2022 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74. State Government
§74-840-1.18. Payment for services – Citizen actions – Employee actions.

A. Any state agency for which the Director provides payroll services shall pay for such services at a rate established by the Director, which shall be based upon the cost to the Director of providing such services. Each agency shall remit payment for such services quarterly from departmental or agency funds to the Director who shall deposit such payments into the Human Capital Management Revolving Fund created in Section 840-1.20 of this title.

B. No state disbursing or auditing officer shall make or approve or take any part in making or approving any payment for personal service to any person holding a position in state service, brought under law unless the payroll voucher or account of such pay bears the certification of the appointing authority or designee, that the persons named therein have been appointed and employed in accordance with the provisions of law and the rules promulgated hereunder. The appointing authority or designee may for proper cause withhold certification from an entire payroll or from any specific item or items thereon.

Any citizen may maintain a suit to restrain a disbursing officer from making any payment in contravention of any provision of law or rules promulgated hereunder. Any sum paid contrary to any provision of law or any rule promulgated hereunder may be recovered in an action maintained by any citizen, from any officer who made, approved or authorized such payment or who signed or countersigned a voucher, payroll, check or warrant for such payment, or from the sureties on the official bond of any such officer. All monies recovered in any such action shall be paid into the State Treasury.

Any person appointed or employed in contravention of any provision of law or any rules or orders promulgated hereunder, whose employment is brought within the terms of law, who performs service for which he or she is not paid, may maintain an action against the officer or officers who purported to appoint or employ the person to recover the agreed pay for such services, or the reasonable value thereof if no pay was agreed upon. No officer shall be reimbursed by the state at any time for any sum paid to such person on account of such services.

If the appointing authority or designee wrongfully withholds certification of the payroll voucher or account of any employee, such employee may maintain an action or proceeding in the courts to compel the appointing authority or designee to certify such payroll voucher or account.

Added by Laws 1982, c. 338, § 14, eff. July 1, 1982. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 288, § 1, operative July 1, 1983. Renumbered from § 840.14 of this title by Laws 1994, c. 242, § 54. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 212, § 8, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 312, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2005, c. 176, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 869; Laws 2022, c. 243, § 6, emerg. eff. May 11, 2022.