2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 70. Schools
§70-1210.453. Rule making authority - Hiring policy - Prohibition of campus summer arts camp programs.

A. The board of trustees of the Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts shall have the authority to adopt rules necessary to comply with the provisions of Sections 1210.451 through 1210.453 of this title and any other requirements placed upon the board of trustees by law.

B. It is the intent of the Oklahoma Legislature that the board of trustees of the Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts establish a hiring policy for the Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts which provides that applicants for employment positions with the school who are residents of this state shall be given priority for employment over applicants who are not residents of this state if all other qualifications are equal.

C. The Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts shall not offer any campus summer arts camp programs for students in grades nine through twelve during the period between the end of the regular spring semester of the school and the beginning of the regular fall semester of the school. For purposes of this section, "campus summer arts camp programs" means programs in which students are residentially housed as a group for two (2) weeks or less by the school. The provisions of this subsection shall not be enforced if either the Oklahoma Arts Institute, a nonprofit organization which is funded in part by private and state funds and utilizes the Quartz Mountain Arts and Conference Center and Nature Park for a fine arts institute and continuing education programs, or the Oklahoma School for the Visual and Performing Arts is not operating or ceases to exist.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 453, § 3. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 260, § 1.