A. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall have the supervision, management, operation and control of the institution for children located at Tecumseh, formerly known and designated as Girls' Town and now known as Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center, and all property, equipment and supplies related thereto.

B. The Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center shall maintain facilities and bed-space capacity for programs that are consistent with providing statewide juvenile justice and delinquency prevention services.

C. It shall be the duty of the State Fire Marshal and the State Commissioner of Health, to cause regular, periodic, not less than quarterly, unannounced inspections of said institution, utilizing adequately trained and qualified inspection personnel, to determine and evaluate conditions and programs being maintained and carried on at said institution in their respective areas of agency jurisdiction. Such inspections shall include, but not be limited to, the following: compliance with minimum fire, life and health safety standards; compliance with minimum standards governing general sanitation of the institution, with particular emphasis upon food storage, preparation, serving and transportation, respectively. Reports of such inspections will be made in writing, itemizing and identifying any deficiencies and recommending corrective measures, and shall be filed with the Board of Juvenile Affairs, the Executive Director of the Office of Juvenile Affairs, the Attorney General, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Office of Juvenile System Oversight and the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall file copies of the reports of the inspections and recommendations of the accrediting agencies listed in subsection D of this section with the Office of Juvenile System Oversight.

D. The Office of Juvenile Affairs is authorized and directed to establish, subject to the limits of funds available therefor, a diversity of placement alternatives for children committed to the custody of the Office including, but not limited to, foster family homes, foster family group homes, and group homes. All child care services and facilities operated by the Office shall be accredited by the American Correctional Association, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals or the Child Welfare League of America, as appropriate for the service or facility. The Office may directly contract for accreditation fees, training or training conferences with the organization accrediting the service or facility as required by this subsection.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 282, § 401, eff. Jan. 13, 1969. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 140, § 1, emerg. eff. April 9, 1982; Laws 1982, c. 312, § 32, operative July 1, 1982; Laws 1986, c. 184, § 3, emerg. eff. May 20, 1986; Laws 1992, c. 299, § 16, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 1994, c. 290, § 48, eff. July 1, 1994; Laws 1995, c. 352, § 98, eff. July 1, 1995. Renumbered from § 1401 of Title 10 by Laws 1995, c. 352, § 199, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 293, § 9, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2006, c. 124, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 234, § 23, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009. Renumbered from § 7302-6.6 of Title 10 by Laws 2009, c. 234, § 174, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 44.