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Rule 4.17. Gifts to Official Superiors or Other State Officers or Employees--Exceptions

Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 74. State Government

Oklahoma Statutes Annotated
Title 74. State Government (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 62. Appendix I. Ethics Commission Rules (Refs & Annos)
Rule 4. Conflicts of Interest
T. 74, Ch. 62, App., Rule 4.17
Rule 4.17. Gifts to Official Superiors or Other State Officers or Employees--Exceptions
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A state officer or employee may not directly or indirectly give a gift or make a donation toward a gift for an official superior in an agency's chain of command or solicit a contribution from another employee for a gift to either his or her own or the other employee's official superior, nor may any state officer or employee receive directly or indirectly a gift from an employee receiving less compensation from the state than himself or herself, subject to the following exceptions:
1. A state officer or employee may make or receive such a gift if there exists a personal relationship between the two that would justify the gift.
2. A state officer or employee may make or receive such a gift on an occasional basis, including an occasion on which gifts are traditionally given or exchanged, provided the gift, which may not be in cash, has an aggregate market value of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) or less per occasion.
3. A state officer or employee may make or receive such a gift when items such as food or refreshments are to be shared in the agency among several employees.
4. A state officer or employee may make or receive such a gift involving personal hospitality provided at a residence which is of a type and value customarily provided by the state officer or employee to personal friends, or when the gifts consist of items given in connection with the receipt of personal hospitality of a type and value customarily given on such occasions.
5. A state officer or employee may make or receive such a gift appropriate to the occasion in recognition of infrequently occurring occasions of personal significance such as marriage, illness, birth or adoption of a child, retirement, resignation or transfer.
<Revised Constitutional Ethics Rules promulgated by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission on January 10, 2014, and submitted to the Legislature and Governor in accordance with Okla. Const. Art. 29, ยง 3, on February 4, 2014. The Rules became effective on January 1, 2015.>
Ethics Commission Rules Rule 4.17, 74 O.S.A. Ch. 1, App. I, OK ST Ethics Commission, Rule 4.17
Current with amendments effective through 2019.
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