Oklahoma § 51-6.1

§ 51-6.1.

Repealed by Laws 1996, c. 5, § 6, eff. April 1, 1996.

§51-6v1. Officers and deputies not to hold other offices Exemptions.

A. Except as may be otherwise provided, no person holding an

office under the laws of the state and no deputy of any officer so

holding any office shall, during the person’s term of office, hold

any other office or be the deputy of any officer holding any office,

under the laws of the state. The provisions of this section shall

not apply to:

1. Notaries public;

2. Members of the State Textbook Committee;

3. County free fair board members;

4. Municipal and county law enforcement officers serving in

positions as law enforcement officers of both such governmental

entities upon such terms and conditions as are mutually approved by

resolutions adopted by the board of county commissioners and

governing body of the municipality employing such officers;

5. Any person holding a county or municipal office or position,

or membership on any public trust authority, who is a member of a

board or commission that relates to federal, state, county or

municipal government and is created by the United States government,

this state or a political subdivision of this state, except where

the duties of the offices or positions conflict;

6. Any elected municipal officers and school board members who

are appointed to a state board, commission, or similar entity if

there is no compensation for such services other than reimbursement

for necessary travel expenses pursuant to the provisions of the

State Travel Reimbursement Act;

7. Any trustee of a public trust, who is appointed as a trustee

of a different public trust or any trustee of the Tulsa County

Public Facilities Authority who may also be employed by the

Department of Transportation;

8. Law enforcement officers employed by municipal or county law

enforcement departments or agencies, other than those law

enforcement officers elected or appointed as sheriff, chief of

police or some similar position in which they are the head of a

county or municipal law enforcement agency, who are elected to local

boards of education; provided, the provisions of this paragraph

shall not prohibit any law enforcement officer employed by a

municipality having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or fewer

people from serving as a member of a local board of education;

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9. Any member of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Division of the

Department of Public Safety who is elected to a local board of

education;

10. Any employee of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

who is elected to a local board of education;

11. Any District Supervisor, Assistant District Supervisor,

Team Supervisor, Parole Officer 1 or Parole Officer 2 of the

Department of Corrections who is elected or appointed to a city

council;

12. Any trustee or director of a rural electric cooperative, or

port authority who is appointed or elected to a state, county or

municipal board, commission or similar entity;

13. County employees who are elected as members of town or city

councils;

14. Municipal, county, state or tribal law enforcement or peace

officers operating under cross-deputization agreements with an

Indian tribe or branch of the federal government;

15. Municipal or county law enforcement or peace officers

serving in positions as campus police officers or campus public

safety officers pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus

Security Act, upon such terms and conditions as are mutually

approved by resolution adopted by the governing body of the

municipality or county and the governing board of the institution of

higher education;

16. State law enforcement or peace officers serving in

positions as campus police officers or campus public safety officers

pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus Security Act, upon

such terms and conditions as are mutually approved by written

agreement between the Commissioner of Public Safety and the

governing board of the institution of higher education;

17. Municipal, county and state law enforcement officers

serving in positions as part-time or seasonal rangers or peace

officers under the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department or the

Grand River Dam Authority;

18. Members of the University Hospitals Authority;

19. Any person holding a state or county office or position who

is a reserve force deputy sheriff, or a reserve special agent with

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control

or a reserve municipal police officer;

20. Any person holding a state office or position who serves as

a special assistant district attorney without compensation;

21. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board who

is a member of a municipal planning commission;

22. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board who

is a member or an officer of a volunteer fire department;

23. Directors or officers of a rural water district and chiefs

of municipal fire departments or rural fire districts who are

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appointed or elected to an unsalaried office in a state, county,

municipal, school, or technology center school board, commission, or

similar entity, except where the duties of the office would create a

conflict of interest;

24. Any person who is a dispatcher or confinement officer at a

municipal or county jail who is a noncompensated reserve municipal

police officer or a reserve deputy sheriff;

25. Any person who is an assistant district attorney serving as

a municipal judge or prosecutor;

26. Any park ranger under the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation

Department or any game warden or reserve game warden employed by the

Department of Wildlife Conservation who is elected or appointed to a

local board of education or to a municipal governing body, board,

commission or similar entity;

