Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-2-105B: Position of Chaplain

Subject to the availability of funds, the Commissioner of Public

Safety or the Chief of the Highway Patrol Division is authorized to

employ a Chaplain within the Department of Public Safety for the

purpose of providing counseling services to employees or immediate

family members thereof when such counseling services are needed as a

direct result of such employee’s performance of official duties and

to carry out any other duties and responsibilities assigned by the

Commissioner or the Chief of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The

position of Chaplain shall be an unclassified position with salary

and benefits set by the Commissioner not to exceed the salary of a

Highway Patrolmen at the rank of Trooper with fifteen (15) years of

service to the Department of Public Safety. “Chaplain” means an

ordained or authorized pastor, minister, priest or other

ecclesiastical dignitary of any denomination who has been duly

ordained or authorized by the church to which such person belongs.