Okla. Stat. tit. 70 § 6002

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.
Section 6002 - Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Tuition Trust Act:

1. "Advance tuition payment contract" means a contract entered into by the Trust and a purchaser to provide for the higher education of a qualified beneficiary;
2. "Regents" means the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education;
3. "Purchaser" means a person who makes or is obligated to make advance tuition payments pursuant to an advance tuition payment contract;
4. "Qualified beneficiary" means any resident of this state, eligible and entitled to attend a state institution of higher education without further in-state tuition payment pursuant to an advance tuition payment contract;
5. "Institution of higher education" means a state-supported institution of higher education within this state, which is designated by the Regents as an institution of higher education for purposes of the Oklahoma Tuition Trust Act;
6. "Trust" means the Oklahoma Tuition Trust;
7. "Tuition" means the general enrollment fees imposed each semester upon residents of this state to attend a state institution of higher education including all mandatory special fees required as a condition of enrollment as determined by the State Regents for Higher Education;
8. "Nonresident tuition" means the semester charges imposed upon nonresidents of this state to attend a state institution of higher education including all general enrollment fees, nonresident tuition payments and mandatory special fees as determined by the State Regents for Higher Education; and
9. "Eligibility period" means the period of time in which a qualified beneficiary may exercise the rights granted in an advance payment contract.

Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 6002

Added by Laws 1988, HB 3010, c. 261, § 3, emerg. eff. 6/29/1988.