Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-58 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-58
Acceptance of laws and plats to be filed
Status: in_force

Before any corporation, joint stock company, partnership or

person, shall have, possess, enjoy or exercise the right of eminent

domain, right-of-way, right to locate, maintain or operate

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pipelines, fixtures or equipment thereunto belonging, or used in

connection therewith, as authorized by the provisions of this

article, or shall have, possess, enjoy or exercise any right (the

word "right" in this connection being used in its most comprehensive

legal sense) conferred by this article, every such corporation,

joint stock company, partnership or other person shall file in the

office of the Corporation Commission a proper and explicit

authorized acceptance of the provisions of this article, and the

Constitution of this state, and, in cases of pipe lines, a plat

showing in detail the points within this state between which, and

the route along which, the trunk lines are proposed to be

constructed, the intended size and capacity thereof, and the

location and capacity of all pumping stations, gate valves, check

valves and connections and appliances of all kinds used, or to be

used, on said trunk lines; and upon demand of the Corporation

Commission, the proper parties, as required by said Commission,

shall promptly file a plat showing in detail all the lines owned and

operated by them respectively, with full and explicit information as

to their capacity, size and location, and the capacity of their

pumping stations, gate valves, check valves and connections, of all

kinds, required or used in the operation thereof.

R.L. 1910, § 4311.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-581.7 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-581.7
Amount of gas produced from well
Status: in_force

On and after the effective date of the Natural Gas Market

Sharing Act, an owner of a well producing natural gas or casinghead

gas may produce from the well that amount of gas which may be

lawfully produced therefrom; however, the foregoing shall not

diminish the rights of each owner against an overproduced owner by

reason of such production, such as the right to an accounting as

among co-owners and the right to balance in cash or in kind, as

those rights may otherwise be established by law or contract.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-135 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-135
Pending actions not terminated
Status: repealed

The enactment of this act shall not terminate any proceeding or

proceedings now pending before the Commission, including those

wherein is sought the issuance and promulgation of orders, rules or

regulations by the Commission under the provisions of an act of the

Legislature approved February 11, 1915, entitled "An Act defining

and prohibiting the waste of crude oil or petroleum, providing for

the equitable taking of the same from the ground and conferring

authority on the Corporation Commission, prescribing the penalty for

the violation of this Act and declaring an emergency," and of any

amendments thereto, but any and all such proceedings shall continue

to final decision or action therein by the Commission, and all

further proceedings, hearings and all orders, rules and regulations

had or made therein by the Commission, and all enforcement thereof

shall be under and subject to the terms and provisions of this act.

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All existing orders, rules and regulations of the Commission

heretofore made and issued under the provisions of aforesaid act of

the Legislature, approved February 11, 1915, and of any amendments

thereto, until repealed, vacated or modified by order of the

Commission, or of the Supreme Court on appeal therefrom, shall

continue and remain in full force and effect and shall be enforced

in the same manner and to like extent as if this act had not been

enacted, but all further proceedings and hearings in any proceedings

heretofore brought and now pending before the Commission, and the

institution, prosecution and hearing of any proceedings hereafter

brought before the Commission in connection with any such existing

orders, rules or regulations of the Commission shall be governed by

the rules of procedure in this act provided and/or that shall be

issued by the Commission in pursuance of the provisions of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.61 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.61
Renumbered as § 130.21 of Title 74 by Laws 1991, c
Status: in_force

235, § 24, eff. July 1, 1991.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-23 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-23
Pipeline operators common purchasers - Requirements -
Status: in_force

Exemptions.

Every corporation, joint-stock company, limited copartnership,

partnership or other person, now or hereafter claiming or exercising

the right to carry or transport natural gas by pipeline or

pipelines, for hire, compensation, or otherwise, within the limits

of this state, is allowed by, and upon compliance with the

requirements of this act, as owner, lessee, licensee, or by virtue

of any other right or claim, which is now engaged or hereafter shall

engage in the business of purchasing natural gas shall be a common

purchaser thereof, and shall purchase all the natural gas in the

vicinity of, or which may be reasonably reached by its pipelines, or

gathering branches, without discrimination in favor of one producer

or one person as against another, and shall fully perform all the

duties of a common purchaser; but if it shall be unable to perform

the same, or be legally excused from purchasing and transporting all

the natural gas produced or offered, then it shall purchase and

transport natural gas from each person or producer ratably, in

proportion to the average production, and such common purchasers are

hereby expressly prohibited from discriminating in price or amount

for like grades of natural gas or facilities as between producers or

persons; and in the event it is likewise a producer, it is hereby

prohibited from discrimination in favor of its own production, or

production in which it may be interested directly or indirectly in

whole or in part, and its own production shall be treated as that of

any other person or producer. All persons, firms, associations, and

corporation are exempted from the provisions of this act, except

from the provisions of Section (9) nine hereof, where the nature and

extent of their business is such that the public needs no use in the

same, and the conduct of the same is not a matter of public

consequence, and for this purpose the district courts of the state

and the Corporation Commission are hereby vested with jurisdiction

to determine such exemptions in any action or proceeding properly

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before them, and provided by the laws now in force in this state

regulating the purchase and transportation of oil.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-246 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-246
Partial invalidity - Effect
Status: in_force

The invalidity of any section, subdivision, clause, or sentence

of this act shall not in any manner affect the validity of the

remaining portion thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-552 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-552
Escrow accounts
Status: in_force

A. The Corporation Commission shall require the establishment

of an escrow account by each holder of monies in each case where:

1. Royalties, bonus payments, or other monies are directed to

be paid under a pooling order, issued under the provisions of

Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

2. Persons entitled to the receipt of such monies are unknown

or cannot be located after exercise of due diligence.

B. The escrow account shall be for the benefit of the rightful

recipient of the monies. Any person showing to the holder

sufficient proof of identity and proof of ownership of the property

shall be promptly paid the sum accumulated for his benefit in the

escrow account.

C. The Corporation Commission shall require reports of each

such account be filed within one (1) year after the pooling order.

The reports shall include, but not be limited to:

1. The name and last-known address of the property owner;

2. The legal description of the property interest subject to

the pooling order;

3. The location and account number of the escrow account;

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4. The person authorized to order withdrawals from the account;

5. The date of the pooling order; and

6. Such other information as the Commission may require.

D. If any holder of monies is required to establish more than

one escrow account by operation of any section of this act, then the

monies accruing may all be commingled in a single account. Separate

records of each deposit and withdrawal on behalf of specific persons

shall be maintained.

E. One (1) year after the date of the pooling order, the holder

shall submit the report of funds that have been held in escrow, and

shall transmit to the Corporation Commission the funds that have

been so held. If additional monies covered by this act are

subsequently generated from mineral interests included in a pooling

order, they shall likewise be held in escrow and transmitted

annually by the holder, along with the names of mineral owners who

have in the intervening year submitted proper claims of ownership to

mineral interests covered by this act.

Provided, however, that payment of such monies shall be optional

with the holder if the amount held for any one person is One Hundred

Dollars ($100.00) or less. This exemption does not relieve the

holder of filing the required reports, regardless of the amount.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-132 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-132
Office of Management and Enterprise Services - Rooms and
Status: in_force

supplies.

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall provide

such rooms, furniture, and supplies as shall be necessary for the

Conservation Division in implementing their duties as prescribed by

the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Conservation Act. No expense incurred in

implementing the provisions of this section shall be paid out of the

General Revenue Fund of the State of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.3
Waste of gas - Meaning - Prevention - Prohibition -
Status: in_force

Protection of fresh water and oil or gas bearing strata.

The term "waste", as applied to gas, in addition to its ordinary

meaning, shall include the inefficient or wasteful utilization of

gas in the operation of oil wells drilled to and producing from a

common source of supply; the inefficient or wasteful utilization of

gas from gas wells drilled to and producing from a common source of

supply; the production of gas in such quantities or in such manner

as unreasonably to reduce reservoir pressure or unreasonably to

diminish the quantity of oil or gas that might be recovered from a

common source of supply; the escape, directly or indirectly, of gas

from oil wells producing from a common source of supply into the

open air in excess of the amount necessary in the efficient

drilling, completion or operation thereof; waste incident to the

production of natural gas in excess of transportation and marketing

facilities or reasonable market demand; the escape, blowing or

releasing, directly or indirectly, into the open air, of gas from

wells productive of gas only, drilled into any common source of

supply, save only such as is necessary in the efficient drilling and

completion thereof; and the unnecessary depletion or inefficient

utilization of gas energy contained in a common source of supply.

In order to prevent the waste or to reduce the dissipation of gas

energy contained in a common source of supply, in addition to its

other powers in respect thereof, the Commission shall have the

authority to limit the production of gas from wells producing gas

only to a percentage of the capacity of such wells to produce. The

production of gas in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under

such conditions as to constitute waste as in this act defined is

hereby prohibited, and the Commission shall have authority and is

charged with the duty to make rules, regulations, and orders for the

prevention of such waste and for the protection of all freshwater

strata and oil- or gas-bearing strata encountered in any well

drilled for gas.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.5 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.5
Ratification or approval of plan by lessees and owners
Status: in_force

No order of the Commission creating a unit and prescribing the

plan of unitization applicable thereto shall become effective unless

and until the plan of unitization has been signed, or in writing

ratified or approved by lessees of record of not less than sixty-

three percent (63%) of the unit area affected thereby and by owners

of record of not less than sixty-three percent (63%) of the normal

one-eighth (1/8) royalty interest in and to the unit area, and the

Commission has made a finding either in the order creating the unit

or in a supplemental order that the plan of unitization has been so

signed, ratified or approved by lessees and royalty owners owning

the required percentage interest in and to the unit area. Where the

plan of unitization has not been so signed, ratified or approved by

lessees and royalty owners owning the required percentage interest

in and to the unit area at the time the order creating the unit is

made, the Commission shall, upon petition and notice, hold such

additional and supplemental hearings as may be requested or required

to determine if and when the plan of unitization has been so signed,

ratified or approved by lessees and royalty owners owning the

required percentage interest in and to the unit area and shall, in

respect to such hearings, make and enter a finding of its

determination in such regard. In the event lessees and royalty

owners, or either, owning the required percentage interest in and to

the unit area have not so signed, ratified or approved the plan of

unitization within a period of six (6) months from and after the

date on which the order creating the unit is made, the order

creating the unit shall cease to be of further force and effect and

shall be revoked by the Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.6
Appeal of decision on exceptions to report of appraiser
Status: in_force

or verdict upon jury trial - Execution of instruments of conveyance.

Any aggrieved party may appeal from the decision of the court on

exceptions to the report of the appraisers or the verdict rendered

upon jury trial. Such appeal shall not serve to delay the

prosecution of the work on the premises in question if the award of

the appraisers or jury has been deposited with the clerk for the use

and benefit of the surface owner. In case of review or appeal, a

certified copy of the final order or judgment shall be transmitted

by the clerk to the appropriate county clerk to be filed and

recorded.

When an estate is being probated, or when a minor or incompetent

person has a legal guardian or conservator, the administrator or

executor of the estate, or guardian of the minor or of the

incompetent person or the conservator, shall have the authority to

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execute all instruments of conveyance provided for in this act on

behalf of the estate, or minor or incompetent person with no other

proceedings than approval by the judge of the court of jurisdiction

being endorsed on the instrument of conveyance.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-47.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-47.6
Violations - Penalties
Status: in_force

A. Any person who has been determined by the Commission to have

violated any provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation

System Safety Act or any rule, regulation or order issued pursuant

to the provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation System

Safety Act shall be liable for an administrative penalty of not more

than Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) for each day that

the violation continues. The maximum administrative penalty shall

not exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) for any related

series of violations.

B. 1. The amount of the penalty shall be assessed by the

Commission pursuant to the provisions of subsection A of this

section, after notice and hearing. In determining the amount of the

penalty, the Commission shall include but not be limited to

consideration of the nature, circumstances, and gravity of the

violation and, with respect to the person found to have committed

the violation, the degree of culpability, the effect on ability of

the person to continue to do business, and any show of good faith in

attempting to achieve compliance with the provisions of the

Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act.

2. All penalties collected pursuant to the provisions of this

subsection shall be deposited in the Pipeline Enforcement Fund.

C. Any person who willfully and knowingly injures or destroys,

or attempts to injure or destroy, any hazardous liquid

transportation system, upon conviction thereof, shall be guilty of a

Class B3 felony offense and shall be subject for each offense to a

fine of not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00),

imprisonment for a term not less than five (5) years and not to

exceed fifteen (15) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-32 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-32
Violations - Receivership - procedure
Status: in_force

The Corporation Commission shall, upon being reasonably

satisfied that any corporation has violated the provisions of this

act, recommend to the Attorney General that a receiver be appointed

for such corporation. Upon receipt of the recommendation by the

Attorney General, he shall within ten (10) days file a petition on

behalf of the state in any court of competent jurisdiction, praying

that a receiver be appointed, and such court shall immediately

consider the application and appoint a receiver, if in the judgment

of the court the provisions of this act have been willfully

violated. The receiver, when appointed, shall immediately take

charge of all the business, property and assets of such corporation

in the state and shall retain possession thereof until it shall be

determined upon the trial whether or not such corporation has

violated the provisions of this act, then, in addition to the other

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penalties herein provided, all the property of said corporation

shall be retained under such receivership until the penalties

incurred hereunder are paid, after which the receivership may be

discharged upon such terms and conditions as the court may impose as

an assurance for the further compliance with this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-554 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-554
Transmission of funds - Escrow report - Claims against
Status: in_force

Mineral Owner's Fund.

