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7 OK Stat § 7-71 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 7. Blind Persons|§7-71. Activities to promote business opportunities - Vending facilities - Gambling.

|A. For purposes of assisting blind persons to become self-supporting, the State Department of Rehabilitation Services is hereby authorized to carry on activities to promote business opportunities for individuals who are blind, including, but not limited to, the licensing and establishment of such persons as operators of vending facilities in public and other buildings. Facilities shall maximize job opportunities for other persons who are blind. |B. The Department shall be the sole state licensing agency for the purpose of implementing and carrying out the provisions of the Act of Congress known as the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 USCA Sections 107-107f), and amendments thereto, providing for the licensing of individuals who are blind to operate vending facilities in federal buildings, or any other Acts of Congress which may be hereafter enacted. Provided, that no game of chance or gambling machine shall be operated. The Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the Department shall administer this program.Added by Laws 1937, p. 55, § 1. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 127, § 1, emerg. eff. March 31, 1978; Laws 1997, c. 89, § 1, emerg. eff. April 11, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 107, § 1, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2019, c. 51, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
7 OK Stat § 7-72 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 7. Blind Persons|§7-72. Definitions.

|For purposes of Chapter 4 of this title: |1. "Vending facility" means automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snackbars, cart service, shelters, counters, and such other appropriate auxiliary equipment which may be operated by blind licensees and which is necessary for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco products, food, beverages, and other articles or services dispensed automatically or manually and prepared on or off the premises in accordance with all applicable health laws;2. "Net proceeds" means the amount remaining from the sale of articles or services of vending facilities, and any vending machine or other income accruing to blind vendors after deducting the cost of such sale and other expenses, excluding set-aside charges required to be paid by such vendors;3. "Blind person" means a person having a visual acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye, with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees (20°); and4. "Satisfactory site" means an area fully accessible to vending facility patrons, with sufficient electrical, plumbing, heating, and ventilation outlets for the location and operation of a vending facility in accordance with applicable health laws and building codes, to contain space necessary for proper vending facility service.Added by Laws 1937, p. 55, § 2. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 127, § 2, emerg. eff. March 31, 1978; Laws 1997, c. 89, § 2, emerg. eff. April 11, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 107, § 2, eff. July 1, 1998.
7 OK Stat § 7-73 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 7. Blind Persons|§7-73. Operation of vending facilities on state or county property - License - Free space - Exceptions.

|A. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county and the governing boards of all state institutions, state agencies and state or county public trust authorities, with regard to the premises of county or state property under their respective jurisdictions or the premises of property leased by them in whole or in part, to give priority to vending facilities operated by licensed blind operators and established by the State Department of Rehabilitation Services. Governing boards shall observe such priority by entering into an agreement with the Department. Operators shall be licensed by the Department. |B. Governing boards shall make available free of any charge, fee, assessment or commission on sales adequate space with sufficient electrical, plumbing, heating and ventilation outlets for the operation of a vending facility on satisfactory sites. Governing boards shall provide free of any charge, fee, assessment or commission on sales the use of utilities needed to operate a vending facility.C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the operation of fairgrounds, exposition centers, trade/consumer show facilities, pari-mutuel horse racing facilities as licensed by the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission, parks, golf courses, hospitals operated by county trust authorities, commissaries for the benefit of persons lawfully confined in the county jail under the custody of the county sheriff or the State Capitol Building and grounds; provided, that vending machines within the State Capitol Building shall be subject to the provisions of subsections A and B of this section.Added by Laws 1937, p. 56, § 3, emerg. eff. April 29, 1937. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 127, § 3, emerg. eff. March 31, 1978; Laws 1997, c. 89, § 3, emerg. eff. April 11, 1997; Laws 2000, c. 331, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2016, c. 91, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2017, c. 263, § 1.
7 OK Stat § 7-75 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 7. Blind Persons|§7-75. Payments into set-aside fund - Reimbursement for initial stock of merchandise.

|A. Every vending facility operator shall be required to pay monthly into the set-aside fund as provided for in the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C., Section 107.b(3)). The Department is hereby authorized to fix the amount to be paid by such operator, which amount shall be based upon the performance of the facility and the ability of the operator to pay. The amount shall be on a sliding scale of zero percent (0%) to not more than twelve percent (12%) of the net proceeds of the vending facility during any one (1) month, and shall be paid to the Department. |B. Any operator who is furnished an initial stock of merchandise by the Department shall be required to reimburse the Department for all amounts so expended. Such reimbursement shall be payable in monthly installments of not less than two percent (2%) nor more than five percent (5%) of the gross sales of the vending facility during any one (1) month, until all amounts expended by the Department for such purpose are repaid in full.Added by Laws 1937, p. 56, § 6. Amended by Laws 1937, p. 56, § 1; Laws 1978, c. 127, § 5, emerg. eff. March 31, 1978; Laws 1997, c. 89, § 6, emerg. eff. April 11, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 107, § 3, eff. July 1, 1998.
7 OK Stat § 7-78 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 7. Blind Persons|§7-78. State Committee of Blind Vendors.

