Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 565 - Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools
Chapter 10 - Licensure and Regulation of Private Vocational Schools and Representatives
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 565:10-1-2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In addition, statutory definitions are available in 70 O.S. § 21-102.1(2).

"Advertising" means any printed, published, recorded, broadcast, electronically transmitted, or publicly presented information that markets or describes the school for any purpose. Advertising may include, but not be limited to, paid media placement, digital-content marketing, social media postings, and press releases to a news outlet(s).

"Applicant" means a person that seeks to receive approval for licensing.

"Approval" means action taken by the Board, Director, or another employee of the OBPVS to indicate that an Applicant school or Solicitor meets requirements for licensing.

"Authorized Administrative Official" means the highest authority for the school or seminar and/or the responsible person designated by school official with whom the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools does business.

"Denial" means action taken by the Board or Director to disapprove or deny licensing privileges to a school or Solicitor in accordance with the Board's authority and the Administrative Procedures Act of Oklahoma.

"Director" means an official of a licensed school or seminar who will typically be present, on site, at the school or seminar facility.

"Enrollment" means the mutual obligation between a student and a school; which results from their joint agreement to the specifications contained in a written document whereon both parties have placed their signatures attesting acceptance of conditions for the student to enter and pursue training at the school. A student will not be considered enrolled until such time as a written agreement has been signed by an authorized school official and the student or student's guarantor.

"Enrollment Agreement" means the contractual document whereon a school indicates conditions governing the enrollment of a student in a specific program or individual course(s), and whereon the school and student obligations under the agreement are shown.

"Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization of any character.

"Prepaid tuition" means any tuition monies collected in advance of training.

"Quarter credit hour" means twenty (20) contact hours of supervised instruction. A school which is accredited by a national or regional accrediting body recognized by the U. S. Department of Education, or the Veteran's Administration, may use the accrediting body's definition.

"Semester credit hour" means thirty (30) contact hours of supervised instruction. A school which is accredited by a national or regional accrediting body recognized by the U. S. Department of Education, or the Veteran's Administration, may use that accrediting bodies definition.

"Solicitor" means any employee, owner, or other person who for remuneration, enrolls or seeks to enroll students through personal contact, at any location other than the school's legal facilities, in a course(s) or a program of instruction or study offered or maintained by a private school, or who otherwise holds himself/herself out to the residents of this state as representing a private school for such purpose.

"Solicitor License" means a nontransferable, written authorization to a person by the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools to solicit any student to enroll in a course or courses of instruction or study offered or maintained by a private school.

"State agent for the school" means the person residing in Oklahoma who must be designated by the school to act for the school in the event service on the surety bond is required by any out of state school covered under the law.

"State agent for the surety company" means the person residing in Oklahoma who must be designated by the surety company to act for the surety company as the one to countersign the surety bond for any out of state surety company handling the blanket bond for a school to be licensed.

Amended at 12 Ok Reg 589, eff 12-1-94 (emergency); Amended at 12 Ok Reg 2905, eff 7-13-95; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 2782, eff 7-1-98; Amended at 17 Ok Reg 94, eff 9-10-99 (emergency); Amended at 17 Ok Reg 3006, eff 7-13-00; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 2768, eff 7-1-01