27. Members of the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority,

the Oklahoma State University Medical Trust or the State Board of

Osteopathic Examiners;

28. Any member of the state Legislature or any state officer

who serves on the board of trustees of the Oklahoma School for the

Visual and Performing Arts;

29. Members of the Council on Judicial Complaints;

30. A campus police officer who is elected as a member of the

governing board of a town or municipality that is outside of the

town or municipality where the person serves as a campus police

officer; and

31. Any person who is a state employee but not a member of the

state military forces, including district attorneys, assistant

district attorneys, district court judges, associate district court

judges and special judges, when detailed as a military trial judge

pursuant to Section 826 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes or when

serving as an appellate military judge pursuant to Section 866 of

Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes when the Military Court of Appeals

is convened. The rules of procedure prescribed by the State Judge

Advocate pursuant to subsection L of Section 866 of Title 44 of the

Oklahoma Statutes shall define what constitutes the Military Court

of Appeals being “convened” for purposes of this paragraph.

The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any person

holding an office under the laws of the state or any deputy of any

officer so holding any office from serving upon the board of

Oklahoma Futures or upon the board of directors of the Oklahoma

Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. The

provisions of this section shall not prohibit a member of the board

of directors of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science

and Technology from serving upon the board of Oklahoma Futures.

B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section,

salaries, emoluments or benefits that would otherwise be paid by the

agency or political subdivision to a loaned employee or officer

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shall instead be paid to the regular employer of such employee. The

loaned employee shall in turn be paid regular salary and benefits

the same as if continuing regular employment with the permanent

employer.

C. Any person excepted pursuant to paragraph 31 of subsection A

of this section, when retained as a military trial judge or when

serving as a military appellate judge when the Military Court of

Appeals is convened, shall be entitled to military judicial leave in

accordance with Section 209 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

R.L. 1910, § 4274. Amended by Laws 1929, c. 255, p. 363, § 1; Laws

1939, p. 22, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1939; Laws 1981, c. 47, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 13, 1981; Laws 1986, c. 207, § 54, operative July

1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 222, § 116, operative July 1, 1987; Laws

1987, c. 236, § 128, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987; Laws 1989, c. 357, §

1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Laws 1990, c. 230, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,

1990; Laws 1991, c. 202, § 1, emerg. eff. May 17, 1991; Laws 1991,

c. 298, § 9, operative July 1, 1991; Laws 1992, c. 43, § 1, eff.

Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1992, c. 373, § 11, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws

1993, c. 331, § 3, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1994, c. 2, § 18, emerg.

eff. March 2, 1994; Laws 1995, c. 127, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27,

1995; Laws 1996, c. 24, § 5, emerg. eff. April 3, 1996; Laws 1997,

c. 317, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 184, § 1, eff.

July 1, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 162, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2001,

c. 33, § 39, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2001, c. 414, § 6, eff. Nov. 1,

2001; Laws 2002, c. 389, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2002; Laws 2003,

c. 387, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 51, § 1, emerg.

eff. April 1, 2004; Laws 2007, c. 170, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31,

2007; Laws 2009, c. 453, § 4; Laws 2010, c. 43, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2010; Laws 2012, c. 118, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 288,

§ 1, emerg. eff. May 15, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 269, § 1; Laws 2016, c.

297, § 1, eff. July 1, 2016; Laws 2017, c. 75, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2017; Laws 2018, c. 304, § 17, emerg. eff. May 10, 2018; Laws 2021,

c. 12, § 27, emerg. eff. April 13, 2021; Laws 2025, c. 303, § 1,

emerg. eff. May 22, 2025.

NOTE: Laws 1992, c. 2, § 2 repealed by Laws 1992, c. 373, § 22,

eff. July 1, 1992. Laws 1993, c. 330, § 22 repealed by Laws 1994,

c. 2, § 34, emerg. eff. March 2, 1994. Laws 2001, c. 19, § 1

repealed by Laws 2001, c. 414, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2001. Laws 2017,

c. 114, § 1 repealed by Laws 2018, c. 304, § 18, emerg. eff. May 10,

2018.

