Okla. Admin. Code § 1:2021-21

Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024

Section 1:2021-21

EXECUTIVE ORDER 2021-21

To the Honorable Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the Honorable Members of the Oklahoma State Senate:

I, J. Kevin Stitt, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of Section 7 of Article VI of the Oklahoma Constitution, hereby convoke the First Extraordinary Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature to convene at the State Capitol on Monday, November 15, 2021, solely for the following purposes:

1. To redistrict Oklahoma's congressional districts in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

2. To update and redistrict, as necessary, Oklahoma state legislative districts in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

3. To amend statutory candidacy and redistricting deadlines, including but not limited to amending candidacy and residency deadlines, as made necessary by the U.S. Census Bureau's failure to meet the deadline for production of decennial census data set forth in 13 U.S.C. § 141(C).

Copies of this Executive Order shall be distributed to every member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, every member of the Oklahoma State Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma to be affixed at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this 24 ^th day of September, 2021.

BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.

J. Kevin Stitt

ATTEST:

Brian Bingman.

Secretary of State.

Okla. Admin. Code § 1:2021-21

Adopted by Oklahoma Register, Volume 39, Issue 03, October 15, 2021, eff. 9/24/2021