Okla. Stat. tit. 62, § 62-35.6.2: Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability

Cooperative

A. In order to comply with Executive Orders and federal and

state statutory and regulatory requirements related to interoperable

public safety communications and to support the critical mission and

purposes of the agencies within the Oklahoma Safety and Security

Cabinet, the Transportation Cabinet and the Finance, Administration

and Information Technology Cabinet, there is hereby established the

Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative. The

Land Mobile Radio Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative shall

be governed by a committee initially consisting of the Secretary of

Finance, Administration and Information Technology or designee, the

Secretary of Transportation or designee and the Secretary of Safety

and Security or designee. The Cooperative is established to focus

on unifying, stabilizing and enhancing the infrastructure and

capabilities for land mobile radio public safety system

communications for the State of Oklahoma and shall include

representatives of other public radio system boards or committees

along with future voting or non-voting public entity members as

deemed appropriate, nominated and agreed to by vote of the committee

members defined in this paragraph.

B. 1. In establishing and operating the Land Mobile Radio

Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative, the committee shall

collaborate with other public agencies, public entities and other

interested parties having public safety radio communications

requirements and resources.

2. The Cooperative shall establish an appropriate governance

model for determining priorities, leveraging state-owned or other

shared services and infrastructure, identifying existing and new

resources and directing new investments to facilitate reliable,

statewide and fully operational public safety radio communications

to serve the purposes described.

3. In support of the requirements of the Oklahoma Homeland

Security Act, the Oklahoma Information Services Act and the

Information Technology Consolidation and Coordination Act, the

Cooperative shall have the following duties:

a. enable cost savings to the State of Oklahoma through

unification and enhancement of current land mobile

radio public safety systems,

b. sustain existing interoperability of land mobile

public safety radio systems,

c. recommend standards and protocols for land mobile

radio public safety systems,

d. recommend standards to become P25 compliant and other

common radio interoperability standards, and

e. establish service metrics to ensure reliable land

mobile public safety services statewide in support of

state, local and first responders.

C. Actions, decisions and operation of the Land Mobile Radio

Public Safety Interoperability Cooperative shall be performed in

compliance with, in support of and secondary to all statutory

duties, requirements, responsibilities and authority provided to the

Office of Management and Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Office

of Homeland Security; however, the resources and mechanisms

available to Cooperative members by ownership or through agreement

may be collectively utilized to carry out the provisions of this

statute.