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70 OK Stat § 70-3204 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3204. State Regents - Body corporate - Official seal - officers - Terms - Powers and duties - Proceedings.

|(a) The State Regents shall be a body corporate, and shall adopt an official seal; and all contracts, official documents, awards, degrees or other papers or instruments issued by the State Regents and requiring the official signature of the State Regents shall have the impression of such seal. |(b) The State Regents shall annually elect from its membership a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, and assistant secretary, each of whom shall serve for a term of one (1) fiscal year. The chairman shall be the presiding officer of the State Regents. He shall, on behalf of the State Regents, subscribe the official name thereof, and the secretary shall affix the official seal to all contracts, official documents, awards, degrees or other papers or instruments issued by the State Regents and requiring the official signature of the State Regents. In the absence, disqualification or disability of the chairman or secretary to act, the vice-chairman and assistant secretary shall perform the duties of such respective officers. The officers of the State Regents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the State Regents, which shall also adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to govern its proceedings and the conduct of its business.Laws 1965, c. 396, § 204; Laws 1980, c. 159, § 23, emerg. eff. April 2, 1980.
70 OK Stat § 70-3205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3205. State Regents - Quarters - Personnel - Employee benefits - Revolving fund - Disbursements.

|(a) The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall be furnished suitable permanent quarters by the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority for which the State Regents shall pay an appropriate rental charge and shall appoint and fix the duties and compensation of such personnel as the State Regents deems necessary to perform its functions and duties. Until such time as space can be provided by the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall provide quarters for the State Regents without rental charge. The State Regents may establish and maintain plans for tenure and retirement of its employees and for payment of deferred compensation of such employees, and may provide hospital and medical benefits, accident, health, and life insurance, and annuity contracts for such employees, and pay for all or part of the cost thereof, with funds available for payment of its operating expenses. |(b) Monies received by the State Regents for payment of the cost of maintaining offices, payment of personnel, and other operating expenses shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury, to be known as the "Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Revolving Fund". Such fund shall be a continuing fund not subject to appropriation by the Legislature, and shall be subject to expenditure by and shall be paid out upon the order of the State Regents at such times and in such amounts as the State Regents may direct. Disbursements from such revolving fund shall be by state warrants issued by the State Treasurer.Added by Laws 1965, c. 396, § 205, eff. July 1, 1965. Amended by Laws 1974, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. May 29, 1974; Laws 1983, c. 304, § 70, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 625.
70 OK Stat § 70-3205.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3205.5. State Regents - Student advisory board - Members - Selection.

|A. There is hereby established the student advisory board to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. The board shall be advisory in nature and shall represent the student viewpoint and interests to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. |B. The board shall be composed of seven (7) members. Members shall be elected to serve one-year terms by a vote of delegates to the Oklahoma Student Government Association annual meeting.C. The members shall be enrolled in at least twelve (12) semester credit hours and maintaining a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.8 on a 4.0 point scale and shall be attending the type of institution which the member is elected to represent.D. Members shall be selected as follows:1. Two members shall be elected at large to represent the comprehensive universities within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education;2. Two members shall be elected at large to represent the regional and senior universities within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education;3. Two members shall be elected at large to represent the junior colleges within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education; and4. One member shall be elected at large to represent the accredited independent colleges and universities.E. Members shall take office at the May meeting of the State Regents for Higher Education.Added by Laws 1988, c. 137, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.
70 OK Stat § 70-3205.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3205.6. Student advisory board - Representative to meetings of State Regents - Legislative intent.

|The student advisory board shall designate a representative who may attend all regularly scheduled meetings of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. It is the intention of the Oklahoma Legislature that the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education grant speaking privileges to the members of the student advisory board. |Added by Laws 1988, c. 137, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.1. Uniform course numbering system to be established.

|As provided in Article XIII-A of the Constitution of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Higher Education Code, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall prescribe a system of uniform course numbering for all State Educational Institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. |Laws 1979, H.J.R.No.1016, § 1.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.2. Designation of course numbers.