A. The Corporation Commission shall, by the close of the second

working day following the day on which the funds are received from

holders, transmit the funds to the State Treasurer, who shall hold

the funds in trust for the mineral owners in the Mineral Owner's

Fund.

B. The Corporation Commission shall, within ninety (90) days of

receipt, provide copies of escrow reports required by Section 551 et

seq. of this title to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer

shall include these names in the regular annual process to locate

the owners of unclaimed property.

C. Claims against the Mineral Owner's Fund shall be submitted

to the State Treasurer, and upon sufficient proof of ownership, the

State Treasurer shall pay monies to the rightful owner or to the

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rightful owner’s heirs, devisees or assigns from the Unclaimed

Property Fund, to be reimbursed quarterly from the Mineral Owner's

Fund, for such claim.

D. The Corporation Commission shall retain ten percent (10%) of

each amount of funds transferred to the State Treasurer to cover the

Corporation Commission’s cost of administration of the requirements

of Section 551 et seq. of this title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.1
Short title - Definitions
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Liquefied

Petroleum Gas Regulation Act”.

B. For purposes of the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Regulation Act:

1. “Administrator” means the State Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Administrator;

2. “Board” means the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board;

and

3. “Liquefied petroleum gases”, “LPG”, or “LP-Gas” means and

includes any material which is composed predominantly of any of the

following hydrocarbons, or mixtures of the same: propane, propylene,

normal butane and isobutane, and butylenes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-302 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-302
Firing oil or gas, or interfering with appliances
Status: in_force

unlawful.

It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person maliciously

to set fire to any gas or oil escaping from wells, broken or leaking

mains, pipes, valves, tanks or other appliances used by any person

or corporation in conveying gas or oil, or to interfere in any

manner with the wells, pipes, mains, gate boxes, valves, stopcocks,

or other appliances, machinery or property of any person or

corporation engaged in furnishing gas or oil, unless employed by or

acting under the authority and direction of any such person or

corporation owning or operating said gas or oil lines, or the proper

legal authorities.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-153 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-153
Persons having authority to make investigations, serve
Status: in_force

orders, etc.

The Commission shall have the authority to designate those

employees in the Oil and Gas Conservation Division who shall each

possess the authority to make investigations, serve orders, issue

field citations, subpoenas or notices issued by the Commission or

the Conservation Division, to any operator, employee or agent of

said operator, and to enter upon any oil or gas lease or property

where necessary in the performance of their duties.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.15 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.15
Agreements not violative of laws governing monopolies
Status: in_force

or restraint of trade.

No agreement between or among lessees or other owners of oil and

gas rights in oil and gas properties, entered into pursuant hereto

or with a view or for the purpose of bringing about the unitized

development or operation of such properties, shall be held to

violate any of the statutes of this state prohibiting monopolies or

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acts, arrangements, agreements, contracts, combinations or

conspiracies in restraint of trade or commerce.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.58 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.58
Renumbered as § 130.18 of Title 74 by Laws 1991, c
Status: in_force

235, § 24, eff. July 1, 1991.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-305 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-305
Well drilling within 100 feet of underground coal mines
Status: in_force

prohibited.

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No well for oil or gas shall be drilled within one hundred (100)

feet from any mined area of an active underground coal mine, or

abandoned underground mine connected to an active underground mine.

Added by 1955, p. 255, § 1.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.23 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.23
Seismic test hole blasting - Damages
Status: in_force

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or

entity to conduct any seismic test hole blasting within two hundred

(200) feet of any habitable dwelling, building or water well without

written permission from the owner of the property.

B. The surface owner shall be entitled to reasonable damages

that have been or will be sustained to the surface estate by reason

of the operator's seismic exploration.

C. At least fifteen (15) days prior to commencement of seismic

exploration, the operator shall provide the notice to the surface

owner required by Section 318.22 of this title, and, in the absence

of an agreement between the surface owner and the operator as to

seismic exploration, operator and surface owner shall make a good-

faith effort to resolve any reasonable damage issues raised by the

surface owner by reason of operator's seismic exploration.

D. The surface owner may accept the offer in the notice

required by Section 318.22 of this title by accepting the offer in

writing to the operator within fifteen (15) days of the postmark of

the notice. By the timely acceptance of such offer, the surface

owner shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to such offer as

full consideration for all reasonable damages by reason of the

operator's seismic exploration and the operator may commence seismic

operations. The operator shall, upon receipt of the surface owner's

timely acceptance of the offer in the notice, remit the appropriate

consideration to the surface owner. The surface owner's acceptance

of such offer and consideration shall not prohibit the surface owner

from attempting to recover damages which are unreasonable and caused

by reason of the operator's seismic exploration on the surface

estate of the surface owner.

E. If prior to the expiration of the fifteen-day notice period

set forth in Section 318.22 of this title, the surface owner rejects

the amount tendered with the notice required by Section 318.22 of

this title in writing to the operator, or the surface owner fails to

make a timely acceptance of the offer contained in the notice, then

the surface owner will be deemed to have rejected the offer tendered

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with the notice, and the operator may enter the property and

commence seismic operations.

F. Within ninety (90) days of the last mailing of the notice

described herein, the applicant shall file an affidavit setting out

that mailing of the notice has occurred in compliance with Section

318.22 of this title, and specifically listing the surface owners

which were not locatable at the addresses required. Further, in the

event that any surface owner is not locatable at the addresses, then

such surface owner will be deemed as having rejected the offer

provided in the notice required under Section 318.22 of this title.

G. If the surface owner has properly rejected or has been

deemed to have rejected the amount tendered with the notice required

by Section 318.22 of this title, the surface owner may initiate an

action pursuant to The Small Claims Procedure Act or a civil action

pursuant to the Oklahoma Pleading Code, as appropriate, to recover

the reasonable damages, if any, actually sustained by reason of the

operator's seismic exploration. Venue for such action shall

properly be in the county where the surface estate is located.

H. If an action to recover the reasonable damages is commenced

pursuant to subsection G of this section and a judgment is entered

in the action for the surface owner for reasonable damages by reason

of the operator's seismic exploration in an amount in excess of the

amount set forth in the notice required by Section 318.22 of this

title, the surface owner shall be considered the prevailing party;

if the judgment entered for reasonable damages by reason of the

operator's seismic exploration is for an amount equal to or less

than the amount set forth in the notice required by Section 318.22

of this title, the operator shall be considered the prevailing

party. The prevailing party in any court proceeding brought

pursuant to this section shall be entitled to recover the costs of

the suit, including but not limited to reasonable attorney and

expert witness fees and litigation expenses. If the action should

be dismissed other than by way of settlement prior to the entry of

judgment, then the surface owner shall forfeit its right to receive

any consideration for all reasonable damages by reason of the

operator’s seismic exploration.

I. Nothing in the Seismic Exploration Regulation Act shall

modify or restrict an operator's right to enter a surface estate and

conduct seismic exploration thereon pursuant to the operator's right

to conduct seismic exploration. Additionally, nothing in the

response or deemed response of a surface owner to any notice

required by Section 318.22 of this title shall restrict or otherwise

affect an operator's right to enter a surface estate and conduct

seismic operations thereon.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-1
Corporation Commission or Commission defined
Status: in_force

As used in Title 52, the term "Corporation Commission" or

"Commission" shall mean the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, or

any employee, agent, deputy or representative of the Commission as

shall be authorized by law or the Commission to perform any duty,

responsibility or function, or exercise any power, unless the intent

of the statute clearly prohibits such an authorization.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-256 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-256
Penalties
Status: in_force

Any owner or operator of a well who fails to comply with any

duty imposed by this act shall be liable to the person or persons

aggrieved for all damages suffered as a result thereof, including

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any diminution in yield from said land which may arise from

inability to irrigate the same because of or arising out of the

failure to perform such duty.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-47.3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-47.3
Powers and duties of Commission
Status: in_force

The Corporation Commission shall have the power and duty to:

1. Establish, administer, and enforce safety standards for the

design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all

transportation systems for hazardous liquid;

2. Advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of this

state, the federal government, other states, interstate agencies,

political subdivisions, and industries, as may be necessary for the

discharge of the duties of the Commission pursuant to the provisions

of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act;

3. Accept and administer loans and grants from the federal

government and from other sources, public or private, for

implementing the provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation

System Safety Act;

4. Adopt, modify, repeal, promulgate, and enforce rules

implementing or effectuating the powers and duties of the Commission

pursuant to the provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation

System Safety Act, provided such rules and regulations shall not

exceed those found in 49 CFR, Part 195, as provided for by P.L. 96-

129; provided that, the Commission shall not promulgate, enforce or

interpret any rule or regulation unless such rule, regulation or

interpretation shall be consistent with and no more restrictive than

the applicable rules, regulations and interpretations of the United

States Secretary of Transportation; provided further that, the

Commission shall not apply or enforce any interpretation of its

rules against any operator for any practice, policy or conduct that

complies with a written procedure to minimize the hazard resulting

from a hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline emergency when

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that procedure has been annually updated and approved by the United

States Secretary of Transportation;

5. Make periodic investigations and inspections of hazardous

liquid transportation systems to ensure compliance with the

provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act

and rules promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the provisions

of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act;

6. Require the submission of plans, specifications, and other

data relative to hazardous liquid transportation systems, and review

said plans, specifications, and other data. All data filed as

confidential shall be maintained as confidential and shall not be

subject to the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Records Act. Only

authorized Commission employees may access such confidential data;

7. Approve or disapprove written safety plans for the

inspection and maintenance of said transportation systems;

8. Require reports from all persons operating or owning a

hazardous liquid transportation system;

9. Require the maintenance of records relating to the operation

of hazardous liquid transportation systems;

10. Institute or cause to be instituted any necessary legal

proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction for an injunction

or other appropriate relief to enforce the provisions of the

Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act; and

11. Exercise all incidental powers which are necessary and

proper to perform the duties of the Commission pursuant to the

provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Transportation System Safety Act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-239 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-239
Common source of supply - Apportionment and regulation to
Status: in_force

prevent waste.

Any person, firm or corporation, having the right to drill into

and produce gas from any common source of supply, may take therefrom

only such proportion of the natural gas that may be marketed without

waste, as the natural flow of the well or wells owned or controlled

by the person, firm or corporation bears to the total natural flow

of such common source of supply having due regard to the acreage

drained by each well, so as to prevent the person, firm or

corporation securing any unfair proportion of the gas from the

common source of supply. Except as otherwise provided in this

section, the Corporation Commission is authorized and directed to

prescribe rules for the determination of the natural flow of any

well or wells, and to promulgate field rules to regulate the taking

of natural gas from any or all common sources of supply within the

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state, so as to prevent waste as the same is defined in Section 86.3

of this title, protect the interests of the public, and the

correlative rights of all those having a right to produce from the

common source of supply, and to prevent unreasonable discrimination

in favor of any one common source of supply as against another.

Except for the common source of supply referred to as the Guymon-

Hugoton, the Commission shall have no authority to prescribe or

enforce rules under this section for the taking of natural gas from

any other common source of supply when the average pressure of such

other common source of supply declines to below one hundred (100)

pounds per square inch gauge or the average production per well in

the common source of supply declines below two hundred thousand

(200,000) standard cubic feet per day for each day of the last

calendar year.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-278 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-278
Violation - Penalties
Status: in_force

In addition to any penalty that may be imposed by the

Corporation Commission for contempt, any person, firm, or

corporation, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, directly or

indirectly violating the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of

a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in a court of competent

jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county

jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both fine and

imprisonment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.4 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.4
Order - Units and unit areas - Plan of unitization
Status: in_force

The order of the Commission shall define the area of the common

source of supply or portion thereof to be included within the unit

area and prescribe with reasonable detail the plan of unitization

applicable thereto.

Each unit and unit area shall be limited to all or a portion of

a single common source of supply. Only so much of a common source

of supply as has been defined and determined to be productive of oil

and gas by actual drilling operations may be so included within the

unit area.

A unit may be created to embrace less than the whole of a common

source of supply only where it is shown by the evidence that the

area to be so included within the unit area is of such size and

shape as may be reasonably required for the successful and efficient

conduct of the unitized method or methods of operation for which the

unit is created, and that the conduct thereof will have no material

adverse effect upon the remainder of such common source of supply.

The plan of unitization for each such unit and unit area shall

be one suited to the needs and requirements of the particular unit

dependent upon the facts and conditions found to exist with respect

thereto. In addition to such other terms, provisions, conditions

and requirements found by the Commission to be reasonably necessary

or proper to effectuate or accomplish the purpose of this act, and

subject to the further requirements hereof, each such plan of

unitization shall contain fair, reasonable and equitable provisions

for:

(a) The efficient unitized management or control of the further

development and operation of the unit area for the recovery of oil

and gas from the common source of supply affected. Under such a

plan the actual operations within the unit area may be carried on in

whole or in part by the unit itself, or by one or more of the

lessees within the unit area as unit operator subject to the

supervision and direction of the unit, dependent upon what is most

beneficial or expedient. The designation of the unit operator shall

be by vote of the lessees in the unit in a manner provided in the

plan of unitization and not by the Commission.

