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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2124. Acts required of licensees - Deadline - Exception.

(a) A person licensed under, and in compliance with all applicable requirements of, the Sale of Checks Act in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this act shall have until December 1, 1988, to:
1. Furnish the Commissioner with a corporate surety bond complying with the requirements of Section 2108 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes or, in lieu thereof, to deposit securities equal to the amount of such bond complying with the requirements of subsection (b) of Section 2109 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
2. File with the Commissioner the most current annual financial statement of such licensee, which financial statement shall be in compliance with the requirements of Section 2110 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
(b) A person licensed under, and in compliance with all applicable requirements of, the Sale of Checks Act in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this act shall not be required to comply with the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 2107 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes until the Commissioner has issued license certificates for each location to said licensee for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1989; provided, the licensee must timely satisfy all requirements for the issuance of a renewal license and such license certificates.
Added by Laws 1988, c. 216, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 1988.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2201. Short title.

Sections 2201 through 2206 of this title and Sections 5 and 6 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Financial Privacy Act". Its purpose is to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the records of customers of financial institutions.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 191, § 1. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 346, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2202. Definitions.

(a) "Financial institution" means any office or branch of a bank, savings bank, savings association, building and loan association, savings and loan association and credit union located in the State of Oklahoma.
(b) "Financial record" means any original of, or any copy of, any record held by a financial institution, or any information derived therefrom, pertaining to a customer's relationship with the financial institution.
(c) "Government authority" means any agency, board, commission or department of the State of Oklahoma, or any officer, employee, representative, or agent thereof.
(d) "Customer" means any person, corporation, partnership or other legal entity, or authorized representative thereof, who utilized or is utilizing a service of a financial institution, or for whom a financial institution is acting or has acted as a fiduciary, in relation to an account maintained in the customer's name.
(e) "Supervisory agency" means, with respect to any particular financial institution, any state agency, board, commission or department which has statutory authority to examine the financial condition or business operations of that institution.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 191, § 2. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 128, § 11, emerg. eff. April 29, 1991.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2203. Financial institutions prohibited from disclosing financial records unless.

A financial institution is prohibited from giving, releasing or disclosing any financial record to any government authority unless:
(a) it has written consent from the customer for the specific record requested; or
(b) it has been served with a subpoena issued pursuant to Section 4 for the specific record requested.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 191, § 3.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2204. Subpoena of financial records.

A. A court of competent jurisdiction, state agency or legislative committee may issue a subpoena for a customer's financial record only if such subpoena is authorized by law. Said subpoena shall specify what financial record is sought. A subpoena issued by a state agency or legislative committee shall be enforced pursuant to Section 315 of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. A copy of the subpoena shall be served on the customer or mailed to his last-known address on or before the date the subpoena is served on the financial institution.
C. The customer shall have fourteen (14) days after the subpoena was served or mailed in which to file a motion to quash the subpoena on the following grounds:
1. That the financial record sought is incompetent, irrelevant or immaterial for the purpose or purposes for which it is sought;
2. That the release of the financial record would cause an unreasonable burden or hardship under the circumstances;
3. That the government authority seeking said financial record is attempting to harass the customer; or
4. That there is no merit in the purpose or purposes for which said financial record is sought.
If the subpoena was issued by the district court, the motion to quash the subpoena shall be filed in the district court that issued the subpoena. If the subpoena was issued by a state agency or a legislative committee, the motion to quash the subpoena shall be filed with the state agency or legislative committee that issued the subpoena.
D. A copy of the motion to quash filed by the customer shall be served by personal service or by mail on:
1. A chairman, presiding officer, or any member of the governing body of the government authority seeking the records; and
2. Any officer of the financial institution which has been served the subpoena,
at least ten (10) days before any hearing on the motion to quash.
E. Failure of the customer to file a motion to quash in the time provided for in subsection C shall constitute a waiver of his right to object to the release or disclosure of the financial record sought by the government authority.
F. During the period for filing the motion to quash and continuing until a ruling is made on such motion, if one is filed the financial institution shall make available to its customer a copy of the records sought and shall preserve the original records without alteration.
G. The notice and challenge procedures provided for in this section shall not apply when the financial records of the customer:
1. Are sought pursuant to a subpoena in connection with litigation to which the customer is a party, including, but not limited to, litigation between a government authority and the customer; or
2. Are sought pursuant to an administrative subpoena in an adjudicatory proceeding in which the customer is a party.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 191, § 4. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 346, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2205. Disclosures or releases authorized.

