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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 60. PROPERTY

  § 60-301.5. Charitable organizations authorized to exercise certain powers as trustees.  

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  • In addition to the powers conferred on fiduciaries by the Oklahoma Trust Act, the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and the Oklahoma Uniform Prudent Investor Act, all charitable organizations acting as trustees of charitable trusts shall expressly be permitted to exercise the following powers:

    1.  To limit the investment of property received in trust to investments in real or personal property; securities including bonds, stocks, all kinds of negotiable and nonnegotiable paper; and other investment instruments, which are consistent with the charitable, religious, educational, or other eleemosynary purposes of the charitable organization;

    2.  To make distributions from an institutional endowment fund as that term is defined in the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act in a manner that will provide a consistent source of funds to charitable organizations benefited by such charitable trusts;

    3.  For assets held in an institutional endowment fund as that term is defined in the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, to invest in loans of money upon adequate collateral security to affiliated charitable organizations provided that the charitable organization serving in a fiduciary capacity conforms to the standard for care set forth in the document creating the trust or, in the absence of a standard of care in the document creating the trust, to the standard of care for fiduciaries as set forth in the Oklahoma Trust Code, the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and the Oklahoma Uniform Prudent Investor Act, and provided further that the loan furthers the charitable, religious, educational and other eleemosynary purposes of the affiliated charitable organization;

    4.  To recover costs and expenses to include a reasonable charge for administrative overhead incurred in administering charitable trusts to include costs incurred for investment counselors, advisors and agents; and

    5.  To delegate the investment of assets of charitable trusts and the administration of charitable trusts to state banks in Oklahoma having trust powers, national banking associations having trust powers, and trust companies having trust powers.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 99, § 6, emerg. eff. April 15, 1997.  Amended by Laws 2007, c. 91, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.