Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-1118: Hiring or contracting of licensed public water supply or

wastewater operators.

A. A municipality, sewer improvement district, water or sewer

public trust, or rural water or sewer district may hire or contract

for the services of one or more operators, properly licensed and

certified by the Department of Environmental Quality, to operate the

entity’s publicly owned public water supply or wastewater systems.

The entity may contract with a small publicly owned water supply

system or small publicly owned wastewater system to provide the

services of the entity’s certified operator or operators to assist

in the operation of the small system.

B. A consortium of small publicly owned water supply systems or

small publicly owned wastewater systems may hire or contract for the

services of one or more operators, properly licensed and certified

by the Department, to provide certified operator services for those

small publicly owned public water supply or wastewater systems.

C. A substate planning district may hire or contract for the

services of one or more operators, properly licensed and certified

by the Department, to provide certified operator services for small

publicly owned public water supply or wastewater systems within the

substate planning district.

D. The Oklahoma Rural Water Association may hire or contract

for the services of one or more operators, properly licensed and

certified by the Department, to provide certified operator services

for small publicly owned public water supply or waste water systems.

E. The Environmental Quality Board shall adopt rules defining a

small system for purposes of this section, and establishing such

requirements, restrictions and conditions relating to the hiring and

contracting of operators as it deems necessary to ensure proper

operation of publicly owned public water supply or wastewater

systems.