AG Opinion 2024-5

An opinion concluding that the positions of the Secretary of Transportation, the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority each constitute an “office” for purposes of Oklahoma’s law prohibiting an individual from simultaneously holding two or more offices. 51 O.S.2021, § 6. When an office holder accepts and enters upon the duties of a second office without a statutory exemption from the dual office holding prohibition, acceptance of the second office operates to ipso facto vacate the first office.