Section 34.68 - Approval of claims and payrollsA. The elected or appointed executives of any state agency or their designated administrative employees shall approve individual claims of the agency which are used as the basis for the payment of money from the State Treasury from any fund. These individuals shall be known as the "agency approving officers".B. Payrolls shall show the amount to be paid to each named person for the period of time shown.C. The number of persons authorized to make such approval shall not exceed five people for any one state agency without the special approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.D. All agency approving officers shall execute a bond issued by a surety company licensed to do business in this state, payable to the state in the amount required by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services but not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) and conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, as surety, which shall be approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and filed in the office of the Secretary of State.E. After state claims and/or payrolls have been approved by the above agency approving officers, they shall be filed with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for auditing and settlement.Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 34.68
Added by Laws 1947, SB 36, p. 380, § 26, emerg. eff. 2/25/1947; Amended by Laws 1968, SB 465, c. 52, § 1 emerg. eff. 3/18/1968; Amended by Laws 1971, SB 305, c. 329, § 1, emerg. eff. 6/25/1971; Amended by Laws 1973, SB 115, c. 46, § 15, emerg. eff. 7/1/1973; Amended by Laws 2009 , HB 2015, c. 441, §45, emerg. eff. 7/1/2009; Renumbered from 62 O.S. § 41.26 by Laws 2009 , HB 2015, c. 441, §64, emerg. eff. 7/1/2009; Amended by Laws 2012 , HB 3079, c. 304, §391.