{"id":"DUT-OK-006","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Oklahoma","state":"OK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003)","authority":"63 O.S. ch. 24 (Emergency Management), 63 O.S. 683.1 et seq.; recited as authority in EO 2020-07 and every amendment (Ex. OK-001 to OK-041: \u0027Okla. Const. art. VI, sec. 2; 63 O.S. 683.1 et seq.\u0027)","instrument":"63 O.S. 683.9 (text effective Nov. 1, 2009 to June 30, 2025)","title":"Emergency Powers and Duties of Governor","dateIssued":"2009-11-01","effective":"standing (operative \u0027only during the existence of a natural or man-made emergency\u0027, which the Governor proclaimed on March 15, 2020 (Ex. OK-001) and kept in force to May 4, 2021 (Ex. OK-041))","end":"standing (this version superseded July 1, 2025)","startDate":"2020-03-15","endDate":"2025-07-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMER","DUTY","CLOSE","STAY","GATH","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["persons generally; all businesses and economic resources within the State; public officers (para. 4: removal for willful failure to obey any order, rule or regulation)"],"clause":"To activate the Emergency Operations Plan, and to assume regulatory control over all essential resources of this state... \u0027Resources\u0027 shall mean all economic resources within this state including but not limited to food, manpower, health and health manpower, water, transportation, economic stabilization,... industrial production, construction and housing.","enforcement":"63 O.S. 683.23(C): willful violation of any OEM rule, regulation or order a misdemeanor, six months or $3,000, each day a separate offense (DUT-OK-007); the Governor\u0027s orders recited no penalty of their own (Ex. OK-011, OK-022, OK-033 records); municipal orders carried their own penalties (Ex. OK-052, OK-053, OK-064, OK-067, OK-080)","functions":[],"notes":"During the proclaimed emergency the Governor held \u0027regulatory control over all essential resources of this state\u0027, \u0027resources\u0027 meaning \u0027all economic resources within this state\u0027, with power \u0027To enforce all laws, rules and regulations relating to emergency management\u0027 (para. 2), to provide for evacuation (para. 3) and \u0027To perform and exercise such other functions, powers, and duties as are necessary to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population\u0027 (para. 5); the closure, Safer at Home, elective-procedure, gathering, separation and occupancy commands of EO 2020-07, 2020-13, 2020-20 and 2021-07 were exercises of this statutory power, as the Supreme Court held in Ho (DUT-OK-019, para. 25). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeid=472334","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20171003182023/http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeid=472334","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":159414,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-OK","url":"/library/DUT-OK-006","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-OK-006","citation":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Emergency Management Act of 2003), 63 O.S. 683.9 (text effective Nov. 1, 2009 to June 30, 2025) (standing) (Ex. DUT-OK-006)","stateName":"Oklahoma","related":["OK-001","OK-041","DUT-OK-019","DUT-OK-020","DUT-OK-007","OK-011","OK-022","OK-033","OK-052","OK-053","OK-064","OK-067"]}