A reimbursement in lieu of meal expenses, per day, while in official travel status, in an amount authorized by the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for deductibility of expenses for travel while away from home without additional documentation within the State of Oklahoma and outside the state is authorized. In computing reimbursement for meals a day shall be a period of twenty-four (24) hours. Reimbursement for each one-fourth (1/4) day consisting of six (6) hours or major fraction thereof, more than three (3) hours, may be made at the rate of one-fourth (1/4) of the daily allowable rate. Provided, however, that no reimbursement for meals shall be made for periods which do not include overnight status. If meals and lodging at a meeting, workshop, conference or other object of travel are furnished as a "package plan", reimbursement may be made, based upon a receipt, but at a daily rate of not to exceed the total daily rate provided in this act.

Added by Laws 1972, c. 123, § 8, operative July 1, 1972. Amended by Laws 1974, c. 90, § 3, operative July 1, 1974; Laws 1976, c. 173, § 2, operative July 1, 1976; Laws 1979, c. 239, § 2, eff. July 1, 1979; Laws 1982, c. 147, § 8, emerg. eff. April 12, 1982; Laws 1984, c. 166, § 8, operative July 1, 1984; Laws 1985, c. 7, § 4, eff. July 1, 1985; Laws 1990, c. 264, § 56, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 219, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1995, c. 335, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2001, c. 232, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001.