No professional service contract shall be awarded by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) to support a basic or applied plant science research project unless: 1. The investigators are residents of this state or become residents of this state before the ninetieth day after a professional service contract, pursuant to which they will be functioning as an investigator, has been funded by OCAST;2. The institutions that administer the professional service contracts are primarily located in this state and are able to assume financial responsibility for professional service contracts; and3. The professional service contract will not be transferred to any other institutions within the state without the approval of OCAST and will not be transferred to an institution outside of the State of Oklahoma at any time.Added by Laws 2006, c. 297, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
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