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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 281 3. Cooperate with the Department of Labor including allowing any announced inspection of the premises for the purpose of determining compliance with this subsection. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any hospital which is subject to the rules of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), as set forth in 42 CFR Parts 405, 412, 416, 417, 440, 441, 456, 482 and 489; Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Conditions of Participation for Hospitals, Final Regulations. Laws 1970, c. 287, § 3, operative July 1, 1970; Laws 1992, c. 305, § 3, emerg. eff. May 27, 1992; Laws 1993, c. 349, § 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1994, c. 163, § 1, emerg. eff. May 6, 1994.

§40-404. Removal or damage of safeguards - Failure to obey safety orders. No employee shall willfully remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person. No employee or agent of employees shall interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment or place of employment, or of any other person lawfully within such place of employment, or fail to follow and obey orders necessary to protect the life, health and safety of such employees and any other person lawfully within such place of employment. Laws 1970, c. 287, § 4, operative July 1, 1970.

§40-405.1. Department of Labor Administrative Penalty Revolving Fund - Oklahoma Asbestos Control Act violations. A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Department of Labor to be designated the "Department of Labor Administrative Penalty Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all administrative fines collected by the Department for violations of the Oklahoma Occupational Health and Safety Standards Act and the Oklahoma Asbestos Control Act, and any rules promulgated thereto. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund, except those monies specified in subsection B of this section, are hereby directed to be transferred by the Commissioner of Labor to the State Treasurer for deposit and credit to the General Revenue Fund at the end of each fiscal year. B. The Department of Labor shall retain up to Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) of monies accruing to the credit of the Department of Labor Administrative Penalty Revolving Fund, derived from citations for violations of the Oklahoma Occupational Health and Safety Standards Act, per fiscal year. Said monies shall only be used in support of this act for the production and dissemination