Title 63, Title 63 — Public Health and Safety

Misdemeanor - Prosecution - Civil actions - Remedies. A. It shall be unlawful to operate an adult day care center without possessing a current, valid license issued pursuant to the provisions of the Adult Day Care Act. It shall be unlawful for any holder of a license issued pursu…

and responsibilities. The Alzheimer's Research Advisory Council shall: 1. Provide advice and make recommendations to the State Department of Health and other state agencies regarding Alzheimer's and related dementia issues and/or programs funded or coordinated by, but not limited…

Dementia Special Care Disclosure Act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Alzheimer's Dementia and Other Forms of Dementia Special Care Disclosure Act". Added by Laws 1998, c. 147, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 546, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.

As used in the Alzheimer's Dementia and Other Forms of Dementia Special Care Disclosure Act: 1. "Special care" means care that is provided to persons with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's dementia or other forms of dementia by an entity that provides such care; 2. "Department"…

Alzheimer-Dementia Disclosure Act Advisory Council. A. 1. Pursuant to rules promulgated under the provisions of the Alzheimer’s Dementia and Other Forms of Dementia Special Care Disclosure Act, any nursing facility, residential care facility, assisted living facility, adult day c…

A. The State Department of Health shall contract with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, if authorized by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, for the development and enhancement of a Core Neuropathology Laboratory. B. The Core Neuropathology Laboratory sh…

soliciting patients for psychiatric or chemical dependency facility. A. 1. Any person who intentionally or knowingly pays to or accepts anything of value from any person, firm, association of persons, partnership, or corporation for securing or soliciting patients for any psychia…

facility residents – Written consent – Denial of admission. A. As used in this section: 1. "Antipsychotic drug" means a drug, sometimes called a major tranquilizer, used to treat symptoms of severe psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, schizophrenia and bipolar di…

Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act". Added by Laws 1997, c. 223, § 1, emerg. eff. May 20, 1997.

As used in the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act: 1. "Assisted living center" means any home or establishment offering, coordinating or providing services to two or more persons who: a. are domiciled therein, b. are unrelated to the operator, c. by choice or functional im…

acts. A. The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act. Such rules shall include, but shall not be limited to: 1. A uniform comprehensive resident screening instrument to measure the …

care facility or assisted living center. A. Each application for establishment of a continuum of care facility or assisted living center shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee. The State Commissioner of Health shall develop a sliding fee scale not to exceed One T…

No person shall establish, operate or maintain a continuum of care facility or assisted living center, or use in its name, logo, contracts, or literature the phrase "continuum of care facility" or "assisted living", nor imply that it is a continuum of care facility or assisted li…

A. The Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act shall not apply to residential care homes, adult companion homes, domiciliary care units operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the private residences of persons with developmental disabilities receiving services provided …

services - Plan of accommodation for certain disabled residents. A. Residents of an assisted living center may receive home care services and intermittent, periodic, or recurrent nursing care through a home care agency under the provisions of the Home Care Act. B. Residents of an…

A. Each assisted living center shall establish and maintain an internal quality assurance committee that meets at least quarterly. The committee shall: 1. Monitor trends and incidents; 2. Monitor customer satisfaction measures; 3. Document quality assurance efforts and outcomes; …

Any assisted living facility that employs an individual who is in nurse aide training shall ensure that such individual is supervised by no less than a consulting nurse licensed to practice in this state. Added by Laws 1999, c. 418, § 2, emerg. eff. June 10, 1999.

requirements. Upon repeal of a United States Congress or federal Health Care Financing Administration requirement to assess a quality of care fee, upon all licensed nursing home beds, such fee shall only be assessed upon nursing facilities that have a Medicaid contract with the s…

A. Upon written request to the State Department of Health, an assisted living center as defined in the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act may choose to participate in an informal dispute resolution panel to be offered by the State Department of Health as an alternative to …

A. "Bottled water" means any water, including water to which chemicals or other substances may have been added, which is placed in bottles or other containers to be sold or offered for sale for drinking, culinary or other domestic purposes involving a likelihood of the water bein…

All persons impounding any body of water for public use shall cooperate with the State Department of Health in clearance of the area and the measures necessary to control malaria. Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 914, operative July 1, 1963.

required. Any person desiring to operate a bottled water plant, or to sell or distribute bottled water, in Oklahoma shall make application to the State Commissioner of Health for a permit, and obtain a valid permit prior to the operation of the bottled water plant or the distribu…

