Opinion No. 80-173 (1981) Ag

The Attorney General has received your request for an opinion in which you ask: ". . . whether the provisions of Senate Bill 401 providing for `additional, nongermane duty' for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and authorizing compensation therefore is violative of Article XXIII, Section 10, of the Oklahoma Constitution?" Senate Bill No. 401 ("SB 401") to which you refer was enacted as Laws 1980, c. 318, 1, et seq. The provisions of SB 401 include inter alia appropriations to the State Board of Education and, codified at 70 O.S. 3-108 [70-3-108] (1980), the following: SECTION 4.…