A transferor shall be treated as related to a transferee if more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting interests of the transferor and transferee are owned, directly or indirectly, by the other or are owned, directly or indirectly, by the same person or persons, unless such transferred establishment has an outstanding class of equity securities registered under Sections 12(b) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in which event the transferor and transferee will be treated as unrelated; provided, an establishment applying for the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act as a result of a change-in-control event is required to apply within one hundred eighty (180) days of the change-in-control event to qualify for consideration. An establishment entering the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act as the result of a change-in-control event shall be required to maintain a level of new direct jobs as agreed to in its contract with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and to pay new direct jobs an average annualized wage which equals or exceeds one hundred twenty-five percent (125%) of the average county wage as that percentage is determined by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce based upon the most recent U.S. Department of Commerce data for the county in which the new jobs are located. For purposes of this paragraph, healthcare premiums paid by the applicant for individuals in new direct jobs shall not be included in the annualized wage. Such establishment entering the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act as the result of a change-in-control event shall be required to retain the contracted average annualized wage and maintain the contracted maintenance level of new direct jobs numbers as certified by the Tax Commission. If the required average annualized wage or the required new direct jobs numbers do not equal or exceed such contracted level during any quarter, the quarterly incentive payments shall not be made and shall not be resumed until such time as such requirements are met. An establishment described in this paragraph shall be required to repay all incentive payments received under the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act if the establishment is determined by the Tax Commission to no longer have business operations in the state within three (3) years from the beginning of the calendar quarter for which the first incentive payment claim is filed;
Incentive payments made pursuant to the provisions of this subparagraph shall be based upon payroll associated with such new direct jobs. For purposes of this subparagraph, the amount of health insurance premiums or other benefits paid by the establishment shall not be included for purposes of computation of the average annualized wage;
Should a prime contractor provide notice to the Department of its intent not to apply for incentive for a qualified federal contract or fails to qualify under the criteria above, subcontractors in order of tier ranking as determined by the federal contract verifier may assume the role of the prime and apply to become a qualified federal contractor provided the entity meets the same criteria above with the exception that notice of intent to apply with the Department must be provided within sixty (60) days of the prime's disqualification or one hundred eighty (180) days of the award of its subcontract, whichever is later; and
A proxy establishment may be determined to be an establishment for all purposes of the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act by the Department and incentive payments may be made to such proxy establishment for new direct jobs otherwise qualified pursuant to the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act. The Department may promulgate rules to further specify the circumstances under which a proxy establishment may be considered an establishment for the purposes of making application for incentive payments pursuant to the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program Act. Provided however, that with respect to any data on qualifying direct new jobs from a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, such rules shall only require a proxy establishment to provide such data as would otherwise be publicly releasable by the branch of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 3603