Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-49-103: Local firefighter pension and retirement boards

A. The mayor, the clerk and the treasurer of every incorporated

municipality are, in addition to the duties now required of them,

hereby created and constituted, together with three members from the

fire department of such municipality, a local firefighters pension

and retirement board of each such municipality, which board shall be

known as the Local Firefighters Pension and Retirement Board. The

fire department of each such municipality shall elect, by ballot,

three members of such fire department, one of whom shall serve for

the term of one (1) year, and one for the term of two (2) years, and

one for the term of three (3) years, and thereafter such fire

department shall, every year, elect by ballot one of its members to

serve for the term of three (3) years upon the local board;

provided, the provisions of this article shall not apply to any

municipality where no regularly organized fire department is

maintained, nor to any municipality where the fire department has

firefighting apparatus of less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)

value.

B. Local firefighter pension and retirement boards of

participating employers of the System shall be terminated on

December 31, 2016, and all powers, duties and functions shall be

assumed by the Executive Director unless a majority of the active

firefighters of an affected fire department elect to continue their

local firefighter pension and retirement board before the

termination date prescribed by this subsection, provided that an

election shall be held within twenty (20) days of the date a

petition is presented to the fire chief of a fire department signed

by at least ten percent (10%) of the active firefighters on the

rolls as of the petition date requesting an election to continue the

local firefighter pension and retirement board.