The Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare is hereby authorized and directed, subject to the approval of the Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission, to increase grants in the old-age assistance category, aid to blind category, and aid to permanently and totally disabled category when, in its judgment, sufficient funds are accumulated to maintain a one month's surplus in each of the accounts of the department and when sufficient funds are available to maintain the increase for a biennium, in order to guarantee a continuity of dependable payments to the recipients of public assistance.
Added by Laws 1961, p. 728, § 2, emerg. eff. March 22, 1961.