(b) The division of interest or formula for the apportionment

and allocation of the unit production, among and to the several

separately owned tracts within the unit area such as will reasonably

permit persons otherwise entitled to share in or benefit by the

production from such separately owned tracts to produce or receive,

in lieu thereof, their fair, equitable and reasonable share of the

unit production or other benefits thereof. A separately owned

tract's fair, equitable and reasonable share of the unit production

shall be measured by the value of each such tract for oil and gas

purposes and its contributing value to the unit in relation to like

values of other tracts in the unit, taking into account acreage, the

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quantity of oil and gas recoverable therefrom, location on

structure, its probable productivity of oil and gas in the absence

of unit operations, the burden of operation to which the tract will

or is likely to be subjected, or so many of said factors, or such

other pertinent engineering, geological, or operating factors, as

may be reasonably susceptible of determination. Unit production as

that term is used in this act shall mean and include all oil and gas

produced from a unit area from and after the effective date of the

order of the Commission creating the unit regardless of the well or

tract within the unit area from which the same is produced.

(c) The manner in which the unit and the further development and

operation of the unit area shall or may be financed and the basis,

terms and conditions on which the cost and expense thereof shall be

apportioned among and assessed against the tracts and interests made

chargeable therewith, including a detailed accounting procedure

governing all charges and credits incident to such operations.

Reasonable provision shall be made in the plan of unitization for

carrying or otherwise financing lessees who are unable to promptly

meet their financial obligations in connection with the unit by

establishing a fair rate of interest to all concerned based upon the

terms and conditions as to time and by establishing a penalty

provision which shall be defined as the total expenses minus any

cash contributions received as follows:

1. One hundred percent (100%) of that portion of the cost of

aboveground surface equipment beyond the wellhead connections,

including but not limited to stock tanks, separators, treaters,

pumping equipment and piping, plus one hundred percent (100%) of the

share of the cost of operation of the unit which shall be subject to

the established rate of interest;

2. Three hundred percent (300%) of that portion of the costs

and expenses of drilling wells in the unitized area, including but

not limited to staking, well site preparation, rigging up or

drilling and reworking, deeping or plugging back and testing and

completing the wells; and

3. Three hundred percent (300%) of that portion of the costs

and expenses of the underground pipeline systems, expenses for

injected substances and any other incurred expenses which are not

recoupable in the further development and operation of the unit

area.

(d) The procedure and basis upon which wells, equipment and

other properties of the several lessees within the unit area are to

be taken over and used for unit operations, including the method of

arriving at the compensation therefor, or of otherwise

proportionately equalizing or adjusting the investment of the

several lessees in the project as of the effective date of unit

operation.

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(e) The creation of an operating committee to have general

overall management and control of the unit and the conduct of its

business and affairs and the operations carried on by it, together

with the creation or designation of such other subcommittees, boards

or officers to function under authority of the operating committee

as may be necessary, proper or convenient in the efficient

management of the unit, defining the powers and duties of all such

committees, boards or officers and prescribing their tenure and time

and method for their selection.

(f) The time when the plan of unitization shall become and be

effective.

(g) The time when and conditions under which and the method by

which the unit shall or may be dissolved and its affairs wound up.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-24.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-24.1
Refusal to purchase or transport natural gas - Complaint
Status: in_force

- Hearing - Orders.

Any person, firm or municipality aggrieved by reason of the

refusal by a common carrier of natural gas to purchase or transport

natural gas produced by such person or firm or gas production owned

by said municipality may file a complaint before the Corporation

Commission. The Corporation Commission shall conduct a hearing and

take evidence as is necessary to determine the complaint. Notice

shall be given to the common carrier at least ten (10) days prior to

such hearing. The Corporation Commission shall order the common

carrier to purchase or transport the natural gas, and fix a fair

rate for such transportation, unless the common carrier establishes

and the Commission determines that:

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1. Such natural gas cannot reasonably be carried by the named

common carrier, because of the difficulty or expense involved;

2. Some other common carrier of natural gas can more

conveniently purchase or transport such natural gas; or

3. The gas might dilute or pollute the gas being carried in

their line.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-581.9 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-581.9
Construction and application of act
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall be construed as setting the price,

terms or conditions under which a purchaser takes the production of

a well or setting any restrictions, limitations, floor or ceiling on

the price to be paid for such production, nor shall anything in this

act require any purchaser to connect any well that such purchaser is

not already obligated to connect and nothing contained in this

section shall be construed as altering or changing the definition of

the terms common purchaser and common carrier as defined by law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-292 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-292
Waste from gas pipeline - Unlawful if unnecessary
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person, co-partnership, or

corporation, either as owner, lessee, agent or manager of any

pipeline in this state, through which natural gas flows from wells

utilized for the production of gas only, to allow any unnecessary

leak or waste to occur from said line.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.5 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.5
Procedural requirements
Status: in_force

This act shall be subject to all of the procedural requirements

contained in Sections 84 to 135, inclusive, Title 52, Oklahoma

Statutes, 1951, including the right of appeal to the Supreme Court

of the state on the part of any person aggrieved by any action of

the Commission under and pursuant to this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.59 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.59
Renumbered as § 130.19 of Title 74 by Laws 1991, c
Status: in_force

235, § 24, eff. July 1, 1991.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-248 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-248
Declaration of policy
Status: in_force

Whereas, agriculture constitutes one of the basic foundations of

this state, and agricultural production in this state frequently is

restricted and curtailed by reason of shortage of rainfall and could

be increased and rendered more stable by irrigation, and, whereas,

in many areas of the state in which surface water resources are

inadequate to afford dependable and adequate sources of water for

irrigation, there also exist ample subsurface reservoirs of water at

such depths that they may be pumped successfully for irrigation only

by use of an assured and adequate source of power, which is not

available from commercial sources in rural neighborhoods, and,

whereas, in many such areas there exist developed deposits of

natural gas from which such power could be obtained, it is hereby

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declared and enacted that the use of natural gas on the premises

from which it is produced to pump to the surface water to be used

for irrigation on such premises is a preferred use, prior in order

to all other uses which such gas may be devoted.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-105 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-105
Power to close wells - Orders regulating flow and
Status: in_force

production - Motion or petition for order - Temporary orders.

The Commission shall have the power to order closed, and by the

Proration Umpire, his assistant and deputies, to close any well or

wells which have been overproduced or which are being overproduced

in violation of this act and/or of the orders, rules and regulations

of the Commission and/or to order that the production of oil from

such well or wells shall be reduced, until such condition of

overproduction of any such well or wells has been equalized so that

the operator of such well or wells shall not be permitted to take

therefrom a greater amount of oil than is permitted under the

provisions of this act and/or the orders, rules and regulations of

the Commission, made in pursuance of the provisions of this act; and

may issue and enforce other orders to regulate the flow and

production of oil and gas in such common source of supply for the

purpose of preventing or stopping violations of its orders, rules or

regulations, prescribing proration of production or ratable taking

of oil in any common source of supply. Said orders of enforcement

may be issued by the Commission upon its own motion, or upon written

petition filed by (a) the Attorney General, or (b) the Proration

Attorney, or (c) the Proration Umpire, in the name of the state; or

by any person interested in the proration or ratable taking of oil

from any common source of supply where any such violation of the

orders, rules or regulations of the Commission is alleged to have

occurred. Said motion or petition for such orders of enforcement

shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission and shall state

the name of the violator or violators and the provision of the

statute, or the order, rule or regulation which it is charged are

being violated, and briefly in general language the act or acts,

omission or omissions, done or being done by the alleged violator or

violators which constitute the violation of statute or of the order,

rule or regulation of the Commission complained of. Any such

petition, other than motions by the Commission for such enforcement

orders, shall be verified by the officer or person filing the same,

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but such verification may be made upon affiant's best information

and belief. Whenever any such motion or petition for an order of

enforcement shall charge that the violation or violations by the

defendant therein of the provisions of this act or of orders, rules

and regulations of the Commission complained of, is that defendant

has produced or is producing oil from any well or wells in any

common source of supply at a rate in excess of that allowed by the

orders, rules and regulations of the Commission applicable thereto,

the Commission, in its discretion, may, at the time of the filing of

any such motion or petition, or at any time thereafter prior to its

final hearing thereon and issuance of final or permanent order in

such proceeding, make or issue a temporary order or orders, ordering

and directing the defendant or defendants in any such proceeding to

shut down and discontinue immediately, or to curtail the production

of oil from any well or wells alleged to be involved in the

violations complained of so as to comply with the orders, rules and

regulations of the Commission; and said temporary order may further

provide and require that if the defendant or defendants shall fail

to shut down or curtail the production from any such well or wells

so ordered in the manner required by such order of the Commission

within twenty-four (24) hours from the time of service of said

order, the Proration Umpire, his assistant or deputies shall

thereupon go upon the premises upon which said well or wells are

located, and shut down the production of oil from said well or wells

until the hearing provided in said temporary order of the Commission

shall have been held, and/or until the Commission shall otherwise

order. The defendant or defendants against whom any such temporary

order has been issued shall have the right to appear before the

Commission at any time prior to the date for hearing in said

proceeding and move that such temporary order be dissolved or

modified, and show cause to the Commission why same should be done.

The Commission upon hearing any such motion, which shall be promptly

heard, and may be had with or without notice thereof to the

petitioner, may in its discretion dissolve or modify such temporary

order or continue the same until final hearing in said cause shall

have been held. Provided, however, that if upon final hearing

before the Commission in such proceeding, or upon appeal to the

Supreme Court, if an appeal from the decision of the Commission in

such proceeding shall be taken, it shall be determined that any such

temporary order was wrongfully issued by the Commission, the

defendant or defendants shall be permitted to produce their well or

wells, shut down, or the production from which was reduced by such

temporary order of the Commission, so as to recover or make up the

oil such defendant or defendants could have lawfully produced from

such well or wells during the period such well or wells were shut

down or the production thereof was reduced, if such temporary order

of the Commission requiring such well or wells to be shut down, or

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the production therefrom to be reduced, had not been made by the

Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-612 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-612
Nonresident transferees - Service of process
Status: in_force

A transferee who is a nonresident of this state, and any persons

acting in concert or participating with or controlling such

transferee, who makes or solicits an offer to effect a transfer, or

who makes an agreement to effect a transfer, shall be deemed:

1. To have agreed to be subject to the jurisdiction of the

Commission and the courts of the state with respect to any action or

proceeding commenced under this act;

2. To have designated the Secretary of State as the lawful

agent for receipt of service of process with respect to any action

or proceeding commenced under this act, if no such agent has

previously been designated; and

3. To have agreed that any summons or other notice of suit or

proceeding served on the Secretary of State as agent for service of

process shall have the same legal force and validity as if

personally served in this state, provided that the addresses of the

transferee, or persons acting in concert or participating with or

controlling such transferee, are known to the Commission or the

Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State promptly sends notice

of service and a copy of the process by registered mail to the

transferee, and persons acting in concert or participating with or

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controlling such transferee, on or before the return day of the

process, or within such further time as the Commission may allow.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-522 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-522
Procedure
Status: in_force

(a) The plaintiff shall file a verified petition setting forth

the following: (1) the interest of the plaintiff in the tract or

tracts of land described in said petition; (2) the apparent interest

of the defendant or defendants as appears from the record of the

county clerk and from such other sources, identifying same, as

plaintiff has investigated; (3) the last-known address, business,

residence, or otherwise which plaintiff may have been able to

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ascertain for each of said defendants and the sources of information

which plaintiff has checked in an attempt to locate the present

address or whereabouts of said defendant or defendants, and further

stating that plaintiff has exercised due diligence and cannot by any

means within his control ascertain the present address or

whereabouts of said defendant or defendants; (4) that there are

persons or corporations who are willing to purchase an oil and gas

lease upon the interest of the defendant or defendants and that the

existence of these unleased mineral interests is detrimental to and

impairs the enjoyment of the interest of the plaintiff; (5) that the

plaintiff has acquired or has good reason to believe that he can

acquire operating rights covering all mineral interests other than

the interest of said defendants in said tract or tracts.

(b) Upon the filing of such petition the court shall set same

for hearing upon a date certain, which date must be at least fifteen

(15) days from the date of filing said petition. Notice of the

hearing, the nature of the hearing and relief requested shall be

given by publication one time in a newspaper of general circulation

in the county and by mailing to the last-known address, if any, of

the defendant or defendants as set forth in said petition. The

publication and mailing of notice shall all be done at least seven

(7) days prior to the date of hearing.

