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Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924
1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677)

Statement of Additional Information dated November 28, 2008, revised May 4, 2009

This Statement of Additional Information is not a Prospectus. This document contains additional information about the Fund and supplements information in the Prospectus dated November 28, 2008, revised May 4, 2009. It should be read together with the Prospectus. You can obtain the Prospectus by writing to the Fund's Transfer Agent, OppenheimerFunds Services, at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, Colorado 80217 or by calling the Transfer Agent at the toll-free number shown above or by downloading it from the OppenheimerFunds Internet website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Contents                                                         Page

About the Fund

Additional Information About the Funds Investment Policies and Risks     

The Funds Investment Policies     

Municipal Securities     

Other Investment Techniques and Strategies     

Other Investment Restrictions     

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings     

How the Fund is Managed     

Organization and History     

Board of Trustees and Oversight Committees     

Trustees and Officers of the Fund     

The Manager      

Brokerage Policies of the Fund     
Distribution and Service Plans     

Payments to Fund Intermediaries     

Performance of the Fund     

About Your Account

How To Buy Shares     
How To Sell Shares     
How to Exchange Shares     
Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes     
Additional Information About the Fund     

Financial Information About the Fund

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm     
Financial Statements      

Appendix A: Municipal Bond Ratings     A-1

Appendix B: Special Considerations Relating to Municipal Obligations in New Jersey and U.S. Territories, Commonwealths and Possessions     B-1

Appendix C: Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers     C-1


ABOUT THE FUND

Additional Information About the Funds Investment Policies and Risks

     The investment objective, principal investment policies and main risks of the Fund are described in the Prospectus. This Statement of Additional Information contains supplemental information about those policies and the types of securities that the Funds investment manager, OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (the Manager), may select for the Fund. Additional explanations are also provided about the strategies the Fund may use to try to achieve its objective.
 

The Funds Investment Policies. The composition of the Funds portfolio and the techniques and strategies that the Manager uses in selecting portfolio securities will vary over time. The Fund is not required to use all of the investment techniques and strategies described in this Statement of Additional Information in seeking its objective. It may use some of the investment techniques and strategies at some times or not at all.

     The Funds municipal securities that are held to maturity are redeemable by the securitys issuer at full principal value plus accrued interest. The values of those securities held by the Fund, however, may be affected by changes in general interest rates and other factors prior to their maturity. Because the current value of debt securities varies inversely with changes in prevailing interest rates, if interest rates increased after a security is purchased, that security will normally decline in value. Conversely, should interest rates decrease after a security is purchased, normally its value would rise.

Those fluctuations in value will not generally result in realized gains or losses to the Fund unless the Fund sells the security prior to the securitys maturity. The Fund may dispose of securities prior to their maturity for investment purposes. In that case, the Fund could realize a capital gain or loss on the sale.

There are variations in the credit quality of municipal securities, both within a particular rating category and between categories. These variations depend on numerous factors. The yields of municipal securities depend on a number of factors, including general conditions in the municipal securities market, the size of a particular offering, the maturity of the obligation and rating (if any) of the issue. These factors are discussed in greater detail below.

Unless the Prospectus or Statement of Additional Information states that an investment percentage restriction applies on an ongoing basis, it applies only at the time the Fund makes an investment (except for borrowing and investments in illiquid securities). In that case the Fund need not sell securities to meet the percentage limits if the value of the investment changes in proportion to the size of the Fund.

Municipal Securities. The types of municipal securities in which the Fund may invest are described in the Prospectus under What Does the Fund Mainly Invest in? and About the Funds Investments. Under normal market conditions, and as a fundamental policy, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in New Jersey municipal securities. This includes securities that generate income subject to the alternative minimum tax. Municipal securities are generally classified as general obligation bonds, revenue bonds and notes. A discussion of the general characteristics of these principal types of municipal securities follows below.

|X| Municipal Bonds. The Fund has classified long-term municipal securities having a maturity (when the security is issued) of more than one year as municipal bonds. The principal classifications of long-term municipal bonds are "general obligation" and "revenue" bonds (including "private activity" bonds). They may have fixed, variable or floating rates of interest or may be zero-coupon bonds, as described below.

     
     Some bonds may be callable, allowing the issuer to redeem them before their maturity date. To protect bondholders, callable bonds may be issued with provisions that prevent them from being called for a period of time. Typically, that is five to ten years from the issuance date. When interest rates decline, if the call protection on a bond has expired, it is more likely that the issuer may call the bond. If that occurs, the Fund might have to reinvest the proceeds of the called bond in bonds that pay a lower rate of return.
 

     |X| General Obligation Bonds. The basic security behind general obligation bonds is the issuer's pledge of its full faith and credit and taxing power, if any, for the repayment of principal and the payment of interest. Issuers of general obligation bonds include states, counties, cities, towns, and school districts. The proceeds of these obligations are used to fund a wide range of public projects, including construction or improvement of schools, highways and roads, and water and sewer systems. The rate of taxes that can be levied for the payment of debt service on these bonds may be limited or unlimited. Additionally, there may be limits as to the rate or amount of special assessments that can be levied to meet these obligations.

     |X| Revenue Bonds. The principal security for a revenue bond is generally the net revenues derived from a particular facility, group of facilities, or, in some cases, the proceeds of a special excise tax or other specific revenue source, such as a states or local governments proportionate share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) (as described in the section titled Tobacco Related Bonds). Revenue bonds are issued to finance a wide variety of capital projects. Examples include electric, gas, water and sewer systems; highways, bridges, and tunnels; port and airport facilities; colleges and universities; and hospitals.

     Although the principal security for revenue bonds may vary from bond to bond, many provide additional security in the form of a debt service reserve fund that may be used to make principal and interest payments on the issuer's obligations. Housing finance authorities have a wide range of security, including partially or fully insured mortgages, rent subsidized and/or collateralized mortgages, and/or the net revenues from housing or other public projects. Some authorities provide further security in the form of a state's ability (without obligation) to make up deficiencies in the debt service reserve fund.

     |X| Private Activity Bonds. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 amended and reorganized the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Internal Revenue Code), including the rules governing tax-exemption for interest on certain types of municipal securities known as private activity bonds (or, industrial development bonds as they were referred to under pre-1986 law). The proceeds from private activity bonds are used to finance various non-governmental privately owned and/or operated facilities. Under the Internal Revenue Code, interest on private activity bonds is excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes if (i) the financed activities fall into one of seven categories of qualified private activity bonds, consisting of mortgage bonds, veterans mortgage bonds, small issue bonds, student loan bonds, redevelopment bonds, exempt facility bonds and 501(c)(3) bonds, and (ii) certain tests are met. The types of facilities that may be financed with exempt facility bonds include airports, docks and wharves, water furnishing facilities, sewage facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, qualified residential rental projects, hazardous waste facilities and high speed intercity rail facilities. The types of facilities that may be financed with 501(c)(3) bonds include hospitals and educational facilities that are owned by 501(c)(3) organizations.

     Whether a municipal security is a private activity bond (the interest on which is taxable unless it is a qualified private activity bond) depends on whether (i) more than a certain percentage (generally 10%) of (a) the proceeds of the security are used in a trade or business carried on by a non-governmental person and (b) the payment of principal or interest on the security is directly or indirectly derived from such private use, or is secured by privately used property or payments in respect of such property, or (ii) more than the lesser of 5% of the issue or $5 million is used to make or finance loans to non-governmental persons.

     Moreover, a private activity bond of certain types that would otherwise be a qualified tax-exempt private activity bond will not, under Internal Revenue Code Section 147(a), be a qualified bond for any period during which it is held by a person who is a substantial user of the facilities financed by the bond, or a related person of such a substantial user. Generally a substantial user is a non-exempt person who regularly uses part of a facility in a trade or business.

     Thus, certain municipal securities could lose their tax-exempt status retroactively if the issuer or user fails to meet certain continuing requirements, for the entire period during which the securities are outstanding, as to the use and operation of the bond-financed facilities and the use and expenditure of the proceeds of such securities. The Fund makes no independent investigation into the use of such facilities or the expenditure of such proceeds. If the Fund should hold a bond that loses its tax-exempt status retroactively, there might be an adjustment to the tax-exempt income previously distributed to shareholders.

     The payment of the principal and interest on such qualified private activity bonds is dependent solely on the ability of the facilitys user to meet its financial obligations, generally from the revenues derived from the operation of the financed facility, and the pledge, if any, of real and personal property financed by the bond as security for those payments.

     Limitations on the amount of private activity bonds that each state may issue may reduce the supply of such bonds. The value of the Funds portfolio could be affected by these limitations if they reduce the availability of such bonds.

     Interest on certain qualified private activity bonds that is tax-exempt may nonetheless be treated as a tax preference item subject to the alternative minimum tax to which certain taxpayers are subject. If such qualified private activity bonds are held by the Fund, a proportionate share of the exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund will constitute an item of tax preference to such shareholders.

|X| Municipal Notes. Municipal securities having a maturity (when the security is issued) of less than one year are generally known as municipal notes. Municipal notes generally are used to provide for short-term working capital needs. Some of the types of municipal notes the Fund can invest in are described below.

     |X| Tax Anticipation Notes. These are issued to finance working capital needs of municipalities. Generally, they are issued in anticipation of various seasonal tax revenue, such as income, sales, use or other business taxes, and are payable from these specific future taxes.
 
     
|X| Revenue Anticipation Notes. These are notes issued in expectation of receipt of other types of revenue, such as federal revenues available under Federal revenue-sharing programs.
 
     
|X| Bond Anticipation Notes. Bond anticipation notes are issued to provide interim financing until long-term financing can be arranged. The long-term bonds that are issued typically also provide the money for the repayment of the notes.
 
     
|X| Construction Loan Notes. These are sold to provide project construction financing until permanent financing can be secured. After successful completion and acceptance of the project, it may receive permanent financing through public agencies, such as the Federal Housing Administration.

      |X|Tax-Exempt Commercial Paper. This type of short-term obligation (usually having a maturity of 270 days or less) is issued by a municipality to meet current working capital needs.

     |X| Auction Rate Securities. Auction rate securities are municipal debt instruments with long-term nominal maturities for which the interest rate is reset at specific shorter frequencies (typically every 7 - 35 days) through a dutch auction process. A dutch auction is a competitive bidding process used to determine rates on each auction date. In a dutch auction, a broker-dealer submits bids, on behalf of current and prospective investors, to the auction agent. The winning bid rate is the rate at which the auction clears, meaning the lowest possible interest rate at which all the securities can be sold at par. This clearing rate is paid on the entire issue for the upcoming period and includes current holders of the auction rate securities. Investors who bid a minimum rate above the clearing rate receive no securities, while those whose minimum bid rates were at or below the clearing rate receive the clearing rate for the next period.

While the auction rate process is designed to permit the holder to sell the auction rate securities in an auction at par value at specified intervals, there is the risk that an auction will fail due to insufficient demand for the securities. Auction rate securities may be subject to changes in interest rates, including decreased interest rates. Failed auctions may impair the liquidity of auction rate securities.

     |X| Municipal Lease Obligations. The Funds investments in municipal lease obligations may be through certificates of participation that are offered to investors by public entities. Municipal leases may take the form of a lease or an installment purchase contract issued by a state or local government authority to obtain funds to acquire a wide variety of equipment and facilities.

     Some municipal lease securities may be deemed to be "illiquid" securities. Their purchase by the Fund would be limited as described below in "Illiquid Securities." The Manager may determine that certain municipal leases are liquid under specific guidelines that require the Manager to evaluate:

|_| the frequency of trades and price quotations for such securities;

|_| the number of dealers or other potential buyers willing to purchase or sell such securities;

|_| the availability of market-makers; and

|_| the nature of the trades for such securities.

     Municipal leases have special risk considerations. Although lease obligations do not constitute general obligations of the municipality for which the municipality's taxing power is pledged, a lease obligation is ordinarily backed by the municipality's covenant to budget for, appropriate and make the payments due under the lease obligation. However, certain lease obligations contain "non-appropriation" clauses which provide that the municipality has no obligation to make lease or installment purchase payments in future years unless money is appropriated for that purpose on a yearly basis. While the obligation might be secured by the lease, it might be difficult to dispose of that property in case of a default.
 
     Projects financed with certificates of participation generally are not subject to state constitutional debt limitations or other statutory requirements that may apply to other municipal securities. Payments by the public entity on the obligation underlying the certificates are derived from available revenue sources. That revenue might be diverted to the funding of other municipal service projects. Payments of interest and/or principal with respect to the certificates are not guaranteed and do not constitute an obligation of a state or any of its political subdivisions.
 
     In addition to the risk of "non-appropriation," municipal lease securities do not have as highly liquid a market as conventional municipal bonds. Municipal leases, like other municipal debt obligations, are subject to the risk of non-payment of interest or repayment of principal by the issuer. The ability of issuers of municipal leases to make timely lease payments may be adversely affected in general economic downturns and as relative governmental cost burdens are reallocated among federal, state and local governmental units. A default in payment of income would result in a reduction of income to the Fund. It could also result in a reduction in the value of the municipal lease and that, as well as a default in repayment of principal, could result in a decrease in the net asset value of the Fund. While the Fund holds such securities, the Manager will also evaluate the likelihood of a continuing market for these securities and their credit quality.

Tobacco Related Bonds.  The Funds may invest in two types of tobacco related bonds:  (i) tobacco settlement revenue bonds, for which payments of interest and principal are made solely from a states interest in the MSA described below, and (ii) tobacco bonds subject to a states appropriation pledge, for which payments may come from both the MSA revenue and the applicable state's appropriation pledge.

Tobacco Settlement Revenue Bonds. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in tobacco settlement revenue bonds. Tobacco settlement revenue bonds are secured by an issuing states proportionate share in the MSA. The MSA is an agreement reached out of court in November 1998 between 46 states and six other U.S. jurisdictions (including Puerto Rico and Guam) and the four largest (now three) U.S. tobacco manufacturers (Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Brown & Williamson (merged with R.J. Reynolds in 2004), and Lorillard). Subsequently, a number of smaller tobacco manufacturers signed on to the MSA.  The MSA provides for payments annually by the manufacturers to the states and jurisdictions in perpetuity, in exchange for releasing all claims against the manufacturers and a pledge of no further litigation. The MSA established a base payment schedule and a formula for adjusting payments each year. Tobacco manufacturers pay into a master escrow trust based on their market share and each state receives a fixed percentage of the payment as set forth in the MSA.
 

A number of states have securitized the future flow of those payments by selling bonds pursuant to indentures, some through distinct governmental entities created for such purpose. The bonds are backed by the future revenue flow that is used for principal and interest payments on the bonds. Annual payments on the bonds, and thus the risk to a Fund, are highly dependent on the receipt of future settlement payments by the state or its governmental entity, as well as other factors. The actual amount of future settlement payments is dependent on many factors including, but not limited to, annual domestic cigarette shipments, cigarette consumption, inflation and the financial capability of participating tobacco companies. As a result, payments made by tobacco manufacturers could be reduced if the decrease in tobacco consumption is significantly greater than the forecasted decline.

Because tobacco settlement bonds are backed by payments from the tobacco manufacturers, and generally not by the credit of the state or local government issuing the bonds, their creditworthiness depends on the ability of tobacco manufacturers to meet their obligations. A market share loss by the MSA companies to non-MSA participating tobacco manufacturers could also cause a downward adjustment in the payment amounts. A participating manufacturer filing for bankruptcy also could cause delays or reductions in bond payments, which could affect a Funds net asset value.

The MSA and tobacco manufacturers have been and continue to be subject to various legal claims.  An adverse outcome to any litigation matters relating to the MSA or affecting tobacco manufacturers could adversely affect the payment streams associated with the MSA or cause delays or reductions in bond payments by tobacco manufacturers. The MSA itself has been subject to legal challenges and has, to date, withstood those challenges.

Tobacco Bonds Subject to Appropriation (STA) Bonds. In addition to the tobacco settlement bonds discussed above, the Fund also may invest in tobacco related bonds that are subject to a states appropriation pledge (STA Tobacco Bonds).  STA Tobacco Bonds rely on both the revenue source from the MSA and a state appropriation pledge. 

     These STA Tobacco Bonds are part of a larger category of municipal bonds that are subject to state appropriation.  Although specific provisions may vary among states, "subject to appropriation bonds" (also referred to as "appropriation debt") are typically payable from two distinct sources: (i) a dedicated revenue source such as a municipal enterprise, a special tax or, in the case of tobacco bonds, the MSA funds, and (ii) from the issuers general funds.  Appropriation debt differs from a states general obligation debt in that general obligation debt is backed by the states full faith, credit and taxing power, while appropriation debt requires the state to pass a specific periodic appropriation to pay interest and/or principal on the bonds as the payments come due. The appropriation is usually made annually.  While STA Tobacco Bonds offer an enhanced credit support feature, that feature is generally not an unconditional guarantee of payment by a state and states generally do not pledge the full faith, credit or taxing power of the state. The Funds consider the STA Tobacco Bonds to be "municipal securities" for purposes of their concentration policies.

Litigation Challenging the MSA. The participating manufacturers and states in the MSA are subject to several pending lawsuits challenging the MSA and/or related state legislation or statutes adopted by the states to implement the MSA (referred to herein as the MSA-related legislation). One or more of the lawsuits allege, among other things, that the MSA and/or the states MSA-related legislation are void or unenforceable under the Commerce Clause and certain other provisions of the U.S. Constitution, the federal antitrust laws, federal civil rights laws, state constitutions, consumer protection laws and unfair competition laws.

To date, challenges to the MSA or the states MSA-related legislation have not been ultimately successful, although three such challenges (the Grand River and Freedom Holdings cases in federal court in New York and the Xcaliber case in federal court in Louisiana, each of which is discussed below) have survived initial appellate review of motions to dismiss. Moreover, these three cases and the A.B. Coker case in federal court in Louisiana (discussed below) are the only cases challenging the MSA or related legislation that have proceeded to a stage of litigation where the ultimate outcome may be determined by, among other things, findings of fact based on extrinsic evidence as to the operation and impact of the MSA and the states MSA-related legislation. In Grand River and Freedom Holdings, certain decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have created heightened uncertainty as a result of that courts interpretation of federal antitrust immunity and Commerce Clause doctrines as applied to the MSA and the states MSA-related legislation. The Second Circuits interpretation appears to conflict with interpretations by other courts which have rejected challenges to the MSA and the states MSA-related legislation. Prior district court and appellate decisions in circuits other than the Second Circuit rejecting such challenges (in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits) have concluded that the MSA and the MSA-related legislation do not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and/or are protected from antitrust challenges based on established antitrust immunity doctrines. In addition, proceedings are pending or on appeal in certain other cases, including two challenged by certain tobacco companies not participating in the MSA in federal court in Louisiana. One case (Xcaliber) alleges, among other things, that the Louisiana MSA-related statute violates the rights of free speech, due process of law and equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the federal antitrust laws. On March 1, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the district courts dismissal of the plaintiffs complaint in this case and remanded the case for reconsideration. Following two years of trial motions, the federal district trial was expected to begin in mid-2008. The other case (A.B. Coker) alleges the MSA and Louisianas MSA-related legislation are violations of the Commerce Clause, Due Process Clause and First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and other federal statutes. In late 2006, the federal district court granted in part and denied in part the defendants motion to dismiss. The court allowed the case to proceed on claims that the MSA and Louisianas related legislation are violations of the Commerce Clause, Due Process Clause and First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and other federal statutes. A trial date was expected to be set in late 2008.

Such conflicts may result in significant uncertainty regarding the validity and enforceability of the MSA and/or the states related MSA-legislation and could adversely affect payment streams associated with the MSA and the bonds. The existence of a conflict as to the rulings of different federal courts on these issues, especially between Circuit Courts of Appeals, is one factor that the U.S. Supreme Court may take into account when deciding whether to exercise its discretion in agreeing to hear an appeal. No assurance can be given that the U.S. Supreme Court would choose to hear and determine any appeal relating to the substantive merits of the cases challenging the MSA or the states MSA-related legislation.

Grand River and Freedom Holdings. Both cases are pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and seek to enjoin the enforcement of states MSA-related legislation. The Grand River case is pending against the attorneys general of 30 states. The plaintiffs seek to enjoin the enforcement of the states MSA-related legislation, and allege, among other things, (a) violations of federal antitrust law, the accompanying state legislation enacted pursuant to the MSA mandates or authorizes such violations and is thus preempted by federal law and that (b) the MSA and related statutes are invalid or unenforceable under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Grand River was remanded and remains pending in the Southern District and the parties have engaged in discovery with respect to the antitrust and Commerce Clause claims. The Freedom Holdings case is pending against the attorney general and the commissioner of taxation and finance of the State of New York and is based on the same purported claims as the Grand River case. These two suits have survived appellate review of motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Grand River is in the discovery phase of litigation in preparation for the development of a factual record to support possible findings of fact that may be used by the court in its decision as to the pending claims. The discovery deadline has passed in Freedom Holdings and motions for summary judgment were fully submitted to the court on March 7, 2007, which are pending.

To date, the Second Circuit is the only federal court that has sustained a Commerce Clause challenge to the MSA and MSA-related legislation after reviewing a motion to dismiss. A final decision in these cases by the District Court would be subject to appeal to the Second Circuit and would likely be further appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Supreme Court decision to affirm or to decline to review a Second Circuit ruling that is adverse to the participating manufacturers and states, challenging validity or enforceability of MSA or the states MSA-related legislation, could potentially lead to invalidation of the MSA and states MSA-related legislation in their entirety, materially affect the payment streams under the MSA and/or result in the complete loss of the Funds outstanding investment.

In addition to the cases identified above, proceedings are pending in federal courts that challenge the MSA and/or the states MSA-related legislation in California, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. The issues raised in Freedom Holdings or Grand River are also raised in many of these other cases. The MSA and states MSA-related legislation may also continue to be challenged in the future. A determination that the MSA or states MSA-related legislation is void or unenforceable would have a material adverse effect on the payments made by the participating manufacturers under the MSA.

Litigation Seeking Monetary Relief from Tobacco Industry Participants. The tobacco industry has been the target of litigation for many years. Both individual and class action lawsuits have been brought by or on behalf of smokers alleging that smoking has been injurious to their health, and by non-smokers alleging harm from environmental tobacco smoke, also known as secondhand smoke. Plaintiffs seek various forms of relief, including compensatory and punitive damages aggregating billions of dollars, treble/multiple damages and other statutory damages and penalties, creation of medical monitoring and smoking cessation funds, disgorgement of profits, legal fees, and injunctive and equitable relief.

The MSA does not release participating manufacturers from liability in either individual or class action cases. Healthcare cost recovery cases have also been brought by governmental and non-governmental healthcare providers seeking, among other things, reimbursement for healthcare expenditures incurred in connection with the treatment of medical conditions allegedly caused by smoking. The participating manufacturers are also exposed to liability in these cases, because the MSA only settled healthcare cost recovery claims of the participating states. Litigation has also been brought against certain participating manufacturers and their affiliates in foreign countries.

     The ultimate outcome of any pending or future lawsuit is uncertain. Verdicts of substantial magnitude that are enforceable as to one or more participating manufacturers, if they occur, could encourage commencement of additional litigation, or could negatively affect perceptions of potential triers of fact with respect to the tobacco industry, possibly to the detriment of pending litigation. An unfavorable outcome or settlement or one or more adverse judgments could result in a decision by the affected participating manufacturers to substantially increase cigarette prices, thereby reducing cigarette consumption beyond the forecasts under the MSA. In addition, the financial condition of any or all of the participating manufacturer defendants could be materially and adversely affected by the ultimate outcome of pending litigation, including bonding and litigation costs or a verdict or verdicts awarding substantial compensatory or punitive damages. Depending upon the magnitude of any such negative financial impact (and irrespective of whether the participating manufacturer is thereby rendered insolvent), an adverse outcome in one or more of the lawsuits could substantially impair the affected participating manufacturers ability to make payments under the MSA.

|X| Credit Ratings of Municipal Securities. Ratings by ratings organizations such as Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (Moodys), Standard & Poors Rating Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (Standard & Poors) and Fitch, Inc. (Fitch) represent the respective rating agencys opinions of the credit quality of the municipal securities they undertake to rate. However, their ratings are general opinions and are not guarantees of quality. Municipal securities that have the same maturity, coupon and rating may have different yields, while other municipal securities that have the same maturity and coupon but different ratings may have the same yield.

After the Funds buys a municipal security, the security may cease to be rated or its rating may be reduced. Neither event requires the Fund to sell the security, but the Manager will consider such events in determining whether the Fund should continue to hold the security. To the extent that ratings given by Moody's, Standard & Poors or Fitch change as a result of changes in those rating organizations or their rating systems, the Fund will attempt to use comparable ratings as standards for investments in accordance with the Fund's investment policies.

The Fund may buy municipal securities that are pre-refunded. The issuers obligation to repay the principal value of the security is generally collateralized with U.S. government securities placed in an escrow account. This causes the pre-refunded security to have essentially the same risks of default as a AAA-rated security.

A list of the rating categories of Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitch for municipal securities is contained in Appendix A to this Statement of Additional Information. Because the Fund also purchases securities that are unrated by nationally recognized rating organizations, the Manager will make its own assessment of the credit quality of those unrated issues. The Manager will use criteria similar to those used by the rating agencies, and assign a rating category to a security that is comparable to what the Manager believes a rating agency would assign to that security. However, the Managers rating does not constitute a guarantee of the quality of a particular issue.

Special Risks of the Funds Investments in New Jersey and U.S. Territories, Commonwealths and Possessions. A discussion of the special considerations relating to the Funds municipal obligations and other economic conditions in New Jersey is provided in Appendix B to this SAI.

The Fund also invests in municipal securities issued by certain territories, commonwealths and possessions of the United States that pay interest that is exempt (in the opinion of the issuer's legal counsel when the security is issued) from federal income tax and New Jersey personal income tax. Therefore, the Fund's investments could be affected by the fiscal stability of, for example, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam or the Mariana Islands. Additionally, the Funds investments could be affected by economic, legislative, regulatory or political developments affecting issuers in those territories, commonwealths or possessions. A discussion of these special considerations also is provided in Appendix B.

n Borrowing and Leverage. The Fund can borrow from banks for investment-related purposes such as purchasing securities that the Manager believes are attractive investments, funding amounts necessary to unwind or "collapse" trusts that issued "inverse floaters" to the Fund, or to contribute to such trusts to enable them to pay for tenders of their short-term securities by the holders. The Fund also can borrow from banks and other lenders to meet redemption obligations or for temporary and emergency purposes. When the Fund invests borrowed funds in portfolio securities, it is using a speculative investment technique known as "leverage." Under the Fund's investment policies, the Fund may not borrow money, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption from the Act that applies to the Fund. Currently, under the Investment Company Act, a mutual fund may borrow only from banks (for other than emergency purposes) and the maximum amount it may borrow is up to one-third of its total assets (including the amount borrowed) less all liabilities and indebtedness other than borrowings. When a Fund borrows, it earmarks securities on its books equal to 300% of the amount borrowed to cover its obligation to repay the loan. If the value of the Fund's assets fails to meet this 300% asset coverage requirement, the Fund will reduce its borrowings within three days to meet the requirement. To do so, the Fund might have to sell a portion of its investments at a disadvantageous time.
 

The Fund may also borrow up to 5% of its total assets for temporary or emergency purposes from any lender. Under the Investment Company Act, there is a rebuttable presumption that a loan is temporary if it is repaid within 60 days and not extended or renewed.

The Fund will pay interest on loans, and that interest expense will raise the overall expenses of the Fund and reduce its returns. If the Fund does borrow, its expenses will be greater than comparable funds that do not borrow. In the case of borrowing for leverage, the interest paid on a loan might be more (or less) than the yield on the securities purchased with the loan proceeds. Additionally, borrowing might cause the Fund's net asset value per share to fluctuate more than that of funds that do not borrow.

The Fund participates in a secured line of credit (the "Line of Credit") with certain conduit facilities, Citibank, N.A. ("Citibank"), and other banks. The Line of Credit enables the Fund to participate with certain other Oppenheimer funds in a committed, secured borrowing facility which was increased in October 2008 to permit borrowings of up to $3,000,000,000, in the aggregate by the participants. The Line of Credit is required to be operated in compliance with the terms of an exemptive order issued by the SEC to Citicorp North America, Inc. ("Citicorp"), which acts as agent for the lenders under the Line of Credit. That Line of Credit can be used to purchase securities for investment or for other business purposes. The Fund's Board determined that the Fund's participation in the Line of Credit is consistent with the Fund's investment objective and policies and is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders.

The Board has adopted procedures that govern the Fund's participation in the Line of Credit. To facilitate the lender's willingness to increase the amount available to the Fund and other affiliated funds that are borrowers under that loan facility, the Manager has used its own resources to fund certain collateral accounts for the potential benefit of Citibank, one of the lenders in connection with another investment program unrelated to the Fund or the loan. The Manager has received no compensation from the Fund or the lender for establishing that collateral account or in connection with the increase in the Line of Credit available to the Fund and its affiliated funds.

     Loans are typically secured by assets of the Fund. Liquidity support for loans from the Line of Credit facility is provided by banks obligated to make loans to the Fund in the event the conduit or conduits are unable or unwilling to make such loans. Interest is charged to the Fund, based on its borrowings, at current commercial rates. The Fund has paid its pro rata portion of a loan commitment fee for the Line of Credit and the recent increase thereto, and pays additional fees on its outstanding borrowings annually for the lender to manage and administer the facility. The Fund can prepay such loans and terminate its participation in the Line of Credit at any time upon prior notice. As a borrower under the Line of Credit, the Fund has certain rights and remedies under state and federal law comparable to those it would have with respect to a loan from a bank.

Other Investment Techniques and Strategies. In seeking its objective, the Fund may from time to time employ the types of investment strategies and investments described below. It is not required to use all of these strategies and may not use them.
 
     
|X| Floating Rate and Variable Rate Obligations.      Floating or variable rate obligations may have a demand feature that allows the Fund to tender the obligation to the issuer or a third party prior to its maturity. The tender may be at par value plus accrued interest, according to the terms of the obligations.
 
     The interest rate on a floating rate demand note is based on a market rate, such as the percentage of LIBOR, the SIFMA Municipal Swap index or a bank's prime rate and is adjusted automatically each time such rate is adjusted. The interest rate on a variable rate demand note is also based on a specified
market rate but is adjusted automatically at specified intervals of not more than one year. Generally, the changes in the interest rates on such securities reduce the fluctuation in their market value. As interest rates decrease or increase, the potential for capital appreciation or depreciation is less than that for fixed-rate obligations of the same maturity.
 
     The Manager may determine that an unrated floating rate or variable rate demand obligation meets the Fund's quality standards by reason of being backed by a letter of credit or guarantee issued by a bank that meets those quality standards.
 
     Floating rate and variable rate demand notes that have a stated maturity in excess of one year may have features that permit the holder to recover the principal amount of the underlying security at specified intervals not exceeding one year and upon not more than thirty days
notice. The issuer of that type of note normally has a corresponding right in its discretion, after a given period, to prepay the outstanding principal amount of the note plus accrued interest. Generally the issuer must provide a specified number of days notice to the holder. Floating rate or variable rate obligations that do not provide for the recovery of principal and interest within seven days are subject to the Fund's limitations on investments in illiquid securities.

n     Inverse Floaters. The Fund invests in inverse floaters which are derivative instruments that pay interest at rates that move in the opposite direction of yields on short-term securities. As short-term interest rates rise, the interest rate on inverse floaters falls and they produce less current income. As short-term interest rates fall, the interest rates on the inverse floaters increase and they pay more current income. Their market value can be more volatile than that of a conventional fixed-rate security having similar credit quality, redemption provisions and maturity. The Fund can expose up to 20% of its total assets to the effects of leverage from its investments in inverse floaters.

     An inverse floater is typically created by a trust that divides a fixed-rate municipal security into two securities: a short-term tax-exempt floating rate security (sometimes referred to as a "tender option bond") and a long-term tax-exempt floating rate security (referred to as a "residual certificate" or "inverse floater") that pays interest at rates that move in the opposite direction of the yield on the short-term floating rate security. The purchaser of a "tender option bond" has the right to tender the security periodically for repayment of the principal value. As short-term interest rates rise, inverse floaters produce less current income (and, in extreme cases, may pay no income) and as short-term interest rates fall, inverse floaters produce more current income.

     To facilitate the creation of inverse floaters, the Fund may purchase a fixed-rate municipal security and subsequently transfer it to a broker-dealer (the sponsor), which deposits the municipal security in a trust. The trust issues the residual certificates and short-term floating rate securities. The trust documents enable the Fund to withdraw the underlying bond to unwind or "collapse" the trust (upon tendering the residual certificate and paying the value of the short-term bonds and certain other costs). The Fund may also purchase inverse floaters created by municipal issuers directly or by other parties that have deposited municipal bonds into a sponsored trust.

The Fund may also purchase inverse floaters created when another party transfers a fixed-rate municipal security to a trust. The trust then issues short-term floating rate notes to third parties and sells the inverse floater to the Fund. Under some circumstances, the Manager might acquire both portions of that type of offering, to reduce the effect of the volatility of the individual securities. This provides the Manager with a flexible portfolio management tool to vary the degree of investment leverage efficiently under different market conditions.

Additionally, the Fund may be able to purchase inverse floaters created by municipal issuers directly. To provide investment leverage, a municipal issuer might issue two variable rate obligations instead of a single long-term, fixed-rate security. For example, the interest rate on one obligation reflecting short-term interest rates and the interest rate on the other instrument, the inverse floater, reflecting the approximate rate the issuer would have paid on a fixed-rate security, multiplied by a factor of two, minus the rate paid on the short-term instrument.

Inverse floaters may offer relatively high current income, reflecting the spread between long-term and short-term tax-exempt interest rates. As long as the municipal yield curve remains positively sloped, and short-term rates remain low relative to long-term rates, owners of inverse floaters will have the opportunity to earn interest at above-market rates. If the yield curve flattens and shifts upward, an inverse floater will lose value more quickly than a conventional long-term security having similar credit quality, redemption provisions and maturity.

Some inverse floaters have a feature known as an interest rate cap as part of the terms of the investment. Investing in inverse floaters that have interest rate caps might be part of a portfolio strategy to try to maintain a high current yield for the Fund when the Fund has invested in inverse floaters that expose the Fund to the risk of short-term interest rate fluctuations. Embedded caps can be used to hedge a portion of the Funds exposure to rising interest rates. When interest rates exceed a pre-determined rate, the cap generates additional cash flows that offset the decline in interest rates on the inverse floater. However, the Fund bears the risk that if interest rates do not rise above the pre-determined rate, the cap (which is purchased for additional cost) will not provide additional cash flows and will expire worthless.

The Fund may enter into a shortfall and forbearance agreement with the sponsor of an inverse floater held by the Fund. Under such an agreement, on liquidation of the trust, the Fund would be committed to pay the trust the difference between the liquidation value of the underlying security on which the inverse floater is based and the principal amount payable to the holders of the short-term floating rate security that is based on the same underlying security. The Fund would not be required to make such a payment under the standard terms of a more typical inverse floater. Although entering into a shortfall and forbearance agreement would expose the Fund to the risk that it may be required to make the payment described above, the Fund may receive higher interest payments than under a typical inverse floater.

An investment in inverse floaters may involve greater risk than an investment in a fixed-rate municipal security. All inverse floaters entail some degree of leverage. The interest rate on inverse floaters varies inversely at a pre-set multiple of the change in short-term rates. An inverse floater that has a higher multiple, and therefore more leverage, will be more volatile with respect to both price and income than an inverse floater with a lower degree of leverage or than the underlying security.

     

     Because of the accounting treatment for inverse floaters created by the Fund's transfer of a municipal bond to a trust, the Fund's financial statements will reflect these transactions as "secured borrowings," which affects the Fund's expense ratios, statements of income and assets and liabilities and causes the Fund's Statement of Investments to include the underlying municipal bond.

n     Percentage of LIBOR Notes (PLNs). The Fund may invest in Percentage of LIBOR Notes (PLNs) which are variable rate municipal securities based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a widely used benchmark for short-term interest rates and used by banks for interbank loans with other banks. The PLN typically pays interest based on a percentage of a LIBOR rate for a specified time plus an established yield premium. Due to their variable rate features, PLNs will generally pay higher levels of income in a rising interest rate environment and lower levels of income as interest rates decline. In times of substantial market volatility, however, the PLNs may not perform as anticipated. The value of a PLN also may decline due to other factors, such as changes in credit quality of the underlying bond.

The Fund also may invest in PLNs that are created when a broker-dealer/sponsor deposits a municipal bond into a trust created by the sponsor. The trust issues a percentage of LIBOR floating rate certificate (i.e., the PLN) to the Fund and a residual interest certificate to third parties who receive the remaining interest on the bond after payment of the interest distribution to the PLN holder and other fees.

|X| When-Issued and Delayed Delivery Transactions. The Fund can purchase securities on a "when-issued" basis, and may purchase or sell such securities on a "delayed delivery" (or forward commitment) basis. "When-issued" or "delayed delivery" refers to securities whose terms and indenture are available and for which a market exists, but which are not available for immediate delivery.

When such transactions are negotiated the price (which is generally expressed in yield terms) is fixed at the time the commitment is made. Delivery and payment for the securities take place at a later date. Normally the settlement date is within six months of the purchase of municipal bonds and notes. However, the Fund may, from time to time, purchase municipal securities having a settlement date more than six months and possibly as long as two years or more after the trade date. The securities are subject to change in value from market fluctuation during the settlement period. The value at delivery may be less than the purchase price. For example, changes in interest rates in a direction other than that expected by the Manager before settlement will affect the value of such securities and may cause loss to the Fund. No income begins to accrue to the Fund on a when-issued security until the Fund receives the security at settlement of the trade.

     The Fund will engage in when-issued transactions in order to secure what is considered to be an advantageous price and yield at the time of entering into the obligation. When the Fund engages in when-issued or delayed delivery transactions, it relies on the buyer or seller, as the case may be, to complete the transaction. Their failure to do so may cause the Fund to lose the opportunity to obtain the security at a price and yield it considers advantageous.

When the Fund engages in when-issued and delayed delivery transactions, it does so for the purpose of acquiring or selling securities consistent with its investment objective and policies for its portfolio or for delivery pursuant to options contracts it has entered into, and not for the purposes of investment leverage. Although the Fund will enter into when-issued or delayed-delivery purchase transactions to acquire securities, the Fund may dispose of a commitment prior to settlement. If the Fund chooses to dispose of the right to acquire a when-issued security prior to its acquisition or to dispose of its right to deliver or receive against a forward commitment, it may incur a gain or loss.

At the time the Fund makes a commitment to purchase or sell a security on a when-issued or forward commitment basis, it records the transaction on its books and reflects the value of the security purchased. In a sale transaction, it records the proceeds to be received, in determining its net asset value. In a purchase transaction, the Fund will identify on its books liquid securities of any type with a value at least equal to the purchase commitments until the Fund pays for the investment.

When-issued transactions and forward commitments can be used by the Fund as a defensive technique to hedge against anticipated changes in interest rates and prices. For instance, in periods of rising interest rates and falling prices, the Fund might sell securities in its portfolio on a forward commitment basis to attempt to limit its exposure to anticipated falling prices. In periods of falling interest rates and rising prices, the Fund might sell portfolio securities and purchase the same or similar securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis, to obtain the benefit of currently higher cash yields.

|X| Zero-Coupon Securities. The Fund may buy zero-coupon and delayed interest municipal securities. Zero-coupon securities do not make periodic interest payments and are sold at a deep discount from their face value. The buyer recognizes a rate of return determined by the gradual appreciation of the security, which is redeemed at face value on a specified maturity date. This discount depends on the time remaining until maturity, as well as prevailing interest rates, the liquidity of the security and the credit quality of the issuer. In the absence of threats to the issuers credit quality, the discount typically decreases as the maturity date approaches. Some zero-coupon securities are convertible, in that they are zero-coupon securities until a predetermined date, at which time they convert to a security with a specified coupon rate.

Because zero-coupon securities pay no interest and compound semi-annually at the rate fixed at the time of their issuance, their value is generally more volatile than the value of other debt securities. Their value may fall more dramatically than the value of interest-bearing securities when interest rates rise. When prevailing interest rates fall, zero-coupon securities tend to rise more rapidly in value because they have a fixed rate of return.

The Funds investment in zero-coupon securities may cause the Fund to recognize income and be required to make distributions to shareholders before it receives any cash payments on the zero-coupon investment. To generate cash to satisfy those distribution requirements, the Fund may have to sell portfolio securities that it otherwise might have continued to hold or to use cash flows from other sources such as the sale of Fund shares.

|X| Puts and Standby Commitments. The Fund can acquire stand-by commitments or puts with respect to municipal securities to enhance portfolio liquidity and to try to reduce the average effective portfolio maturity. These arrangements give the Fund the right to sell the securities at a set price on demand to the issuing broker-dealer or bank. However, securities having this feature may have a relatively lower interest rate.

When the Fund buys a municipal security subject to a standby commitment to repurchase the security, the Fund is entitled to same-day settlement from the purchaser. The Fund receives an exercise price equal to the amortized cost of the underlying security plus any accrued interest at the time of exercise. A put purchased in conjunction with a municipal security enables the Fund to sell the underlying security within a specified period of time at a fixed exercise price.

The Fund might purchase a standby commitment or put separately in cash or it might acquire the security subject to the standby commitment or put (at a price that reflects that additional feature). The Fund will enter into these transactions only with banks and securities dealers that, in the Manager's opinion, present minimal credit risks. The Fund's ability to exercise a put or standby commitment will depend on the ability of the bank or dealer to pay for the securities if the put or standby commitment is exercised. If the bank or dealer should default on its obligation, the Fund might not be able to recover all or a portion of any loss sustained from having to sell the security elsewhere.

Puts and standby commitments are not transferable by the Fund. They terminate if the Fund sells the underlying security to a third party. The Fund intends to enter into these arrangements to facilitate portfolio liquidity, although such arrangements might enable the Fund to sell a security at a pre-arranged price that may be higher than the prevailing market price at the time the put or standby commitment is exercised. However, the Fund might refrain from exercising a put or standby commitment if the exercise price is significantly higher than the prevailing market price, to avoid imposing a loss on the seller that could jeopardize the Fund's business relationships with the seller.

A put or standby commitment increases the cost of the security and reduces the yield otherwise available from the security. Any consideration paid by the Fund for the put or standby commitment will be reflected on the Fund's books as unrealized depreciation while the put or standby commitment is held, and a realized gain or loss when the put or commitment is exercised or expires. Interest income received by the Fund from municipal securities subject to puts or stand-by commitments may not qualify as tax-exempt in its hands if the terms of the put or stand-by commitment cause the Fund not to be treated as the tax owner of the underlying municipal securities.

|X| Repurchase Agreements. The Fund may acquire securities subject to repurchase agreements. It may do so for liquidity purposes to meet anticipated redemptions of Fund shares, or pending the investment of the proceeds from sales of Fund shares, or pending the settlement of portfolio securities. In a repurchase transaction, the Fund acquires a security from, and simultaneously resells it to an approved vendor for delivery on an agreed upon future date. The resale price exceeds the purchase price by an amount that reflects an agreed-upon interest rate effective for the period during which the repurchase agreement is in effect. Approved vendors include U.S. commercial banks, U.S. branches of foreign banks or broker-dealers that have been designated a primary dealer in government securities. They must meet credit requirements set by the Manager from time to time. The Manager will monitor the vendors creditworthiness to confirm that the vendor is financially sound and will continuously monitor the collaterals value.

     The majority of these transactions run from day to day. Delivery pursuant to resale typically will occur within one to five days of the purchase. Repurchase agreements having a maturity beyond seven days are subject to the Funds limits on holding illiquid investments. There is no limit on the amount of the Fund's net assets that may be subject to repurchase agreements of seven days or less.

