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§47-2-104v2.
§47-2-104v2.
(a) The Commissioner, subject to the Merit System laws, shall appoint
an Assistant Commissioner and such other deputies, subordinates,
officers, investigators, and other employees as may be necessary to
implement the provisions of Sections 2-101 through 2-133 of this
title.
(b) All duties and responsibilities of the Examiners Bureau of the
Drivers License Division transferred to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Division on July 1, 1982, shall be transferred to the Examiners Bureau
established by Section 2-106 of this title, effective July 1, 1987.
(c) When traveling with the Governor or at his request, personnel
assigned by the Commissioner for executive security shall be allowed
their actual and necessary traveling expenses, upon claims approved by
the Commissioner, and shall receive, in addition to base salary, an
additional One Hundred Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month.
(d) Any person appointed to the position of Assistant Commissioner of
Public Safety shall be eligible for retirement participation as a
member of the Highway Patrol Division in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement
Retirement System if such person at the time of appointment satisfies
the age qualifications of an Oklahoma Highway Patrolman as provided in
subsection (g) of Section 2-105 of this title, however the Assistant
Commissioner shall be eligible for participation in only one
retirement system and shall elect in writing the system in which he
intends to participate.
(e) The salaries of the subordinates, officers, and other nonuniformed
employees, in all divisions of the Department of Public Safety, shall
be governed by and in accordance with the procedures established by
the Office of Personnel Management. The Commissioner of Public Safety
may appoint an employee to the position of Director of Finance for the
Department of Public Safety. The Director of Finance for the
Department of Public Safety and those employees serving as
nonuniformed pilots in the Department of Public Safety shall be
unclassified and exempt from the rules and procedures of the Office of
Personnel Management, except leave regulations. Those employees
serving as nonuniformed pilots in the Department of Public Safety
shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, upon
claims approved by the Commissioner, when on executive assignment.
(f) The Commissioner of Public Safety, in order to administer and
enforce the provisions of Sections 7-101 through 7-607 of this title,
is hereby authorized to hire sufficient employees, to fix the
salaries, subject to Merit System rules, to pay the traveling expenses
thereof, and to purchase the necessary supplies and equipment.
(g) Unless otherwise provided by law, salaries and traveling expenses
of the employees of the Financial Responsibility Division and the cost
of equipment shall be paid from the appropriation made to the
Department of Public Safety.
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