{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-201","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-201","heading":"Executive Director - Qualifications - Powers and","body":"duties.\n\nA. The Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs\n\nshall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of\n\nthe Senate. The Executive Director shall serve at the pleasure of\n\nthe Governor and may be removed or replaced without cause.\n\nCompensation for the Executive Director shall be determined pursuant\n\nto the Governor. The Executive Director may be removed from office\n\nby a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members elected to and\n\nconstituting each chamber of the Legislature.\n\nB. The Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs\n\nshall be qualified for such position by character, ability,\n\neducation, training, and successful administrative experience in one\n\nof the following: Corrections, juvenile justice, juvenile\n\ndelinquency, criminal justice, law, police science, criminology,\n\npsychology, sociology, administration, education, or a related\n\nsocial science.\n\nC. The Executive Director shall provide for the administration\n\nof the Office of Juvenile Affairs and shall:\n\n1. Be the executive officer and supervise the activities of the\n\nOffice of Juvenile Affairs;\n\n2. Pursuant to legislative authorization employ, discharge,\n\nappoint or contract with, and fix the duties and compensation of\n\nsuch assistants, attorneys, law enforcement officers, probation\n\nofficers, psychologists, social workers, medical professionals,\n\nadministrative, clerical and technical, investigators, aides and\n\nsuch other personnel, either on a full-time, part-time, fee or\n\ncontractual basis, as in the judgment and discretion of the\n\nExecutive Director shall be deemed necessary in the performance or\n\ncarrying out of any of the purposes, objectives, responsibilities,\n\nor statutory provisions relating to the Office of Juvenile Affairs,\n\nor to assist the Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile\n\nAffairs in the performance of official duties and functions;\n\n3. Establish internal policies and procedures for the proper\n\nand efficient administration of the Office of Juvenile Affairs; and\n\n4. Exercise all incidental powers which are necessary and\n\nproper to implement the purposes of the Office of Juvenile Affairs\n\npursuant to the Oklahoma Juvenile Code.\n\nD. The Executive Director shall employ an attorney to be\n\ndesignated the \"General Counsel\" who shall be the legal advisor for\n\nthe Office of Juvenile Affairs. Except as provided in this\n\nsubsection, the General Counsel is authorized to appear for and\n\nrepresent the Board and Office in any litigation that may arise in\n\nthe discharge of the duties of the Board and Office.\n\nIt shall continue to be the duty of the Attorney General to give\n\nan official opinion to the Executive Director of the Office of\n\nJuvenile Affairs and the Office of Juvenile Affairs and to prosecute\n\nand defend actions therefor, if requested to do so. The Attorney\n\nGeneral may levy and collect costs, expenses of litigation and a\n\nreasonable attorney fee for such legal services from the Office.\n\nThe Office shall not contract for representation by private legal\n\ncounsel unless approved by the Attorney General. Such contract for\n\nprivate legal counsel shall be in the best interests of the state.\n\nThe Attorney General shall be notified by the Office of Juvenile\n\nAffairs or its counsel of all lawsuits against the Office of\n\nJuvenile Affairs or officers or employees thereof, that seek\n\ninjunctive relief which would impose obligations requiring the\n\nexpenditure of funds in excess of unencumbered monies in the\n\nagency's appropriations or beyond the current fiscal year. The\n\nAttorney General shall review any such cases and may represent the\n\ninterests of the state, if the Attorney General considers it to be\n\nin the best interest of the state to do so, in which case the\n\nAttorney General shall be paid as provided in this subsection.\n\nRepresentation of multiple defendants in such actions may, at the\nin the\n\nagency's appropriations or beyond the current fiscal year. The\n\nAttorney General shall review any such cases and may represent the\n\ninterests of the state, if the Attorney General considers it to be\n\nin the best interest of the state to do so, in which case the\n\nAttorney General shall be paid as provided in this subsection.\n\nRepresentation of multiple defendants in such actions may, at the\n\ndiscretion of the Attorney General, be divided with counsel for the\n\nOffice as necessary to avoid conflicts of interest.\n\nE. The Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs\n\nshall have the authority to commission certified employees within\n\nthe Office of Juvenile Affairs as peace officers. The authority of\n\nemployees so commissioned shall only include the authority to\n\ninvestigate crimes committed against the Office or crimes committed\n\nin the course of any program administered by the Office. Employees\n\nso commissioned shall also have the authority to serve and execute\n\nprocess, bench warrants, and other court orders in any judicial or\n\nadministrative proceeding in which the agency is a party or\n\nparticipant. Use and possession of firearms for this purpose only\n\nshall be permitted. To become qualified as peace officers for the\n\ncommission, employees shall first obtain a certificate as provided\n\nfor in Section 3311 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.\n\nF. The Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs,\n\nbased upon rules established by the Board of Juvenile Affairs, shall\n\nhave the authority to appoint and commission campus police for\n\nsecure juvenile facilities and their adjacent grounds under the\n\njurisdiction of the Office of Juvenile Affairs in the same manner\n\nand with the same powers as campus police appointed by governing\n\nboards of state institutions for higher education under the\n\nprovisions of Section 360.15 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.\n\nG. In the event of the Executive Director's temporary absence,\n\nthe Executive Director may delegate the exercise of such powers and\n\nduties to a designee during the Executive Director's absence. In\n\nthe event of a vacancy in the position of Executive Director, the\n\nGovernor shall appoint a new Executive Director. The Board may\n\ndesignate an interim or acting Executive Director who is authorized\n\nto exercise such powers and duties until a permanent Executive\n\nDirector is employed.","path":["OK Code","Title 10A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os10A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"24537ef4b4e6141a03c14bde3401895118f9240860619d7dcb18a6a1084542c3","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-101","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10a-10a-2-7-202"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}