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Okla. Stat. tit. 37A, § 37A-1-111: State officers and employees - Involvement in alcoholic

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beverage business - State lodges.

A. Employees of the State of Oklahoma and its political

subdivisions are hereby permitted to obtain licenses from the ABLE

Commission and to be involved in the alcoholic beverage business

unless such involvement and licensing is prohibited by law.

B. The following officers and employees of the State of

Oklahoma and its political subdivisions are hereby prohibited from

engaging in the alcoholic beverage business:

1. All judges, district attorneys, assistant district attorneys

and any public official who sits in a judicial capacity with

jurisdiction over the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

2. With the exception of those peace officers who are working

as off-duty security, all employees certified as peace officers

engaging in law enforcement activities; and

3. All employees of the Oklahoma Tax Commission who engage in

the auditing, enforcement and collection of alcoholic beverage

taxes.

C. The holding of membership or elective or appointed office in

fraternal organizations which obtain mixed beverage or bottle club

licenses by employees of the state or a political subdivision shall

not be considered to be engagement in the alcoholic beverage

business.

D. If the voters of a county in which a state lodge is located

approve sale of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-

premises consumption, then such sale of alcoholic beverages on the

premises of such lodge shall be authorized if a license for such

sale, issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic

Beverage Control Act, is obtained. Provided, further, that a bottle

club may be licensed on the premises of a state lodge located in a

county where sale of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for

on-premises consumption is not authorized.

E. The provisions of subsection D of this section shall not

prohibit the state or a political subdivision of the state from

leasing a public building or facility to a person who obtains a

mixed beverage license, bottle club license, special event license,

contracts for the services of a licensed caterer or subleases the

building or facility to a person who obtains a mixed beverage

license, bottle club license, special event license or contracts for

the services of a licensed caterer.

F. Provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the

sale of alcoholic beverages legally confiscated as provided by law.

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