|All courses of study of the same subject matter, nature, character and content, as determined by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and taught in state educational institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall be designated by identical course numbers. |Laws 1979, H.J.R.No.1016, § 2.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.4. Ownership interest in private enterprise in exchange for research and development.

|A. The Legislature hereby specifically authorizes the board of regents for each of the institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to own an equity interest in a private business enterprise if the equity interest is acquired through an exchange of value other than money and the exchange of value is made in connection with the development of technology by the private business enterprise through the use of facilities or resources or both of an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. Acquisition of an equity interest shall be permissible through the use of the facilities, premises or assets of an institution within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or through the use of faculty expertise or student expertise, including the value of time expended by faculty or students upon developing a technology in connection with a private business enterprise or private business entity. |B. No state-appropriated monies shall be used or obligated to acquire an ownership interest in a private business enterprise except as authorized by the provisions of this section.Added by Laws 1998, c. 211, § 3, emerg. eff. May 18, 1998.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.6. Master lease program - Acquisition of personal property - Refinance of lease obligations.

|The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education may establish a master lease program to finance the acquisition of items of personal property, or refinance or restructure outstanding equipment lease obligations as may be required by or useful to institutions and entities within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education in order to achieve cost-saving efficiencies. The funds used by the Regents for the purposes authorized by this section shall be available for lease transactions having a minimum value of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) and a maximum value of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00). Such leases shall have a term that is no more than the useful life of the personal property acquired by institutions pursuant to the provisions of this section, and, in no event, more than twenty (20) years. The amount of transactions financed in a calendar year through the personal property master lease program shall not exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00). |Added by Laws 2002, c. 2, § 19, emerg. eff. Feb. 15, 2002. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 448, § 2, emerg. eff. June 5, 2002; Laws 2005, c. 2, § 5, emerg. eff. March 31, 2005; Laws 2005, c. 218, § 4, emerg. eff. May 24, 2005; Laws 2008, c. 303, § 1, emerg. eff. June 2, 2008; Laws 2010, c. 262, § 1, eff. July 1, 2010.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.6a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.6a. Master lease program - Acquisition of, improvements to, or refinance of outstanding obligations for real property

|A. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education may finance acquisition of or improvements to, or refinance or restructure outstanding obligations for real property pursuant to the master lease program. The funds used by the Regents for the purposes authorized by this section shall be available for lease transactions having a term that is no more than the useful life of any real property or improvements acquired by institutions pursuant to the provisions of this section, and in no event, more than thirty (30) years. |B. After May 24, 2005, any bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to the approval of the Legislature as provided by this subsection. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall submit an itemized list of the proposed projects and the terms of the financing to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate and all members of the Legislature within the first seven (7) legislative days of an annual legislative session and prior to the time any such obligations are sold. The submission to such elected officials shall occur upon the same date for purposes of computing the time within which action must be taken as further prescribed by this subsection. The Legislature shall have a period of forty-five (45) calendar days from the date on which the information is submitted to pass a concurrent resolution disapproving all or part of the proposed issuance. If the Legislature does not disapprove the proposed issuance by concurrent resolution by the end of the forty-fifth day following the date upon which the proposed issuance is submitted, the proposed issuance shall be deemed to have been approved by the Legislature.C. The amount of transactions financed in a calendar year through the real property master lease program authorized by this section shall not exceed the combined total of:1. The submission described in subsection B of this section, or portion thereof, approved by the Legislature;2. Any issuance for additional proposed individual projects submitted by institutions under the coordination of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and approved by the Legislature; and3. Any projects approved by the Legislature in a prior calendar year for which no financing action was taken in the prior calendar year.Added by Laws 2005, c. 218, § 5, emerg. eff. May 24, 2005. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 303, § 2, emerg. eff. June 2, 2008; Laws 2010, c. 262, § 2, eff. July 1, 2010; Laws 2016, c. 102, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
70 OK Stat § 70-3206.6b (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3206.6b. Master lease program - Revolving lease fund.

