Title 72, Title 72 — Soldiers and Sailors
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72 O.S. § 361 Report of veterans who may have been exposed to certain
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causative agents during the Gulf War - Report form. A. A physician or other qualified health care professional who has primary responsibility for treating a veteran and who believes the veteran may have been exposed to certain causative agents while serving in the Armed Forces of…
72 O.S. § 362 Compilation, evaluation and distribution of information
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A. The Department, with the assistance of the Committee, shall compile and evaluate information received from and actions taken by the physician or other qualified health care professional, or a hospital or other health care facility, in a report to be distributed annually to the…
72 O.S. § 363 Privileges and immunities
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A physician or other qualified health care professional or a hospital or other medical facility, subject to this act, who complies with this act may not be held civilly or criminally liable for providing the information required by this act. Added by Laws 1997, c. 52, § 4, eff. J…
72 O.S. § 365 Rulemaking
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The State Board of Health shall promulgate and adopt rules necessary for the administration of the study authorized by this act. Added by Laws 1997, c. 52, § 6, eff. July 1, 1997.
72 O.S. § 401 Short title
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This act may be known and cited as the "Special Disabled Veterans Employment Act". Added by Laws 1983, c. 175, § 1, emerg. eff. June 7, 1983.
72 O.S. § 402 Definitions
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As used in the Special Disabled Veterans Employment Act: 1. "Special disabled veterans" means those honorably discharged persons who: a. meet the criteria for war veterans as set out in Section 67.13a of this title, b. have a service-connected disability rated at thirty percent (…
72 O.S. § 402v2 Definitions
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THIS TEXT EFFECTIVE BEGINNING NOV. 1, 2020. FOR TEXT EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOV. 1, 2020, SEE OS 72-402v1. As used in the Special Disabled Veterans Employment Act: 1. "Special disabled veterans" means those honorably discharged persons who: a. meet the criteria for war veterans as set o…
72 O.S. § 403 Exemption from entrance examinations and hiring procedures
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- Probationary period - Permanent status. A. Oklahoma state agencies are hereby authorized to employ special disabled veterans who are legal residents of the state in competitive and noncompetitive jobs. Such veterans shall be exempt from entrance examinations and hiring procedur…
72 O.S. § 404 Reporting names of employed special disabled veterans
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Names of special disabled veterans employed by state agencies pursuant to this act shall be reported to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services who shall record the names and report the total number of such veterans so employed in the annual report for the Office of Mana…
72 O.S. § 410 Oklahoma Veteran Housing Program Act
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This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Veteran Housing Program Act". Added by Laws 2015, c. 185, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.
72 O.S. § 411 Oklahoma Veteran Housing Program Revolving Fund
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There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated the "Oklahoma Veteran Housing Program Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of…
72 O.S. § 412 Special housing grant program for disabled veterans
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A. Subject to the availability of funds, the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs shall develop a special housing grant program, not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per veteran, for the purpose of bearing the costs not borne by the federal government for a specific…
72 O.S. § 421 Oklahoma Veterans Registry
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A. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs shall create and maintain a registry of all veterans in this state by January 1, 2020, which shall be titled the "Oklahoma Veterans Registry". The registry shall include the following information regarding the veteran: 1. Name; 2. Mi…
72 O.S. § 422 Oklahoma Women Veterans Program
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A. In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs; 2. "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs; 3. "Program" means the Oklahoma Women Veterans Progra…
72 O.S. § 440 Acceptance of gifts, donations, bequests, grants or
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contracts. A. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs may accept and receive any and all gifts, donations, devices, bequests, grants or contracts of any kind for money or property, either real or personal including but not limited to military memorabilia, artifacts or equipme…
72 O.S. § 441 State of Oklahoma Veterans Foundation – Authorization -
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Purpose. A. There is hereby authorized the establishment by the Oklahoma Veterans Commission of a private, not-for-profit, charitable organization to be known as the “State of Oklahoma Veterans Foundation”. The Foundation shall be for the purpose of soliciting, accepting, receivi…
72 O.S. § 450 Administrative leave
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A. Any employee of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs may be granted administrative leave with pay for volunteer service activities, under such terms and limitations as the Executive Director may establish, in service to veterans or dependents of veterans in the State of…
72 O.S. § 47 Private employment - Restoration to position or employment
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at expiration of military service. If a person was in the employment of any private employer, firm, company, partnership or corporation, it is hereby declared to be the sense of the Legislature that such person, upon the expiration of the person's period of active duty in the mil…