Repurchase agreements, considered "loans" under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Investment Company Act), are collateralized by the underlying security. The Fund's repurchase agreements require that at all times while the repurchase agreement is in effect, the collateral's value must equal or exceed the repurchase price to fully collateralize the repayment obligation. However, if the vendor fails to pay the resale price on the delivery date, the Fund may incur costs in disposing of the collateral and may experience losses if there is any delay in its ability to do so.

Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), the Fund, along with the affiliated entities managed by the Manager, may transfer uninvested cash balances into one or more joint repurchase agreement accounts. These balances are invested in one or more repurchase agreements secured by U.S. government securities. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each joint repurchase arrangement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

|X| Reverse Repurchase Agreements. The Fund can use reverse repurchase agreements on debt obligations it owns. Under a reverse repurchase agreement, the Fund sells an underlying debt obligation and simultaneously agrees to repurchase the same security at an agreed-upon price at an agreed-upon date. The Fund will identify on its books liquid assets in an amount sufficient to cover its obligations under reverse repurchase agreements, including interest, until payment is made to the seller.

These transactions involve the risk that the market value of the securities sold by the Fund under a reverse repurchase agreement could decline below the price at which the Fund is obligated to repurchase them. These agreements are considered borrowings by the Fund and will be subject to the asset coverage requirement under the Fund's policy on borrowing discussed below.

|X| Illiquid Securities and Restricted Securities. The Fund has percentage limitations that apply to purchases of illiquid securities, as stated in the Prospectus. Those percentage restrictions do not limit purchases of restricted securities that are eligible for sale to qualified institutional purchasers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, if those securities have been determined to be liquid by the Manager. This determination takes into account the trading activity for such securities and the availability of reliable pricing information, among other factors.  If there is a lack of trading interest in a particular Rule 144A security, the Funds holdings of that security may be considered to be illiquid. Illiquid securities include repurchase agreements maturing in more than seven days.  The Manager determines the liquidity of certain of the Funds investments and monitors holdings of illiquid securities on an ongoing basis to determine whether to sell any holdings to meet percentage restrictions.

The Fund may also acquire restricted securities through private placements. Those restrictions might limit the Funds ability to dispose of the securities and might lower the amount the Fund could realize upon the sale.

|X| Loans of Portfolio Securities or Securities Lending. To attempt to raise income or raise cash for liquidity purposes, the Fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions approved by the Funds Board of Trustees. These loans are limited to not more than 25% of the value of the Fund's total assets. Income from securities loans does not constitute exempt-interest income for the purpose of paying tax-exempt dividends. The Fund did not engage in any securities lending during its fiscal year ended July 31, 2008.

There are risks in connection with securities lending. The Fund might experience a delay in receiving additional collateral to secure a loan, or a delay in recovery of the loaned securities. The Fund must receive collateral for a loan. Under current applicable regulatory requirements (which are subject to change), on each business day the loan collateral must be at least equal to the value of the loaned securities. It must consist of cash, bank letters of credit, securities of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities, or other cash equivalents in which the Fund is permitted to invest. To be acceptable as collateral, letters of credit must obligate a bank to pay amounts demanded by the Fund if the demand meets the terms of the letter. The terms of the letter of credit and the issuing bank both must be satisfactory to the Fund.

When it lends securities, the Fund receives amounts equal to the dividends or interest on the loaned securities. It also receives one or more of (a) negotiated loan fees, (b) interest on securities used as collateral, and (c) interest on short-term debt securities purchased with the loan collateral. Either type of interest may be shared with the borrower. The Fund may pay reasonable finder's, custodian and administrative or other fees in connection with these loans. The terms of the Fund's loans must meet applicable tests under the Internal Revenue Code and must permit the Fund to reacquire loaned securities on five days' notice or in time to vote on any important matter.

n     Other Derivative Investments. The Fund can invest in other municipal derivative securities that pay interest that depends on the change in value of an underlying asset, interest rate or index. Examples are interest rate swaps, municipal bond indices or swap indices.Certain derivatives, such as options, futures, indexed securities and entering into swap agreements, can be used to increase or decrease the Funds exposure to changing security prices, interest rates or other factors that affect the value of securities. However, these techniques could result in losses to the Fund, if the Manager judges market conditions incorrectly or employs a strategy that does not correlate well with the Funds other investments. These techniques can cause losses if the counterparty does not perform its promises. An additional risk of investing in municipal securities that are derivative investments is that their market value could be expected to vary to a much greater extent than the market value of municipal securities that are not derivative investments but have similar credit quality, redemption provisions and maturities.

|X| Hedging. The Fund may use hedging to attempt to protect against declines in the market value of its portfolio, to permit the Fund to retain unrealized gains in the value of portfolio securities that have appreciated, or to facilitate selling securities for investment reasons. To do so the Fund may:

|_| sell interest rate futures or municipal bond index futures,

|_| buy puts on such futures or securities, or

|_| write covered calls on securities, broadly-based municipal bond indices, interest rate futures or municipal bond index futures.

     Covered calls may also be written on debt securities to attempt to increase the Fund's income, but that income would not be tax-exempt. Therefore it is unlikely that the Fund would write covered calls for that purpose.

The Fund may also use hedging to establish a position in the debt securities market as a temporary substitute for purchasing individual debt securities. In that case the Fund would normally seek to purchase the securities, and then terminate that hedging position. For this type of hedging, the Fund may:

|_| buy interest rate futures or municipal bond index futures, or

|_| buy calls on such futures or on securities.

The Fund is not obligated to use hedging instruments, even though it is permitted to use them in the Managers discretion, as described below. The Fund's strategy of hedging with futures and options on futures will be incidental to the Fund's investment activities in the underlying cash market. The particular hedging instruments the Fund can use are described below. The Fund may employ new hedging instruments and strategies when they are developed, if those investment methods are consistent with the Fund's investment objective, are approved by its Board, and are permissible under applicable regulations governing the Fund.

|X| Futures. The Fund may buy and sell futures contracts relating to debt securities (these are called "interest rate futures") and municipal bond indices (these are referred to as "municipal bond index futures").

An interest rate future obligates the seller to deliver (and the purchaser to take) cash or a specific type of debt security to settle the futures transaction. Either party could also enter into an offsetting contract to close out the futures position.

A "municipal bond index" assigns relative values to the municipal bonds in the index, and is used as the basis for trading long-term municipal bond futures contracts. Municipal bond index futures are similar to interest rate futures except that settlement is made only in cash. The obligation under the contract may also be satisfied by entering into an offsetting contract. The strategies which the Fund employs in using municipal bond index futures are similar to those with regard to interest rate futures.

No money is paid by or received by the fund on the purchase or sale of a futures contract. Upon entering into a futures transaction, the Fund will be required to deposit an initial margin payment in cash or U.S. government securities with the futures commission merchant (the "futures broker"). Initial margin payments will be deposited with the Fund's custodian bank in an account registered in the futures broker's name. However, the futures broker can gain access to that account only under certain specified conditions. As the future is marked to market (that is, its value on the Fund's books is changed) to reflect changes in its market value, subsequent margin payments, called variation margin, will be paid to or by the futures broker daily.

At any time prior to the expiration of the future, the Fund may elect to close out its position by taking an opposite position at which time a final determination of variation margin is made and additional cash is required to be paid by or released to the Fund. Any gain or loss is then realized by the Fund on the future for tax purposes. Although interest rate futures by their terms call for settlement by the delivery of debt securities, in most cases the obligation is fulfilled without such delivery by entering into an offsetting transaction. All futures transactions are effected through a clearing house associated with the exchange on which the contracts are traded.

The Fund may concurrently buy and sell futures contracts in a strategy anticipating that the future the Fund purchased will perform better than the future the Fund sold. For example, the Fund might buy municipal bond futures and concurrently sell U.S. Treasury Bond futures (a type of interest rate future). The Fund would benefit if municipal bonds outperform U.S. Treasury Bonds on a duration-adjusted basis.

Duration is a volatility measure that refers to the expected percentage change in the value of a bond resulting from a change in general interest rates (measured by each 1% change in the rates on U.S. Treasury securities). For example, if a bond has an effective duration of three years, a 1% increase in general interest rates would be expected to cause the value of the bond to decline about 3%. There are risks that this type of futures strategy will not be successful. U.S. Treasury bonds might perform better on a duration-adjusted basis than municipal bonds, and the assumptions about duration that were used might be incorrect (for example, the duration of municipal bonds relative to U.S. Treasury Bonds might have been greater than anticipated).

     |X| Put and Call Options. The Fund can buy and sell certain kinds of put options (puts) and call options (calls). These strategies are described below.
 
     
|X| Writing Covered Call Options. The Fund can write (that is, sell) call options. The Funds call writing is subject to a number of restrictions:
 

(1)     

After the Fund writes a call, not more than 25% of the Funds total assets may be subject to calls.


(2)     

Calls the Fund sells must be listed on a securities or commodities exchange or quoted on NASDAQ, the automated quotation system of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. or traded in the over-the-counter market.


(3)     

Each call the Fund writes must be covered while it is outstanding. That means the Fund must own the investment on which the call was written.


When the Fund writes a call on a security, it receives cash (a premium). The Fund agrees to sell the underlying investment to a purchaser of a corresponding call on the same security during the call period at a fixed exercise price regardless of market price changes during the call period. The call period is usually not more than nine months. The exercise price may differ from the market price of the underlying security. The Fund has retained the risk of loss that the price of the underlying security may decline during the call period. That risk may be offset to some extent by the premium the Fund receives. If the value of the investment does not rise above the call price, it is likely that the call will lapse without being exercised. In that case the Fund would keep the cash premium and the investment.

     When the Fund writes a call on an index, it receives cash (a premium). If the buyer of the call exercises it, the Fund will pay an amount of cash equal to the difference between the closing price of the call and the exercise price, multiplied by the specified multiple that determines the total value of the call for each point of difference. If the value of the underlying investment does not rise above the call price, it is likely that the call will lapse without being exercised. In that case the Fund would keep the cash premium.
 

The Fund's custodian bank, or a securities depository acting for the custodian bank, will act as the Fund's escrow agent through the facilities of the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), as to the investments on which the Fund has written calls traded on exchanges, or as to other acceptable escrow securities. In that way, no margin will be required for such transactions. OCC will release the securities on the expiration of the calls or upon the Fund's entering into a closing purchase transaction.

     When the Fund writes an over-the-counter (OTC) option, it will enter into an arrangement with a primary U.S. Government securities dealer which will establish a formula price at which the Fund will have the absolute right to repurchase that OTC option. The formula price would generally be based on a multiple of the premium received for the option, plus the amount by which the option is exercisable below the market price of the underlying security (that is, the option is "in-the-money"). When the Fund writes an OTC option, it will treat as illiquid (for purposes of its restriction on illiquid securities) the mark-to-market value of any OTC option held by it, unless the option is subject to a buy-back agreement by the executing broker.

To terminate its obligation on a call it has written, the Fund may purchase a corresponding call in a "closing purchase transaction." The Fund will then realize a profit or loss, depending upon whether the net of the amount of the option transaction costs and the premium received on the call the Fund wrote was more or less than the price of the call the Fund purchased to close out the transaction. A profit may also be realized if the call lapses unexercised, because the Fund retains the underlying investment and the premium received. Any such profits are considered short-term capital gains for Federal tax purposes, as are premiums on lapsed calls. When distributed by the Fund they are taxable as ordinary income.

The Fund may also write calls on futures contracts without owning the futures contract or securities deliverable under the contract. To do so, at the time the call is written, the Fund must cover the call by segregating in escrow in all appropriate cases an equivalent dollar value of liquid assets. The Fund will segregate additional liquid assets if the value of the escrowed assets drops below 100% of the current value of the future. Because of this escrow requirement, in no circumstances would the Funds receipt of an exercise notice as to that future put the Fund in a short futures position.

|X| Purchasing Puts and Calls. The Fund may buy calls only on securities, broadly-based municipal bond indices, municipal bond index futures and interest rate futures. It may also buy calls to close out a call it has written, as discussed above. Calls the Fund buys must be listed on a securities or commodities exchange, or quoted on NASDAQ, or traded in the over-the-counter market. A call or put option may not be purchased if the purchase would cause the value of all the Funds put and call options to exceed 5% of its total assets.

When the Fund purchases a call (other than in a closing purchase transaction), it pays a premium. For calls on securities that the Fund buys, it has the right to buy the underlying investment from a seller of a corresponding call on the same investment during the call period at a fixed exercise price. The Fund benefits only if (1) the call is sold at a profit or (2) the call is exercised when the market price of the underlying investment is above the sum of the exercise price plus the transaction costs and premium paid for the call. If the call is not either exercised or sold (whether or not at a profit), it will become worthless at its expiration date. In that case the Fund will lose its premium payment and the right to purchase the underlying investment.

Calls on municipal bond indices, interest rate futures and municipal bond index futures are settled in cash rather than delivering the underlying investment. Gain or loss depends on changes in the securities included in the index in question (and thus on price movements in the debt securities market generally) rather than on changes in price of the individual futures contract.

The Fund may buy only those puts that relate to securities that the Fund owns, broadly-based municipal bond indices, municipal bond index futures or interest rate futures (whether or not the Fund owns the futures).

When the Fund purchases a put, it pays a premium. The Fund then has the right to sell the underlying investment to a seller of a corresponding put on the same investment during the put period at a fixed exercise price. Puts on municipal bond indices are settled in cash. Buying a put on a debt security, interest rate future or municipal bond index future the Fund owns enables it to protect itself during the put period against a decline in the value of the underlying investment below the exercise price. If the market price of the underlying investment is equal to or above the exercise price and as a result the put is not exercised or resold, the put will become worthless at its expiration date. In that case the Fund will lose its premium payment and the right to sell the underlying investment. A put may be sold prior to expiration (whether or not at a profit).

|_| Risks of Hedging with Options and Futures. The use of hedging instruments requires special skills and knowledge of investment techniques that are different than what is required for normal portfolio management. If the Manager uses a hedging instrument at the wrong time or judges market conditions incorrectly, hedging strategies may reduce the Funds returns. The Fund could also experience losses if the prices of its futures and options positions were not correlated with its other investments.

The Fund's option activities may affect its portfolio turnover rate and brokerage commissions. The exercise of calls written by the Fund may cause the Fund to sell related portfolio securities, thus increasing its turnover rate. The exercise by the Fund of puts on securities will cause the sale of underlying investments, increasing portfolio turnover. Although the decision whether to exercise a put it holds is within the Fund's control, holding a put might cause the Fund to sell the related investments for reasons that would not exist in the absence of the put.

The Fund may pay a brokerage commission each time it buys a call or put, sells a call or put or buys or sells an underlying investment in connection with the exercise of a call or put. Such commissions may be higher on a relative basis than the commissions for direct purchases or sales of the underlying investments. Premiums paid for options are small in relation to the market value of the underlying investments. Consequently, put and call options offer large amounts of leverage. The leverage offered by trading in options could result in the Fund's net asset value being more sensitive to changes in the value of the underlying investment.

If a covered call written by the Fund is exercised on an investment that has increased in value, the Fund will be required to sell the investment at the call price. It will not be able to realize any profit if the investment has increased in value above the call price.

There is a risk in using short hedging by selling interest rate futures and municipal bond index futures or purchasing puts on municipal bond indices or futures to attempt to protect against declines in the value of the Fund's securities. The risk is that the prices of such futures or the applicable index will correlate imperfectly with the behavior of the cash (that is, market) prices of the Fund's securities. It is possible, for example, that while the Fund has used hedging instruments in a short hedge, the market may advance and the value of debt securities held in the Fund's portfolio might decline. If that occurred, the Fund would lose money on the hedging instruments and also experience a decline in value of its debt securities. However, while this could occur over a brief period or to a very small degree, over time the value of a diversified portfolio of debt securities will tend to move in the same direction as the indices upon which the hedging instruments are based.

     The risk of imperfect correlation increases as the composition of the Fund's portfolio diverges from the securities included in the applicable index. To compensate for the imperfect correlation of movements in the price of debt securities being hedged and movements in the price of the hedging instruments, the Fund may use hedging instruments in a greater dollar amount than the dollar amount of debt securities being hedged. It might do so if the historical volatility of the prices of the debt securities being hedged is greater than the historical volatility of the applicable index.

The ordinary spreads between prices in the cash and futures markets are subject to distortions due to differences in the natures of those markets. All participants in the futures markets are subject to margin deposit and maintenance requirements. Rather than meeting additional margin deposit requirements, investors may close out futures contracts through offsetting transactions which could distort the normal relationship between the cash and futures markets. From the point of view of speculators, the deposit requirements in the futures markets are less onerous than margin requirements in the securities markets. Therefore, increased participation by speculators in the futures markets may cause temporary price distortions.

The Fund may use hedging instruments to establish a position in the municipal securities markets as a temporary substitute for the purchase of individual securities (long hedging). It is possible that the market may decline. If the Fund then does not invest in such securities because of concerns that there may be further market decline or for other reasons, the Fund will realize a loss on the hedging instruments that is not offset by a reduction in the purchase price of the securities.

An option position may be closed out only on a market that provides secondary trading for options of the same series. There is no assurance that a liquid secondary market will exist for a particular option. If the Fund could not effect a closing purchase transaction due to a lack of a market, it would have to hold the callable investment until the call lapsed or was exercised. The Fund might experience losses if it could not close out a position because of an illiquid market for a future or option.

|_| Interest Rate Swap Transactions. In an interest rate swap, the Fund and another party exchange their right to receive or their obligation to pay interest on a security. For example, they may swap a right to receive floating rate payments for fixed rate payments. The Fund cannot enter into swaps with respect to more than 25% of its total assets. Also, the Fund will segregate liquid assets (such as cash or U.S. government securities) to cover any amounts it could owe under swaps that exceed the amounts it is entitled to receive, and it will adjust that amount daily, as needed. Income from interest rate swaps may be taxable.

Swap agreements entail both interest rate risk and credit risk. There is a risk that, based on movements of interest rates in the future, the payments made by the Fund under a swap agreement will have been greater than those received by it. Credit risk arises from the possibility that the counterparty will default. If the counterparty to an interest rate swap defaults, the Fund's loss will consist of the net amount of contractual interest payments that the Fund has not yet received. The Manager will monitor the creditworthiness of counterparties to the Fund's interest rate swap transactions on an ongoing basis.

The Fund can enter into swap transactions with appropriate counterparties pursuant to master netting agreements. A master netting agreement provides that all swaps done between the Fund and that counterparty under the master agreement shall be regarded as parts of an integral agreement. If on any date amounts are payable under one or more swap transactions, the net amount payable on that date shall be paid. In addition, the master netting agreement may provide that if one party defaults generally or on one swap, the counterparty can terminate the swaps with that party. Under master netting agreements, if there is a default resulting in a loss to one party, that party's damages are calculated by reference to the average cost of a replacement swap with respect to each swap. The gains and losses on all swaps are then netted, and the result is the counterparty's gain or loss on termination. The termination of all swaps and the netting of gains and losses on termination is generally referred to as "aggregation."

|_| Regulatory Aspects of Hedging Instruments. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) has eliminated limitations on futures trading by certain regulated entities including registered investment companies and consequently registered investment companies may engage in unlimited futures transactions and options thereon provided that the Fund claims an exclusion from regulation as a commodity pool operator. The Fund has claimed such an exclusion from registration as a commodity pool operator under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). The Fund may use futures and options for hedging and non-hedging purposes to the extent consistent with its investment objective, internal risk management guidelines adopted by the Funds investment adviser (as they may be amended from time to time), and as otherwise set forth in the Funds Prospectus or this Statement of Additional Information.

     Transactions in options by the Fund are subject to limitations established by the option exchanges. The exchanges limit the maximum number of options that may be written or held by a single investor or group of investors acting in concert. Those limits apply regardless of whether the options were written or purchased on the same or different exchanges, or are held in one or more accounts or through one or more different exchanges or through one or more brokers. Thus, the number of options that the Fund may write or hold may be affected by options written or held by other entities, including other investment companies having the same adviser as the Fund (or an adviser that is an affiliate of the Fund's adviser). The exchanges also impose position limits on futures transactions. An exchange may order the liquidation of positions found to be in violation of those limits and may impose certain other sanctions.
 

Under interpretations of staff members of the SEC regarding applicable provisions of the Investment Company Act, when the Fund purchases an interest rate future or municipal bond index future, it must segregate cash or readily marketable short-term debt instruments in an amount equal to the purchase price of the future, less the margin deposit applicable to it. The account must be a segregated account or accounts held by its custodian bank.

     |X| Temporary Defensive and Interim Investments. The securities the Fund may invest in for temporary defensive purposes include the following:
 

|_|     short-term municipal securities;

|_|     obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities;

|_|     corporate debt securities rated within the three highest grades by a nationally recognized rating agency;

|_|     commercial paper rated "A-1" by Standard & Poors, or a comparable rating by another nationally recognized rating agency; and

     |_|     certificates of deposit of domestic banks with assets of $1 billion or more.

     The Fund also might hold these types of securities pending the investment of proceeds from the sale of portfolio securities or to meet anticipated redemptions of Fund shares. The income from some of the temporary defensive or interim investments may not be tax-exempt. Therefore, when making those investments, the Fund might not achieve its objective.

Liquidity Facility. The Fund can participate in a program offered by ReFlow, LLC (ReFlow) which provides additional liquidity to help the Fund meet shareholder redemptions without having to liquidate portfolio securities or borrow money, each of which impose certain costs on the Fund. ReFlow is designed to provide an alternative source of funding to help meet shareholder redemptions while minimizing the Funds costs and cash flow disruptions (compared to selling portfolio securities or other liquidity facilities such as a line of credit) and allowing the Fund to remain more fully invested. ReFlow provides this liquidity by being prepared to purchase Fund shares, at the Funds closing net asset value, equal to the amount of the Funds net redemptions on any given day. On subsequent days when the Fund experiences net subscriptions, ReFlow redeems its holdings at the Funds net asset value on that day. When the Fund participates in the ReFlow program, it pays ReFlow a fee at a rate determined by a daily auction with other participating mutual funds in the ReFlow program. There is no assurance that ReFlow will have sufficient funds available to meet the Funds liquidity needs on a particular day and ReFlow is prohibited from acquiring more than 3% of the outstanding shares of the Fund.

n     Portfolio Turnover. A change in the securities held by the Fund from buying and selling investments is known as portfolio turnover. Short-term trading increases the rate of portfolio turnover and could increase the Funds transaction costs. However, the Fund ordinarily incurs little or no brokerage expense because most of the Funds portfolio transactions are principal trades that do not require payment of brokerage commissions.

     The Fund ordinarily does not trade securities to achieve capital gains, because such gains would not be tax-exempt income. To a limited degree, the Fund may engage in active and frequent short-term trading to attempt to take advantage of short-term market variations. It may also do so to dispose of a portfolio security prior to its maturity. That might be done if, on the basis of a revised credit evaluation of the issuer or other considerations, the Manager believes such disposition is advisable or the Fund needs to generate cash to satisfy requests to redeem Fund shares. In those cases, the Fund may realize a capital gain or loss on its investments. The Fund's annual portfolio turnover rate normally is not expected to exceed 100%. The Financial Highlights table at the end of the Prospectus shows the Fund's portfolio turnover rates during the past five fiscal years.

     |X| Taxable Investments. While the Fund can invest up to 20% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in investments that generate income subject to income taxes, it does not anticipate investing substantial amounts of its assets in taxable investments under normal market conditions or as part of its normal trading strategies and policies. Taxable investments include, for example, hedging instruments, repurchase agreements, and many of the types of securities it could buy for temporary defensive purposes.

     At times, in connection with the restructuring of a municipal bond issuer either outside of bankruptcy court in a negotiated workout or in the context of bankruptcy proceedings, a Fund may determine or be required to accept equity or taxable debt securities from the issuer in exchange for all or a portion of the Funds holdings in the municipal security. Although the Manager will attempt to sell the equity security as soon as reasonably practicable in most cases, depending upon, among other things, the Managers valuation of the potential value of such securities in relation to the price that could be obtained by the Fund at any given time upon sale thereof, the Fund may determine to hold such securities in its portfolio for limited period of time in order to liquidate the equity securities in a manner that maximizes their value to the Fund.

Other Investment Restrictions
 
     |X| What Are Fundamental Policies? Fundamental policies are those policies that the Fund has adopted to govern its investments that can be changed only by the vote of a "majority" of the Fund's outstanding voting securities. Under the Investment Company Act, such a "majority" vote is defined as the vote of the holders of the lesser of:
 

|_| 67% or more of the shares present or represented by proxy at a shareholder meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy, or

|_| more than 50% of the outstanding shares.

     The Funds investment objective is a fundamental policy. Other policies described in the Prospectus or this Statement of Additional Information are fundamental only if they are identified as such. The Funds Board of Trustees can change non-fundamental policies without shareholder approval. However, significant changes to investment policies will be described in supplements or updates to the Prospectus or this Statement of Additional Information, as appropriate. The Fund's most significant investment policies are described in the Prospectus.
 
     
|X| Does the Fund Have Additional Fundamental Policies? The following investment restrictions are fundamental policies of the Fund:

     |_| The Fund cannot invest 25% or more of its total assets in any one industry. That limit does not apply to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities or securities issued by investment companies. Nor does that limit apply to municipal securities in general, or to New Jersey municipal securities.

|_| The Fund cannot invest in real estate, physical commodities or commodity contracts, except to the extent permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

     |_| The Fund cannot underwrite securities of other companies. A permitted exception is in case it is deemed to be an underwriter under the Securities Act of 1933 when reselling any securities held in its own portfolio.
 

     |_| The Fund cannot make loans, except to the extent permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom that is applicable to the Fund, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

     |_| The Fund may not borrow money, except to the extent permitted under the 1940 Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom that is applicable to the Fund, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

     |_| The Fund cannot issue senior securities, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

o     The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in New Jersey municipal securities. This includes securities that generate income subject to the alternative minimum tax.

     

     The Fund cannot invest in other investment companies except to the extent permitted by the Act. The Fund would be permitted under this policy to invest its assets in the securities of one or more open-end management investment company for which the Manager, one of its affiliates or a successor is the investment adviser or sub-adviser. That fund or funds must have substantially the same fundamental investment objective, policies and limitations as the Fund. The Funds policy not to concentrate its investments, as described above, also would permit the Fund to adopt a master-feeder structure. Under that structure, the Fund would be a feeder fund and would invest all of its assets in a single pooled master fund in which other feeder funds could also invest. This could enable the Fund to take advantage of potential operational and cost efficiencies in the master-feeder structure. The Fund has no present intention of adopting the master-feeder structure. If it did so, the Prospectus and this Statement of Additional Information would be revised accordingly.

     The Funds policy on senior securities does not prohibit certain activities that are permitted by the Funds other policies, including borrowing money for emergency purposes as permitted by its other investment policies and applicable regulations, entering into delayed-delivery and when-issued arrangements for portfolio securities transactions, and entering into contracts to buy or sell derivatives, hedging instruments, options, futures and the related margin, collateral or escrow arrangements permitted under its other investment policies.

     |X| Does the Fund Have Other Restrictions that are Not Fundamental Policies?

     The Fund has the additional operating policies which are stated below, that are not fundamental, and which can be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval:

     |_| The Fund cannot invest in securities or other investments other than municipal securities, the temporary investments described in its Prospectus, repurchase agreements, covered calls, private activity municipal securities and hedging instruments described in About the Fund in the Prospectus or this Statement of Additional Information.
 
     
|_| The Fund cannot purchase securities other than hedging instruments on margin. However, the Fund may obtain short-term credits that may be necessary for the clearance of purchases and sales of securities.

o     The Fund cannot pledge, mortgage or otherwise encumber, transfer or assign its assets to secure a debt. However, the use of escrow or other collateral arrangements in connection with the Funds policy on borrowing and hedging instruments is permitted.

|_| The Fund cannot sell securities short.

     |_| The Fund cannot buy or sell futures contracts other than interest rate futures and municipal bond index futures.
 

     |_| The Fund will not invest more than 10% of its net assets in securities which are restricted as to disposition under the federal securities laws, except that the Fund may purchase without regard to this limitation restricted securities which are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933.     

Non-Diversification of the Funds Investments.  The Fund is non-diversified, as defined in the Investment Company Act. Funds that are diversified have restrictions against investing too much of their assets in the securities of any one "issuer." That means that the Fund can invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer than a diversified fund.

Being non-diversified poses additional investment risks, because if the Fund invests more of its assets in fewer issuers, the value of its shares is subject to greater fluctuations from adverse conditions affecting any one of those issuers. However, the Fund does limit its investments in the securities of any one issuer to qualify for tax purposes as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code. If it qualifies, the Fund does not have to pay federal income taxes if more than 90% of its earnings are distributed to shareholders. To qualify, the Fund must meet a number of conditions. First, not more than 25% of the market value of the Funds total assets may be invested in the securities of a single issuer (other than Government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies), two or more issuers that are engaged in the same or related trades or businesses and are controlled by the Fund, or one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships (i.e., publicly-traded partnerships that are treated as partnerships for tax purposes and derive at least 90% of their income from certain passive sources). Second, with respect to 50% of the market value of its total assets, (1) no more than 5% of the market value of its total assets may be invested in the securities of a single issuer, and (2) the Fund must not own more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of a single issuer.

The identification of the issuer of a municipal security depends on the terms and conditions of the security. When the assets and revenues of an agency, authority, instrumentality or other political subdivision are separate from those of the government creating it and the security is backed only by the assets and revenues of the subdivision, agency, authority or instrumentality, the latter would be deemed to be the sole issuer. Similarly, if a private activity bond is backed only by the assets and revenues of the non-governmental user, then that user would be deemed to be the sole issuer. However, if in either case the creating government or some other entity guarantees a security, the guarantee would be considered a separate security and would be treated as an issue of such government or other entity.

Applying the Restriction Against Concentration. In implementing the Funds policy not to concentrate its investments, the Manager will consider a non-governmental user of facilities financed by private activity bonds as being in a particular industry. That is done even though the bonds are municipal securities, as to which the Fund has no concentration limitation. The Manager categorizes tobacco industry related municipal bonds as either tobacco settlement revenue bonds or tobacco bonds that are subject to appropriation (STA Bonds). For purposes of the Funds industry concentration policies, STA Bonds are considered to be "municipal" bonds, as distinguished from tobacco bonds.  As municipal bonds, STA Bonds are not within any industry and are not subject to the Funds' industry concentration policies.

Other types of municipal securities that are not considered a part of any industry under the Funds industry concentration policy include: general obligation, general appropriation, municipal leases, special assessment and special tax bonds. Although these types of municipal securities may be related to certain industries, because they are issued by governments or their political subdivisions rather than non-governmental users, these types of municipal securities are not considered a part of an industry for purposes of the Funds industry concentration policy.

     Therefore, the Fund may invest more than 25% of its total assets in these types of municipal securities, which may finance similar types of projects or from which the interest is paid from revenues of similar types of projects. "Similar types of projects" are projects that are related in such a way that economic, business or political developments tend to have the same impact on each similar project. For example, a change that affects one project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed for the project, or a declining economic need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby increasing market risk. Thus, market changes that affect a security issued in connection with one project also would affect securities issued in connection with similar types of projects.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings. The Fund has adopted policies and procedures concerning the dissemination of information about its portfolio holdings by employees, officers and/or directors of the Manager, Distributor and Transfer Agent. These policies are designed to assure that non-public information about portfolio securities is distributed only for a legitimate business purpose, and is done in a manner that (a) conforms to applicable laws and regulations and (b) is designed to prevent that information from being used in a way that could negatively affect the Funds investment program or enable third parties to use that information in a manner that is harmful to the Fund.

     

Public Disclosure. The Funds portfolio holdings are made publicly available no later than 60 days after the close of each of the Funds fiscal quarters in its semi-annual report to shareholders, the annual report to shareholders or in the Statements of Investments on Form N-Q, which are publicly available at the SEC. In addition, the top 20 mo nth-end holdings may be posted on the OppenheimerFunds website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com (select the Funds name under the View Fund Information for: menu) with a 15-day lag. The Fund may release a more restrictive list of holdings (e.g., the top five or top 10 portfolio holdings) or may release no holdings if that is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders. Other general information about the Funds portfolio investments, such as portfolio composition by asset class, industry, country, currency, credit rating or maturity, may also be posted.


Until publicly disclosed, the Funds portfolio holdings are proprietary, confidential business information. While recognizing the importance of providing Fund shareholders with information about their Funds investments and providing portfolio information to a variety of third parties to assist with the management, distribution and administrative process, the need for transparency must be balanced against the risk that third parties who gain access to the Funds portfolio holdings information could attempt to use that information to trade ahead of or against the Fund, which could negatively affect the prices the Fund is able to obtain in portfolio transactions or the availability of the securities that portfolio managers are trading on the Funds behalf.

     The Manager and its subsidiaries and affiliates, employees, officers, and directors, shall neither solicit nor accept any compensation or other consideration (including any agreement to maintain assets in the Fund or in other investment companies or accounts managed by the Manager or any affiliated person of the Manager) in connection with the disclosure of the Funds non-public portfolio holdings. The receipt of investment advisory fees or other fees and compensation paid to the Manager and its subsidiaries pursuant to agreements approved by the Funds Board shall not be deemed to be compensation or consideration for these purposes. It is a violation of the Code of Ethics for any covered person to release holdings in contravention of portfolio holdings disclosure policies and procedures adopted by the Fund.

A list of the top 20 portfolio securities holdings (based on invested assets), listed by security or by issuer, as of the end of each month may be disclosed to third parties (subject to the procedures below) no sooner than 15 days after month-end.

Except under special limited circumstances discussed below, month-end lists of the Funds complete portfolio holdings may be disclosed no sooner than 30-days after the relevant month-end, subject to the procedures below. If the Funds complete portfolio holdings have not been disclosed publicly, they may be disclosed pursuant to special requests for legitimate business reasons, provided that:

     

The third-party recipient must first submit a request for release of Fund portfolio holdings, explaining the business reason for the request;


     

Senior officers (a Senior Vice President or above) in the Managers Portfolio and Legal departments must approve the completed request for release of Fund portfolio holdings; and


     

The third-party recipient must sign the Managers portfolio holdings non-disclosure agreement before receiving the data, agreeing to keep information that is not publicly available regarding the Funds holdings confidential and agreeing not to trade directly or indirectly based on the information.


The Funds complete portfolio holdings positions may be released to the following categories of entities or individuals on an ongoing basis, provided that such entity or individual either (1) has signed an agreement to keep such information confidential and not trade on the basis of such information or (2) is subject to fiduciary obligations, as a member of the Funds Board, or as an employee, officer and/or director of the Manager, Distributor, or Transfer Agent, or their respective legal counsel, not to disclose such information except in conformity with these policies and procedures and not to trade for his/her personal account on the basis of such information:
 

     

Employees of the Funds Manager, Distributor and Transfer Agent who need to have access to such information (as determined by senior officers of such entity),


     

The Funds independent registered public accounting firm,


     

Members of the Funds Board and the Boards legal counsel,


     

The Funds custodian bank,


     

A proxy voting service designated by the Fund and its Board,


     

Rating/ranking organizations (such as Lipper and Morningstar),


     

Portfolio pricing services retained by the Manager to provide portfolio security prices, and


     

Dealers, to obtain bids (price quotations if securities are not priced by the Funds regular pricing services).


Portfolio holdings information of the Fund may be provided, under limited circumstances, to brokers and/or dealers with whom the Fund trades and/or entities that provide investment coverage and/or analytical information regarding the Funds portfolio, provided that there is a legitimate investment reason for providing the information to the broker, dealer or other entity. Month-end portfolio holdings information may, under this procedure, be provided to vendors providing research information and/or analytics to the fund, with at least a 15-day delay after the month end, but in certain cases may be provided to a broker or analytical vendor with a 1-2 day lag to facilitate the provision of requested investment information to the manager to facilitate a particular trade or the portfolio managers investment process for the Fund. Any third party receiving such information must first sign the Managers portfolio holdings non-disclosure agreement as a pre-condition to receiving this information.

     Portfolio holdings information (which may include information on individual securities positions or multiple securities) may be provided to the entities listed below (1) by portfolio traders employed by the Manager in connection with portfolio trading, and (2) by the members of the Managers Securities Valuation Group and Accounting Departments in connection with portfolio pricing or other portfolio evaluation purposes:

     

Brokers and dealers in connection with portfolio transactions (purchases and sales)


     

Brokers and dealers to obtain bids or bid and asked prices (if securities held by the Fund are not priced by the funds regular pricing services)


     

Dealers to obtain price quotations where the fund is not identified as the owner.


     Portfolio holdings information (which may include information on the Funds entire portfolio or individual securities therein) may be provided by senior officers of the Manager or attorneys on the legal staff of the Manager, Distributor, or Transfer Agent, in the following circumstances:

     

Response to legal process in litigation matters, such as responses to subpoenas or in class action matters where the Fund may be part of the plaintiff class (and seeks recovery for losses on a security) or a defendant,


     

Response to regulatory requests for information (the SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), formerly known as the NASD, state securities regulators, and/or foreign securities authorities, including without limitation requests for information in inspections or for position reporting purposes),


     

To potential sub-advisers of portfolios (pursuant to confidentiality agreements),


     

To consultants for retirement plans for plan sponsors/discussions at due diligence meetings (pursuant to confidentiality agreements), and


     

Investment bankers in connection with merger discussions (pursuant to confidentiality agreements).


Portfolio managers and analysts may, subject to the Managers policies on communications with the press and other media, discuss portfolio information in interviews with members of the media, or in due diligence or similar meetings with clients or prospective purchasers of Fund shares or their financial intermediary representatives.

The Funds shareholders may, under unusual circumstances (such as a lack of liquidity in the Funds portfolio to meet redemptions), receive redemption proceeds of their Fund shares paid as pro rata shares of securities held in the Funds portfolio. In such circumstances, disclosure of the Funds portfolio holdings may be made to such shareholders.

     Any permitted release of otherwise non-public portfolio holdings information must be in accordance with the Funds then-current policy on approved methods for communicating confidential information, including but not limited to the Funds policy as to use of secure e-mail technology.

     The Chief Compliance Officer (the CCO) of the Fund and the Manager, Distributor, and Transfer Agent shall oversee the compliance by the Manager, Distributor, Transfer Agent, and their personnel with these policies and procedures. At least annually, the CCO shall report to the Funds Board on such compliance oversight and on the categories of entities and individuals to which disclosure of portfolio holdings of the Funds has been made during the preceding year pursuant to these policies. The CCO shall report to the Funds Board any material violation of these policies and procedures and shall make recommendations to the Board as to any amendments that the CCO believes are necessary and desirable to carry out or improve these policies and procedures.

     The Manager and/or the Fund have entered into ongoing arrangements to make available information about the Funds portfolio holdings. One or more of the Oppenheimer funds may currently disclose portfolio holdings information based on ongoing arrangements to the following parties:

ABG Securities

Fixed Income Securities

Nomura Securities

ABN AMRO

Fortis Securities

Oppenheimer & Co.

AG Edwards

Fox-Pitt, Kelton

Oscar Gruss

Allen & Co

Friedman, Billing, Ramsey

OTA

American Technology Research

Gabelli

Pacific Crest Securities

Auerbach Grayson

Garp Research

Piper Jaffray Inc.

Avondale

Gartner

Portales Partners

Banc of America Securities

George K Baum & Co.

Punk Ziegel & Co

Barra

Goldman Sachs

Raymond James

BB&T

Howard Weil

RBC

Bear Stearns

HSBC

Reuters

Belle Haven

ISI Group

RiskMetrics/ISS

Bloomberg

ITG

Robert W. Baird

BMO Capital Markets

Janco

Roosevelt & Cross

BNP Paribas

Janney Montgomery

Russell

Brean Murray

Jefferies

Sandler O'Neill

Brown Brothers

JMP Securities

Sanford C. Bernstein

Buckingham Research Group

JNK Securities

Scotia Capital Markets

Canaccord Adams

Johnson Rice & Co

Sidoti

Caris & Co.

JP Morgan Securities

Simmons

CIBC World Markets

Kaufman Brothers

Sanders Morris Harris

Citigroup Global Markets

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

Societe Generale

CJS Securities

Keijser Securities

Soleil Securities Group

Cleveland Research

Kempen & Co. USA Inc.

Standard & Poors

Cogent

Kepler Equities/Julius Baer Sec

Stanford Group

Collins Stewart

KeyBanc Capital Markets

State Street Bank

Cowen & Company

Lazard Freres & Co

Stephens, Inc.

Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC

Leerink Swann

Stifel Nicolaus

Credit Agricole Cheuvreux N.A. Inc.

Lehman Brothers

Stone & Youngberg

Credit Suisse

Loop Capital Markets

Strategas Research

Data Communique

Louise Yamada Tech Research

Sungard

Daiwa Securities

MainFirst Bank AG

Suntrust Robinson Humphrey

Davy

Makinson Cowell US Ltd

SWS Group

Deutsche Bank Securities

McAdams Wright

Think Equity Partners

Dougherty Markets

Merrill Lynch

Thomas Weisel Partners

Dowling

Miller Tabak

Thomson Financial

Empirical Research

Mizuho Securities

UBS

Enskilda Securities

Moodys Research

Virtusa Corporation

Exane BNP Paribas

Morgan Stanley

Wachovia Securities

Factset

Natixis Bleichroeder

Wedbush

Fidelity Capital Markets

Ned Davis Research Group

Weeden

First Albany

Needham & Co

William Blair

How the Fund Is Managed

Organization and History. The Fund, a series of Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust (the Trust), is an open-end, non-diversified management investment company with an unlimited number of authorized shares of beneficial interest. The Trust was organized as a single-series Massachusetts business trust in 1989. In 1993 it was reorganized to be a multi-series business trust (now called Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust). The Fund was added as a separate series of that Trust in 1994. Each of the three series of the Trust is a separate fund that issues its own shares, has its own investment portfolio, and has its own assets and liabilities.

|X| Classes of Shares. The Trustees are authorized, without shareholder approval, to create new series and classes of shares, to reclassify unissued shares into additional series or classes and to divide or combine the shares of a class into a greater or lesser number of shares without changing the proportionate beneficial interest of a shareholder in the Fund. Shares do not have cumulative voting rights, preemptive or subscription rights. Shares may be voted in person or by proxy at shareholder meetings.

The Fund currently has three classes of shares: Class A, Class B and Class C. All classes invest in the same investment portfolio. Each class of shares:

     

has its own dividends and distributions,


     

pays certain expenses which may be different for the different classes,


     

will generally have a different net asset value,


     

will generally have separate voting rights on matters in which interests of one class are different from interests of another class, and


     

votes as a class on matters that affect that class alone.


     Shares are freely transferable, and each share of each class has one vote at shareholder meetings, with fractional shares voting proportionally on matters submitted to a vote of shareholders. Each share of the Fund represents an interest in the Fund proportionately equal to the interest of each other share of the same class.

|X| Meetings of Shareholders. As a Massachusetts business trust, the Fund is not required to hold, and does not plan to hold, regular annual meetings of shareholders, but may hold shareholder meetings from time to time on important matters or when required to do so by the Investment Company Act or other applicable law. Shareholders have the right, upon a vote or declaration in writing of two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the Fund, to remove a Trustee or to take other action described in the Funds Declaration of Trust.

     The Trustees will call a meeting of shareholders to vote on the removal of a Trustee upon the written request of the record holders of 10% of its outstanding shares. If the Trustees receive a request from at least 10 shareholders stating that they wish to communicate with other shareholders to request a meeting to remove a Trustee, the Trustees will then either make the Funds shareholder list available to the applicants or mail their communication to all other shareholders at the applicants expense. The shareholders making the request must have been shareholders for at least six months and must hold shares of the Fund valued at $25,000 or more or constituting at least 1% of the Funds outstanding shares. The Trustees may also take other action as permitted by the Investment Company Act.

|X| Shareholder and Trustee Liability. The Funds Declaration of Trust contains an express disclaimer of shareholder or Trustee liability for the Funds obligations. It also provides for indemnification and reimbursement of expenses out of the Funds property for any shareholder held personally liable for its obligations. The Declaration of Trust also states that upon request, the Fund shall assume the defense of any claim made against a shareholder for any act or obligation of the Fund and shall satisfy any judgment on that claim. Massachusetts law permits a shareholder of a business trust (such as the Fund) to be held personally liable as a partner under certain circumstances. However, the risk that a Fund shareholder will incur financial loss from being held liable as a partner of the Fund is limited to the relatively remote circumstances in which the Fund would be unable to meet its obligations.

