{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-75-75-310","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 75, § 75-310","heading":"Procedures before agency","body":"In individual proceedings:\n\n1. Agencies may admit and give probative effect to evidence\n\nwhich possesses probative value commonly accepted by reasonably\n\nprudent persons in the conduct of their affairs. They shall give\n\neffect to the rules of privilege recognized by law in respect to:\n\nself-incrimination; confidential communications between husband and\n\nwife during the subsistence of the marriage relation; communication\n\nbetween attorney and client, made in that relation; confessions made\n\nto a clergyman or priest in his or her professional capacity in the\n\ncourse of discipline enjoined by the church to which he or she\n\nbelongs; communications made by a patient to a licensed practitioner\n\nof one of the healing arts with reference to any physical or\n\nsupposed physical disease or of knowledge gained by a practitioner\n\nthrough a physical examination of a patient made in a professional\n\ncapacity; records and files of any official or agency of any state\n\nor of the United States which, by any statute of a state or of the\n\nUnited States are made confidential and privileged. No greater\n\nexclusionary effect shall be given any such rule or privilege than\n\nwould obtain in an action in court. Agencies may exclude\n\nincompetent, irrelevant, immaterial, and unduly repetitious\n\nevidence. Objections to evidentiary offers may be made and shall be\n\nnoted in the record. Subject to these requirements, when a hearing\n\nwill be expedited and the interests of the parties will not be\n\nprejudiced substantially, any part of the evidence may be received\n\nin written form;\n\n2. Documentary evidence may be received in the form of copies\n\nor excerpts, if the original is not readily available. Upon\n\nrequest, parties shall be given an opportunity to compare the copy\n\nwith the original;\n\n3. A party may conduct cross-examinations required for a full\n\nand true disclosure of the facts;\n\n4. Notice may be taken of judicially cognizable facts. In\n\naddition, notice may be taken of generally recognized technical or\n\nscientific facts within the agency's specialized knowledge. Parties\n\nshall be notified either before or during the hearing, or by\n\nreference in preliminary reports or otherwise, of the material\n\nnoticed, including any staff memoranda or data, and they shall be\n\nafforded an opportunity to contest the material so noticed. The\n\nagency's experience, technical competence, and specialized knowledge\n\nmay be utilized in the evaluation of the evidence.\n\n5. Any party shall at all times have the right to counsel,\n\nprovided that such counsel must be duly licensed to practice law by\n\nthe Supreme Court of Oklahoma, and provided further that counsel\n\nshall have the right to appear and act for and on behalf of the\n\nparty represented.\n\n6. A party may request the exclusion of witnesses to the\n\nextent and for the purposes stated in Section 2615 of Title 12 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes. Exclusion of a witness shall not be a\n\nviolation of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.","path":["OK Code","Title 75"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os75.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5bfcbff1670eed84ee7657c2167c0224e73de1a24a99367d4c50123731ed3059","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-75-75-31.9","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-75-75-311"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}