SECTION 255:10-5-6. Final orders

(a)   Final order in writing. A final order adverse to a party in an individual proceeding shall be in writing or stated in the record. A final order shall include findings of fact and conclusions of law, separately stated. Findings of fact, if set forth in statutory language, shall be accompanied by a concise and explicit statement of the underlying facts supporting the findings. A copy of the order shall be mailed forthwith to each party.

(b)   Orders may be published. All final orders shall be retained in the record of such hearing and, unless modified or overruled by a court of competent jurisdiction, may be cited as persuasive authority in any other proceeding before the Board. At the discretion of the Board, any or all such final orders that establish substantive or procedural clarification of the mandates of the Constitution or Statutes of the State of Oklahoma, cited herein, may be published and thereafter cited as precedential authority for determination of issues in any subsequent proceeding before the Board.