Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-142.32

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Murrah Crime Victims Compensation Fund - Eligibility -

Official statutory text

Contributions - Restrictions on expenditure of monies.

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving

fund to be administered by the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation

Board to be designated the "Murrah Crime Victims Compensation Fund".

The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year

limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the

Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation Board from any source for the

purpose of implementing the provisions of the Murrah Crime Victims

Compensation Act. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund

shall be budgeted and expended exclusively to compensate victims and

the families of victims of the bombing on April 19, 1995, that took

place in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma

City, Oklahoma. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon

warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as

prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and

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Enterprise Services for approval and payment. For the purposes of

the Murrah Crime Victims Compensation Fund, "families" shall include

dependents, as defined by the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation

Act, parents and spouses.

B. The Administrator of the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation

Board is authorized to accept and expend contributions from any

lawful source to be used for the purposes of the fund. The

Administrator is further authorized to accept and expend any

contributions from the crime victims compensation systems of any

other state or other governmental entity for the use of the fund.

The Administrator of the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation Board

is authorized to accept the services of the victims compensation

system of any other state or governmental entity in the processing

of any claims received against the Murrah Crime Victims Compensation

Fund; provided, that the employees of such entities shall not be

considered as employees of the State of Oklahoma.

C. The monies deposited in the Murrah Crime Victims

Compensation Fund shall at no time become monies of the state and

shall not become part of the general budget of the Oklahoma Crime

Victims Compensation Board or any other state agency. No monies

from the fund shall be transferred for any purpose to any state

agency or any account of the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation

Board or be used for the purpose of contracting with any other state

agency or reimbursing any other state agency for any expense. No

monies from the fund shall be used to pay or reimburse the Oklahoma

Crime Victims Compensation Board for, in whole or in part, the

salary of any employee involved in the administration of the Murrah

Crime Victims Compensation Act. Payment of claims from the fund

shall not become or be construed to be an obligation of this state.

No claims submitted for reimbursement from the fund shall be paid

with state monies.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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