Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-3603: Increase in personnel or expenditure of funds

A. No agency, board, commission, department, program or office

of the state government listed in Sections 3601 through 3604 of this

title or whose number of personnel is fixed in any appropriation act

or other law of the state, shall increase its personnel above the

total number set forth in the provisions of Sections 3601 through

3604 of this title or such appropriation act or other law of the

state, unless approval is first granted by the Contingency Review

Board. No board, commission, department, program or office whose

expenditure of funds for salaries and wages has been limited by

legislative action shall exceed the amount unless approval is first

granted by the Contingency Review Board.

B. The Board shall meet at the call of the Governor for the

purpose of reviewing requests for increasing personnel by those

agencies, boards, commissions, departments, programs or offices

referred to in subsection A of this section. All meetings of the

Board shall be preannounced and open to the public. A majority vote

of the total membership of the Board shall be necessary to approve a

request for an increase in personnel. For any additional employees

authorized by the Board, the Board shall be empowered to make a

corresponding adjustment in the amount of monies any board, agency,

department, commission, program or office is authorized to expend

for salaries and wages.

C. The Board shall approve a request for increasing personnel

only if an emergency exists within the requesting entity which could

not have been foreseen during the preceding Legislative Session and

only if such increase in personnel is needed to perform new or

additional duties and services required of such agency, board,

commission, department, program or office. All requests for a

personnel increase shall be submitted in writing to each member of

the Contingency Review Board with a specific explanation of the

existing emergency which could not have been foreseen and the new or

additional duties or services to be performed.

D. Any action to increase the number of employees in any agency

involved herein shall be compiled in a report by December 31 each

year, and said report transmitted to each member of the Legislature.

E. The Board, by majority vote, is authorized to determine and

approve the transfer of funds, encumbrances, obligations, personnel

spaces and associated salary limits, relevant records and equipment,

within the limits previously established by legislative action, that

are essential in the implementation of those governmental

reorganization measures that are adopted by the Legislature. The

transfer of funds accomplished by the Board shall be exempt from the

provisions of Section 41.12 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes.