Oklahoma § 70-4423 - Redlands Community College - Carl Albert State College Seminole State College - Rose State College - Oklahoma City

§ 70-4423. Redlands Community College - Carl Albert State College Seminole State College - Rose State College - Oklahoma City

Community College.

A. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education are hereby

authorized and directed to maintain two-year colleges at El Reno,

which shall be known as the Redlands Community College, at Poteau,

which shall be known as the Carl Albert State College, at Seminole,

which shall be known as the Seminole State College, at Midwest City,

which shall be known as the Rose State College, and in South

Oklahoma City, which shall be known as the Oklahoma City Community

College; and, each of said colleges shall be an integral and fullfledged part of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education.

B. Each of the colleges which at the time it became a member of

the State System was operating a technical area school district

program to carry out the function of postsecondary technical

education for the people of the district shall continue to do so as

then operated and in accordance with Section 4410 of this title, and

all property acquired by virtue of the technical area school

district operation shall remain as property of the technical area

school district and be maintained in the custody of the Board of

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 70. Schools

Regents of the college acting as the governing board of the

technical area school district for use by the postsecondary area

district program.

C. For each of the colleges above named and identified, there

shall be created a separate Board of Regents, and said Board of

Regents shall consist of seven (7) members to serve seven-year

overlapping terms, with members of said Board to be appointed by the

Governor by and with the advice and consent of the State Senate.

Each Board shall have the same powers and duties as the Board of

Regents of Tulsa Community College. Four members of the Board of

Regents for the colleges located at El Reno, Poteau and Seminole

shall be from the county in which said college is located. Four

members of the Board of Regents for Rose State College shall be

residents of the original district of the college. Four members of

the Board of Regents for Oklahoma City Community College shall be

residents of South Oklahoma City. For purposes of this section,

“South Oklahoma City” shall mean the original district of Oklahoma

City Community College and the portion of Oklahoma City that lies in

Cleveland County and is bounded on the west by County Line Road and

on the east by Bryant Avenue.

With respect to Rose State College and Oklahoma City Community

College, it is further provided that the college and its governing

Board of Regents shall continue to operate the technical area school

district program to carry out the function of postsecondary

technical education for the people of the technical education school

district as now operated, and in accordance with Section 4410 of

this title.

Added by Laws 1973, c. 209, § 16, emerg. eff. May 18, 1973. Amended

by Laws 1974, c. 33, § 1, emerg. eff. April 11, 1974; Laws 1983, c.

16, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1990, c. 218, § 8, emerg. eff. May

18, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 61, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1996, c.

171, § 2, emerg. eff. May 14, 1996; Laws 2007, c. 72, § 1, eff. July

1, 2007; Laws 2008, c. 3, § 47, emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 2008.

NOTE: Laws 1996, c. 276, § 10 repealed by Laws 2008, c. 3, § 48,

emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 2008.