Any community maintaining a community junior college as provided by Chapter 100, O.S.L. 1967 (70 O.S.Supp. 1967 Sections 4401 - 4409), in which courses in vocational and/or technical education are to be offered, and meeting the published standards and criteria prescribed by law and/or the State Board for Vocational Education for establishing an area school district may, by resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of the college, become an area school district; and laws applicable to other area school districts, including laws authorizing tax levies and laws pertaining to eligibility for participation in federal funds, shall be applicable to such district, except that in lieu of a board of education its governing board shall be the Board of Trustees of the community junior college; provided that the provision above shall also be applicable to all community and municipal junior colleges now in existence in Oklahoma.

Laws 1968, c. 278, § 1, emerg. eff. May 2, 1968.