§ 37-569. All law enforcement officers to diligently enforce provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

All sheriffs, marshals, and police officers, all district and city or town attorneys, and all members of the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Director, and all enforcement employees of the ABLE Commission, shall diligently enforce all provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.  If any such officer, ABLE Commission member, Director, or employee shall fail or refuse to do or perform any duty required by the provisions of such statutes he shall be removed from office as hereinafter provided.  In all cases where any sheriff, marshal, police officer, district or city or town attorney shall fail or refuse to perform any such duty a petition shall be filed in the district court of the county wherein such person resides, in the name of the state, upon the recommendation of a grand jury or on the relation of the board of county commissioners or of any attorney appointed by the Governor under the provisions of applicable statutes.  In all cases where a member of the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission fails to perform any duty imposed upon him, said member shall be subject to removal from office in the manner provided for state officers not subject to impeachment, and, in all cases where an enforcement employee of the ABLE Commission is involved in the failure to perform any duties required by law, such failure shall constitute cause for the removal of any such employee  pursuant to the provisions of Section 833 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.  The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control Commission shall also have enforcement authority for the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, with the power to initiate complaints with the ABLE Commission and by filing charges, if appropriate, with the district attorney in the county where the violation occurred.

Amended by Laws 1985, c. 6, § 63, emerg. eff. March 14, 1985.