§ 74-840-5.8. Oklahoma Tax Commission.

A.  The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall be under the Merit System.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, all offices, positions and personnel shall be classified and subject to the provisions of the Merit System of Personnel Administration and rules promulgated hereunder.  This section shall supersede and repeal any and all executive orders issued pursuant to the Oklahoma Personnel Act to place the agency or its predecessors under the Merit System.

B.  In addition to offices, positions and personnel that are unclassified pursuant to Section 840-5.5 of this title, the following offices, positions and personnel shall be in the unclassified service:

1.  One private secretary for each Tax Commissioner; all revenue administrators, the budget officer and the comptroller of the Tax Commission;

2.  All revenue unit managers;

3.  All Computer Programming Systems Specialist positions;

4.  All Data Processing Programmer Analyst Supervisor and Data Processing Programmer Analyst III positions;

5.  All Public Affairs Officer and Assistant Public Affairs Officer positions;

6.  The Public Information Officer; and

7.  All Tax Economist and Tax Policy Analyst positions.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 242, § 10.  Amended by Laws 1995, c. 309, § 3, eff. July 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 388, § 4, eff. July 1, 1998.