2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74. State Government
§74-7007. State principal combined fund raising organization - Definition - Duties and responsibilities.

A. The state principal combined fund raising organization shall be a local federation in the State of Oklahoma that provides, through one specific annual public solicitation for funds, substantial voluntary financial support for charitable agencies that depend on public subscription for support in the state and that has the necessary staff and volunteer support to administer the charitable contribution campaign.

B. The state principal combined fund raising organization shall have the following duties and responsibilities:

1. Work with the Oversight Committee for State Employee Charitable Contributions to develop the charitable contribution campaign plan for the State Charitable Campaign;

2. Develop the charitable contribution campaign materials and publicity for the State Charitable Campaign;

3. Recruit and train the volunteers, departmental coordinators and solicitors in a bipartisan manner; develop and keep records on all the accounts to be solicited; and cultivate the accounts to encourage participation in the charitable contribution campaign;

4. Keep all fiscal and financial records of the activities and submit to the Oversight Committee for State Employee Charitable Contributions a separate accounting of all proceeds of the State Charitable Campaign;

5. Submit to the participating federations a detailed accounting of the amount of money designated to the federation and to each of its member agencies; and

6. Disperse the allocation checks to the participating agencies.

C. Each state employee shall receive from the state principal combined fund raising organization general information material with each federation listed and each of its member agencies listed under the federation. Each agency and federation shall be identified by a code number. If descriptions of each agency are used in the general information material, they shall be provided to the state principal combined fund raising organization by the federations.

D. Each state employee shall be given the option to designate his or her gifts. Undesignated gifts shall be allocated pursuant to the provisions of subsection E of this section.

E. Undesignated money shall be distributed in the same proportion as designated dollars within the State of Oklahoma.

F. Allocations shall be distributed quarterly; provided, for campaigns of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) or less, allocations shall be distributed semiannually. Any interest earned from funds held prior to distribution will be distributed proportionally to the distribution of undesignated funds.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 142, § 7, emerg. eff. May 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 291, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1993, c. 103, § 6, eff. Jan. 1, 1995; Laws 2004, c. 312, § 17, eff. July 1, 2004; Laws 2006, c. 121, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.