Oklahoma § 74-7009 - Participating agencies - Qualifications - Criteria Applications

§ 74-7009. Participating agencies - Qualifications - Criteria Applications

A. Participation in the State Charitable Campaign shall be

limited to voluntary, charitable, health and welfare agencies that

provide or support direct health and welfare services to individuals

or their families and meet the criteria set out in this section.

The health and welfare services shall be available to state

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employees, unless they are rendered to needy persons overseas. The

services shall directly benefit human beings, whether children,

youth, adults, the aged, the ill and infirm, or the mentally or

physically handicapped. The services shall consist of care,

research, or education in the fields of human health or social

adjustment and rehabilitation; relief for victims of natural

disasters and other emergencies; or assistance to those who are

impoverished and, therefore, in need of food, shelter, clothing, and

basic human welfare services.

B. For the purposes of the State Charitable Campaign, basic

human welfare service shall not include:

1. Organizations whose primary purpose is the direct or

indirect support of institutions of higher education;

2. Lobbying; and

3. Religious activities.

C. To be included in the State Charitable Campaign, a voluntary

charitable agency, in addition to meeting the other requirements set

forth in this section, shall:

1. Be a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization and

submit to the participating federation a 501(c)(3) exemption from

the Internal Revenue Service;

2. Be incorporated or authorized to do business in this state

as a private, nonprofit organization;

3. Register, annually, with the Secretary of State to solicit

or accept contributions in this state;

4. Submit to the participating federation an audit of the

agency, conducted by an accounting firm or individual holding a

permit to practice public accounting in this state according to the

generally accepted standards of accounting for nonprofit

organizations; and

5. Submit to the participating federation a copy of the annual

form 990.

D. Applications to the State Charitable Campaign shall be

submitted to the Oversight Committee for State Employee Charitable

Contributions from local federations which shall include United

Ways, United Funds, Combined Health Appeals, International Social

Service Agencies and any other local federation consisting of at

least five local agencies which meet the requirements of this

section. Each federation shall certify the application for its

member agencies and shall give state charitable agencies precedence

over national agencies if both qualify for the charitable

contribution campaign. Applications from individual agencies shall

not be accepted.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 142, § 9, emerg. eff. May 1, 1989. Amended

by Laws 1990, c. 291, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 68, §

1, emerg. eff. April 12, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 103, § 8, eff. Jan. 1,

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1995; Laws 1999, c. 421, § 42, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2004, c. 312,

§ 18, eff. July 1, 2004; Laws 2006, c. 121, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.