Library: Policy

340:2-1-58. Reduced services and temporary office or facility closures

Revised 9-15-21

(a) Reduction of services due to hazardous weather conditions.  Based on authorization received from the appropriate authority, Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) may temporarily close or reduce services during hazardous weather conditions, per Oklahoma Administrative Code 260:25-15-70 and 260:25-15-71, as well as clarification from the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Human Capital Management Division (HCM) Memorandum 16-01.

(1) OKDHS is responsible for maintaining its essential functions regardless of weather conditions. 

(2) Services provided by OKDHS hot lines, institutions, shelters, and other residential care facilities are not reduced during hazardous weather conditions.

(3) The Commissioner of Public Safety is the appropriate authority for agencies and offices within the seven-county region of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, which consists of Canadian, Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie Counties.

(4) The OKDHS Director or designee is the appropriate authority for OKDHS offices outside the seven-county region of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

(b) Temporary office closings.

(1) An OKDHS office may be temporarily closed because of an imminent peril threatening public health, safety, or welfare. 

(2) An OKDHS office may be temporarily closed because of staff's inability to perform the essential functions of their jobs.

(3) The OKDHS Director or designee is the appropriate authority for OKDHS temporary office closures.