Section 178.8 - Conflict of interest - Transactions exempt - Applicability to public trusts created and existing prior to July 1, 1988A. Except with regard to residents of a facility for aged persons operated by a public trust, who are trustees of the public trust operating the facility and who comprise less than a majority of the trustees, a conflict of interest shall be deemed to exist in any contractual relationship in which a trustee of a public trust, or any for-profit firm or corporation in which such trustee or any member of his or her immediate family is an officer, partner, principal stockholder, shall directly or indirectly buy or sell goods or services to, or otherwise contract with such trust. Upon a showing thereof, such trustee shall be subject to removal and such contract shall be deemed unenforceable as against such trust unless the records of such trust shall reflect that such trustee fully and publicly disclosed all such interest or interests, and unless such contractual relationship shall have been secured by competitive bidding following a public invitation to bid. The following types of transactions are exempt from the aforementioned provisions of this section:
1. The making of any loan or advance of any funds to, or the purchase of any obligations issued by such public trust, in connection with the performance of any of its authorized purposes;2. Any legal advertising required by law or indenture or determined necessary by the trustees of such public trust;3. The performance by any bank, trust company or similar entity or any services as a depository; or4. The sale of any public utility services to such public trust, in which the price of said services is regulated by law. It shall be the duty of each public trust to compile a list of all conflicts of interest for which its trustees have made disclosure. It shall also be the duty of each trust to compile a list of all dealings between its trustees and the trust which involve the exempted transactions listed above. Such lists shall be compiled semiannually for periods ending June 30 and December 31 of each year. Such lists shall be compiled on forms prescribed by the Oklahoma Tax Commission and shall be matters of public record. Copies of such lists shall be filed with the Secretary of State by September 1 and March 1 of each year.
B. The provisions of this section shall be inapplicable to any public trust created and existing prior to July 1, 1988, if all bonds issued by such public trust are required to be issued under and pursuant to a single bond indenture by amendment or supplement thereto and if the instrument or will creating such public trust and the bond indenture under which such trust must issue all bonds shall have been held to be valid and binding agreements in an opinion of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma; and nothing in this section shall impair or be deemed to impair the trust indenture, the bond indenture, or existing or future obligations of such public trust.Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 178.8
Laws 1977, HB 1278, c. 235, § 2, eff. 12/1/1977; Amended by Laws 1988, SB 537, c. 319, § 7, eff. 11/1/1988; Amended by Laws 1992, HB 2102, c. 371, § 7, emerg. eff. 7/1/1992.