The Funds contractual arrangements state that any person doing business with the Fund (and each shareholder of the Fund) agrees under its Declaration of Trust to look solely to the assets of the Fund for satisfaction of any claim or demand that may arise out of any dealings with the Fund. Additionally, the Trustees shall have no personal liability to any such person, to the extent permitted by law.

Board of Trustees and Oversight Committees. The Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees, which is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders under Massachusetts law. The Trustees meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the Funds activities, review its performance, and review the actions of the Manager. The Board of Trustees has an Audit Committee, a Regulatory & Oversight Committee, and a Governance Committee. Each committee is comprised solely of Trustees who are not interested persons under the Investment Company Act (the Independent Trustees).
     During the Funds fiscal year ended July 31, 2008, the Audit Committee held 4 meetings, the Regulatory & Oversight Committee held 5 meetings and the Governance Committee held 4 meetings.
     The members of the Audit Committee are David K. Downes (Chairman), Phillip A. Griffiths, Mary F. Miller, Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., Joseph M. Wikler and Peter I. Wold. The Audit Committee furnishes the Board with recommendations regarding the selection of the Funds independent registered public accounting firm (also referred to as the independent Auditors). Other main functions of the Audit Committee outlined in the Audit Committee Charter, include, but are not limited to: (i) reviewing the scope and results of financial statement audits and the audit fees charged; (ii) reviewing reports from the Funds independent Auditors regarding the Funds internal accounting procedures and controls; (iii) reviewing reports from the Managers Internal Audit Department; (iv) maintaining a separate line of communication between the Funds independent Auditors and the Independent Trustees; (v) reviewing the independence of the Funds independent Auditors; and (vi) pre-approving the provision of any audit or non-audit services by the Funds independent Auditors, including tax services, that are not prohibited by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to the Fund, the Manager and certain affiliates of the Manager.

     The members of the Regulatory & Oversight Committee are Matthew P. Fink (Chairman), David K. Downes, Phillip A. Griffiths, Joel W. Motley, mary Ann Tynan and Joseph M. Wikler. The Regulatory & Oversight Committee evaluates and reports to the Board on the Funds contractual arrangements, including the Investment Advisory and Distribution Agreements, transfer agency and shareholder service agreements and custodian agreements as well as the policies and procedures adopted by the Fund to comply with the Investment Company Act and other applicable law, among other duties as set forth in the Regulatory & Oversight Committees Charter.
     The members of the Governance Committee are Joel W. Motley
(Chairman), Matthew P. Fink, Mary F. Miller, Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., Mary Ann Tynan and Peter I. Wold. The Governance Committee reviews the Funds governance guidelines, the adequacy of the Funds Codes of Ethics, develops qualification criteria for Board members consistent with the Funds governance guidelines, provides the Board with recommendations for voting portfolio securities held by the Fund, and monitors the Funds proxy voting, among other duties set forth in the Governance Committees Charter.

     The Governance Committees functions also include the selection and nomination of Trustees, including Independent Trustees for election. The Governance Committee may, but need not, consider the advice and recommendation of the Manager and its affiliates in selecting nominees. The full Board elects new Trustees except for those instances when a shareholder vote is required.

To date, the Governance Committee has been able to identify from its own resources an ample number of qualified candidates. Nonetheless, under the current policy of the Board, if the Board determines that a vacancy exists or is likely to exist on the Board, the Governance Committee will consider candidates for Board membership including those recommended by the Funds shareholders. The Governance Committee will consider nominees recommended by Independent Board members or recommended by any other Board members, including Board members affiliated with the Funds Manager. The Governance Committee may, upon Board approval, retain an executive search firm to assist in screening potential candidates. Upon Board approval, the Governance Committee may also use the services of legal, financial, or other external counsel that it deems necessary or desirable in the screening process. Shareholders wishing to submit a nominee for election to the Board may do so by mailing their submission to the offices of OppenheimerFunds, Inc., Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008, to the attention of the Board of Trustees of Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund, c/o the Secretary of the Fund.

Submissions should, at a minimum, be accompanied by the following: (1) the name, address, and business, educational, and/or other pertinent background of the person being recommended; (2) a statement concerning whether the person is an interested person as defined in the Investment Company Act; (3) any other information that the Fund would be required to include in a proxy statement concerning the person if he or she was nominated; and (4) the name and address of the person submitting the recommendation and, if that person is a shareholder, the period for which that person held Fund shares. Shareholders should note that a person who owns securities issued by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (the parent company of the Manager) would be deemed an interested person under the Investment Company Act. In addition, certain other relationships with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company or its subsidiaries, with registered broker-dealers, or with the Funds outside legal counsel may cause a person to be deemed an interested person.

     The Governance Committee has not established specific qualifications that it believes must be met by a trustee nominee. In evaluating trustee nominees, the Governance Committee considers, among other things, an individuals background, skills, and experience; whether the individual is an interested person as defined in the Investment Company Act; and whether the individual would be deemed an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of applicable SEC rules. The Governance Committee also considers whether the individuals background, skills, and experience will complement the background, skills, and experience of other Trustees and will contribute to the Board. There are no differences in the manner in which the Governance Committee evaluates nominees for trustees based on whether the nominee is recommended by a shareholder. Candidates are expected to provide a mix of attributes, experience, perspective and skills necessary to effectively advance the interests of shareholders.

Trustees and Officers of the Fund. Except for Mr. Murphy, each of the Trustees is an Independent Trustee. All of the Trustees are also directors or trustees of the following Oppenheimer funds (referred to as Board I Funds):

Oppenheimer Absolute Return Fund

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series

Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals

Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipals

Oppenheimer Rochester Arizona Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Balanced Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Maryland Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Baring China Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Massachusetts Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Baring Japan Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Michigan Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Baring SMA International Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Minnesota Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester North Carolina Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Ohio Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Virginia Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Discovery Fund

Oppenheimer Select Value Fund

Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Series Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Global Fund

Oppenheimer SMA Core Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund

Oppenheimer SMA International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Global Value Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2010 Fund

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2015 Fund

Oppenheimer International Diversified Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2020 Fund

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2025 Fund

Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2030 Fund

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2040 Fund

Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2050 Fund

Oppenheimer Master International Value Fund, LLC

OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund

Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust

Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust

 

     In addition to being a Board Member of each of the Board I Funds, Messrs. Downes and Wruble are directors or trustees of ten other portfolios in the Oppenheimer Funds complex.

     Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their immediate family members) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them for their employees are permitted to purchase Class A shares of the Fund and the other Oppenheimer funds at net asset value without sales charge. The sales charge on Class A shares is waived for that group because of the reduced sales efforts realized by the Distributor. Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their eligible family members) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, its parent company and the subsidiaries of its parent company, and retirement plans established for the benefit of such individuals, are also permitted to purchase Class Y shares of the Oppenheimer funds that offer Class Y shares.

     Messrs. Fielding, Cottier, Loughran, Willis, Stein, Edwards, Legg, Murphy, Petersen, Vandehey, Wixted, and Zack, and Mss. Bloomberg, Bullington, Ives and Ruffle who are officers of the Fund, hold the same offices with one or more of the other Board I Funds. As of October 31, 2008, the Trustees and officers of the Fund, as a group, owned of record or beneficially less than 1% of any class of shares of the Fund. The foregoing statement does not reflect ownership of shares held of record by an employee benefit plan for employees of the Manager, other than the shares beneficially owned under that plan by the officers of the Fund listed above. In addition, none of the Independent Trustees (nor any of their immediate family members), owns securities of either the Manager or the Distributor of the Board I Funds or of any entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Manager or the Distributor.

Biographical Information. The Trustees and officers, their positions with the Fund, length of service in such position(s) and principal occupations and business affiliations during at least the past five years are listed in the charts below. The charts also include information about each Trustees beneficial share ownership in the Fund and in all of the registered investment companies that the Trustee oversees in the Oppenheimer family of funds Supervised Funds). The address of each Trustee in the chart below is 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Independent Trustees

Name, Position(s) Held with the Fund,

Length of Service,

Age

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years;

Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held;

Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex

Currently Overseen

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in
the Fund

Aggregate Dollar Range Of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds

   

As of December 31, 2007

Brian F. Wruble,

Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2007,
Trustee since 2005,

Age: 65

General Partner of Odyssey Partners, L.P. (hedge fund) (September 1995-December 2007); Director of Special Value Opportunities Fund, LLC (registered investment company) (affiliate of the Managers parent company) (since September 2004); Chairman (since August 2007) and Trustee (since August 1991) of the Board of Trustees of The Jackson Laboratory (non-profit); Treasurer and Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study (non-profit educational institute) (since May 1992); Member of Zurich Financial Investment Management Advisory Council (insurance) (2004-2007); Special Limited Partner of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC (private equity investment) (January 1999-September 2004).Oversees 62 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

David K. Downes,

Trustee since 2007

Age: 68

Independent Chairman GSK Employee Benefit Trust (since April 2006); Director of Correctnet (since January 2006); Trustee of Employee Trusts (since January 2006); President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of CRAFund Advisors, Inc. (investment management company) (since January 2004); Director of Internet Capital Group (information technology company) (since October 2003); ; Independent Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Quaker Investment Trust (registered investment company) (2004-2007); President of The Community Reinvestment Act Qualified Investment Fund (investment management company) (2004-2007); Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Lincoln National Investment Companies, Inc. (subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation, a publicly traded company) and Delaware Investments U.S., Inc. (investment management subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation) (1993-2003); President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Delaware Investment Family of Funds (1993-2003); President and Board Member of Lincoln National Convertible Securities Funds, Inc. and the Lincoln National Income Funds, TDC (1993-2003); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Retirement Financial Services, Inc. (registered transfer agent and investment adviser and subsidiary of Delaware Investments U.S., Inc.) (1993-2003); President and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware Service Company, Inc. (1995-2003); Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Vice Chairman and Director of Equitable Capital Management Corporation (investment subsidiary of Equitable Life Assurance Society) (1985-1992); Corporate Controller of Merrill Lynch & Company (financial services holding company) (1977-1985); held the following positions at the Colonial Penn Group, Inc. (insurance company): Corporate Budget Director (1974-1977), Assistant Treasurer (1972-1974) and Director of Corporate Taxes (1969-1972); held the following positions at Price Waterhouse & Company (financial services firm): Tax Manager (1967-1969), Tax Senior (1965-1967) and Staff Accountant (1963-1965); United States Marine Corps (1957-1959). Oversees 62 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Matthew P. Fink,

Trustee since 2005

Age: 67

Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (policy research foundation) (since 2005); Director of ICI Education Foundation (education foundation) (October 1991-August 2006); President of the Investment Company Institute (trade association) (October 1991-June 2004); Director of ICI Mutual Insurance Company (insurance company) (October 1991-June 2004). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Phillip A. Griffiths,

Trustee since 1999

Age: 70

Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation (since 2007); Distinguished Presidential Fellow for International Affairs (since 2002) and Member (since 1979) of the National Academy of Sciences; Council on Foreign Relations (since 2002); Director of GSI Lumonics Inc. (precision technology products company) (since 2001); Senior Advisor of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (since 2001); Chair of Science Initiative Group (since 1999); Member of the American Philosophical Society (since 1996); Trustee of Woodward Academy (since 1983); Foreign Associate of Third World Academy of Sciences; Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (1991-2004); Director of Bankers Trust New York Corporation (1994-1999); Provost at Duke University (1983-1991). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

None

Mary F. Miller,

Trustee since 2004

Age: 66

Trustee of International House (not-for-profit) (since June 2007); Trustee of the American Symphony Orchestra (not-for-profit) (since October 1998); and Senior Vice President and General Auditor of American Express Company (financial services company) (July 1998-February 2003). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Joel W. Motley,

Trustee since 2002
Age: 56

Managing Director of Public Capital Advisors, LLC (privately held financial adviser) (since January 2006). Managing Director of Carmona Motley, Inc. (privately-held financial adviser) (since January 2002); Director of Columbia Equity Financial Corp. (privately-held financial advisor) (2002-2007); Managing Director of Carmona Motley Hoffman Inc. (privately-held financial advisor) (January 1998-December 2001); Member of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Investment Committee of the Episcopal Church of America, Member of the Investment Committee and Board of Human Rights Watch and Member of the Investment Committee of Historic Hudson Valley. Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Russell S. Reynolds, Jr.,

Trustee since 1989

Age: 76

Chairman of RSR Partners (formerly The Directorship Search Group, Inc.) (corporate governance consulting and executive recruiting) (since 1993); Life Trustee of International House (non-profit educational organization); Former Trustee of The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich; Former Director of Greenwich Hospital Association. Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Mary Ann Tynan,
Trustee since 2008

Age: 63

Vice Chair of Board of Trustees of Brigham and Woman's Hospital (non-profit hospital) (since 2000); Chair of Board of Directors of Faulkner Hospital (non-profit hospital) (since 1990); Member of Audit and Compliance Committee of Partners Health Care System (non-profit) (since 2004); Board of Trustees of Middlesex School (educational institution) (since 1994); Board of Directors of Idealswork, Inc. (financial services provider) (since 2003); Member of Capital Campaign Committee of Island Medical Center (medical facility) (2006-2008); Partner, Senior Vice President and Director of Regulatory Affairs of Wellington Management Company, LLP (global investment manager) (1976-2002); Vice President and Corporate Secretary, John Hancock Advisers, Inc. (mutual fund investment adviser) (1970-1976). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None*

None*

Joseph M. Wikler,

Trustee since 2005

Age: 67

Director of C-TASC (bio-statistics services) (since 2007); Director of the following medical device companies: Medintec (since 1992) and Cathco (since 1996); Director of Lakes Environmental Association (environmental protection organization) (since 1996); Member of the Investment Committee of the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore (since 1994); Director of Fortis/Hartford mutual funds (1994-December 2001). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

Peter I. Wold,

Trustee since 2005

Age: 60

President of Wold Oil Properties, Inc. (oil and gas exploration and production company) (since 1994); Vice President of American Talc Company, Inc. (talc mining and milling) (since 1999); Managing Member of Hole-in-the-Wall Ranch (cattle ranching) (since 1979); Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of Wold Trona Company, Inc. (soda ash processing and production) (1996 - 2006); Director and Chairman of the Denver Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1993-1999); and Director of PacifiCorp. (electric utility) (1995-1999). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

*Ms. Tynan joined the Board of Trustees of the Fund on October 1, 2008.

     Mr. Murphy is an Interested Trustee because he is affiliated with the Manager by virtue of his positions as an officer and director of the Manager, and as a shareholder of its parent company. The address of Mr. Murphy is Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008. Mr. Murphy serves as a Trustee for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal and as an officer for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Interested Trustee and Officer

Name, Position(s) Held with Fund, Length of Service, Age

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years; Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held; Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Currently Overseen

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in
the Fund

Aggregate Dollar Range Of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds

 

As of December 31, 2007

John V. Murphy,

Trustee since 2001 and President and Principal Executive Officer since 2001

Age: 59

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Manager since June 2001; President of the Manager (September 2000-February 2007); President and a director or trustee of other Oppenheimer funds; President and Director of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (OAC) (the Managers parent holding company) and of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (holding company subsidiary of the Manager) (since July 2001); Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (subsidiary of the Manager) (November 2001-December 2006); Chairman and Director of Shareholder Services, Inc. and of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (transfer agent subsidiaries of the Manager) (since July 2001); President and Director of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (charitable trust program established by the Manager) (since July 2001); Director of the following investment advisory subsidiaries of the Manager: OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation and Tremont Capital Management, Inc. (since November 2001), HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and OFI Private Investments, Inc. (since July 2001); President (since November 1, 2001) and Director (since July 2001) of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (OACs parent company) (since February 1997); Director of DLB Acquisition Corporation (holding company parent of Babson Capital Management LLC) (since June 1995); Member of the Investment Company Institutes Board of Governors (since October 3, 2003); Chairman of the Investment Companys Institutes Board of Governors (since October 2007).Oversees 103 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

None

Over $100,000

The addresses of the officers in the chart below are as follows: for Messrs. Fielding, Loughran, Cottier, Willis, Stein, Zack and Edwards and Mses. Bloomberg and Ruffle, Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008, for Messrs. Petersen, Vandehey, Legg and Wixted and Mses. Bullington and Ives, 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each officer serves for an indefinite term or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Other Officers of the Fund

Name, Position(s) Held with Fund, Length of Service, Age

Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years

Ronald H. Fielding,
Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager since 2002

Age: 59

Senior Vice President of the Manager and Chairman of the Rochester Division of the Manager since January 1996; Vice President of the Fund since 2002; Chief Strategist, Senior Portfolio Manager and a trader for the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds. A Portfolio Manager and officer of 18 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Daniel G. Loughran, Vice President since 2005 and Senior Portfolio Manager since 2002
Age: 45

Senior Vice President of the Manager since April 2001; Vice President of the Rochester division of the Manager since January 1996. Vice President of the Fund since October 2005. Team leader, a Senior Portfolio Manager and a trader for the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds. A Portfolio Manager and officer of 18 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Scott Cottier, Vice President since 2005 and Portfolio Manager since 2002
Age: 37

Vice President of the Manager since 2002; Vice President of the Fund since October 2005; Portfolio Manager and trader at Victory Capital Management (1999-2002). Senior Portfolio Manager and trader for the Fund and other Oppenheimer Funds. An officer of 18 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Troy Willis, Vice President since 2005 and Senior Portfolio Manager since 2002
Age: 36

Assistant Vice President of the Manager since July 2005; Associate Portfolio Manager with the Manager since 2002; Vice President of the Fund since October 2005. A corporate attorney for Southern Resource Group (1999-2003). A Portfolio Manager and officer of 18 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Richard Stein

Vice President since 2007

Age : 51

Director of the Rochester Credit Analysis team (since 2003) and a Vice President of the Manager (since 1997); Headed Rochesters Credit Analysis team (since 1993).

Mark S. Vandehey,
Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer since 2004
Age: 58

Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Manager of the Manager (since March 2004); Chief Compliance Officer of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management and Shareholder Services, Inc. (Since March 2004); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since June 1983). Former Vice President and Director of Internal Audit of the Manager (1997-February 2004). An officer of 103 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Brian W. Wixted,

Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer since 1999

Age: 49

Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the Manager (since March 1999); Treasurer of the following: HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management Corporation, and Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (since March 1999), OFI Private Investments, Inc. (since March 2000), OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. (since May 2000), OppenheimerFunds plc (since May 2000), OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2000), and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (charitable trust program established by the Manager) (since June 2003); Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of OFI Trust Company (trust company subsidiary of the Manager) (since May 2000); Assistant Treasurer of the following: OAC (since March 1999),Centennial Asset Management Corporation (March 1999-October 2003) and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (April 2000-June 2003). An officer of 103 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Brian Petersen,
Assistant Treasurer since 2004
Age: 38

Vice President of the Manager (since February 2007); Assistant Vice President of the Manager (August 2002-February 2007). Manager/Financial Product Accounting of the Manager (November 1998-July 2002). An officer of 103 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Stephanie Bullington

Assistant Treasurer since

2008

Age:31

Assistant Vice President of the Manager (since October 2005); Assistant Vice President of ButterField Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited, part of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited (Butterfield) (February 2004-June 2005; Fund Accounting Officer of Butterfield Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited (September 2003-February 2004. An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Robert G. Zack,
Secretary since 2001
Age: 60

Executive Vice President (since January 2004) and General Counsel (since March 2002) of the Manager; General Counsel and Director of the Distributor (since December 2001); General Counsel of Centennial Asset Management Corporation (since December 2001); Senior Vice President and General Counsel of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation (since December 2001); Secretary and General Counsel of OAC (since November 2001); Assistant Secretary (since September 1997) and Director (since November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. and OppenheimerFunds plc; Vice President and Director of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (since December 2002); Director of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2001); Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since December 2001); Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of OFI Private Investments, Inc. and OFI Trust Company (since November 2001); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (since June 2003); Senior Vice President and General Counsel of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2001); Director of OppenheimerFunds International Distributor Limited (since December 2003); Senior Vice President (May 1985-December 2003). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Kathleen T. Ives,
Assistant Secretary since 2001
Age: 43

Vice President (since June 1998), Deputy General Counsel (since May 2008) and Assistant Secretary (since October 2003) of the Manager; Vice President (since 1999) and Assistant Secretary (since October 2003) of the Distributor; Assistant Secretary of Centennial Asset Management Corporation (since October 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Shareholder Services, Inc. (since 1999); Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (since December 2001); Senior Counsel of the Manager (October 2003-May 2008). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Lisa I. Bloomberg,
Assistant Secretary since 2004
Age: 40

Vice President (since May 2004) and Deputy General Counsel (since May 2008) of the Manager; Associate Counsel of the Manager (May 2004-May 2008); First Vice President (April 2001-April 2004), Associate General Counsel (December 2000-April 2004) of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly, PaineWebber Incorporated). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Taylor V. Edwards,

Assistant Secretary since
2008
Age: 41

Vice President and Assistant Counsel of the Manager (since February 2007); Assistant Vice President and Assistant Counsel of the Manager (January 2006-January 2007); Formerly an Associate at Dechert LLP (September 2000-December 2005). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Randy G. Legg,

Assistant Secretary since
2008
Age: 43

Vice President (since June 2005) and Associate Counsel (since January 2007) of the Manager; Assistant Vice President (February 2004-June 2005 and Assistant Counsel (February 2004-January 2007) of the Manager. An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Adrienne M. Ruffle,

Assistant Secretary since
2008
Age: 31

Vice President (since February 2007) and Assistant Counsel (since February 2005) of the Manager/Adviser; Assistant Vice President of the [Manager/Adviser] (February 2005-February 2007); Associate (September 2002-February 2005) at Sidley Austin LLP. An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

     |X| Remuneration of the Officers and Trustees. The officers and the interested Trustee of the Fund, who are affiliated with the Manager, receive no salary or fee from the Fund. The compensation from the Fund, shown below, is for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable), with respect to the Funds fiscal year ended July 31, 2008. The total compensation from the Fund and fund complex represents compensation, including accrued retirement benefits, for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable) of the Boards of the Fund and other funds in the OppenheimerFunds complex during the calendar year ended December 31, 2007.

Name and Other Fund Position(s)
(as applicable)

Aggregate Compensation
From the Fund
(1)

Retirement
Benefits Accrued as Part of Fund Expenses

Estimated Annual Benefits Upon Retirement(2)

Total Compensation From the Fund and Fund Complex

Fiscal year ended July 31, 2008

 

Year ended December 31, 2007

Brian F. Wruble(3)

Chairman of the Board

$2,134(4)

N/A

$65,868(5)

$335,190(6)

David K. Downes(7)

Audit Committee Chairman

and Regulatory & Oversight Committee Member

$1,583

N/A

$26,112(22)

$180,587(9)

Matthew P. Fink

Regulatory & Oversight Committee Chairman and Governance Committee Member

$1,645

N/A

$10,004(10)

$154,368

Phillip A. Griffiths

Audit Committee Member and Regulatory & Oversight Committee Member

$1,940(11)

N/A

$51,621(12)

$198,211

Mary F. Miller

Audit Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$1,593(13)

N/A

$13,201(12)

$152,698

Joel W. Motley

Governance Committee Chairman and Regulatory & Oversight Committee Member

$1,683(12)

N/A

$32,741(12)

$171,223

Russell S. Reynolds, Jr.

Audit Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$1,593

N/A

$77,288

$153,530

Joseph M. Wikler

Audit Committee Member and Regulatory & Oversight Committee Member

$1,593(13)

N/A

$28,814(12)

$150,770

Peter I. Wold

Audit Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$1,593(14)

N/A

$28,814(12)

$150,770

1.     

Aggregate Compensation From the Fund includes fees and amounts deferred under the Compensation Deferral Plan (described below), if any.


2.     

Estimated Annual Benefits Upon Retirement is based on a single life payment election with the assumption that a Trustee would retire at the age of 75 and would then have been eligible to receive retirement plan benefits with respect to certain Board I Funds, and in the case of Messrs. Downes and Wruble, with respect to ten other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board I Funds (the Non-Board I Funds). The Board I Funds; retirement plan was frozen effective December 31, 2006, and each plan participant who had not yet commenced receiving retirement benefits subsequently received previously accrued benefits based upon the distribution method elected by such participant, as described below. A similar plan with respect to the Non-Board I Funds is being frozen effective December 31, 2007.


3.     

Mr. Wruble became Chairman of the Board I Funds on December 31, 2006.


4.     

Includes $2,134 deferred by Mr. Wruble under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


5.     

In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit amount of $7,374 for his service as a director or trustee to the Board I Funds, Mr. Wruble elected to have an actuarially equivalent lump sum amount contributed to his Compensation Deferral Plan account subsequent to the freezing of the Board I Funds retirement plan. The amount set forth in the table above also includes $57,619 for estimated annual benefits for serving as a director or trustee of 10 other Oppenheimer funds that are not the Non-Board I Funds. In lieu of receiving that estimated annual benefit, Mr. Wruble has elected to have an actuarially equivalent lump sum distributed to the Compensation Deferral Plan subsequent to the freezing of the Non-Board I Funds retirement plan.


6.     

Includes $140,000 paid to Mr. Wruble for serving as a director or trustee of the Non-Board I Funds.


7.     

Mr. Downes was appointed as Trustee of the Board I Funds on August 1, 2007, which was subsequent to the freezing of the Board I retirement plan.


8.     

This amount represents the estimated benefits that would be payable to Mr. Downes for serving as a director or trustee of the Non-Board I Funds. In lieu of receiving this estimated annual benefit, Mr. Downes has elected to receive an actuarially equivalent lump sum payment subsequent to the freezing of the Non-Board I Funds retirement plan.


9.     

Includes $155,000 paid to Mr. Downes for serving as a director or trustee of the Non-Board I Funds.


10.     

In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit for his service as a director or trustee to the Board I funds, Mr. Fink elected to receive an actuarially equivalent lump sum payment subsequent to the freezing of the Board I Funds retirement plan.


11.     

Includes $1,620 deferred by Mr. Griffiths under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


12.     

In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit for service as a director or trustee to the Board I funds, this Trustee elected to have an actuarially equivalent lump sum amount contributed to his or her Compensation Deferral Plan account subsequent to the freezing of the Board I Funds retirement plan.


13.     

Includes $664 deferred by Ms. Miller under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


14.     

Includes $182 deferred by Mr. Motley under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


15.     

Includes $797 deferred by Mr. Wikler under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


16.     

Includes $1,593 deferred by Mr. Wold under the Compensation Deferral Plan.


|X| Retirement Plan for Trustees. The Board I Funds adopted a retirement plan that provides for payments to retired Independent Trustees. Payments are up to 80% of the average compensation paid during a Trustees five years of service in which the highest compensation was received. A Trustee must serve as director or trustee for any of the Board I Funds for at least seven years to be eligible for retirement plan benefits and must serve for at least 15 years to be eligible for the maximum benefit. The Board has frozen the retirement plan with respect to new accruals as of December 31, 2006 (the Freeze Date). Each Trustee continuing to serve on the Board of any of the Board I Funds after the Freeze Date (each such Trustee a Continuing Board Member) may elect to have his accrued benefit as of that date (i.e., an amount equivalent to the actuarial present value of his benefit under the retirement plan as of the Freeze Date) (i) paid at once or over time, (ii) rolled into the Compensation Deferral Plan described below, or (iii) in the case of Continuing Board Members having at least 7 years of service as of the Freeze Date paid in the form of an annual benefit or joint and survivor annual benefit. The Board determined to freeze the retirement plan after considering a recent trend among corporate boards of directors to forego retirement plan payments in favor of current compensation.

|X|Compensation Deferral Plan. The Board of Trustees has adopted a Compensation Deferral Plan for Independent Trustees that enables them to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual fees they are entitled to receive from certain Board I Funds. Under the plan, the compensation deferred by a Trustee is periodically adjusted as though an equivalent amount had been invested in shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds selected by the Trustee. The amount paid to the Trustee under the plan will be determined based upon the amount of compensation deferred and the performance of the selected funds.

     Deferral of the Trustees fees under the plan will not materially affect a Funds assets, liabilities or net income per share. The plan will not obligate a fund to retain the services of any Trustee or to pay any particular level of compensation to any Trustee. Pursuant to an Order issued by the SEC, a fund may invest in the funds selected by the Trustee under the plan without shareholder approval for the limited purpose of determining the value of the Trustees deferred compensation account.

|X|Major Shareholders. As of October 31, 2008, the only persons or entities who owned of record or who were known by the Fund to own beneficially 5% or more of any class of the Fund's outstanding shares were:

MLPF&S for the sole benefit of its customers, Attn. Fund ADMN/#, 4800 Deer Lake Drive East Floor 3, Jacksonville, FL 32246-6484, which owned 3,110,145,496 Class A shares (7.17% of the Class A shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

Citigroup Global Mkts Inc. Attn. Cindy Tempesta, 7th Floor 333 West 34th Street, New York, New York 10001-2483, which owned 3,003,064.171 Class A shares (6.92% of the Class A shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

Citigroup Global Mkts Inc. Attn. Cindy Tempesta, 7th Floor 333 West 34th Street, New York, New York 10001-2483, which owned 337,346.289 Class B shares (6.43% of the Class B shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

MLPF&S for the sole benefit of its customers, Attn. Fund ADMN/#, 4800 Deer Lake Drive East Floor 3, Jacksonville, FL 32246-6484, which owned 318,099.495 Class B shares (6.43% of the Class B shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

Citigroup Global Mkts Inc. Attn. Cindy Tempesta, 7th Floor 333 West 34th Street, New York, New York 10001-2483, which owned 2,236,801.396 Class C shares (12.78% of the Class C shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

MLPF&S for the sole benefit of its customers, Attn. Fund ADMN/#, 4800 Deer Lake Drive East Floor 3, Jacksonville, FL 32246-6484, which owned 3,988,819.307 Class C shares (22.79% of the Class C shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its customers.

The Manager. The Manager is wholly-owned by Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., a holding company controlled by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company a global, diversified insurance and financial services organization.
 

|X| Code of Ethics. The Fund, the Manager and the Distributor have a Code of Ethics. It is designed to detect and prevent improper personal trading by certain employees, including portfolio managers that would compete with or take advantage of the Funds portfolio transactions. Covered persons include persons with knowledge of the investments and investment intentions of the Fund and other funds advised by the Manager. The Code of Ethics does permit personnel subject to the Code to invest in securities, including securities that may be purchased or held by the Fund, subject to a number of restrictions and controls. Compliance with the Code of Ethics is carefully monitored and enforced by the Manager.

     The Code of Ethics is an exhibit to the Funds registration statement filed with the SEC and can be reviewed and copied at the SECs Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You can obtain information about the hours of operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1.202.942.8090. The Code of Ethics can also be viewed as part of the Funds registration statement on the SECs EDGAR database at the SECs Internet website at http://www.sec.gov . Copies may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following E-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov , or by writing to the SECs Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-0102.

|X|The Investment Advisory Agreement. The Manager provides investment advisory and management services to the Fund under an investment advisory agreement between the Manager and the Fund. The Manager selects securities for the Funds portfolio and handles its day-to day business. That agreement requires the Manager, at its expense, to provide the Fund with adequate office space, facilities and equipment. It also requires the Manager to provide and supervise the activities of all administrative and clerical personnel required to provide effective corporate administration for the Fund. Those responsibilities include the compilation and maintenance of records with respect to the Funds operations, the preparation and filing of specified reports, and the composition of proxy materials and registration statements for continuous public sale of shares of the Fund.

The Fund pays expenses not expressly assumed by the Manager under the advisory agreement. The investment advisory agreement lists examples of expenses paid by the Fund. The major categories relate to interest, taxes, fees to Independent Trustees, legal and audit expenses, custodian and transfer agent expenses, share issuance costs, certain printing and registration costs, brokerage commissions, and non-recurring expenses, including litigation cost. The management fees paid by the Fund to the Manager are calculated at the rates described in the Prospectus, which are applied to the assets of the Fund as a whole. The fees are allocated to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of the Funds net assets represented by that class. The management fees paid by the Fund to the Manager during its last three fiscal years are listed below.

Fiscal Years
Ended 7/31

Management Fee
(Without Voluntary Waiver)

Management Fee Paid to

the Manager
(after waiver)

2006

$2,537,206

$2,224,126

2007

$3,853,613

N/A

2008

$4,040,062

N/A

The investment advisory agreement states that in the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence in the performance of its duties, or reckless disregard for its obligations and duties under the investment advisory agreement, the Manager is not liable for any loss the Fund sustains in connection with matters to which the agreement relates.

The agreement permits the Manager to act as investment adviser for any other person, firm or corporation and to use the name Oppenheimer in connection with other investment companies for which it may act as investment adviser or general distributor. If the Manager shall no longer act as investment adviser to the Fund, the Manager may withdraw the Funds right to use the name Oppenheimer as part of its name.

Pending Litigation. During 2009, a number of complaints have been filed in federal courts against the Manager, the Distributor, and the Fund or certain other mutual funds advised by the Manager and distributed by the Distributor. The complaints naming the Fund as a defendant also name certain officers and trustees and former trustees of the Fund. The plaintiffs are seeking class action status on behalf of those who purchased shares of the Fund during a particular time period. The complaints against the Fund raise claims under federal securities laws to the effect that, among other things, the disclosure documents of the Fund contained misrepresentations and omissions, that the Fund's investment policies were not followed, and that the Fund and the other defendants violated federal securities laws and regulations and certain state laws. The plaintiffs seek unspecified damages, equitable relief and an award of attorneys' fees and litigation expenses. The litigations involving certain other Oppenheimer funds are similar in nature.
 
     A complaint brought in state court against the Manager, the Distributor and another subsidiary of the Manager (but not against the Fund), on behalf of the Oregon College Savings Plan Trust alleges a variety of claims, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and violation of state securities laws. Plaintiffs seek compensatory damages, equitable relief and an award of attorneys' fees and litigation expenses.
 

Other complaints have been filed in state and federal courts, by investors who made investments through an affiliate of the Manager, against the Manager and certain of its affiliates, regarding the alleged investment fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff and his firm (Madoff). Those lawsuits, in 2008 and 2009, allege a variety of claims, including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, and violation of federal and state securities laws and regulations, among others. They seek unspecified damages, equitable relief and an award of attorneys' fees and litigation expenses. None of the suits have named the Distributor, any of the Oppenheimer mutual funds or any of their independent Trustees or Directors. None of the Oppenheimer funds invested in any funds or accounts managed by Madoff.

The Manager believes that the lawsuits described above are without legal merit and intends to defend the suits vigorously. The Funds Board of Trustees has also engaged counsel to defend these suits vigorously on behalf of the Fund, the Funds Board and the individual independent Trustees named in those suits. While it is premature to render any opinion as to the likelihood of an outcome in these lawsuits, or whether any costs that the Fund may bear in defending the suits might not be reimbursed by insurance or the Manager, the Manager believes that these suits should not have any material effect on the operations of the Fund and that the outcome of all of the suits together should not impair the ability of the Manager or the Distributor to perform their respective duties to the Fund.

     Portfolio Managers. The Funds portfolio is managed by a team of investment professionals including Ronald H. Fielding, Daniel G. Loughran, Scott S. Cottier, Troy E. Willis, Mark R. DeMitry, Marcus V. Franz and Michael L. Camarella (each is referred to as a Portfolio Manager and collectively they are referred to as the Portfolio Managers) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds investments.
 

Other Accounts Managed. In addition to managing the Funds investment portfolio, Messrs. Fielding, Loughran, Cottier, Willis, DeMitry, Franz and Camarella also manage other investment portfolios and other accounts on behalf of the Manager or its affiliates. The following table provides information regarding the other portfolios and accounts managed by the Portfolio Managers as of July 31, 2008. No account has a performance-based advisory fee:

     

Portfolio Manager

Registered Investment Companies Managed

Total Assets in Registered Investment Companies Managed1

Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed

Total Assets in Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed2

Other Accounts Managed

Total Assets
in Other Accounts Managed
2

Ronald H. Fielding

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Daniel G. Loughran

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Scott S. Cottier

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Troy E. Willis

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Mark R. DeMitry

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Marcus V. Franz

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

Michael L. Camarella

17

$29,572

None

None

None

None

1. In millions.

2. Does not include personal accounts of portfolio managers and their families, which are subject to the Code of Ethics.

As indicated above, each of the Portfolio Managers also manages other funds and accounts. Potentially, at times, those responsibilities could conflict with the interests of the Fund. That may occur whether the investment objectives and strategies of the other funds and accounts are the same as, or different from, the Funds investment objectives and strategies. For example the Portfolio Managers may need to allocate investment opportunities between the Fund and another fund or account having similar objectives or strategies, or he may need to execute transactions for another fund or account that could have a negative impact on the value of securities held by the Fund. Not all funds and accounts advised by the Manager have the same management fee. If the management fee structure of another fund or account is more advantageous to the Manager than the fee structure of the Fund, the Manager could have an incentive to favor the other fund or account. However, the Manager's compliance procedures and Code of Ethics recognize the Managers fiduciary obligation to treat all of its clients, including the Fund, fairly and equitably, and are designed to preclude the Portfolio Managers from favoring one client over another. It is possible, of course, that those compliance procedures and the Code of Ethics may not always be adequate to do so. At different times, the Funds Portfolio Managers may manage other funds or accounts with investment objectives and strategies similar to those of the Fund, or they may manage funds or accounts with different investment objectives and strategies.

<     Compensation of the Portfolio Managers. The Funds Portfolio Managers are employed and compensated by the Manager, not the Fund. Under the Managers compensation program for its portfolio managers and portfolio analysts, Fund performance is the most important element of compensation with half of annual cash compensation based on relative investment performance results of the funds and accounts they manage, rather than on the financial success of the Manager. This is intended to align the portfolio managers and analysts interests with the success of the funds and accounts and their investors. The Managers compensation structure is designed to attract and retain highly qualified investment management professionals and to reward individual and team contributions toward creating shareholder value. As of July 31, 2008, the Portfolio Managers compensation consisted of three elements: a base salary, an annual discretionary bonus and eligibility to participate in long-term awards of options and appreciation rights in regard to the common stock of the Managers holding company parent. Senior portfolio managers may also be eligible to participate in the Managers deferred compensation plan.

The base pay component of each portfolio manager is reviewed regularly to ensure that it reflects the performance of the individual, is commensurate with the requirements of the particular portfolio, reflects any specific competence or specialty of the individual manager, and is competitive with other comparable positions, to help the Manager attract and retain talent. The annual discretionary bonus is determined by senior management of the Manager and is based on a number of factors, including a funds pre-tax performance for periods of up to five years, measured against an appropriate benchmark selected by management. The majority (80%) is based on three and five year data, with longer periods weighted more heavily. Below median performance in all three periods results in an extremely low, and in some cases no, performance based bonus. The Lipper benchmark with respect to the Fund is Lipper New Jersey Municipal Debt Funds. Other factors include management quality (such as style consistency, risk management, sector coverage, team leadership and coaching) and organizational development. The Portfolio Managers compensation is not based on the total value of the Funds portfolio assets, although the Funds investment performance may increase those assets. The compensation structure is also intended to be internally equitable and serve to reduce potential conflicts of interest between the Fund and other funds managed by the Portfolio Managers. The compensation structure of the other funds managed by the Portfolio Managers is the same as the compensation structure of the Fund, described above.

      Ownership of Fund Shares. As of July 31, 2008, the Portfolio Managers did not beneficially own any shares of the Fund.

Brokerage Policies of the Fund

Brokerage Provisions of the Investment Advisory Agreement. One of the duties of the Manager under the investment advisory agreement is to arrange the portfolio transactions for the Fund. The investment advisory agreement contains provisions relating to the employment of broker-dealers to effect the Funds portfolio transactions. The Manager is authorized by the advisory agreement to employ broker-dealers, including affiliated brokers, as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act, that the Manager thinks, in its best judgment based on all relevant factors, will implement the policy of the Fund to obtain, at reasonable expense, the "best execution" of the Funds portfolio transactions. Best execution means prompt and reliable execution at the most favorable price obtainable for the services provided. The Manager need not seek competitive commission bidding. However, it is expected to be aware of the current rates of eligible brokers and to minimize the commissions paid to the extent consistent with the interests and policies of the Fund as established by its Board of Trustees.
 

Under the investment advisory agreement, in choosing brokers to execute portfolio transactions for the Fund, the Manager may select brokers (other than affiliates) that provide brokerage and/or research services to the Fund and/or the other accounts over which the Manager or its affiliates have investment discretion. The commissions paid to those brokers may be higher than another qualified broker would charge, if the Manager makes a good faith determination that the commission is fair and reasonable in relation to the services provided.

Brokerage Practices Followed by the Manager. The Manager allocates brokerage for the Fund subject to the provisions of the investment advisory agreement and other applicable rules and procedures described below.
 
     The Manager's portfolio managers directly place trades and allocate brokerage based upon their judgment as to the execution capability of the broker or dealer. The Managers executive officers supervise the allocation of brokerage.
 

     Most securities purchases made by the Fund are in principal transactions at net prices. (i.e., without commissions). The Fund usually deals directly with the selling or purchasing principal or market maker without incurring charges for the services of a broker on its behalf. Portfolio securities purchased from underwriters include a commission or concession paid by the issuer to the underwriter in the price of the security. Portfolio securities purchased from dealers include a spread between the bid and asked price. Therefore, the Fund generally does not incur substantial brokerage costs. On occasion, however, the Manager may determine that a better price or execution may be obtained by using the services of a broker on an agency basis. In that situation, the Fund would incur a brokerage commission.

     Other funds advised by the Manager have investment policies similar to those of the Fund. Those other funds may purchase or sell the same securities as the Fund at the same time as the Fund, which could affect the supply and price of the securities. When possible, the Manager tries to combine concurrent orders to purchase or sell the same security by more than one of the funds managed by the Manager or its affiliates. The transactions under those combined orders are generally allocated on a pro rata basis based on the funds respective net asset sizes and other factors, including the funds cash flow requirements, investment policies and guidelines and capacity.

     Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act prohibits any fund from compensating a broker or dealer for promoting or selling the funds shares by (1) directing to that broker or dealer any of the funds portfolio transactions, or (2) directing any other remuneration to that broker or dealer, such as commissions, mark-ups, mark downs or other fees from the funds portfolio transactions, that were effected by another broker or dealer (these latter arrangements are considered to be a type of step-out transaction). In other words, a fund and its investment adviser cannot use the funds brokerage for the purpose of rewarding broker-dealers for selling the funds shares.

     However, the Rule permits funds to effect brokerage transactions through firms that also sell fund shares, provided that certain procedures are adopted to prevent a quid pro quo with respect to portfolio brokerage allocations. As permitted by the Rule, the Manager has adopted procedures (and the Funds Board of Trustees has approved those procedures) that permit the Fund to direct portfolio securities transactions to brokers or dealers that also promote or sell shares of the Fund, subject to the best execution considerations discussed above. Those procedures are designed to prevent: (1) the Managers personnel who effect the Funds portfolio transactions from taking into account a brokers or dealers promotion or sales of the Fund shares when allocating the Funds portfolio transactions, and (2) the Fund, the Manager and the Distributor from entering into agreements or understandings under which the Manager directs or is expected to direct the Funds brokerage directly, or through a step-out arrangement, to any broker or dealer in consideration of that brokers or dealers promotion or sale of the Funds shares or the shares of any of the other Oppenheimer funds.

The investment advisory agreement permits the Manager to allocate brokerage for research services. The research services provided by a particular broker may be useful both to the Fund and to one or more of the other accounts advised by the Manager or its affiliates. Investment research may be supplied to the Manager by the broker or by a third party at the instance of a broker through which trades are placed.

