§ 59-140 — Employees of Board - Prosecutions - Materials and supplies

Oklahoma § 59-140

• Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
• Title 59: Professions And Occupations

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- Bonds - Seal. The Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners may: 1. Employ, contract with, and direct stenographic, clerical, and secretarial help and investigators and attorneys to assist it and its officers in observing and performing under the applicable laws and to help carry out and enforce the applicable laws; 2. Gather and present to district attorneys of this state evidence which it believes shows violations of the applicable laws, and, among other purposes authorized by law, it may use attorneys it employs to assist district attorneys (but only with their consent) in the prosecution of such violations, and also to represent it in any court; 3. Discharge any person it employs, but this provision shall not be interpreted as authorizing it to fail in any way to observe and perform its lawful contracts; 4. Contract for and purchase or rent books, stationery, forms, postage, equipment, other materials and supplies, and furniture and it may rent or lease office space or other quarters; however the compensation of those it employs or with whom it contracts and the consideration it owes under its contracts and its other costs, expenses and liabilities of whatever nature shall never be a charge against the State of Oklahoma, except that the Board may cause payment for all thereof to be made from the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners' Revolving Fund insofar as there are from time to time amounts in said fund for such purposes; 5. Require fidelity bonds of those it employs; and 6. Adopt a seal and use the same by impression in addition to the signature of the Board wherever its signature is permitted or required.

Legislative History

Laws 1955, p. 309, § 5, emerg. eff. May 23, 1955; Laws 1993, c. 150, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.