Oklahoma § 25-1501 - Attorney General's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement Powers

§ 25-1501. Attorney General's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement Powers

A. Within the limitations provided by law, the Attorney

General's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement has the following

additional powers:

1. To promote the creation of local commissions on human

rights, and to contract with individuals and state, local and other

agencies, both public and private, including agencies of the federal

government and of other states;

2. To accept public grants or private gifts, bequests, or other

payments;

3. To receive, investigate, seek to conciliate, hold hearings

on, and pass upon complaints alleging violations of Section 1101 et

seq. of this title;

4. To furnish technical assistance requested by persons subject

to this act to further compliance with Section 1101 et seq. of this

title or an order issued thereunder;

5. To make provisions for technical and clerical assistance to

an advisory committee or committees appointed in accordance with

paragraph (b) of Section 953 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

6. To require answers to interrogatories, under the procedures

established by Section 3233 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes,

compel the attendance of witnesses, examine witnesses under oath or

affirmation, and require the production of documents in connection

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with complaints filed under Section 1101 et seq. of this title, said

powers to be exercised only in relation to areas directly and

materially related to the complaint;

7. To hear, and issue orders on, complaints involving state

government agencies and departments on the same basis as complaints

involving private employers; and

8. To provide technical assistance and public information to

assist in preventing and eliminating discriminatory housing

practices; and

9. To promulgate rules as necessary to implement the provisions

of Section 1101 et seq. of this title.

B. The Attorney General shall:

1. At least annually, publish a written report recommending

legislative or other action to carry out the purposes of Section

1101 et seq. of this title as it relates to housing discrimination;

2. Make studies relating to the nature and extent of

discriminatory housing practices in this state; and

3. Cooperate with and, as appropriate, may provide technical

and other assistance to federal, state, local, and other public or

private entities that are formulating or operating programs to

prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 388, § 501, emerg. eff. May 17, 1968.

Amended by Laws 1970, c. 186, § 1, emerg. eff. April 13, 1970; Laws

1973, c. 195, § 3, emerg. eff. May 16, 1973; Laws 1985, c. 289, § 5;

Laws 1989, c. 353, § 3, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Laws 1991, c. 177,

§ 5; Laws 2013, c. 214, § 9, emerg. eff. May 7, 2013.

NOTE: Laws 1985, c. 165, § 12 repealed by Laws 1989, c. 353, § 14,

emerg. eff. June 3, 1989.