§47-156.

§47-156.
   
   A. Unless otherwise provided for by law, no state board, commission,
   department, institution, official, or employee, except the Department
   of Public Safety, the Department of Human Services, the State
   Department of Rehabilitation Services, the Department of Wildlife
   Conservation, the Department of Corrections, the State Department of
   Education, the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, the
   Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the
   Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Transportation Commission,
   the Department of Agriculture, the State Department of Health, the
   Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the J.D.
   McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities, the
   Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, the Oklahoma Conservation
   Commission, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, the Department of
   Mines, the Office of Juvenile Affairs, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court
   shall purchase any passenger automobile or bus with public funds.
   
   B. The Oklahoma School for the Deaf at Sulphur, the Oklahoma School
   for the Blind at Muskogee, and any state institution of higher
   education may purchase, own, or keep if now owned, or acquire by lease
   or gift, and use and maintain such station wagons, automobiles,
   trucks, or buses as are reasonably necessary for the implementation of
   the educational programs of said institutions. No bus operated, owned,
   or used by such educational institutions shall be permitted to carry
   any person other than students, faculty members, employees, or
   volunteers of such institutions. The provisions of this section shall
   not be construed to prohibit the operation of intracampus buses or
   buses routed directly between portions of the campus of any
   institution not adjacent to each other, nor to prohibit the collection
   of fares from such students, faculty members, or employees of such
   institutions, sufficient in amount to cover the reasonable cost of
   such transportation.
   
   C. The J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental
   Disabilities, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, the Oklahoma
   Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Oklahoma Veterans Centers may
   own and maintain such passenger vehicles as those institutions have
   acquired prior to May 1, 1981.
   
   D. The use of station wagons, automobiles, and buses, other than as
   provided for in this section, shall be permitted only upon written
   request for such use by heads of departments of the institution,
   approved in writing by the president of said institution or by some
   administrative official of said institution authorized by the
   president to grant said approval. Such use shall be permitted only for
   official institutional business or activities connected therewith.
   Such use shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 156.1 and
   159.7 of this title forbidding personal use of such vehicles, and to
   the penalties therein declared.
   
   E. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section
   shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by fine or
   imprisonment, or both, as provided for in Section 156.1 of this title.
   
   F. For the purpose of this section and Section 156.3 of this title, a
   station wagon is classified as a passenger automobile and may not be
   purchased solely for the use of transporting property. Such vehicles
   shall include, but not be limited to, all vehicles which have no
   separate luggage compartment or trunk but which do not have open beds,
   whether the same are called station wagons, vans, suburbans, town and
   country, blazers, or any other names. All state boards, commissions,
   departments, and institutions may own and maintain station wagons
   purchased solely for the purpose of transporting property if acquired
   prior to July 1, 1985.
   
   G. The provisions of this section and Section 156.1 of this title
   shall not apply to public officials who are statewide elected
   commissioners.