Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-608

Responsibility for regional juvenile facility in southwestern part

of state.

A. Beginning July 1, 1995, the Office of Juvenile Affairs shall

oversee the expansion of the number of preadjudicatory secure

detention beds available in this state. It is the intent of the

Legislature to establish detention beds on a geographic basis

throughout the state in order to provide more accessibility to

services for all regions of the state. The beds established by this

subsection shall be established and operated in accordance with

Section 2-3-103 of this title.

B. Effective July 1, 1995, the responsibilities for

establishing and operating a regional juvenile facility in the

southwestern part of the state shall be transferred to the Office of

Juvenile Affairs. The facility shall include six transitional beds

and seventy medium secure beds for such programs as the Office of

Juvenile Affairs determines will most appropriately and effectively

provide required services; provided, no more than thirty-two beds

shall be used for any one type of program. It is the intent of the

Legislature that the Office of Juvenile Affairs locates an existing

facility that can be remodeled and used for this purpose.

C. Beginning July 1, 1998, detention beds constructed and

operated by a county solely through revenues from county sources

shall be exempt from the provisions of the State Plan for the

Establishment of Juvenile Detention Services adopted pursuant to

subsection D of Section 2-3-103 of this title.

D. The Board of Juvenile Affairs shall promulgate rules to

implement the provisions of this act.