Opinion No. 80-121 (1980) Ag

The Attorney General has received your request for an opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following question: Is the word "absence" as used in H.B. 1834, enacted by the Thirty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session, to be broadly interpreted to mean any situation in which the Chief Mine Inspector is physically absent from his office for meetings, vacations, etc., or is it to be narrowly interpreted to mean only those instances where he is incapable, through illness or other reasons, to continue in his responsibilities? H.B. 1834 amends 45 O.S. 3 [45-3] (1978), by providing for the…