Oklahoma § 18-552.4 - Persons and organizations exempt

§ 18-552.4. Persons and organizations exempt

Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Oklahoma

Solicitation of Charitable Contributions Act, the provisions of

Sections 552.3 of this title shall not apply to the following

persons:

1. Organizations incorporated for religious purposes and

actually engaged in bona fide religious programs, and other

organizations directly operated, supervised, or controlled by a

religious organization;

2. Educational institutions that have a faculty, regularly

enrolled students and offer courses of study leading to the granting

of recognized degrees when solicitations of contributions are

primarily confined to its student body and their families, alumni,

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faculty and trustees and any 501(c)(3) organization authorized by

and having an established identity with such institutions;

3. Fraternal organizations, when soliciting from their own

members, and patriotic and civic organizations, when solicitation of

contributions is confined to the membership of said organizations,

and the solicitation is managed by their own membership without paid

solicitors; and

4. Persons soliciting contributions for a named individual

person, when such individual person is specified by name at the time

of solicitation, the purpose for such contribution is clearly

stated, and if the gross contributions collected, without any

deductions whatsoever for the benefit of the solicitor or any other

person, be deposited directly to an account in the name of the

beneficiary established for that purpose at a licensed local bank,

and if such contributions are used for the direct benefit of the

named individual person as beneficiary.

Added by Laws 1959, p. 89, § 4, emerg. eff. May 8, 1959. Amended by

Laws 1974, c. 70, § 1; Laws 1980, c. 364, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1980;

Laws 2010, c. 460, § 4, eff. July 1, 2011.