(c) On the date set for said hearing the court shall dismiss the

action as to all defendants who answer and request such dismissal,

and as to all other defendants the court shall require proof that

the requirements of Section 2(b) have been satisfied, shall take

evidence and hear testimony as to the matters set forth in

plaintiff's petition, and at said hearing shall determine the bonus

value for oil and gas leases on lands in said vicinity and the

prevailing rental and royalty rate; and if it appears to the court

that the requirements of Section 2(b) have been satisfied, that the

matters set forth in plaintiff's petition are true, that it is

probable that a purchaser can be secured for an oil and gas lease on

the unleased mineral interests of the defendant or defendants, that

the existence of such unleased interests is detrimental to and

impairs the interest of the plaintiff, the court shall appoint a

receiver for the purpose of selling an oil and gas lease upon the

interest of said defendant or defendants, and said order appointing

the receiver and authorizing the sale of such lease shall set forth

the minimum bonus which may be accepted and the minimum royalty and

rental rate. The court, in its discretion, may require the receiver

to give bond.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-67 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-67
Authorization for construction, siting, expansion or
Status: in_force

operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline

facilities – Schedule of approval.

A. The Corporation Commission shall cooperate with and comply

with deadlines established by the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission in regards to authorization for the construction, siting,

expansion, or operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product

pipeline facilities.

B. The Corporation Commission shall have the authority to

establish a schedule for all state pipeline authorizations with

respect to crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline

facilities. In establishing the schedule, the Commission shall:

1. Ensure expeditious completion of all proceedings; and

2. Accommodate the applicable schedules established by state

law for such proceedings.

C. Any judicial appeal of the actions of the Commission shall

be to an Oklahoma court of competent jurisdiction as provided for by

the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.

D. Upon application by a qualified applicant, the Commission

shall issue an order authorizing, in whole or in part, the siting,

construction, expansion, or operation of a crude oil or refined

petroleum product pipeline facility which is located in either

interstate or intrastate commerce.

E. If the holder of a Commission order issued pursuant to this

section cannot acquire by contract, or is unable to agree with the

owner of the property on the amount of compensation to be paid for:

1. The necessary right-of-way to site, construct, operate, and

maintain a pipeline or pipelines for the transportation of crude oil

or refined petroleum products; and

2. The necessary land or other property for the location of

compressor stations, pressure apparatus, or other stations or

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equipment necessary to the proper operation of such pipeline or

pipelines,

the holder of the order may acquire the property through the

exercise of the right of eminent domain in an Oklahoma court of

competent jurisdiction as allowed under the Constitution of the

State of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-295 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-295
Burning gas during day
Status: in_force

No gas shall be used or burned for illuminating purposes between

the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and five o'clock p.m., unless the

use of the same is regulated by meter.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-320.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-320.1
Restriction on location of habitable structures
Status: in_force

A. After the effective date of this act, it shall be unlawful

to locate any habitable structure within:

1. A radius of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet from the

wellbore of an active well; or

2. A radius of fifty (50) feet from the center of any surface

equipment or other equipment necessary for the operation of an

active well, including, but not limited to, hydrocarbon and brine

storage vessels, tanks, compressors, heaters, separators,

dehydrators, or any other related equipment.

B. Provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not

prohibit an operator and surface owner from agreeing in writing to

setback provisions with distances different from those set forth in

this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-201 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-201
Compacts with other states authorized - Objectives - Fact
Status: in_force

finding agency - Uniform conservation and tax laws.

The Governor, or such representative as he may appoint, is

authorized to meet with representatives of the Governors of other

petroleum-producing states, and of the United States, for the

purpose of agreeing upon a compact among such states effecting the

following objectives:

(a). Establishment of a joint state and federal fact-finding

agency to consist of one representative appointed by the Governor of

each compacting state, and one representative of the United States

as Congress or the President shall direct. Said agency shall make

periodic findings, subject to the approval and modification by the

President, of the demand for petroleum to be produced within the

United States, for withdrawals from storage, and for petroleum and

products thereof to be imported. It shall thereupon, subject to

concurrence of representatives of compacting states capable of

together producing two-thirds (2/3) of the demand for domestic

production so found, and approval and modification by the President,

determine the part thereof allowable as production within each

petroleum-producing state.

(b). Voluntary regulation of production by each compacting

state within its own borders in accordance with said determination

of the joint fact-finding agency, to the extent that and in such

manner as the laws of each state may authorize.

(c). Formulation by the joint agency of uniform conservation

measures and tax laws which it shall recommend to the compacting

states, and exercise by said agency of such incidental powers as may

be agreed upon.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-211 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-211
Further extensions - Withdrawal from Compact -
Status: in_force

Determination and necessary steps.

The Governor of Oklahoma is further authorized and empowered for

and in the name of the State of Oklahoma to execute agreements for

the further extension of the expiration date of the said The

Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas and to determine if and

when it shall be for the best interest of the State of Oklahoma to

withdraw from said Compact upon sixty (60) days' notice as provided

by the terms of the Compact. In the event he shall determine that

this state should withdraw from said Compact he shall have full

power and authority to give necessary notice and to take any and all

steps necessary and proper to effect the withdrawal of the State of

Oklahoma from said Compact.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-902 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-902
Construction of oil and gas contracts, statutes and
Status: in_force

governmental orders.

The sanctity of private agreements, and the consistent and

predictable application and interpretation of statutes, governmental

orders and common law, being essential to the oil and gas industry,

the following are declared to be paramount rules of construction to

be applied by the courts of this state in the construction of

private agreements, statutes and governmental orders relating to the

exploration for, operations for, producing of, or marketing oil or

gas, or disbursing proceeds of production of oil or gas:

1. A person is bound as a reasonably prudent operator to

operate the well on behalf of all owners in the well and perform any

duties owed to any person under a private agreement, statute,

governmental order or common law relating to the exploration for,

operations for, producing of, or marketing oil or gas, or disbursing

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proceeds of production of oil or gas, and performance of the duties

described herein is that performance which an operator acting

reasonably would have undertaken given the circumstances at the

time, without being required to subordinate its own business

interests, but with due regard to the interests of all affected

parties, including the operator; and

2. There shall not be implied in the duties in paragraph 1 of

this section or otherwise any fiduciary duty, quasi-fiduciary duty

or other similar special relationship in any private agreement,

statute or governmental order or common law relating to the

exploration for, operations for, producing of, or marketing oil or

gas, or disbursing proceeds of production of oil or gas.

Nothing in this section shall either prohibit the parties to a

private agreement from expressly agreeing in writing otherwise or

prohibit the Legislature from expressly providing otherwise in any

statute subsequently enacted or prohibit any governmental order from

expressly providing otherwise to the extent within the power or

authority of the issuer of such order. However, the provisions of

paragraph 2 of this section shall not apply to Sections 287.1

through 287.15 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes and nothing in

this act shall be interpreted to relieve an operator or owner from

any obligation or duty set forth expressly in the Production Revenue

Standards Act or the Natural Gas Market Sharing Act; provided the

performance of such obligations or duties shall be subject to the

same reasonably prudent operator standard set forth in paragraph 1

of this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.2
Waste in production of oil - industrial use of water
Status: in_force

produced

A. The term "waste", as applied to the production of oil, in

addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include economic waste,

underground waste, including water encroachment in the oil or gas

bearing strata; the use of reservoir energy for oil producing

purposes by means or methods that unreasonably interfere with

obtaining from the common source of supply the largest ultimate

recovery of oil; surface waste and waste incident to the production

of oil in excess of transportation or marketing facilities or

reasonable market demands. The production of oil in the State of

Oklahoma in such manner and under such conditions as to constitute

waste, as in Sections 86.1 et seq. of this title defined, is hereby

prohibited, and the Corporation Commission shall have authority, and

is charged with the duty, to make rules, regulations and orders for

the prevention of such waste, and for the protection of all fresh

water strata and oil or gas bearing strata encountered in any well

drilled for oil or gas.

B. Provided, the Commission shall work in conjunction with the

Secretary of Energy and Environment, the Oklahoma Water Resources

Board and the Department of Environmental Quality to encourage

industrial use of water produced in oil and natural gas operations.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-87.8 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-87.8
Horizontal wells – Allocation of costs, production, and
Status: in_force

proceeds – Application for approval.

A. Under the conditions contained in this section, the

Corporation Commission is authorized to allow multiunit horizontal

wells in any targeted reservoir or in more than one targeted

reservoir, or in a targeted reservoir and an adjacent common source

of supply, upon an appropriate finding by the Commission of the

necessity to comingle production from more than one targeted

reservoir or an adjacent common source of supply in such multiunit

horizontal well, in order to prevent waste and protect the

correlative rights of the owners of oil and gas rights.

B. Ownership, Allocation of Costs, Commingled Production, and

Proceeds.

The Commission shall require the allocation of the reasonable

drilling, completion and production costs associated with such

multiunit horizontal well to each of the affected units which the

well actually penetrates within the completion interval and shall

further require the allocation to each of the units affected by a

multiunit horizontal well of the commingled production, and the

proceeds from the sale thereof, from the completion interval of such

multiunit horizontal well, with any allocation to be in a manner

that will prevent waste and protect the correlative rights of the

owners of the oil and gas rights in each of the affected units which

the well actually penetrates within the completion interval.

1. The allocation factor for each affected unit shall be

determined by dividing the length of the completion interval located

within the affected unit by the entire length of the completion

interval in the subject multiunit horizontal well. The Commission

shall have the authority to adjust the allocation factors, based

upon reasonable testimony and evidence presented to the Commission,

if necessary to prevent waste and adequately protect the correlative

rights of the owners of the oil and gas rights in each of the

affected units.

2. Each party who participates as a working interest owner in a

multiunit horizontal well shall own an undivided interest in all

portions of the wellbore of the well and in the equipment on or in

the well in the same ratio that the party's allocated portion of the

total costs of the well and equipment bears to the total costs of

the well and equipment. The ownership of undivided interest

described in this paragraph shall not affect or prejudice the

ownership of oil and gas rights of the affected owners outside of

the targeted reservoir for the multiunit horizontal well.

3. A multiunit horizontal well shall be treated as a well in

each of the affected units and shall be subject to all of the rules

otherwise applicable to any other well in any of the affected units.

In allowing a multiunit horizontal well, the Commission, under

Section 87.1 of this title, may grant any necessary exceptions to

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the permitted well location tolerances in each of the affected units

for the well and permit the well as an additional well in each of

the affected units. When an owner has drilled or proposes to drill

a multiunit horizontal well or wells and the owners of a present

right to drill in any of the affected units have not agreed to pool

their interests in the unit or units for the targeted reservoir, the

Commission, under Section 87.1 of this title, may, upon the filing

of a proper application therefor, require the owners to pool their

interests in the targeted reservoir in each affected unit on a

unitwide basis as to the respective unit in regard to the

development involving the portion of the multiunit horizontal well

or wells located within the affected unit. Furthermore, if the

Commission has previously entered an order pooling the interests of

owners in an affected unit in which a multiunit horizontal well or

wells have been drilled or are proposed to be drilled, the

Commission, under Section 87.1 of this title may, upon the filing of

a proper application therefor, amend the pooling order to the extent

necessary to have the pooling order cover the development involving

the portion of the multiunit horizontal well or wells located within

the affected unit.

4. The application shall include:

a. the approximate anticipated location of the proposed

multiunit horizontal well or wells,

b. a map or maps indicating the location of each

currently existing well in each affected unit which is

the subject of the application and the anticipated

location of each multiunit horizontal well currently

proposed to be drilled in each affected unit as a

result of the application and any other horizontal

well not included in the current application, but

anticipated to be necessary, based upon the

information and knowledge then available to the

applicant, for the full and efficient development and

operations of the targeted reservoir within the

affected units if the well or wells are approved by

the Commission upon the filing of a proper application

at a future date, and

c. any applicable proposed allocation factor or factors

for allocating the costs, production and proceeds from

each proposed multiunit horizontal well under the

application.

5. Production from the completion interval in the targeted

reservoir from each of the affected units in which a multiunit

horizontal well is completed may be commingled in the wellbore of

the well and produced to the surface. The commingled production

from a multiunit horizontal well shall be allocated to each of the

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affected units based upon the allocation factors approved by the

Commission.

6. In granting an application for a multiunit horizontal well

or wells, the Commission shall find, based on the testimony and

evidence presented, that given the information and knowledge then

available, the proposed multiunit horizontal well or wells will

prevent waste, protect correlative rights and likely will aid in the

full and efficient development of each of the affected units.

7. The wellbore royalty proceeds for a multiunit horizontal

well shall be allocated to each affected unit by multiplying the

royalty contribution factor of the unit by the wellbore royalty

proceeds, with the resulting product being the royalty proceeds for

that unit. Each royalty interest owner in an affected unit shall be

entitled to receive the owner's proportionate royalty share of the

allocated royalty proceeds for that unit.

8. The multiunit horizontal well shall be subject to the

provisions of the Product Revenue Standards Act (PRSA). The

operator of the multiunit horizontal well shall be the designated

royalty distributor pursuant to the PRSA for the multiunit

horizontal well, unless there is a diversity of operators in the

affected units from which the multiunit horizontal well is producing

and another operator in each of the affected units agrees to perform

separately the PRSA royalty distribution functions for the unit.

