Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 60-301.5
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Charitable organizations authorized to exercise certain
Official statutory text
powers as trustees.
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:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property Page 157
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.
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:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property Page 157
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.
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