Investment research services include information and analyses on particular companies and industries as well as market or economic trends and portfolio strategy, market quotations for portfolio evaluations, analytical software and similar products and services. If a research service also assists the Manager in a non-research capacity (such as bookkeeping or other administrative functions), then only the percentage or component that provides assistance to the Manager in the investment decision-making process may be paid in commission dollars.

     Although the Manager currently does not do so, the Board of Trustees may permit the Manager to use stated commissions on secondary fixed-income agency trades to obtain research if the broker represents to the Manager that: (i) the trade is not from or for the broker's own inventory, (ii) the trade was executed by the broker on an agency basis at the stated commission, and (iii) the trade is not a riskless principal transaction. The Board of Trustees may also permit the Manager to use commissions on fixed-price offerings to obtain research, in the same manner as is permitted for agency transactions.

The research services provided by brokers broaden the scope and supplement the research activities of the Manager. That research provides additional views and comparisons for consideration and helps the Manager to obtain market information for the valuation of securities that are either held in the Fund's portfolio or are being considered for purchase. The Manager provides information to the Board about the commissions paid to brokers furnishing such services, together with the Manager's representation that the amount of such commissions was reasonably related to the value or benefit of such services.

During the fiscal years ended July 31, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the Fund paid no brokerage commissions.

Distribution and Service Plans

The Distributor. Under its General Distributor's Agreement with the Fund, the Distributor acts as the Fund's principal underwriter in the continuous public offering of the Funds classes of shares. The Distributor bears the expenses normally attributable to sales, including advertising and the cost of printing and mailing prospectuses, other than those furnished to existing shareholders. The Distributor is not obligated to sell a specific number of shares.

     The sales charges and concessions paid to, or retained by, the Distributor from the sale of shares and the contingent deferred sales charges retained by the Distributor on the redemption of shares during the Funds three most recent fiscal years are shown in the tables below.

Fiscal Years Ended 7/31:

Aggregate Front-End Sales Charges on Class A Shares

Class A Front-End Sales Charges Retained by Distributor1

Concessions on Class A Shares Advanced by Distributor2

Concessions on Class B Shares Advanced by Distributor2

Concessions on Class C Shares Advanced by Distributor2

2006

$3,529,554

$549,821

$283,284

$749,525

$715,589

2007

$3,749,084

$573,270

$329,057

$435,016

$828,203

2008

$1,587,749

$247,133

$137,588

$181,348

$308,240

1.     

Includes amounts retained by a broker-dealer that is an affiliate or a parent of the Distributor.


2.     

The Distributor advances concession payments to financial intermediaries for certain sales of Class A shares and for sales of Class B and Class C shares from its own resources at the time of sale.




 

Fiscal Years Ended 7/31:

Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor

Class B Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor

Class C Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor

2006

$10,245

$107,185

$55,855

2007

$23,436

$167,271

$46,353

2008

$84,703

$176,188

$73,440

     

Distribution and Service Plans. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan for its Class A shares and Distribution and Service Plans for Class B and Class C shares under Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act. Under those plans the Fund pays the Distributor for all or a portion of its costs incurred in connection with the distribution and/or servicing of the shares of the particular class. Each plan has been approved by a vote of the Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Independent Trustees,1 cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on that plan.
 

     Under the Plans, the Manager and the Distributor may make payments to affiliates. In their sole discretion, they may also from time to time make substantial payments from their own resources, which include the profits the Manager derives from the advisory fees it receives from the Fund, to compensate brokers, dealers, financial institutions and other intermediaries for providing distribution assistance and/or administrative services or that otherwise promote sales of the Funds shares. These payments, some of which may be referred to as revenue sharing, may relate to the Funds inclusion on a financial intermediarys preferred list of funds offered to its clients.
 

Unless a plan is terminated as described below, the plan continues in effect from year to year, but only if the Fund's Board of Trustees and its Independent Trustees specifically vote annually to approve its continuance. Approval must be by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on continuing the plan. A plan may be terminated at any time by the vote of a majority of the Independent Trustees or by the vote of the holders of a "majority" (as defined in the Investment Company Act) of the outstanding shares of that class.

The Board of Trustees and the Independent Trustees must approve all material amendments to a plan. An amendment to increase materially the amount of payments to be made under a plan must be approved by shareholders of the class affected by the amendment. Because Class B shares of the Fund automatically convert into Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the Fund must obtain the approval of both Class A and Class B shareholders for a proposed material amendment to the Class A plan that would materially increase payments under the plan. That approval must be by a majority of the shares of each class, voting separately by class.

While the plans are in effect, the Treasurer of the Fund shall provide separate written reports on the plans to the Fund's Board of Trustees at least quarterly for its review. The reports shall detail the amount of all payments made under a plan and the purpose for which the payments were made. Those reports are subject to the review and approval of the Independent Trustees.

Each plan states that while it is in effect, the selection or replacement and nomination of those Trustees of the Fund who are not "interested persons" of the Fund is committed to the discretion of the Independent Trustees. This does not prevent the involvement of others in the selection and nomination process as long as the final decision as to selection or nomination is approved by a majority of the Independent Trustees.

Under the plans for a class, no payment will be made to any recipient in any period in which the aggregate net asset value of all Fund shares of that class held by the recipient for itself and its customers does not exceed a minimum amount, if any, that may be set from time to time by a majority of the Independent Trustees.

|_| Class A Service Plan Fees. Under the Class A service plan, the Distributor currently uses the fees it receives from the Fund to pay brokers, dealers and other financial institutions (they are referred to as recipients) for personal services and account maintenance services they provide for their customers who hold Class A shares. The services include, among others, answering customer inquiries about the Fund, assisting in establishing and maintaining accounts in the Fund, making the Fund's investment plans available and providing other services at the request of the Fund or the Distributor. The Class A service plan permits reimbursements to the Distributor at a rate of up to 0.25% of average annual net assets of Class A shares. The Fund makes these payments quarterly, based on an annual rate of up to 0.15% of the average annual net assets of Class A shares of the Fund. The Board of Trustees can increase that fee to 0.25% of average annual net assets without shareholder approval. The Distributor does not receive or retain the service fee on Class A shares in accounts for which the Distributor has been listed as the broker-dealer of record. While the plan permits the Board to authorize payments to the Distributor to reimburse itself for services under the plan, the Board has not yet done so. The Distributor makes payments to plan recipients periodically at an annual rate not to exceed 0.25% of the average annual net assets consisting of Class A shares held in the accounts of the recipients or their customers.

For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2008, payments under the Class A plan totaled $772,099, of which $4 was retained by the Distributor and included $8,947 paid to an affiliate of the Distributors parent company. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares for any fiscal year may not be recovered in subsequent years. The Distributor may not use payments received under the Class A plan to pay any of its interest expenses, carrying charges, other financial costs, or allocation of overhead.

o     

Class B and Class C Distribution and Service Plans. Under each plan, distribution and service fees are computed on the average of the net asset value of shares in the respective class, determined as of the close of each regular business day during the period. Each plan provides for the Distributor to be compensated at a flat rate, whether the Distributor's distribution expenses are more or less than the amounts paid by the Fund under the plans during the period for which the fee is paid. The types of services that recipients provide are similar to the services provided under Class A service plan, described above.


Each plan permits the Distributor to retain both the asset-based sales charges and the service fee on shares or to pay recipients the service fee on a periodic basis, without payment in advance. However, the Distributor currently intends to pay the service fee to recipients in advance for the first year after Class B and Class C shares are purchased. After the first year shares are outstanding, after their purchase, the Distributor makes service fee payments periodically on those shares. The advance payment is based on the net asset value of shares sold. Shares purchased by exchange do not qualify for an advance service fee payment. If Class B or Class C shares are redeemed during the first year after their purchase, the recipient of the service fees on those shares will be obligated to repay the Distributor a pro rata portion of the advance payment made on those shares. Class B or Class C shares may not be purchased by a new investor directly from the Distributor without the investor designating another registered broker-dealer. If the investor no longer has another broker-dealer of record for an existing account, the Distributor is automatically designated as the broker-dealer of record, but solely for the purpose of acting as the investors agent to purchase the shares. In those cases, the Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge paid on Class B and Class C shares, but does not retain any service fees as to the assets represented by that account.

     The asset-based sales charge and service fees increase Class B and Class C expenses by 0.90% of the net assets per year of the respective classes.

The Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge on Class B shares. The Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge on Class C shares during the first year the shares are outstanding. It pays the asset-based sales charge as an ongoing concession to the recipient on Class C shares outstanding for a year or more. If a dealer has a special agreement with the Distributor, the Distributor will pay the Class B and/or Class C service fees and the asset-based sales charge to the dealer periodically in lieu of paying the sales concession and service fee in advance at the time of purchase.

     The asset-based sales charge on Class B and Class C shares allows investors to buy shares without a front-end sales charge while allowing the Distributor to compensate dealers that sell those shares. The Fund pays the asset-based sales charge to the Distributor for its services rendered in distributing Class B and Class C shares. The payments are made to the Distributor in recognition that the Distributor:

o     

pays sales concessions to authorized brokers and dealers at the time of sale and pays service fees as described above,


|_|     may finance payment of sales concessions and/or the advance of the service fee payment to recipients under the plans, or may provide such financing from its own resources or from the resources of an affiliate,

o     

employs personnel to support distribution of Class B and Class C shares,


o     

bears the costs of sales literature, advertising and prospectuses (other than those furnished to current shareholders) and state "blue sky" registration fees and certain other distribution expenses,


o     

may not be able to adequately compensate dealers that sell Class B and Class C shares without receiving payment under the plans and therefore may not be able to offer such Classes for sale absent the plans,


o     

receives payments under the plans consistent with the service fees and asset-based sales charges paid by other non-proprietary funds that charge 12b-1 fees,


o     

may use the payments under the plan to include the Fund in various third-party distribution programs that may increase sales of Fund shares,


o     

may experience increased difficulty selling the Funds shares if payments under the plan are discontinued because most competitor funds have plans that pay dealers for rendering distribution services as much or more than the amounts currently being paid by the Fund, and


o     

may not be able to continue providing, at the same or at a lesser cost, the same quality distribution sales efforts and services, or to obtain such services from brokers and dealers, if the plan payments were to be discontinued.


     During a calendar year, the Distributors actual expenses in selling Class B and Class C shares may be more than the payments it receives from the contingent deferred sales charges collected on redeemed shares and from the asset-based sales charges paid to the Distributor by the Fund under the distribution and service plans. Those excess expenses are carried over on the Distributors books and may be recouped from asset-based sales charge payments from the Fund in future years. However, the Distributor has voluntarily agreed to cap the amount of expenses under the plans that may be carried over from year to year and recouped that relate to (i) expenses the Distributor has incurred that represent compensation and expenses of its sales personnel and (ii) other direct distribution costs it has incurred, such as sales literature, state registration fees, advertising and prospectuses used to offer Fund shares. The cap on the carry-over of those categories of expenses is set at 0.70% of annual gross sales of shares of the Fund. If those categories of expenses exceed the capped amount, the Distributor bears the excess costs. If the Class B or Class C plan were to be terminated by the Fund, the Funds Board of Trustees may allow the Fund to continue payments of the asset-based sales charge to the Distributor for distributing shares prior to the termination of the plan.

     

Distribution and Service Fees Paid to the Distributor in the Fiscal Year Ended 7/31/0 8

Class:

Total Payments Under Plan

Amount Retained by Distributor

Distributors Aggregate Unreimbursed Expenses Under Plan

Distributors Unreimbursed Expenses as % of Net Assets of Class

Class B Plan

$556,522

$476,1871

$2,413,944

4.56%

Class C Plan

$1,819,369

$611,8562

$2,797,747

1.53%

1.     

Includes $465 paid to an affiliate of the Distributors parent company.


2.     

Includes $4,752 paid to an affiliate of the Distributors parent company.


     All payments under the plans are subject to the limitations imposed by the Conduct Rules of FINRA on payments of asset-based sales charges and service fees.

Payments to Fund Intermediaries

Financial intermediaries may receive various forms of compensation or reimbursement from the Fund in the form of 12b-1 plan payments as described in the preceding section of this Statement of Additional Information. They may also receive payments or concessions from the Distributor, derived from sales charges paid by the clients of the financial intermediary, also as described in this Statement of Additional Information. Additionally, the Manager and/or the Distributor (including their affiliates) may make payments to financial intermediaries in connection with their offering and selling shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds, providing marketing or promotional support, transaction processing and/or administrative services. Among the financial intermediaries that may receive these payments are brokers and dealers who sell and/or hold shares of the Fund, banks (including bank trust departments), registered investment advisers, insurance companies, retirement plan and qualified tuition program administrators, third party administrators, and other institutions that have selling, servicing or similar arrangements with the Manager or Distributor. The payments to intermediaries vary by the types of product sold, the features of the Fund share class and the role played by the intermediary.

Possible types of payments to financial intermediaries include, without limitation, those discussed below.

     

Payments made by the Fund, or by an investor buying or selling shares of the Fund may include:


     

depending on the share class that the investor selects, contingent deferred sales charges or initial front-end sales charges, all or a portion of which front-end sales charges are payable by the Distributor to financial intermediaries (see About Your Account in the Prospectus);


     

ongoing asset-based payments attributable to the share class selected, including fees payable under the Funds distribution and/or service plans adopted under Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act, which are paid from the Funds assets and allocated to the class of shares to which the plan relates (see "About the Fund -- Distribution and Service Plans" above);


     

shareholder servicing payments for providing omnibus accounting, recordkeeping, networking, sub-transfer agency or other administrative or shareholder services, including retirement plan and 529 plan administrative services fees, which are paid from the assets of a Fund as reimbursement to the Manager or Distributor for expenses they incur on behalf of the Fund.


     

Payments made by the Manager or Distributor out of their respective resources and assets, which may include profits the Manager derives from investment advisory fees paid by the Fund. These payments are made at the discretion of the Manager and/or the Distributor. These payments, often referred to as revenue sharing payments, may be in addition to the payments by the Fund listed above.


     

These types of payments may reflect compensation for marketing support, support provided in offering the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds through certain trading platforms and programs, transaction processing or other services;


     

The Manager and Distributor each may also pay other compensation to the extent the payment is not prohibited by law or by any self-regulatory agency, such as FINRA. Payments are made based on the guidelines established by the Manager and Distributor, subject to applicable law.


These payments may provide an incentive to financial intermediaries to actively market or promote the sale of shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, or to support the marketing or promotional efforts of the Distributor in offering shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds. In addition, some types of payments may provide a financial intermediary with an incentive to recommend the Fund or a particular share class. Financial intermediaries may earn profits on these payments, since the amount of the payment may exceed the cost of providing the service. Certain of these payments are subject to limitations under applicable law. Financial intermediaries may categorize and disclose these arrangements to their clients and to members of the public in a manner different from the disclosures in the Funds Prospectus and this Statement of Additional Information. You should ask your financial intermediary for information about any payments it receives from the Fund, the Manager or the Distributor and any services it provides, as well as the fees and commissions it charges.

Although brokers or dealers that sell Fund shares may also act as a broker or dealer in connection with the execution of the purchase or sale of portfolio securities by the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, a financial intermediary's sales of shares of the Fund or such other Oppenheimer funds is not a consideration for the Manager when choosing brokers or dealers to effect portfolio transactions for the Fund or such other Oppenheimer funds.

Revenue sharing payments can pay for distribution-related or asset retention items including, without limitation,

     

transactional support, one-time charges for setting up access for the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds on particular trading systems, and paying the intermediarys networking fees;


     

program support, such as expenses related to including the Oppenheimer funds in retirement plans, college savings plans, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, fund supermarkets, bank or trust company products or insurance companies variable annuity or variable life insurance products; and


     

placement on the dealer's list of offered funds and providing representatives of the Distributor with access to a financial intermediarys sales meetings, sales representatives and management representatives.


Additionally, the Manager or Distributor may make payments for firm support, such as business planning assistance, advertising, and educating a financial intermediarys sales personnel about the Oppenheimer funds and shareholder financial planning needs.

     For the year ended December 31, 2007, the following financial intermediaries and/or their respective affiliates offered shares of the Oppenheimer funds and received revenue sharing or similar distribution-related payments from the Manager or the Distributor for marketing or program support:

1st Global Capital Company

Legend Equities Corporation

Advantage Capital Corporation

Lincoln Benefit National Life

Aegon USA

Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation

Aetna Life Insurance & Annuity Company

Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc.

AG Edwards & Sons, Inc.

Linsco Private Ledger Financial

AIG Financial Advisors

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

AIG Life Variable Annuity

McDonald Investments, Inc.

Allianz Life Insurance Company

Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc.

Allmerica Financial Life Insurance & Annuity Company

Merrill Lynch Insurance Group

Allstate Life Insurance Company

MetLife Investors Insurance Company

American Enterprise Life Insurance

MetLife Securities, Inc.

American General Annuity Insurance

Minnesota Life Insurance Company

American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc.

MML Investor Services, Inc.

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Mony Life Insurance Company

Ameritas Life Insurance Company

Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.

Annuity Investors Life Insurance Company

Multi-Financial Securities Corporation

Associated Securities Corporation

Mutual Service Corporation

AXA Advisors LLC

NFP Securities, Inc.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

Nathan & Lewis Securities, Inc.

Banc One Securities Corporation

National Planning Corporation

Cadaret Grant & Company, Inc.

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.

CCO Investment Services Corporation

New England Securities Corporation

Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.

New York Life Insurance & Annuity Company

Chase Investment Services Corporation

Oppenheimer & Company

Citicorp Investment Services, Inc.

PFS Investments, Inc.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Park Avenue Securities LLC

CitiStreet Advisors LLC

Phoenix Life Insurance Company

Citizen's Bank of Rhode Island

Plan Member Securities

Columbus Life Insurance Company

Prime Capital Services, Inc.

Commonwealth Financial Network

Primevest Financial Services, Inc.

Compass Group Investment Advisors

Protective Life Insurance Company

CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc.

Prudential Investment Management Services LLC

CUSO Financial Services, LLP

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

E*TRADE Clearing LLC

Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

Edward Jones

RBC Dain Rauscher Inc.

Essex National Securities, Inc.

Royal Alliance Associates, Inc.

Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company

Securities America, Inc.

Financial Network

Security Benefit Life Insurance Company

Financial Services Corporation

Security First-Metlife Investors Insurance Company

GE Financial Assurance

SII Investments, Inc.

GE Life & Annuity

Signator Investors, Inc.

Genworth Financial, Inc.

Sorrento Pacific Financial LLC

GlenBrook Life & Annuity Company

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

Great West Life & Annuity Company

Sun Life Insurance & Annuity Company of New York

GWFS Equities, Inc.

Sun Life Annuity Company Ltd.

Hartford Life Insurance Company

SunTrust Bank

HD Vest Investment Services, Inc.

SunTrust Securities, Inc.

Hewitt Associates LLC

Thrivent Financial Services, Inc.

IFMG Securities, Inc.

Towers Square Securities, Inc.

ING Financial Advisers LLC

Travelers Life & Annuity Company

ING Financial Partners, Inc.

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Invest Financial Corporation

Union Central Life Insurance Company

Investment Centers of America, Inc.

United Planners Financial Services of America

Jefferson Pilot Life Insurance Company

Wachovia Securities, Inc.

Jefferson Pilot Securities Corporation

Walnut Street Securities, Inc.

John Hancock Life Insurance Company

Waterstone Financial Group

JP Morgan Securities, Inc.

Wells Fargo Investments

Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company

Wescom Financial Services

     For the year ended December 31, 2007, the following firms, which in some cases are broker-dealers, received payments from the Manager or Distributor for administrative or other services provided (other than revenue sharing arrangements), as described above:

1st Global Capital Co.

Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc.

AG Edwards

Lincoln National Life Insurance Co.

ACS HR Solutions

Linsco Private Ledger Financial

ADP

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

AETNA Life Ins & Annuity Co.

Matrix Settlement & Clearance Services

Alliance Benefit Group

McDonald Investments, Inc.

American Enterprise Investments

Mercer HR Services

American Express Retirement Service

Merrill Lynch

American United Life Insurance Co.

Mesirow Financial, Inc.

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

MetLife

Ameritrade, Inc.

MFS Investment Management

AMG (Administrative Management Group)

Mid Atlantic Capital Co.

AST (American Stock & Transfer)

Milliman USA

AXA Advisors

Morgan Keegan & Co, Inc.

Bear Stearns Securities Co.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Benefit Administration Company, LLC

Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance Co.

Benefit Administration, Inc.

Nathan & Lewis Securities, Inc.

Benefit Consultants Group

National City Bank

Benefit Plans Administration

National Deferred Comp

Benetech, Inc.

National Financial

Bisys

National Investor Services Co.

Boston Financial Data Services

Nationwide Life Insurance Company

Charles Schwab & Co, Inc.

Newport Retirement Services, Inc.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Northwest Plan Services, Inc.

CitiStreet

NY Life Benefits

City National Bank

Oppenheimer & Co, Inc.

Clark Consulting

Peoples Securities, Inc.

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.

Pershing LLC

DA Davidson & Co.

PFPC

DailyAccess Corporation

Piper Jaffray & Co.

Davenport & Co, LLC

Plan Administrators, Inc.

David Lerner Associates, Inc.

Plan Member Securities

Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Primevest Financial Services, Inc.

DR, Inc.

Principal Life Insurance Co.

Dyatech, LLC

Prudential Investment Management Services LLC

E*Trade Clearing LLC

PSMI Group, Inc.

Edward D Jones & Co.

Quads Trust Company

Equitable Life / AXA

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

ERISA Administrative Svcs, Inc.

Reliance Trust Co.

ExpertPlan, Inc.

Reliastar Life Insurance Company

FASCore LLC

Robert W Baird & Co.

Ferris Baker Watts, Inc.

RSM McGladrey

Fidelity

Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.

First Clearing LLC

Scottrade, Inc.

First Southwest Co.

Southwest Securities, Inc.

First Trust Datalynx

Standard Insurance Co

First Trust Corp

Stanley, Hunt, Dupree & Rhine

Franklin Templeton

Stanton Group, Inc.

Geller Group

Sterne Agee & Leach, Inc.

Great West Life

Stifel Nicolaus & Co, Inc.

H&R Block Financial Advisors, Inc.

Sun Trust Securities, Inc.

Hartford Life Insurance Co.

Symetra Financial Corp.

HD Vest Investment Services

T. Rowe Price

Hewitt Associates LLC

The 401k Company

HSBC Brokerage USA, Inc.

The Princeton Retirement Group Inc.

ICMA - RC Services

The Retirement Plan Company, LLC

Independent Plan Coordinators

TruSource Union Bank of CA

Ingham Group

UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Interactive Retirement Systems

Unified Fund Services (UFS)

Invesmart (Standard Retirement Services, Inc.)

US Clearing Co.

Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc.

USAA Investment Management Co.

JJB Hillard W L Lyons, Inc.

USI Consulting Group

John Hancock

VALIC Retirement Services

JP Morgan

Vanguard Group

July Business Services

Wachovia

Kaufman & Goble

Web401K.com

Legend Equities Co.

Wedbush Morgan Securities

Legg Mason Wood Walker

Wells Fargo Bank

Lehman Brothers, Inc.

Wilmington Trust

Liberty Funds Distributor, Inc./Columbia Management

 

Performance of the Fund

Explanation of Performance Terminology. The Fund uses a variety of terms to illustrate its performance. These terms include "standardized yield," "tax-equivalent yield," "dividend yield" (or distribution yield) "average annual total return," "cumulative total return," "average annual total return at net asset value" and "total return at net asset value." An explanation of how yields and total returns are calculated is set forth below. The charts below show the Funds performance as of its most recent fiscal year end. You can obtain current performance information by calling the Funds Transfer Agent at 1.800.225.5677 or by visiting the OppenheimerFunds Internet website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

The Fund's illustrations of its performance data in advertisements must comply with rules of the SEC. Those rules describe the types of performance data that may be used and how it is to be calculated. In general, any advertisement by the Fund of its performance data must include the average annual total returns for the advertised class of shares of the Fund.

Use of standardized performance calculations enables an investor to compare the Fund's performance to the performance of other funds for the same periods. However, a number of factors should be considered before using the Funds performance information as a basis for comparison with other investments:

|_| Yields and total returns measure the performance of a hypothetical account in the Fund over various periods and do not show the performance of each shareholders account. Your accounts performance will vary from the model performance data if your dividends are received in cash, or you buy or sell shares during the period, or you bought your shares at a different time and price than the shares used in the model.

|_| A decline in the Funds net asset value can increase the Funds yield;

|_| The Funds performance returns may not reflect the effect of taxes on dividends and capital gains distributions.

|_| An investment in the Fund is not insured by the FDIC or any other government agency.

|_| The principal value of the Funds shares, and its yields and total returns are not guaranteed and normally will fluctuate on a daily basis.

|_| When an investors shares are redeemed, they may be worth more or less than their original cost.

|_| Yields and total returns for any given past period represent historical performance information and are not, and should not be considered, a prediction of future yields or returns.

The performance of each class of shares is shown separately, because the performance of each class of shares will usually be different. That is because of the different kinds of expenses each class bears. The yields and total returns of each class of shares of the Fund are affected by market conditions, the quality of the Funds investments, the maturity of those investments, the types of investments the Fund holds, and its operating expenses that are allocated to the particular class.

     |X| Yields. The Fund uses a variety of different yields to illustrate its current returns. Each class of shares calculates its yield separately because of the different expenses that affect each class.
 

|_| Standardized Yield. The "standardized yield" (sometimes referred to just as "yield") is shown for a class of shares for a stated 30-day period. It is not based on actual distributions paid by the Fund to shareholders in the 30-day period, but is a hypothetical yield based upon the net investment income from the Fund's portfolio investments for that period. It may therefore differ from the "dividend yield" for the same class of shares, described below.

Standardized yield is calculated using the following formula set forth in rules adopted by the SEC, designed to assure uniformity in the way that all funds calculate their yields:

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The symbols above represent the following factors:

a =     dividends and interest earned during the 30 day period.

b =     expenses accrued for the period (net of any expense assumptions).

c =     the average daily number of shares of that class outstanding during the 30 day period that were entitled to receive dividends.

d =     the maximum offering price per share of that class on the last day of the period, adjusted for undistributed net investment income.

The standardized yield for a particular 30-day period may differ from the yield for other periods. The SEC formula assumes that the standardized yield for a 30-day period occurs at a constant rate for a six-month period and is annualized at the end of the six-month period. Additionally, because each class of shares is subject to different expenses, it is likely that the standardized yields of the Fund's classes of shares will differ for any thirty-day period.

|_| Dividend (or Distribution) Yield. The Fund may quote a "dividend yield" (or distribution yield) for each class of its shares. Dividend yield is based on the dividends paid on a class of shares during the actual dividend period. To calculate dividend yield, the dividends of a class declared during a stated period are added together, and the sum is multiplied by 12 (to annualize the yield) and divided by the maximum offering price on the last day of the dividend period. The formula is shown below:

Dividend Yield = dividends paid x 12/maximum offering price (on payment date)

The maximum offering price for Class A shares includes the current maximum initial sales charge. The maximum offering price for Class B and Class C shares is the net asset value per share, without considering the effect of contingent deferred sales charges. The Class A dividend yield may also be quoted without deducting the maximum initial sales charge.

|_| Tax-Equivalent Yield. The "tax-equivalent yield" of a class of shares is the equivalent yield that would have to be earned on a taxable investment to achieve the after-tax results represented by the Funds tax-equivalent yield. It adjusts the Fund's standardized yield, as calculated above, by a stated Federal tax rate. Using different tax rates to show different tax equivalent yields shows investors in different tax brackets the tax equivalent yield of the Fund based on their own tax bracket.

The tax-equivalent yield is based on a 30 day period, and is computed by dividing the tax-exempt portion of the Fund's current yield (as calculated above) by one minus a stated income tax rate. The result is added to the portion (if any) of the Fund's current yield that is not tax-exempt.

The tax-equivalent yield may be used to compare the tax effects of income derived from the Fund with income from taxable investments at the tax rates stated. Your tax bracket is determined by your Federal and state taxable income (the net amount subject to Federal and state income tax after deductions and exemptions).

The Funds Yields for the 30-Day Periods Ended 7/31/08

Class of Shares

Dividend Yield

Standardized Yield

Tax-Equivalent Yield (40.83% Combined Federal/New Jersey Tax Bracket)

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Class A

5.52%

5.26%

6.42%

6.11%

10.85%

10.33%

Class B

4.74%

N/A

5.55%

N/A

9.39%

N/A

Class C

4.80%

N/A

5.64%

N/A

9.52%

N/A

|X| Total Return Information. There are different types of total returns to measure the Funds performance. Total return is the change in value of a hypothetical investment in the Fund over a given period, assuming that all dividends and capital gains distributions are reinvested in additional shares and that the investment is redeemed at the end of the period. Because of differences in expenses for each class of shares, the total returns for each class are separately measured. The cumulative total return measures the change in value over the entire period (for example, 10 years). An average annual total return shows the average rate of return for each year in a period that would produce the cumulative total return over the entire period. However, average annual total returns do not show actual year-by-year performance. The Fund uses standardized calculations for its total returns as prescribed by the SEC. The methodology is discussed below.

     In calculating total returns for Class A shares, the current maximum sales charge of 4.75% (as a percentage of the offering price) is deducted from the initial investment ("P" in the formula below) (unless the return is shown without sales charge, as described below). For Class B shares, payment of the applicable contingent deferred sales charge is applied, depending on the period for which the return is shown: 5.0% in the first year, 4.0% in the second year, 3.0% in the third and fourth years, 2.0% in the fifth year, 1.0% in the sixth year and none thereafter. For Class C shares, the 1% contingent deferred sales charge is deducted for returns for the one-year period.

|_| Average Annual Total Return. The "average annual total return" of each class is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 ("P" in the formula below) held for a number of years ("n" in the formula) to achieve an Ending Redeemable Value ("ERV" in the formula) of that investment, according to the following formula:

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     |_| Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions). The average annual total return (after taxes on distributions) of Class A shares is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years, adjusted to show the effect of federal taxes (calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on any reinvestment date) on any distributions made by the Fund during the specified period. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 (P in the formula below) held for a number of years (n in the formula) to achieve an ending value (ATVD in the formula) of that investment, after taking into account the effect of taxes on Fund distributions, but not on the redemption of Fund shares, according to the following formula:

ATVD1/n

- 1= Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions)

P

     |_| Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions and Redemptions).The average annual total return (after taxes on distributions and redemptions) of Class A shares is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years, adjusted to show the effect of federal taxes (calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on any reinvestment date) on any distributions made by the Fund during the specified period and the effect of capital gains taxes or capital loss tax benefits (each calculated using the highest federal individual capital gains tax rate in effect on the redemption date) resulting from the redemption of the shares at the end of the period. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 (P in the formula below) held for a number of years (n in the formula) to achieve an ending value (ATVDR in the formula) of that investment, after taking into account the effect of taxes on fund distributions and on the redemption of Fund shares, according to the following formula:

ATVDR1/n

- 1= Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions and Redemptions)

P

|_| Cumulative Total Return. The "cumulative total return" calculation measures the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $1,000 over an entire period of years. Its calculation uses some of the same factors as average annual total return, but it does not average the rate of return on an annual basis. Cumulative total return is determined as follows:

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|_| Total Returns at Net Asset Value. From time to time the Fund may also quote a cumulative or an average annual total return at net asset value (without deducting sales charges) for Class A, Class B or Class C shares. Each is based on the difference in net asset value per share at the beginning and the end of the period for a hypothetical investment in that class of shares (without considering front-end or contingent deferred sales charges) and takes into consideration the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions.

The Funds Total Returns for the Periods Ended 7/31/08

Class of Shares

Cumulative Total Returns (10 years)

Average Annual Total Returns

 

1-Year

5-Years

10-Years

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

After Sales Charge

Without Sales Charge

Class A

37.71%

44.59%

-16.37%

-12.20%

3.29%

4.30%

3.25%

3.76%

Class B

38.43%

38.43%

-16.99%

-12.81%

3.18%

3.51%

3.31%

3.31%

Class C

34.13%

34.13%

-13.70%

-12.87%

3.53%

3.53%

2.98%

2.98%

Average Annual Total Returns for Class A Shares (After Taxes)

For the Periods Ended 7/31/ 08

 

1-Year

5-Years

10-Years

After Taxes on Distributions

-16%

.37

3%

.29

3%

.25

After Taxes on Distributions and Redemption of Fund Shares

-9%

.09

3%

.65

3%

.52

Other Performance Comparisons. The Fund compares its performance annually to that of an appropriate broadly based market index in its Annual Report to shareholders. You can obtain that information by contacting the Transfer Agent at the addresses or telephone numbers shown on the cover of this Statement of Additional Information. The Fund may also compare its performance to that of other investments, including other mutual funds, or use rankings of its performance by independent ranking entities. Examples of these performance comparisons are set forth below.
 
     
|_| Lipper Rankings. From time to time the Fund may publish the ranking of the performance of its classes of shares by Lipper, Inc. ("Lipper"). Lipper is a widely-recognized independent mutual fund monitoring service. Lipper monitors the performance of regulated investment companies, including the Fund, and ranks their performance for various periods in categories based on investment styles. The Lipper performance rankings are based on total returns that include the reinvestment of capital gain distributions and income dividends but do not take sales charges or taxes into consideration. Lipper also publishes peer-group indices of the performance of all mutual funds in a category that it monitors and averages of the performance of the funds in particular categories.
 
     
|_| Morningstar Ratings. From time to time the Fund may publish the star rating of the performance of its classes of shares by Morningstar, Inc., an independent mutual fund monitoring service. Morningstar rates and ranks mutual funds in their specialized market sectors. The Fund is ranked among the Municipal Single State Long category.
 

     Morningstar proprietary star ratings reflect historical risk-adjusted total investment return. For each fund with at least a three-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a funds monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.) The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five- and ten-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics.

     |_| Performance Rankings and Comparisons by Other Entities and Publications. From time to time the Fund may include in its advertisements and sales literature performance information about the Fund cited in newspapers and other periodicals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, or similar publications. That information may include performance quotations from other sources, including Lipper and Morningstar. The performance of the Fund's classes of shares may be compared in publications to the performance of various market indices or other investments, and averages, performance rankings or other benchmarks prepared by recognized mutual fund statistical services.
 

Investors may also wish to compare the returns on the Fund's share classes to the return on fixed-income investments available from banks and thrift institutions. Those include certificates of deposit, ordinary interest-paying checking and savings accounts, and other forms of fixed or variable time deposits, and various other instruments such as Treasury bills. However, the Fund's returns and share price are not guaranteed or insured by the FDIC or any other agency and will fluctuate daily, while bank depository obligations may be insured by the FDIC and may provide fixed rates of return. Repayment of principal and payment of interest on Treasury securities is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

From time to time, the Fund may publish rankings or ratings of the Manager or Transfer Agent, and of the investor services provided by them to shareholders of the Oppenheimer funds, other than performance rankings of the Oppenheimer funds themselves. Those ratings or rankings of shareholder and investor services by third parties may include comparisons of their services to those provided by other mutual fund families selected by the rating or ranking services. They may be based upon the opinions of the rating or ranking service itself, using its research or judgment, or based upon surveys of investors, brokers, shareholders or others.

     From time to time the Fund may include in its advertisements and sales literature the total return performance of a hypothetical investment account that includes shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds. The combined account may be part of an illustration of an asset allocation model or similar presentation. The account performance may combine total return performance of the fund and the total return performance of other Oppenheimer funds included in the account. Additionally, from time to time, the Funds advertisements and sales literature may include, for illustrative or comparative purposes, statistical data or other information about general or specific market and economic conditions. That may include, for example,

     

information about the performance of certain securities or commodities markets or segments of those markets,


     

information about the performance of the economies of particular countries or regions,


     

the earnings of companies included in segments of particular industries, sectors, securities markets, countries or regions,


     

the availability of different types of securities or offerings of securities,


     

information relating to the gross national or gross domestic product of the United States or other countries or regions, and


     

comparisons of various market sectors or indices to demonstrate performance, risk, or other characteristics of the Fund.


about your account

How to Buy Shares

Additional information is presented below about the methods that can be used to buy shares of the Fund. Appendix C contains more information about the special sales charge arrangements offered by the Fund, and the circumstances in which sales charges may be reduced or waived for certain classes of investors.

When you purchase shares of the Fund, your ownership interest in the shares of the Fund will be recorded as a book entry on the records of the Fund. The Fund will nor issue or re-register physical share certificates.

AccountLink. When shares are purchased through AccountLink, each purchase must be at least $50 and shareholders must invest at least $500 before an Asset Builder Plan (described below) can be established on a new account. Accounts established prior to November 1, 2002 will remain at $25 for additional purchases. Shares will be purchased on the regular business day the Distributor is instructed to initiate the Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer to buy the shares. Dividends will begin to accrue on shares purchased with the proceeds of ACH transfers on the business day the Fund receives Federal Funds for the purchase through the ACH system before the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE). The NYSE normally closes at 4:00 p.m., but may close earlier on certain days. If Federal Funds are received on a business day after the close of the NYSE, the shares will be purchased and dividends will begin to accrue on the next regular business day. The proceeds of ACH transfers are normally received by the Fund three days after the transfers are initiated. If the proceeds of the ACH transfer are not received on a timely basis, the Distributor reserves the right to cancel the purchase order. The Distributor and the Fund are not responsible for any delays in purchasing shares resulting from delays in ACH transmissions.

Reduced Sales Charges. As discussed in the Prospectus, a reduced sales charge rate may be obtained for Class A shares under Right of Accumulation and Letters of Intent because of the economies of sales efforts and reduction in expenses realized by the Distributor, dealers and brokers making such sales. No sales charge is imposed in certain other circumstances described in Appendix C to this Statement of Additional Information because the Distributor or dealer or broker incurs little or no selling expenses.
 

n     

The Oppenheimer Funds. The Oppenheimer funds are those mutual funds for which the Distributor acts as the distributor and currently include the following:


Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals

Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipals

Oppenheimer Pennsylvania Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Balanced Fund

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series:

Oppenheimer Baring China Fund

Conservative Investor Fund

Oppenheimer Baring Japan Fund

Moderate Investor Fund

Oppenheimer Baring SMA International Fund

Equity Investor Fund

Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund

Active Allocation Fund

Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series Fixed Income Active Allocation Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund

Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund

Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund II

Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund

Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund III

Oppenheimer Commodity Strategy Total Return Fund

Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Fund

Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund

Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund

Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund

Oppenheimer Discovery Fund

Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund

Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Equity Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Rochester Arizona Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Rochester Maryland Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Global Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Massachusetts Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Michigan Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Global Value Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Minnesota Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals

Oppenheimer International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester North Carolina Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer International Diversified Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Ohio Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Virginia Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund

Oppenheimer Select Value Fund

Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund

Oppenheimer Small- & Mid- Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer SMA Core Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Fund

Oppenheimer SMA International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Opportunity Fund

Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund

Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust

Oppenheimer MidCap Fund

Oppenheimer Value Fund

 

Limited-Term New York Municipal Fund

 

Rochester Fund Municipals

   

Life Cycle Funds

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2010 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2015 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2020 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2025 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2030 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2040 Fund

 

Oppenheimer Transition 2050 Fund

 
   

And the following money market funds:

 
   

Oppenheimer Cash Reserves

Centennial Government Trust

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund

Centennial Money Market Trust

Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.

Centennial New York Tax Exempt Trust

Centennial California Tax Exempt Trust

Centennial Tax Exempt Trust

     There is an initial sales charge on the purchase of Class A shares of each of the Oppenheimer funds described above except the money market funds. Under certain circumstances described in this Statement of Additional Information, redemption proceeds of certain money market fund shares may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge.
 

Letters of Intent. Under a Letter of Intent (a Letter), you may be able to reduce the initial sales charge rate that applies to your Class A share purchases of the Fund if you purchase Class A, Class B or Class C shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds or Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G and Class H units of advisor sold Section 529 plans, for which the Manager or the Distributor serves as the Program Manager or Program Distributor.

A Letter is an investors statement in writing to the Distributor of his or her intention to purchase a specified value of those shares or units during a 13-month period (the Letter period), which begins on the date of the investor's first share purchase following the establishment of the Letter. The sales charge on each purchase of Class A shares during the Letter period will be at the rate that would apply to a single lump-sum purchase of shares in the amount intended to be purchased. In submitting a Letter, the investor makes no commitment to purchase shares. However, if the investor does not fulfill the terms of the Letter within the Letter period, he or she agrees to pay the additional sales charges that would have been applicable to any purchases that are made. The investor agrees that shares equal in value to 2% of the intended purchase amount will be held in escrow by the Transfer Agent for that purpose, as described in "Terms of Escrow" below. It is the responsibility of the dealer of record and/or the investor to advise the Distributor about the Letter when placing purchase orders during the Letter period. The investor must also notify the Distributor or his or her financial intermediary of any qualifying 529 plan holdings.

To determine whether an investor has fulfilled the terms of a Letter, the Transfer Agent will count purchases of "qualified" Class A, Class B and Class C shares and Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G and Class H units during the Letter period. Purchases of Class N or Class Y shares, purchases made by reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, purchases of Class A shares with redemption proceeds under the Reinvestment Privilege, and purchases of Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which a sales charge has not been paid do not count as "qualified" shares for satisfying the terms of a Letter. An investor will also be considered to have fulfilled the Letter if the value of the investors total holdings of qualified shares on the last day of the Letter period, calculated at the net asset value on that day, equals or exceeds the intended purchase amount.

If the terms of the Letter are not fulfilled within the Letter period, the concessions previously paid to the dealer of record for the account and the amount of sales charge retained by the Distributor will be adjusted on the first business day following the expiration of the Letter period to reflect the sales charge rates that are applicable to the actual total purchases.
If
the total eligible purchases made during the Letter period exceed the intended purchase amount and also exceed the amount needed to qualify for the next sales charge rate reduction (stated in the Prospectus), the sales charges paid may be adjusted to that lower rate. That adjustment will only be made if and when the dealer returns to the Distributor the amount of the excess concessions allowed or paid to the dealer over the amount of concessions that are applicable to the actual amount of purchases. The reduced sales charge adjustment will be made by adding to the investors account the number of additional shares that would have been purchased if the lower sales charge rate had been used. Those additional shares will be determined using the net asset value per share in effect on the date of such adjustment.
By establishing a Letter, the investor agrees to be bound by the terms of the Prospectus, this Statement of Additional Information and the application used for a Letter, and if those terms are amended to be bound by the amended terms and that any amendments by the Fund will apply automatically to existing Letters. Group retirement plans qualified under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code may not establish a Letter, however defined benefit plans and Single K sole proprietor plans may do so.

Terms of Escrow That Apply to Letters of Intent.

1.     Out of the initial purchase, or out of subsequent purchases if necessary, the Transfer Agent will hold in escrow Fund shares equal to 2% of the intended purchase amount specified in the Letter. For example, if the intended purchase amount is $50,000, the escrow amount would be shares valued at $1,000 (computed at the offering price for a $50,000 share purchase). Any dividends and capital gains distributions on the escrowed shares will be credited to the investors account.

2.     If the Letter applies to more than one fund account, the investor can designate the fund from which shares will be escrowed. If no fund is selected, the Transfer Agent will escrow shares in the fund account that has the highest dollar balance on the date of the first purchase under the Letter. If there are not sufficient shares to cover the escrow amount, the Transfer Agent will escrow shares in the fund account(s) with the next highest balance(s). If there are not sufficient shares in the accounts to which the Letter applies, the Transfer Agent may escrow shares in other accounts that are linked for Right of Accumulation purposes. Additionally, if there are not sufficient shares available for escrow at the time of the first purchase under the Letter, the Transfer Agent will escrow future purchases until the escrow amount is met.

3.     If, during the Letter period, an investor exchanges shares of the Fund for shares of another fund (as described in the Prospectus section titled How to Exchange Shares), the Fund shares held in escrow will automatically be exchanged for shares of the other fund and the escrow obligations will also be transferred to that fund.

