Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-2-310.1: Injury in the line of duty - Injury Review Board -

Paid leave - Accrual of leave and service credit, deductions.

A. Whenever any member currently working in a position

identified by paragraph 6 of Section 2-300 of this title or Section

2-314 of this title and enrolled in the Oklahoma Law Enforcement

Retirement System is injured in the line of duty, an Injury Review

Board consisting of one member to be appointed by the member's

employer, one member to be appointed by the Director of the Office

of Management and Enterprise Services and one member to be appointed

by the Governor shall convene to determine if the injured member was

actually injured in the line of duty and whether the injured member

should be granted leave because of the injury. The Injury Review

Board may, in its discretion, grant the injured member leave when

necessary, not to exceed one hundred sixty-five (165) working days

for the illness or injury.

B. For the purpose of this section, "illness or injury" shall

include any serious illness or serious injury caused by or

contracted during the performance of the member's duty. Every state

agency which employs persons eligible for membership in the Oklahoma

Law Enforcement Retirement System shall participate in the joint

promulgation of a rule which shall set out mutually agreeable

guidelines for the categorization of an illness or injury as

serious. Upon promulgation of the rule, each of the state agencies

shall individually adopt the rule. The wording of the rule, as

adopted and as amended by the agencies from time to time, shall

remain in conformity for each of the state agencies.

C. The three-member Injury Review Board shall be convened

following a written request submitted by the injured member to the

injured member's employer. The employer shall forward the request

to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

The employer may submit the request on behalf of an injured member.

The Director's appointee shall then convene and chair the Injury

Review Board. The Injury Review Board may request the injured

member to submit to an examination by a physician selected by the

Board at the employer's expense to assist the Board in making a

decision. A decision to grant or deny such paid leave shall be

determined by concurrence in writing of not less than two Injury

Review Board members. If granted, said leave shall be paid by the

employing agency.

D. While such leave is being paid, the employee shall continue

to accrue leave and service credit at the same rate as before the

illness or injury. The employee's portion of health, dental, life

and disability insurance premiums and the employee's contribution to

the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System shall be deducted by

the employing agency from the paid leave and remitted to the

appropriate agencies, in the same manner as before the illness or

injury.