Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-901.30-2

Election.

A. Full-time firefighters in a Rural Fire Protection District

shall have the separate right to bargain collectively with their

Rural Fire Protection District and to be represented by a bargaining

agent in such collective bargaining with respect to wages, salaries,

hours, rates of pay, grievances, working conditions and all other

terms and conditions of employment.

B. Whenever, conformable to regulations that may be prescribed

by the Public Employees Relations Board, a petition is filed by:

1. A labor organization alleging that thirty percent (30%) of

the full-time firefighters in a Rural Fire Protection District:

a. wish to be represented for collective bargaining by an

exclusive employee representative, or

b. assert that the designated exclusive employee

representative is no longer the representative of the

majority of employees in the unit; or

2. The employer alleging that one or more labor organizations

has presented to it a claim to be recognized as the exclusive

employee representative in an appropriate unit; the Board shall

investigate the facts alleged therein and if it has reasonable cause

to believe that a question of representation exists, it shall

provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice. If the Board

finds upon the record of such hearing that such a question of

representation exists, it shall direct an election by secret ballot

and shall certify the results thereof. The Board may also certify a

labor organization as an exclusive employee representative of a

Rural Fire Protection District if it determines that a free and

untrammeled election cannot be conducted because of the employer's

unfair labor practices.

C. Only those labor organizations which have been designated by

more than ten percent (10%) of the full-time firefighters in the

unit found to be appropriate shall be placed on the ballot. Nothing

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in this section shall be construed to prohibit the waiving of or

hearing by stipulation for the purpose of a consent election, in

conformity with the rules and regulations of the Board.

D. In order to assure to full-time firefighters in a Rural Fire

Protection District the fullest freedom in exercising the rights

guaranteed by this act, the Board shall decide in each case before

it in which the issue is raised the unit appropriate for the

purposes of collective bargaining, and shall consider such factors

as community of interest, wages, hours and other working conditions

of the firefighters involved, the history of collective bargaining,

and the desires of the firefighters.

E. An election shall not be directed in any bargaining unit or

in any subdivision thereof within which, in the preceding twelve-

month period, a valid election has been held. The Board shall

determine who is eligible to vote in the election and shall

establish rules governing the election. In any election where none

of the choices on the ballot receives a majority, but a majority of

all votes cast are for representation by some labor organization, a

run-off election shall be conducted. A labor organization which

receives the majority of the votes cast in an election shall be

certified by the Board as the exclusive firefighter representative

of a Rural Fire Protection District.