A. Nothing in the Financial Privacy Act shall prohibit the disclosure or release of any financial record or information to any supervisory agency in the exercise of its supervisory or regulatory functions with respect to a financial institution.
B. Nothing in the Financial Privacy Act prohibits a financial institution from disclosing or releasing any financial record or information to another financial institution for the usual and regular business purposes of the latter or from providing copies of any financial record to any court or government authority as an incident to perfecting a security interest, proving a claim in bankruptcy or otherwise collecting on a debt either owed the financial institution itself or owed the financial institution in its role as a fiduciary.
C. Nothing in the Financial Privacy Act prohibits a financial institution from notifying a government authority that such institution or an officer, employee or agent of such institution has information that may be relevant to a possible violation of any statute or regulation.
D. Sections 2201 through 2204 of this title shall not apply to any court order or subpoena issued in connection with proceedings before a multicounty grand jury, except that a court shall have authority to order a financial institution, on which a multicounty grand jury subpoena for customer records has been served, not to notify the customer of the existence of the subpoena or information that has been furnished to the multicounty grand jury. The court may order that the customer not be notified only if it finds:
1. That the requested records are relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by the multicounty grand jury; and
2. That disclosure of the existence or issuance of, or compliance with the subpoena may frustrate or impede the investigation.
Added by Laws 1979, c. 191, § 5. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 173, § 1, emerg. eff. June 18, 1985; Laws 1990, c. 232, § 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1990; Laws 1996, c. 346, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2207. Search warrants.

A. A government authority may obtain financial records for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding through use of a search warrant obtained pursuant to a hearing wherein the court finds that the records are relevant to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry and delayed notice is appropriate as prescribed in paragraph 2 of subsection D of Section 2205 of Title 6 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. No later than ninety (90) days after the government authority serves the search warrant upon the financial institution, it shall mail to the last-known address of the customer a copy of the search warrant together with a notice that the records were obtained on a certain date.
C. Search warrants served upon a financial institution may be served only upon the person in charge, as designated by the institution, and only during normal business hours.
D. The financial institution shall be given a reasonable time, not to exceed ten (10) calendar days, to search the records and produce and deliver the requested information.
E. If the financial institution is uncertain whether the financial records requested are those of its customer, the financial institution shall deliver the records for in camera inspection by the court.
Added by Laws 1996, c. 346, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-2208. Certification of compliance by government authorities - Immunity from liability for good faith reliance upon certificate.

A. A financial institution shall not release the records of a customer until the government authority seeking the records certifies in writing that it has complied with the applicable provisions of the Financial Privacy Act.
B. Any financial institution or employee thereof that discloses the financial records of a customer pursuant to the Financial Privacy Act in good faith reliance upon a certificate of the government authority shall not be liable to the customer for the disclosure under any law or regulation.
Added by Laws 1996, c. 346, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-3001. Records - Electronic or microphotographic reproduction - Evidence.

Any financial institution may cause any or all records, including its records as a fiduciary, at any time in its custody to be stored and reproduced electronically or by the microphotographic process, and any reproduction made or an electronically or microphotographically stored record shall have the same force and effect as the original thereof and be admitted in evidence equally with the original.
Added by Laws 1953, p. 16, § 1. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 338, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 6. Banks and Trust Companies › §6-3002. Compliance review documents - Confidentiality - Discovery or admissibility.

A. For purposes of this section:
1. "Depository institution" means a state-chartered or federally chartered financial institution located in this state that is authorized to maintain deposit or share accounts;
2. "Compliance review committee" means:
a.
an audit, loan review or compliance committee appointed by the board of directors of a depository institution, or
b.
any other person to the extent the person acts in an investigatory capacity at the direction of a compliance review committee;
3. "Compliance review documents" means documents prepared for or created by a compliance review committee;
4. "Loan review committee" means a person or group of persons who, on behalf of a depository institution, reviews loans held by the institution for the purpose of assessing the credit quality of the loans, compliance with the loan policies of the institution, and compliance with the applicable laws and regulations; and
5. "Person" means an individual, group of individuals, board, committee, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other entity.
B. This section applies to a compliance review committee whose functions are to evaluate and seek to improve:
1. Loan underwriting standards;
2. Asset quality;
3. Financial reporting to federal or state regulatory agencies; or
4. Compliance with federal or state statutory or regulatory requirements.
C. Except as provided in subsection D of this section:
1. Compliance review documents are confidential and are not discoverable or admissible in evidence in any civil action arising out of matters evaluated by the compliance review committee; and
2. Compliance review documents delivered to a federal or state governmental agency remain confidential and are not discoverable or admissible in evidence in any civil action arising out of matters evaluated by the compliance review committee.
D. Subsection C of this section does not apply to any information required by statute or regulation to be maintained by or provided to a governmental agency while the information is in the possession of the governmental agency to the extent applicable law expressly authorizes its disclosure.
E. This section may not be construed to limit the discovery or admissibility in any civil action of any documents that are not compliance review documents, nor may it be construed to limit the discovery or admissibility of any relevant documents which reflect evidence of fraud committed by an insider of a depository institution, to the extent those documents are otherwise discoverable or admissible.
Added by Laws 1995, c. 36, § 24, eff. July 1, 1995.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-8. Special library services to blind and physically handicapped persons.

A. The state plan for library services shall be amended in accordance with the Federal Library Services and Construction Act and applicable regulations to reflect the authority and duty of the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services to provide special library services, including braille and recorded books, to blind and visually handicapped persons as provided by state law.
B. Special library services for blind and physically handicapped adults, children, and students shall be provided by the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the Department in accordance with the Federal Library Services and Construction Act, as amended, and applicable federal regulations relating thereto; and consistent with applicable statutes and regulations. The Commission for Rehabilitation Services shall, within the availability of state funds, annually make available for such special library services sufficient funds to earn the maximum available federal funds under the Federal Library Services and Construction Act and appropriations made in pursuance thereof by Congress.
C. All federal requirements for interlibrary cooperation and consultation shall be observed and entitlement of the Department of Libraries to receive federal funds for library services or construction shall not be impaired by any state law prescribing the duties, responsibilities and functions of the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the Department.
Added by Laws 1969, c. 290, § 2(b), (c), (d), emerg. eff. April 29, 1969. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 364, § 6, emerg. eff. June 11, 1993; Laws 2019, c. 51, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-12. Duty of drivers of vehicles.

Any driver of a vehicle who knowingly approaches within fifteen (15) feet of a person who is in the roadway or at an intersection and who is wholly or partially blind and who is carrying a cane or walking stick white in color, or white tipped with red, or who is using a dog guide wearing a specialized harness, or who is wholly or partially deaf and is using a signal dog wearing an orange identifying collar, or who is physically handicapped and is using a service dog, shall immediately come to a full stop and take such precautions before proceeding as may be necessary to avoid accident or injury to the person wholly or partially blind, deaf or physically handicapped. For purposes of this section, a "dog guide" means any dog that is specially trained to guide a blind person.
Added by Laws 1949, p. 47, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 1949. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 57, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 108, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2002, c. 141, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-13. Penalty.

Any person, other than a person wholly or partially blind, who shall carry a cane or walking stick such as is described in this act, contrary to the provisions of this act, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or by fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Laws 1949, p. 47, § 3.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-15. Earned income disregarded in determining need of assistance.

The first Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per month of earned income of a blind applicant for or recipient of assistance pursuant to the laws of this state administered by the Department of Human Services shall:
1. Not be deemed income or resources of such applicant or recipient;
2. Be disregarded in determining the need of the applicant or recipient; and
3. Not be deducted from the amount of assistance which any applicant or recipient otherwise would receive.
Added by Laws 1951, p. 160, § 1. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 16, § 1, emerg. eff. April 5, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-16. Earned income defined - Deductions in determining.

