Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 18-589: Charter as benevolent corporation - Trustees - Bylaws

Before being competent to so receive such property, such society

shall obtain a charter as a charitable corporation in the manner

provided by law from the Secretary of State, and elect trustees, who

may be the same trustees already elected under their fraternal

rules, and whose bylaws may, so far as they do not contravene the

statute laws of the state, be substituted for the bylaws required to

be adopted upon obtaining a charter.