Oklahoma Code § 70-3980.3

Title 70. Schools: Definitions
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As used in the Oklahoma Higher Education Promise of Excellence
Act of 2005, and unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
1.  “Authorized issuer” means:
a. the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education acting
for the benefit of any institution within The Oklahoma
State System of Higher Education other than the
University of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State University,

b. the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
acting for the benefit of the University of Oklahoma,
c. the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical Colleges, acting for the benefit of
Oklahoma State University,
d. the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges, also known
as the Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO)
pursuant to Section 3507.1 of this title, acting for
the benefit of the institutions supervised and managed
by RUSO, and
e. the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority;
2.  “Bonds” means any bonds, notes, obligations, debentures,
interim certificates, grant and revenue anticipation notes, interest
in a lease, lease certificates of participation, lease purchase
agreements, commercial paper, variable interest rate obligations of
any kind, or other evidences of indebtedness, whether or not the
interest on which is includable in the gross income of the
recipients thereof for federal income tax purposes, issued by an
authorized issuer pursuant to the Oklahoma Higher Education Promise
of Excellence Act of 2005;
3.  “Regents” means either the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education, the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, the
Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical
Colleges, or RUSO; and
4.  “State Regents” means the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher
Education.
Added by Laws 2005, c. 2, § 3, emerg. eff. March 31, 2005.  Amended
by Laws 2005, c. 218, § 2, emerg. eff. May 24, 2005; Laws 2023, c.
186, § 3.

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