Oklahoma Emergency Response Act

The act consolidates state authority over fire prevention, electrical safety, and emergency response into a single department led by a state fire marshal, with subordinate divisions, an advisory council, and a licensing board. It empowers those bodies to set and enforce minimum safety standards — reviewing plans, issuing permits and inspections, licensing electrical contractors and apprentices, investigating fires and electrocutions with subpoena and arrest powers, and abating hazardous structures and accumulated combustible materials as nuisances through notice, hearing, and appeal procedures, backed by liens, fees, and civil penalties. It also creates a state emergency response commission that oversees response training and planning, regional response teams, and local response authority, with mechanisms for reporting incidents and recovering response and remediation costs from responsible parties.

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