The executive secretary-treasurer of the Board shall keep and preserve all records of the Board, issue all necessary notices to the embalmers, funeral directors and apprentices of the state, and perform such other duties as may be imposed upon the executive secretary-treasurer by said Board. The executive secretary-treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to collect, in the name and on behalf of the Board, the fees prescribed in the Funeral Services Licensing Act, and all fees so collected shall at the end of each month be deposited by the executive secretary-treasurer with the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall place ten percent (10%) of the money so received in the general fund of the state, and the balance in a special fund to be known as the "Fund of the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers." Payment from said fund shall be upon warrants drawn by the State Treasurer against claims submitted by the Board to the Director of State Finance for audit and payment. All monies so received in said fund may be used by the Board in carrying out the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act.

An accounting of the funds accumulated under the provisions of the Funeral Services Licensing Act shall be rendered semiannually of receipts and disbursements to the Secretary of the State of Oklahoma.

Laws 1941, HB 73, p. 241, § 19, energ. eff. May 20, 1941; Amended by Laws 1945, HB 36, p. 195, § 8; Amended by Laws 1961, SB 267, p. 456, § 6; Amended by Laws 1970, SB 169, c. 311, § 5, emerg. eff. April 27, 1970; Amended by Laws 1978, HB 1587, c. 96, § 3, emerg. eff. March 29, 1978; Amended by Laws 1985, HB 1164, c. 178, § 32, emerg. eff. July 1, 1985; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 86, c. 64, § 15, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available).