Oklahoma § 21-187 - Definitions

§ 21-187. Definitions

As used in this section through Section 187.2 of this title:

1. "Campaign" means and includes all activities for or against

the election of a candidate for elective state office or for or

against a state question;

2. "Candidate" means an individual who has filed or should have

filed a statement of organization for a candidate committee for

state office with the Ethics Commission as required by its Rules. A

candidate committee shall include committees for candidates for

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

partisan elective offices, for nonpartisan judicial offices and for

judicial retention offices;

3. "Candidate committee" means the only committee authorized by

a candidate to accept contributions or make expenditures on behalf

of the candidate's campaign, including the campaign of a judicial

retention candidate;

4. "Contribution" means any gift, subscription, loan, guarantee

or forgiveness of a loan, conveyance, advance, payment, distribution

or deposit of money made to, or anything of value given to, or an

expenditure other than an independent expenditure made on behalf of

a political party, political action committee or candidate

committee, but shall not include the value of services provided

without compensation by an individual who volunteers those services;

5. "Expenditure" means a purchase, payment, distribution, loan,

advance, compensation, reimbursement, fee deposit or a gift made by

a political party, political action committee, candidate committee

or other individual or entity that is used to expressly advocate the

election, retention or defeat of one or more clearly identified

candidates or for or against one or more state questions;

6. "Limited committee" means a political action committee

organized to make contributions to candidates; a limited committee

may make independent expenditures or electioneering communications,

but may not accept contributions in excess of the limits prescribed

for limited committees;

7. "Local office" means all elective offices for which a

declaration of candidacy is filed with the secretary of any county

election board;

8. "Political action committee" means a limited or unlimited

committee that has filed or should have filed a statement of

organization with the Ethics Commission as required by its Rules;

9. "Political party" means a political party recognized under

the laws of this state;

10. "Political party committee" means a committee authorized by

the political party to accept contributions or make expenditures on

behalf of the political party; a political party committee may

include a state committee, a Congressional District committee, a

county committee, a precinct committee or any other committee or

entity of the party officially recognized in the party's bylaws or

similar governing document;

11. "State office" means all elective offices for which

declarations of candidacy are filed with the Secretary of the State

Election Board;

12. "State question" means an initiative or referendum petition

for which the Governor has issued a proclamation setting the date on

which an election shall be held or a legislative referendum referred

by the Legislature for a vote of the people; and

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

13. "Unlimited committee" means an independent judicial

retention committee, a political action committee organized

exclusively for the purpose of making independent expenditures or

electioneering communications or a political action committee

organized exclusively for the purpose of advocating the approval or

defeat of a state question.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 343, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws

2014, c. 312, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.