C. Application, Notice and Retained Jurisdiction.

Application for approval of a multiunit horizontal well shall be

in a form prescribed by the Commission. The application, and the

notice of hearing on the application, shall be served no less than

fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the hearing, by regular mail,

upon each person or governmental entity having the right to share in

production from each of the affected units covered by the

application, as well as other persons or governmental entities

required by the rules of the Commission. Upon approval of a

multiunit horizontal well, the Commission shall retain jurisdiction

over the well. The retained jurisdiction of the Commission set

forth herein shall neither preclude nor impair the right of any

affected party to obtain through the district courts of this state

any remedy or relief available at law or in equity for injuries

caused by any action or inaction of the applicant, operator or any

other affected party.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-548 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-548
Short title
Status: in_force

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Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited

as the "Oil and Gas Owners' Lien Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-249 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-249
Definition
Status: in_force

As used in this act, the term "premises" means a tract or tracts

of land embraced within the terms of a single lease or the document

granting thereon the rights of exploration, development, operation

and production with respect to oil and natural gas.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.2
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Oklahoma Energy Education and Marketing Act,

Section 288.1 et seq. of this title:

1. "Board" means the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board;

2. "Person" means any individual, group of individuals, or any

partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or employee

thereof, or any other entity;

3. "Independent producer" means any person:

a. who produces oil or natural gas and is not engaged in

refining or marketing of such products, or

b. who derives a majority of his or her oil- or natural

gas-related income from working interest;

4. "Major oil company" means any person who produces oil or

natural gas in the State of Oklahoma and who is a retailer as

defined in IRS Code Sec. 613A (d)(2) or a refiner as defined in Sec.

613A (d)(4) of the Code or is a subsidiary, directly or indirectly,

of a company that is classified as a major oil company as defined

herein; and

5. "Qualified independent producer association" means an entity

in existence as of January 1, 1992, that is organized and operating

within the state, a majority of whose governing body are independent

producers and which represents the independent oil or natural gas

industry on a statewide basis.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-421.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-421.1
Liquefied petroleum gas emergency - Declaration by
Status: in_force

Governor.

A. The Governor of Oklahoma is hereby authorized, for and on

behalf of the state, to join with the governor of any other state in

declaring a liquefied petroleum gas emergency. When the declaration

is issued, trucks and operators carrying liquefied petroleum gas and

meeting all certification, permit, and licensing requirements of the

federal government and their home state shall be permitted to

transport liquefied petroleum gas in and through Oklahoma without

obtaining any license, permit, or certification required by this

state.

B. This exception and waiver of Oklahoma licensing, permitting,

and certification requirements regarding trucks and operators

transporting liquefied petroleum gas shall be valid only during the

period of the declared emergency.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-804 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-804
Eminent domain
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,

whether expressly or by implication, except as specifically

authorized by Section 36.3 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, no

mineral estate shall be subject to or taken by eminent domain

proceedings, unless the owner of the mineral estate expressly

consents to the mineral estate being included in an eminent domain

proceeding.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-146 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-146
Right of condemnation by eminent domain to enforce
Status: in_force

Commission orders.

The Corporation Commission of Oklahoma is hereby granted the

right of condemnation by eminent domain for the purpose of obtaining

rights-of-way when necessary to enforce orders issued by the

Corporation Commission, provided, the right of condemnation hereby

granted shall be restricted to such pipeline right-of-way easement

and shall not be construed to authorize the obtaining of any other

rights for drilling locations or other facilities, and the right-of-

way easement obtained shall be without prejudice to the rights of

the owner of such lands or other rights or interests therein as to

all other uses thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-474 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-474
Sales, purchases and deliveries - Adjustment of contract
Status: in_force

prices.

Each and every sale, and each and every purchase, delivery and

receipt of gas by volume hereafter made in this state by, for or on

behalf of an oil and gas lease owner, royalty owner thereunder, or

other mineral interest owner, shall be made and such gas shall be

measured, calculated, purchased, delivered and accounted for on the

basis of "a standard cubic foot of gas" as defined in Section 2, and

as determined under this act. Whenever the provisions of this act

operate to change the basis of measurement provided for in existing

contracts, then the price for gas, including royalty gas, provided

for in such contracts shall, if either the purchaser or seller so

desires, be adjusted to compensate for the change in the method of

measuring the volume of gas delivered thereunder. This provision is

intended to protect parties to contracts now in existence, so that

after this act becomes effective the total amount of money paid for

a volume of gas purchased, or required to be accounted for, under

existing contracts shall remain unaffected by this act.

Nothing in this section shall affect or apply to purchases or

sales made on any basis other than a volume basis.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-314 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-314
Right of action for costs involved - Lien
Status: in_force

Any person who had no obligation to plug, replug, or repair the

well but who does so under the provisions of this act shall have a

cause of action against the person or persons who by law were

obligated to properly plug, replug, or repair the well for the

reasonable cost and expense incurred in plugging, replugging, or

repairing the well, and shall have a lien upon the interest of such

obligated person or persons in and to the oil and gas rights in the

land and equipment located thereon.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-581.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-581.6
Election to market share - Effect
Status: in_force

An election to market share pursuant to the terms of the Natural

Gas Market Sharing Act grants to any producing owner thereby

required to share its market the authority to market its

proportionate share of gas attributable to the working interest of

such electing owner during the term of that election without further

notice or consent. Nothing in the Natural Gas Market Sharing Act

shall be construed to:

1. Prevent any owner from receiving the price agreed upon by

contract or to prevent any owner from taking its share of production

in kind or separately disposing of its share;

2. Eliminate or otherwise affect the rights and remedies

available to any operator or any other owner against any owners,

including operators, who either default or fail to pay their

proportionate share of the well or operating costs; or

3. Diminish the existing rights of each owner to ultimately

receive its share of gas disposed or sold from the well.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.7 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.7
Unlawful operation
Status: in_force

From and after the effective date of an order of the Commission

creating a unit and prescribing the plan of unitization applicable

thereto, the operation of any well producing from the common source

of supply or portion thereof within the unit area defined in the

order by persons other than the unit or persons acting under its

authority or except in the manner and to the extent provided in such

plan of unitization shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.10 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.10
Renumbered as § 320.1 of this title by Laws 2006, c
Status: in_force

309, § 1, emerg. eff. June 8, 2006.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-99 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-99
Filing of papers and documents - Use as evidence
Status: in_force

When under any provision of this act or of any order, rule or

regulation made in pursuance of this act, any petition, motion,

return, pleading, report, statement, map or drawing is required to

be filed with the Commission, the same shall be deemed to be filed

when filed with the Secretary of the Commission. Duplicate copies

of all reports, statements, maps or drawings shall also be filed

with the Proration Umpire. The original or any copy of any such

reports, maps, drawings, statements or other documents duly

certified by the Secretary of the Commission, when the contents

thereof are material to the issues involved, shall be competent and

admissible in evidence in any proceedings and hearings therein

brought or had under the provisions of Section One (1) to Thirteen

(13), inclusive, of this act; and any such original or certified

copy thereof shall, in any proceeding upon complaint or prosecution

as for contempt against any person for violation of this act or of

any order, rule or regulation of the Commission, be competent and

admissible in evidence to establish admissions against interest made

by any defendant or defendants to such complaint or prosecution who

filed or caused to be filed such report, map, drawing, statement or

other document.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.5C — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.5C
Transferring the authority of the Commission on
Status: in_force

Marginally Producing Oil - terminating terms - transferring funds.

A. Effective July 1, 2013, all duties, assets and obligations

of the Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells created

pursuant to Section 700 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall

be transferred to the authority of the Committee for Sustaining

Oklahoma's Energy Resources created pursuant to Section 288.5A of

Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

B. Effective July 1, 2013, the terms of the members of the

Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells appointed

pursuant to the provisions of Section 700 of Title 52 of the

Oklahoma Statutes shall be terminated.

C. Effective July 1, 2013, all unclassified full-time-

equivalent, part-time, and temporary employees of the Commission on

Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells shall be terminated.

Employees shall be paid for any accrued annual leave and may be

eligible for other benefits as provided by law.

D. Activities and functions previously performed by the

Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells shall be under

the responsibility of the Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy

Resources or a successor committee as provided by law. The

Committee may organize itself, create subcommittees or adopt

procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate and consistent with

the provisions of this act to implement the provisions of this act

and carry out the functions and duties of the Commission on

Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells with the exception of making

annual reports as required by paragraph 7 of subsection A of Section

701 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

E. Monies remaining in the Commission on Marginally Producing

Oil and Gas Wells Revolving Fund created in Section 705 of Title 52

of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be transferred to the credit of the

Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy Resources Revolving Fund created in

Section 288.5B of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes for use as

provided in this act.

F. The Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy Resources

with the advice and consent of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board

is authorized to promulgate any rules necessary to implement the

provisions of this act. The Secretary of Energy may provide

assistance as necessary to oversee the transfer of duties, assets

and obligations pursuant to this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-24.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-24.2
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used herein the term person, firm or municipality shall

include all natural persons, corporations, business, municipal, and

nonprofit, rural gas districts, municipal and industrial trusts.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.11 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.11
Investment of funds - Utilizing funds to influence
Status: in_force

governmental action or policy.

A. The Board may invest, pending disbursement, funds collected

through assessments only in obligations of the United States or any

agency thereof, in general obligations of any state, in any

interest-bearing account or certificate of deposit of a bank that is

a member of the Federal Reserve System, or in obligations fully

guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States.

B. The Board shall be prohibited from utilizing any funds

collected through the assessment procedure outlined in Section 8 of

this act, for the purpose of influencing governmental action or

policy, with the exception of recommending amendments to this act,

and for the purpose of obtaining state or federal funding for the

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activities of the Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources Advisory

Committee.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.6
Short title - Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste
Status: in_force

Recycling and Reuse Act.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oil and Gas

Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-549.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-549.6
Rights of purchaser
Status: in_force

RIGHTS OF PURCHASERS

A purchaser takes free of any oil and gas lien otherwise

applicable to the oil or gas so purchased, and shall be relieved of

any obligations created by subsection A of Section 570.10 of Title

52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, only in the event that either of the

following occur:

1. The purchaser is deemed to be a buyer in the ordinary course

of the first purchaser's business as defined in Article 9; or

2. The purchaser has paid all of the consideration due the

first purchaser, including by exchange of oil or gas, net-out or

set-off, under all applicable enforceable contracts in existence at

the time of the payment.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the oil and gas lien will

continue uninterrupted in the proceeds paid to or otherwise due the

first purchaser.

Except as specifically set forth in this section, an oil and gas

lien has priority over the rights of any purchaser.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-111 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-111
Collateral attack on orders, rules and regulations -
Status: in_force

Appeals - Supreme Court.

No collateral attack shall be allowed upon orders, rules and

regulations of the Commission made hereunder, but the sole method of

reviewing such orders and inquiring into and determining their

validity, justness, reasonableness or correctness shall be by appeal

from such orders, rules or regulations to the Supreme Court. On

appeal every such order, rule or regulation shall be regarded as

prima facie, valid, reasonable and just. No court of this state

except the Supreme Court, and it only on appeal, as herein provided,

shall have jurisdiction to review, reverse, annul, modify or correct

any order, rule, or regulation of the Commission within the general

scope of its authority herein or to enjoin, restrain or suspend

execution or operation thereof, provided that writs of mandamus and

prohibition shall lie from the Supreme Court to the Commission in

all cases where such writs, respectively, would under like

circumstances lie to any inferior court or officer.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-254 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-254
Obligation of well operators
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall create in any manner an obligation or

duty on the part of the operator of any well or wells who furnishes

gas under the terms hereof to furnish gas for use off the premises

from which it is produced or to assume in any way public utility

duties to the public at large in respect to the gas produced from

such well, except as such duties may arise from such operator's acts

separate and apart from any performance of obligations imposed under

this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-476 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-476
Partial invalidity
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions to Section 4, hereof, if any part,

section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word

contained in this act shall be held by the courts to be

unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the

validity of the remaining portions of this act, and the Legislature

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hereby declares that it would have been enacted, and does here now

enact, such remaining portions despite any such invalidity.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-27 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-27
Right-of-way - Highways - Eminent domain - Foreign
Status: in_force

corporations - Negligent injuries.

Every domestic pipeline company in this state is hereby given

authority to build, construct, lay and maintain gas pipelines, over,

under, across, or through all highways, bridges, streets or alleys

in this state or any public place under the supervision of the

Corporation Commission as to where and how in said highways,

bridges, streets, alleys and public places said pipelines shall be

laid. Provided the right to lay gas pipelines in cities shall be

acquired as now provided by law, and subject to the responsibility

as otherwise provided by law for any negligent injury thereby

caused. All persons, natural or artificial, except foreign

corporations, shall have the right of eminent domain, and any right

or privilege hereby conferred, when necessary to make effective the

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purposes of this act and the rights thereby conferred. Foreign

corporations organized under the laws of any other state or

territory, or the United States, and doing or proposing to do

business in this state, and which shall have become a body corporate

pursuant to or in accordance with the laws of this state, and which,

as hereby provided, shall have registered its acceptance of the

terms hereof, shall receive all the benefits by this act provided.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-98 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-98
Powers of Commission - Marshal of Commission
Status: in_force

In all matters pertaining to the making, issuing and enforcement

of its orders, rules and regulations made under the provisions of

this act, the Commission shall have and exercise all of the

following powers and authority; to wit (1) Of visitation and of a

court of record; (2) To administer oaths; (3) To compel attendance

of witnesses; (4) To compel the production of books and records; (5)

To punish for contempt any person guilty of any disrespectful or

disorderly conduct in the presence of the Commission while in

session; (6) To punish as for contempt any disobedience or violation

of the provisions of this act and of any of its orders, rules,

regulations, and judgments made or rendered by it under and in

pursuance of the provisions of this act; (7) To enforce the

provisions of this act, and compliance with any of its orders,

rules, regulations or judgments by appropriate process, and by shut

down orders, ordering and directing the shutting down or

discontinuance of production of oil from any well or wells of or

operated by the offender with respect to which complaint has been

made; and by orders or writs remedial or otherwise necessary or

proper, to carry into effect its orders, rules and regulations; (8)

To appoint or designate one of its agents or employees or one of the

deputies to the Proration Umpire to act as Marshal of the

Commission, who shall serve as such Marshal during its pleasure

without additional compensation for such services, and who shall

attend the sessions of the Commission, and when directed by it shall

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serve and execute orders, subpoenas, commitments and other process

issuing from it.

