Oklahoma HB 2025: Department of Transportation; authorizing Governor to appoint Director; making the State Transportation Commission advisory; effective date.

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 57th Legislature (2019) 
 
HOUSE BILL 2025 By: Lepak 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the Department of Transportation; 
amending 69 O.S. 2011, Sections 302, 304 and 305, 
which relate to transportation; authorizing Governor 
to appoint the Director of the Department of 
Transportation; making the State Transportation 
Commission an advisory commission; transferring 
duties to the Director; and providing an effective 
date. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     69 O.S. 2011, Section 302, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 302.  (a) A.  The State Transportation Commission shall 
be an advisory commission to the Director of the Department of 
Transportation.  All duties and powers of the Commission shall be 
transferred to the Director.  Any provision in statute that provides 
authority to the Commission that is not advisory in nature shall be 
deemed to grant the duty or power to the Director.  The Commission 
shall consist of one (1) member from each of the eight districts of 

 
 
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the state, such districts to serve as the maintenance districts and 
to include the area as follows: 
District 1.  Wagoner, Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah, Muskogee, 
Okmulgee, McIntosh and Haskell Counties. 
District 2.  Pittsburg, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, 
Atoka, Choctaw, Bryan and Marshall Counties. 
District 3.  Lincoln, Cleveland, McClain, Garvin, Pottawatomie, 
Okfuskee, Seminole, Hughes, Pontotoc, Coal and Johnston Counties. 
District 4.  Payne, Logan, Canadian, Kingfisher, Garfield, 
Grant, Kay, Noble and Oklahoma Counties. 
District 5.  Roger Mills, Dewey, Custer, Washita, Beckham, 
Greer, Kiowa, Harmon, Jackson, Blaine, and Tillman Counties. 
District 6.  Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, Harper, Woods, Alfalfa, 
Ellis, Major and Woodward Counties. 
District 7.  Carter, Love, Murray, Grady, Comanche, Stephens, 
Cotton, Caddo and Jefferson Counties. 
District 8.  Osage, Pawnee, Nowata, Creek, Craig, Ottawa, 
Rogers, Mayes, Delaware, Washington and Tulsa Counties. 
(b) B.  The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the 
Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, such appointment to 
have full force and effect and to be submitted to the Senate for its 
confirmation at the first session of the Senate after such 
appointment is made.  No Commissioner shall be entitled to the 
payment of salary, or to perform any service, until his or her 

 
 
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appointment is confirmed by the Senate, if the Senate then be in 
session; if the Senate be not in session, then such Commissioner may 
serve and draw his salary until a special or regular session 
convenes; and if his or her appointment is not then confirmed within 
twenty (20) days, he or she shall cease to perform such services and 
cease to draw his or her salary.  Each of the Commissioners thus 
appointed shall, at the time of his or her appointment, be a citizen 
and resident of the district for which he or she shall have been 
appointed for at least three (3) years prior to the date of his or 
her appointment.  Not more than one Commissioner shall reside in any 
one district, as defined herein, at any time while serving on the 
Commission.  Each Commissioner thus appointed and confirmed shall, 
after the first term of office as herein provided, serve for a term 
of eight (8) years, and unless he or she is reappointed by the 
Governor and confirmed by the Senate within twenty (20) legislative 
days his or her services are automatically terminated and he shall 
cease to draw his or her salary, or any perquisites or emoluments as 
a Commissioner; provided, that in the event the Governor's appointee 
is not confirmed by the Senate within ten (10) days from the date 
his or her name is submitted, then the Governor shall submit a 
further appointee for confirmation; and during his or her term of 
office may be removed by the Governor at his the Governor's 
pleasure.  The terms of office shall be as follows:  Two 
Commissioners shall serve until the 15th day of February, 1969; two 

 
 
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Commissioners shall serve until the 15th day of February, 1971; two 
Commissioners shall serve until the 15th day of February, 1973; and 
two Commissioners shall serve until the 15th day of February, 1975; 
and the Governor, at the time of making the first appointment, 
shall, in his the Governor's order of appointment, designate the 
term each Commissioner so appointed shall serve.  Thereafter the 
term of each Commissioner