Okla. Stat. tit. 43A, § 43A-5-202: Confinement of persons alleged or adjudged mentally

ill, alcohol-dependent or drug-dependent.

When any person alleged in any court to be mentally ill,

alcohol-dependent, or drug-dependent, or shall have been adjudged to

be mentally ill, alcohol-dependent, or drug-dependent and shall be

in the legal custody of the county sheriff as prescribed by law, if

such person has not been charged with commission of a crime, the

said county sheriff is hereby authorized to confine such person in a

place other than the county jail to be selected by said county

sheriff and to transport such person to the place selected; provided

that such confinement shall be in a place and manner so as to

prevent such confined person from in any way endangering himself or

any other person. The county is hereby directed to expend such

funds as may be necessary to provide for such confinement outside

the county jail. Specific authority is hereby granted the county

sheriff and the county commissioners to enter into a contract with a

nursing home or facility as a place of detention. Other departments

and agencies of the state may not interfere with nor deter, in any

manner, this right to contract.