Okla. Stat. tit. 51, § 51-36.4: Payment of compensation or expenses - Notice - Duty of

certifying officer.

No compensation or reimbursement for expenses earned or incurred

on or after July 1, 1953, shall be paid to any public officer or

employee by any public agency unless and until he has taken and

filed the oath or affirmation required by this act. Said public

officer or employee, if his name is to appear on a public payroll

claim, and who is not the certifying officer thereof, shall

immediately, after he takes and files his oath or affirmation,

notify, in writing, said certifying officer that he has taken and

filed his said oath of affirmation and the date of such filing. It

shall be the duty of the person certifying to said payroll to

certify thereon that he has taken and filed said oath or affirmation

and that every other officer or employee whose name appears on the

payroll has notified him in writing that he has taken and filed the

same.