4.     If the total purchases under the Letter are less than the intended purchases specified, on the first business day after the end of the Letter period the Distributor will redeem escrowed shares equal in value to the difference between the dollar amount of the sales charges actually paid and the amount of the sales charges that would have been paid if the total purchases had been made at a single time. Any shares remaining after such redemption will be released from escrow.

5.     If the terms of the Letter are fulfilled, the escrowed shares will be promptly released to the investor at the end of the Letter period.

6.     By signing the Letter, the investor irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Transfer Agent as attorney-in-fact to surrender for redemption any or all escrowed shares.

Asset Builder Plans. As explained in the Prospectus, you must initially establish your account with $500. Subsequently, you can establish an Asset Builder Plan to automatically purchase additional shares directly from a bank account for as little as $50. For those accounts established prior to November 1, 2002 and which have previously established Asset Builder Plans, additional purchases will remain at $25. Shares purchased by Asset Builder Plan payments from bank accounts are subject to the redemption restrictions for recent purchases described in the Prospectus. Asset Builder Plans are available only if your bank is an ACH member. Asset Builder Plans may not be used to buy shares for OppenheimerFunds employer-sponsored qualified retirement accounts.

If you make payments from your bank account to purchase shares of the Fund, your bank account will be debited automatically. Normally the debit will be made two business days prior to the investment dates you selected on your application. Neither the Distributor, the Transfer Agent or the Fund shall be responsible for any delays in purchasing shares that result from delays in ACH transmissions.

Before you establish Asset Builder payments, you should obtain a prospectus of the selected fund(s) from your financial advisor (or the Distributor) and request an application from the Distributor. Complete the application and return it. You may change the amount of your Asset Builder payment or you can terminate these automatic investments at any time by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent requires a reasonable period (approximately 10 days) after receipt of your instructions to implement them. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering Asset Builder plans at any time without prior notice.

Cancellation of Purchase Orders. Cancellation of purchase orders for the Funds shares (for example, when a purchase check is returned to the Fund unpaid) causes a loss to be incurred when the net asset values of the Funds shares on the cancellation date is less than on the purchase date. That loss is equal to the amount of the decline in the net asset value per share multiplied by the number of shares in the purchase order. The investor is responsible for that loss. If the investor fails to compensate the Fund for the loss, the Distributor will do so. The Fund may reimburse the Distributor for that amount by redeeming shares from any account registered in that investors name, or the Fund or the Distributor may seek other redress.

Classes of Shares. Each class of shares of the Fund represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments of the Fund. However, each class has different shareholder privileges and features. The net income attributable to Class B or Class C shares and the dividends payable on Class B or Class C shares will be reduced by incremental expenses borne solely by that class. Those expenses include the asset-based sales charges to which Class B and Class C are subject.
 
     The availability of different classes of shares permits an investor to choose the method of purchasing shares that is more appropriate for the investor. That may depend on the amount of the purchase, the length of time the investor expects to hold shares, and other relevant circumstances. Class A shares normally are sold subject to an initial sales charge. While Class B and Class C shares have no initial sales charge, the purpose of the deferred sales charge and asset-based sales charge on Class B and Class C shares is the same as that of the initial sales charge on Class A shares to compensate the Distributor and brokers, dealers and financial institutions that sell shares of the Fund. A salesperson who is entitled to receive compensation from his or her firm for selling Fund shares may receive different levels of compensation for selling one class of shares rather than another.
 

     The Distributor will not accept a purchase order of more than $100,000 for Class B shares or a purchase order of $1 million or more to purchase Class C shares on behalf of a single investor (not including dealer street name or omnibus accounts).

Class B or Class C shares may not be purchased by a new investor directly from the Distributor without the investor designating another registered broker-dealer.

|X|     Class B Conversion. Under current interpretations of applicable federal income tax law by the Internal Revenue Service, the conversion of Class B shares to Class A shares 72 months after purchase is not treated as a taxable event for the shareholder. If those laws or the IRS interpretation of those laws should change, the automatic conversion feature may be suspended. In that event, no further conversions of Class B shares would occur while that suspension remained in effect. Although Class B shares could then be exchanged for Class A shares on the basis of relative net asset value of the two classes, without the imposition of a sales charge or fee, such exchange could constitute a taxable event for the shareholder, and absent such exchange, Class B shares might continue to be subject to the asset-based sales charge for longer than six years. Investors should consult their tax advisers regarding the state and local tax consequences of the conversion of exchange of classes of shares.

|X|     Allocation of Expenses. The Fund pays expenses related to its daily operations, such as custodian fees, Trustees fees, transfer agency fees, legal fees and auditing costs. Those expenses are paid out of the Funds assets and are not paid directly by shareholders. However, those expenses reduce the net asset values of shares, and therefore are indirectly borne by shareholders through their investment.

The methodology for calculating the net asset value, dividends and distributions of the Funds share classes recognizes two types of expenses. General expenses that do not pertain specifically to any one class are allocated pro rata to the shares of all classes. The allocation is based on the percentage of the Funds total assets that is represented by the assets of each class, and then equally to each outstanding share within a given class. Such general expenses include management fees, legal, bookkeeping and audit fees, printing and mailing costs of shareholder reports, Prospectuses, Statements of Additional Information and other materials for current shareholders, fees to unaffiliated Trustees, custodian expenses, share issuance costs, organization and start-up costs, interest, taxes and brokerage commissions, and non-recurring expenses, such as litigation costs.

Other expenses that are directly attributable to a particular class are allocated equally to each outstanding share within that class. Examples of such expenses include distribution and service plan (12b-1) fees, transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees and expenses and shareholder meeting expenses (to the extent that such expenses pertain only to a specific class).

Fund Account Fees. As stated in the Prospectus, a $12 annual Minimum Balance Fee is assessed on each Fund account with a share balance valued under $500. The Minimum Balance Fee is automatically deducted from each such Fund account in September.
 

Listed below are certain cases in which the Fund has elected, in its discretion, not to assess the Fund Account Fees. These exceptions are subject to change:

     

A fund account whose shares were acquired after September 30th of the prior year;


     

A fund account that has a balance below $500 due to the automatic conversion of shares from Class B to Class A shares. However, once all Class B shares held in the account have been converted to Class A shares the new account balance may become subject to the Minimum Balance Fee;


     

Accounts of shareholders who elect to access their account documents electronically via eDoc Direct;


     

A fund account that has only certificated shares and, has a balance below $500 and is being escheated;


     

Accounts of shareholders that are held by broker-dealers under the NSCC Fund/SERV system in Networking level 1 and 3 accounts;


     

Accounts held under the Oppenheimer Legacy Program and/or holding certain Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds;


     

Omnibus accounts holding shares pursuant to the Pinnacle, Ascender, Custom Plus, Recordkeeper Pro and Pension Alliance Retirement Plan programs; and


     

A fund account that falls below the $500 minimum solely due to market fluctuations within the 12-month period preceding the date the fee is deducted.


     

Accounts held in the Portfolio Builder Program which is offered through certain broker/dealers to qualifying shareholders.


To access account documents electronically via eDocs Direct, please visit the Service Center on our website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com and click the hyperlink Sign Up for Electronic Document Delivery under the heading I Want To, or call 1.888.470.0862 for instructions.

     

The Fund reserves the authority to modify Fund Account Fees in its discretion.


     

Determination of Net Asset Values Per Share. The net asset value per share of each class of shares of the Fund is determined as of the close of business of the NYSE on each day that the NYSE is open. The calculation is done by dividing the value of the Funds net assets attributable to a class by the number of shares of that class that are outstanding. The NYSE normally closes at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, but may close earlier on some other days (for example, in case of weather emergencies or on days falling before a U.S. holiday). All references to time in this Statement of Additional Information mean Eastern time. The NYSEs most recent annual announcement (which is subject to change) states that it will close on New Years Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. It may also close on other days.

     Dealers other than NYSE members may conduct trading in municipal securities on days on which the NYSE is closed (including weekends and holidays) or after 4:00 p.m. on a regular business day. Because the Funds net asset values will not be calculated on those days, the Funds net asset values per share may be significantly affected on such days when shareholders may not purchase or redeem shares.

     

     n     Securities Valuation. The Funds Board of Trustees has established procedures for the valuation of the Funds securities. In general those procedures are as follows:

     

Long-term debt securities having a remaining maturity in excess of 60 days are valued based on the mean between the bid and asked prices determined by a portfolio pricing service approved by the Funds Board of Trustees or obtained by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the basis of reasonable inquiry.


     

The following securities are valued at the mean between the bid and asked prices determined by a pricing service approved by the Funds Board of Trustees or obtained by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the basis of reasonable inquiry:


(1)     

debt instruments that have a maturity of more than 397 days when issued,


(2)     

debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days or less when issued and have a remaining maturity of more than 60 days, and


(3)     

non-money market debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days or less when issued and which have a remaining maturity of 60 days or less.


     

The following securities are valued at cost, adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts:


(1)     

money market debt securities held by a non-money market fund that had a maturity of less than 397 days when issued that have a remaining maturity of 60 days or less, and


(2)     

debt instruments held by a money market fund that have a remaining maturity of 397 days or less.


     Securities not having readily-available market quotations are valued at fair value determined under the Boards procedures. If the Manager is unable to locate two market makers willing to give quotes, a security may be priced at the mean between the bid and asked prices provided by a single active market maker (which in certain cases may be the bid price if no asked price is available).
 

In the case of municipal securities, the Manager uses pricing services approved by the Board of Trustees. The pricing service may use matrix comparisons to the prices for comparable instruments on the basis of quality, yield and maturity. Other special factors may be involved (such as the tax-exempt status of the interest paid by municipal securities). The Manager will monitor the accuracy of the pricing services. That monitoring may include comparing prices used for portfolio valuation to actual sales prices of selected securities.

Puts, calls, futures and municipal bond index futures are valued at the last sale price on the principal exchange on which they are traded, as applicable, as determined by a pricing service approved by the Board of Trustees.

How to Sell Shares

The information below supplements the terms and conditions for redeeming shares set forth in the Prospectus.

Checkwriting. When a check is presented to United Missouri Bank (the Bank) for clearance, the Bank will ask the Fund to redeem a sufficient number of full and fractional shares in the shareholders account to cover the amount of the check. This enables the shareholder to continue receiving dividends on those shares until the check is presented to the Fund. Checks may not be presented for payment at the offices of the Bank or the Funds custodian. This limitation does not affect the use of checks for the payment of bills or to obtain cash at other banks. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering checkwriting privileges at any time. The Fund will provide you notice whenever it is required to do so by applicable law.

 

In choosing to take advantage of the Checkwriting privilege, by signing the account application or by completing a Checkwriting card, each individual who signs:

(1)     

for individual accounts, represents that they are the registered owner(s) of the shares of the Fund in that account;


(2)     

for accounts for corporations, partnerships, trusts and other entities, represents that they are an officer, general partner, trustee or other fiduciary or agent, as applicable, duly authorized to act on behalf of the registered owner(s);


(3)     

authorizes the Fund, its Transfer Agent and any bank through which the Funds drafts (checks) are payable to pay all checks drawn on the Fund account of such person(s) and to redeem a sufficient amount of shares from that account to cover payment of each check;


(4)     

specifically acknowledges that if they choose to permit checks to be honored if there is a single signature on checks drawn against joint accounts, or accounts for corporations, partnerships, trusts or other entities, the signature of any one signatory on a check will be sufficient to authorize payment of that check and redemption from the account, even if that account is registered in the names of more than one person or more than one authorized signature appears on the Checkwriting card or the application, as applicable;


(5)     

understands that the Checkwriting privilege may be terminated or amended at any time by the Fund and/or the Funds bank; and


(6)     

acknowledges and agrees that neither the Fund nor its bank shall incur any liability for that amendment or termination of checkwriting privileges or for redeeming shares to pay checks reasonably believed by them to be genuine, or for returning or not paying checks that have not been accepted for any reason.


Sending Redemption Proceeds by Federal Funds Wire. The Federal Funds wire of redemption proceeds may be delayed if the Funds custodian bank is not open for business on a day when the Fund would normally authorize the wire to be made, which is usually the Funds next regular business day following the redemption. In those circumstances, the wire will not be transmitted until the next bank business day on which the Fund is open for business. No dividends will be paid on the proceeds of redeemed shares awaiting transfer by Federal Funds wire.

Reinvestment Privilege. Within six months of a redemption, a shareholder may reinvest all or part of the redemption proceeds of:

     

Class A shares purchased subject to an initial sales charge or Class A shares on which a contingent deferred sales charge was paid, or


     

Class B shares that were subject to the Class B contingent deferred sales charge when redeemed.


     The reinvestment may be made without sales charge only in Class A shares of the Fund or any of the other Oppenheimer funds into which shares of the Fund are exchangeable as described in How to Exchange Shares below. Reinvestment will be at the net asset value next computed after the Transfer Agent receives the reinvestment order. The shareholder must ask the Transfer Agent for that privilege at the time of reinvestment. This privilege does not apply to Class C shares. The Fund may amend, suspend or cease offering this reinvestment privilege at any time as to shares redeemed after the date of such amendment, suspension or cessation. This reinvestment privilege does not apply to reinvestment purchases made through automatic investment options.

 

     Any capital gain that was realized when the shares were redeemed is taxable, and reinvestment will not alter any capital gains tax payable on that gain. If there has been a capital loss on the redemption, some or all of the loss may not be tax deductible, depending on the timing and amount of the reinvestment. Under the Internal Revenue Code, if the redemption proceeds of Fund shares on which a sales charge was paid are reinvested in shares of the Fund or another of the Oppenheimer funds within 90 days of payment of the sales charge, the shareholders basis in the shares of the Fund that were redeemed may not include the amount of the sales charge paid. That would reduce the loss or increase the gain recognized from the redemption. However, in that case the sales charge would be added to the basis of the shares acquired by the reinvestment of the redemption proceeds.

Payments In Kind. The Prospectus states that payment for shares tendered for redemption is ordinarily made in cash. However, under certain circumstances, the Board of Trustees of the Fund may determine that it would be detrimental to the best interests of the remaining shareholders of the Fund to make payment of a redemption order wholly or partly in cash. In that case, the Fund may pay the redemption proceeds in whole or in part by a distribution in kind of liquid securities from the portfolio of the Fund, in lieu of cash.
 

     

Involuntary Redemptions. The Funds Board of Trustees has the right to cause the involuntary redemption of the shares held in any account if the aggregate net asset value of those shares is less than $200 or such lesser amount as the Board may fix. The Board of Trustees will not cause the involuntary redemption of shares in an account if the aggregate net asset value of such shares has fallen below the stated minimum solely as a result of market fluctuations. If the Board exercises this right, it may also fix the requirements for any notice to be given to the shareholders in question (not less than 30 days). The Board may alternatively set requirements for the shareholder to increase the investment, or set other terms and conditions so that the shares would not be involuntarily redeemed.

Transfers of Shares. A transfer of shares to a different registration is not an event that triggers the payment of sales charges. Therefore, shares are not subject to the payment of a contingent deferred sales charge of any class at the time of transfer to the name of another person or entity. It does not matter whether the transfer occurs by absolute assignment, gift or bequest, as long as it does not involve, directly or indirectly, a public sale of the shares. When shares subject to a contingent deferred sales charge are transferred, the transferred shares will remain subject to the contingent deferred sales charge. It will be calculated as if the transferee shareholder had acquired the transferred shares in the same manner and at the same time as the transferring shareholder.
 
     If less than all shares held in an account are transferred, and some but not all shares in the account would be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge if redeemed at the time of transfer, the priorities described in the Prospectus under How to Buy Shares for the imposition of the Class B or Class C contingent deferred sales charge will be followed in determining the order in which shares are transferred.
 

Special Arrangements for Repurchase of Shares from Dealers and Brokers. The Distributor is the Funds agent to repurchase its shares from authorized dealers or brokers on behalf of their customers. Shareholders should contact their broker or dealer to arrange this type of redemption. The repurchase price per share will be the net asset value next computed after the Distributor receives an order placed by the dealer or broker. However, if the Distributor receives a repurchase order from a dealer or broker after the close of the NYSE on a regular business day, it will be processed at that days net asset value if the order was received by the dealer or broker from its customers prior to the time the NYSE closes. Normally, the NYSE closes at 4:00 p.m., but may do so earlier on some days.
 

     Ordinarily, for accounts redeemed by a broker-dealer under this procedure, payment will be made within three business days after the shares have been redeemed upon the Distributors receipt of the required redemption documents in proper form. The signature(s) of the registered owners on the redemption documents must be guaranteed as described in the Prospectus.

Automatic Withdrawal and Exchange Plans. Investors can authorize the Transfer Agent to redeem shares (having a value of at least $50) automatically on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Shares will be redeemed three business days prior to the date requested by the shareholder for receipt of the payment. Automatic withdrawals of up to $1,500 per month may be requested by telephone if payments are to be made by check payable to all shareholders of record. Payments must also be sent to the address of record for the account and the address must not have been changed within the prior 30 days. Required minimum distributions from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored retirement plans may not be arranged on this basis.
 
     Payments are normally made by check, but shareholders having AccountLink privileges (see How To Buy Shares) may arrange to have Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments transferred to the bank account designated on the account application or by signature-guaranteed instructions sent to the Transfer Agent. Shares are normally redeemed pursuant to an Automatic Withdrawal Plan three business days before the payment transmittal date you select in the account application. If a contingent deferred sales charge applies to the redemption, the amount of the check or payment will be reduced accordingly.
 
     The Fund cannot guarantee receipt of a payment on the date requested. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering these plans at any time without prior notice. Because of the sales charge assessed on Class A share purchases, shareholders should not make regular additional Class A share purchases while participating in an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Class B and Class C shareholders should not establish automatic withdrawal plans, because of the potential imposition of the contingent deferred sales charge on such withdrawals (except where the contingent deferred sales charge is waived as described in Appendix C
to this Statement of Additional Information).
 

By requesting an Automatic Withdrawal or Exchange Plan, the shareholder agrees to the terms and conditions that apply to such plans, as stated below. These provisions may be amended from time to time by the Fund and/or the Distributor. When adopted, any amendments will automatically apply to existing Plans.

n     Automatic Exchange Plans. Shareholders can authorize the Transfer Agent to exchange a pre-determined amount of shares of the Fund for shares (of the same class) of other Oppenheimer funds that offer the exchange privilege on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis under an Automatic Exchange Plan. The minimum amount that may be exchanged to each other fund account is $50. Instructions should be provided on the OppenheimerFunds Application or signature-guaranteed instructions. Exchanges made under these plans are subject to the restrictions that apply to exchanges as set forth in How to Exchange Shares in the Prospectus and below in this Statement of Additional Information.

n     Automatic Withdrawal Plans. Fund shares will be redeemed as necessary to meet withdrawal payments. Shares acquired without a sales charge will be redeemed first. Shares acquired with reinvested dividends and capital gains distributions will be redeemed next, followed by shares acquired with a sales charge, to the extent necessary to make withdrawal payments. Depending upon the amount withdrawn, the investors principal may be depleted. Payments made under these plans should not be considered as a yield or income on your investment.

The Transfer Agent will administer the investors Automatic Withdrawal Plan as agent for the shareholder(s) (the Planholder) who executed the Plan authorization and application submitted to the Transfer Agent. Neither the Fund nor the Transfer Agent shall incur any liability to the Planholder for any action taken or not taken by the Transfer Agent in good faith to administer the Plan. Share certificates will not be issued for shares of the Fund purchased for and held under the Plan, but the Transfer Agent will credit all such shares to the account of the Planholder on the records of the Fund. Any share certificates held by a Planholder may be surrendered unendorsed to the Transfer Agent with the Plan application so that the shares represented by the certificate may be held under the Plan.

For accounts subject to Automatic Withdrawal Plans, distributions of capital gains must be reinvested in shares of the Fund, which will be done at net asset value without a sales charge. Dividends on shares held in the account may be paid in cash or reinvested.

Shares will be redeemed to make withdrawal payments at the net asset value per share determined on the redemption date. Checks or AccountLink payments representing the proceeds of Plan withdrawals will normally be transmitted three business days prior to the date selected for receipt of the payment, according to the choice specified in writing by the Planholder. Receipt of payment on the date selected cannot be guaranteed.

     The amount and the interval of disbursement payments and the address to which checks are to be mailed or AccountLink payments are to be sent may be changed at any time by the Planholder by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Planholder should allow at least two weeks time after mailing such notification for the requested change to be put in effect. The Planholder may, at any time, instruct the Transfer Agent by written notice to redeem all, or any part of, the shares held under the Plan. That notice must be in proper form in accordance with the requirements of the then-current Prospectus of the Fund. In that case, the Transfer Agent will redeem the number of shares requested at the net asset value per share in effect and will mail a check for the proceeds to the Planholder.

The Planholder may terminate a Plan at any time by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Fund may also give directions to the Transfer Agent to terminate a Plan. The Transfer Agent will also terminate a Plan upon its receipt of evidence satisfactory to it that the Planholder has died or is legally incapacitated. Upon termination of a Plan by the Transfer Agent or the Fund, shares that have not been redeemed will be held in uncertificated form in the name of the Planholder. The account will continue as a dividend-reinvestment, uncertificated account unless and until proper instructions are received from the Planholder, his or her executor or guardian, or another authorized person.

If the Transfer Agent ceases to act as transfer agent for the Fund, the Planholder will be deemed to have appointed any successor transfer agent to act as agent in administering the plan.

How to Exchange Shares

As stated in the Prospectus, shares of a particular class of Oppenheimer funds having more than one class of shares may be exchanged only for shares of the same class of other Oppenheimer funds. Shares of Oppenheimer funds that have a single class without a class designation are deemed Class A shares for this purpose. The prospectus of each of the Oppenheimer funds indicates which share class or classes that fund offers and provides information about limitations on the purchase of particular share classes, as applicable for the particular fund. You can also obtain a current list showing which funds offer which classes of shares by calling the Distributor at the telephone number indicated on the front cover of this SAI.
The Fund may amend, suspend or terminate the exchange privilege at any time. Although the Fund may impose those changes at any time, it will provide you with notice of the changes whenever it is required to do so by applicable law. It may be required to provide 60 days' notice prior to materially amending or terminating the exchange privilege, except in extraordinary circumstances.

|X|     How Exchanges Affect Contingent Deferred Sales Charges. No contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on exchanges of shares of any class purchased subject to a contingent deferred sales charge, with the following exceptions:

     

When Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund acquired by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within 18 months measured from the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the redeemed shares. Except, however, with respect to Class A shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals acquired prior to October 22, 2007, in which case the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within 24 months measured from the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares.


     

When Class A shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals acquired prior to October 22, 2007 by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within 24 months of the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the redeemed shares.


     

If any Class A shares of another Oppenheimer fund that are exchanged for Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge of the other Oppenheimer fund at the time of exchange, the holding period for that Class A contingent deferred sales charge will carry over to the Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund acquired in the exchange. The Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund acquired in that exchange will be subject to the Class A Early Withdrawal Charge of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund if they are repurchased before the expiration of the holding period.


     

When Class A shares of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves and Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. acquired by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within the Class A holding period of the fund from which the shares were exchanged, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge of the fund from which the shares were exchanged is imposed on the redeemed shares.


     

Except with respect to Class B shares described in the next two paragraphs, the contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on Class B shares acquired by exchange if they are redeemed within six years of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class B shares.


     

With respect to Class B shares of Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund, Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund, Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund, Limited Term New York Municipal Fund, and Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund, the Class B contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within five years of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class B shares.


     

With respect to Class B shares of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves that were acquired through the exchange of Class B shares initially purchased in the Oppenheimer Capital Preservation Fund, the Class B contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within five years of that initial purchase.


     

With respect to Class C shares the Class C contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C shares acquired by exchange if they are redeemed within 12 months of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class C shares.


     

When Class B, or Class C shares are redeemed to effect an exchange, the priorities described in How To Buy Shares in the Prospectus for the imposition of the Class B or Class C contingent deferred sales charge will be followed in determining the order in which the shares are exchanged. Before exchanging shares, shareholders should take into account how the exchange may affect any contingent deferred sales charge that might be imposed in the subsequent redemption of remaining shares.


     Shareholders owning shares of more than one class must specify which class of shares they wish to exchange.

|X|     Telephone Exchange Requests. When exchanging shares by telephone, a shareholder must have an existing account in the fund to which the exchange is to be made. Otherwise, the investors must obtain a prospectus of that fund before the exchange request may be submitted. If all telephone lines are busy (which might occur, for example, during periods of substantial market fluctuations), shareholders might not be able to request exchanges by telephone and would have to submit written exchange requests.

|X|     Processing Exchange Requests. Shares to be exchanged are redeemed on the regular business day the Transfer Agent receives an exchange request in proper form (the Redemption Date). Normally, shares of the fund to be acquired are purchased on the Redemption Date, but such purchases may be delayed by either fund up to five business days if it determines that it would be disadvantaged by an immediate transfer of the redemption proceeds. The Fund reserves the right, in its discretion, to refuse any exchange request that may disadvantage it. For example, if the receipt of multiple exchange requests from a dealer might require the disposition of portfolio securities at a time or at a price that might be disadvantageous to the Fund, the Fund may refuse the request.

     When you exchange some or all of your shares from one fund to another, any special account features that are available in the new fund (such as an Asset Builder Plan or Automatic Withdrawal Plan) will be switched to the new fund account unless you tell the Transfer Agent not to do so.

In connection with any exchange request, the number of shares exchanged may be less than the number requested if the exchange or the number requested would include shares subject to a restriction cited in the Prospectus or this Statement of Additional Information, or would include shares covered by a share certificate that is not tendered with the request. In those cases, only the shares available for exchange without restriction will be exchanged.

The different Oppenheimer funds available for exchange have different investment objectives, policies and risks. A shareholder should assure that the fund selected is appropriate for his or her investment and should be aware of the tax consequences of an exchange. For federal income tax purposes, an exchange transaction is treated as a redemption of shares of one fund and a purchase of shares of another. Reinvestment Privilege, above, discusses some of the tax consequences of reinvestment of redemption proceeds in such cases. The Fund, the Distributor, and the Transfer Agent are unable to provide investment, tax or legal advice to a shareholder in connection with an exchange request or any other investment transaction.

Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes

Dividends and Distributions. Dividends will be payable on shares held of record at the time of the previous determination of net asset value, or as otherwise described in How to Buy Shares. Daily dividends will not be declared or paid on newly purchased shares until such time as Federal Funds (funds credited to a member banks account at the Federal Reserve Bank) are available from the purchase payment for such shares. Normally, purchase checks received from investors are converted to Federal Funds on the next business day. Shares purchased through dealers or brokers normally are paid for by the third business day following the placement of the purchase order.

 

     Shares redeemed through the regular redemption procedure will be paid dividends through and including the day on which the redemption request is received by the Transfer Agent in proper form. Dividends will be declared on shares repurchased by a dealer or broker for three business days following the trade date (that is, up to and including the day prior to settlement of the repurchase). If all shares in an account are redeemed, all dividends accrued on shares of the same class in the account will be paid together with the redemption proceeds.

     The Funds practice of attempting to pay dividends on Class A shares at a constant level requires the Manager to monitor the Funds portfolio and, if necessary, to select higher-yielding securities when it is deemed appropriate to seek income at the level needed to meet the target. Those securities must be within the Funds investment parameters, however. The Fund expects to pay dividends at a targeted level from its net investment income and other distributable income without any impact on the net asset values per share.
 
     If a dividend check or check representing an automatic withdrawal payment is
returned to the Transfer Agent by the Postal Service as undeliverable, it will be reinvested in shares of the Fund. Returned checks for the proceeds of other redemptions will be invested in shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. Reinvestment will be made as promptly as possible after the return of such checks to the Transfer Agent. Unclaimed accounts may be subject to state escheatment laws, and the Fund and the Transfer Agent will not be liable to shareholders or their representatives for compliance with those laws in good faith.

The amount of a distribution paid on a class of shares may vary from time to time depending on market conditions, the composition of the Funds portfolio, and expenses borne by the Fund or borne separately by a class. Dividends are calculated in the same manner, at the same time and on the same day for shares of each class. However, dividends on Class B and Class C shares are expected to be lower than dividends on Class A shares. That is due to the effect of the asset-based sales charge on Class B and Class C shares. Those dividends will also differ in amount as a consequence of any difference in net asset value among the different classes of shares.

Tax Status of the Fund's Dividends, Distributions and Redemptions of Shares. The federal tax treatment of the Funds distributions is briefly highlighted in the Prospectus. The following is only a summary of certain additional tax considerations generally affecting the Fund and its shareholders.

The tax discussion in the Prospectus and this Statement of Additional Information is based on tax law in effect on the date of the Prospectus and this Statement of Additional Information. Those laws and regulations may be changed by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, sometimes with retroactive effect. State and local tax treatment of exempt-interest dividends and potential capital gain distributions from regulated investment companies may differ from the treatment under the Internal Revenue Code described below. Potential purchasers of shares of the Fund are urged to consult their tax advisors with specific reference to their own tax circumstances as well as the consequences of federal, state and local tax rules affecting an investment in the Fund.

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company. The Fund has elected to be taxed as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. As a regulated investment company, the Fund is not subject to federal income tax on the portion of its net investment income (that is, taxable interest, dividends, and other taxable ordinary income, net of expenses) and capital gain net income (that is, the excess of capital gains over capital losses) that it distributed to shareholders.

If the Fund qualifies as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code, it will not be liable for federal income tax on amounts it pays as dividends and other distributions. That qualification enables the Fund to pass through its income and realized capital gains to shareholders without having to pay tax on them. The Fund qualified as a regulated investment company in its last fiscal year and intends to qualify in future years, but reserves the right not to qualify. The Internal Revenue Code contains a number of complex tests to determine whether the Fund qualifies. The Fund might not meet those tests in a particular year. If it does not qualify, the Fund will be treated for tax purposes as an ordinary corporation and will receive no tax deduction for payments of dividends and other distributions made to shareholders. In such an instance, all of the Funds dividends would be taxable to shareholders.

To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must distribute at least 90% of its investment company taxable income (in brief, net investment income and the excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss) and at least 90% of its net tax-exempt income for the taxable year. The Fund must also satisfy certain other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, some of which are described below. Distributions by the Fund made during the taxable year or, under specified circumstances, within 12 months after the close of the taxable year, will be considered distributions of income and gains for the taxable year and will therefore count toward satisfaction of the above-mentioned requirement.

To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income from dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities or foreign currencies (to the extent such currency gains are directly related to the regulated investment company's principal business of investing in stock securities) and certain other income including net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly-traded partnerships.

In addition to satisfying the requirements described above, the Fund must satisfy an asset diversification test in order to qualify as a regulated investment company. Under this test, at the close of each quarter of the Funds taxable year, at least 50% of the value of the Funds assets must consist of cash and cash items (including receivables), U.S. government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other issuers. As to each of those other issuers, the Fund must not have invested more than 5% of the value of the Funds total assets in securities of such issuer and the Fund must not hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer. No more than 25% of the value of the Funds total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies), or in two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses, or in the securities of one or more qualified publicly-traded partnerships. For purposes of this test, obligations issued or guaranteed by certain agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. government are treated as U.S. government securities.

Excise Tax on Regulated Investment Companies. Under the Internal Revenue Code, by December 31 each year, the Fund must distribute 98% of its taxable net investment income earned from January 1 through December 31 of that year and 98% of its capital gains realized in the period from November 1 of the prior year through October 31 of the current year. If it does not, the Fund must pay an excise tax on the amounts not distributed. It is presently anticipated that the Fund will meet these requirements. To meet these requirements in certain circumstances the Fund might be required to liquidate portfolio investment to make sufficient distributions to avoid excise tax liability. However, the Board of Trustees and the Manager might determine in a particular year that it would be in the best interests of shareholders for the Fund not to make such distributions at the required levels and to pay the excise tax on the undistributed amounts. That would reduce the amount of income or capital gains available for distribution to shareholders.

Taxation of Fund Distributions. Distributions by the Fund will be treated in the manner described below regardless of whether the distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in additional shares of the Fund (or of another fund). The Funds distributions will be treated as dividends to the extent paid from the Funds earnings and profits (as determined under the Internal Revenue Code). Distributions in excess of a Funds earnings and profits will first reduce the adjusted tax basis of a shareholders shares and, after such tax basis is reduced to zero, will constitute capital gain to the shareholder (assuming the shares are held as a capital asset). The Funds dividends will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction for corporations. Shareholders reinvesting a distribution in shares of the Fund or another fund will be treated as receiving a distribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of the shares received, determined as of the reinvestment date.

Exempt-Interest Dividends. The Fund intends to satisfy the requirements under the Internal Revenue Code during each fiscal year to pay exempt-interest dividends to its shareholders. To qualify, at the end of each quarter of its taxable year, at least 50% of the value of the Funds total assets must consist of obligations described in Section 103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. Dividends that are derived from net interest income earned by the Fund on tax-exempt municipal securities and designated as exempt-interest dividends in a written notice sent by the Fund to its shareholders within 60 days after the close of the Funds taxable year will be excludable from gross income of shareholders for federal income tax purposes. To the extent the Fund fails to qualify to pay exempt-interest dividends in any given taxable year, such dividends would be included in the gross income of shareholders for federal income tax purposes.

The Fund will allocate interest from tax-exempt municipal securities (as well as ordinary income, capital gains, and tax preference items discussed below) among the shares according to a method that is based on the gross income allocable to each class of shareholders during the taxable year (or under another method, if prescribed by the IRS and SEC). The percentage of each distribution with respect to a taxable year of the Fund that is an exempt-interest dividend will be the same, even though that percentage may differ substantially from the percentage of the Funds income that was tax-exempt during a particular portion of the year. This percentage normally will be designated after the close of the taxable year.

Exempt-interest dividends are excludable from a shareholders gross income for federal income tax purposes. Interest on indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry shares of a regulated investment company paying exempt-interest dividends, such as the Fund, will not be deductible by the investor for federal income tax purposes to the extent attributable to exempt-interest dividends. Shareholders receiving Social Security or railroad retirement benefits should be aware that exempt-interest dividends are a factor in determining whether, and to what extent, such benefits are subject to federal income tax.

A portion of the exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund may give rise to liability under the federal alternative minimum tax for individual or corporate shareholders. Income on certain private activity bonds issued after August 7, 1986, while excludable from gross income for purposes of the federal income tax, is an item of tax preference that must be included in income for purposes of the federal alternative minimum tax for individuals and corporations. Private activity bonds are bonds that are used for purposes not generally performed by governmental entities and that benefit non-governmental entities. The amount of any exempt-interest dividends that is attributable to tax preference items for purposes of the alternative minimum tax will be identified when tax information is distributed by the Fund.

In addition, corporate taxpayers are subject to the federal alternative minimum tax based in part on certain differences between taxable income as adjusted for other tax preferences and the corporations adjusted current earnings, which more closely reflect a corporations economic income. Because an exemptinterest dividend paid by the Fund will be included in adjusted current earnings, a corporate shareholder may be required to pay alternative minimum tax on exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund.

Shareholders are advised to consult their tax advisers with respect to their liability for federal alternative minimum tax, and for advice concerning the loss of exclusion from gross income for exempt-interest dividends paid to a shareholder who would be treated as a substantial user or related person under Section 147(a) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to property financed with the proceeds of an issue of private activity bonds held by the Fund.

Ordinary Interest Dividends. A shareholder receiving a dividend from income earned by the Fund from one or more of the following sources must treat the dividend as ordinary income in the computation of the shareholders gross income, regardless of whether the dividend is reinvested:

(1) certain taxable temporary investments (such as certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements, commercial paper and obligations of the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities);

(2) income from securities loans;

(3) income or gains from options or futures;

(4) any net short-term capital gain; and

(5) any market discount accrual on tax-exempt bonds.

Certain dividend income and long-term capital gains are eligible for taxation at a reduced rate that applies to non-corporate shareholders for taxable years beginning prior to 2011. Under these rules, a portion of ordinary income dividends constituting qualified dividend income, when paid by a regulated investment company to non-corporate shareholders, may be taxable to such shareholders at long-term capital gain rates. However, to the extent the Funds distributions are derived from income on debt securities, they will not be qualified dividend income. Consequently, the Funds ordinary income dividends generally will not be eligible for taxation at the reduced rate.

     State Tax Treatment. To the extent that distributions paid by the Fund are derived from interest on New Jersey municipal securities and obligations of the U.S. Treasury, those distributions will also be exempt from New Jersey individual income tax. Distributions from the Fund attributable to income from sources other than those will generally be subject to New Jersey individual income tax as ordinary income.

Capital Gains. The Fund may either retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital gain for each taxable year. The Fund currently intends to distribute any such amounts. If the net capital gain is distributed and properly designated as a capital gain dividend in reports sent to shareholders in January of each year, it will be taxable to shareholders as a long-term capital gain, regardless of how long a shareholder has held his or her shares or whether that gain was recognized by the Fund before the shareholder acquired his or her shares. The tax rate on long-term capital gain applicable to non-corporate shareholders has been reduced for taxable years beginning prior to 2011.

If the Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be subject to tax on the gain at the 35% corporate tax rate, and will provide to shareholders of record on the last day of its taxable year information regarding their pro rata shares of the gain and tax paid. In this case, each shareholder will be required to report a pro rata share of such gain on the shareholders tax return as long-term capital gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for a pro rata share of tax paid by the Fund on the gain, and will increase the tax basis for the shareholders shares of the Fund by an amount equal to the excess of the deemed distribution over the tax credit.

Backup withholding. The Fund will be required in certain cases to withhold 28% of ordinary income dividends, capital gain distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares, paid to any shareholder (1) who has failed to provide a correct taxpayer identification number or to properly certify that number when required, (2) who is subject to backup withholding for failure to report properly the receipt of interest or dividend income, or (3) who has failed to certify to the Fund that the shareholder is not subject to backup withholding or is an exempt recipient (such as a corporation). Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in January of each year with a copy sent to the IRS. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amount withheld generally may be allowed as a refund or a credit against a shareholders federal income tax liability, provided the required information is timely provided to the IRS.

     Tax Effects of Redemptions of Shares. If a shareholder redeems all or a portion of his or her shares, the shareholder will recognize a gain or loss on the redeemed shares in an amount equal to the difference between the proceeds of the redeemed shares and the shareholders adjusted tax basis in the shares (including tax basis arising from reinvestment of dividends). All or a portion of any loss recognized in that manner may be disallowed if the shareholder purchases other shares of the Fund within 30 days before or after the redemption (including purchases through the reinvestment of dividends). In such a case, the basis of the shares acquired will be adjusted to reflect the disallowed loss. Losses realized by a shareholder on the redemption of Fund shares within six months of purchase will be disallowed for federal income tax purposes to the extent of exempt-interest dividends received on such shares. If a shareholder of the Fund exercises an exchange privilege within 90 days of acquiring the shares of the Fund, then the loss that the shareholder recognizes on the exchange will be reduced (or the gain increased) to the extent any sales charge paid on the exchanged Fund shares reduces any charge the shareholder would have owed upon the purchase of the new shares in the absence of the exchange privilege. Instead, such sales charge will be treated as an amount paid for the new shares.

     In general, any gain or loss arising from the redemption of shares of the Fund will be considered capital gain or loss, if the shares were held as a capital asset. It will be long-term capital gain or loss if the shares were held for more than one year. However, any capital loss arising from the redemption of shares held for six months or less will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of the amount of capital gain dividends received on those shares. Special holding period rules under the Internal Revenue Code apply in this case to determine the holding period of shares and there are limits on the deductibility of capital losses in any year.

     Foreign Shareholders. Under U.S. tax law, taxation of a shareholder who is a foreign person (including, but not limited to, a nonresident alien individual, a foreign trust, a foreign estate, a foreign corporation, or a foreign partnership) primarily depends on whether the foreign persons income from the Fund is effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business. Typically, ordinary income dividends paid (not including exempt-interest dividends paid by the Fund) from a mutual fund are not considered effectively connected income.

Ordinary income dividends that are paid by the Fund (and are deemed not effectively connected income) to foreign persons will be subject to a U.S. tax withheld by the Fund at a rate of 30%, provided the Fund obtains a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. The tax rate may be reduced if the foreign persons country of residence has a tax treaty with the U.S. allowing for a reduced tax rate on ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund. Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in March of each year, with a copy sent to the IRS.

If the ordinary income dividends from the Fund are effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business, then the foreign person may claim an exemption from the U.S. tax described above provided the Fund obtains a properly completed Certificate of Foreign Status.

If the foreign person fails to provide a certification of his or her foreign status, the Fund will be required to withhold U.S. tax at a rate of 28% on ordinary income dividends (not including exempt-interest dividends), capital gains distributions (including short-term and long-term) and the proceeds of the redemption of shares, paid to any foreign person. Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in January of each year with a copy sent to the IRS.

The tax consequences to foreign person entitled to claim the benefits of an applicable tax treaty may be different from those described herein. Foreign shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors or the U.S. Internal Revenue Service with respect to the particular tax consequences to them of an investment in the Fund, including the applicability of the U.S. withholding taxes described above.

Dividend Reinvestment in Another Fund. Shareholders of the Fund may elect to reinvest all dividends and/or capital gains distributions in shares of the same class of any of the other Oppenheimer funds listed above. Reinvestment will be made without sales charge at the net asset value per share in effect at the close of business on the payable date of the dividend or distribution. To elect this option, the shareholder must notify the Transfer Agent in writing and must have an existing account in the fund selected for reinvestment. Otherwise the shareholder first must obtain a prospectus for that Fund and an application from the Distributor to establish an account. Dividends and/or distributions from shares of certain other Oppenheimer funds may be invested in shares of this Fund on the same basis.

Additional Information About the Fund

The Distributor. The Funds shares are sold through dealers, brokers and other financial institutions that have a sales agreement with OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. a subsidiary of the Manager that acts as the Funds Distributor. The Distributor also distributes shares of the other Oppenheimer funds and is sub-distributor for funds managed by a subsidiary of the Manager.
 

The Transfer Agent. OppenheimerFunds Services, the Funds Transfer Agent, is a division of the Manager. It is responsible for maintaining the Funds shareholder registry and shareholder accounting records, and for paying dividends and distributions to shareholders. It also handles shareholder servicing and administrative functions. It serves as the Transfer Agent for an annual per account fee. It also acts as shareholder servicing agent for the other Oppenheimer funds. Shareholders should direct inquiries about their accounts to the Transfer Agent at the address and toll-free numbers shown on the back cover.
 
