The executive director of the Board shall keep and preserve all records of the Board, issue all necessary notices to the embalmers, funeral directors and apprentices of the state, and perform such other duties as may be imposed upon the executive director by the Board. The executive director is hereby authorized and empowered to collect, in the name and on behalf of the Board, the fees prescribed in the Funeral Services Licensing Act, and all fees so collected shall at the end of each month be deposited by the executive director with the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall place ten percent (10%) of the money so received in the general fund of the state, and the balance in a special fund to be known as the "Fund of the Oklahoma Funeral Board". Payment from the fund shall be upon warrants drawn by the State Treasurer against claims submitted by the Board to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. All monies so received by the fund may be used by the Board in carrying out the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act.
Added by Laws 1941, p. 240, § 15, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941. Amended by Laws 1945, p. 194, § 6, emerg. eff. April 28, 1945; Laws 1970, c. 311, § 4, emerg. eff. April 27, 1970; Laws 1979, c. 47, § 37, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979; Laws 1999, c. 64, § 14, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 57, § 17, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003. Renumbered from § 396.14 of this title by Laws 2003, c. 57, § 31, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 264.