Earned income of a blind applicant for or recipient of assistance, for the purposes of this act, shall be net remuneration for employment or self-employment of the applicant or recipient, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash. Such earned income shall include all net income from salaries, wages, or commission paid to the applicant or recipient, and all net income from a business or profession owned or practiced by the applicant or recipient. In computing net income, the following deductions shall be made from the gross income of the applicant or recipient from salaries, wages, commission, sales, and fees: (1) expenses of all transportation incident to employment, unless such expenses are reimbursed by the employer; (2) cost of meals and lodging while away from home on business incident to employment, unless such expense is reimbursed by the employer; (3) dues to trade or professional organizations; (4) cost of merchandise sold in carrying on business; (5) salaries, wages, commissions, and fees paid by the applicant or recipient in carrying on his business or profession; (6) interest on indebtedness incurred in carrying on business or profession; (7) taxes on property used in business or profession; (8) cost of repairs, rent, and service charges on property used in business or profession; (9) allowance for depreciation of property used in business or profession; (10) cost of telephone service used in business or profession; (11) cost of supplies used in business or profession; (12) bad debts resulting from sales of merchandise or equipment used in business or profession.
Laws 1951, p. 160, § 2.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-19.1. Public conveyances and public accommodations - Guide, signal, or service dogs - Identification of dog - Definitions.

A. Any blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing person who is a passenger on any common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motorbus, streetcar, boat, or any other public conveyance or mode of transportation operating within this state or any dog trainer from a recognized training center when in the act of training guide, signal, or service dogs shall be entitled to have with him or her a guide, signal, or service dog specially trained or being trained for that purpose, without being required to pay an additional charge therefor, but shall be liable as hereafter set forth in subsection B of this section.
B. A blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing person and his or her guide, signal, or service dog or a dog trainer from a recognized training center in the act of training guide, signal, or service dogs shall not be denied admittance to or refused access to any of the following because of such dog: Any street, highway, sidewalk, walkway, any common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar, boat, or any other public conveyance or mode of transportation, hotel, motel, or other place of lodging, public building maintained by any unit or subdivision of government, building to which the general public is invited, college dormitory and other educational facility, restaurant or other place where food is offered for sale to the public, or any other place of public accommodation, amusement, convenience, or resort to which the general public or any classification of persons from the general public is regularly, normally, or customarily invited within the State of Oklahoma. Such blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing person or dog trainer from a recognized training center in the act of training guide, signal, or service dogs shall not be required to pay any additional charges for his or her guide, signal, or service dog, but shall be liable for any damage done to the premises by such dog.
C. A dog used by a deaf or hard-of-hearing person shall be required to wear an orange identifying collar.
D. For the purposes of this section and Section 113.1 of Title 41 of the Oklahoma Statutes:
1. "Physically handicapped person" means any person who has a physical impairment which severely and permanently restricts mobility of two or more extremities, or who is so severely disabled as to be unable to move without the aid of a wheelchair;
2. "Service dog" means any dog individually trained to the physically handicapped person's requirements; and
3. "Signal dog" means any dog trained to alert a deaf or hard-of-hearing person to intruders or sounds.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 9, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 6, 1968. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 41, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 19, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 1988, c. 71, § 1, emerg. eff. March 25, 1988; Laws 1989, c. 154, § 3, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1992, c. 122, § 1, emerg. eff. April 23, 1992; Laws 1998, c. 246, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-19.2. Penalty.

Any person, or persons, firm, association, or corporation, or the agent of any person, firm, association, or corporation, who shall violate the provisions of Section 19.1 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Laws 1968, c. 9, § 2, emerg. eff. Feb. 6, 1968; Amended by Laws 1985, c. 19, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 7. Blind Persons › §7-22. Adult Blind Market Revolving Fund - Use - Expenditures.

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Adult Blind Market Revolving Fund of the Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission to be administered by and under the direction of the Oklahoma Public Welfare Commission. Said fund shall consist of all appropriations made for such purpose and all net earnings or profits derived from its use as authorized by law. Said fund shall be used for the purpose of creating, establishing and maintaining a market for the product of blind workers of Oklahoma and may be used to purchase such products for resale, and for no other purpose. Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.
Added by Laws 1935, p. 38, § 3, emerg. eff. April 27, 1935. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 62, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 31.
2023 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.
2023 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°); and
4. "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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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; and
2. “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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.