Oklahoma § 74-245 - Survey created - Director - Object and duties - Copies Report

§ 74-245. Survey created - Director - Object and duties - Copies Report

A. The Climate Office of the State of Oklahoma located at

Norman, Oklahoma, shall be under the direction and supervision of

the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma and shall be

known as the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. The Oklahoma

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government

Climatological Survey is hereby re-created, to continue until July

1, 2026, in accordance with the provisions of the Oklahoma Sunset

Law.

B. The director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey shall be

appointed by the Board and shall either serve as the state

climatologist or appoint another current employee of the Survey to

serve as state climatologist. The salary of the director shall be

determined by the Board.

C. The Oklahoma Climatological Survey shall have for its object

and duties the following:

1. To acquire, archive, process and disseminate, in the most

cost-effective way possible, all climate and weather information

which is or could be of value to policy and decision makers in the

state;

2. To act as the representative of the state in all

climatological and meteorological matters both within and outside

the state when requested to do so by the legislative or executive

branches of the state government;

3. To prepare, publish and disseminate periodic regular climate

summaries for those individuals, agencies and organizations whose

activities are related to the welfare of the state and are affected

by climate and weather;

4. To conduct and report on studies of climate and weather

phenomena of significant socioeconomic importance to the state;

5. To evaluate the significance of natural and man-made,

deliberate and inadvertent changes or modifications in important

features of the climate and weather affecting the state, and to

report this information to those agencies and organizations in the

state who are likely to be affected by such changes or

modifications; and

6. To maintain and operate the Oklahoma Mesonetwork, a

statewide environmental monitoring network which is overseen by the

Mesonet Steering Committee, comprised of representatives of the

University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University according to

its Memorandum of Agreement. The director of the Oklahoma

Climatological Survey shall be accountable for executing the

policies of the Mesonet Steering Committee.

D. The director is authorized to certify copies as being

authentic reproductions of weather records held in the state.

E. The director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey shall

present a report each year to the Board of Regents of the University

of Oklahoma showing the progress, condition and all other

information which the Board may deem necessary.

Added by Laws 1982, c. 63, § 1, operative Oct. 1, 1982. Amended by

Laws 1988, c. 13, § 1; Laws 1994, c. 14, § 1; Laws 2000, c. 18, § 1;

Laws 2003, c. 208, § 1, emerg. eff. May 12, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 51,

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government

§ 1; Laws 2012, c. 100, § 1; Laws 2014, c. 57, § 1; Laws 2020, c.

116, § 22, eff. July 1, 2020; Laws 2023, c. 92, § 1.