Oklahoma § 74-3003 - Definitions

§ 74-3003. Definitions

As used in Section 3001 et seq. of this title:

1. "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 (20) degrees;

2. "Council" means the State Use Advisory Council;

3. "Qualified nonprofit agency for the employment of people

with significant disabilities" means a nonprofit agency employing

persons with significant disabilities who constitute at least

seventy-five percent (75%) of the direct labor hours engaged in

direct production, manufacturing, processing and/or assembling of

products or services offered by the agency for procurement by this

state or who meet the definition of blind person as provided for in

paragraph 1 of this section, or which is certified as a sheltered

workshop by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States

Department of Labor;

4. "Person with significant disabilities" means an individual

with a physical or mental disability constituting a substantial

handicap to employment and preventing the person from engaging in

normal competitive employment and/or includes any blind person;

5. "Qualified organization" means a blind person or qualified

nonprofit agency for the employment of people with significant

disabilities contracting to supply goods or services;

6. "Manufactured" means goods made by manual labor;

7. "Produced" means to have brought into existence or created

from raw materials;

8. "Processed" means the action of taking something through an

established and mostly routine set of procedures or steps to

substantially convert a potential product from one form to another.

This action involves a sequence of multiple steps each requiring a

distinct decision-making process to evolve a potential product to

the next step;

9. "Assemble" means to put or fit together or put together the

parts of a potential product;

10. "Central nonprofit agency (CNA)" means a qualified 501(c)3

nonprofit entity meeting the qualifications in the Request for

Procurement (RFP) issued by the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services selected to administer and oversee the State Use Program;

and

11. "Procurement schedule" means a designated schedule of

products and services currently approved by the Office of Management

and Enterprise Services Central Purchasing Division as suitable to

procure from qualified organizations participating in the State Use

Program.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government

Added by Laws 1973, c. 20, § 3, operative July 1, 1973. Amended by

Laws 1996, c. 322, § 2, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996; Laws 2004, c.

404, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2012, c. 289, § 2; Laws 2019, c.

99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2022, c. 252, § 3, eff. Nov. 1,

2022.