Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1710

If, pursuant to the laws of Oklahoma or of any charter provision

or ordinance of a city which participates in a city-county, county,

district, or cooperative health department, as authorized by the

Oklahoma Public Health Code, a retirement system is established for

the employees of a participating city, the employees of the city-

county, county, district, or cooperative health department may be

included in that retirement system on the same basis applicable to

employees of the participating city, provided the applicable Board

of Health so recommends and the State Commissioner of Health, the

board of county commissioners, and the governing body of the city

which created and operates such health department approve. Nothing

otherwise provided by law shall operate to prohibit the

appropriation of county funds for the payment of the pro rata share

of the contribution to be made to the city or county retirement fund

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on behalf of the employees of the applicable health department. In

the event funds become available for public health purposes pursuant

to the provisions of Section 9a, Article X of the Oklahoma

Constitution and 63 O.S.Supp.1963, Sections 1-223 through 1-226, the

contribution on behalf of the employees of the applicable health

department may be paid from such funds; provided further, that an

employee of the city-county, county, district, or cooperative health

department shall not participate in more than one of the city,

county, or state retirement systems.

1965, c. 102, § 1, emerg. eff. May 12, 1965.