A. The Oklahoma State Athletic Commission may employ an administrator to oversee the organization and activities of the Commission and to ensure compliance with rules promulgated by the Commission. The administrator shall perform such other duties as the Commission may prescribe. The salary of the administrator shall be set by the Commission. The position of administrator shall be an unclassified position.

B. The Commission may employ an assistant to keep records of all proceedings relating to professional combative sports and amateur mixed martial arts and to preserve all books, documents, and papers belonging to the Commission. The assistant shall perform such other duties as the Commission may prescribe. The Commission may employ such other personnel as necessary, subject to statutory full-time-equivalent (FTE) limits applicable to the State Department of Health.

C. The State Department of Health shall provide administrative support for the Commission, including, but not limited to, office space, equipment, and furnishings, payroll and employee benefit administration and processing, and travel and expense reimbursement, and shall manage the Commission’s funds at the direction of the Commission. The State Department of Health shall be entitled to reimbursement for the actual cost of providing said administrative support to the Commission from the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission Revolving Fund; provided that said reimbursement shall not exceed in any year ten percent (10%) of the total revenue deposited in the fund in the preceding fiscal year received from fees, administrative fines, reimbursements, bond proceeds and sale of materials, but not including cash bonds held in trust by the Commission. Upon a written directive of expenditure from Commission funds signed by a majority of the Commission members or the Commission administrator, the State Department of Health shall process and make payment for said expenditure from Commission funds within fifteen (15) business days of receipt of the written directive from the State Department of Health. All other Commission-directed expenditures shall be processed according to State Department of Health policy.

D. Employees of the Commission shall be considered unclassified employees of the State Department of Health only for the purpose of administrative support provided by the State Department of Health as prescribed in subsection C of this section. Persons employed by the Commission shall serve at the direction and pleasure of the Commission and shall answer directly to the Commission administrator and the Commission.

E. The administrator, the assistant, and any other employees of the Commission or any persons related to said employees within the third degree by either consanguinity or affinity shall be prohibited from promoting, sponsoring, or having any pecuniary interest in any professional combative sports event or amateur mixed martial arts event regulated by the Commission with the exception of medical personnel.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 240, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 202, § 3, emerg. eff. May 19, 1995; Laws 1996, c. 362, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1996; Laws 1999, c. 210, § 5, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2004, c. 184, § 1, emerg. eff. May 3, 2004; Laws 2005, c. 462, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2007, c. 178, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2008, c. 329, § 6, eff. July 1, 2008; Laws 2012, c. 359, § 5.

NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 504 of this title to avoid duplication in numbering.