Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 730 - Department of Transportation
Chapter 1 - Administrative Operations
Subchapter 3 - Transportation Commission
Section 730:1-3-8 - Disclosure of property; conflict of interest prohibited

(a) All members of the Transportation Commission and the Director shall file with the secretary for the Commission a list of all real property owned, directly or indirectly, within the State of Oklahoma excluding only their principal residences. This list organized by county, will give the legal description of each tract, the number of acres, and the date acquired. Subsequent sales or purchases shall be reported immediately to the secretary for the Commission.

(b) The secretary for the Commission shall furnish copies of this information to the Governor and the Attorney General, and shall make this file available for public inspection.

(c) No real property shall be purchased by the Department from a member of the Commission, the Director or other employee of the Department, or from any corporation in which such person or a member of his immediate family is an officer or agent and/or owns five percent (5%) or more of the stocks or shares actually issued by such corporation, or from any person who within eighteen (18) months prior to such purchase held such position with the Commission or the Department, unless his interest in such property shall be openly disclosed upon the public records of the Commission, and such property is acquired either by condemnation proceedings or the price to be paid for such property is approved in writing by the Director and the Chairman of the Commission; and provided further that such person shall not have participated in such acquisition for and in behalf of the Department or the Commission.

(d) No member of the Commission or the Director shall appoint, employ, recommend for employment or approve the appointment or employment of any person related within the third degree by blood or marriage to any member of the Commission or the Director.

(e) In no event shall any member of the Commission participate in the consideration or approval of any item when to do so would create a conflict of interest.

(f) Upon appointment each member of the Commission and the Director shall, within the time provided by law, file required financial disclosure statements with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.