Oklahoma § 17-701 - Background information of employees or potential employees

§ 17-701. Background information of employees or potential employees

- NCIC searches for stolen vehicles - Transfer of authority.

A. 1. The Corporation Commission may promulgate rules to

require employees and potential employees in sensitive or law

enforcement positions to supply photographs, descriptions,

fingerprints, measurements and other pertinent information necessary

for a criminal history search by the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Investigation. The Commission may designate national criminal

history searches as defined in Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the

Oklahoma Statutes if it deems such information necessary.

2. The Commission shall be authorized to require enforcement

officers to be fingerprinted for submission of the fingerprints

through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to the Federal

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 17. Corporation Commission

Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history check. The

Commission shall be the recipient of the results of the record

check.

B. The Commission shall request searches of the online and offline files of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), or any

successor federal agency which supplies such information, to

identify apportioned motor vehicles or apportioned motor vehicle

license plates which have been reported stolen.

C. The Commission is authorized to promulgate rules or issue

orders to prohibit any person or company from conducting business or

participating in any manner of business with the Commission as the

Commission deems necessary. Any orders or rules pertaining to the

provisions of the Trucking One-Stop Shop Act which were issued by

the Oklahoma Tax Commission, on or after January 1, 2002, shall be

deemed to be in effect and transferred to the authority of the

Corporation Commission in accordance with the provisions of the

Trucking One-Stop Shop Act.

D. The Commission is authorized to promulgate any rules

necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

Added by Laws 2005, c. 418, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 2005. Amended

by Laws 2006, c. 238, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 2006.