72 O.S. § 48 Leave of absence during active or inactive duty or service
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- Public employees. A. All officers and employees of the state or a political subdivision thereof who are members, either officers or enlisted, of the state military forces or any branch of the United States Military or its reserve components, shall, when ordered by the proper au…
72 O.S. § 48.1 Leave of absence during active service - Private sector
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employees. A. All officers and employees of any employer in the private sector, who are members, either officers or enlisted, of the Reserve Components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, or any other component of the Uniformed Services of the United Stat…
72 O.S. § 48.2 Extension of professional license during active duty
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A. As used in this section, "license" means any license issued pursuant to: 1. Title 59, Professions and Occupations; and 2. Title 5, Attorneys and State Bar. B. Any license held by a member of the National Guard or reserve component of the armed forces that expires while the mem…
72 O.S. § 49.1 Removal of disability of minority
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The disability of minority of any person otherwise eligible for guaranty of a loan pursuant to the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944", 78th Congress, as amended, and of the spouse of such person, is hereby removed for the purposes of enabling such persons to enter into valid…
72 O.S. § 5 Veterans to whom provisions available
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The provisions of this act shall be available to any disabled person who served during World War II, or any State of National Emergency as declared by the President of the United States, in the military or naval forces of any nation allied or associated with the United States, pr…
72 O.S. § 50.1 Powers of military officers
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For the purposes as set forth in this act, military officers, as designated herein, shall have the same power and authority to administer oaths and affirmations, and take depositions, affidavits and acknowledgments of persons in the military, naval, or other armed services of the…
72 O.S. § 50.2 Rank of officer - Spouse's acknowledgment -
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Authentication - Acknowledgment before notary. The deed of any person, for the conveyance of real estate within this state, or for any other purpose, powers of attorneys, and other instruments requiring acknowledgments or the taking and subscribing of oaths, may, if such person i…
72 O.S. § 50.21 Qualifications of recipients
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Any person having the following qualifications is hereby authorized to apply for, receive, and display a certain badge or medal, to be known as "The Oklahoma Cross of Valor": (1) Was a resident of Oklahoma at the time of entering the military service of the United States; (2) The…
72 O.S. § 50.22 Procedure for applications and approval
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The Governor shall fix the procedure in applying for and issuing of the medal; the Governor shall fix the manner and method of approving applications or recommendations for the award. Added by Laws 1953, p. 401, § 2, emerg. eff. May 12, 1953. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 233, § 3, ef…
72 O.S. § 50.23 Design - Payment of cost
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The Governor shall fix, or cause to be fixed, the character and design of the medal herein referred to; provided any such design shall include the words stamped or raised thereon, "Oklahoma Cross of Valor"; provided further, the Governor is hereby authorized to expend, from the G…
72 O.S. § 50.24 Korean Conflict Medallion Program
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A. There is hereby created the “Korean Conflict Medallion Program”. B. The Oklahoma Korean Conflict Medallion award shall consist of a medallion, medal, and certificate of appreciation. A veteran shall be eligible for the award if the veteran: 1. Was a resident of Oklahoma at the…
72 O.S. § 50.25 Oklahoma Legislative Medal of Honor
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A. The Oklahoma Legislative Medal of Honor shall be awarded to a member of the state or federal military forces designated by concurrent resolution of the Legislature who voluntarily performs a deed of personal bravery or self-sacrifice involving risk of life that is so conspicuo…
72 O.S. § 50.26 Oklahoma Gold Star Medal
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A. The Oklahoma Gold Star Medal shall be awarded to a member of the state or federal military forces who voluntarily performed a deed of personal bravery or self-sacrifice during combat after September 11, 2001, that resulted in his or her loss of life. B. The Oklahoma Gold Star …
72 O.S. § 6 Nontransferability of privileges - Penalty
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The privileges granted by this act shall not be assignable or transferable to or used by any other person or persons except those persons to whom certificates have been issued as herein provided. Any person who violates any provision of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor a…
72 O.S. § 6-1 Impersonating member or veteran of the United States Armed
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Forces - Punishment. A. Any person who knowingly with intent to impersonate and with intent to deceive, misrepresents himself or herself as a member or veteran of the United States Armed Forces by wearing any decoration or medal authorized by the Congress of the United States for…
72 O.S. § 6-2 Wearing uniform of the United States Armed Forces or
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Public Health Service - Punishment. Whoever, in any place within the jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, without authority as defined in the United States Code, wears the uniform or any distinctive part thereof or anything similar to a distinctive part of the uniform of any of…