|Within the master lease program, the Legislature hereby designates the sum of Twenty-five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) to be a permanent revolving lease fund to be funded by bonds to be issued under the master lease program. It is the intent of the Legislature to make annual appropriations as may be necessary from the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund to retire such bonded indebtedness. Such bonds may be issued on either a taxable or tax-exempt basis. The lien on such Lottery Trust Fund revenues may be subordinate to other pledges of revenue from this fund. Any bonds issued pursuant to this section shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 4 of Enrolled House Bill No. 1191 of the 1st Session of the 50th Oklahoma Legislature. |Added by Laws 2005, c. 218, § 6, emerg. eff. May 24, 2005.
70 OK Stat § 70-3207.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3207.1. Transfer of credits - Development of policies - Legislative intent.

|A. It is the intent of the Legislature that credits earned by students in any institution of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education be fully accepted at any other institution of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and that the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education assume leadership in working with institutional faculty and administrators to ensure that students move smoothly from one level of education to another. Objectives should include development of transfer policies and guides, degree sheets, course equivalencies, and common course numbering. |B. It is the intent of the Legislature that institutions of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, private institutions accredited by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, technology center school districts, schools or training programs licensed, accredited, approved or regulated by any state agency, and private schools licensed by the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools be prohibited from placing statements in documents or brochures given to students or advertising in publications that credits earned at the institution, training program, or school are fully accepted at another institution or school without having a written agreement with the other institution or school stating that the credits will be fully accepted.C. It is the intent of the Legislature that in establishing the minimum required score on an Advanced Placement Examination for granting course credit for a particular lower division course, institutions of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall not require an Advanced Placement Exam score of more than three, except the requirement of an Advanced Placement Exam score of more than three shall be permitted for granting additional course credit for a lower division course or courses sequenced with the initial lower division course. Credit policy regarding all Advanced Placement Exams shall be posted on campus websites effective for the 2021-22 fall academic term and for each academic term thereafter. The institutions of higher education within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall conduct biennial reviews of their Advanced Placement credit policy. The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall report noncompliance to the House Common Education Committee, House Higher Education and Career Tech Committee, and Senate Education Committee, or similarly named House Committee if the named Committees no longer exist, by December 1 each year beginning December 1, 2021.Added by Laws 1995, c. 184, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 231, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2003, c. 77, § 1, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2021, c. 337, § 1, eff. July 1, 2021.
70 OK Stat § 70-3208 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3208. Functions and courses of study - Hearings.

|All functions and courses of study of the constituent institutions of the State System shall stand as they now are until changed with the approval or by order of the State Regents. In the determination of the functions of the said constituent institutions, and the approval or disapproval of courses of study prescribed by them, the State Regents shall afford any and all institutions affected a full public hearing, after such notice as may be prescribed by the State Regents, before ordering any change, and shall allow sufficient time before final action is taken for the said institution or institutions to prepare and present its or their arguments and briefs in support of or in opposition to any such proposed change. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 396, § 208.
70 OK Stat § 70-3208.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3208.1. American Sign Language - Intent of Legislature - Courses and credit.

|It is the intent of the Legislature that American Sign Language be recognized as a foreign language. Any institution in The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education may, in accordance with Section 3208 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, offer courses in American Sign Language and grant credit for such courses in the same manner as provided for other foreign language courses. Course credit earned by a student for American Sign Language classes taken in the public schools may be credited by an institution for purposes of meeting elective course entrance or graduation requirements or both entrance and graduation requirements. |Added by Laws 1982, c. 126, § 2, operative July 1, 1982. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 201, § 2, emerg. eff. May 17, 1991.
70 OK Stat § 70-3209 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3209. Endowments, gifts, bequests and indirect cost reimbursements.

