A. The following offices, positions and personnel shall not be considered state employees except as otherwise provided by law:

1. Patient and inmate help in the state charitable, mental and correctional institutions;

2. Persons engaged in public work for the state, but employed by contractors when the performance of such contract is authorized by the Legislature or other competent authority;

3. All employees of all public school districts; and

4. Officers and members of the Oklahoma National Guard, as such.

B. 1. Instructional and administrative personnel, except for superintendents, of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services at the Oklahoma School for the Blind and the Oklahoma School for the Deaf pursuant to Section 1419 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be considered state employees, except they shall not be considered state employees for the purposes of the Oklahoma Personnel Act, unless otherwise provided by law. However, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may categorize such employees as unclassified solely for the purpose of entering and maintaining employment data in the state Personnel Management Information System established pursuant to Section 840-2.13 of this title.

2. The superintendents at the Oklahoma School for the Blind and the Oklahoma School for the Deaf shall be state employees in the unclassified service, subject to the Oklahoma Personnel Act.

Added by Laws 1982, c. 338, § 9, eff. July 1, 1982. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 244, § 5, emerg. eff. June 12, 1986. Renumbered from § 840.9 of this title by Laws 1994, c. 242, § 54. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 269, § 3, eff. July 1, 1995; Laws 2001, c. 381, § 12, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2003, c. 93, § 4, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 916.