By-Laws

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OPPENHEIMER ENTERPRISE FUND

BY-LAWS
As Amended through
December 14, 2000

ARTICLE I

SHAREHOLDERS

Section 1. Place of Meeting. All meetings of the Shareholders (which terms as used herein shall,
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together with all other terms defined in the Declaration of Trust, have the same meaning as in the Declaration of
Trust) shall be held at the principal office of the Trust or at such other place as may from time to time be
designated by the Board of Trustees and stated in the notice of meting.

Section 2. Shareholder Meetings. Meetings of the Shareholders for any purpose or purposes may be called
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by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, if any, or by the President or by the Board of Trustees and shall be
called by the Secretary upon receipt of the request in writing signed by Shareholders holding not less than one
third in amount of the entire number of Shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat. Such request
shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting. In addition, meetings of the Shareholders shall be
called by the Board of Trustees upon receipt of the request in writing signed by Shareholders that hold in the
aggregate not less than ten percent in amount of the entire number of Shares issued and outstanding and entitled
to vote thereat, stating that the purpose of the proposed meeting is the removal of a Trustee.

Section 3. Notice of Meetings of Shareholders. Written or printed notice of every meeting of
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Shareholders, stating the time and place thereof (and the general nature of the business proposed to be
transacted at any special or extraordinary meeting), shall be given to each Shareholder entitled to vote at such
meeting by leaving the same with each Shareholder at the Shareholder's residence or usual place of business or by
mailing it, postage prepaid and addressed to the Shareholder's address as it appears upon the books of the
Fund. In lieu thereof, such notice also may be delivered by such other means, for example electronic delivery,
to the extent consistent with applicable laws.

No notice of the time, place or purpose of any meeting of Shareholders need be given to any Shareholder
who attends in person or by proxy or to any Shareholder who, in writing executed and filed with the records of
the meeting, either before or after the holding thereof, waives such notice.

Section 4. Record Dates. The Board of Trustees may fix, in advance, a record date for the determination
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of Shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of Shareholders and Shareholders entitled to
receive any dividend payment or allotment of rights, as the case may be. Only Shareholders of record on such
date and entitled to receive such dividends or rights shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting
or to receive such dividends or rights, as the case may be.

Section 5. Access to Shareholder List. The Board of Trustees shall make available a list of the names
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and addresses of all shareholders as recorded on the books of the Trust, upon receipt of the request in writing
signed by not less than ten Shareholders of the Trust (who have been such for at least six months) holding in the
aggregate the lesser of (i) Shares valued at $25,000 or more at current offering price (as defined in the Trust's
Prospectus), or (ii) one percent in amount of the entire number of shares of the Trust issued and outstanding;
such request must state that such Shareholders wish to communicate with other Shareholders with a view to
obtaining signatures to a request for a meeting pursuant to Section 2 of Article I of these By-Laws and
accompanied by a form of communication to the Shareholders. The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion,
satisfy its obligation under this Section 5 by either making available the Shareholder List to such Shareholders
at the principal offices of the Trust, or at the offices of the Trust's transfer agent, during regular business
hours, or by mailing a copy of such Shareholders' proposed communication and form of request, at their expense,
to all other Shareholders.

Section 6. Quorum, Adjournment of Meetings. The presence in person or by proxy of the holders of record
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of more than 50% of the Shares of the stock of the Trust issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat,
shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the Shareholders. If at any meeting of the Shareholders there shall
be less than a quorum present, the Shareholders present at such meeting may, without further notice, adjourn the
same from time to time until a quorum shall attend, but no business shall be transacted at any such adjourned
meeting except such as might have been lawfully transacted had the meeting not been adjourned. This Section 6
may be altered, amended or repealed only upon the affirmative vote of the holders of the majority of all the
Shares of the Trust at the time outstanding and entitled to vote.

