Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-2-309

Claims for pensions, retirement pay, medical expenses, hospital

expenses, and any other allowances or benefits provided for under

the System shall be allowed and paid only upon application therefor

signed and verified by the affidavit of the person claiming to be

entitled thereto, filed with the Board. All such claims shall be

presented at the first regular meeting of the Board, or a special

meeting called for that purpose by the President and Secretary of

the Board, and no claim shall be approved or allowed except by vote

of a majority of the Board. The Board shall have full power and

authority to determine all questions of eligibility for membership

in the System, eligibility for retirement, eligibility to continue

membership, injury, illness, disability, the extent of disability,

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the percentage of disability, ability or inability to perform the

duties connected with any employment, age, length of service,

credits for service, and, in connection with determining any such

question, may secure and pay for the services of a minimum of two

physicians or surgeons to make an examination of the member or

applicant and report upon such matter. The proceedings of the Board

shall be kept by the Secretary of the Board and reduced to writing

in books kept for that purpose and shall include all claims filed,

allowed or rejected and a copy of each resolution, action or order

of the Board. Any objection to the allowance or disallowance of any

claim presented to the Board shall be presented to the Board within

thirty (30) days after notification of such allowance or

disallowance, and, the Board shall set a date for hearing thereon

and shall cause written notice of such hearing to be mailed to the

claimant and to the contestant, if the contestant be one other than

a member of the Board, not less than ten (10) days prior to such

hearing, at which hearing evidence bearing upon the propriety and

correctness of the claim may be introduced. Any and all evidence

introduced upon such a hearing shall be taken and transcribed by, or

under the supervision of, the Secretary of the Board, and a copy

thereof, together with a copy of the order or decision of the Board,

shall be kept as a part of the official record of the Board. Any

person aggrieved by any action of the Board may appeal to the

district court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, by filing in the office

of the court clerk of said county, within thirty (30) days after the

signing and filing of the Board's written decision or order in the

matter, a petition setting forth such order or decision and the

grounds upon which such appeal is taken, together with a true and

complete transcript of the proceedings before the Board, and causing

summons to be issued and served, as in civil actions, upon the

President of the Board. Said district court is hereby vested with

final appellate jurisdiction in such matters, shall try the same

wholly upon the transcript of the proceedings before the Board, and

shall act solely as an appellate court in such proceedings.