Legal Opinion
Opinion No. (1997)
Oklahoma Attorney General Reports
Decided March 28, 1997Published
1Opinion of the Court
Dear Fire Marshal Wilson
¶ 0 This office has received your office's request for an Opinion asking, in effect, the following question:
Are the provisions of 74 O.S. 1991, § 324.4[74-324.4], which mandatethat the State Fire Marshal retire by age sixty-five (65), andwhich further mandate that no applicant for the position of StateFire Marshal can exceed the age of fifty-five (55), contrary tothe Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634?
¶ 1 The statute which prompted this inquiry reads in pertinent part:
The Commission shall appoint a full-time State Fire Marshal. . . . The State…
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