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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Oklahoma Attorney General&apos;s Opinions</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/start.asp</link><description>The last 10 published decisions for the Oklahoma Attorney General&apos;s Opinions</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>OSCN Feed Generator 1.0.56[www.oscn.net]</generator><language>en-us</language><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><webMaster>webmaster@oscn.net</webMaster><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Mike Reynolds, State Representative, District 91, 2009 OK AG 17</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=455437</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1. Are the funds made available to the State of Oklahoma from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Sections 14000 through 14013 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA"), custodial funds that are not subject to Section 55 of Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution, which requires appropriation of State money by the Oklahoma Legislature?    2. Does the direct allocation of the funds made available to the State of Oklahoma from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Sections 14000 through 14013 of the ARRA, violate the provisions of Section 23 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution, which requires that funds to be spent by various Oklahoma executive branch agencies be certified as available for expenditure by the State Board of Equalization?   3. Does the direct allocation of the funds made available to the State of Oklahoma from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Sections 14000 through 14013 of the ARRA, violate the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Kenneth Corn, Oklahoma State Senator, District 4, 2009 OK AG 15</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=455244</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1. Is a school district that provides on-site educational services to children in Department of Human Services' contracted group homes required to provide substantially the same educational services as children receive in a public school setting?   2. Is a school district required to pay for the on-site costs of educating children residing in Department of Human Services' contracted group homes, including those associated with the provision of teachers, books and necessary equipment, when the costs of education exceed the funding provided by law?     3. Where the Department of Human Services' contracted group homes are required by such contract to provide year-round schools and state law only requires public schools to provide ten months, or not less than one hundred eighty days of school each year, who is responsible for the costs of the additional two months of school?]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Ron Peters, State Representative, District 70, 2009 OK AG 16</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=455246</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask the following question:    When a defendant's plea of guilty is accepted by the court, is the appearance bond posted by a bondsman exonerated pursuant to     59 O.S.Supp.2008, &sect; 1327    (D)?]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Paul D. Roan, State Representative, District 20, 2009 OK AG 14</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=455103</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you have asked, in effect, the following question:    Under what conditions, if any, may county equipment be used or county expenditures made for the upkeep of rural cemeteries (i.e., cemeteries in unincorporated areas), which are exempt from ad valorem taxes?]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Mike Reynolds, State Representative, District 91; The Honorable Al McAffrey, State Representative, District 88, 2009 OK AG 13</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454901</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your requests for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1.   Does the Local Development Act,     62 O.S.2001 &amp; Supp.2008, &sect;&sect; 850     - 869 ("Act") permit a Tax Increment Financing ("TIF") district to be amended? May the boundaries of a TIF district be changed and property removed from one TIF district and added to another TIF district, where the conditions establishing eligibility of the area are met and all other provisions of the Act are followed?     2.   Does the Act permit a TIF district to be formed completely or partially within the geographic boundary of an existing TIF district? If so, can the justification for its creation be the same as for the original district?     3. Does the Act permit a TIF district to be established within a state-designated enterprise zone?    4. Does the Act authorize the apportionment of   local sales taxes generated by new development in a sales TIF district? If an   entity in a sales TIF district purchases items that are subject to the state   sales tax and any applicable locally imposed sales tax and incorporates the   items as improvements in real property located in the sales TIF district, does   the Act authorize the sales tax revenues to be apportioned if the sale took   place outside the geographic boundary of the TIF district?]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: Lloyd Brown, Executive Director, Oklahoma Funeral Board, 2009 OK AG 10</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454745</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1. Currently the practice in the funeral industry in Oklahoma is that any remaining prosthetic devices and implants      1       are discarded after cremation of a body. Recycling companies are approaching funeral homes and crematories offering compensation for recycling the metals found in these products. In light of these requests, may funeral directors, embalmers and/or funeral establishments licensed by the State of Oklahoma sell to recycling companies prosthetic devices and implants remaining after cremation of a body?   2. If   the answer to the above question is yes, may a funeral director, embalmer and/or   funeral establishment licensed by the State of Oklahoma retain any compensation   received from the sale of these prosthetic devices and implants?                                         ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: Susan C. McVey, Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, 2009 OK AG 12</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454746</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:    Are e-mails, text messages, and other electronic communications made in connection with the transaction of public business, the expenditure of public funds or the administration of public property, subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act and the Records Management Act when they are created, received, transmitted, or maintained by public officials on privately owned equipment and communication devices?]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Danny Morgan, State Representative, District 32, 2009 OK AG 11</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454743</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    The provisions of     21 O.S.Supp.2008, &sect; 187.1     prohibit a member of the Oklahoma Legislature or a candidate for a state legislative office from intentionally soliciting or accepting a contribution from a lobbyist or lobbyist principal during any regular legislative session and for five (5) calendar days after  sine die  adjournment. In light of these prohibitions:   1. May a member of the Oklahoma Legislature solicit or accept contributions FROM a political action committee during the statutorily defined "blackout period"?   2. May members of the Oklahoma Legislature solicit contributions TO a political action committee FROM a lobbyist or lobbyist principal during the statutorily defined "black out period"?]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Scott Meacham, State Treasurer, Secretary of Finance and Revenue, 2009 OK AG 9</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454604</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1. Is it lawful for the State Treasurer to transfer funds from the General Revenue Fund to the State Land Reimbursement Fund as directed by     64 O.S.Supp.2008, &sect; 371    (B), to make payments to counties to compensate them for lost ad valorem tax revenues from state-owned lands?   2. If the total payments to reimburse counties for   state-owned land exempt from ad valorem taxation, made pursuant to                          62 O.S.Supp.2008, &sect; 194    (B), exceed the balance in the State Land Reimbursement Fund, does a liability exist for any reimbursements that remain unpaid?   3. If the total monies apportioned   to the State Land Reimbursement Fund are less than the amount required to be   paid to the counties pursuant to                                 62 O.S.Supp.2008, &sect; 194    (B), how should the Treasurer   determine each county's payment from the Fund?            ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Question Submitted by: The Honorable Al McAffrey, State Representative, District 88, 2009 OK AG 8</title><link>http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=454602</link><description><![CDATA[&para;0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following questions:    1.   The Oklahoma Highway Advertising Control Act does not allow billboards visible from the interstate highways to be erected within one thousand (1,000) feet of other such billboards. Does this prohibition apply only to billboards on the same side of the highway?    2. Pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Highway Advertising Control Act, is a billboard that is within six hundred and sixty (660) feet of an interstate, within an urban area, and visible from (though not intended to be read from) the interstate, subject to regulation by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation ("ODOT")?]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:00:00 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>