The Custodian Bank. Citibank, N.A. is the custodian of the Funds assets. The custodians responsibilities include safeguarding and controlling the Funds portfolio securities and handling the delivery of such securities to and from the Fund. It is the practice of the Fund to deal with the custodian in a manner uninfluenced by any banking relationship the custodian may have with the Manager and its affiliates. The Funds cash balances with the custodian in excess of $100,000 are not protected by federal deposit insurance. Those uninsured balances at times may be substantial.
 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. KPMG llp serves as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Fund. KPMG LLP audits the Funds financial statements and performs other related audit and tax services. KPMG LLP also acts as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Manager and certain other funds advised by the Manager and its affiliates. Audit and non-audit services provided by KPMG LLP to the Fund must be pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Trustees and Shareholders of Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust:
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund (one of the portfolios constituting the Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust), including the statement of investments, as of July 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations and cash flows for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five-year period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Funds management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
     We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of July 31, 2008, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
     In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund as of July 31, 2008, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five-year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
/s/ KPMG llp
Denver, Colorado
September 16, 2008

 
STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS July 31, 2008
                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
Municipal Bonds and Notes126.9%
 
New Jersey88.8%
$ 3,880,000  
Bayonne, NJ Parking Authority (City Parking)1
  5.000 % 06/15/2027 $ 3,518,229
  10,000  
Bergen County, NJ HDC
6.750 10/01/2018 10,164
  20,000  
Bergen County, NJ HDC (Park Ridge)
5.950 07/01/2025 20,953
  75,000  
Bergen County, NJ Utilities Authority
5.500 12/15/2016 75,161
  25,000  
Berkeley, NJ HFC (Bayville Hsg.)
5.750 08/01/2014 25,257
  3,000,000  
Burlington County, NJ Bridge Commission Economic Devel. (The Evergreens)
5.625 01/01/2038 2,657,490
  225,000  
Camden County, NJ PCFA (Camden County Energy Recovery Associates)1
7.500 12/01/2009 225,664
  100,000  
Camden County, NJ PCFA (Camden County Energy Recovery Associates)1
7.500 12/01/2010 100,249
  20,000  
Essex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Sportsplex)1
5.625 10/01/2023 20,013
  105,000  
Essex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Sportsplex)1
5.625 10/01/2027 105,051
  1,135,000  
Gloucester County, NJ HDC (Colonial Park)
6.200 09/15/2011 1,143,842
  5,000  
Gloucester County, NJ Utilities Authority1
5.125 01/01/2013 5,011
  25,000  
Haledon, NJ School District1
5.625 02/01/2009 25,077
  3,835,000  
Hudson County, NJ Solid Waste Improvement Authority (Koppers Site)1
6.125 01/01/2029 3,421,587
  1,000,000  
Hudson County, NJ Solid Waste Improvement Authority, Series 11
6.000 01/01/2029 903,660
  10,000  
Jackson, NJ Township Municipal Utilities Authority
5.500 12/01/2015 10,219
  45,000  
Mercer County, NJ Improvement Authority (Solid Waste)1
5.750 09/15/2016 46,029
  40,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Edison Township)1
5.650 09/15/2011 40,112
  875,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Heldrich Center Hotel)
5.000 01/01/2015 817,198
  500,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Heldrich Center Hotel)
5.000 01/01/2020 446,755
  1,535,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Heldrich Center Hotel)
5.000 01/01/2032 1,249,613
  1,100,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Heldrich Center Hotel)
5.125 01/01/2037 885,214
  975,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (Skyline Tower Urban Renewal Associates)1
5.350 07/01/2034 900,559
  20,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Improvement Authority (South Plainfield Urban Renewal)1
5.500 09/01/2030 20,297
  2,500,000  
Middlesex County, NJ Pollution Control Authority (Amerada Hess Corp.)1
6.050 09/15/2034 2,508,025
  45,000  
Monmouth County, NJ Improvement Authority1
5.000 02/01/2013 45,081
  15,000  
Monmouth County, NJ Improvement Authority1
5.450 07/15/2013 15,037
  35,000  
Morris-Union, NJ Joint Commission COP
7.300 08/01/2009 35,083


 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued
                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
New Jersey Continued
$ 10,000  
Morristown, NJ GO1
  5.300 % 03/01/2021 $ 10,022
  35,000  
New Brunswick, NJ Hsg. & Urban Devel. Authority1
5.500 08/01/2011 35,079
  65,000  
New Brunswick, NJ Hsg. & Urban Devel. Authority1
5.750 07/01/2024 65,241
  50,000  
Newark, NJ Hsg. Authority (Lock Street Urban Renewal Partnership)
6.400 01/20/2034 50,630
  50,000  
Newark, NJ Hsg. Finance Corp. (Section 8 Assisted Hsg.)
7.300 04/01/2020 51,714
  2,045,000  
NJ EDA (American Airlines)1
7.100 11/01/2031 944,136
  3,060,000  
NJ EDA (Applewood Estates)1
5.000 10/01/2035 2,594,360
  50,000  
NJ EDA (Bristol Glen)1
5.750 07/01/2029 45,556
  1,050,000  
NJ EDA (Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse of New Jersey)
6.125 09/01/2010 1,051,113
  1,130,000  
NJ EDA (Cadbury at Cherry Hill)
5.500 07/01/2018 1,057,285
  25,000  
NJ EDA (Cadbury at Cherry Hill)
5.500 07/01/2028 21,252
  10,000  
NJ EDA (Cigarette Tax)1
5.625 06/15/2017 9,866
  25,000  
NJ EDA (Consumers New Jersey Water Company)1
5.100 09/01/2032 22,315
  580,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
5.500 04/01/2028 349,931
  17,590,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
6.250 09/15/2019 13,902,432
  4,375,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
6.250 09/15/2029 3,148,381
  7,240,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
6.400 09/15/2023 5,549,967
  3,890,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
6.625 09/15/2012 3,544,101
  11,430,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
7.000 11/15/2030 8,969,350
  9,475,000  
NJ EDA (Continental Airlines)1
9.000 06/01/2033 9,284,458
  5,000,000  
NJ EDA (Converted Organics of Woodbridge)
8.000 08/01/2027 4,114,900
  3,100,000  
NJ EDA (Cranes Mill)
5.100 06/01/2027 2,692,846
  160,000  
NJ EDA (Dept. of Human Services)1
6.250 07/01/2024 167,328
  115,000  
NJ EDA (Devereux Foundation)1
5.450 05/01/2027 115,726
  2,605,000  
NJ EDA (Elizabethtown Water Company)1
5.600 12/01/2025 2,606,459
  3,800,000  
NJ EDA (Empowerment Zone-Cumberland)2,3
7.750 08/01/2021 2,317,924
  20,000  
NJ EDA (Fellowship Village)1
5.500 01/01/2018 19,840
  290,000  
NJ EDA (General Motors Corp.)1
5.350 04/01/2009 280,964
  6,000,000  
NJ EDA (GMT Realty)
6.875 01/01/2037 5,809,260
  25,000  
NJ EDA (Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America)1
5.450 09/01/2023 25,167
  320,000  
NJ EDA (Hackensack Water Company)
5.800 03/01/2024 320,678
  425,000  
NJ EDA (Hackensack Water Company)
5.900 03/01/2024 424,966
  18,860,000  
NJ EDA (Hamilton Care)
6.650 11/01/2037 17,123,937
  3,700,000  
NJ EDA (JVG Properties)
5.375 03/01/2019 3,538,680
  2,500,000  
NJ EDA (Kapkowski Road Landfill)
6.500 04/01/2031 2,451,825
  165,000  
NJ EDA (Keswick Pines)
5.600 01/01/2012 164,188
  75,000  
NJ EDA (Keswick Pines)1
5.750 01/01/2024 69,984


 

                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
New Jersey Continued
$ 45,000  
NJ EDA (Kullman Associates)
  6.125 % 06/01/2018 $ 39,842
  140,000  
NJ EDA (Kullman Associates)
6.750 07/01/2019 128,940
  160,000  
NJ EDA (Leisure Park)
5.875 12/01/2027 145,662
  90,000  
NJ EDA (Liberty State Park Lease Rental)1
5.750 03/15/2022 90,176
  8,680,000  
NJ EDA (Liberty Street Park)4
5.000 03/01/2027 8,820,746
  810,000  
NJ EDA (Lions Gate)
5.750 01/01/2025 749,185
  1,345,000  
NJ EDA (Lions Gate)
5.875 01/01/2037 1,190,836
  30,000  
NJ EDA (Manchester Manor)1
6.700 08/01/2022 30,070
  1,000,000  
NJ EDA (Marcus L. Ward Home)
5.750 11/01/2024 975,180
  1,200,000  
NJ EDA (Marcus L. Ward Home)
5.800 11/01/2031 1,147,992
  2,380,000  
NJ EDA (Masonic Charity Foundation of New Jersey)1
5.500 06/01/2031 2,383,808
  1,750,000  
NJ EDA (Masonic Charity Foundation of New Jersey)1
6.000 06/01/2025 1,810,375
  255,000  
NJ EDA (Middlesex Water Company)1
5.200 10/01/2022 255,752
  525,000  
NJ EDA (Middlesex Water Company)1
5.250 10/01/2023 507,906
  1,100,000  
NJ EDA (Middlesex Water Company)
5.250 02/01/2029 1,030,502
  770,000  
NJ EDA (Middlesex Water Company)1
5.350 02/01/2038 728,166
  5,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.250 11/01/2032 4,553
  2,800,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.250 07/01/2038 2,597,280
  200,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)1
5.350 06/01/2023 200,304
  255,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.350 06/01/2023 255,395
  1,685,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.375 05/01/2032 1,555,424
  1,020,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.500 06/01/2023 998,672
  11,705,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
5.950 11/01/2029 11,589,589
  1,280,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
6.000 05/01/2036 1,282,982
  7,035,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey American Water Company)
6.875 11/01/2034 7,115,129
  120,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey Natural Gas Company)
5.000 12/01/2038 106,516
  50,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey Transit Corp.)
5.650 12/15/2012 50,107
  25,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey Transit Corp.)
5.700 12/15/2013 25,055
  30,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey Transit Corp.)1
5.750 12/15/2017 30,079
  10,000  
NJ EDA (New Jersey Transit Corp.)
5.750 12/15/2017 10,023
  400,000  
NJ EDA (Newark Downtown District Management Corp.)
5.125 06/15/2027 369,028
  700,000  
NJ EDA (Newark Downtown District Management Corp.)
5.125 06/15/2037 607,376
  3,995,000  
NJ EDA (Nui Corp.)1
5.250 11/01/2033 3,456,514
  2,780,000  
NJ EDA (Nui Corp.)1
5.250 11/01/2033 2,374,287
  8,000,000  
NJ EDA (Pingry School)
5.000 11/01/2038 6,992,240
  6,195,000  
NJ EDA (Public Service Electric and Gas)1
6.400 05/01/2032 6,245,303
  1,165,000  
NJ EDA (Reformed Church Ministries to the Aging The Particulare Synod Mid-Atlantics)1
5.375 12/01/2018 1,095,496
  10,000,000  
NJ EDA (School Facilities Construction)4
5.000 09/01/2036 10,092,250
  18,080,000  
NJ EDA (School Facilities Construction)4
5.125 03/01/2028 18,468,991


 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued
                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
New Jersey Continued
$ 36,180,000  
NJ EDA (School Facilities Construction)4
  5.125 % 03/01/2030 $ 36,794,698
  1,215,000  
NJ EDA (St. Francis Life Care Corp.)1
5.700 10/01/2017 1,185,876
  2,230,000  
NJ EDA (St. Francis Life Care Corp.)
5.750 10/01/2023 2,096,579
  10,000  
NJ EDA (The Presbyterian Home at Montgomery)
6.250 11/01/2020 9,749
  115,000  
NJ EDA (The Presbyterian Home at Montgomery)
6.375 11/01/2031 109,418
  3,360,000  
NJ EDA (Trigen-Trenton District Energy Company)
6.200 12/01/2010 3,364,906
  20,000  
NJ EDA (United Methodist Homes of New Jersey)1
5.125 07/01/2018 18,056
  2,370,000  
NJ EDA (United Methodist Homes of New Jersey)1
5.125 07/01/2025 1,966,508
  45,000  
NJ EDA (United Methodist Homes of New Jersey)
7.200 07/01/2010 45,061
  2,500,000  
NJ EDA Retirement Community (Seabrook Village)
5.250 11/15/2026 2,163,400
  3,500,000  
NJ EDA Retirement Community (Seabrook Village)
5.250 11/15/2036 2,835,175
  90,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Beth Medrash Govoha America)
6.375 07/01/2030 90,671
  625,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Fairleigh Dickinson University), Series D
5.250 07/01/2032 568,419
  17,000,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Fairleigh Dickinson University), Series D
6.000 07/01/2025 17,218,620
  10,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Jersey City State College)
6.250 07/01/2010 10,031
  135,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Monmouth University)1
5.625 07/01/2013 135,116
  2,000,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Monmouth University)1
5.800 07/01/2022 2,006,240
  5,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Stevens Institute of Technology)
5.000 07/01/2018 5,056
  4,250,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (Stevens Institute of Technology)1
5.000 07/01/2034 3,740,043
  25,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.125 12/01/2011 25,037
  50,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.125 12/01/2012 50,064
  175,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2013 175,214
  160,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2014 160,173
  90,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2015 90,086
  530,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2021 530,164
  705,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2021 705,219
  115,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
5.250 12/01/2025 115,015


 

                                 
Principal      
Amount Coupon Maturity Value
 
New Jersey Continued
$ 190,000  
NJ Educational Facilities Authority (University of Medicine & Dentistry)1
  5.250 % 12/01/2025 $ 190,025
  80,000  
NJ Environmental Infrastructure1
5.000 09/01/2020 78,786
  10,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Allegany Health System Obligated Group)1
5.200 07/01/2018 10,474
  475,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Avalon at Hillsborough)
6.150 07/01/2020 446,120
  750,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Avalon at Hillsborough)
6.375 07/01/2025 700,238
  565,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Avalon at Hillsborough)
6.625 07/01/2035 522,908
  6,325,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Bayonne Hospital)1
6.250 07/01/2012 6,342,267
  150,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Capital Health System)1
5.250 07/01/2017 151,745
  160,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Capital Health System)1
5.250 07/01/2027 152,971
  110,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Capital Health System)1
5.375 07/01/2033 102,776
  4,145,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Capital Health System)1
5.750 07/01/2023 4,178,243
  39,395,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Catholic Health East/Mercy Medical/McCauley Center Obligated Group)4
2.593 5 11/15/2033 30,725,900
  1,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Childrens Specialized Hospital)
5.500 07/01/2036 911,260
  70,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Chilton Memorial Hospital)1
5.000 07/01/2013 70,029
  1,010,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Columbus Hospital)1
7.500 07/01/2021 921,463
  50,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (CoMC/KMCC Obligated Group)1
5.500 07/01/2017 50,427
  35,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (CoMC/KMCC Obligated Group)1
5.500 07/01/2027 35,023
  10,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Community Hospital Group/Hartwyck at Oak Tree Obligated Group)1
5.000 07/01/2025 10,047
  7,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Deborah Heart & Lung Center)
6.300 07/01/2023 7,036,890
  750,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Hebrew Old Age Center of Atlantic City)
5.300 11/01/2026 636,428
  1,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Hebrew Old Age Center of Atlantic City)
5.375 11/01/2036 812,440


 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued
                                 
Principal      
Amount Coupon Maturity Value
 
New Jersey Continued
$ 1,260,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Holy Name Hospital)1
  5.000 % 07/01/2036 $ 1,070,710
  10,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Holy Name Hospital)1
5.250 07/01/2020 10,028,300
  45,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Ocean Nursing Pavilion/Meridian Hospitals Corp.)1
5.250 07/01/2019 46,422
  25,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (ONP/MHC Obligated Group)1
5.375 07/01/2024 25,709
  50,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Palisades Medical Center)1
5.200 07/01/2019 46,343
  435,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Palisades Medical Center)1
5.250 07/01/2028 374,722
  1,430,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Pascack Valley Hospital Assoc.)2,6
5.125 07/01/2018 990,704
  5,755,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Pascack Valley Hospital Assoc.)2,6
5.125 07/01/2028 3,670,539
  135,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Pascack Valley Hospital Assoc.)1,2
6.625 07/01/2036 93,528
  1,200,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Raritan Bay Medical Center)
7.250 07/01/2014 1,200,192
  9,830,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Raritan Bay Medical Center)
7.250 07/01/2027 9,714,694
  50,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (RWJ University Hospital)1
5.600 07/01/2015 52,213
  1,100,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (RWJ University Hospital)1
5.750 07/01/2025 1,109,053
  25,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Society of the Valley Hospital)1
5.375 07/01/2025 25,558
  20,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Society of the Valley Hospital)1
5.500 07/01/2020 20,797
  10,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Somerset Medical Center)
5.500 07/01/2023 8,814
  70,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Somerset Medical Center)
5.500 07/01/2033 56,751
  250,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (South Jersey Hospital System)
5.000 07/01/2036 234,118
  37,955,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Barnabas Corp./St. Barnabas Medical Center Obligated Group)
6.250 7 07/01/2030 8,111,743
  5,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Barnabas)
5.000 07/01/2024 5,119
  45,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Barnabas)
5.000 07/01/2024 45,187

 

                                 
Principal      
Amount Coupon Maturity Value
 
New Jersey Continued
$ 35,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Center)1
  5.700 % 07/01/2011 $ 35,108
  3,880,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Center)1
5.750 07/01/2016 3,892,106
  800,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Center)1
6.000 07/01/2026 802,656
  10,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Josephs Hospital & Medical Center)8
6.625 07/01/2038 9,619,200
  30,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Peters Hospital)1
5.000 07/01/2013 30,054
  500,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Peters University Hospital/Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center Obligated Group)1
6.875 07/01/2020 510,585
  1,050,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (St. Peters University Hospital/Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center Obligated Group)1
6.875 07/01/2030 1,066,706
  50,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (THGS/THGSF Obligated Group)1
5.200 07/01/2031 44,822
  2,000,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Trinitas Hospital)1
5.250 07/01/2030 1,650,260
  5,880,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (Trinitas Hospital/Marillac Corp. Obligated Group)1
5.250 07/01/2030 4,880,870
  15,000  
NJ HFA1
5.250 11/01/2015 15,016
  45,000  
NJ HFA1
5.375 11/01/2008 45,106
  30,000  
NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority (Student Loans)1
5.250 06/01/2018 30,076
  80,000  
NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority (Student Loans)1
5.300 06/01/2017 80,847
  35,000  
NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority (Student Loans)1
5.800 06/01/2016 35,431
  15,000  
NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority (Student Loans)1
5.900 07/01/2009 15,168
  15,000  
NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority (Student Loans)1
6.125 07/01/2015 15,063
  480,000  
NJ Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (Student Loan)1
6.000 06/01/2015 489,451
  10,000  
NJ Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (Student Loan)1
6.150 06/01/2019 10,115
  85,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Homebuyer)1
5.150 10/01/2018 86,377
  670,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Homebuyer)1
5.300 04/01/2026 673,524
  3,725,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Homebuyer)1
5.400 10/01/2020 3,764,671
  2,220,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Multifamily)1
4.900 11/01/2026 1,974,868
  1,000,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Multifamily)1
5.000 11/01/2036 862,190


 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS   Continued
                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
New Jersey Continued
$ 275,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Multifamily)1
  5.150 % 11/01/2030 $ 251,991
  45,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Multifamily)1
5.400 11/01/2017 45,164
  10,000,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Single Family Hsg.)4
4.550 10/01/2022 9,027,250
  5,000,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Single Family Hsg.)4
4.625 10/01/2027 4,256,817
  4,500,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Single Family Hsg.)4
5.000 10/01/2037 3,894,465
  6,160,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Single Family Hsg.)4
5.375 04/01/2030 5,845,934
  370,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency (Single Family Hsg.)
4.800 10/01/2047 294,964
  2,500,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A
4.850 11/01/2039 2,052,100
  2,150,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A
4.950 11/01/2048 1,743,070
  40,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A1
5.050 11/01/2018 39,798
  25,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A1
5.050 05/01/2034 22,022
  130,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A1
5.550 05/01/2027 126,591
  2,085,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A
5.650 05/01/2040 2,042,612
  10,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series A11
6.250 05/01/2020 10,133
  15,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series B1
5.850 11/01/2012 15,504
  50,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series B1
6.150 11/01/2020 51,164
  20,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series BB1
5.300 04/01/2017 20,406
  90,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series E11
5.750 05/01/2025 91,595
  1,525,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series M1
5.000 10/01/2036 1,536,590
  55,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series T1
5.600 04/01/2017 55,887
  80,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series U1
5.550 10/01/2011 81,294
  1,450,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series U1
5.750 04/01/2018 1,460,310
  385,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series U1
5.850 04/01/2029 384,973
  65,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency, Series V1
5.250 04/01/2026 65,577
  55,000  
NJ Readington-Lebanon Sewage Authority1
5.250 01/01/2013 55,117
  1,525,000  
NJ South Jersey Port Corp.1
5.200 01/01/2023 1,470,969
  200,000  
NJ South Jersey Port Corp.1
5.250 01/01/2030 186,134
  17,020,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.1
4.500 06/01/2023 15,228,305
  48,000,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.1
4.625 06/01/2026 39,407,040
  30,035,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.1
4.750 06/01/2034 21,537,798
  11,585,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.1
5.000 06/01/2029 8,937,480
  200,950,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
5.812 7 06/01/2041 13,783,161
  417,450,000  
NJ Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.8
6.292 7 06/01/2041 30,983,139
  15,000  
NJ Wastewater Treatment
5.200 09/01/2010 15,033
  55,000  
Pleasantville, NJ School District COP1
5.500 10/01/2013 55,124
  20,000  
Pompton Lakes, NJ School District1
5.500 08/01/2009 20,058
  1,535,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ (JFK International Air Terminal)1
5.750 12/01/2022 1,523,042
  5,485,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ (JFK International Air Terminal)1
5.750 12/01/2025 5,343,706
  3,535,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ (KIAC)
6.750 10/01/2011 3,503,927
  3,210,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ (KIAC)
6.750 10/01/2019 3,211,124


 

                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
New Jersey Continued
$ 40,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 117th Series1
  5.125 % 11/15/2013 $ 40,507
  25,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 122nd Series1
5.125 01/15/2036 24,548
  20,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 124th Series1
5.000 08/01/2022 19,606
  6,595,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 126th Series1
5.250 05/15/2037 6,460,198
  9,235,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 127th Series4
5.250 12/15/2032 9,184,336
  10,500,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 143rd Series4
5.000 10/01/2030 10,198,073
  20,000  
Riverside, NJ Township GO
5.450 12/01/2010 20,040
  215,000  
Salem County, NJ IPCFA (Atlantic City Electric Company)1
5.600 11/01/2025 215,299
  60,000  
Salem County, NJ IPCFA (Atlantic City Electric Company)
5.600 11/01/2025 60,046
  1,565,000  
Salem County, NJ IPCFA (Public Service Electric & Gas)1
5.200 03/01/2025 1,565,407
  4,790,000  
Salem County, NJ IPCFA (Public Service Electric & Gas)6
5.450 02/01/2032 4,791,964
  1,440,000  
Salem County, NJ IPCFA (Public Service Electric & Gas)1
5.750 04/01/2031 1,342,498
  3,980,000  
Union County, NJ Improvement Authority (Juvenile Detention Center)
5.500 05/01/2034 4,042,367
  65,000  
Union County, NJ Improvement Authority (Linden Airport)
5.000 03/01/2028 65,239
  50,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (County Deficiency)1
5.000 06/15/2028 47,578
  50,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (County Deficiency)1
5.000 06/15/2028 50,121
  15,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.000 06/01/2016 14,950
  1,770,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.000 06/01/2023 1,668,915
  185,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.350 06/01/2023 180,693
  160,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.375 06/01/2017 160,538
  185,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.375 06/01/2018 185,333
  350,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.375 06/01/2019 349,374
  120,000  
Union County, NJ Utilities Authority (Ogden Martin Systems of Union)1
5.375 06/01/2020 118,637
  10,000  
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey COP1
6.750 12/01/2009 10,140
     
 
 
     
 
625,142,537
U.S. Possessions38.1%
  1,740,000  
Guam Education Financing Foundation COP1
5.000 10/01/2023 1,687,696
  1,455,000  
Guam GO1
5.400 11/15/2018 1,435,139
  2,500,000  
Guam Government Waterworks Authority and Wastewater System
5.875 07/01/2035 2,395,400
  3,900,000  
Guam Government Waterworks Authority and Wastewater System
6.000 07/01/2025 3,858,543


 

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued
                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
U.S. Possessions Continued
$ 50,000  
Guam Power Authority, Series A1
  5.125 % 10/01/2029 $ 43,521
  4,650,000  
Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth, Series A
5.000 06/01/2030 3,765,524
  300,000  
Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth, Series A1
6.750 10/01/2033 303,015
  1,225,000  
Northern Mariana Islands Ports Authority, Series A
5.500 03/15/2031 995,202
  3,230,000  
Northern Mariana Islands Ports Authority, Series A
6.250 03/15/2028 2,618,884
  10,000,000  
Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority4
5.125 07/01/2047 9,876,700
  2,500,000  
Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority1
0.000 9 07/01/2024 2,165,350
  3,500,000  
Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority1
6.000 07/01/2038 3,662,155
  5,400,000  
Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority
6.000 07/01/2044 5,654,394
  5,200,000  
Puerto Rico Childrens Trust Fund (TASC)
5.500 05/15/2039 4,699,344
  3,000,000  
Puerto Rico Childrens Trust Fund (TASC)
5.625 05/15/2043 2,774,730
  26,000,000  
Puerto Rico Childrens Trust Fund (TASC)
7.031 7 05/15/2055 627,380
  350,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.000 07/01/2025 342,944
  50,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.000 07/01/2026 48,899
  12,015,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.000 07/01/2027 11,713,183
  4,685,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.000 07/01/2034 4,450,000
  3,170,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.125 07/01/2031 3,080,352
  2,250,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.250 07/01/2026 2,234,408
  945,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.250 07/01/2030 932,847
  1,750,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.250 07/01/2031 1,729,245
  950,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.250 07/01/2032 938,486
  16,035,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO1
5.250 07/01/2034 15,766,574
  1,705,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO
6.000 07/01/2027 1,793,353
  295,000  
Puerto Rico Commonwealth GO
6.000 07/01/2028 310,287
  2,800,000  
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Series TT1
5.000 07/01/2037 2,708,468
  20,500,000  
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Series UU4
2.570 5 07/01/2031 16,194,973
  6,200,000  
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Series UU6
2.550 5 07/01/2025 4,859,250
  885,000  
Puerto Rico HFC, Series B1
5.300 12/01/2028 849,830
  810,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series G
5.000 07/01/2042 765,815
  4,000,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series K1
5.000 07/01/2027 3,899,520
  5,145,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series K1
5.000 07/01/2030 4,933,232
  450,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series M1
5.000 07/01/2037 426,938
  12,000,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series N4
2.400 5 07/01/2045 8,580,000
  29,000,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority, Series N6
2.400 5 07/01/2045 20,735,000
  1,000,000  
Puerto Rico Infrastructure1
5.000 07/01/2027 974,880


 

                                 
Principal      
Amount         Coupon     Maturity     Value  
U.S. Possessions Continued
$ 5,000,000  
Puerto Rico Infrastructure1
  5.000 % 07/01/2037 $ 4,743,750
  5,000,000  
Puerto Rico Infrastructure
5.000 07/01/2037 4,743,750
  9,750,000  
Puerto Rico Infrastructure
5.000 07/01/2041 9,223,890
  20,100,000  
Puerto Rico Infrastructure
5.000 07/01/2046 18,961,737
  930,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Ana G. Mendez University)1
5.000 03/01/2036 810,365
  100,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Ana G. Mendez University)1
5.375 02/01/2019 100,208
  555,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Ana G. Mendez University)1
5.375 02/01/2029 527,244
  1,710,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Cogeneration Facilities)
6.625 06/01/2026 1,739,292
  205,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Dr. Pila Hospital)1
6.250 08/01/2032 205,418
  1,000,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (Polytechnic University)1
5.000 08/01/2032 881,170
  265,000  
Puerto Rico ITEMECF (SEAM/Hospital Espanol Auxillio Obligated Group)1
6.250 07/01/2024 267,215
  500,000  
Puerto Rico Municipal Finance Agency, Series A1
5.250 08/01/2024 496,260
  3,250,000  
Puerto Rico Municipal Finance Agency, Series A1
5.250 08/01/2025 3,228,355
  18,350,000  
Puerto Rico Port Authority (American Airlines), Series A1
6.300 06/01/2023 8,565,413
  80,000  
Puerto Rico Port Authority, Series D1
6.000 07/01/2021 80,298
  265,000  
Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority1
5.125 07/01/2024 259,485
  4,535,000  
Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority1
5.250 07/01/2029 4,472,508
  16,305,000  
Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority1
5.250 07/01/2033 16,081,295
  1,530,000  
Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, Series D1
5.250 07/01/2036 1,499,186
  10,000,000  
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp., Series A4
2.855 5 08/01/2057 7,700,002
  9,000,000  
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp., Series A
5.250 08/01/2057 8,906,130
  1,000,000  
University of Puerto Rico1
5.000 06/01/2025 979,870
  3,350,000  
University of Puerto Rico1
5.000 06/01/2025 3,282,565
  3,000,000  
University of Puerto Rico, Series Q1
5.000 06/01/2030 2,876,670
  150,000  
University of V.I., Series A1
5.250 12/01/2023 144,932
  710,000  
University of V.I., Series A1
5.375 06/01/2034 667,982
  1,000,000  
University of V.I., Series A
6.000 12/01/2024 1,005,710
  40,000  
University of V.I., Series A
6.250 12/01/2029 40,312
  60,000  
V.I. HFA, Series A
6.500 03/01/2025 60,014
  5,000,000  
V.I. Public Finance Authority (Hovensa Coker)1
6.500 07/01/2021 5,053,950
  1,515,000  
V.I. Public Finance Authority, Series A1
6.375 10/01/2019 1,597,265
  325,000  
V.I. Public Finance Authority, Series E
5.875 10/01/2018 327,002
  2,500,000  
V.I. Public Finance Authority, Series E
6.000 10/01/2022 2,502,525
  1,100,000  
V.I. Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
6.500 7 05/15/2035 138,919
  2,050,000  
V.I. Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
6.875 7 05/15/2035 234,766
  3,100,000  
V.I. Tobacco Settlement Financing Corp.
7.625 7 05/15/2035 317,874
  290,000  
V.I. Water & Power Authority
5.300 07/01/2018 287,454
  175,000  
V.I. Water & Power Authority
5.300 07/01/2021 167,788
     
 
 
     
 
268,010,030

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued
         
    Value
Total Investments, at Value (Cost $999,519,458)126.9%
$ 893,152,567
     
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets(26.9)
(189,417,706 )
 
 
Net Assets100.0%
$ 703,734,861
 
 
Footnotes to Statement of Investments
1. All or a portion of the security has been segregated for collateral to cover borrowings. See Note 6 of accompanying Notes.
2. Issue is in default. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.
3. Non-income producing security.
4. Security represents the underlying municipal bond on an inverse floating rate security. The bond was purchased by the Fund and subsequently segregated and transferred to a trust. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.
5. Represents the current interest rate for a variable or increasing rate security.
6. Illiquid security. The aggregate value of illiquid securities as of July 31, 2008 was $35,047,457, which represents 4.98% of the Funds net assets. See Note 5 of accompanying Notes.
7. Zero coupon bond reflects effective yield on the date of purchase.
8. When-issued security or delayed delivery to be delivered and settled after July 31, 2008. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.
9. Denotes a step bond: a zero coupon bond that converts to a fixed or variable interest rate at a designated future date.
To simplify the listings of securities, abbreviations are used per the table below:
     
COP
Certificates of Participation
CoMC
Community Medical Center
EDA
Economic Devel. Authority
GO
General Obligation
HDC
Housing Devel. Corp.
HFA
Housing Finance Agency
HFC
Housing Finance Corp.
IPCFA
Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority
ITEMECF
Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Community Facilities
JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
KMCC
Kensington Manor Care Center
MHC
Meridian Hospitals Corp.
NY/NJ
New York/New Jersey
ONP
Ocean Nursing Pavillion, Inc.
PCFA
Pollution Control Finance Authority
RITES
Residual Interest Tax Exempt Securities
ROLs
Residual Option Longs
RWJ
Robert Wood Johnson
SEAM
Sociedad Espanola de Auxilio Mutuo
TASC
Tobacco Settlement Asset-Backed Bonds
THGS
The House of the Good Shepard
THGSF
The House of the Good Shepard Foundation
V.I.
United States Virgin Islands

 

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES July 31, 2008
         
 
Assets
Investments, at value (cost $999,519,458)see accompanying statement of investments
$ 893,152,567
 
Cash
469,599
 
Receivables and other assets:
Interest
8,838,459
Shares of beneficial interest sold
1,509,049
Investments sold
202,091
Other
66,505
 
 
Total assets
904,238,270
 
 
Liabilities
Payables and other liabilities:
Payable for short-term floating rate notes issued (See Note 1)
150,510,000
Payable on borrowings (See Note 6)
36,500,000
Investments purchased (including $10,684,400 purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis)
10,889,838
Shares of beneficial interest redeemed
1,440,048
Dividends
784,712
Distribution and service plan fees
88,793
Trustees compensation
80,191
Interest expense on borrowings
73,515
Shareholder communications
45,114
Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees
27,933
Other
63,265
 
 
Total liabilities
200,503,409
 
 
Net Assets
$ 703,734,861
 
 
 
 
Composition of Net Assets
Paid-in capital
$ 834,097,567
 
Accumulated net investment income
1,223,631
 
Accumulated net realized loss on investments
  (25,219,446 )
 
Net unrealized depreciation on investments
  (106,366,891 )
 
 
Net Assets
$ 703,734,861
 
 


 

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Continued
         
 
Net Asset Value Per Share
Class A Shares:
Net asset value and redemption price per share (based on net assets of $467,973,895 and 46,777,585 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)
$ 10.00
Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 4.75% of offering price)
$ 10.50
 
Class B Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $52,980,986 and 5,288,693 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)
$ 10.02
 
Class C Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $182,779,980 and 18,256,149 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)
$ 10.01

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS For the Year Ended July 31, 2008
         
 
Investment Income
Interest
$ 53,270,287
 
Other income
401
 
 
Total investment income
53,270,688
 
 
Expenses
Management fees
4,040,062
 
Distribution and service plan fees:
Class A
772,099
Class B
556,522
Class C
1,819,369
 
Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:
Class A
185,223
Class B
47,865
Class C
102,768
 
Shareholder communications:
Class A
63,307
Class B
12,888
Class C
27,507
 
Interest expense and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued (See Note 1)
5,545,272
 
Interest expense on borrowings
726,595
 
Custodian fees and expenses
37,629
 
Trustees compensation
29,674
 
Other
245,858
 
 
Total expenses
14,212,638
Less reduction to custodian expenses
  (3,817 )
 
 
Net expenses
14,208,821
 
Net Investment Income
39,061,867
 
 
Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
Net realized gain (loss) on:
Investments
  (23,835,770 )
Increase from payment by affiliate
891
 
 
Net realized loss
  (23,834,879 )
 
Net change in unrealized depreciation on investments
  (121,570,462 )
 
Net Decrease in Net Assets Resulting from Operations
$ (106,343,474 )
 
 


 

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
                 
Year Ended July 31,   2008     2007  
Operations
Net investment income
$ 39,061,867 $ 30,412,564
 
Net realized gain (loss)
  (23,834,879 ) 4,847,636
 
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
  (121,570,462 )   (5,922,240 )
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations
  (106,343,474 ) 29,337,960
 
 
Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders
Dividends from net investment income:
Class A
  (26,304,136 )   (21,039,557 )
Class B
  (2,582,285 )   (2,680,254 )
Class C
  (8,530,712 )   (6,698,889 )
 
 
  (37,417,133 )   (30,418,700 )
 
 
Beneficial Interest Transactions
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from beneficial interest transactions:
Class A
  (27,574,196 ) 220,976,427
Class B
  (9,377,328 )   (814,610 )
Class C
  (10,784,825 ) 92,387,458
 
 
  (47,736,349 ) 312,549,275
 
 
Net Assets
Total increase (decrease)
  (191,496,956 ) 311,468,535
 
Beginning of period
895,231,817 583,763,282
 
End of period (including accumulated net investment income (loss) of $1,223,631 and $(421,103), respectively)
$ 703,734,861 $ 895,231,817
 


 

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS For the Year Ended July 31, 2008
         
 
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Net decrease in net assets from operations
$ (106,343,474 )
 
Adjustments to reconcile net decrease in net assets from operations to net cash provided by operating activities:
Purchase of investment securities
  (243,797,639 )
Proceeds from disposition of investment securities
333,487,606
Short-term investment securities, net
  (50,287,429 )
Premium amortization
2,194,475
Discount accretion
  (6,117,455 )
Net realized loss on investments
23,834,879
Net change in unrealized depreciation on investments
121,570,462
Decrease in interest receivable
232,710
Increase in receivable for securities sold
  (202,091 )
Increase in other assets
  (46,079 )
Increase in payable for securities purchased
5,553,464
Increase in payable for accrued expenses
71,998
 
 
Net cash provided by operating activities
80,151,427
 
 
Cash Flows from Financing Activities
Proceeds from bank borrowings
445,600,000
Payments on bank borrowings
  (416,600,000 )
Payments on short-term floating rate notes issued
  (27,550,000 )
Proceeds from shares sold
227,257,758
Payment on shares redeemed
  (295,260,167 )
Cash distributions paid
  (13,689,051 )
 
 
Net cash used in financing activities
  (80,241,460 )
 
 
Net decrease in cash
  (90,033 )
 
Cash, beginning balance
559,632
 
 
Cash, ending balance
$ 469,599
 
 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
Noncash financing activities not included herein consist of reinvestment of dividends and distributions of $23,552,467.
Cash paid for interest on bank borrowings$679,433.
Cash paid for interest on short-term floating rate notes issued$5,545,272.

 


 

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
                                         
Class A Year Ended July 31,   2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period
$ 11.98 $ 11.90 $ 12.03 $ 10.76 $ 10.51
 
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income
.57 1 .52 1 .55 1 .62 1 .67
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
  (2.01 ) .09   (.09 ) 1.32 .23
 
Total from investment operations
  (1.44 ) .61 .46 1.94 .90
 
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income
  (.54 )   (.53 )   (.59 )   (.67 )   (.65 )
 
Net asset value, end of period
$ 10.00 $ 11.98 $ 11.90 $ 12.03 $ 10.76
 
 
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2
  (12.20 )%   5.13 %   3.93 %   18.46 %   8.63 %
 
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$ 467,974 $ 591,238 $ 371,295 $ 200,831 $ 94,214
 
Average net assets (in thousands)
$ 526,573 $ 486,782 $ 287,248 $ 133,634 $ 78,828
 
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income
  5.20 %   4.32 %   4.67 %   5.41 %   6.28 %
Expenses excluding interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued
  0.84 %   0.82 %   0.90 %   0.91 %   0.98 %
Interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued4
  0.70 %   0.62 %   0.63 %   0.35 %   0.32 %
 
Total expenses
  1.54 %   1.44 %   1.53 %   1.26 %   1.30 %
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses
  1.54 %   1.44 %   1.47 %   1.06 %   1.10 %
 
Portfolio turnover rate
  31 %   18 %   19 %   7 %   14 %
1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.
3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.
4. Interest and fee expense relates to the Funds liability for short-term floating rate notes issued in conjunction with inverse floating rate security transactions. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.

 


 

                                         
Class B Year Ended July 31,   2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period
$ 11.99 $ 11.91 $ 12.05 $ 10.78 $ 10.52
 
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income
.48 1 .43 1 .47 1 .54 1 .60
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
  (1.99 ) .08   (.11 ) 1.31 .23
 
Total from investment operations
  (1.51 ) .51 .36 1.85 .83
 
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income
  (.46 )   (.43 )   (.50 )   (.58 )   (.57 )
 
 
Net asset value, end of period
$ 10.02 $ 11.99 $ 11.91 $ 12.05 $ 10.78
 
 
 
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2
  (12.81 )%   4.30 %   3.03 %   17.53 %   7.92 %
 
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$ 52,981 $ 73,579 $ 73,887 $ 62,399 $ 51,329
 
Average net assets (in thousands)
$ 61,772 $ 75,560 $ 68,065 $ 56,755 $ 50,920
 
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income
  4.39 %   3.55 %   3.93 %   4.74 %   5.54 %
Expenses excluding interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued
  1.64 %   1.61 %   1.69 %   1.68 %   1.73 %
Interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued4
  0.70 %   0.62 %   0.63 %   0.35 %   0.32 %
 
Total expenses
  2.34 %   2.23 %   2.32 %   2.03 %   2.05 %
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses
  2.34 %   2.23 %   2.24 %   1.83 %   1.85 %
 
Portfolio turnover rate
  31 %   18 %   19 %   7 %   14 %
1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.
3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.
4. Interest and fee expense relates to the Funds liability for short-term floating rate notes issued in conjunction with inverse floating rate security transactions. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.


 

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued
                                         
Class C Year Ended July 31,   2008     2007     2006     2005     2004  
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period
$ 11.99 $ 11.91 $ 12.04 $ 10.77 $ 10.51
 
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income
.48 1 .43 1 .46 1 .53 1 .59
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
  (2.00 ) .09   (.09 ) 1.32 .24
 
Total from investment operations
  (1.52 ) .52 .37 1.85 .83
 
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income
  (.46 )   (.44 )   (.50 )   (.58 )   (.57 )
 
 
Net asset value, end of period
$ 10.01 $ 11.99 $ 11.91 $ 12.04 $ 10.77
 
 
 
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2
  (12.87 )%   4.33 %   3.14 %   17.54 %   7.91 %
 
 
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)
$ 182,780 $ 230,415 $ 138,581 $ 70,128 $ 23,795
 
Average net assets (in thousands)
$ 202,047 $ 188,557 $ 104,423 $ 40,717 $ 20,470
 
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income
  4.43 %   3.55 %   3.90 %   4.57 %   5.53 %
Expenses excluding interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued
  1.61 %   1.58 %   1.66 %   1.67 %   1.73 %
Interest and fees on short-term floating rate notes issued4
  0.70 %   0.62 %   0.63 %   0.35 %   0.32 %
 
Total expenses
  2.31 %   2.20 %   2.29 %   2.02 %   2.05 %
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses
  2.31 %   2.20 %   2.23 %   1.82 %   1.85 %
 
Portfolio turnover rate
  31 %   18 %   19 %   7 %   14 %
1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.
3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.
4. Interest and fee expense relates to the Funds liability for short-term floating rate notes issued in conjunction with inverse floating rate security transactions. See Note 1 of accompanying Notes.

