§ 74-3003 — Definitions.

Oklahoma § 74-3003

• Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
• Title 74: State Government

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As used in Section 3001 et seq. of this title: 1. "Blind person" means a person having a visual acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye, with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty (20) degrees; 2. "Council" means the State Use Advisory Council; 3. "Qualified nonprofit agency for the employment of people with significant disabilities" means a nonprofit agency employing persons with significant disabilities who constitute at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the direct labor hours engaged in direct production, manufacturing, processing and/or assembling of products or services offered by the agency for procurement by this state or who meet the definition of blind person as provided for in paragraph 1 of this section, or which is certified as a sheltered workshop by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor; 4. "Person with significant disabilities" means an individual with a physical or mental disability constituting a substantial handicap to employment and preventing the person from engaging in normal competitive employment and/or includes any blind person; 5. "Qualified organization" means a blind person or qualified nonprofit agency for the employment of people with significant disabilities contracting to supply goods or services; 6. "Manufactured" means goods made by manual labor; 7. "Produced" means to have brought into existence or created from raw materials; 8. "Processed" means the action of taking something through an established and mostly routine set of procedures or steps to substantially convert a potential product from one form to another. This action involves a sequence of multiple steps each requiring a distinct decision-making process to evolve a potential product to the next step; 9. "Assemble" means to put or fit together or put together the parts of a potential product; 10. "Central nonprofit agency (CNA)" means a qualified 501(c)3 nonprofit entity meeting the qualifications in the Request for Procurement (RFP) issued by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services selected to administer and oversee the State Use Program; and 11. "Procurement schedule" means a designated schedule of products and services currently approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Central Purchasing Division as suitable to procure from qualified organizations participating in the State Use Program.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1973, c. 20, § 3, operative July 1, 1973. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 322, § 2, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996; Laws 2004, c. 404, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2012, c. 289, § 2; Laws 2019, c. 99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2022, c. 252, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.