Added by 1933, c. 131, p. 285, § 15, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-901 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-901
Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 3 of this act shall be known and may be cited

as the "Energy Litigation Reform Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-52 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-52
Right-of-way
Status: in_force

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas Page 43

For the purpose of acquiring necessary right-of-way, every such

person as defined in this act is hereby granted the right of

condemnation by eminent domain, and the use of the highways in this

dtate, for the purpose of transporting petroleum, liquid or

liquifiable hydrocarbons and chemicals, except coal, which are

transportable by pipeline, and for the location, laying,

construction, maintaining and operation thereof.

R.L. 1910, § 4305. Amended by Laws 1967, c. 176, § 1, emerg. eff.

May 1, 1967.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.1
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act:

1. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission;

2. “Person” includes any individual, copartnership,

corporation, common law or statutory trust or association of

whatever character;

3. “Common source of supply" comprises and includes that area

which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific

data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be

underlaid, by a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. If any

such area is underlaid, or appears from geological or other

scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, to

be underlaid by more than one common accumulation of oil or gas or

both, separated from each other by a strata of earth and not

connected with each other, then such area, as to each said common

accumulation of oil or gas or both, shall be deemed a separate

common source of supply;

4. “Owner” means a person who has the right to drill into and

to produce from any common source of supply and to appropriate the

production, either for that person or for that person and others;

5. “Oil” means crude petroleum oil, and any other hydrocarbons,

regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form

by ordinary production methods;

6. “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead gas, and

all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in paragraph 5 of this

section;

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7. “Producer” means any person who, along or in association

with another person or persons, shall have the right to drill into

and produce from, or who has any interest in production from, any

common source of supply in this state;

8. “Operator” means any producer of oil or gas who has drilled

a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in

operating the well or wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas

therefrom;

9. “Taker” includes any person, who, acting alone, or jointly

with any person or persons, is directly or indirectly purchasing or

transporting by any means whatsoever or otherwise removing oil or

gas from any common source of supply in this state; and

10. “Hearing” means any proceeding before an Administrative Law

Judge, Appellate Referee or the Corporation Commission en banc,

after notice and opportunity to be heard, by which the Commission

may exercise its authority under Chapter 3 of this title and as set

forth in the Rules of Practice of the Commission. Any evidence as

defined, authorized, and permitted by the Oklahoma Constitution, the

laws of the State of Oklahoma, and rules of the Commission in

support of an application for Commission action or relief shall be

received as evidence.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-703 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-703
Renumbered as Title 52, § 288.5D by Laws 2013, c. 199, §
Status: in_force

7, eff. July 1, 2013.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-100 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-100
Witnesses - Depositions
Status: in_force

The Commission may cause depositions of witnesses residing

within or without the state to be taken in any proceeding pending

before it in any manner provided by law for taking depositions in

civil actions in courts of record; and any deposition so taken shall

be sealed up and endorsed with the title of the cause and the name

of the officer taking the same, and by him addressed and transmitted

to the Secretary of the Commission, where it shall remain under seal

until opened by the Secretary on order of the Commission, or at the

request of a party to the proceeding, or an attorney for such party.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.29-2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.29-2
Application for refund by purchaser
Status: in_force

Any purchaser who pays a fee to a loading rack operator or owner

of LP gas at the time of import on a load of LP gas that is exempt

under the provisions of this act may apply to the loading rack

operator or owner of the LP gas at the time of import for a refund

of the amount paid. To apply for a refund, the purchaser must

complete a refund request form provided by the Commission, and

return it to the loading rack operator or owner of the LP gas at the

time of import who collected the fee. Any loading rack operator or

owner of LP gas at the time of import required to refund a fee to a

purchaser shall report the amount of the refund to the Commission.

All amounts refunded and reported according to the provisions of

this act may be deducted from the total amount of fees collected to

arrive at the total amount of fees to be remitted to the Commission.

All refund amounts reported must be supported by refund request

forms kept on file by the loading rack operator and be available for

inspection by the Commission for a period of four (4) years.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-237 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-237
Waste defined
Status: in_force

The term waste, as used herein in addition to its ordinary

meaning, shall include escape of natural gas in commercial

quantities into the open air, the intentional drowning with water of

a gas stratum capable of producing gas in commercial quantities,

underground waste, the permitting of any natural gas well to

wastefully burn and the wasteful utilization of such gas.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.24 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.24
Commission powers and duties
Status: in_force

The Commission shall have the power and duty to:

1. Administer and enforce the provisions of the Oklahoma

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research, Marketing and Safety Act;

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2. Establish an office for the Commission within the State of

Oklahoma;

3. Elect a chairperson and whatever other officers may be

necessary to direct operations of the Commission;

4. Employ personnel as shall be deemed necessary to carry out

the purpose and provisions of the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Research, Marketing and Safety Act and to prescribe their duties and

fix their compensation;

5. Establish and administer the LP Gas Research, Marketing and

Safety Revolving Fund;

6. Approve or disapprove the budget of the Commission;

7. Promulgate rules as it deems necessary to carry out the

provisions of the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research,

Marketing and Safety Act;

8. Enter into contracts or agreements for studies, research

projects, safety programs, experimental work, supplies or other

services to carry out the purposes of the Oklahoma Liquefied

Petroleum Gas Research, Marketing and Safety Act, and incur those

expenses necessary to carry out those purposes. Any contract or

agreement shall provide that:

a. the person entering the contract or agreement on

behalf of the Commission shall develop and submit to

the Commission a plan or project together with a

budget that shows estimated costs to be incurred for

the plan or project, and

b. the person entering the contract or agreement shall

keep accurate records of all of its transactions,

account for funds received and expended, and make

periodic reports to the Commission of activities

conducted, and any other reports as the Commission may

require;

9. Keep accurate records of all financial transactions

performed pursuant to the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research,

Marketing and Safety Act. These records shall be audited annually

by an independent auditor and an annual report shall be compiled and

presented to the Governor;

10. Cooperate with any private, local, state or national

commission, organization, agency or group and to make contracts and

agreements for joint programs beneficial to the LP gas industry;

11. Accept donations, grants, contributions and gifts from any

public or private source and deposit the money in the LP Gas

Research, Marketing and Safety Revolving Fund;

12. Approve or disapprove the investment of any monies in the

LP Gas Research, Marketing and Safety Revolving Fund pursuant to

Section 7 of this act; and

13. Keep an accurate record of all assessments collected.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.51 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.51
Renumbered as § 130.11 of Title 74 by Laws 1991, c
Status: in_force

235, § 24, eff. July 1, 1991.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.5E — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.5E
Refund of fees levied on production
Status: in_force

A. Any person subject to the fee levied by Section 703 of this

title may request a refund as provided in this section of the fee

paid on production for the preceding calendar year. Upon compliance

with the provisions of this section and rules promulgated by the

Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy Resources to implement

this section, the Committee shall refund to each person requesting a

refund the amount of the fee paid by or on behalf of such person

during the preceding calendar year.

B. The request for a refund of the fee paid on production for

the preceding calendar year must be made during the first three (3)

calendar months following the calendar year for which the refund is

requested. Failure to request a refund during this period shall

terminate the right of any person to receive a refund for the fee

paid on production for the preceding calendar year. The Committee

shall give notice of the availability of the refund through press

releases or such other means as it deems appropriate.

C. Each request for a refund shall be made in such manner and

upon such forms as the Committee may require. Each person

requesting a refund shall execute an affidavit stating the

description of the producing property generating the production for

which the refund is requested, the amount of the refund requested

and that affiant was the owner of the production upon which the fee

was levied. The Committee may require such other information and

documentation reasonably necessary to verify the accuracy of the

request for a refund.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-3
Eminent domain
Status: in_force

No association, combination, co-partnership or corporation shall

have or exercise the right of eminent domain within this state for

the purpose of constructing or maintaining a gas pipeline within

this state, or shall be permitted to take private or public property

for their use within this state, unless expressly granted such power

in accordance with this article.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-397 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-397
Violation of provisions - Misdemeanor
Status: in_force

Any person, firm or corporation, who violates any of the

provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and

upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not less than Fifty

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Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for the

first offense or by imprisonment of not more than thirty (30) days,

or both, and for a second or subsequent offense, by a fine of not

less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), nor more than Five Hundred

Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment of not more than one (1) year,

or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Added by 1933, c. 165, p. 383, § 7, emerg. eff. May 1, 1933.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-613 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-613
Statute of limitations
Status: in_force

No action or other proceeding shall be commenced under this act

challenging the validity or effectiveness of any transfer later than

three (3) years after the effective date of such transfer.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.8 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.8
Effect of act on jurisdiction, authority and power of
Status: in_force

Corporation Commission.

Nothing in this act shall be construed as repealing or limiting

the jurisdiction, authority and power of the Oklahoma Corporation

Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-4 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-4
Right-of-way must be granted by charter and damages paid -
Status: in_force

Damages.

The laying, constructing, building and maintaining a gas

pipeline for the transportation or transmission of natural gas

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along, over, under, across or through the highways, roads, bridges,

streets, or alleys in this state, or of any county, city, municipal

corporation or any other private or public premises within this

state is hereby declared an additional burden upon said highway,

bridge, road, street or alley, and any other private, or public

premises and may only be done when the right is granted by express

charter from the state; and such gas pipeline shall not be

constructed, maintained, or operated until all damages to adjacent

owners are ascertained and paid as provided by law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-477 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-477
Jurisdiction of Commission not restricted
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall in any wise limit or restrict the

jurisdiction of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma

to fix the price of natural gas in any common source of supply in

the State of Oklahoma or the terms and conditions of the sale and

purchase of natural gas in any common source of supply in the State

of Oklahoma.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-120 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-120
Powers - Grant of not to restrict general powers
Status: in_force

Any grant of specific power or powers, and any imposition of any

specific duty or duties upon the Commission by the provisions of

this act shall not be construed to restrict or limit the general

powers granted and the general duties imposed upon the Commission

with respect to the enforcement of the provisions of this act.

Added by 1933, c. 131, p. 297, § 37, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-5.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-5.1
Cooperation with other agencies
Status: in_force

The Corporation Commission is hereby authorized to cooperate

with any agency of the Government of the United States or of any

state in any cooperative programs designed to achieve greater

uniformity or efficiency in the promulgation and enforcement of

rules designed to regulate the safe design, construction,

maintenance and operation of gas pipelines.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-293 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-293
Flambeau lights unlawful
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful to use natural gas for illuminating

purposes in what are known as flambeau lights; but nothing herein

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shall prohibit the use of "Jumbo" burners or other burners in glass

globes consuming no more gas than such "Jumbo" burners, nor the

burning of flambeau lights, not to exceed four in number, within or

near the derrick of any drilling well.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.9A — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.9A
Refunds
Status: in_force

A. Any person subject to the assessment levied by Section

288.8A of this title may request a refund as provided in this

section of the assessment paid on production for the preceding

calendar year. Upon compliance with the provisions of this section

and rules promulgated by the Board to implement this section, the

Board shall refund to each person requesting a refund of the amount

of the assessment paid by or on behalf of such person during the

preceding calendar year. Refunds will include interest earned at

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the rate equal to the average United States Treasury bill rate of

the preceding calendar year as certified by the State Treasurer.

B. The request for a refund of the assessment paid on

production for the preceding calendar year must be made during the

first three (3) calendar months following the calendar year for

which the refund is requested. Failure to request a refund during

this period shall terminate the right of any person to receive a

refund for the assessment paid on production for the preceding

calendar year. The Board shall give notice of the availability of

the refund through press releases, paid advertisements placed in the

newspaper with the largest general circulation in each county in the

state and such other means as it deems appropriate.

C. Each person requesting a refund shall execute an affidavit

showing the amount of refund requested, and the affiant was the

owner of the production for which the refund is requested. Each

person requesting a refund shall submit supporting evidence

demonstrating the gross revenues, net to the person's revenue

interest, received for oil, natural gas, casinghead gas or

condensate in Oklahoma. The Board may verify, principally through

the use of audits, the accuracy of the request for refund. In

verifying the accuracy of a request for refund, the Board shall

exercise its authority in a manner that will reduce, to the extent

practicable and appropriate, the burden on persons providing the

information to the Board.

