The Department of Public Safety shall establish or provide for a Legal Division and the Commissioner may employ attorneys as needed, which may be on full-time or part-time basis, which attorneys, in addition to advising the Commissioner, Highway Patrol and other Department personnel on legal matters, may appear for and represent the Commissioner, Highway Patrol and Department in administrative hearings and other legal actions and proceedings. Provided, that it shall continue to be the duty of the Attorney General to give his official opinion to the Commissioner and to prosecute and defend actions therefor, if requested to do so. Laws 1971, c. 354, § 7, operative July 1, 1971.
Oklahoma Legal Code