A. The State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners shall meet at least once each year in the first half of the calendar year and once each year in the second half of the calendar year. In addition, the Board may meet at other times of the year as is deemed necessary to conduct the business of the Board. The Board shall meet at the time and place fixed by order of the Board president or by order of three members of the Board acting jointly upon refusal of the president to call for or fix a time and place for said meeting.

B. 1. Notice of meetings shall be filed in conformance with the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. Members shall be notified of each meeting at least twenty (20) days before said meeting, except in the case of a meeting called for emergency purposes.

2. Emergency meetings may be called at any time by the president or at the request of three Board members as required to enforce the Oklahoma Veterinary Practice Act. The Board may establish procedures by which the Board may call an emergency meeting in accordance with the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act. The Board may establish procedures by which committee advice may be obtained in cases of emergency.

3. The Board shall establish a system for giving all Board and committee members and the public reasonable notice of scheduled meetings.

4. Minutes of all Board and committee meetings shall be kept in accordance with promulgated rules of the Board and other applicable statutes.

C. All meetings of the Board and its committees shall be open to the public except as set out in Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act and the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.

D. Each Board member shall receive reimbursement for expenses in accordance with the Oklahoma Travel Reimbursement Act and rules promulgated by the Board.

E. 1. The Board shall be fully supported by the revenues generated from its activities, including fees, charges and reimbursed costs.

2. All such revenues, with the exception of the ten percent (10%) of its revenue required to be deposited in the General Revenue Fund, shall be deposited to the Veterinary Medical Examiners Fund and shall be credited to the account of the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Any revenue remaining in the revolving fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried over to the next fiscal year in the account of the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

3. The Board shall operate on the fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30 of each year.

4. The Board shall develop and adopt its own budget reflecting revenues, including reimbursed costs associated with the administrative, investigative, and legal expenditures for taking disciplinary action, and the establishment and maintenance of a reasonable reserve fund.

F. All fees, charges, reimbursement minimums and other revenue generating amounts shall be promulgated by the Board by rule and shall reflect normal increases due to inflation or cost of doing business.

Added by Laws 1971, c. 126, § 6, emerg. eff. May 4, 1971. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 192, § 2, emerg. eff. April 22, 1982; Laws 1985, c. 178, § 36, operative July 1, 1985; Laws 1990, c. 314, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1999, c. 94, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1982, c. 32, § 2 repealed by Laws 1985, c. 178, § 81, operative July 1, 1985.