Okla. Stat. tit. 30, § 30-4-101: Appointment as guardian of more than five wards

prohibited - Exceptions.

No person shall be appointed guardian of any minor or

incapacitated or partially incapacitated person, who is, at the time

of the hearing of the application for appointment, the guardian of

as many as five persons, other than his own family or relatives.

The provisions of this section and Section 4-102 of this title shall

not apply to boards of control and superintendents of eleemosynary

or charitable institutions, under the control and charge of the

state, where under the law such boards of control and

superintendents may be appointed as guardians of the estates, or of

the persons, of those committed to their charge or safekeeping. The

provisions of this section shall not prohibit the appointment of

officers or managers of fraternal or benevolent orders or homes and

church orphanages as to inmates of such institutions. This section

shall in no way alter or repeal the provisions of Section 1001 of

Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or Section 126.4 of Title 72 of

the Oklahoma Statutes.