Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-840-1.18: Payment for services – Citizen actions – Employee

actions.

A. Any state agency for which the Director provides payroll

services shall pay for such services at a rate established by the

Director, which shall be based upon the cost to the Director of

providing such services. Each agency shall remit payment for such

services quarterly from departmental or agency funds to the Director

who shall deposit such payments into the Human Capital Management

Revolving Fund created in Section 840-1.20 of this title.

B. No state disbursing or auditing officer shall make or

approve or take any part in making or approving any payment for

personal service to any person holding a position in state service,

brought under law unless the payroll voucher or account of such pay

bears the certification of the appointing authority or designee,

that the persons named therein have been appointed and employed in

accordance with the provisions of law and the rules promulgated

hereunder. The appointing authority or designee may for proper

cause withhold certification from an entire payroll or from any

specific item or items thereon.

Any citizen may maintain a suit to restrain a disbursing officer

from making any payment in contravention of any provision of law or

rules promulgated hereunder. Any sum paid contrary to any provision

of law or any rule promulgated hereunder may be recovered in an

action maintained by any citizen, from any officer who made,

approved or authorized such payment or who signed or countersigned a

voucher, payroll, check or warrant for such payment, or from the

sureties on the official bond of any such officer. All monies

recovered in any such action shall be paid into the State Treasury.

Any person appointed or employed in contravention of any

provision of law or any rules or orders promulgated hereunder, whose

employment is brought within the terms of law, who performs service

for which he or she is not paid, may maintain an action against the

officer or officers who purported to appoint or employ the person to

recover the agreed pay for such services, or the reasonable value

thereof if no pay was agreed upon. No officer shall be reimbursed

by the state at any time for any sum paid to such person on account

of such services.

If the appointing authority or designee wrongfully withholds

certification of the payroll voucher or account of any employee,

such employee may maintain an action or proceeding in the courts to

compel the appointing authority or designee to certify such payroll

voucher or account.