D. No company or person who requests a refund under this

section shall be eligible to serve or have a representative serve as

a member of the Board.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-253 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-253
Initiation of proceedings
Status: in_force

Proceedings before the Corporation Commission under this act may

be brought individually by persons affected, or, in cases where the

matters to be determined properly affect more than one tract or

person, the persons in interest may join in initiating the

proceeding or any such person may initiate the proceeding on behalf

of himself and all persons similarly situated.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-141 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-141
Rules and orders - Powers of Commission - Power to file
Status: in_force

applications with Commission or appear before Commission - Appeals.

A. In all matters pertaining to the making, issuing and

enforcement of its rules or orders made pursuant to the provisions

of this act the Corporation Commission shall have and exercise all

the powers and authority granted to it under, and to the extent the

same are reasonably applicable and except as herein specifically

provided shall comply with the procedural requirements of Section 81

et seq. of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or any amendment

thereof, all to the same extent as if the powers and duties

prescribed by this act had been included as a part of the powers and

duties of the Commission under said Section 81 et seq. of Title 52

of the Oklahoma Statutes. Any employee of the Commission employed

pursuant to the provisions of Section 81 et seq. of Title 52 of the

Oklahoma Statutes shall perform such duties incident to the

administration and enforcement of this act and the rules, and orders

issued pursuant thereto as the Commission may direct.

B. The Attorney General on behalf of the State of Oklahoma, any

state environmental agency, as such term is defined in the Oklahoma

Environmental Quality Act, and any municipality or other

governmental officer, agency, person, firm or corporation are

expressly authorized to file applications with the Commission for

rules or orders authorized by this act or for the amendment or

modification of any such rule or order, or to otherwise appear in

any proceeding pending before the Commission in respect thereto.

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C. Any person, firm or corporation aggrieved by any rule or

order of the Commission made pursuant to this act may appeal

therefrom to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma within the

same time and in the same manner as is provided in said Section 81

et seq. of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or any amendment

thereof, for the taking of appeals from orders of the Commission

made thereunder.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-87.7 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-87.7
Corporation Commission jurisdiction
Status: in_force

Corporation Commission Jurisdiction. The Corporation Commission

shall have jurisdiction, upon the filing of a proper application

therefor, to permit the drilling, completing and producing of a

multiunit horizontal well in conformity with Section 87.8 of this

title, or to create a horizontal well unitization in conformity with

Section 87.9 of this title, if the Commission finds that the

multiunit horizontal well or the horizontal well unitization will

prevent waste and will protect the correlative rights of the owners

of oil and gas rights.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-24 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-24
Pipeline companies declared common carriers -
Status: in_force

Discrimination - Exemptions.

Every corporation, joint stock company, limited copartnership,

partnership or other person, now or hereafter engaged in the

business of carrying or transporting natural gas for hire, for

compensation or otherwise, by pipeline, or pipelines within this

state, and by virtue of and in conformity to, any valid law

incapable of revocation by any law of this state or of the United

States, or by virtue of and in conformity to the provisions of this

act, shall be a common carrier thereof as at common law, and no such

common carrier shall allow or be guilty of any unjust or any

unlawful discrimination, directly or indirectly, in favor of the

carriage, transportation or delivery of any natural gas, offered to

it, in its possession or control, or in which it may be interested,

directly or indirectly, and provided further, that any person, firm

or corporation owning or operating a natural gas pipeline within the

limits of any incorporated city or town in this state shall be

exempted from the provisions of this section only as to its

distributing lines located wholly within the corporate limits of

said city or town; and provided further, that any person, firm or

corporation engaged in gathering natural gas in this state shall be

exempted from the provisions of this section as to such gathering

activities and instead shall be subject to the provisions of

Sections 2 and 3 of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-112 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-112
Application to amend or modify orders - Hearing - Appeal
Status: in_force

Any person affected by any legislative or administrative order

of the Commission shall have the right at any time to apply to the

Commission to repeal, amend, modify, or supplement the same. Such

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application shall be in writing and shall be heard as expeditiously

as possible after notice of the hearing thereon shall have been

given in the manner provided by Section 14 of this act. An appeal

shall lie to the Supreme Court from any order made by the Commission

in any such proceedings or from the refusal of the Commission to

make any order petitioned for therein, in the same manner and within

the same time in which other appeals are authorized to be taken by

the provisions of this act, and, on any such appeal, the Supreme

Court may affirm the order of the Commission, or the Commission's

action in refusing to make the order petitioned for, or may itself

make the order which the Commission should have made, or remand the

cause to the Commission with directions to make such order as the

Supreme Court may determine should have been made.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-294 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-294
Lights - Daytime use prohibited
Status: in_force

The person, firm, company or corporation consuming said gas, and

using burners in open air or in or around derricks, shall turn off

said gas not later than eight o'clock in the morning of each day

such lights or burners are used, and shall not turn on or relight

the same between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and five o'clock

p.m.

R.L. 1910, § 4322.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-116 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-116
Violation of orders, rules and regulations - Injunction -
Status: in_force

Appeal - Supersedeas.

Where the Commission shall make and issue any order, rule, or

regulation for the prevention or prohibition of any waste prohibited

by this act, or by any order, rule, or regulation of the Commission,

authorized by this act, and the same has been or is being violated

by any person, firm, trust, association or corporation, the Attorney

General of the state, or the Proration Attorney may in the name of

the state bring an action in the district court of the county

wherein the oil or gas properties have been or are being operated in

violation of such order, rule, or regulation of the Commission or

wherein any such violation of any order, rule or regulation of the

Commission has been or is being committed, for a prohibitory and/or

a mandatory injunction, enjoining and prohibiting the offender from

further violating the provisions of this act or any such order,

rule, or regulation of the Commission and/or commanding and

compelling such offender to obey such order, rule, or regulation;

and such court is hereby given jurisdiction to grant such injunction

or such other relief as may be proper in the premises, and shall

have power to grant in any such proceedings temporary restraining

orders and/or injunctions, to obtain which no bond shall be

required. Neither a temporary nor permanent injunction granted

under the provisions of this section shall be stayed or superseded

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on appeal therefrom except upon order of the Supreme Court, and then

only upon application therefor, and hearing thereon after reasonable

notice to plaintiff. Insofar as permitted and not prohibited by

existing statutes, all suits brought under the provisions of this

section shall be given, in the hearing and trial thereof, by all

courts in which the same are brought and prosecuted, precedence over

other actions pending in said courts.

Added by 1933, c. 131, p. 295, § 33, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-28 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-28
Filing records or plats with Corporation Commission -
Status: in_force

Extension of time.

Upon a sworn statement of the necessities which would justify a

judicial continuance, the Corporation Commission is authorized to

extend the time for the filing of the said plats, not, however, to

exceed sixty (60) days.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.25 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.25
Commission meetings - Appointment of Director
Status: in_force

A. There shall be an annual meeting of the Commission at which

the annual report and proposed budget will be presented. The

Commission shall, at the call of the chairperson, hold at least

three other regular meetings each year. The chairperson shall

establish the time, a manner and place of all meetings and shall

provide notice of such meetings. A majority of the members of the

Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any

business. In addition, the Commission shall determine the

circumstances under which additional meetings of the Commission may

be held.

B. The Commission may appoint a Director who shall carry out

the provisions of the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research,

Marketing and Safety Act. The Director shall not be one of the

appointed Commission members.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-312 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-312
Responsibility for future remedial work
Status: in_force

Any person who plugs, replugs, or repairs a well in accordance

with an order of the Commission under this act shall not be held to

have assumed responsibility for future remedial work on said well or

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be liable in damages or otherwise for conditions subsequently

arising from or in connection with said well.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-236 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-236
Waste prohibited
Status: in_force

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The production of natural gas in the State of Oklahoma, in such

manner, and under such conditions as to constitute waste, shall be

unlawful.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-555 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-555
Investment of funds - Apportionment of interest
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer shall invest the monies in the Mineral

Owner's Fund and shall annually apportion the interest earned as

follows:

1. Twenty-five percent (25%) to the Corporation Commission to

be used for plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, pursuant to

Sections 308 et seq. of this title, not to exceed Three Hundred

Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) per year; provided, that any amount

that would cause funds available for that purpose to exceed Five

Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) in any one (1) year shall

remain in the Mineral Owner's Fund;

2. Fifty percent (50%) to the State Treasurer but not more than

Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) per year, to be spent for

advertising, personnel and other expenses incurred to search for the

rightful owners of unclaimed intangible property generated by

mineral interests; and

3. Any remaining interest shall be added to the principal of

the Mineral Owner's Fund.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-398 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-398
Definitions - Persons liable for violations by firm or
Status: in_force

corporation.

The term "person" as used in this act shall include every

natural person; the term "firm" shall include co-partnerships and

associations. If a firm or corporation shall commit a misdemeanor,

according to the provisions of this act, every director, officer,

agent, employee or member participating in, aiding or authorizing

the act constituting such misdemeanor shall be guilty of having

committed a misdemeanor hereunder and shall be subject to the

penalties herein provided.

Added by 1933, c. 165, p. 383, § 8, emerg. eff. May 1, 1933.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-570.3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-570.3
Application of act
Status: in_force

The Production Revenue Standards Act shall apply to all owners

and shall apply to all producing wells, regardless of the date

pooled, drilled or of the date of the underlying leases; provided,

however, that Sections 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this act shall not apply

to wells in common sources of supply under unitized management

pursuant to Section 287.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes or

where royalty remittance is otherwise provided by written agreement

among all owners in a well.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-313 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-313
No admission of liability or discharge of action
Status: in_force

The fact that any person has initiated or supported a proceeding

before the Commission or has remedied or attempted to remedy the

condition of any well under the authority of this act shall not be

construed as an admission of liability or received in evidence

against such person in any action or proceeding wherein

responsibility for or damages from surface or subsurface pollution,

or injury to any fresh water or oil or gas bearing formation is or

may become an issue, nor shall such fact be construed as releasing

or discharging any action, cause of action, or claim against such

person existing in favor of any third person for damages to property

resulting from surface or subsurface pollution, or injury to any

fresh water or oil or gas bearing formation.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.8 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.8
Compliance with the Oklahoma Brine Development Act
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, if oil and gas

produced water and waste is utilized for the purpose of processing

the produced water and waste by mechanical or chemical processes for

the extraction of constituent elements for commercial purposes, the

oil and gas produced water and waste shall be considered brine under

the Oklahoma Brine Development Act. The operating activity and the

ownership of the oil and gas produced water, including the

constituent elements contained therein, including the entitlement to

and sharing of proceeds from the extraction and sale of the

constituent elements or effluent, shall be subject to the Oklahoma

Brine Development Act and the operator or other person extracting or

utilizing the oil and gas produced water and waste shall comply with

the provisions of the act. The Oklahoma Brine Development Act shall

not apply to oil and gas produced water and waste that is reused or

recycled solely for the purpose of use in oil and gas operations.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-202 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-202
Interstate compacts - When binding
Status: in_force

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No compact made under the authority of this act shall bind this

state unless and until:

(a). Said compact shall be ratified by the Legislatures of two

of the States of Texas, California, Kansas and New Mexico, and the

Legislature of this state, and Congress shall consent thereto.

(b). Congress shall make provision for the control and

limitation of importations in accordance with the findings referred

to in Section 1.

(c). Congress shall provide for the control of interstate

movements of petroleum produced or withdrawn from storage in

violation of the laws and valid regulations of the several states,

and products of such petroleum.

(d). Congress shall provide for the control of interstate

movements of petroleum produced in any state in excess of the

determination, referred to in Section 1, of allowable production

within said state as approved by the President, and products of such

petroleum.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-311 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-311
Liability for damages
Status: in_force

Any person entering upon the land on which the well is located

to plug, replug, or repair the same, pursuant to the authority and

in accordance with the order of the Commission, shall not be liable

or held responsible for any damages resulting from operations

reasonably necessary or proper to plug, replug, or repair the well,

except damages to growing crops and improvements.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-558 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-558
Implementation of act – Rules - Prospective operation
Status: in_force

A. The Corporation Commission and the State Treasurer are to

establish, administer and enforce rules and shall establish

procedures for the full coordinated implementation of Section 551 et

seq. of this title.

B. The operation of Section 551 et seq. of this title shall be

prospective only and shall apply only to pooling proceedings filed

after July 1, 1984. Any person holding monies described in Section

551 et seq. of this title on July 1, 1984, may transmit such monies

to the Corporation Commission for the Mineral Owner's Fund, and be

relieved of liability as provided by Section 551 et seq. of this

title.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-581.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-581.1
Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 18 through 26 of this act and Section 546 of Title 52

of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be known and may be cited as the

"Natural Gas Market Sharing Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.2
Power and authority of Commission
Status: in_force

Subject to the limitations of this act the Corporation

Commission of the State of Oklahoma, hereinafter referred to as the

"Commission", is hereby vested with jurisdiction, power and

authority, and it shall be its duty to make and enforce such orders

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and do such things as may be necessary or proper to carry out and

effectuate the purposes of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-36.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-36.2
Public interest and welfare
Status: in_force

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The underground storage of natural gas which promotes

conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for

orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more

readily available our natural gas resources to the domestic,

commercial and industrial consumers of this state, and which

provides a better year-round market to the various gas fields,

promotes the public interest and welfare of this state.

