Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 145 - Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management
Chapter 10 - Gubernatorial Declarations for Disaster Assistance
Subchapter 1 - General
Section 145:10-1-7 - Nondiscrimination in disaster assistance

(a) State financial assistance to eligible Applicants in this Act is conditioned on full compliance with 44 CFR part 7 Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs.

(b) All personnel carrying out State major disaster or emergency assistance functions, including the distribution of supplies, the processing of the applications, and other relief and assistance activities, shall perform their work in an equitable and impartial manner, without discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, or economic status.

(c) As a condition of participation in the distribution of assistance or supplies under the Act, or a receiving assistance under the Act, government bodies and other organizations shall provide a written assurance of their intent to comply with regulations relating to nondiscrimination.

(d) The State Agency shall make available to employees, applicants, participants, beneficiaries, and other interested parties such information regarding the provisions of this chapter and its applicability to the programs or activities conducted by the State Agency , and make such information available to them in such manner as the head of the agency finds necessary to apprise such persons of the protections against discrimination assured them by the Act and this chapter.