72 O.S. § 6-3 Manufacture, reproduction, or sale of objects related to
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certain Veterans' organizations - Punishment. A. Whoever knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells or purchases for resale, either separately or on or appended to, any article of merchandise manufactured or sold, any badge, medal, emblem, or other insignia or any colorable imitat…
72 O.S. § 63.1 Commission and Department created - Cabinet-level status
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- Composition - Administration. There is hereby created the Oklahoma Veterans Commission, and the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, which shall be a cabinet-level department pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.3 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The Department sha…
72 O.S. § 63.10 Employee training programs - Funding - Salary, tuition
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and subsistence contracts. A. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs is hereby authorized to establish within the Department or within any of the institutions operated by the Department training programs to train necessary personnel for the Department or its institutions, or…
72 O.S. § 63.10a Department of Veterans Affairs on-the-job employee
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safety program. It is the intent of the Legislature that the promotion of safety in the workplace is a legitimate public purpose. In order to establish a public employee benefit program to encourage safety in the workplace, the Department of Veterans Affairs is hereby directed to…
72 O.S. § 63.11 State flag for certain deceased national guard members
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and peace officers. A. The Oklahoma Veterans Commission shall furnish an Oklahoma state flag to drape the casket of each Oklahoma National Guard member or Oklahoma peace officer, as defined in Section 3311 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, who dies in the line of duty, unless…
72 O.S. § 63.11a State flag for death of soldiers - Letter of
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condolence. A. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall, from the effective date of this act, furnish an Oklahoma state flag to any member of the United States Armed Forces, including the National Guard or Armed Forces reserve, who is either killed in the line of du…
72 O.S. § 63.12 Lease and/or loan agreement for hospital or health care
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facilities improvements. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, acting by and through the Oklahoma Veterans Commission, shall be authorized to enter into lease and/or loan agreements with local public trusts operating in and around any proposed facilities of the Department …
72 O.S. § 63.13 Power to be exercised in conjunction with local public
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trust. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, acting by and through the Oklahoma Veterans Commission, in conjunction with the local public trust may: 1. Make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the executi…
72 O.S. § 63.14 Payment of certain bonds
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The bonds issued by the local public trust, working in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, acting by and through the Oklahoma Veterans Commission, shall be payable from the following: 1. Fees, charges and payments, including any federal subsidies, grants or contr…
72 O.S. § 63.15 Cooperative agreements with local public trusts
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The Department of Veterans Affairs, acting by and through the Oklahoma Veterans Commission, is directed to cooperate with local public trusts, either existing or to be formed, and to enter into all requisite agreements and contracts in order to issue bonds for the purposes prescr…
72 O.S. § 63.16 Public trusts - Issuance of evidence of indebtedness -
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Department of Veterans Affairs Trust Fund. A. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs shall not, either in conjunction with the Oklahoma Veterans Commission or any other state agency, board or commission or in conjunction with any public trust, issue or cause to be issued by …
72 O.S. § 63.17 Limits on expenditure for capital projects
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Except as otherwise provided by Section 63.16 of this title, unless the Department of Veterans Affairs Trust Fund contains the minimum amount required by Section 63.1 et seq. of this title, the Department of Veterans Affairs, whether acting through the Oklahoma Veterans Commissio…
72 O.S. § 63.18A Department of Veterans Affairs - Unclassified positions
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and personnel. The following positions and personnel at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs shall be civil service exempt as provided in the Civil Service and Human Capital Modernization Act: 1. Physicians assistants; 2. Occupational therapists; 3. Physical therapists; 4.…
72 O.S. § 63.19 Donation from tax refund to Oklahoma Department of
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Veterans Affairs Equipment and Capital Improvement Program - Disposition of donated funds - Erroneous donation, claim for refund. A. The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall include on each state individual income tax return form for tax years beginning after December 31, 2001, and each…
72 O.S. § 63.2 Members of Commission – Requirements - Appointment
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A. The Oklahoma Veterans Commission shall consist of nine (9) members, all of whom shall be honorably discharged veterans. The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. A…
72 O.S. § 63.20 Deposit of proceeds
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All proceeds derived from the use, sale or lease of properties under the control of the Oklahoma Veterans Commission shall be deposited in the Capital Improvement Program Revolving Fund created by Section 63.19 of this title to be expended according to law. Added by Laws 1999, c.…