The fee for the issuance of a permit, and for each renewal of such permit, to operate a bottled water plant shall be Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00). All permits and permit renewals shall expire on June 30 of each year following the date of issue. Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 916, o…

All bottled water plants shall comply with the following standards of sanitation and safety: (1) The source of water supply shall be structurally protected to prevent contamination and shall provide such treatment as necessary to insure the water to be bacteriologically and chemi…

The State Board of Health shall formulate, and after public hearing adopt reasonable rules and regulations establishing minimum standards of compliance for carrying out the provisions of the preceding section, and such additional rules and regulations as it deems necessary to pro…

Before any bottled water plant is hereafter constructed, reconstructed, or extensively altered, properly prepared plans therefor shall be approved by the State Commissioner of Health. Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 9, § 919, operative July 1, 1963.

The Legislature declares that if any portion of this act is determined to be unconstitutional, it would nevertheless have enacted all of the remaining portion of this act, and no such decision shall invalidate the entire act. Laws 1935, p. 59, § 10.

No railroad or other common carrier shall receive for shipment to any point within the state or to any point outside the state the body of a deceased person unless there is attached to the shipping case, in a strong envelope, a burial-transit permit duly issued and signed by the …

Any agent, or employee, or officer of any railroad, or transportation company, violating any of the provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than Twenty- five Dollars ($25.00), nor more th…

Nonliability of physician and hospital. It shall be lawful for a physician, legally qualified to practice in the State of Oklahoma, to perform a post mortem caesarian section upon any female who is the victim of accidental death, who at the time of said death, is in the advanced …

Failure on the part of the physician, under such circumstances, to perform a caesarian operation shall not subject said physician to criminal liability, if in his opinion after due examination, the child is not viable at the time of the death of the female, while in the advanced …

This act may be cited as the "Oklahoma Housing Authorities Act." Laws 1965, c. 251, § 1, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

The provisions of this act shall apply in all counties of this state. Laws 1965, c. 251, § 2, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

It is hereby declared: (a) that there exists in urban and rural areas in certain counties in the state unsanitary, unsafe, and overcrowded dwelling accommodations; that in such urban and rural areas within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations …

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Authority" means any public body corporate and politic created by this act. (b) "City" means any incorpor…

In each city and in each county of the state there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the "housing authority" of the city or county; provided, that the authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers hereunder until or unless the…

communication towers. Any city, county, Rural Electric Cooperative or Indian housing authority created pursuant to Sections 1055 and 1057 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes is hereby authorized subject to approval of the state agency controlling such communication towers to use…

of additional public housing projects. A. 1. Upon the filing of a petition by five percent (5%) of the qualified voters of the city or county, as the case may be, asserting there is need for limiting an authority to its existing operations and prohibiting such authority from enga…

management and control. A. There is hereby created, with respect to each Indian tribe, band, or nation in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of each Indian tribe, band, or nation to be known as the "housing authority" of the Indian t…

authority commissioners. A. When a housing authority is authorized to transact business and exercise powers hereunder, five (5) persons shall be appointed as commissioners of the authority as follows: 1. In the case of a city, by the mayor with the advice and consent of the gover…

A. During his tenure and for one (1) year thereafter, no commissioner, officer, or employee of the local housing authority shall voluntarily acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, or in any co…

For inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, or allowing any portion of any project to become dilapidated, unsanitary or unkept, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the governing body, or, in the case of an authority for a county, by the board of county…

Every authority shall have all powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including the following powers in addition to others herein specifically granted: (a) To sue and to be sued; to have a seal and to alter the same at …

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to accomplish the charitable and public purposes of this act that each authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals or payments for dwelling accommodations…

An authority shall issue regulations establishing eligibility requirements, consistent with the purposes and objectives of this act, for admission to and continued occupancy in its projects. Nothing contained in this or the preceding section shall be construed as limiting the pow…

Any two or more authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing, including the issuance of bonds, notes or other obligations and giving security therefor, planning, underta…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other act relating to rentals of, preferences or eligibility for admission to, or occupancy of dwellings in housing projects, during a time of war as declared by Congress an authority determines that there is an acute need for housing…

The property and funds of a housing authority are declared to be used for charitable purposes and to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes, and such property and the authority are exempt from all taxes, including sales and use taxes and special as…

All projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the project is situated. Laws 1965, c. 251, § 17, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965.

An authority shall have power to issue bonds from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. It shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. An authority may issue such types of bonds …