SECTION 235:1-1-2. Executive Director of the Board

(a)   Administrative officer. The Executive Director is the administrative officer for the Board. The Executive Director shall perform all delegated statutory duties as well as other duties as the Board may assign .The Executive Director shall supervise all employees of the Board. The Executive Director may employ, discipline, or discharge any Board Employee. The Executive Director may delegate, subject to the Executive Director's supervision and responsibility, such administrative duties, as the Director deems appropriate, to subordinate employees. The Executive Director shall be responsible to the Board for maintaining Board records.

(b)   Administrative decisions. The Executive Director shall render necessary administrative decisions for the Board during such time the Board is not in session.

(1)   The administrative decisions must be consistent with Oklahoma Statutes and Board Rules.

(2)   Parties affected by the administrative decision may appeal to the Board by requesting placement on the agenda for the next regular or special meeting except that an administrative decision denying permission to write the State Board examination for lack of documented proof of required educational credits shall not be appealable to the Board.

(3)   Such administrative decisions shall have the full force and authority of a Board decision until reversed or modified by the Board in open meeting.

(c)   Schedule of meetings. The Executive Director shall schedule all Board meetings, file notices of Board meetings as required by the Oklahoma Open Meeting Law, and prepare an agenda for each Board meeting to be posted at the Board office in advance of the meeting, and be provided to each Board member. All applications or other items requiring Board action must be received and date-stamped by Board staff at least fourteen (14) calendar days prior to a Board meeting to be considered at that meeting. Anyone may request the Board consider an item received after this time by requesting in writing to appear before the Board. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Board from taking any action allowed by law on its own motion.

[Source: Amended at 11 Ok Reg 4427, eff 8-11-94; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 1917, eff 6-25-05; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 1883, eff 6-25-09; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1744, eff 7-11-13]