{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-215.31","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-215.31","heading":"Retirement and pensions - Staff and other personnel","body":"salaries - Leave time payments.\n\nA. Officers and employees in counties with a retirement system\n\nwho are presently enrolled in the county retirement system may\n\nremain in such county system in lieu of enrolling in the Oklahoma\n\nPublic Employees Retirement System. The state shall pay to the\n\ncounty retirement system the employer's contribution, not to exceed\n\nthe amount which would be paid by the employer, if the employee was\n\na member of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System;\n\nhowever, effective July 1, 1981, all new employees of the district\n\nattorney's staff will belong to the Oklahoma Public Employees\n\nRetirement System, as required by Section 902(16) of Title 74 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes. All employees of the office of a district\n\nattorney shall serve at the pleasure of the district attorney.\n\nEmployees who did not elect to remain in the county retirement\n\nsystem by July 1, 1981, shall be enrolled in the Oklahoma Public\n\nEmployees Retirement System and said employees must cease\n\nparticipation in said county retirement system. These employees\n\nshall further elect to have their county service transferred to the\n\nOklahoma Public Employees Retirement System or withdraw their\n\ncontributions from the county retirement system. This election to\n\nwaive transfer of the county service shall be final. For those\n\nemployees who elected to transfer their county service, the county\n\nretirement system shall transfer to the Oklahoma Public Employees\n\nRetirement System all funds contributed by the individual members\n\nand all funds contributed by the county for such members no later\n\nthan September 30, 1981, and the county retirement system shall\n\nprovide the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System a certified\n\nstatement of service accrued on a fiscal year basis. Certification\n\nshall include annual salaries, individual contributions and county\n\ncontributions for each transferred member.\n\nB. Effective January 1, 1983, the entire salaries of all\n\ninvestigators, support staff or other employees of the offices of\n\ndistrict attorneys and their operating and maintenance expenses\n\nshall be paid by the state; provided however, the salaries and\n\noperating expenses of those employees of the office of the district\n\nattorney who are assigned child support enforcement duties shall be\n\npaid with funds received as reimbursement from the Department of\n\nHuman Services under terms of a contract with the office of the\n\ndistrict attorney as authorized by Section 237.1 of Title 56 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes. The term \"support staff\" shall include all\n\nsecretaries, clerks, receptionists, paralegals, legal assistants,\n\nlaw clerks, victim-witness coordinators and other office management\n\npersonnel of the offices of district attorneys.\n\nC. Effective January 1, 1983, the state will assume liability\n\nfor payment to any officer or employee of the various district\n\nattorney offices for any earned and unused leave time accruing from\n\nand after January 1, 1983, and the state will also assume liability\n\nfor payment of leave time to which such officers or employees shall\n\nbe entitled which accrued prior to January 1, 1983, up to a maximum\n\nlimit of fifteen (15) days prior leave time credit for each such\n\nofficer or employee. The various respective counties shall remain\n\nliable for and shall pay to any such officer or employee entitled to\n\nsuch leave time payment any amount representing unused leave time\n\ncredit in excess of the fifteen (15) days assumed by the state, to\n\nwhich such officer or employee shall be entitled, and which accrues\n\nor has accrued prior to January 1, 1983. At the written option of\n\neach individual officer or employee concerned, the portion of leave\n\ntime credit accrued as of January 1, 1983, for which the counties\n\nare liable for payment, shall either be paid in a lump sum to said\n\nofficer or employee, or be paid to the State Treasurer to be carried\nch officer or employee shall be entitled, and which accrues\n\nor has accrued prior to January 1, 1983. At the written option of\n\neach individual officer or employee concerned, the portion of leave\n\ntime credit accrued as of January 1, 1983, for which the counties\n\nare liable for payment, shall either be paid in a lump sum to said\n\nofficer or employee, or be paid to the State Treasurer to be carried\n\nforward to the credit of such officer or employee, to be later paid\n\nupon termination of employment with the state, or when it should\n\notherwise be lawfully paid. Whether paid to the State Treasurer to\n\nbe carried forward, or paid to the individual officer or employee,\n\nsuch payment shall be made by the county. It shall be the duty of\n\nthe district attorney to prepare and submit to each county concerned\n\nin his district an estimate of needs and budget request for\n\nappropriation of the amount needed to accomplish such payment,\n\nwhether same is made to the individual officer or employee, or to\n\nthe State Treasurer, and the respective county excise board shall\n\napprove, appropriate and levy for such budget item in the amount\n\nrequested. The portion of accrued leave time not exceeding fifteen\n\n(15) days which is assumed by the state shall be carried forward, to\n\nbe used or paid thereafter as provided by law.\n\nD. The entitlement to accrued and unused leave time of each\n\nsuch officer and employee shall be determined as of January 1, 1983,\n\nby each district attorney for his own respective officers and\n\nemployees. On or before January 10, 1983, a certificate of\n\nentitlement of such leave time will be furnished by each district\n\nattorney to the District Attorneys Council, and also to the county\n\nclerk of each county affected thereby, as the former payroll\n\nadministrator of such employees. Leave records for all such\n\nofficers and employees shall be continuously maintained thereafter\n\nby said Council, upon information furnished monthly by each district\n\nattorney for his own officers and employees. Local records thereof\n\nshall be kept upon each individual officer and employee in each\n\ndistrict attorney office, the local record to be the primary and\n\ncontrolling record in case of any conflict of information between\n\nthe Council and office of the district attorney. Such records shall\n\nbe kept in the same manner as for other state offices, or as the\n\nCouncil may approve and direct.\n\nE. The provisions of this act are based upon the usual\n\nallowance of leave time per year for full-time state officers and\n\nemployees as provided for in Section 803 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, as amended, and other related statutory authority\n\ngoverning the offices and positions in the unclassified service. In\n\nthe case of those officers or employees working less than full time,\n\nsuch provisions and credits shall be apportioned on a pro rata basis\n\naccording to the percentage time expended by a part-time officer or\n\nemployee as compared to that expended by a full-time officer or\n\nemployee.","path":["OK Code","Title 19"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os19.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b924643167e19d6535ebffe83e380c628c68f89c0843df75bb95470e9362ca5c","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-215.30","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-19-19-215.33"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}