Section 7. Adjournment of Meetings When Quorum Present. If a quorum is present but sufficient votes in
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favor of one or more proposals have not been received, any of the persons named as proxies or attorneys-in-fact
may propose and approve one or more adjournments of the meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies with
respect to any proposal. All such adjournments will require the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares
present in person or by proxy at the session of the meeting to be adjourned. Prior to any such adjournment, any
lawful business may be transacted.

Section 8. Voting and Inspectors. At all meetings of shareholders, every shareholder of record entitled
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to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to vote at such meeting either in person of by proxy. Proxies may be
given by or on behalf of a Shareholder in writing or by electronic means, including by telephone, facsimile or
via the Internet.

All elections of Trustees shall be had by a plurality of the votes cast and all questions shall be
decided by a majority of the votes cast, in each case at a duly constituted meeting, except as otherwise provided
in the Declaration of Trust or in these By-Laws or by specific statutory provision superseding the restrictions
and limitations contained in the Declaration of Trust or in these By-Laws.

At any election of Trustees, the Board of Trustees prior thereto may, or, if they have not so acted, the
Chairman of the meeting may, and upon the request of the holders of ten per cent (10%) of the Shares entitled to
vote at such election shall, appoint two inspectors of election who shall first subscribe an oath or affirmation
to execute faithfully the duties of inspectors at such election with strict impartiality and according to the
best of their ability, and shall after the election make a certificate of the result of the vote taken. No
candidate for the office of Trustee shall be appointed such Inspector.

The Chairman of the meeting may cause a vote by ballot to be taken upon any election or matter, and such
vote shall be taken upon the request of the holders of ten per cent (10%) of the Shares entitled to vote on such
election or matter.

Section 9. Conduct of Shareholders' Meetings. The meetings of the Shareholders shall be presided over by
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the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, if any, or if he shall not be present, by the President, or if he shall
not be present, by a Vice-President, or if none of them is present, by a chairman to be elected at the meeting.
The Secretary of the Trust, if present, shall act as Secretary of such meetings, or if he is not present, an
Assistant Secretary shall so act; if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present, then the
meeting shall elect its secretary.

Section 10. Concerning Validity of Proxies, Ballots, Etc. At every meeting of the Shareholders, all
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proxies shall be received and taken in charge of and all ballots shall be received and canvassed by the secretary
of the meeting, who shall decide all questions touching the qualification of voters, the validity of the proxies,
and the acceptance or rejection of votes, unless inspectors of election shall have been appointed as provided in
Section 7, in which event such inspectors of election shall decide all such questions.

ARTICLE II

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Section 1. Number and Tenure of Office. The business and property of the Trust shall be conducted and
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managed by a Board of Trustees consisting of the number of initial Trustees, which number may be increased or
decreased as provided in Section 2 of this Article. Each Trustee shall, except as otherwise provided herein,
hold office until the meeting of Shareholders of the Trust next succeeding his election or until his successor is
duly elected and qualifies. Trustees need not be Shareholders.

Section 2. Increase or Decrease in Number of Trustees. The Board of Trustees, by the vote of a majority
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of the entire Board, may increase the number of Trustees to a number not exceeding fifteen, and may elect
Trustees to fill the vacancies created by any such increase in the number of Trustees until the next annual
meeting or until their successors are duly elected and qualify; the Board of Trustees, by the vote of a majority
of the entire Board, may likewise decrease the number of Trustees to a number not less than three but the tenure
of office of any Trustee shall not be affected by any such decrease. Vacancies occurring other than by reason of
any such increase shall be filled as provided for a Massachusetts business trust. In the event that after the
proxy material has been printed for a meeting of Shareholders at which Trustees are to be elected and any one or
more nominees named in such proxy material dies or become incapacitated, the authorized number of Trustees shall
be automatically reduced by the number of such nominees, unless the Board of Trustees prior to the meeting shall
otherwise determine.

Section 3. Removal, Resignation and Retirement. A Trustee at any time may be removed either with or
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without cause by resolution duly adopted by the affirmative votes of the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding
Shares of the Trust, present in person or by proxy at any meeting of Shareholders at which such vote may be
taken, provided that a quorum is present. Any Trustee at any time may be removed for cause by resolution duly
adopted at any meeting of the Board of Trustees provided that notice thereof is contained in the notice of such
meeting and that such resolution is adopted by the vote of at least two thirds of the Trustees whose removal is
not proposed. As used herein, "for cause" shall mean any cause which under Massachusetts law would permit the
removal of a Trustee of a business trust.

