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2015 Op. Okla. Att'y Gen. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.sag/sagok0050 and id is 1 raw text is: ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION 2015-1 R. Darrell Weaver, Director April 23, 2015 Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control 419 N.E. 38th Ter. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 Dear Director Weaver: This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question: May the Oldahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBNDD) reimburse an existing agent for lodging, meals, and incidental expenses following the agent's transfer to a new duty station until that agent finds a new home?' You state that OBNDD serves law enforcement functions throughout Oklahoma and that, in 2 order to perform these functions, it stations agents in locations across the State. At times, as you explain, OBNDD determines that enforcement goals would be best served by permanently transferring an agent from one area to another.3 You further state that, in order to ensure that these transfers proceed smoothly, OBNDD would pay for lodging and provide a per diem for meals and incidental expenses when it transfers one of its agents.4 We conclude that OBNDD does have the authority to make such payments under the State Travel Reimbursement Act, 74 O.S.2011 & Supp.2014, §§ 500.1-500.37, for the reasons set forth below. Your initial request limited payments of lodging and per diem to only thirty (30) days following transfer, but the statutes do not impose such a limitation. Letter from R. Darrell Weaver, Director, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, to E. Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General (Nov. 6, 2014) (on file with author); see 74 O.S.Supp.2014, § 500.3 (Claims . . . shall not cover periods in excess of thirty-one (31) days. However, claims may be filed for subsequent periods of not to exceed thirty-one (31) days,). 2 See Letter from R. Darrell Weaver, Director, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, to E. Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General (Nov. 6, 2014) (on file with author). Id. I Id. IPE

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