|A. All endowments, gifts, bequests, and indirect cost reimbursements from sponsored grants and contracts given to, or received by, any constituent institution, and the income therefrom, shall belong to and be used only for and by the recipient institution. |B. The State Regents shall not take into consideration either the principal or income of paid endowments, gifts and bequests, or any indirect cost reimbursements from sponsored grants and contracts in allocating the state-appropriated funds to such constituent institution, but shall allocate the state-appropriated funds to such institution as though such funds did not exist.Amended by Laws 1987, c. 204, § 67, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1989, c. 281, § 9, operative July 1, 1989.
70 OK Stat § 70-3211 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3211. Revolving Loan Fund of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

|(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Revolving Loan Fund to be designated "Revolving Loan Fund of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education." Such fund shall be a continuing fund, and the State Regents may allocate on a loan basis any of the monies therein to any of the state educational institutions under their jurisdiction, for projects authorized by the Board of Regents of the institution and approved by the State Regents. |(b) Monies in such fund shall be disbursed by claims approved by the President of the institution to which the monies were allocated. The State Regents shall prescribe rules and regulations for the safekeeping and proper expenditure, repayment procedures, and reports covering the expenditure, of moneys used for projects authorized.Laws 1965, c. 396, § 211.
70 OK Stat § 70-3212 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3212. Private educational institutions - Co-ordination with state system.

|Private educational institutions may become coordinated with the State System under regulations prescribed by the State Regents. No such institution, however, shall receive any financial aid out of any appropriations made by the Legislature and over which the State Regents may have control. |Laws 1965, c. 396, § 212.
70 OK Stat § 70-3213 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3213. Murray State College branch campus at Ardmore.

|A. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education shall make educational program resources available to the people in the Ardmore area through a branch campus of Murray State College known as "Murray State College at Ardmore". Funds and accounts established for servicing the fiscal operations of the institution formerly known as the University Center of Southern Oklahoma shall be subject to the direct supervision, management, and control of the Board of Regents of Murray State College as provided in subsection B of this section. The people locally shall provide suitable physical plant accommodations for the program. |B. The Board of Regents of Murray State College created in Section 3407.2 of this title shall serve as the administrative agency for the institution formerly known as the University Center of Southern Oklahoma, now known as Murray State College at Ardmore pursuant to Section 4 of this act.Added by Laws 1974, c. 233, § 5, emerg. eff. May 17, 1974. Amended by Laws 1975, c. 294, § 8, emerg. eff. June 5, 1975; Laws 1985, c. 317, § 7, emerg. eff. July 26, 1985; Laws 1987, c. 204, § 65, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1988, c. 272, § 8, operative July 1, 1988; Laws 1992, c. 223, § 6, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 2009, c. 73, § 1, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2012, c. 252, § 2, eff. July 1, 2012; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 627; Laws 2021, c. 484, § 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 2021.
70 OK Stat § 70-3213.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3213.2. University Center of Southern Oklahoma.

|A. The educational program resources provided by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in Ardmore, Oklahoma, shall continue at the same location and are hereby officially named and shall be designated in all future references as "Murray State College at Ardmore". |B. The name change prescribed in this section shall not affect in any manner whatsoever any legal relationships, bonds, contracts, title to property, obligations as set forth in Section 3213 of this title or Section 4 of this act, or any other aspect of the legal status of the named program for any purpose, except that the program shall be referred to as "Murray State College at Ardmore" in all future references to the program.Added by Laws 2012, c. 252, § 1, eff. July 1, 2012. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 484, § 2, emerg. eff. May 18, 2021.NOTE: Editorially renumbered from Title 70, § 3213.1 to avoid a duplication in numbering.
70 OK Stat § 70-3216 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3216. Secondary education administration - Northeastern Oklahoma State University.

|The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education are hereby authorized to establish an educational program of study in the field of Secondary Education Administration at Northeastern Oklahoma State University and to grant the University the authority to confer administrators' and superintendents' certificates in the field of secondary education to successful candidates. |Added by Laws 1975, c. 294, § 19, emerg. eff. June 5, 1975.
70 OK Stat § 70-3217 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3217. Supportive medicine educational program.

|The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education are hereby authorized to establish educational programs of study of less than four (4) years in supportive medicine at East Central State University and Cameron University. |Added by Laws 1975, c. 294, § 20, emerg. eff. June 5, 1975.
70 OK Stat § 70-3218.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 70. Schools|§70-3218.1. Certain courses exempt from tuition.

|No tuition shall be charged for any course for which a student receives credit by examination and does not attend class meetings of the course. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 354, § 15, emerg. eff. July 30, 1985. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 330, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999.