Special maintenance projects under One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) may be performed and carried out by state special maintenance crews, who may also carry out projects above said amount, if in the judgment of the Transportation Commission the same shall be in the best interests of the State of Oklahoma, except that special maintenance projects involving asphaltic material overlay may be let to contract if the same shall be in the best interests of the state in the judgment of the Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1510