2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-1990.2. Definitions.

As used in the Silver Alert Act:

1. “Alert” means the statewide silver alert for missing senior citizens;

2. “Local law enforcement agency” includes, but is not limited to, a county sheriff’s office, a police department of a municipality or city, or the state highway patrol;

3. “Media outlet” includes but is not limited to radio stations, television stations, newspapers and local support organizations; and

4. “Missing senior citizen” means a person:

a.whose whereabouts are unknown,

b.whose age at the time the person is first reported missing is sixty (60) years of age or older and who is believed to be suffering from dementia or other cognitive impairment, and

c.whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the safety and health of the person, as determined by a local law enforcement agency.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 50, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.