§ 11-49-135. Employment of persons over forty-five prohibited - Exceptions - Reemployment.

No person shall be employed in a fire department who has reached the age of forty-five (45) years, unless it appears he shall become eligible for retirement at the age of sixty-five (65) years, or unless he be retired from a municipal fire department in the State of Oklahoma.  This section shall not apply to professional engineers, or to persons employed as technical specialists on a temporary basis.  The State Board shall be authorized to establish the maximum age, within the limits herein prescribed, over which an applicant may not be considered for initial employment, but no person shall be prohibited from making application for reemployment and having such reemployment application considered merely because of his age, provided that such person be under the age of forty-five (45) years, and provided further, that such reemployment shall be with the consent of the fire chief of such municipality.

Laws 1977, c. 256, § 49-135, eff. July 1, 1978; Laws 1980, c. 352, § 46, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.