Oklahoma § 74-150.2 - Powers and duties — Alaunna Raffield Revolving Fund

§ 74-150.2. Powers and duties — Alaunna Raffield Revolving Fund

A. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation shall have the

power and duty to:

1. Maintain a nationally accredited scientific laboratory to

assist all law enforcement agencies in the discovery and detection

of criminal activity;

2. Maintain fingerprint and other identification files

including criminal history records, juvenile identification files,

and DNA profiles;

3. Establish, coordinate and maintain the automated fingerprint

identification system (AFIS) and the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

laboratory;

4. Operate teletype, mobile and fixed radio or other

communications systems;

5. Conduct schools and training programs for the agents, peace

officers, and technicians of this state charged with the enforcement

of law and order and the investigation and detection of crime;

6. Assist the Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of

Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Chief Medical Examiner,

and all law enforcement officers and district attorneys when such

assistance is requested, in accordance with the policy determined by

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Commission established in

Section 150.3 of this title;

7. Investigate and detect criminal activity when directed to do

so by the Governor;

8. Investigate, detect, institute and maintain actions

involving vehicle theft pursuant to Section 150.7a of this title or

oil, gas or oil field equipment theft pursuant to Sections 152.2

through 152.9 of this title;

9. Investigate any criminal threat made to the physical safety

of elected or appointed officials of this state or any political

subdivision of the state and forward the results of that

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investigation to the Department of Public Safety, and provide

security to foreign elected or appointed officials while they are in

this state on official business;

10. Investigate and detect violations of the Oklahoma Computer

Crimes Act;

11. Investigate and enforce all laws relating to any crime

listed in Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes that

occurs on the turnpikes;

12. Investigate and detect criminal activity involving files,

records, assets, properties, buildings or employees of the Oklahoma

State Bureau of Investigation. Nothing in this paragraph shall

limit or prevent any criminal investigation of the matter by the

sheriff of the county or any law enforcement agency of competent

jurisdiction; and

13. Contract with municipal or county law enforcement agencies

to conduct administrative reviews of law enforcement use-of-force

investigations for compliance with current investigative procedures,

standards and law. All funds received as a result of the contract

will be deposited in the OSBI Revolving Fund. Any review of use-offorce investigation shall be done by a certified police officer.

B. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving

fund for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to be designated

the "Alaunna Raffield Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a

continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall

consist of all monies received by the Bureau from appropriations

designated for deposit in the fund. All monies accruing to the

credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and

expended by the Bureau for the purpose of assisting law enforcement

partners with the cost of attending trainings facilitated by the

Bureau. Scholarship opportunities shall be afforded each year to

county and municipal law enforcement agencies to attend accredited

trainings conducted by the Bureau. Expenditures from the fund shall

be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims

filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. The

Bureau is authorized to promulgate agency rules for the

administration of the fund and determination of scholarship awards.

Added by Laws 1976, c. 259, § 2, operative July 1, 1976. Amended by

Laws 1983, c. 145, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984; Laws 1986, c. 201, § 8,

operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1989, c. 353, § 9, emerg. eff. June 3,

1989; Laws 1990, c. 282, § 3, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1991, c.

227, § 2, emerg. eff. May 23, 1991; Laws 1991, c. 335, § 31, emerg.

eff. June 15, 1991; Laws 1994, c. 259, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws

1996, c. 281, § 1, emerg. eff. June 5, 1996; Laws 2001, c. 261, § 1,

eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 351, § 1, emerg. eff. May 30, 2002;

Laws 2003, c. 461, § 15, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 303, § 1,

eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2015, c. 397, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws

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2019, c. 371, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2020, c. 161, § 69,

emerg. eff. May 21, 2020; Laws 2023, c. 240, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.

NOTE: Laws 1986, c. 46, § 1 repealed by Laws 1989, c. 353, § 14,

emerg. eff. June 3, 1989. Laws 1991, c. 226, § 3 repealed by Laws

1991, c. 335, § 37, emerg. eff. June 15, 1991. Laws 2019, c. 323, §

1 repealed by Laws 2020, c. 161, § 70, emerg. eff. May 21, 2020.