{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-2-607","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-2-607","heading":"Rules and procedures in appeals","body":"RULES AND PROCEDURES IN APPEALS.\n\nThe Board of Review shall adopt reasonable rules governing the\n\nmanner of filing appeals and the conduct of hearings and appeals\n\nbefore the Board of Review, consistent with the provisions of the\n\nEmployment Security Act of 1980. The Oklahoma Employment Security\n\nCommission shall adopt and, from time to time, may modify and amend\n\nrules governing appeals before the Appeal Tribunal of the Commission\n\nand its referees. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission shall\n\ncreate and maintain a precedent manual to reflect current statutes\n\nand statutory changes along with current case law that is applicable\n\nto questions of law which may arise during hearing or appeals. The\n\nprecedent manual shall be updated by the Commission within thirty\n\n(30) days of the effective date of any statutory changes and shall\n\nbe available at the offices of the Commission and on any Internet\n\nwebsite maintained by the Commission. When the same or\n\nsubstantially similar evidence is relevant and material to the\n\nmatters in issue in claims by more than one individual or in claims\n\nby a single individual with respect to two (2) or more weeks of\n\nunemployment, the same time and place for considering each such\n\nclaim may be fixed, hearings thereon jointly conducted, a single\n\nrecord of the proceedings made, and evidence introduced with respect\n\nto one proceeding considered as introduced in the others, provided\n\nthat in the judgment of the appeal tribunal referee having\n\njurisdiction of the proceeding, such consolidation would not be\n\nprejudicial to any party. No person shall participate as an appeal\n\ntribunal referee or member of the Board of Review on any case in\n\nwhich the person has a personal interest. A record shall be kept of\n\nall testimony and proceedings before an appeal tribunal referee, but\n\nthe testimony need not be transcribed unless judicial review is\n\ninitiated. Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to this section shall be\n\nallowed fees at a rate fixed by the Commission, and fees of\n\nwitnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the Commission, the employer, or\n\nany claimant, shall be deemed part of the expense of administering\n\nthe Employment Security Act of 1980.","path":["OK Code","Title 40"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os40.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5fe35eb3c6297071f6b844cf23b79646498ca55156ff86254a95239c53891eb9","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-2-606","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-2-608"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}