1. A. The Oklahoma Children’s Hospital including its clinics and laboratories is hereby designated as a service institution for persons under twenty-one (21) years of age and shall have the authority to extend services to persons twenty-one (21) years or older. The Oklahoma Children’s Hospital shall also serve as a teaching and training hospital for the School of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma.
2. B. The University Hospitals Authority shall be obligated, insofar as practicable, to use the available facilities of the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital to a degree that will enable the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine to maintain its proper patient ratio for accreditation; provided, that this provision shall not cause undue hardship to a patient.

Laws 1959, HB 782, p.32, § 12, emerg eff. July 15, 1959; Amended by Laws 1988, HB 1631, c. 326, § 1, emerg. eff. July 13, 1988; Amended by Laws 2012, HB 3079, c. 304, § 32 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2021, SB 406, c. 285, § 1, eff. November 1, 2021 (superseded document available).