Oklahoma § 59-698.6 - Meetings - Notice - Emergency meetings - Travel expenses

§ 59-698.6. Meetings - Notice - Emergency meetings - Travel expenses

- Revenues and funds - Increases in fees, charges, etc.

A. The State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners shall meet

at least once each year in the first half of the calendar year and

once each year in the second half of the calendar year. In

addition, the Board may meet at other times of the year as is deemed

necessary to conduct the business of the Board. The Board shall

meet at the time and place fixed by order of the Board president or

by order of three members of the Board acting jointly upon refusal

of the president to call for or fix a time and place for said

meeting.

B. 1. Notice of meetings shall be filed in conformance with

the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. Members shall be notified of each

meeting at least twenty (20) days before said meeting, except in the

case of a meeting called for emergency purposes.

2. Emergency meetings may be called at any time by the

president or at the request of three Board members as required to

enforce the Oklahoma Veterinary Practice Act. The Board may

establish procedures by which the Board may call an emergency

meeting in accordance with the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. The Board

may establish procedures by which committee advice may be obtained

in cases of emergency.

3. The Board shall establish a system for giving all Board and

committee members and the public reasonable notice of scheduled

meetings.

4. Minutes of all Board and committee meetings shall be kept in

accordance with promulgated rules of the Board and other applicable

statutes.

C. All meetings of the Board and its committees shall be open

to the public except as set out in Article II of the Administrative

Procedures Act and the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.

D. Each Board member shall receive reimbursement for expenses

in accordance with the Oklahoma Travel Reimbursement Act and rules

promulgated by the Board.

E. 1. The Board shall be fully supported by the revenues

generated from its activities, including fees, charges and

reimbursed costs.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

2. All such revenues, with the exception of the ten percent

(10%) of its revenue required to be deposited in the General Revenue

Fund, shall be deposited to the Veterinary Medical Examiners Fund

and shall be credited to the account of the State Board of

Veterinary Medical Examiners. Any revenue remaining in the

revolving fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried over

to the next fiscal year in the account of the State Board of

Veterinary Medical Examiners.

3. The Board shall operate on the fiscal year beginning July 1

and ending June 30 of each year.

4. The Board shall develop and adopt its own budget reflecting

revenues, including reimbursed costs associated with the

administrative, investigative, and legal expenditures for taking

disciplinary action, and the establishment and maintenance of a

reasonable reserve fund.

F. All fees, charges, reimbursement minimums and other revenue

generating amounts shall be promulgated by the Board by rule and

shall reflect normal increases due to inflation or cost of doing

business.

Added by Laws 1971, c. 126, § 6, emerg. eff. May 4, 1971. Amended

by Laws 1982, c. 192, § 2, emerg. eff. April 22, 1982; Laws 1985, c.

178, § 36, operative July 1, 1985; Laws 1990, c. 314, § 5, eff.

Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1999, c. 94, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1982, c. 32, § 2 repealed by Laws 1985, c. 178, § 81,

operative July 1, 1985.