§51-6v2. Officers and deputies not to hold other offices Exemptions.

A. Except as may be otherwise provided, no person holding an

office under the laws of the state and no deputy of any officer so

holding any office shall, during the person’s term of office, hold

any other office or be the deputy of any officer holding any office,

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under the laws of the state. The provisions of this section shall

not apply to:

1. Notaries public;

2. Members of the State Textbook Committee;

3. County free fair board members;

4. Municipal and county law enforcement officers serving in

positions as law enforcement officers of both such governmental

entities upon such terms and conditions as are mutually approved by

resolutions adopted by the board of county commissioners and

governing body of the municipality employing such officers;

5. Any person holding a county or municipal office or position,

or membership on any public trust authority, who is a member of a

board or commission that relates to federal, state, county, or

municipal government and is created by the United States government,

this state or a political subdivision of this state, except where

the duties of the offices or positions conflict;

6. Any elected municipal officers and school board members who

are appointed to a state board, commission, or similar entity if

there is no compensation for such services other than reimbursement

for necessary travel expenses pursuant to the provisions of the

State Travel Reimbursement Act;

7. Any trustee of a public trust, who is appointed as a trustee

of a different public trust or any trustee of the Tulsa County

Public Facilities Authority who may also be employed by the

Department of Transportation;

8. Law enforcement officers employed by municipal or county law

enforcement departments or agencies, other than those law

enforcement officers elected or appointed as sheriff, chief of

police, or some similar position in which they are the head of a

county or municipal law enforcement agency, who are elected to local

boards of education; provided, the provisions of this paragraph

shall not prohibit any law enforcement officer employed by a

municipality having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or fewer

people from serving as a member of a local board of education;

9. Any member of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Division of the

Department of Public Safety who is elected to a local board of

education;

10. Any employee of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation

who is elected to a local board of education;

11. Any District Supervisor, Assistant District Supervisor,

Team Supervisor, Parole Officer 1, or Parole Officer 2 of the

Department of Corrections who is elected or appointed to a city

council;

12. Any trustee or director of a rural electric cooperative, or

port authority who is appointed or elected to a state, county, or

municipal board, commission, or similar entity;

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13. County employees who are elected as members of town or city

councils;

14. Municipal, county, state, or tribal law enforcement or

peace officers operating under cross-deputization agreements with an

Indian tribe or branch of the federal government;

15. Municipal or county law enforcement or peace officers

serving in positions as campus police officers or campus public

safety officers pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus

Security Act, upon such terms and conditions as are mutually

approved by resolution adopted by the governing body of the

municipality or county and the governing board of the institution of

higher education;

16. State law enforcement or peace officers serving in

positions as campus police officers or campus public safety officers

pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Campus Security Act, upon

such terms and conditions as are mutually approved by written

agreement between the Commissioner of Public Safety and the

governing board of the institution of higher education;

17. Municipal, county, and state law enforcement officers

serving in positions as part-time or seasonal rangers or peace

officers under the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department or the

Grand River Dam Authority;

18. Members of the University Hospitals Authority;

19. Any person holding a state or county office or position who

is a reserve force deputy sheriff, or a reserve special agent with

the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control

or a reserve municipal police officer;

20. Any person holding a state office or position who serves as

a special assistant district attorney without compensation;

21. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board who

is a member of a municipal planning commission;

22. Any elected or appointed member of a local school board who

is a member or an officer of a volunteer fire department;

23. Directors or officers of a rural water district and chiefs

of municipal fire departments or rural fire districts who are

appointed or elected to an unsalaried office in a state, county,

municipal, school, or technology center school board, commission, or

similar entity, except where the duties of the office would create a

conflict of interest;

24. Any person who is a dispatcher or confinement officer at a

municipal or county jail who is a noncompensated reserve municipal

police officer or a reserve deputy sheriff;

25. Any person who is an assistant district attorney serving as

a municipal judge or prosecutor;

26. Any park ranger under the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation

Department or any game warden or reserve game warden employed by the

Department of Wildlife Conservation who is elected or appointed to a

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local board of education or to a municipal governing body, board,

commission, or similar entity;

