A. The Board shall consist of seven (7) members. The Commissioner shall be Chairman and vote only in case of a tie on any question requiring action by the Board.

B. Board - Qualifications. Other than the Commissioner, five members of the Board shall be active officers of state banks or trust companies, one of whom may be an officer or director of a national bank. One member of the Board shall be a citizen of Oklahoma, thirty-five (35) years old or older, who shall not have been in the past or become during the member's service on the Board an officer or stockholder in any banking institution, nor shall such person be related in the first degree to any other person who is or becomes during the term of such member an officer or stockholder in any state-chartered banking institution under the jurisdiction of the Department.

C. Board - Appointment - Qualifications - Successor - Removal. Members of the Board, including the Commissioner, shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate; provided, appointments to the Board, and not including the Commissioner nor the member not affiliated in the past or during the member's term with any banking institution, shall only be made of individuals whose names shall be included in a list of twelve names submitted to the Governor by the Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Association of State Banks, a division of the Oklahoma Bankers Association. If a Board member resigns for any reason before his or her term expires under the provisions of this section, the resigning Board member shall notify the Governor in writing and shall submit a copy of his or her letter of resignation to the Commissioner and the Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Association of State Banks. If the Oklahoma Association of State Banks shall not submit such list within thirty (30) days after a vacancy shall occur, then the Governor may appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, such person as the Governor may select who shall meet the qualifications set forth in subsection B of this section.

The term of office of each Board member other than the Commissioner shall be six (6) years. The Governor may, after notice, hearing and proceeding in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act, remove a member for cause.

D. Travel Expense. Each member shall be entitled to be reimbursed for necessary travel expenses pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act.

E. Board Meetings - Quorum - Disqualification. The Board shall meet at least semiannually. The Commissioner may call additional meetings of the Board upon at least twenty-four (24) hours' notice and in any event shall call a meeting upon the written request of two members. Four members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, and action taken by a majority of those voting at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the action of the Board. No member shall participate in a proceeding before the Board to which any corporation or partnership of which the member is or was at any time in the preceding twelve (12) months a director, officer, partner, employee, member or stockholder is a party. A member may be disqualified upon the member's own motion from participating in a proceeding for any other cause deemed by the member to be sufficient.

F. Lack of Quorum - Appointment of Acting Members. At any meeting at which a quorum is not present, whether by reason of the inability of a member to participate or the voluntary disqualification of the member, or otherwise, the Governor may designate the Deputy Commissioner, the Attorney General, or the head of any other department of the state government, in that order, as acting members of the Board for the purpose of constituting a quorum, but the Governor shall not designate more acting members than shall be necessary to constitute a quorum.

G. Clerical, Technical and Legal Assistance. Such clerical, technical and legal assistance as the Board may require shall be provided by the Department.

Added by Laws 1965, SB 1, c. 161, § 202; Amended by Laws 1975, SB 159, c. 109, § 2, emerg. eff. May 7, 1975; Amended by Laws 1977, HB 1311, c. 208, § 1, emerg. eff. June 14, 1977; Amended by Laws 1984, SB 521, c. 133, § 2, eff. October 1, 1984; Amended by Laws 1985, HB 1164, c. 178, § 7, emerg. eff. July 1, 1985; Amended by Laws 1994, c. 157, § 1, emerg. eff. May 6, 1994; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1454, c. 36, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1995; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 2173, c. 111, § 6, emerg. eff. July 1, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1234, c. 48, § 3, eff. November 1, 2005 (superseded document available).