 


 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Significant Accounting Policies
Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund (the Fund) is a separate series of Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust, a non-diversified, open-end management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Funds investment objective is to seek as high a level of current interest income exempt from federal and New Jersey income taxes for individual investors as is consistent with preservation of capital. The Funds investment adviser is OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (the Manager).
     The Fund offers Class A, Class B and Class C shares. Class A shares are sold at their offering price, which is normally net asset value plus a front-end sales charge. Class B and Class C shares are sold without a front-end sales charge but may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC). All classes of shares have identical rights and voting privileges with respect to the Fund in general and exclusive voting rights on matters that affect that class alone. Earnings, net assets and net asset value per share may differ due to each class having its own expenses, such as transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees and shareholder communications, directly attributable to that class. Class A, B and C have separate distribution and/or service plans. Class B shares will automatically convert to Class A shares 72 months after the date of purchase.
     The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund.
Securities Valuation. The Fund calculates the net asset value of its shares as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the Exchange), normally 4:00 P.M. Eastern time, on each day the Exchange is open for trading. Securities may be valued primarily using dealer-supplied valuations or a portfolio pricing service authorized by the Board of Trustees. Securities traded on a registered U.S. securities exchange are valued based on the last sale price of the security traded on that exchange prior to the time when the Funds assets are valued. Securities whose principal exchange is NASDAQ are valued based on the closing price reported by NASDAQ prior to the time when the Funds assets are valued. In the absence of a sale, the security is valued at the last sale price on the prior trading day, if it is within the spread of the closing bid and asked prices, and if not, at the closing bid price. Securities traded on foreign exchanges are valued based on the last sale price on the principal exchange on which the security is traded, as identified by the portfolio pricing service, prior to the time when the Funds assets are valued. In the absence of a sale, the security is valued at the official closing price on the principal exchange. Corporate, government and municipal debt instruments having a remaining maturity in excess of sixty days and all mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations and other asset-backed securities will be valued at the mean between the bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available are valued at their fair value. Securities whose values have been materially affected by what the Manager identifies as a significant event occurring before the Funds assets are valued but after the close of their respective exchanges will be fair valued. Fair value is determined in good faith using consistently applied procedures under the supervision

 


 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued
of the Board of Trustees. Shares of a registered investment company that are not traded on an exchange are valued at the acquired investment companys net asset value per share. Money market-type debt instruments with remaining maturities of sixty days or less are valued at cost adjusted by the amortization of discount or premium to maturity (amortized cost), which approximates market value.
Securities on a When-Issued or Delayed Delivery Basis. The Fund may purchase securities on a when-issued basis, and may purchase or sell securities on a delayed delivery basis. When-issued or delayed delivery refers to securities whose terms and indenture are available and for which a market exists, but which are not available for immediate delivery. Delivery and payment for securities that have been purchased by the Fund on a when-issued basis normally takes place within six months and possibly as long as two years or more after the trade date. During this period, such securities do not earn interest, are subject to market fluctuation and may increase or decrease in value prior to their delivery. The purchase of securities on a when-issued basis may increase the volatility of the Funds net asset value to the extent the Fund executes such transactions while remaining substantially fully invested. When the Fund engages in when-issued or delayed delivery transactions, it relies on the buyer or seller, as the case may be, to complete the transaction. Their failure to do so may cause the Fund to lose the opportunity to obtain or dispose of the security at a price and yield it considers advantageous. The Fund maintains internally designated assets with a market value equal to or greater than the amount of its purchase commitments. The Fund may also sell securities that it purchased on a when-issued basis or forward commitment prior to settlement of the original purchase.
As of July 31, 2008, the Fund had purchased securities issued on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis and sold securities issued on a delayed delivery basis as follows:
         
When-Issued or
Delayed Delivery
Basis Transactions
 
Purchased securities
$ 10,684,400
Inverse Floating Rate Securities. The Fund invests in inverse floating rate securities that pay interest at a rate that varies inversely with short-term interest rates. Certain of these securities may be leveraged, whereby the interest rate varies inversely at a multiple of the change in short-term rates. As interest rates rise, inverse floaters produce less current income. The price of such securities is more volatile than comparable fixed rate securities. The Fund may expose up to 20% of its total assets to the effects of leverage from its investments in inverse floaters. The Funds exposure to the effects of leverage from its investments in inverse floaters amount to $136,574,694 as of July 31, 2008, which represents 15.10% of the Funds total assets.
     Certain inverse floating rate securities are created when the Fund purchases and subsequently transfers a municipal bond security (the municipal bond) to a broker dealer. The municipal bond is typically a fixed rate security. The broker dealer (the sponsor)

creates a trust (the Trust) and deposits the municipal bond. The Trust issues short-term floating rate notes available to third parties and a residual interest in the municipal bond (referred to as an inverse floating rate security) to the Fund. The terms of these inverse floating rate securities grant the Fund the right to require that the Trust issuing the inverse floating rate security compel a tender of the short-term floating rate notes to facilitate the Funds repurchase of the underlying municipal bond. Following such a request, the Fund pays the sponsor the principal amount due to the holders of the short-term floating rate notes issued by the Trust and exchanges the inverse floating rate security for the underlying municipal bond. These transactions are considered secured borrowings for financial reporting purposes. As a result of such accounting treatments, the Fund includes the municipal bond position on its Statement of Investments (but do not separately include the inverse floating rate securities received). The Fund also includes the value of the municipal bond and a payable amount equal to the short-term floating rate notes issued by the Trust on its Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The interest rates on these short-term floating rate notes reset periodically, usually weekly. The holders of these short-term floating rate notes have the option to tender their investment, to the sponsor or the Trusts liquidity provider, for redemption at par at each reset date. Income from the municipal bond position and the interest expense on the payable for the short-term floating rate notes issued by the Trust are recorded on the Funds Statement of Operations. At July 31, 2008, municipal bond holdings with a value of $189,661,135 shown on the Funds Statement of Investments are held by such Trusts and serve as collateral for the $150,510,000 in short-term floating rate notes issued and outstanding at that date.
At July 31, 2008, the Funds residual exposure to these types of inverse floating rate securities were as follows:
                                 
Principal Coupon Maturity  
Amount     Inverse Floater1   Rates2     Date     Value  
$ 2,170,000  
NJ EDA RITES3
  6.044 % 3/1/27 $ 2,310,746
  9,045,000  
NJ EDA ROLs
10.234 3/1/30 9,659,698
  4,520,000  
NJ EDA ROLs
10.234 3/1/28 4,908,991
  13,135,000  
NJ Health Care Facilities Financing Authority ROLs3
1.070 11/15/33 4,465,900
  2,500,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency ROLs
10.090 10/1/22 1,527,250
  1,670,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency ROLs
8.110 10/1/27 926,817
  2,055,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency ROLs
10.370 4/1/30 1,740,934
  1,500,000  
NJ Hsg. & Mortgage Finance Agency ROLs
9.250 10/1/37 894,465
  2,500,000  
NJ Reset Optional Certificates Trust II ROLs
9.679 9/1/36 2,592,250
  2,625,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 2271st Series ROLs3
12.490 10/1/30 2,323,073
  2,305,000  
Port Authority NY/NJ, 238th Series ROLs
9.611 12/15/32 2,254,336
  2,500,000  
Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority ROLs
12.300 7/1/47 2,376,700
  5,865,000  
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority ROLs3
2.835 7/1/31 1,559,973
  4,000,000  
Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority ROLs3
0.640 7/1/45 580,000
  3,330,000  
Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp. ROLs3
3.090 8/1/57 1,030,002
     
 
 
     
 
$ 39,151,135
     
 
 

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued
1. For a list of abbreviations used in the Inverse Floater table see the Portfolio Abbreviations table on page F12 of the Statement of Investments.
2. Represents the current interest rate for a variable rate bond known as an inverse floater.
3. Security is subject to a shortfall and forbearance agreement.
The Fund enters into shortfall and forbearance agreements with the sponsors of certain inverse floaters held by the Fund. These agreements commit the Fund to reimburse the sponsor of the inverse floater, in certain circumstances, for the amount of the difference between the liquidation value of the underlying security (which is the basis of the inverse floater) and the principal amount due to the holders of the short-term floating rate notes issued by the Trust in conjunction with the inverse floating rate security. Under the standard terms of an inverse floating rate security, absent such a shortfall and forbearance agreement, the Fund would not be required to make such a reimbursement. The Manager monitors the Funds potential exposure with respect to these agreements on a daily basis and intends to take action to terminate the Funds investment in such inverse floating rate securities, if it deems it appropriate to do so. As of July 31, 2008, in addition to the exposure detailed in the preceding table, the Funds maximum exposure under such agreements is estimated at approximately $69,950,000.
Credit Risk. The Fund invests in high-yield, non-investment-grade bonds, which may be subject to a greater degree of credit risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer to meet interest or principal payments or both as they become due. The Fund may acquire securities in default, and is not obligated to dispose of securities whose issuers subsequently default. As of July 31, 2008, securities with an aggregate market value of $7,072,695, representing 1.01% of the Funds net assets, were in default.
Concentration Risk. There are certain risks arising from geographic concentration in any state. Certain economic, regulatory or political developments occurring in the state may impair the ability of certain issuers of municipal securities to pay principal and interest on their obligations.
Allocation of Income, Expenses, Gains and Losses. Income, expenses (other than those attributable to a specific class), gains and losses are allocated on a daily basis to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of net assets represented by such class. Operating expenses directly attributable to a specific class are charged against the operations of that class.
Federal Taxes. The Fund intends to comply with provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute substantially all of its investment company taxable income, including any net realized gain on investments not offset by capital loss carryforwards, if any, to shareholders. Therefore, no federal income or excise tax provision is required. The Fund files income tax returns in U.S. federal and applicable state jurisdictions. The statute of limitations on the Funds tax return filings generally remain open for the three preceding fiscal reporting period ends.


 

The tax components of capital shown in the following table represent distribution requirements the Fund must satisfy under the income tax regulations, losses the Fund may be able to offset against income and gains realized in future years and unrealized appreciation or depreciation of securities and other investments for federal income tax purposes.
                         
Net Unrealized
Depreciation
Based on Cost of
Securities and
Undistributed Undistributed Accumulated Other Investments
Net Investment Long-Term Loss for Federal Income
Income   Gain     Carryforward1,2,3,4     Tax Purposes  
$2,578,432
$ $ 14,601,874 $ 116,984,466
1. As of July 31, 2008, the Fund had $3,197,963 of net capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized capital gains, if any, and thereby reduce future taxable gain distributions. As of July 31, 2008, details of the capital loss carryforwards were as follows:
         
Expiring        
2010
$ 1,401,537
2012
115,750
2014
34,199
2016
1,646,477
 
 
Total
$ 3,197,963
 
 
     
2. As of July 31, 2008, the Fund had $11,403,911 of post-October losses available to offset future realized capital gains, if any. Such losses, if unutilized, will expire in 2017.
3. During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2008, the Fund did not utilize any capital loss carryforward.
4. During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2007, the Fund utilized $2,715,617 of capital loss carryforward to offset capital gains realized in that fiscal year.
Net investment income (loss) and net realized gain (loss) may differ for financial statement and tax purposes. The character of dividends and distributions made during the fiscal year from net investment income or net realized gains may differ from their ultimate characterization for federal income tax purposes. Also, due to timing of dividends and distributions, the fiscal year in which amounts are distributed may differ from the fiscal year in which the income or net realized gain was recorded by the Fund.
The tax character of distributions paid during the years ended July 31, 2008 and July 31, 2007 was as follows:
                 
Year Ended Year Ended
    July 31, 2008   July 31, 2007
Distributions paid from:
Exempt-interest dividends
$ 37,375,134 $ 30,401,095
Ordinary income
41,999 17,605
 
Total
$ 37,417,133 $ 30,418,700
 

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued
The aggregate cost of securities and other investments and the composition of unrealized appreciation and depreciation of securities and other investments for federal income tax purposes as of July 31, 2008 are noted in the following table. The primary difference between book and tax appreciation or depreciation of securities and other investments, if applicable, is attributable to the tax deferral of losses or tax realization of financial statement unrealized gain or loss.
         
Federal tax cost of securities
$ 861,409,755
 
 
 
Gross unrealized appreciation
$ 879,128
Gross unrealized depreciation
  (117,863,594 )
 
 
Net unrealized depreciation
$ (116,984,466 )
 
 
Trustees Compensation. The Fund has adopted an unfunded retirement plan (the Plan) for the Funds independent trustees. Benefits are based on years of service and fees paid to each trustee during their period of service. The Plan was frozen with respect to adding new participants effective December 31, 2006 (the Freeze Date) and existing Plan Participants as of the Freeze Date will continue to receive accrued benefits under the Plan. Active independent trustees as of the Freeze Date have each elected a distribution method with respect to their benefits under the Plan. During the year ended July 31, 2008, the Funds projected benefit obligations, payments to retired trustees and accumulated liability were as follows:
         
Projected Benefit Obligations Increased
$ 12,099
Payments Made to Retired Trustees
5,363
Accumulated Liability as of July 31, 2008
54,001
The Board of Trustees has adopted a compensation deferral plan for independent trustees that enables trustees to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual compensation they are entitled to receive from the Fund. For purposes of determining the amount owed to the Trustee under the plan, deferred amounts are treated as though equal dollar amounts had been invested in shares of the Fund or in other Oppenheimer funds selected by the Trustee. The Fund purchases shares of the funds selected for deferral by the Trustee in amounts equal to his or her deemed investment, resulting in a Fund asset equal to the deferred compensation liability. Such assets are included as a component of Other within the asset section of the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Deferral of trustees fees under the plan will not affect the net assets of the Fund, and will not materially affect the Funds assets, liabilities or net investment income per share. Amounts will be deferred until distributed in accordance to the compensation deferral plan.
Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders. Dividends and distributions to shareholders, which are determined in accordance with income tax regulations and may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, are recorded on the ex-dividend date.


 

Income distributions, if any, are declared daily and paid monthly. Capital gain distributions, if any, are declared and paid annually.
Investment Income. Interest income is recognized on an accrual basis. Discount and premium, which are included in interest income on the Statement of Operations, are amortized or accreted daily.
Custodian Fees. Custodian fees and expenses in the Statement of Operations may include interest expense incurred by the Fund on any cash overdrafts of its custodian account during the period. Such cash overdrafts may result from the effects of failed trades in portfolio securities and from cash outflows resulting from unanticipated shareholder redemption activity. The Fund pays interest to its custodian on such cash overdrafts, to the extent they are not offset by positive cash balances maintained by the Fund, at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%. The Reduction to custodian expenses line item, if applicable, represents earnings on cash balances maintained by the Fund during the period. Such interest expense and other custodian fees may be paid with these earnings.
Security Transactions. Security transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.
Indemnifications. The Funds organizational documents provide current and former trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Funds maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.
Other. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
2. Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund has authorized an unlimited number of no par value shares of beneficial interest of each class. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:
                                 
Year Ended July 31, 2008 Year Ended July 31, 2007
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
Class A
Sold
14,838,614 $ 164,225,523 23,410,659 $ 284,761,943
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested
1,548,571 16,757,573 1,100,129 13,364,563
Redeemed
  (18,964,978 )   (208,557,292 )   (6,358,993 )   (77,150,079 )
 
Net increase (decrease)
  (2,577,793 ) $ (27,574,196 ) 18,151,795 $ 220,976,427
 
 
Class B
Sold
589,209 $ 6,462,965 1,143,370 $ 13,922,058
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested
151,893 1,646,057 137,950 1,678,223
Redeemed
  (1,586,728 )   (17,486,350 )   (1,348,661 )   (16,414,891 )
 
Net decrease
  (845,626 ) $ (9,377,328 )   (67,341 ) $ (814,610 )
 
 
Class C
Sold
4,914,635 $ 53,827,810 9,578,020 $ 116,616,588
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested
475,838 5,148,837 321,342 3,906,782
Redeemed
  (6,355,032 )   (69,761,472 )   (2,316,616 )   (28,135,912 )
 
Net increase (decrease)
  (964,559 ) $ (10,784,825 ) 7,582,746 $ 92,387,458
 
3. Purchases and Sales of Securities
The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term obligations, for the year ended July 31, 2008, were as follows:
                 
    Purchases     Sales  
Investment securities
$ 243,797,639 $ 333,487,606
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates
Management Fees. Under the investment advisory agreement, the Fund pays the Manager a management fee based on the daily net assets of the Fund at an annual rate as shown in the following table:
         
Fee Schedule        
Up to $200 million
  0.60 %
Next $100 million
0.55
Next $200 million
0.50
Next $250 million
0.45
Next $250 million
0.40
Over $1 billion
0.35


 

Transfer Agent Fees. OppenheimerFunds Services (OFS), a division of the Manager, acts as the transfer and shareholder servicing agent for the Fund. The Fund pays OFS a per account fee. For the year ended July 31, 2008, the Fund paid $336,484 to OFS for services to the Fund.
Distribution and Service Plan (12b-1) Fees. Under its General Distributors Agreement with the Fund, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (the Distributor) acts as the Funds principal underwriter in the continuous public offering of the Funds classes of shares.
Service Plan for Class A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan for Class A shares. It reimburses the Distributor for a portion of its costs incurred for services provided to accounts that hold Class A shares. Reimbursement is made periodically at an annual rate of up to 0.15% of the average annual net assets of Class A shares of the Fund. The Board of Trustees can increase that fee to 0.25% of average net assets without shareholder approval. Shareholders will be notified of any such change. The Distributor currently uses all of those fees to pay dealers, brokers, banks and other financial institutions periodically for providing personal services and maintenance of accounts of their customers that hold Class A shares. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be recovered in subsequent periods. Fees incurred by the Fund under the Plan are detailed in the Statement of Operations.
Distribution and Service Plans for Class B and Class C Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans for Class B and Class C shares to compensate the Distributor for its services in connection with the distribution of those shares and servicing accounts. Under the plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge of 0.75% on Class B and Class C shares. The Distributor also receives a service fee of 0.15% per year under each plan. However, the Board of Trustees can increase that fee to 0.25% of average net assets without shareholder approval. Shareholders will be notified of any such change. If either the Class B or Class C plan is terminated by the Fund or by the shareholders of a class, the Board of Trustees and its independent trustees must determine whether the Distributor shall be entitled to payment from the Fund of all or a portion of the service fee and/or asset-based sales charge in respect to shares sold prior to the effective date of such termination. The Distributor determines its uncompensated expenses under the plan at calendar quarter ends. The Distributors aggregate uncompensated expenses under the plan at June 30, 2008 for Class B and Class C shares were $2,413,944 and $2,797,747, respectively. Fees incurred by the Fund under the plans are detailed in the Statement of Operations.
Sales Charges. Front-end sales charges and contingent deferred sales charges (CDSC) do not represent expenses of the Fund. They are deducted from the proceeds of sales of Fund shares prior to investment or from redemption proceeds prior to remittance, as applicable. The sales charges retained by the Distributor from the sale of shares and the CDSC retained by the Distributor on the redemption of shares is shown in the following table for the period indicated.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates Continued
                                 
Class A Class B Class C
Class A Contingent Contingent Contingent
Front-End Deferred Deferred Deferred
Sales Charges Sales Charges Sales Charges Sales Charges
Retained by Retained by Retained by Retained by
Year Ended   Distributor   Distributor   Distributor   Distributor
July 31, 2008
$247,133 $84,703 $176,188 $73,440
Waivers and Reimbursements of Expenses. OFS has voluntarily agreed to limit transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees for all classes to 0.35% of average annual net assets per class. This undertaking may be amended or withdrawn at any time.
     During the year ended July 31, 2008, the Manager voluntarily reimbursed the Fund $891 for certain transactions. The payment increased the Funds total return by less than 0.01%.
5. Illiquid Securities
As of July 31, 2008, investments in securities included issues that are illiquid. Investments may be illiquid because they do not have an active trading market, making it difficult to value them or dispose of them promptly at an acceptable price. The Fund will not invest more than 15% of its net assets (determined at the time of purchase and reviewed periodically) in illiquid securities. Securities that are illiquid are marked with an applicable footnote on the Statement of Investments.
6. Borrowings
The Fund can borrow money from banks in amounts up to one third of its total assets (including the amount borrowed) less all liabilities and indebtedness other than borrowings to purchase portfolio securities, to meet redemption obligations or for temporary and emergency purposes. The purchase of securities with borrowed funds creates leverage in the Fund. The use of leverage will subject the Fund to greater costs than funds that do not borrow for leverage, and may also make the Funds share price more sensitive to interest changes. The interest on borrowed money is an expense that might reduce the Funds yield. Expenses incurred by the Fund with respect to interest on borrowings and commitment fees are disclosed separately or as other expenses on the Statement of Operations.
     The Fund entered into a Revolving Credit and Security Agreement (the Agreement) with a conduit lender and a bank which enables it to participate with certain other Oppenheimer funds in a committed, secured borrowing facility that permits borrowings of up to $1.25 billion, collectively. To secure the loan, the Fund pledges investment securities in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. Interest is charged to the Fund, based on its borrowings, at current commercial paper issuance rates (2.7228% as of July 31, 2008). The Fund pays additional fees annually to its lender on its outstanding borrowings to manage and administer the facility and is allocated its pro-rata share of an annual commitment fee on the amount of the unused portion of the total facility size. The Fund

 

has the right to prepay such loans and terminate its participation in the conduit loan facility at any time upon prior notice.
As of July 31, 2008, the Fund had borrowings outstanding at an interest rate of 2.7228%. Details of the borrowings for the year ended July 31, 2008 are as follows:
         
Average Daily Loan Balance
$ 18,245,355
Average Daily Interest Rate
  4.214 %
Fees Paid
$ 107,172
Interest Paid
$ 679,433
7. Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 157, Fair Value Measurements. This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those fiscal years. As of July 31, 2008, the Manager does not believe the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will materially impact the financial statement amounts; however, additional disclosures may be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements and the effect of certain of the measurements on changes in net assets for the period.
     In March 2008, FASB issued SFAS No. 161, Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. This standard requires enhanced disclosures about derivative and hedging activities, including qualitative disclosures about how and why the Fund uses derivative instruments, how these activities are accounted for, and their effect on the Funds financial position, financial performance and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008 and interim periods within those fiscal years. At this time, management is evaluating the implications of SFAS No. 161 and its impact on the Funds financial statements and related disclosures.


APPENDIX A

MUNICIPAL BOND RATINGS

A bond rating performs the isolated function of credit risk evaluation. A bond rating does not constitute a recommendation to invest in a bond and does not take into consideration the risk preference of the investor. While many factors go into the investment decision making process, the bond rating is often the single most important factor affecting the interest cost on bonds.
 
There are three major nationally-recognized rating agencies for municipal bonds: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (Standard & Poor's), Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (Moody's) and Fitch Ratings (Fitch). Of the three rating agencies, Standard & Poor's and Moody's rate over 80% of all municipal and corporate bonds. Below are summaries of the rating definitions used by Standard & Poors, Moodys and Fitch for municipal securities.

In assigning a rating for general obligation bonds, the rating agencies generally assess, among other things, the following factors: economy, debt structure, financial c ondition, demographic factors, and management practices of the governing body and administration. The above criteria are also used to analyze revenue bonds and lease obligations although additional credit criteria is considered (e.g., users and user charges for utilities) and the covenants and protections offered by the bond documents are highly important. Rating agencies use mathematical ratios to compare an issuer to others; however, a rating is not a scientific evaluation and subjective evaluation appears to also play a role in the final rating assigned.

Those ratings represent the opinion of the agency as to the credit quality of issues that they rate. The summaries below are based upon publicly-available information provided by the rating organizations.

Municipal Long-Term Rating Definitions

Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poors may modify ratings from AA to CCC by the addition of a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

AAA: An obligation rated AAA has the highest rating assigned by Standard & Poors. The obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.
 

AA: An obligation rated AA differs from the highest-rated obligations only in small degree. The obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.
 

A: An obligation rated A are somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.

BBB: An obligation rated BBB exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

 

BB, B, CCC, CC, and C
 

An obligation rated BB, B, CCC, CC, and C are regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. BB indicates the least degree of speculation and C the highest. While such obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.
 

BB: An obligation rated BB are less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, which could lead to the obligors inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

B: An obligation rated B are more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated BB, but the obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely impair the obligors capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

CCC: An obligation rated CCC are currently vulnerable to nonpayment and are dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

CC: An obligation rated CC are currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.
 

C: The C rating may be used to cover a situation where a bankruptcy petition has been filed or similar action has been taken, but payments on this obligation are being continued.
 

D: An obligation rated D are in payment default. The D rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poors believes that such payments will be made during such grace period. The D rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.
 

Moody's
 

Moody's applies numerical modifiers 1, 2, and 3 in each generic rating category from Aa through Caa.

     

The modifier 1 indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category;


     

the modifier 2 indicates a mid- range ranking; and


     

the modifier 3 indicates a ranking in the lower end of that generic rating category.


Aaa: Issuers or issues rated Aaa demonstrate the strongest creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.
 

Aa: Issuers or issues rated Aa demonstrate very strong creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.
 

A: Issuers or issues rated A present above-average creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.

Baa: Issuers or issues rated Baa represent average creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax- exempt issuers or issues.

Ba: Issuers or issues rated Ba demonstrate below-average creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.

B: Issuers or issues rated B demonstrate weak creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax- exempt issuers or issues.

Caa: Issuers or issues rated Caa demonstrate very weak creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.

Ca: Issuers or issues rated Ca demonstrate extremely weak creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.

C: Issuers or issues rated C demonstrate the weakest creditworthiness relative to other U.S. municipal or tax-exempt issuers or issues.
 

Fitch
 

Plus (+) or Minus (-): The ratings from AA to C may be modified by the addition of a plus or minus sign to indicate the relative position of a credit within the rating category.
 

AAA: Bonds considered to be investment grade and of the highest credit quality. The obligor has an exceptionally strong ability to pay interest and repay principal, which is unlikely to be affected by reasonably foreseeable events.
 

AA: Bonds considered to be investment grade and of very high credit quality. The obligor's ability to pay interest and repay principal is very strong, although not quite as strong as bonds rated AAA. Because bonds rated in the AAA and AA categories are not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable future developments, short-term debt of these issuers is generally rated F-1+.
 

A: Bonds considered to be investment grade and of high credit quality. The obligors ability to pay interest and repay principal is considered to be strong, but may be more vulnerable to adverse changes in economic conditions and circumstances than bonds with higher ratings.
 

BBB: Bonds considered to be investment grade and of satisfactory credit quality. The obligors ability to pay interest and repay principal is considered to be adequate. Adverse changes in economic conditions and circumstances, however, are more likely to have adverse impact on these bonds, and therefore, impair timely payment. The likelihood that the ratings of these bonds will fall below investment grade is higher than for bonds with higher ratings.
 

BB: Bonds are considered speculative. The obligors ability to pay interest and repay principal may be affected over time by adverse economic changes. However, business and financial alternatives can be identified that could assist the obligor in satisfying its debt service requirements.
 

B: Bonds are considered highly speculative. While bonds in this class are currently meeting debt service requirements, the probability of continued timely payment of principal and interest reflects the obligors limited margin of safety and the need for reasonable business and economic activity throughout the life of the issue.
 

CCC: Bonds have certain identifiable characteristics which, if not remedied, may lead to default. The ability to meet obligations requires an advantageous business and economic environment.
 

CC: Bonds are minimally protected. Default in payment of interest and/or principal seems probable over time.
 

C: Bonds are in imminent default in payment of interest or principal.
 

DDD, DD, and D: Bonds are in default on interest and/or principal payments. Such bonds are extremely speculative and should be valued on the basis of their ultimate recovery value in liquidation or reorganization of the obligor. DDD represents the highest potential for recovery on these bonds, and D represents the lowest potential for recovery.
 

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Municipal short-Term Obligation Ratings

Standard & Poors

Short-term ratings are generally assigned to those obligations considered short-term in the relevant market. In the U.S., for example, that means obligations with an original maturity of no more than one year, including commercial paper.

A-1: A short-term obligation rated A-1 is rated in the highest category by Standard & Poors. The obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on these obligations is extremely strong.
 

A-2: A short-term obligation rated A-2 is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligors capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.
 

A-3: A short-term obligation rated A-3 exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

B: A short-term obligation rated B is regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. The obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation; however, it faces major ongoing uncertainties which could lead to the obligors inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

C: A short-term obligation rated C is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

D: A short-term obligation rated D is in payment default. The D rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poors believes that such payments will be made during such grace period. The D rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.

Notes. A Standard & Poors note rating reflects the liquidity factors and market access risks unique to notes. Notes due in three years or less will likely receive a note rating. Notes maturing beyond three years will most likely receive a long-term debt rating. The following criteria will be used in making that assessment:

     

Amortization schedule-the larger the final maturity relative to other maturities, the more likely it will
be treated as a note; and


     

Source of payment-the more dependent the issue is on the market for its refinancing, the more likely
it will be treated as a note.


SP-1: Strong capacity to pay principal and interest. An issue with a very strong capacity to pay debt service is given a (+) designation.
 

SP-2: Satisfactory capacity to pay principal and interest, with some vulnerability to adverse financial and economic changes over the term of the notes.
 

SP-3: Speculative capacity to pay principal and interest.
 

Moodys

Moodys uses three rating categories for short-term obligations that are considered investment grade. These ratings are designated as Moody's Investment Grade (MIG) and are divided into three levels -- MIG 1 through MIG 3. In addition, those short-term obligations that are of speculative quality are designated SG, or speculative grade.
 

Variable Rate Demand Obligations (VRDOs). In the case of VRDOs, a two-component rating is assigned. The first element represents Moody's evaluation of the degree of risk associated with scheduled principal and interest payments. The second element represents Moody's evaluation of the degree of risk associated with the demand feature, using the MIG rating scale.
 
The short-term rating assigned to the demand feature of VRDOs is designated as VMIG.
If either the long- or short-term aspect of a VRDO is not rated, that piece is designated NR, e.g., Aaa/NR or NR/VMIG 1. MIG ratings expire at note maturity. By contrast, VMIG rating expirations will be a function of each issue's specific structural or credit features.

MIG 1/VMIG 1: Denotes superior credit quality. Excellent protection is afforded by established cash flows, highly reliable liquidity support or demonstrated broad-based access to the market for refinancing.
 

MIG 2/VMIG 2: Denotes strong credit quality. Margins of protection are ample although not as large as in the preceding group.
 

MIG 3/VMIG 3: Denotes acceptable credit quality. Liquidity and cash-flow protection may be narrow, and market access for refinancing is likely to be less well established.
 

SG: Denotes speculative-grade credit quality. Debt instruments in this category may lack margins of protection.
 

Fitch

F-1+: Exceptionally Strong Credit Quality. Issues assigned this rating are regarded as having the strongest degree of assurance for timely payment.
 

F-1: Very Strong Credit Quality. Issues assigned this rating reflect an assurance of timely payment only slightly less in degree than issues rated F-1+.
 

F-2: Good Credit Quality. Issues carrying this rating have a satisfactory degree of assurance for timely payment, but the margin of safety is not as great as the F-1+ and F-1 categories.
 

F-3: Fair Credit Quality. Issues carrying this rating have characteristics suggesting that the degree of assurance for timely payment is adequate, however, near-term adverse change could cause these securities to be rated below investment grade.

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Appendix B

Special Considerations Relating to Municipal Obligations in New Jersey and U.S. Territories, Commonwealths and Possessions.

Because the Fund invests in securities issued by New Jersey or entities within New Jersey, an investment in the Fund may involve greater risk than investments in certain other types of municipal bond funds. You should consider carefully the special risks inherent in the Fund's investment in New Jersey municipal securities.

The Fund also invests in municipal securities issued by certain territories, commonwealths and possessions of the United States that pay interest that is exempt (in the opinion of the issuer's legal counsel when the security is issued) from federal income tax and the Funds state personal income tax. Therefore, the Fund's investments could be affected by the fiscal stability of, for example, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam or the Mariana Islands. Additionally, the Funds investments could be affected by economic, legislative, regulatory or political developments affecting issuers in those territories, commonwealths or possessions.

        Following is a discussion of the special considerations relating to the Funds investments in municipal securities issued by New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Mariana Islands.

New Jersey

The following information constitutes only a brief summary, does not purport to be a complete description, and is based on information drawn from official statements relating to securities offerings of the State of New Jersey (the State) and various local agencies available as of the date of this Statement of Additional Information. While neither the Manager nor the Fund has independently verified this information, neither has reason to believe that such information is not correct in all material respects. The information below is intended only as a general summary and is not intended as a discussion of any specific factor that may affect any particular obligation or issuer.

General Information

Demographics. New Jersey is the tenth largest state in population and the fifth smallest in land area. With an average of 1,176 persons per square mile, it is the most densely populated of all the states. New Jersey is located at the center of the megalopolis that extends from Boston to Washington D.C., which includes over one-fifth of the nation's population. New Jersey's extensive port developments augment the air, land and water transportation complex that influences much of the State's economy.

The State's economic base is diversified, consisting of a variety of manufacturing, construction and service industries, supplemented by rural areas with selective commercial agriculture. New Jersey is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north and northwest by lakes and mountains, providing recreation for both residents and tourists. Since 1976, casino gambling in Atlantic City has been an important State tourist attraction.

Economic Outlook. New Jersey's economy continued to expand in 2007, but at a slower pace compared to the steady economic growth in 2006. The State added about 151,600 jobs between March 2003 and December 2007. New Jersey's monthly unemployment rate was 4.5% in December 2007 and remained below the national unemployment rate.

State Funds and Accounting

The State operates on a fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. Annual budgets are adopted for the General Fund and certain special revenue funds. The Legislature enacts the annual budget through specific departmental appropriations, the sum of which may not exceed estimated resources. It is a Constitutional requirement that the annual State budget be balanced. Pursuant to the State Constitution, no money may be drawn from the State Treasury except for appropriations made by law. In addition, all monies for the support of State government and all other State purposes, as far as can be reasonably ascertained or predicted, must be provided for in one general appropriation law covering the span of a single fiscal year. No general appropriations law or other law appropriating money for any State purpose may be enacted if the amount of money appropriated, together with all other appropriations for that fiscal year, exceeds the total amount of revenue available (current and anticipated) for such fiscal year, as certified by the Governor.

State Funds.

General Fund. This fund is the fund into which all State revenues, not otherwise restricted by State statute, are deposited and from which appropriations are made. The largest part of the total financial operations of the State is accounted for in the General Fund. Most revenues received from taxes, most Federal sources, and certain miscellaneous revenue items are recorded in this fund. The Appropriations Act, annually enacted by the Legislature, provides the basic framework for the operations of the General Fund.

Property Tax Relief Fund. This fund accounts for revenues from the Gross Income Tax, which are dedicated by the State Constitution. All receipts from taxes levied on personal income of individuals, estates and trusts must be appropriated exclusively for the purpose of reducing or offsetting property taxes. Annual appropriations are made from the fund, pursuant to formulas established by the Legislature, to counties, municipalities and school districts. During Fiscal Year 2007, $11.7 billion of property tax relief expenditures were made. The Property Tax Relief Fund's Fiscal Year 2007 ending unreserved-undesignated fund balance was $690.7 million. Of this amount, $649.3 million represents the 0.5% of the Sales and Use Tax constitutional dedication to property tax relief that was enacted in Fiscal Year 2007 and not appropriated until Fiscal Year 2008.

State Lottery Fund. Monies derived from the sale of State lottery tickets are deposited into this fund. Disbursements are authorized for the payment of prizes to holders of winning lottery tickets and for the administrative expenses of the Division of State Lottery. Available fund balances are transferred to the State's General Fund in support of the amounts annually appropriated for State institutions and for education. The present value of obligations for future installment payments of lottery prizes, which are funded by the purchase of deposit fund contracts, are accounted for in this fund. The Lottery is a major source of revenue for State education and institutions. In Fiscal Year 2007, gross revenues totaled $2.4 billion, of which $1.4 billion was returned in prizes, $828.3 million went to state education and institutions, $184.8 million was paid to sales agents and ticket vendors, and $28.3 million covered Lottery operational and promotional expenses. As of June 30, 2007, the State Lottery, since its inception, has generated over $41.8 billion in gross revenues, $21.9 billion in prizes, and contributed $16.4 billion to the State.

Special Revenue Funds. These funds account for the resources legally restricted to expenditure for specified purposes. Such purposes must be other than special assessments, private-purpose trusts, or major capital projects. Special Revenue Funds include the Casino Control Fund, the Casino Revenue Fund and the Gubernatorial Elections Fund. Other Special Revenue Funds have been created that are either reported ultimately in the General Fund or are created to hold revenues derived from private sources.

Capital Projects Funds. These funds are used to account for financial resources, usually general obligation bonds, to be used for the acquisition or construction of major capital facilities for the State. Such projects may include mental health, educational and correctional facilities and public transportation projects.

Fiduciary Funds. These funds include the Pension Trust Fund, the Investment Trust Fund, the Agency Funds, Private-Purpose Trust Funds and Agency Funds. These funds hold and report financial resources for their respective beneficiaries.

Proprietary Funds. These funds may be used to report any activity for which a fee is charged to external use for goods and services. Activities are required to be reported as enterprise funds if laws or regulations require that the activity's cost of providing services be recovered with fees and charges, rather than with taxes or similar revenues.

Other Revenue Sources.

Federal Aid. Actual Federal aid receipts in the General Fund and Special Transportation Fund for Fiscal Years 2005 through 2007 amounted to approximately $8,010.3 million, $8,483.4 million and $8,759.4 million, respectively. Federal aid receipts in the General Fund and Special Transportation Fund for Fiscal Year 2008 and 2009 as contained in the Governor's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Message are estimated to be $9,608.4 million and $9,601.2 million, respectively.

Atlantic City and Legalized Gambling. Legalized casino gambling was introduced into Atlantic City in 1977. The Casino Revenue Fund accounts for the taxes imposed on the casinos and other related activities. Collections for Fiscal Year 2007 were approximately $447 million. Fiscal Year 2008 collections are estimated to total $412 million, an 8.5% decrease from Fiscal Year 2007. Fiscal Year 2009 estimates are $425.8 million. Both estimates reflect the phase down of certain provisions included in legislation enacted in Fiscal Year 2004 as well as taking into account the negative impact of slot machine venues that have opened in Pennsylvania.

State Economy and Finances

Fiscal Year 2007 Summary. For Fiscal Year 2007, the General Fund's ending fund balance totaled $4.6 billion, of which $2.9 billion represented unreserved fund balances. During Fiscal Year 2007, the States' total fund balance increased by $243.6 million. The Surplus Revenue Fund is an account within the State's General Fund that is used as a "Rainy Day Fund." Surplus revenue is defined as an amount equivalent to 50% of the excess between the amount certified by the Governor at the time of the approval of the annual budget and the amount of General Fund revenue reported from the annual financial report of the General Fund for that fiscal year. During Fiscal Year 2007, the State withdrew $100 million from the Surplus Revenue Fund. This amount was offset by $24.8 million in interest earnings that accrued on its fund balance during the fiscal year.

Fiscal Year 2007 expenditures totaled $49.4 billion, a decrease of $1.3 billion from the prior fiscal year. This decrease was primarily due to the mandated reclassification of certain funds. Offsets included increases of $767.9 million for educational, cultural and intellectual development, $477.9 million for transportation programs, $385.7 million for economic planning, development, and security, and $361.9 million for public safety and criminal justice. Overall, 49.9% of all State expenditures occurred in the areas of education, higher education, and physical and mental health. Total expenditures were $3.6 billion lower than original appropriations set forth in the annual budget plus supplemental appropriations enacted during the fiscal year. A major cause for under spending resulted from the State's historical practice of over appropriating Federal funds. This practice allows the State to receive the maximum Federal dollars that become available. During Fiscal Year 2007, the State's appropriation of federal funds and other grants exceeded expenditures by $1.6 billion. These excess appropriations are available for use in future years. From a program perspective, under spending in Fiscal Year 2007 includes $907.4 million from physical and mental health, $618.6 million from economic planning, development and security, $559.6 million from community development and environmental management, $554.0 million from government direction, management, and control, $416.4 million from public safety and criminal justice, $370.5 million from educational, cultural, and intellectual development, $107.3 million from special government services, and $62.7 million from transportation.

During Fiscal Year 2007, State revenues, including transfers, totaled $49 billion, a decrease of $1 billion from the prior fiscal year. This decrease was primarily due to the mandated reclassification of certain funds. General taxes totaled $29 billion and accounted for 59.2% of total State revenues for Fiscal Year 2007. This amount reflects a $2.3 billion increase from the prior fiscal year and reflects a partial year effect of an increase in the Sales and Use Tax rate to 7% from 6% and broadening of the Sales and Use Tax base to include certain services. The State's Gross Income Tax totaled $11.7 billion, the Sales and Use Tax totaled $8.8 billion, and the Corporation Business Tax totaled $3.1 billion. The State's three major taxes comprised 81.5% of the total general taxes that were collected during Fiscal Year 2007. On a budgetary basis, general revenues of $28 billion were $3.6 billion lower than the final Fiscal Year 2007 budget. The negative variance was primarily the result of unearned Federal and other grant revenues of $1.6 billion, taxes of $375.6 million, services and assessments of $295.9 million, and licenses and fees of $186.6 million.

Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009 Estimated Revenues and Appropriations

Sales and Use Tax. Collections for Fiscal Year 2008 are estimated to total $8.971 billion, a 4.2% increase from Fiscal Year 2007. The Fiscal Year 2009 estimate of $9.222 billion is a 2.8% increase from Fiscal Year 2008.

Gross Income Tax. Collections for Fiscal Year 2008 are estimated to total $12.172 billion, a 3.8% increase from Fiscal Year 2007. The Fiscal Year 2009 estimate of $12.866 billion is a 5.7% increase from Fiscal Year 2008. The Fiscal Year 2008 and 2009 estimates include changes to the Gross Income Tax to take into account the expansion of the State's earned income tax credit in the amount of $40 million and $60 million, respectively.

Corporation Business Tax. Collections for Fiscal Year 2008 are estimated to total $2.752 billion, a 10.8% decrease from Fiscal Year 2007. The Fiscal Year 2009 estimate of $2.549 billion is a 7.4% decrease from Fiscal Year 2008. The Fiscal Year 2008 estimated decrease is based on the expiration of the alternative minimum tax assessment, the complete phase-in of the net operating loss deduction and the reduction in the tax rate on certain corporations to 0.67% from 1.33%. It also assumes an anticipated slowdown in corporate pre-tax profit growth in 2007 and 2008.

Approximately $33.619 billion and $32.969 billion has been appropriated for Fiscal Year 2008 and Fiscal Year 2009, respectively. Of that amount, for Fiscal Year 2009, approximately $13.590 billion (41.3%) is recommended for State Aid, $11.270 billion (34.2%) is recommended for Grants-in-Aid, $6.507 billion (19.7%) is recommended for Direct State Services, $405.9 million (1.2%) is recommended for Debt Service and $1.196 billion (3.6%) is recommended for Capital Construction.

State Indebtedness

General. As of June 30, 2007, New Jersey's outstanding long-term debt totaled $38.1 billion, a $0.7 billion increase over the prior fiscal year. In addition, the State has $10.9 billion of legislatively authorized bonding capacity that has not yet been issued. During Fiscal Year 2007, the legislatively authorized bonding capacity decreased by $313.2 million

General Obligation Bonds. The State finances certain capital projects through the sale of general obligation bonds of the State. These bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the State. Certain State tax revenues and certain other fees are pledged to meet the principal payments, interest payments and redemption premium payments, if any, required to fully pay the bonds. The State has made appropriations for principal and interest payments for general obligation bonds for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2009 in the amounts of $427.8 million, $438.8 million and $405.9 million, respectively.

In Fiscal Year 2003, the State issued more than $1.5 billion in general obligation bonds to fund various projects, including school construction, refunding of various general obligation bonds, funding of public and private higher educational institutions, construction of State and municipal community projects and other various voter-approved purposes. Final maturity for these bonds ranges from 2011 to 2027, with semi-annual interest payments commencing for the issued bonds in calendar year 2003. In prior years, the State has refunded various bond issuances by creating separate irrevocable trust funds. Refunding debt has been issued and the proceeds have been used to purchase United States Treasury Obligations--State and Local Government Series that were placed in the trust funds. The investments and fixed earnings from the investments have been sufficient to fully service the defeased debt until the debt is called or matures.

During Fiscal Year 2007, the State did not refund any general obligation debt. As of June 30, 2007, the amount of defeased general obligation debt outstanding, but removed from the State's long-term obligations amounted to $943.7 million.

Revenue Bonds. This debt classification represents bond issuances whose segment of debt service is derived solely from legally restricted revenues. Revenue bonds include debt issued by the New Jersey Building Authority, the Garden State Preservation Trust, and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority. During Fiscal Year 2007, these three Authorities issued $48.7 million of bonds, none of which were refunding bonds. As of June 30, 2007, the State had $12.7 billion of revenue bonds outstanding. Another $7.1 billion of bonding authorization remains.

Installment Obligations. This debt classification represents obligations whose debt service is subject to and dependent upon the Legislature making annual appropriations. Installment obligations include bonds issued to help fund the State's school facilities construction program, and help fund the installation of college and university dormitory fire suppression equipment. During Fiscal Year 2007, these authorities issued $773.5 million of bonds, of which, $107.6 million were refunding bonds. As a result, $102.1 million of bonds have been refunded and are now considered to be defeased. The liability has been removed from the State's long-term obligations. Total debt service payments over the next 18 years were reduced by $3.9 million and resulted in a net present value savings of $2.9 million. The State's installment obligations outstanding as of June 30, 2007 total $17.2 billion. Total authorized but unissued installment obligations equal $3.0 billion as of June 30, 2007.

Certificates of Participation. Proceeds from certificates of participation are used primarily to finance State equipment needs under the State's master lease program. Currently, the State uses a line of credit as its preferred financing method. The State's Certificates of Participation outstanding as of June 30, 2007 totaled $58.8 million.

Short-Term Debt. The State's short-term note program provides effective cash flow management of imbalances that occur in the timing between collections and disbursements of State revenues and appropriations during the fiscal year. The State Treasurer is authorized to issue short-term debt instruments without it constituting a general obligation of the State, or a debt, or a liability within the meaning of the State Constitution. All short-term notes must be retired within twelve months of their issuance date.

Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes. In Fiscal Year 1992, the State initiated a program under which it issued tax and revenue anticipation notes ("TANs") to aid in providing effective cash flow management to fund imbalances that occur in the collection and disbursement of the General Fund and Property Tax Relief Fund revenues. The State has authorized the issuance of up to $2.5 billion of TANs for Fiscal Year 2008. The State issued $2 billion in TANs on September 13, 2007. These TANs are payable on June 24, 2008. Such tax and revenue anticipation notes do not constitute a general obligation of the State or a debt or liability within the meaning of the State Constitution. Such notes constitute special obligations of the State payable solely from monies on deposit in the General Fund and the Property Tax Relief Fund and legally available for such payment.

Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, Inc. In November 1998, the State entered into the master settlement agreement (the "MSA") with participating cigarette manufacturers, 46 states, and six other United States jurisdictions in the settlement of certain smoking-related litigation. During Fiscal Year 2003, the State sold to the newly established Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, Inc. ("TSFC"), the State's right, title, and beneficial ownership interest in the State's right to receive tobacco settlement payments under the MSA. In return, TSFC issued $3.5 billion of bonds to pay for the tobacco settlement rights. Proceeds were used to fund General Fund expenditures during Fiscal Year 2003 and Fiscal Year 2004. Pursuant to accounting regulations, TSFC's debt is reflected as a part of the State's debt. During Fiscal Year 2007, $4.7 billion of refunding bonds were issued, of which $1.1 billion were capital appreciation bonds. As a result, $3.4 billion of bonds have been refunded and are now considered to be defeased. The liability has been removed from the State's long-term obligations. Total debt service payments over the next 23 years were reduced by $950.2 million and resulted in a net present value savings of $25.6 million.

Litigation

The State is a party to numerous pending or threatened lawsuits in which the State has the potential for either a significant loss of revenue or a significant unanticipated expenditure. At any given time, there are various numbers of claims and cases pending against the State, State agencies and employees, seeking recovery of monetary damages that are primarily paid out of the fund created pursuant to the New Jersey Tort Claims Act. The State does not formally estimate its reserve representing potential exposure for these claims and cases. At any given time there are also various numbers of claims seeking monetary damages or other relief, which, if granted, would require the expenditure of funds. The State is unable to estimate its exposure for these claims and cases.

Puerto Rico

A significant portion of the Fund may be general obligations and/or revenue bonds of issuers located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These bonds may be affected by political, social and economic conditions in Puerto Rico. The following is a brief summary of factors affecting the economy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and does not purport to be a complete description of such factors.

Puerto Rico is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean and an estimated 3.9 million people call it home. Puerto Rico's economy continues to track those of states on the U.S. mainland and as such has slowed. Tourism has improved in the last year. The number of rented hotel rooms has increased as has the number of rooms available. The Commonwealth has recently opened a new convention center, which it hopes will attract new business and continue to improve tourism. Since 2002, the Commonwealth reports its economy has been expanding at a moderate annual rate of 2.3%, but recently, several key economic indicators have begun to indicate a slowing of activity. The Planning Board recently lowered its real gross national product forecast to a decline of 1.4% in 2007 followed by a small improvement of 0.8% in 2008. It is possible this will be revised downward.

The island's unemployment rate dropped from 13.6% in 1998 down to an average of 10.6%, 11.7%, and 11.2% in 2005, 2006 and 2007, respectively. As of January 2008, unemployment was 10.9%. The largest employment sectors include government (29%), services (31%), trade (16%) and manufacturing (11%). The manufacturing sector has undergone some major changes as pharmaceuticals, biotech and technology have proven to be growth areas for the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth's financial stresses continue. Its financial situation reached a low point in May 2006, when the government disclosed a significant budget gap of $738 million for the then current fiscal year. After a political impasse on how to handle the deficit, the Governor ordered the closing of certain non-essential government offices and schools due to the lack of money available for operations on May 1, 2006. During the shutdown, the Governor and legislative leaders were unable to agree on a loan from the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico (GDB) and what sources would be used for repayment. After an impasse, a four-person commission of non-elected citizens was charged with resolving the fiscal crisis. The commission decided on a special 1% sales tax to repay the GDB loan, and the sales tax was expected to be part of a larger sales tax that could generate a net $300-$400 million for the General Fund. Employees went back to work on May 15, 2006. After much political wrangling, including taking the sales tax to court, the legislature and Governor were able to agree on a sales tax rate, agree on spending reductions and enable a loan from the GDB.

     The budgeted General Fund expenses for fiscal year 2008 were $9.227 billion. Preliminary actual expenditures during fiscal year 2008 were $9.057 billion. Preliminary General Fund revenues for fiscal year 2008 totaled $8.253 billion, which is $418 million less than the Department of the Treasurys revised estimate for that period of $8.671 billion. This amount includes $4.359 billion in revenues from individual and corporate income taxes, $1.088 billion from non-resident withholding taxes, $864 million from excise taxes and $911 million of sales tax revenues. The foregoing difference between the preliminary General Fund revenues and preliminary actual expenses for fiscal year 2008 was covered by a recovery of approximately $287 million more in federal funds than had been budgeted, $150 million from the pending sale of certain government properties, cash flow savings resulting from restructuring of certain outstanding debt, and certain cash management procedures, which include delaying payments to certain vendors for a short period of time (carrying them over into the next fiscal year). The federal funds recovery represented reimbursement of amounts advanced by the Commonwealths Department of Education during fiscal years 2006 and 2007.
     On July 20, 2008, the Governor signed into law the General Fund budget for fiscal year 2009 of $9.484 billion, or approximately $257 million more than budgeted expenditures for fiscal year 2009 of $9.227 billion. The increase in budgeted expenditures over fiscal year 2008 is mainly due to $105 million from University of Puerto Rico, judiciary and municipal increases based on the legislated formulas and salary increases mandated by law or collective bargaining agreements. An additional $41.2 million is budgeted for the State Election Commission. The General Fund revenue projection for fiscal year 2009 is $8.488 billion, an increase of $235 million, or 2.9%, from preliminary net revenues for fiscal year 2008 of $8.253 billion. The Commonwealths budgeted expenditures for fiscal year 2009 of $9.484 billion exceed projected revenues of $8.488 by approximately $1 billion. The Commonwealths economic team is working to enforce spending control measures that have been established to attempt to minimize the budget risk. In connection with the budget approval and in order to cover the approximately $1 billion difference between approved expenditures and projected revenues, legislation was approved and signed by the Governor authorizing the Commonwealth (i) to sell and or transfer delinquent tax receivables up to $1 billion, and (ii) as an exception to the general prohibition against borrowings to balance the budget, to issue limited special obligations of the Commonwealth payable from and collateralized with tax receivables. There is no guaranty that the Commonwealth will be able to issue such limited special obligations in amounts sufficient to cover the expected revenue shortfall in a timely manner, and, if that is the case, other funding sources, such as possible support from Government Development Bank, will have to be secured.

While Puerto Rico's debt per capita levels are at the higher end of the spectrum compared to U.S. states, this is partly explained by the fact that Puerto Rico generally centralizes the majority of its debt issuance at the territory level. These debt levels have increased as Puerto Rico financed significant capital and infrastructure improvements. Puerto Rico continues to maintain a large unfunded pension liability of almost $10 billion that risks running out of money as early as 2014. The Commonwealth issued pension obligation bonds in early 2008, which will help but not solve the pension issues. The bonds are secured by future employer contributions.

Puerto Rico will continue to face challenges from the 1996 passage of a bill eliminating Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code. This section had given certain U.S. corporations operating in Puerto Rico significant tax advantages. These incentives had helped drive Puerto Rico's economic growth, especially with the development of its manufacturing sector. U.S. firms that had benefited from these incentives provided a significant portion of Puerto Rico's revenues, employment and deposits in local financial institutions.

Indictment of Governor of Puerto Rico/Election of New Governor

     In March 2008, the Governor of Puerto Rico and several other individuals were named in federal grand jury indictments relating to the use of political contributions and campaign funds during the period when the Governor was Resident Commissioner in Washington, D.C. In addition, on August 19, 2008, the Governor and other individuals were named in federal grand jury indictments relating to the use of political contributions and campaign funds during the Governors campaign and after his election as Governor. The Governor has denied any wrongdoing and has stated his intention to remain in his position and present his defense. It is not expected that such developments will have any impact on the fiscal affairs of the Commonwealth or on the payment of any obligations issued by the Commonwealth. On November 4, 2008, Luis G. Fortuno, the current Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth, was elected as the next governor of Puerto Rico. Mr. Fortuno will assume his position as governor on January 1, 2009.

Guam

The island of Guam has an estimated population of 173,000. Its economy is driven by tourism and U.S. Military activity. The government of Guam also receives significant support from the U.S. Treasury. Japan accounts for a substantial amount of Guam's tourism (78% of visitors), which makes the island's economy very sensitive to fluctuations in the Japanese economy. Economic weakness in Japan and other parts of Asia has had a negative impact on Guam tourism. Combined with a typhoon in 1997, a super-typhoon in 2002, September 11, 2001 (9/11), SARS and the war in Iraq, tourism declined in the early to mid-part of this decade. However, tourism has seen improvement in recent years, helped by favorable weather and a steadying Japanese economy. In August 2007, visitor arrivals hit the highest mark since 9/11 and calendar year 2007 arrivals increased 1.1% from 2006. However, since then, arrivals have dropped off. In February 2008, arrivals were down 2.5% from a year earlier.

Employment has been quite volatile on Guam since 1998. Total employment reached a peak of 62,350 in March of 1999. Small increases followed in 2000 and 2001, but then employment fell by nearly 10% in early 2002. Employment has slowly increased during the past four years, reaching 58,040 in June 2007. Unemployment rates remain high and were 6.9% in March 2006, the last time it was calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The U.S. Military presence on Guam has always been a positive contributor to the economy. Its strategic location close to Asia has increased its importance in the overall military strategy of the U.S. As a result, the U.S. government is in the process of a significant buildup of personnel and facilities on Guam. The Marines are planning on relocating some 8,000 Marines and their 9,000 dependents to Guam from Okinawa, Japan by 2014, and the U.S. Navy has stationed several submarines and carrier strike forces on the island. This planned growth requires a substantial amount of new facilities, upgrades to existing facilities and infrastructure improvements, possibly totaling as much as $10 billion. The short- and long-term implications of this growth are expected to be positive.

Guam's overall financial condition has deteriorated due to a slew of misfortunes and mismanagement. Natural disasters, the economic crisis in Japan, and the events of 9/11 have all contributed to Guam's financial hardship. Guam has seen negative financial results for most of the past decade. As a result, its fiscal year 2006 accumulated deficit had grown to almost $540 million. It has a large unfunded liability in its pension fund and a large liability to its residents for unpaid tax refunds. The government issued debt in 2007 to fund some of these liabilities, restructure debt and pay debt service on current obligations for which cash was not available. Guam has identified several steps that can be taken to improve its financial condition, but successful implementation is uncertain. The improvement in tourism and expected economic boost from the military buildup could also improve the territory's financial picture, but it is unclear whether Guam will be able to erase this deficit in the foreseeable future.

United States Virgin Islands

Approximately 112,801 people reside in the 70 small islands and cays that make up the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. Virgin Islands continue to experience higher unemployment rates and lower wealth levels than realized in the U.S., although both of these measurements have improved in the past few years. The economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands is driven by tourism, which accounts for approximately 80% of gross domestic product and a significant share of employment. The islands' tourism industry was hit hard after the events of 9/11, but tourism activity experienced a modest recovery beginning in 2004. The majority of the islands' visitors arrive via cruise ships, and total cruise ship arrivals increased 11.9% in 2004. Total cruise ship arrivals decreased slightly in 2005 and 2006 and increased marginally in 2007. Air arrivals reached an all-time high in 2005 before decreasing slightly in 2006. Total air arrivals increased by a little more than 3.0% in 2007. Taking both air and cruise arrivals into account, tourism activity increased 1.4% in 2007. Hotel occupancy rates have been above 60% since 2004, including average rates of 60.6% in 2006 and 64.9% in 2007. In the five years prior to 2004, hotel occupancy had ranged between 55% and 58%. The unemployment rate peaked at 9.4% in 2003, but had fallen to 6.2% by the end of 2006 due to increased tourism. Private sector jobs comprise 72.7% of all non-farm jobs with 44.0% comprising services, including tourism employment. Manufacturing represents just more than 5.1% of employment, and construction represents about 6.9%.

The U.S. Virgin Islands government carries a large public sector payroll and relies heavily on taxes as a revenue source (roughly 91% of all revenues). These factors, together with the lingering effects of several major hurricanes in the past two decades, have contributed to the government's poor financial performance. The government has suffered numerous years of budget imbalances over the past decade, resulting in recurring annual General Fund deficits. The cash-flow crisis in the government intensified in fiscal year 2002 due to the slumping economy and lower tax receipts. In fiscal year 2003, the government stabilized cash flows with the help of approximately $81.5 million of financing proceeds. For the fiscal year 2003, the government reduced its operating deficit from $164.4 million to $109.8 million, and used transfers and bank anticipation notes proceeds to increase the fund balance by $68.3 million. The ending fund balance of $97.2 million was equal to 16.85% of expenditures. Financial results continued to be positive in fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2005. In fiscal year 2004, the General Fund balance increased by more than $30 million, and an additional increase of $52.4 million was achieved in fiscal year 2005. By the end of fiscal year 2005, the General Fund balance had reached $180.1 million, which was equal to 28.8% of expenditures. It should be noted that expenditures remain elevated and the General Fund is still producing operating deficits each year. However, securitized tax revenues have been sufficient to cover debt service and supplement the General Fund, and the fund balance should remain strong under these conditions. Financial results for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 are not available at this time.

In October 1999, the government and the U.S. Department of Interior entered into a Memorandum of Understanding stipulating that federal grants will be awarded contingent on several financial performance and accountability standards being met that will demonstrate improvement in the economic and financial condition of the islands. In recent years, the government has tried to improve its financial profile by implementing several cost-cutting measures, including renegotiating debt obligations, consolidating departments, cutting healthcare costs, hiring freezes, and a reduction in overtime.

Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands became a U.S. territory in 1975. At that time, the U.S. government agreed to exempt the islands from federal minimum wage and immigration laws in an effort to help stimulate industry and the economy. The islands' minimum wage is currently $4.20 per hour below the U.S. level. Immigration from various Asian countries, however, has provided cheap labor for the islands' industries over the last several decades. Foreign workers have accounted for approximately four times the number of indigenous workers.

It is estimated that the garment industry contributes about 30% of General Fund expenditures compared to 40% just a few years ago and is expected to decline further in 2008. The decline is largely a result of the elimination of quota restrictions for World Trade Organization members in 2005. The export value of the industry dropped 13% in 2005, 26% in 2006 and an estimated 10% drop in 2007. Employment in the industry has dropped from 17,000 workers in 2001 to about 7,000 in 2007, and the number of factories has dropped from 34 to 16 over the same period. There is also additional legislation being considered in Congress that could negatively affect this industry further if passed, including implementation of the federal minimum wage rate in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the implementation of federal immigration laws in the islands. The Commonwealth's gross business revenues were $1.4 billion in 1993, then increased to a high of $2.6 billion in 1997. Gross business revenues have since declined to $1.3 billion for 2006.

The tourism industry is the other large contributor to the CNMI economy. Tourism, which is largely driven by trends in Asia, is estimated to account for up to 35% of the economy. Visitors to the islands have declined over the last several years from 694,888 in 1997 to 459,458 in 2003 and 435,494 in 2006. Arrivals declined another 22% in 2007. The decline is a result of many factors including the weakening of the Asian economy, SARS, the war in Iraq and most recently the reduction in flights available from Japan to CNMI. The year-over-year decline in Japanese arrivals as of January 2008 has improved as flights from Osaka started in late December. It is important that available flights from Japan continue to increase since Japan makes up the largest visitor segment. The CNMI is trying to diversify its visitor profile and is working closely with Chinese officials to open up this channel and is currently seeing strong growth from Korea and Russia.

The Commonwealth's financials have been in a deficit position since 1994. The most recent audited financial statement is from 2006 and it identified a $174 million negative unreserved fund balance which is 88% of annual expenditures after transfers. The $16 million 2006 deficit was smaller, however, than the 2005 deficit. The Commonwealth attributes the deficit for 2006 to disbursements from bond proceeds received in 2004 and the inclusion of $11.9 million in employer retirement contributions even though employer retirement contributions had been suspended under public law.

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Appendix C

OppenheimerFunds Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers

In certain cases, the initial sales charge that applies to purchases of Class A shares2 of the Oppenheimer funds or the contingent deferred sales charge that may apply to Class A, Class B or Class C shares may be waived.3 That is because of the economies of sales efforts realized by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., (referred to in this document as the Distributor), or by dealers or other financial institutions that offer those shares to certain classes of investors. Not all waivers apply to all funds.
 

For the purposes of some of the waivers described below and in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information of the applicable Oppenheimer funds, the term Retirement Plan refers to the following types of plans:

1)     plans created or under Sections 401(a) or 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code,

2)     non-qualified deferred compensation plans,

3)     employee benefit plans,4
4)     Group Retirement Plans,5
5)     403(b)(7) custodial plan accounts, and
6)     Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), including traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs or SIMPLE plans

The interpretation of these provisions as to the applicability of a special arrangement or waiver in a particular case is in the sole discretion of the Distributor or the transfer agent (referred to in this document as the Transfer Agent) of the particular Oppenheimer fund. These waivers and special arrangements may be amended or terminated at any time by a particular fund, the Distributor, and/or OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (referred to in this document as the Manager).

Waivers that apply at the time shares are redeemed must be requested by the shareholder and/or dealer in the redemption request.

I.     

Applicability of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain Cases


Purchases of Class A Shares of Oppenheimer Funds That Are Not Subject to Initial Sales Charge but May Be Subject to the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (unless a waiver applies).
 

     There is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of any of the Oppenheimer funds in the cases listed below. However, these purchases may be subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge if redeemed within 18 months (24 months in the case of shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals purchased prior to October 22, 2007) of the beginning of the calendar month of their purchase, as described in the Prospectus (unless a waiver described elsewhere in this Appendix applies to the redemption). Additionally, on shares purchased under these waivers that are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge, the Distributor will pay the applicable concession described in the Prospectus under Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.6 This waiver provision applies to:

q     

Purchases of Class A shares aggregating $1 million or more.


q     

Purchases of Class A shares by a Retirement Plan that was permitted to purchase such shares at net asset value but subject to a contingent deferred sales charge prior to March 1, 2001. That included plans (other than IRA or 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans) that: 1) bought shares costing $500,000 or more, 2) had at the time of purchase 100 or more eligible employees or total plan assets of $500,000 or more, or 3) certified to the Distributor that it projects to have annual plan purchases of $200,000 or more.


q     

Purchases by an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Rollover IRA, if the purchases are made:


1)     through a broker, dealer, bank or registered investment adviser that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases, or

2)     by a direct rollover of a distribution from a qualified Retirement Plan if the administrator of that Plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

q     

Purchases of Class A shares by Retirement Plans that have any of the following record-keeping arrangements:


1)     The record keeping is performed by Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. (Merrill Lynch) on a daily valuation basis for the Retirement Plan. On the date the plan sponsor signs the record-keeping service agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must have $3 million or more of its assets invested in (a) mutual funds, other than those advised or managed by Merrill Lynch Investment Management, L.P. (MLIM), that are made available under a Service Agreement between Merrill Lynch and the mutual funds principal underwriter or distributor, and (b) funds advised or managed by MLIM (the funds described in (a) and (b) are referred to as Applicable Investments).

2)     The record keeping for the Retirement Plan is performed on a daily valuation basis by a record keeper whose services are provided under a contract or arrangement between the Retirement Plan and Merrill Lynch. On the date the plan sponsor signs the record keeping service agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must have $5 million or more of its assets (excluding assets invested in money market funds) invested in Applicable Investments.

3)     The record keeping for a Retirement Plan is handled under a service agreement with Merrill Lynch and on the date the plan sponsor signs that agreement, the Plan has 500 or more eligible employees (as determined by the Merrill Lynch plan conversion manager).

II.     

Waivers of Class A Sales Charges of Oppenheimer Funds


A.     Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges for Certain Purchasers.

Class A shares purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class A sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such purchases):

q     

The Manager or its affiliates.


q     

Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their immediate families) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them for their employees. The term immediate family refers to ones spouse, children, grandchildren, grandparents, parents, parents-in-law, brothers and sisters, sons- and daughters-in-law, a siblings spouse, a spouses siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews; relatives by virtue of a remarriage (step-children, step-parents, etc.) are included.


q     

Registered management investment companies, or separate accounts of insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or the Distributor for that purpose.


q     

Dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for their employees.


q     

Employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers or brokers described above or financial institutions that have entered into sales arrangements with such dealers or brokers (and which are identified as such to the Distributor) or with the Distributor. The purchaser must certify to the Distributor at the time of purchase that the purchase is for the purchasers own account (or for the benefit of such employees spouse or minor children).


q     

Dealers, brokers, banks or registered investment advisers that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor providing specifically for the use of shares of the Fund in particular investment products made available to their clients. Those clients may be charged a transaction fee by their dealer, broker, bank or advisor for the purchase or sale of Fund shares.


q     

Investment advisers and financial planners who have entered into an agreement for this purpose with the Distributor and who charge an advisory, consulting or other fee for their services and buy shares for their own accounts or the accounts of their clients.


q     

Rabbi trusts that buy shares for their own accounts, if the purchases are made through a broker or agent or other financial intermediary that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.


q     

Clients of investment advisers or financial planners (that have entered into an agreement for this purpose with the Distributor) who buy shares for their own accounts may also purchase shares without sales charge but only if their accounts are linked to a master account of their investment adviser or financial planner on the books and records of the broker, agent or financial intermediary with which the Distributor has made such special arrangements . Each of these investors may be charged a fee by the broker, agent or financial intermediary for purchasing shares.


q     

Directors, trustees, officers or full-time employees of OpCap Advisors or its affiliates, their relatives or any trust, pension, profit sharing or other benefit plan which beneficially owns shares for those persons.


q     

Accounts for which Oppenheimer Capital (or its successor) is the investment adviser (the Distributor must be advised of this arrangement) and persons who are directors or trustees of the company or trust which is the beneficial owner of such accounts.


q     

A unit investment trust that has entered into an appropriate agreement with the Distributor.


q     

Dealers, brokers, banks, or registered investment advisers that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor to sell shares to defined contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer, broker or investment adviser provides administration services.


q     

Retirement Plans and deferred compensation plans and trusts used to fund those plans (including, for example, plans qualified or created under sections 401(a), 401(k), 403(b) or 457 of the Internal Revenue Code), in each case if those purchases are made through a broker, agent or other financial intermediary that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.


q     

A TRAC-2000 401(k) plan (sponsored by the former Quest for Value Advisors) whose Class B or Class C shares of a Former Quest for Value Fund were exchanged for Class A shares of that Fund due to the termination of the Class B and Class C TRAC-2000 program on November 24, 1995.


q     

A qualified Retirement Plan that had agreed with the former Quest for Value Advisors to purchase shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds at net asset value, with such shares to be held through DCXchange, a sub-transfer agency mutual fund clearinghouse, if that arrangement was consummated and share purchases commenced by December 31, 1996.


q     

Effective March 1, 2007, purchases of Class A shares by a Retirement Plan that was permitted to purchase such shares at net asset value but subject to a contingent deferred sales charge prior to March 1, 2001. That included plans (other than IRA or 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans) that: 1) bought shares costing $500,000 or more, 2) had at the time of purchase 100 or more eligible employees or total plan assets of $500,000 or more, or 3) certified to the Distributor that it projects to have annual plan purchases of $200,000 or more.


q     

Effective October 1, 2005, taxable accounts established with the proceeds of Required Minimum Distributions from Retirement Plans.


q     

Purchases of Class A shares by former shareholders of Atlas Strategic Income Fund in any Oppenheimer fund into which shareholders of Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund may exchange.


q     

Purchases prior to June 15, 2008 by former shareholders of Oppenheimer Tremont Market Neutral Fund, LLC or Oppenheimer Tremont Opportunity Fund, LLC, directly from the proceeds from mandatory redemptions.


B.     Waivers of the Class A Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain Transactions.

Class A shares issued or purchased in the following transactions are not subject to sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such purchases):

q     

Shares issued in plans of reorganization, such as mergers, asset acquisitions and exchange offers, to which the Fund is a party.


q     

Shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or other distributions reinvested from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds (other than Oppenheimer Cash Reserves) or unit investment trusts for which reinvestment arrangements have been made with the Distributor.


q     

Shares purchased by certain Retirement Plans that are part of a retirement plan or platform offered by banks, broker-dealers, financial advisors or insurance companies, or serviced by recordkeepers.


q     

Shares purchased by the reinvestment of loan repayments by a participant in a Retirement Plan for which the Manager or an affiliate acts as sponsor.


q     

Shares purchased in amounts of less than $5.


Class A shares issued and purchased in the following transactions are not subject to sales charges (a dealer concession at the annual rate of 0.25% is paid by the Distributor on purchases made within the first 6 months of plan establishment):

q     

Retirement Plans that have $5 million or more in plan assets.


q     

Retirement Plans with a single plan sponsor that have $5 million or more in aggregate assets invested in Oppenheimer funds.


C.     Waivers of the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge for Certain Redemptions.

The Class A contingent deferred sales charge is also waived if shares that would otherwise be subject to the contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed in the following cases:

q     

To make Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments that are limited annually to no more than 12% of the account value adjusted annually.


q     

Involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law or involuntary redemptions of small accounts (please refer to Shareholder Account Rules and Policies, in the applicable fund Prospectus).


q     

For distributions from Retirement Plans, deferred compensation plans or other employee benefit plans for any of the following purposes:


1)     Following the death or disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or disability must occur after the participants account was established.

2)     To return excess contributions.

3)     To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact.

4)     

Hardship withdrawals, as defined in the plan.7


5)     Under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or separation agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.

6)     To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.

7)     To make substantially equal periodic payments as described in Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.

8)     For loans to participants or beneficiaries.

9)     Separation from service.8
10)     Participant-directed redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a subsidiary of the Manager) if the plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor.

11)     Plan termination or in-service distributions, if the redemption proceeds are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRA.

q     

For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers that have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.


q     

For distributions from retirement plans that have $10 million or more in plan assets and that have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor.


q     

For distributions from retirement plans which are part of a retirement plan product or platform offered by certain banks, broker-dealers, financial advisors, insurance companies or record keepers which have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor.


III.     

Waivers of Class B, Class C and Class N Sales Charges of Oppenheimer Funds


The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will not be applied to shares purchased in certain types of transactions or redeemed in certain circumstances described below.

 

A.     Waivers for Redemptions in Certain Cases.

The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will be waived for redemptions of shares in the following cases:

q     

Shares redeemed involuntarily, as described in Shareholder Account Rules and Policies, in the applicable Prospectus.


q     

Redemptions from accounts other than Retirement Plans following the death or disability of the last surviving shareholder. The death or disability must have occurred after the account was established, and for disability you must provide evidence of a determination of disability by the Social Security Administration.


q     

The contingent deferred sales charges are generally not waived following the death or disability of a grantor or trustee for a trust account. The contingent deferred sales charges will only be waived in the limited case of the death of the trustee of a grantor trust or revocable living trust for which the trustee is also the sole beneficiary. The death or disability must have occurred after the account was established, and for disability you must provide evidence of a determination of disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code).


q     

Distributions from accounts for which the broker-dealer of record has entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.


q     

Redemptions of Class B shares held by Retirement Plans whose records are maintained on a daily valuation basis by Merrill Lynch or an independent record keeper under a contract with Merrill Lynch.


q     

Redemptions of Class C shares of Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust from accounts of clients of financial institutions that have entered into a special arrangement with the Distributor for this purpose.


q     

Redemptions of Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund in amounts of $1 million or more requested in writing by a Retirement Plan sponsor and submitted more than 12 months after the Retirement Plans first purchase of Class C shares, if the redemption proceeds are invested to purchase Class N shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds.


q     

Distributions9 from Retirement Plans or other employee benefit plans for any of the following purposes:


1)     Following the death or disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or disability must occur after the participants account was established in an Oppenheimer fund.

2)     To return excess contributions made to a participants account.

3)     To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact.

4)     To make hardship withdrawals, as defined in the plan.10
5)     To make distributions required under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or separation agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
6)     To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.
7)     To make substantially equal periodic payments as described in Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.
8)     For loans to participants or beneficiaries.11
9)     On account of the participants separation from service.12
10)     Participant-directed redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a subsidiary of the Manager) offered as an investment option in a Retirement Plan if the plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor.
11)     Distributions made on account of a plan termination or in-service distributions, if the redemption proceeds are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRA.
12)     For distributions from a participants account under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan after the participant reaches age 59, as long as the aggregate value of the distributions does not exceed 10% of the accounts value, adjusted annually.
13)     Redemptions of Class B shares under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan for an account other than a Retirement Plan, if the aggregate value of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the accounts value, adjusted annually.
14)     For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers that have entered into a special arrangement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.

q     

Redemptions of Class B shares or Class C shares under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan from an account other than a Retirement Plan if the aggregate value of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the accounts value annually.


q     

     Redemptions of Class B shares by a Retirement Plan that is either created or qualified under Section 401(a) or 401(k)(excluding owner-only 401(k) plans) of the Internal Revenue Code or that is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan, either (1) purchased after June 30, 2008, or (2) beginning on July 1, 2011, held longer than three years.


q     

Redemptions by owner-only 401(k) plans of Class B shares purchased after June 30, 2008.


B.     Waivers for Shares Sold or Issued in Certain Transactions.

The contingent deferred sales charge is also waived on Class B and Class C shares sold or issued in the following cases:

q     

Shares sold to the Manager or its affiliates.


q     

Shares sold to registered management investment companies or separate accounts of insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or the Distributor for that purpose.


q     

Shares issued in plans of reorganization to which the Fund is a party.


q     

Shares sold to present or former officers, directors, trustees or employees (and their immediate families as defined above in Section I.A.) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates and retirement plans established by them for their employees.


IV.     

Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Former Quest for Value Funds


The initial and contingent deferred sales charge rates and waivers for Class A, Class B and Class C shares described in the Prospectus or Statement of Additional Information of the Oppenheimer funds are modified as described below for certain persons who were shareholders of the former Quest for Value Funds. To be eligible, those persons must have been shareholders on November 24, 1995, when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the investment adviser to those former Quest for Value Funds. Those funds include:

Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.          Oppenheimer Small- & Mid- Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Value Fund          Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund     

     These arrangements also apply to shareholders of the following funds when they merged (were reorganized) into various Oppenheimer funds on November 24, 1995:

Quest for Value U.S. Government Income Fund     Quest for Value New York Tax-Exempt Fund

Quest for Value Investment Quality Income Fund     Quest for Value National Tax-Exempt Fund

Quest for Value Global Income Fund     Quest for Value California Tax-Exempt Fund

     All of the funds listed above are referred to in this Appendix as the Former Quest for Value Funds. The waivers of initial and contingent deferred sales charges described in this Appendix apply to shares of an Oppenheimer fund that are either:

q     

acquired by such shareholder pursuant to an exchange of shares of an Oppenheimer fund that was one of the Former Quest for Value Funds, or


q     

purchased by such shareholder by exchange of shares of another Oppenheimer fund that were acquired pursuant to the merger of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds into that other Oppenheimer fund on November 24, 1995.


A.     Reductions or Waivers of Class A Sales Charges.

1.     

Reduced Class A Initial Sales Charge Rates for Certain Former Quest for Value Funds Shareholders.


Purchases by Groups and Associations. The following table sets forth the initial sales charge rates for Class A shares purchased by members of Associations formed for any purpose other than the purchase of securities. The rates in the table apply if that Association purchased shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds or received a proposal to purchase such shares from OCC Distributors prior to November 24, 1995.

Number of Eligible Employees or Members

Initial Sales Charge as a % of Offering Price

Initial Sales Charge as a % of Net Amount Invested

Concession as % of Offering Price

9 or Fewer

2.50%

2.56%

2.00%

At least 10 but not more than 49

2.00%

2.04%

1.60%

     For purchases by Associations having 50 or more eligible employees or members, there is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares, but those shares are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge described in the applicable funds Prospectus.     Purchases made under this arrangement qualify for the lower of either the sales charge rate in the table based on the number of members of an Association, or the sales charge rate that applies under the Right of Accumulation described in the applicable funds Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information. Individuals who qualify under this arrangement for reduced sales charge rates as members of Associations also may purchase shares for their individual or custodial accounts at these reduced sales charge rates, upon request to the Distributor.

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2.     

Waiver of Class A Sales Charges for Certain Shareholders. Class A shares purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class A initial or contingent deferred sales charges:


     

Shareholders who were shareholders of the AMA Family of Funds on February 28, 1991 and who acquired shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds by merger of a portfolio of the AMA Family of Funds.


     

Shareholders who acquired shares of any Former Quest for Value Fund by merger of any of the portfolios of the Unified Funds.


3.     

Waiver of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge in Certain Transactions. The Class A contingent deferred sales charge will not apply to redemptions of Class A shares purchased by the following investors who were shareholders of any Former Quest for Value Fund:


     Investors who purchased Class A shares from a dealer that is or was not permitted to receive a sales load or redemption fee imposed on a shareholder with whom that dealer has a fiduciary relationship, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and regulations adopted under that law.
 

B.     Class A, Class B and Class C Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.

4.     

Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased Prior to March 6, 1995. In the following cases, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The shares must have been acquired by the merger of a Former Quest for Value Fund into the fund or by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest for Value Fund or into which such fund merged. Those shares must have been purchased prior to March 6, 1995 in connection with:


     

withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan holding only either Class B or Class C shares if the annual withdrawal does not exceed 10% of the initial value of the account value, adjusted annually, and


     

liquidation of a shareholders account if the aggregate net asset value of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum value of such accounts.


5.     

Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased on or After March 6, 1995 but Prior to November 24, 1995. In the following cases, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The shares must have been acquired by the merger of a Former Quest for Value Fund into the fund or by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest For Value Fund or into which such Former Quest for Value Fund merged. Those shares must have been purchased on or after March 6, 1995, but prior to November 24, 1995:


     

redemptions following the death or disability of the shareholder(s) (as evidenced by a determination of total disability by the U.S. Social Security Administration);


     

withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan (but only for Class B or Class C shares) where the annual withdrawals do not exceed 10% of the initial value of the account value; adjusted annually, and


     

liquidation of a shareholders account if the aggregate net asset value of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum account value.


A shareholders account will be credited with the amount of any contingent deferred sales charge paid on the redemption of any Class A, Class B or Class C shares of the Oppenheimer fund described in this section if the proceeds are invested in the same Class of shares in that fund or another Oppenheimer fund within 90 days after redemption.

V.     

Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Connecticut Mutual Investment Accounts, Inc.


The initial and contingent deferred sale charge rates and waivers for Class A and Class B shares described in the respective Prospectus (or this Appendix) of the following Oppenheimer funds (each is referred to as a Fund in this section):

Oppenheimer U. S. Government Trust,
Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund,
Oppenheimer Value Fund and
Oppenheimer Disciplined Allocation Fund

are modified as described below for those Fund shareholders who were shareholders of the following funds (referred to as the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds) on March 1, 1996, when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the investment adviser to the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds:

Connecticut Mutual Liquid Account     Connecticut Mutual Total Return Account

Connecticut Mutual Government Securities Account     CMIA LifeSpan Capital Appreciation Account

Connecticut Mutual Income Account     CMIA LifeSpan Balanced Account
Connecticut Mutual Growth Account     CMIA Diversified Income Account

A.     Prior Class A CDSC and Class A Sales Charge Waivers.

6.     

Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. Certain shareholders of a Fund and the other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds are entitled to continue to make additional purchases of Class A shares at net asset value without a Class A initial sales charge, but subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge that was in effect prior to March 18, 1996 (the prior Class A CDSC). Under the prior Class A CDSC, if any of those shares are redeemed within one year of purchase, they will be assessed a 1% contingent deferred sales charge on an amount equal to the current market value or the original purchase price of the shares sold, whichever is smaller (in such redemptions, any shares not subject to the prior Class A CDSC will be redeemed first).


Those shareholders who are eligible for the prior Class A CDSC are:

1)     persons whose purchases of Class A shares of a Fund and other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds were $500,000 prior to March 18, 1996, as a result of direct purchases or purchases pursuant to the Funds policies on Combined Purchases or Rights of Accumulation, who still hold those shares in that Fund or other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, and

2)     persons whose intended purchases under a Statement of Intention entered into prior to March 18, 1996, with the former general distributor of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds to purchase shares valued at $500,000 or more over a 13-month period entitled those persons to purchase shares at net asset value without being subject to the Class A initial sales charge

Any of the Class A shares of a Fund and the other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds that were purchased at net asset value prior to March 18, 1996, remain subject to the prior Class A CDSC, or if any additional shares are purchased by those shareholders at net asset value pursuant to this arrangement they will be subject to the prior Class A CDSC.

7.     

Class A Sales Charge Waivers. Additional Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased without a sales charge, by a person who was in one (or more) of the categories below and acquired Class A shares prior to March 18, 1996, and still holds Class A shares:


1)     any purchaser, provided the total initial amount invested in the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds totaled $500,000 or more, including investments made pursuant to the Combined Purchases, Statement of Intention and Rights of Accumulation features available at the time of the initial purchase and such investment is still held in one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds or a Fund into which such Fund merged;

2)     any participant in a qualified plan, provided that the total initial amount invested by the plan in the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds totaled $500,000 or more;

3)     Directors of the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds and members of their immediate families;

4)     employee benefit plans sponsored by Connecticut Mutual Financial Services, L.L.C. (CMFS), the prior distributor of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, and its affiliated companies;

5)     one or more members of a group of at least 1,000 persons (and persons who are retirees from such group) engaged in a common business, profession, civic or charitable endeavor or other activity, and the spouses and minor dependent children of such persons, pursuant to a marketing program between CMFS and such group; and

6)     an institution acting as a fiduciary on behalf of an individual or individuals, if such institution was directly compensated by the individual(s) for recommending the purchase of the shares of the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, provided the institution had an agreement with CMFS.

Purchases of Class A shares made pursuant to (1) and (2) above may be subject to the Class A CDSC of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds described above.

Additionally, Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased without a sales charge by any holder of a variable annuity contract issued in New York State by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company through the Panorama Separate Account which is beyond the applicable surrender charge period and which was used to fund a qualified plan, if that holder exchanges the variable annuity contract proceeds to buy Class A shares of the Fund.

B.     Class A and Class B Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.

In addition to the waivers set forth in the Prospectus and in this Appendix, above, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A and Class B shares of a Fund and exchanges of Class A or Class B shares of a Fund into Class A or Class B shares of a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund provided that the Class A or Class B shares of the Fund to be redeemed or exchanged were (i) acquired prior to March 18, 1996 or (ii) were acquired by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund. Additionally, the shares of such Former Connecticut Mutual Fund must have been purchased prior to March 18, 1996:

1)     by the estate of a deceased shareholder;

2)     upon the disability of a shareholder, as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code;

3)     for retirement distributions (or loans) to participants or beneficiaries from retirement plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 403(b)(7)of the Code, or from IRAs, deferred compensation plans created under Section 457 of the Code, or other employee benefit plans;

4)     

as tax-free returns of excess contributions to such retirement or employee benefit plans;


5)     in whole or in part, in connection with shares sold to any state, county, or city, or any instrumentality, department, authority, or agency thereof, that is prohibited by applicable investment laws from paying a sales charge or concession in connection with the purchase of shares of any registered investment management company;

6)     in connection with the redemption of shares of the Fund due to a combination with another investment company by virtue of a merger, acquisition or similar reorganization transaction;

7)     in connection with the Funds right to involuntarily redeem or liquidate the Fund;

8)     in connection with automatic redemptions of Class A shares and Class B shares in certain retirement plan accounts pursuant to an Automatic Withdrawal Plan but limited to no more than 12% of the original value annually; or

9)     as involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law, or under procedures set forth in the Funds Articles of Incorporation, or as adopted by the Board of Directors of the Fund.

VI.     

Special Reduced Sales Charge for Former Shareholders of Advance America Funds, Inc.


Shareholders of Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals, Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust, Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund and Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund who acquired (and still hold) shares of those funds as a result of the reorganization of series of Advance America Funds, Inc. into those Oppenheimer funds on October 18, 1991, and who held shares of Advance America Funds, Inc. on March 30, 1990, may purchase Class A shares of those four Oppenheimer funds at a maximum sales charge rate of 4.50%.

VII.     

Sales Charge Waivers on Purchases of Class M Shares of Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund


Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund (referred to as the Fund in this section) may sell Class M shares at net asset value without any initial sales charge to the classes of current Class M shareholders listed below who, prior to March 11, 1996, owned shares of the Funds then-existing Class A and were permitted to purchase those shares at net asset value without a sales charge:

q     

the Manager and its affiliates,


q     

present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their immediate families as defined in the Funds Statement of Additional Information) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them or the prior investment adviser of the Fund for their employees,


q     

registered management investment companies or separate accounts of insurance companies that had an agreement with the Funds prior investment adviser or distributor for that purpose,


q     

dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for their employees,


q     

employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers or brokers described in the preceding section or financial institutions that have entered into sales arrangements with those dealers or brokers (and whose identity is made known to the Distributor) or with the Distributor, but only if the purchaser certifies to the Distributor at the time of purchase that the purchaser meets these qualifications,


q     

dealers, brokers, or registered investment advisers that had entered into an agreement with the Distributor or the prior distributor of the Fund specifically providing for the use of Class M shares of the Fund in specific investment products made available to their clients, and


dealers, brokers or registered investment advisers that had entered into an agreement with the Distributor or prior distributor of the Funds shares to sell shares to defined contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer, broker, or investment adviser provides administrative services.

Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund

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OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

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OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

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OppenheimerFunds Services

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New York, New York 10005

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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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1. In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act, the term Independent Trustees in this Statement of Additional Information refers to those Trustees who are not interested persons of the Fund or the Trust and who do not have any direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the distribution plan or any agreement under the plan.

2 Certain waivers also apply to Class M shares of Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund.

3 In the case of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund, a continuously-offered closed-end fund, references to contingent deferred sales charges mean the Funds Early Withdrawal Charges and references to redemptions mean repurchases of shares.

4 An employee benefit plan means any plan or arrangement, whether or not it is qualified under the Internal Revenue Code, under which Class N shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds are purchased by a fiduciary or other administrator for the account of participants who are employees of a single employer or of affiliated employers. These may include, for example, medical savings accounts, payroll deduction plans or similar plans. The fund accounts must be registered in the name of the fiduciary or administrator purchasing the shares for the benefit of participants in the plan.

5 The term Group Retirement Plan means any qualified or non-qualified retirement plan for employees of a corporation or sole proprietorship, members and employees of a partnership or association or other organized group of persons (the members of which may include other groups), if the group has made special arrangements with the Distributor and all members of the group participating in (or who are eligible to participate in) the plan purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds through a single investment dealer, broker or other financial institution designated by the group. Such plans include 457 plans, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs, SIMPLE plans and 403(b) plans other than plans for public school employees. The term Group Retirement Plan also includes qualified retirement plans and non-qualified deferred compensation plans and IRAs that purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds through a single investment dealer, broker or other financial institution that has made special arrangements with the Distributor.

6 However, that concession will not be paid on purchases of shares in amounts of $1 million or more (including any right of accumulation) by a Retirement Plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class C shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds held by the Plan for more than one year.

7 This provision does not apply to IRAs.

8 This provision only applies to qualified retirement plans and 403(b)(7) custodial plans after your separation from service in or after the year you reached age 55.

9 The distribution must be requested prior to Plan termination or the elimination of the Oppenheimer funds as an investment option under the Plan.

10 This provision does not apply to IRAs.

11 This provision does not apply to loans from 403(b)(7) custodial plans and loans from the OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Single K retirement plan.

12 This provision does not apply to 403(b)(7) custodial plans if the participant is less than age 55, nor to IRAs.