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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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