|There is hereby created a committee of five (5) vendors who are blind to be known as the State Committee of Blind Vendors. The Department of Rehabilitation Services shall provide for the biennial election of the Committee which, to the extent possible, shall be fully representative of all vendors who are blind in the state program on the basis of such factors as geography and the vending facility type with a goal of providing for proportional representation of vendors who are blind on federal property and vendors who are blind on other property. The Committee shall have the responsibility of participation with the Department in major administrative decisions and policy and program development decisions affecting the overall administration of the state's vending facility program, receiving and transmitting to the Department grievances at the request of vendors who are blind, and serve as advocates for vendors in connection with such grievances. The Committee shall actively participate in the development and administration of a transfer and promotion system for licensees who are blind, and for their training and retraining. |Added by Laws 1978, c. 127, § 7, emerg. eff. March 31, 1978. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 89, § 7, emerg. eff. April 11, 1997.
8 OK Stat § 8-1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-1. Laws governing - Powers and duties.

|Every cemetery corporation formed under the laws of the Territory or State of Oklahoma, shall be governed under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, and have such power conferred upon it and be subject to such duties as may be provided by the laws of the state. |R.L.1910, § 380.
8 OK Stat § 8-1a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-1a. Burial charges - Failure to pay.

|Every cemetery in this state shall have the power to establish and impose reasonable charges for the burial of persons in the cemetery, unless prohibited by law. Failure to pay such charges shall be a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punishable by a fine of not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). The provisions of this section shall not authorize a cemetery other than those cemeteries owned, maintained or operated by municipalities in this state to impose additional charges not specifically authorized by written contract upon any person for burial if said cemetery has already sold the cemetery lot where such burial is to occur. |Added by Laws 1983, c. 299, § 1, emerg. eff. June 24, 1983.
8 OK Stat § 8-2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-2. Fraternal and church cemeteries.

|Any cemetery organized or controlled by any fraternal organization or church society or congregation shall be managed and controlled as provided by its rules and bylaws. |R.L.1910, § 381.
8 OK Stat § 8-3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-3. Real estate-Limitation on amount-Sale of lots-Other property-Application of income.

|May hold real estate. Every cemetery corporation has power to purchase or take by gift, grant or devise and to hold real property not exceeding eighty (80) acres for the sole use and purpose of a burial ground and to lay out the same into blocks and lots with convenient avenues and walks and to sell the lots for the sole use and purpose of burying the dead; and it may own and hold such other real and personal property as the legitimate, necessary or proper purposes of the corporation may require and all income therefrom shall be applied as hereinafter provided for the payment of the debts of the corporation and the improvement and ornamentation of its burial ground and for investment. |R.L.1910, § 382; Laws 1915, c. 261, § 1.
8 OK Stat § 8-3.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-3.1. Definitions.

|As used in Sections 1 through 37 of Title 8 of the Oklahoma Statutes: |1. “Lot” means a tract of land or space used to inter one deceased individual; and2. “Plot” means a tract of land made up of more than one burial lot.Added by Laws 2008, c. 47, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
8 OK Stat § 8-4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-4. Surveys - Plat - Acknowledgment - Recording - Fee.

|Surveys and Plat. Such corporation shall cause its land, or such portion thereof as may from time to time become necessary for that purpose, to be surveyed into lots, plots, avenues and walks and platted, upon which plat every lot shall be regularly numbered and said plat shall be acknowledged and shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk, but the fee for said recording shall not exceed the actual cost of the work of recording plus Two Dollars ($2.00). |R.L. 1910, § 383. Amended by Laws 1915, c. 261, § 2; Laws 2008, c. 47, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
8 OK Stat § 8-5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-5. Powers.

|Such corporation has power to inclose, improve and embellish its grounds, avenues and walks, and to erect buildings or vaults for its use, and to prescribe in its bylaws, rules for the sale, inclosure and ornamentation of lots and for erecting monuments or gravestones thereon; and to prohibit any use, division, improvement or ornamentation of any lot which the corporation may deem improper; and to make other bylaws and acts to the end that all the appliances and conveniences and benefits of a public and private cemetery may be obtained and secured. |R.L.1910, § 384.
8 OK Stat § 8-6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-6. Lots - Inalienability - Descent - Release of interests.

