SECTION 340:2-1-58. Reduced services and temporary office or facility closures

(a)   Reduction of services due to hazardous weather conditions. Based on authorization received from the appropriate authority, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) may reduce client services during hazardous weather conditions, per Oklahoma Administrative Code 260:25-15-70 and 260:25-15-71, as well as clarification from the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Human Capital Management Division (HCM) Memorandum 16-01.

(1)   DHS is responsible for maintaining its essential functions and client services regardless of weather conditions.

(2)   Services provided by DHS hot lines, institutions, shelters, and other residential care facilities are not reduced during hazardous weather conditions.

(3)   The Commissioner of Public Safety is the appropriate authority for agencies and offices within the seven-county region of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, which is Canadian, Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie Counties.

(4)   The DHS Director or designee is the appropriate authority for DHS offices outside the seven-county region of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

(b)   Temporary office closings due to imminent peril or other unsafe working conditions.

(1)   A DHS office may be temporarily closed because of an imminent peril threatening public health, safety, or welfare.

(2)   All or a portion of a DHS 24-hour facility may be closed because of an imminent peril threatening the health, safety, or welfare of residents. Residents are relocated to other facilities as appropriate.

[Source: Added at 18 Ok Reg 2606, eff 6-26-01; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2182, eff 6-27-02; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 1981, eff 6-26-03; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 989, eff 5-13-10; Amended at 35 Ok Reg 1559, eff 9-17-18]