27. Members of the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority,

the Oklahoma State University Medical Trust, or the State Board of

Osteopathic Examiners;

28. Any member of the state Legislature or any state officer

who serves on the board of trustees of the Oklahoma School for the

Visual and Performing Arts;

29. Members of the Council on Judicial Complaints;

30. A campus police officer who is elected as a member of the

governing board of a town or municipality that is outside of the

town or municipality where the person serves as a campus police

officer; and

31. Any person who is a state employee but not a member of the

state military forces, including district attorneys, assistant

district attorneys, district court judges, associate district court

judges, and special judges, when detailed as a military trial judge

pursuant to Section 826 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes or when

serving as an appellate military judge pursuant to Section 866 of

Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes when the Military Court of Appeals

is convened. The rules of procedure prescribed by the State Judge

Advocate pursuant to subsection L of Section 866 of Title 44 of the

Oklahoma Statutes shall define what constitutes the Military Court

of Appeals being “convened” for purposes of this paragraph.

The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any person

holding an office under the laws of the state or any deputy of any

officer so holding any office from serving upon the board of

Oklahoma Futures or upon the board of directors of the Oklahoma

Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. The

provisions of this section shall not prohibit a member of the board

of directors of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science

and Technology from serving upon the board of Oklahoma Futures.

B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section,

salaries, emoluments, or benefits that would otherwise be paid by

the agency or political subdivision to a loaned employee or officer

shall instead be paid to the regular employer of such employee. The

loaned employee shall in turn be paid regular salary and benefits

the same as if continuing regular employment with the permanent

employer.

C. Any person excepted pursuant to paragraph 31 of subsection A

of this section, when retained as a military trial judge or when

serving as a military appellate judge when the Military Court of

Appeals is convened, shall be entitled to military judicial leave in

accordance with Section 209 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

R.L. 1910, § 4274. Amended by Laws 1929, c. 255, p. 363, § 1; Laws

1939, p. 22, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1939; Laws 1981, c. 47, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 13, 1981; Laws 1986, c. 207, § 54, operative July

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1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 222, § 116, operative July 1, 1987; Laws

1987, c. 236, § 128, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987; Laws 1989, c. 357, §

1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Laws 1990, c. 230, § 1, eff. Sept. 1,

1990; Laws 1991, c. 202, § 1, emerg. eff. May 17, 1991; Laws 1991,

c. 298, § 9, operative July 1, 1991; Laws 1992, c. 43, § 1, eff.

Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1992, c. 373, § 11, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws

1993, c. 331, § 3, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1994, c. 2, § 18, emerg.

eff. March 2, 1994; Laws 1995, c. 127, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27,

1995; Laws 1996, c. 24, § 5, emerg. eff. April 3, 1996; Laws 1997,

c. 317, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 184, § 1, eff.

July 1, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 162, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2001,

c. 33, § 39, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2001, c. 414, § 6, eff. Nov. 1,

2001; Laws 2002, c. 389, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2002; Laws 2003,

c. 387, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 51, § 1, emerg.

eff. April 1, 2004; Laws 2007, c. 170, § 1, emerg. eff. May 31,

2007; Laws 2009, c. 453, § 4; Laws 2010, c. 43, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2010; Laws 2012, c. 118, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 288,

§ 1, emerg. eff. May 15, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 269, § 1; Laws 2016, c.

297, § 1, eff. July 1, 2016; Laws 2017, c. 75, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2017; Laws 2018, c. 304, § 17, emerg. eff. May 10, 2018; Laws 2021,

c. 12, § 27, emerg. eff. April 13, 2021; Laws 2025, c. 378, § 1,

eff. Nov. 1, 2025.

NOTE: Laws 1992, c. 2, § 2 repealed by Laws 1992, c. 373, § 22,

eff. July 1, 1992. Laws 1993, c. 330, § 22 repealed by Laws 1994,

c. 2, § 34, emerg. eff. March 2, 1994. Laws 2001, c. 19, § 1

repealed by Laws 2001, c. 414, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2001. Laws 2017,

c. 114, § 1 repealed by Laws 2018, c. 304, § 18, emerg. eff. May 10,

2018.