|Whenever an interment is made in any lot as defined in Section 1 of this act, while any person is buried on that lot, that individual lot becomes forever inalienable, and descends in regular line of succession to the heirs at law of the owner, but any one or more of such heirs may release to any other of said heirs his or her interests in the same, and any other joint owners may release to each other in like manner. |R.L. 1910, § 385. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 47, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
8 OK Stat § 8-7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-7. Exemptions.

|All the property of every such benevolent corporation, and the lots sold by it to individual proprietors, shall be exempt from taxation, assessment, lien, attachment, and from levy and sale upon execution; and all such real property shall be exempt from appropriation for streets, roads, or any other public uses or purposes. |R.L.1910, § 386.
8 OK Stat § 8-8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-8. Appropriation of net proceeds from lot sales.

|The proceeds arising from the sale of lots, after deducting all expenses of purchasing, inclosing, laying out and improving the ground, and of erecting buildings, shall be exclusively applied, appropriated and used in protecting, preserving, improving and embellishing the cemetery and its appurtenances, and to paying the necessary expenses of the corporation and must not be appropriated to any purpose of profit to the corporation or its members. |R.L.1910, § 387.
8 OK Stat § 8-9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-9. Retention of portion of proceeds by benevolent, religious and charitable institutions.

|Benevolent, religious and charitable institutions which own, maintain and operate cemeteries under the laws of this state shall be permitted to retain ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds of all lots sold by such an institution for the purpose of interment; and any sum so retained may be used by it in any manner which may further its legitimate objects. |Laws 1910-11, c. 17, p. 34, Section 1.
8 OK Stat § 8-10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-10. Payment of debts and obligations.

|Debts must be paid. At least fifty percent (50%) of the gross proceeds of sales of blocks, lots, plots, or graves must be applied as often as every six (6) months to the payment of the debts and obligations of such corporation as long as such debts and obligations exist. |R.L. 1910, § 388. Amended by Laws 1915, c. 261, § 3; Laws 2008, c. 47, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
8 OK Stat § 8-11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-11. Rights of lot owners in old grounds.

|When grounds purchased or otherwise acquired for cemetery purposes have been previously used as a burial ground, those who are lot owners at the time of the purchase continue to own the same and are members of the corporation, as hereinafter provided, with all the privileges the purchase of a corporation confers. |R.L.1910, § 389.
8 OK Stat § 8-12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-12. Election of officers - Votes and eligibility of lot owners - Control by original corporators or successors.

|At each subsequent election of officers of any such corporation, held after the first annual election, the owner or owners of a lot in the cemetery, and none other, shall be entitled to one vote at such election, or for any other purpose, and no more than one vote; and shall, by virtue of such proprietorship, be a member of the corporation, and eligible to any of its offices; but if there be more than one proprietor of any such lot, then such one of the proprietors as the majority of them shall designate may cast the one vote as aforesaid; and each trustee or director shall be the sole proprietor of a lot in such cemetery: Provided, that whenever less than five (5) persons reside within five miles of any cemetery own lots therein, the original corporators or their successors may control and manage said cemetery. |R.L.1910, § 390.
8 OK Stat § 8-13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-13. Superintendent - Duties - Election - Term - Eligibility - Supervision and control - Salary.

|In addition to the other officers of such corporation, it shall have an officer, known as its superintendent, whose duty it shall be to care for and protect the grounds of such cemetery and its appurtenances, and to enforce its bylaws, in relation to its grounds, and to superintend the making of repairs and the construction of improvements and the maintenance of all permanent improvements, or embellishments of every kind, which tends to beautify such cemetery or render it convenient for such use, or preserve it permanently as a burying ground for the dead. Such superintendent shall be elected at the same time the other officers of such corporation are elected, and shall hold his office for the same length of time as the president thereof, and shall be the owner of at least one lot in the cemetery, and shall be under the direct supervision, and control of the board of directors. The salary of such superintendent shall be fixed by the bylaws of such corporation. |R.L.1910, § 391; Laws 1915, c. 27, § 1.
8 OK Stat § 8-14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-14. Trustees or directors - Regular meetings - Election of officers - Appropriation of lot sale proceeds - Special meetings.

