation Commission is hereby designated as the agency to enforce the provisions of the Oklahoma Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act, Section 142.1 et seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, over excavation or demolition on or near or directly over the location…

As used in the Oklahoma Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act: 1. "Certified project" means a project where the public agency responsible for the public project, in consultation with the statewide one-call notification center, as part of its procedure, certifies that the p…

statewide one-call notification center. All operators of underground facilities shall participate in the statewide one-call notification center and shall have on file with the notification center a notice that such operator has underground facilities, the county or counties where…

A. As provided for in this section, the notification center shall charge and collect fees from operators filing notices pursuant to Section 142.3 of this title, except for rural water districts which have less than one thousand one hundred meters and municipalities which have a p…

prohibited near certain facilities. No excavator shall demolish a structure, discharge an explosive or commence to excavate in a highway, street, alley or other public ground or way, a private easement, or on or near the location of the facilities of an operator without first com…

Marking or providing location of facilities - Emergencies. A. Before an excavator shall demolish a structure, discharge any explosive or commence to excavate in a highway, street, alley or other public ground or way, on or near the location of an operator's underground facilities…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, powered or mechanized equipment shall not be used directly over marked routes of underground facilities until the precise location of the underground facilities has been determined by the excavator, and then only after the fa…

A. In addition to the notice required by Section 142.6 of this title, whenever the demolition of a structure is proposed, operators in the geographic area defined by the notification center who have a notice on file with the notification center pursuant to Section 142.3 of this t…

A. When any damage occurs to an underground facility or its protective covering, the operator thereof and the notification center shall be notified immediately by any person who caused the damage. B. Upon receiving notice of such damage, the operator shall promptly dispatch perso…

Injunction. A. Any excavator, except for a public agency who fails to comply with the Oklahoma Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Act and who damages an underground facility owned or operated by a nonprofit rural water corporation organized pursuant to Section 863 of Title …

63 O.S. § 176 Repealed by Laws 2013, c. 53, § 2, eff. July 1, 2013

This act shall be cited as the Oklahoma Community Social Service Centers Act. Laws 1967, c. 211, § 1, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967.

It is the purpose of this act to provide and aid in providing in Oklahoma communities suitable and adequate space for housing state departments and other governmental and nongovernmental entities which provide social and/or health services for individuals or groups. Laws 1967, c.…

For purposes of this act, community shall be defined as follows: community shall be an area comprised of all or parts of one or more counties or a delineated area within one or more municipalities or counties as determined by the State Board of Health. Laws 1967, c. 211, § 3; Law…

rights and privileges. The State Health Department is hereby designated as the Oklahoma Community Social Service Center authority and is authorized to exercise the following powers, rights, and privileges in carrying out the purposes of this act: (a) To prepare and publish guidel…

Title to all property acquired under the provision of this act shall vest in the State of Oklahoma. Laws 1967, c. 211, § 5, emerg. eff. May 1, 1967.

Any community social service center may be built on leased land owned by any other governmental agency subject to the approval of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. Added by Laws 1971, c. 104, § 2, emerg. eff. April 27, 1971. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 304, § 63, eff…

Ada - Transfer of management and operation. The management and operation of the property used by the East Central Oklahoma Health and Social Service Center at Ada, Oklahoma, under the Oklahoma Community Social Service Centers Act, Section 2051 et seq. of this title, shall be tran…

of obligations. All property, records, equipment, supplies, funds, including trust funds and revolving funds, and other assets, owned or possessed by the State Department of Health for the East Central Oklahoma Health and Social Service Center at Ada, Oklahoma, are hereby transfe…

A. The State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma Military Department, and schools of social work in this state shall develop a Guard Advocacy Program (GAP) for Oklahoma National Guard soldiers and airmen. The Program shall include curricula designed to: 1. Facilitate and impro…

A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Certified Healthy Communities Act". B. The State Department of Health shall establish and maintain a program for the voluntary certification of communities that promote wellness, encourage the adoption of healthy be…

A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Certified Healthy Schools Act". B. The State Department of Health shall establish and maintain a program for the voluntary certification of schools that promotes wellness, encourages the adoption of healthy behavior…

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act”. Added by Laws 2025, c. 349, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.

