Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 60-301.4
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Fiduciary capacities
Official statutory text
Charitable organizations shall be permitted to act in the
following fiduciary capacities within this state:
1. To act as trustee under charitable trusts created by will,
inter vivos declaration of trust or trust agreement, corporate
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resolution, or order, judgment or decree of any of the courts of
record of this state or of any state or of the United States;
2. To accept and execute all charitable trusts and perform such
duties of every description as may be committed to them under such
trust by any person or persons, any corporation, or any order,
judgment or decree of any of the courts of record of this state or
of any state or of the United States provided that such duties are
not inconsistent with the charitable, religious, educational, or
other eleemosynary purposes of the charitable organization;
3. To take, accept and hold by gift, grant, assignment,
transfer, devise or bequest of any person or persons, any
corporation, or any order, judgment or decree of any of the courts
of record of this state or of any state or of the United States any
real or personal property as a charitable trust;
4. To execute and perform any and all charitable trusts upon
the terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions which may be
declared, imposed, established or agreed upon in and by the person
or persons, corporation, or order, judgment, decree, gift, grant,
assignment, transfer, devise or bequest establishing such trust;
5. To act as attorney-in-fact for any person establishing a
charitable trust; and
6. To act as personal representative in the probate of the will
of any decedent, whether such decedent was a resident of this state
or not, and whether the probate of the will of such decedent is by
original or ancillary proceeding, where the will makes a present or
future gift to or confers a present or future benefit on the
charitable organization serving as personal representative or one or
more of its affiliated charitable organizations and the total of all
gifts made to the charitable organization serving as personal
representative or one or more of its affiliated charitable
organizations in the will is as large as the largest distribution
made to another person who is not a charitable organization, but in
no event shall the total of all gifts made to the charitable
organization serving as personal representative or one or more of
its affiliated charitable organizations in the will be less than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the estate which is available for
distribution.
following fiduciary capacities within this state:
1. To act as trustee under charitable trusts created by will,
inter vivos declaration of trust or trust agreement, corporate
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property Page 156
resolution, or order, judgment or decree of any of the courts of
record of this state or of any state or of the United States;
2. To accept and execute all charitable trusts and perform such
duties of every description as may be committed to them under such
trust by any person or persons, any corporation, or any order,
judgment or decree of any of the courts of record of this state or
of any state or of the United States provided that such duties are
not inconsistent with the charitable, religious, educational, or
other eleemosynary purposes of the charitable organization;
3. To take, accept and hold by gift, grant, assignment,
transfer, devise or bequest of any person or persons, any
corporation, or any order, judgment or decree of any of the courts
of record of this state or of any state or of the United States any
real or personal property as a charitable trust;
4. To execute and perform any and all charitable trusts upon
the terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions which may be
declared, imposed, established or agreed upon in and by the person
or persons, corporation, or order, judgment, decree, gift, grant,
assignment, transfer, devise or bequest establishing such trust;
5. To act as attorney-in-fact for any person establishing a
charitable trust; and
6. To act as personal representative in the probate of the will
of any decedent, whether such decedent was a resident of this state
or not, and whether the probate of the will of such decedent is by
original or ancillary proceeding, where the will makes a present or
future gift to or confers a present or future benefit on the
charitable organization serving as personal representative or one or
more of its affiliated charitable organizations and the total of all
gifts made to the charitable organization serving as personal
representative or one or more of its affiliated charitable
organizations in the will is as large as the largest distribution
made to another person who is not a charitable organization, but in
no event shall the total of all gifts made to the charitable
organization serving as personal representative or one or more of
its affiliated charitable organizations in the will be less than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the estate which is available for
distribution.
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