|Meetings of board of directors. The board of trustees or directors of such corporation shall hold a regular meeting without notice immediately following the annual meeting of the members on the first Tuesday in July of each and every year, at which meeting it shall elect a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and shall ascertain the amount received from the sale of lots during the six (6) months immediately preceding such meeting and enter the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall set aside by proper resolution not less than one-half (1/2) of such receipts for the purposes set forth in section 387 and shall transact such other business as may come before the meeting. Special meetings may be held at any time upon call of the president or a majority of the trustees or directors and upon written notice, mailed to each member of the board at least five (5) days before the meeting or upon written consent of all the members of the board. |R.L.1910, § 392; Laws 1915, c. 261, § 4.
8 OK Stat § 8-15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-15. Members' meetings - Notices - Quorum - Special meetings.

|Annual meeting of members. The annual meeting of the members of such cemetery association shall be held each year as set by its board of directors or other applicable organization for the purpose of electing directors and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. Notice of the meeting must be given by the secretary by publication in a newspaper published in the county and in the city or town nearest to the corporation's cemetery at least two (2) weeks and not more than four (4) weeks prior to the date of such meeting; five (5) members shall constitute a quorum; special meetings may be held upon like notice; provided that if the members number less than fifty then the notices may be given by mailing the same to the members directed to the nearest post office to the location of the cemetery. |R.L.1910, § 393. Amended by Laws 1915, c. 261, § 5; Laws 2019, c. 170, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
8 OK Stat § 8-16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-16. Trustees' or directors' powers and duties - Accounts - Regulations - Payment of debts - Application of lot sale proceeds.

|Duties of trustees or directors. The trustees or directors shall have the direction and control of the cemetery and other property of the corporation and shall have such other powers and duties not inconsistent with the provisions of this article as the trustees or directors of other corporations not for profit under the law of the State of Oklahoma. They shall require a strict accounting to be kept of all monies received and expended on behalf of said corporation, look after and manage the affairs and fiscal concerns thereof, and see that all proper regulations are made for the proper conduct, maintenance and improvement of said cemetery, and shall also see that the debts and obligations of said corporation are paid as fast as the fifty percent of the gross proceeds of sales of lots, as provided by law, will permit, and shall also see that the other fifty percent of such proceeds are strictly applied to the maintenance, preservation, care and improvement of said cemetery, including the payment of the salary of the superintendent, and such other help as he may require. |R.L.1910, § 394; Laws 1915, c. 261, § 6. R.L.1910, § 394; Laws 1915, c. 261, § 6.
8 OK Stat § 8-17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-17. Investment of surplus funds - Tax exemption - Preservation of properties and funds.

|Any surplus funds which said corporation may have in its treasury shall be invested by the board of directors in some perfectly secure real estate or securities, all of which shall be exempt from taxation, as is the property of other public corporations, and the board of directors shall exercise the best of care in the preservation of said properties and funds and the accumulation thereof, to the end that provisions may be made for the perpetual maintenance of said cemetery and the improvement, embellishing, beautifying and taking care thereof, for which purposes all of the funds of said corporation, after the payment of its debts, shall at all times be subject, to be applied. |R.L.1910, § 395.
8 OK Stat § 8-18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-18. Violation of provisions - Penalties.

|Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Twenty-five nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months in jail. |R.L.1910, § 396.
8 OK Stat § 8-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-31. Conveyance to Board of County Commissioners - Conveyance to corporation when formed.

|The owner of land, any part of which has been used for human burial and no cemetery corporation, including the same, has been formed, as is now provided by law, to which title can be made, may convey or devise any designated part or the whole of such land, together with roads and rights of way for the ingress and egress of the public and persons interested, to the Board of County Commissioners of the County in which such land is situated, in trust, for the use of the local community for cemetery purposes, and when any cemetery corporation has been formed for any such land so held in trust, the Board of County Commissioners shall, without charge or fee, convey the said land and such right of way and road, if any has been reserved, to such cemetery corporation. |Laws 1949, p. 51, § 1.
8 OK Stat § 8-36 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-36. Refusal of interment because of race, color or national origin prohibited.

|It shall be unlawful for any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, organization, association or any other entity of any type to deny, refuse or prohibit the interment, entombment or burial of the remains of any deceased person in any cemetery, whether owned publicly or privately, because of the race, color or national origin of such deceased person. |Laws 1971, c. 267, § 1.
8 OK Stat § 8-37 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 8. Cemeteries|§8-37. Agreements void.

|Provisions in any contract, agreement, deed or charter and any bylaw, rule, restriction, covenant or regulation adopted or put in force either subsequent or prior to the effective date of this act authorizing, permitting or requiring the denial, refusal or prohibition of the privilege of interment, entombment or burial because of race, color or national origin of any deceased person are hereby declared to be null and void, unenforceable and in conflict with the public policy of this state. |Laws 1971, c. 267, § 2.