Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-957: Employee defined

An "employee", as used Sections 951 through 962 of this title,

shall include the elected or appointed salaried officials and

regular full-time salaried employees of a county, and shall also

include regular full-time employees of the county board of library

trustees, county employees whose salaries are paid in whole or in

part from the court fund of such county, employees of county circuit

engineering districts, and employees of any public trust created

pursuant to law in which the county is the sole beneficiary of the

public trust, if approved by the board of county commissioners.