Enforcement of energy conservation programs - Abolition of Energy Conservation Services Division of Corporation Commission - Classification of transferred employees.

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The Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall have the authority to establish, administer and enforce state and federal energy conservation programs including, but not limited to, implementing The Energy Conservation Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-163), National Energy Extension Service Act (P.L. 95-39, 42 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.) and the National Conservation Policy Act (P.L. 95-619), except as otherwise provided by law.

The Energy Conservation Services Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission is hereby abolished. All personnel, equipment, files, fixtures, funds, furniture, publications and supplies, and all duties, functions, authority and contractual obligations that relate to the Energy Conservation Services Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are hereby transferred to and vested in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.

Employees transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce shall be classified and subject to the provisions of the Merit System of Personnel Administration as provided for in the Oklahoma Personnel Act. The salaries, grade and/or class of the employees transferred shall be adjusted to be commensurate with comparable positions in the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.

The full-time-equivalent employee positions funded through the federal energy conservation programs outlined in this section shall terminate upon the exhaustion of said federal funding.

Added by Laws 1987, c. 236, § 60, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987.


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