Any Trustee may resign or retire as Trustee by written instrument signed by him and delivered to the
other Trustees or to any officer of the Trust, and such resignation or retirement shall take effect upon such
delivery or upon such later date as is specified in such instrument and shall be effective as to the Trust and
each Series of the Trust hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any and all Trustees, other than an
Independent Trustee who was a Trustee (whether or not Independent) on the date of the adoption of the Trust's
Retirement Plan for Non-Interested Trustees or Directors, shall be subject to the provisions with respect to
mandatory retirement set forth in the Retirement Plan, as the same may be amended from time to time.

Section 4. Place of Meeting. The Trustees may hold their meetings, have one or more offices, and keep
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the books of the Trust outside Massachusetts, at any office or offices of the Trust or at any other place as they
may from time to time by resolution determine, or, in the case of meetings, as shall be specified or fixed in the
respective notices or waivers of notice thereof.

Section 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be held at such time and on
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such notice, if any, as the Trustees may from time to time determine. One such regular meeting during each
fiscal year of the Trust shall be designated an annual meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Section 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Trustees may be held from time to time
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upon call of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, if any, the President or two or more of the Trustees, by oral
or telegraphic or written notice duly served on or sent or mailed to each Trustee not less than one day before
such meeting. No notice need be given to any Trustee who attends in person, or to any Trustee who in writing
executed and filed with the records of the meeting either before or after the holding thereof waives such
notice. Such notice or waiver of notice need not state the purpose or purposes of such meeting.

Section 7. Quorum. One-third of the Trustees then in office shall constitute a quorum for the
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transaction of business, provided that a quorum shall in no case be less than two Trustees. If at any meeting of
the Board there shall be less than a quorum present (in person or by open telephone line, to the extent permitted
by the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act")), a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting from
time to time until a quorum shall have been obtained. The act of the majority of the Trustees present at any
meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically
provided by statute, by the Declaration of Trust, by these By-Laws or by any contract or agreement to which the
Trust is a party.

Section 8. Executive Committee. The Board of Trustees may, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
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entire Board, elect from the Trustees an Executive Committee to consist of such number of Trustees (not less
than three) as the Board may from time to time determine. The Board of Trustees by such affirmative vote shall
have power at any time to change the members of such Committee and may fill vacancies in the Committee by
election from the Trustees. When the Board of Trustees is not in session, the Executive Committee shall have and
may exercise any or all of the powers of the Board of Trustees in the management of the business and affairs of
the Trust (including the power to authorize the seal of the Trust to be affixed to all papers which may require
it) except as provided by law or by any contract or agreement to which the Trust is a party and except the power
to increase or decrease the size of, or fill vacancies on, the Board, to remove or appoint executive officers or
to dissolve or change the permanent membership of the Executive Committee, and the power to make or amend the
By-Laws of the Trust. The Executive Committee may fix its own rules of procedure, and may meet when and as
provided by such rules or by resolution of the Board of Trustees, but in every case the presence of a majority
shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. In the absence of any member of the Executive Committee, the members
thereof present at any meeting, whether or not they constitute a quorum, may appoint a member of the Board of
Trustees to act in the place of such absent member.

Section 9. Other Committees. The Board of Trustees, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire
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Board, may appoint other committees which shall in each case consist of such number of members (not less than
two) and shall have and may exercise, to the extent permitted by law, such powers as the Board may determine in
the resolution appointing them. A majority of all members of any such committee may determine its action, and
fix the time and place of its meetings, unless the Board of Trustees shall otherwise provide. The Board of
Trustees shall have power at any time to change the members and, to the extent permitted by law, powers of any
such committee, to fill vacancies, and to discharge any such committee.

