A part of the salary, not to exceed the exclusion allowances provided in Section 403(b)(2), Internal Revenue Code, payable to any employee of the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities may, at the request of the employee, be paid by the purchase of an annuity contract from any insurance company authorized to do business in Oklahoma by the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities for the employee, and the employee shall be entitled to have such annuity contract continued in force in succeeding years by the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities. The amounts so contributed or paid by the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities for the annuity contract, or to continue it in force, shall be considered as payment of salary, for the same amounts, to the employee for State Retirement purposes, State Aid purposes, or Social Security purposes, but not for State Income Tax purposes. Provided that the amount received under such annuity contracts shall be income subject to state income tax when actually received.
Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 485.10