As used in the Oklahoma Community Health Worker Act: 1. “Certified community health worker” means a community health worker to whom the State Department of Health has issued a certificate to practice as a certified community health worker in this state; 2. “Community health worke…

A. The State Department of Health shall establish a certificate for community health workers. This certification shall be voluntary. B. A certified community health worker may: 1. Serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to serv…

To be eligible for voluntary community health worker certification, an individual shall: 1. Be a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident; 2. Be a resident of this state; 3. Be at least eighteen (18) years of age; and 4. Meet the minimum qualifications for certification…

The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this act including, but not limited to, rules that: 1. Adopt a set of standards for the approval of certified community health worker initial coursework or curriculum; 2. Establish examination administ…

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of Health to be designated the "School Nurse Pilot Program Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies desi…

Family planning services are declared to be essential to the health and welfare of the citizens of Oklahoma. The term "family planning" as used herein shall encompass the spacing of children and infertility or sterility in husbands and/or wives. Laws 1967, c. 342, § 1, emerg. eff…

The State Department of Health is authorized to establish family planning Centers. These centers may be operated as a part of the services of a county, district, cooperative or city-county department of health, or may be operated directly by the State Department of Health, or by …

direct. The family planning centers shall furnish educational materials and information with respect to achieving a planned parenthood, including advice as to contraceptive practices, medical surgery devices and pharmaceuticals. These centers are authorized to carry out clinical …

The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate rules, regulations and standards for the operation of family planning centers as follows: a. Eligibility of persons for service. b. Approval of contraceptives, practices, devices and pharmaceuticals, and the methods of their u…

Fees collected in family planning centers shall be forwarded to the State Department of Health, and shall be deposited in the Public Health Special Fund, and expended as is now provided by statute, or as may be provided in the future. Provided, however, that where family planning…

Warranty. The procurement, processing, distribution or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products, blood derivatives and other human tissues such as corneas, bones or organs for the purpose of injecting, transfusing or transplanting any of them into the human body, for compensati…

No reproductive tissue(s) shall be procured for donation purposes from any person testing positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Organ(s) and tissue(s) may be procured for donation purposes from any person testing positive for HIV infection, provided such …

Any person sixteen (16) years of age with parental permission or authorization, or seventeen (17) years of age or older without parental permission or authorization shall be eligible to donate blood voluntarily; provided that only persons eighteen (18) years of age or older may r…

treatment. No hospital or blood donor organization shall require either preplacement or replacement of blood as a condition of treatment. Every statement of policy to or request of a patient or his next of kin by a physician or the personnel of a hospital or a blood donor organiz…

Every hospital or blood donor organization shall furnish the donor, preceding or at the time of a blood donation, a concise, complete, written statement as to any benefits which may arise from his donation of blood. This statement shall include, at least, the agency policy regard…

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Blood Exchange Act". Laws 1980, c. 281, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1980.

The purpose of the Oklahoma Blood Exchange Act is to insure cooperation among and between the regional blood service and distribution systems operating within the state and to provide whole blood, blood components and blood derivatives at the lowest possible cost to all persons i…

As used in this act: "Blood service systems" means regional providers of whole blood, blood components or blood derivatives; provided, for purposes of this act, all regional providers operating with the same establishment license number of the United States Department of Health a…

Regional blood service systems operating within the state shall establish plans and procedures for the exchange of blood and blood products on a basis of regularly scheduled shipments based upon past use and anticipated needs. Prior to contracting with out-of-state blood supplier…

A. It shall be the intent of the Legislature that each blood service system operating in this state use only blood and blood products obtained from volunteer donors, except in an emergency calling for a rare blood type that is not available from a nonpaid donor or in an unusual d…

lymphotropic virus type III - Notification of donors. Each blood service system shall have a test to detect the presence of antibodies to the human T-lymphotropic virus type III. Such test shall be performed on each donation of blood prior to the use, disposal, distribution, or e…

Donor forms - Unlawful representations. A. Every blood service system shall furnish a blood donor, preceding or at the time of a blood donation, a concise, complete, written statement as to any benefit which may arise from the donation of blood. This statement shall include, at l…

Each blood service system operating within this state shall publish annually a financial statement which clearly identifies, on an individual system basis, its assets, liabilities, income, expenses and net worth and shall maintain an accounting system which facilitates a determin…

Any violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall result in a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Laws 1980, c. 281, § 10, eff. Oct. 1, 1980.