Section 10. Informal Action by and Telephone Meetings of Trustees and Committees. Any action required or
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permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Trustees or any committee thereof may be taken without a
meeting, if a written consent to such action is signed by all members of the Board, or of such committee, as the
case may be. Trustees or members of the Board of Trustees may participate in a meeting by means of a conference
telephone or similar communications equipment; such participation shall, except as otherwise required by the 1940
Act, have the same effect as presence in person.

Section 11. Compensation of Trustees. Trustees shall be entitled to receive such compensation from the
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Trust for their services as may from time to time be voted by the Board of Trustees.

Section 12. Dividends. Dividends or distributions payable on the Shares of any Series may, but need not
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be, declared by specific resolution of the Board as to each dividend or distribution; in lieu of such specific
resolutions, the Board may, by general resolution, determine the method of computation thereof, the method of
determining the Shareholders of the Series to which they are payable and the methods of determining whether and
to which Shareholders they are to be paid in cash or in additional Shares.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

Section 1. Executive Officers. The executive officers of the Trust may include a Chairman of the Board
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of Trustees, and shall include a President, one or more Vice Presidents (the number thereof to be determined by
the Board of Trustees), a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, if any, shall be
selected from among the Trustees. The Board of Trustees or the Executive Committee may also in its discretion
appoint Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, and other officers, agents and employees, who shall have
such authority and perform such duties as the Board or the Executive Committee may determine. The Board of
Trustees may fill any vacancy which may occur in any office. Any two offices, except those of President and Vice
President, may be held by the same person, but no officer shall execute, acknowledge or verify any instrument in
more than one capacity, if such instrument is required by law or these By-Laws to be executed, acknowledged or
verified by two or more officers.

Section 2. Term of Office. The term of office of all officers shall be until their respective
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successors are chosen and qualify; however, any officer may be removed from office at any time with or without
cause by the vote of a majority of the entire Board of Trustees.

Section 3. Powers and Duties. The officers of the Trust shall have such powers and duties as generally
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pertain to their respective offices, as well as such powers and duties as may from time to time be conferred by
the Board of Trustees or the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE IV

Section 1. Certificates of Shares. Each Shareholder of any Series of the Trust may be issued a
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certificate or certificates for his Shares of that Series, in such form as the Board of Trustees may from time to
time prescribe, but only if and to the extent and on the conditions described by the Board.

Section 2. Transfer of Shares. Shares of any Series shall be transferable on the books of the Trust by
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the holder thereof in person or by his duly authorized attorney or legal representative, upon surrender and
cancellation of certificates, if any, for the same number of Shares of that Series, duly endorsed or accompanied
by proper instruments of assignment and transfer, with such proof of the authenticity of the signature as the
Trust or its agent may reasonably require; in the case of shares not represented by certificates, the same or
similar requirements may be imposed by the Board of Trustees.

Section 3. Share Ledgers. The share ledgers of the Trust, containing the name and address of the
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Shareholders of each Series and the number of shares of that Series, held by them respectively, shall be kept at
the principal offices of the Trust or, if the Trust employs a transfer agent, at the offices of the transfer
agent of the Trust.

Section 4. Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. The Board of Trustees may determine the conditions
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upon which a new certificate may be issued in place of a certificate which is alleged to have been lost, stolen
or destroyed; and may, in their discretion, require the owner of such certificate or his legal representative to
give bond, with sufficient surety to the Trust and the transfer agent, if any, to indemnify it and such transfer
agent against any and all loss or claims which may arise by reason of the issue of a new certificate in the place
of the one so lost, stolen or destroyed.

ARTICLE V

SEAL

The Board of Trustees shall provide a suitable seal of the Trust, in such form and bearing such
inscriptions as it may determine.

ARTICLE VI

FISCAL YEAR

The fiscal year of the Trust shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees.

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS

The By-Laws of the Trust may be altered, amended, added to or repealed by the Shareholders or by
majority vote of the entire Board of Trustees, but any such alteration, amendment, addition or repeal of the
By-Laws by action of the Board of Trustees may be altered or repealed by the Shareholders.

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