A week or so ago, I spoke to State Senator Chuck Hall about cleaning up certain Oklahoma Statutes with glaring inaccuracies. For instance, the conflict-of-interest statute in Title 11, Section 8-113 conflicts with Article 10, Section 11 of the Oklahoma Constitution, as it permits contracting and sales between members of the governing bodies and their municipalities in certain cities and towns with population caps and contracting and sales between the governing body member and their city or town with a public notice, at least 2 bids and the governing body member having the low bid.  The constitution says it's a felony.

I would think each member of OAMA would have at least one statute which is wrong or incorrect that would be worthy of clean-up language.  Kenneth Jordan will have an office of attorneys with examples.

With a list in hand Senator Hall will agree to meet with Mike Fina, and if the OML Legislative Committee agrees, to sponsor a bill to correct errand language or known problems. He said he will find a sponsor in the House.  Frank Crawford tells me there are several errors in the financial laws he would like to see amended.

I will defer to any committee of persons that may want to get involved.  I haven't done much for the OAMA since I incorporated it and prepared the contract wit the OML as support staff in the middle 1980s.

Would appreciate comments, sample amendments, thoughts, and ideas.

Bryce S. Kennedy 580-977-9707

Bryce,

I’ve been working on updating our ordinances consistent with changes to Title 10A Section 2-8-224, “Minors in Possession of Tobacco, Nicotine and Vapor Products”, while preserving consistency with the Youth Access to Tobacco Act, Title 63 O.S. Section 1-229.11 et seq.

While sorting out the change in this provision over the past years I was confused by 63 O.S. Section 1-229.23. Title 63 Section 1‑229.23 relates to city and town reporting of enforcement actions taken under the provisions of Title 63 Sections 600.3, 600.4, 600.8, 600.9 of this title. These Sections no longer exist, although I now believe that the reference to Section 600.4 of this title is actually a reference Title 37 Section 600.4, which was was renumbered and codified in 2013 as Title 10A Section 2‑8‑224, (Even more confusing is a historical note that 63 O.S. Section 1‑229.23 was renumbered from Title 37 Section 600.11 in 2016.) This makes my head hurt.

If Senator Hall could clean these references up, it might prevent some headaches in the future.

Thanks,

Patrick

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From: Bryce Kennedy bryce@okmunlaw.com
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Cc: Matt Love mlove@omag.org
Subject: [Oama] CLEANING UP OKLAHOMA STATUTES

A week or so ago, I spoke to State Senator Chuck Hall about cleaning up certain Oklahoma Statutes with glaring inaccuracies. For instance, the conflict-of-interest statute in Title 11, Section 8-113 conflicts with Article 10, Section 11 of the Oklahoma Constitution, as it permits contracting and sales between members of the governing bodies and their municipalities in certain cities and towns with population caps and contracting and sales between the governing body member and their city or town with a public notice, at least 2 bids and the governing body member having the low bid.  The constitution says it’s a felony.

I would think each member of OAMA would have at least one statute which is wrong or incorrect that would be worthy of clean-up language.  Kenneth Jordan will have an office of attorneys with examples.

With a list in hand Senator Hall will agree to meet with Mike Fina, and if the OML Legislative Committee agrees, to sponsor a bill to correct errand language or known problems. He said he will find a sponsor in the House.  Frank Crawford tells me there are several errors in the financial laws he would like to see amended.

I will defer to any committee of persons that may want to get involved.  I haven’t done much for the OAMA since I incorporated it and prepared the contract wit the OML as support staff in the middle 1980s.

Would appreciate comments, sample amendments, thoughts, and ideas.

Bryce S. Kennedy 580-977-9707
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