{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-310","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 69-310","heading":"Conflict of interest","body":"A. No official or employee of the Commission, governing body or\n\nother governmental instrumentality who is authorized in his official\n\ncapacity to negotiate, make, accept, or approve, or to take part in\n\nnegotiating, making, accepting or approving any contract or\n\nsubcontract in connection with a project shall have, directly or\n\nindirectly, any financial or other personal interest in any such\n\ncontract or subcontract. No engineer, attorney, appraiser,\n\ninspector or other person performing services for the Commission,\n\ngoverning body, or other governmental instrumentality in connection\n\nwith a project shall have, directly or indirectly, a financial or\n\nother personal interest, other than his employment or retention by\n\nthe Commission, governing body, or other governmental\n\ninstrumentality, in any contract or subcontract in connection with\n\nsuch project. No officer or employee of such person retained by the\n\nCommission, governing body or other governmental instrumentality\n\nshall have, directly or indirectly, any financial or other personal\n\ninterest in any real property acquired for a project unless such\n\ninterest is openly disclosed upon the public records of the\n\nCommission, the governing body or other governmental\n\ninstrumentality, and such officer, employee or person has not\n\nparticipated in such acquisition for and in behalf of the\n\nCommission, the governing body or other governmental\n\ninstrumentality.\n\nB. Any official or employee of the Commission, governing body\n\nor other governmental instrumentality, or officer or employee of\n\nsuch person retained by the Commission, the governing body or other\n\ngovernmental instrumentality who knowingly violates any of the\n\nprovisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony\n\noffense and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by\n\nimprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section\n\n20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or by a fine not exceeding\n\nTen Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and\n\nfine. In addition, if the Commission or the Director enters into\n\nany contract on the part of the Department in which the Director or\n\nany member of the Commission is interested, directly or indirectly,\n\nand the state suffers a loss due to excessive charges or otherwise,\n\nthe members of the Commission knowingly voting to enter into or to\n\napprove such contract, and the Director knowingly entering into,\n\napproving, or recommending any such contract, and the contracting\n\nparty, shall be jointly and individually liable for any loss the\n\nstate may suffer. The official bonds of such officer shall be\n\nliable for such loss. The provisions of this section shall be\n\ncumulative to existing law. The members of the Commission and the\n\nDirector found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this\n\nsection shall in addition to the penalty heretofore set out forfeit\n\ntheir respective offices.\n\nC. Any employee of the Department, Director or Commission, who\n\nin the course of such employment knowingly accepts, approves, or\n\nrecommends for approval or payment any material, service, job,\n\nproject, or structure, or any part thereof, which does not meet the\n\nspecifications therefor, or is to his knowledge otherwise more\n\ndeficient in quality, quantity or design than was provided for in\n\nthe plans, purchase orders or any minimum standard provided by any\n\nstate agency or official, or by law, shall be guilty of a felony\n\nand, upon conviction, shall be punished and penalized as provided by\n\nthis section.\n\nD. The ownership by any member of the Commission, or the\n\nDirector, of less than five percent (5%) of the stocks or shares\n\nactually issued by a corporation contracting with the Department\n\nshall not be considered an interest, directly or indirectly, in a\n\ncontract with such corporation within the meaning of this section,\n\nand such ownership shall not affect the validity of any contract, or\ntion.\n\nD. The ownership by any member of the Commission, or the\n\nDirector, of less than five percent (5%) of the stocks or shares\n\nactually issued by a corporation contracting with the Department\n\nshall not be considered an interest, directly or indirectly, in a\n\ncontract with such corporation within the meaning of this section,\n\nand such ownership shall not affect the validity of any contract, or\n\nimpose liability under this section unless the owner of such stock\n\nor shares is also an officer or agent of the corporation or\n\nassociation. Ownership shall include any stock or shares standing\n\nin the name of a member of the Commissioners' or Director's\n\nimmediate family or a family trust.","path":["OK Code","Title 69"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os69.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5503d6b8fa9c102d4c74244c1ecf08220f50e112850b2d38e6c5602c3c1107d0","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-309","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-69-69-311"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}