Therefore in the manner hereinafter provided the Commission may

find and determine that the underground storage of natural gas as

hereinbefore defined is in the public interest.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.5A — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.5A
Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy Resources
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created the Committee for Sustaining

Oklahoma's Energy Resources which shall be under the direction and

supervision of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board and shall be for

the purpose of encouraging new processes or technological

advancements to sustain the oil and natural gas industry in the

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future for the benefit of the citizens of this state and for

advancing activities to support marginally producing oil and gas

wells.

B. 1. The Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma's Energy Resources

shall be made up of not less than twelve but not more than eighteen

members. The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board shall select one

member of the Board to serve as the chair of the Committee. Except

as otherwise provided, members of the Committee shall be appointed

by the chair of the Committee and approved by a majority of the

Board.

2. The Secretary of Energy or a designee shall serve as a

member of the Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources.

The Secretary of Energy shall select one member of the Committee who

shall currently be serving on the Oklahoma Energy Initiative Board

on behalf of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University,

the University of Tulsa or Oklahoma City University.

3. Of the remaining members of the Committee for Sustaining

Oklahoma’s Energy Resources at least:

a. four members shall be independent oil and gas

operators, of which at least one shall be from each of

the four Corporation Commission regulatory districts

as they existed on January 1, 2013, and each shall

have operations in the district they represent,

b. one member shall be an independent oil and gas

operator from Osage County and shall have operations

in Osage County,

c. one member shall be an independent oil and gas

operator selected from a list of operators submitted

by the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association,

d. one member shall be an oil and gas operator selected

from a list of operators submitted by the Mid-

Continent Oil and Gas Association,

e. one member shall be an Oklahoma oil and gas royalty

owner selected from a list of names submitted by the

Oklahoma Mineral Owners Association, and

f. one member shall be an Oklahoma oil and gas royalty

owner selected from a list of names submitted by the

Oklahoma affiliate of the National Association of

Royalty Owners.

4. With the exception of the Secretary of Energy or the

designee of the Secretary, Committee members shall serve for three-

year terms and may be removed from the Committee by a majority vote

of the Committee with or without cause. The Oklahoma Energy

Resources Board may establish any additional qualifications,

requirements or conditions it deems appropriate for members of the

Committee which are consistent with the provisions of this section.

The chair of the Committee, with the approval of the Board, shall

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strive to select representatives of all facets of the oil and

natural gas industry, and the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State

University, the University of Tulsa, and Oklahoma City University,

in addition to any other interested higher education institutions

and governmental entities charged with duties and authority over

relevant areas.

5. No member of the Committee shall receive a salary for duties

performed as a member of the Committee; however, members may be

eligible to receive reimbursement for necessary and actual travel

expenses as provided for in the State Travel Reimbursement Act if

approved by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board.

6. Members appointed to serve on the Committee shall be

eligible to serve on any other state board or commission if the

member is otherwise qualified to hold such appointed office,

notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6 of Title 51 of the

Oklahoma Statutes.

C. The Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources is

authorized to accept appropriations, donations, grants,

contributions and gifts from any public or private source for the

purpose of implementing the provisions of this act. The Committee

shall deposit such funds in the revolving fund created in Section

288.5B of this title.

D. The Committee for Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources,

with the advice and consent of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board,

is authorized to promulgate rules as necessary to implement the

provisions of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-234 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-234
Misappropriation of gas - Liability for damages and
Status: in_force

penalties.

Any person, firm or corporation, taking more than his or its

proportionate share of such gas, in violation of the provisions of

this act, shall be liable to any adjoining well owner for all

damages sustained thereby and subject to a penalty for each

violation not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and each day

such violation is continued shall be a separate offense.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-307 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-307
Drilling of wells through workable seams - Regulations
Status: in_force

Any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other

purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, through a

workable vein or seam of coal shall be drilled in such manner as

will, if practicable, exclude all oil, gas or gas pressure from the

coal seam, except such as is found in the coal seam itself. Each

string of casing that is run through a workable coal seam shall be

seated at least thirty (30) feet below the coal seam in twenty (20)

feet of cement, to form an effective seal, or the coal seam shall be

protected in such other manner as may be approved by the Corporation

Commission of the State of Oklahoma.

Added by 1955, p. 255, § 3.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-36.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-36.6
Ownership of gas
Status: in_force

All natural gas which has previously been reduced to possession,

and which is subsequently injected into underground storage fields,

sands, reservoirs and facilities, shall at all times be deemed the

property of the injector, his heirs, successors or assigns. In no

event shall such gas be subject to the right of the owner of the

surface of said lands or of any mineral interest therein, under

which said gas storage fields, sands, reservoirs, and facilities

lie, or of any person other than the injector, his heirs, successors

and assigns, to produce, take, reduce to possession, waste, or

otherwise interfere with or exercise any control thereover. With

regard to natural gas in a stratum, or portion thereof, which has

not been condemned or otherwise purchased under the provisions of

this act:

1. The injector, his heirs, successors and assigns shall not

lose title to such gas if such injector, his heirs, successors or

assigns can prove by a preponderance of the evidence that such gas

was originally injected into the underground storage;

2. The injector, his heirs, successors and assigns, shall have

the right to conduct such tests, at his sole risk and expense

including, but not limited to, the value of any lost production of

other than the injector's gas, as may be reasonable to determine

ownership of such gas; and

3. The owner of the stratum shall be entitled to such

compensation as is provided by law.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-275 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-275
Wells gauged - Regulation by Corporation Commission -
Status: in_force

Agents.

For the purpose of determining such production, a gauge of each

well shall be taken under rules and regulations to be prescribed by

the Corporation Commission, and said Commission is authorized and

directed to make and promulgate, by proper order, such other rules

and regulations, and to employ or appoint such agents with the

consent of the Governor, as may be necessary to enforce this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.29-3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.29-3
Petition to Commission for refund
Status: in_force

Any operator of a loading rack or owner of LP gas at the time of

import may petition the Commission for a refund of fees remitted to

the Commission in error by filing the proper form and returning to

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the Commission. The reason for the refund and supporting

documentation must accompany the request.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-549.3 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-549.3
Oil and gas lien
Status: in_force

NATURE, EXTENT AND DURATION OF OIL AND GAS LIEN

A. To secure the obligations of a first purchaser to pay the

sales price, and to secure the obligation of any person to pay any

proceeds, as defined in Section 549.2 of this title, for the

acquisition of oil and gas rights, each interest owner is hereby

granted an oil and gas lien to the extent of the interest owner’s

interest in oil and gas rights. The oil and gas lien granted by the

Oil and Gas Owners’ Lien Act of 2010 is granted and shall exist as

part of and incident to the ownership of oil and gas rights.

B. An oil and gas lien:

1. Exists in and attaches immediately to all oil and gas on

April 19, 2010;

2. Continues uninterrupted and without lapse in all oil and gas

upon and after severance; and

3. Continues uninterrupted and without lapse in and to all

proceeds.

C. An oil and gas lien exists until the interest owner or

representative first entitled to receive the sales price or any

proceeds, as defined in Section 549.2 of this title, for the

acquisition of oil and gas rights, has received the sales price or

any proceeds, as defined in Section 549.2 of this title, for the

acquisition of oil and gas rights. Notwithstanding the immediately

preceding sentence, as between an interest owner and a

representative of an interest owner or any person claiming adversely

to such interest owner or representative, such interest owner’s oil

and gas lien continues uninterrupted and without lapse in proceeds

in the possession or control of a representative until the interest

owner on whose behalf such representative acts receives such

proceeds in full. When a first purchaser, in good faith, pays the

sales price to an interest owner or a representative otherwise

apparently entitled to receive the sales price and the first

purchaser is without actual knowledge that such interest owner or

representative is not entitled to receive the sales price so paid,

then such first purchaser takes free of the oil and gas lien

otherwise applicable to the oil or gas for which such payment was

made. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the oil

and gas lien will continue uninterrupted in the proceeds paid to or

otherwise due the interest owner or representative.

D. The validity of an oil and gas lien shall not be dependent

on possession of the oil or gas by an interest owner or

representative. No oil and gas lien shall become or be deemed to be

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void or expired by reason of a change or transfer of the actual or

constructive possession of or title to the oil or gas from the

interest owner or representative to a first purchaser or purchaser.

E. On the conveyance or transfer of any oil and gas rights by a

transferor interest owner, the oil and gas lien vested in the

transferor interest owner immediately before the conveyance or

transfer shall remain with the transferor interest owner to the

extent of any oil and gas rights retained by the transferor interest

owner.

F. On the conveyance or transfer of any oil and gas rights by a

transferor interest owner, the oil and gas lien vested in the

transferor interest owner immediately before the conveyance or

transfer shall be transferred to and attach automatically to the oil

and gas rights acquired by the transferee interest owner

uninterrupted and without lapse and as part of and incident to the

oil and gas rights so transferred or conveyed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.7 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.7
Energy Resources Revolving Fund
Status: in_force

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving

fund for the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board to be designated the

"Energy Resources Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing

fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations and shall consist of

all monies received by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board from

assessments received and collected pursuant to Section 288.8A of

this title, donations, grants, contributions and gifts from any

public or private source. The Board may expend funds as provided

for by law. Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants

issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by

law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise

Services for approval and payment.

B. Of the monies collected and not refunded pursuant to

Sections 288.8A and 288.9A of this title, a minimum of fifty percent

(50%) of said monies collected, including a prorated share of

administrative costs incurred from the effective date of this act,

and not subsequently refunded, shall be expended on environmental

cleanup and remediation projects related to oil and gas pollution

authorized by the Board from a priority list of projects submitted

by the Corporation Commission or, only in the absence of Corporation

Commission jurisdiction, projects submitted by other appropriate

state agencies.

C. None of the monies collected and not refunded pursuant to

Sections 288.8A and 288.9A of this title shall be used for travel

expenses of any member of the Oklahoma Legislature.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-473 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-473
Determination of factors by Commission - Determination and
Status: in_force

report of volumes.

(a) It shall be the duty of the Corporation Commission and said

Commission is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to determine

the average temperature of gas, as produced in each oil and gas

field in Oklahoma, and to determine the other variable factors

necessary to calculate the metered volumes in accordance with the

Ideal Gas Laws and the variable factors to correct for deviation

from the Ideal Gas Laws in each of the oil and gas fields in the

State of Oklahoma. Upon request of any interested party the

Corporate Commission shall give notice and hold a public hearing

before making such determination. Promptly upon such determinations

the Corporation Commission shall make and publish such findings and

promulgate such reasonable field rules as may be necessary to

effectuate the provisions of this act.

Any person, association of persons, or corporations shall be

permitted to use the findings and field rules of the Commission for

all purposes under this act, but if such findings or field rules are

not so used in determining volumes under this act, the volumes so

otherwise determined shall be corrected to the basis of the

"standard cubic foot of gas" as defined in Section 2 of this act.

(b) Any person required to report volumes of gas under the laws

of this state, shall report such volumes in number of standard cubic

feet calculated and determined under the provisions of this act.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.11 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.11
Participation by public lands
Status: in_force

The Commissioners of the Land Office, or other proper board or

officer of the state having the control and management of state

land, and the proper board or officer of any political, municipal,

or other subdivision or agency of the state, are hereby authorized

and shall have the power on behalf of the state or of such

political, municipal, or other subdivision or agency thereof, with

respect to land or oil and gas rights subject to the control and

management of such respective body, board, or officer, to consent to

or participate in any plan or program of unitization adopted

pursuant to this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.28 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.28
Assessment collection - Penalties
Status: in_force

A. Each operator of a loading rack or owner of LP gas at the

time of import shall, on or before the 25th day of the month

following the end of each calendar month, file a report with the

Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research, Marketing and Safety

Commission and remit the amount of assessments required to be

collected or paid during the preceding month to the Commission,

which shall be deposited in the LP Gas Research, Marketing and

Safety Revolving Fund.

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B. Loading rack operators or owners of LP gas at the time of

import filing a report or remitting fees later than the 25th day of

the month in which fees are due, but within thirty (30) days of the

deadline, shall remit a penalty in the amount of five percent (5%)

of the amount of fees originally due and payable.

C. Loading rack operators or owners of LP gas at the time of

import filing a report or remitting fees more than thirty (30) days

after the deadline shall remit a penalty in the amount of ten

percent (10%) of the fees originally due and payable.

D. An additional penalty of seventy-five percent (75%) of the

amount of the fees and penalties due and payable will be added to

penalties set forth in subsections B and C of this section if the

failure to file a report or to remit the fees collected is

determined by the Commission to be a result of fraud or an intent to

evade the provisions of this act or the rules of the Commission.

E. The Commission shall be responsible for taking appropriate

legal actions to collect any assessment which is not paid or is not

properly paid. At the request of the Commission, the Attorney

General is authorized to take any necessary action to collect any

fees or penalties due under the provisions of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-528 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-528
State Corporation Commission - Powers and duties - Duty of
Status: in_force

Operators.

The State Corporation Commission is hereby vested with

jurisdiction over the sales of natural gas pursuant to this section,

and may adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary with

respect thereto, but nothing in this act shall create in any manner

an obligation or duty on the part of the operator of any well or

gathering pipeline, who furnishes gas under the provisions of this

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act, to assume in any way public utility duties to the public at

large, except as such duties may arise from such operator's acts

separate and apart from any performance of obligations imposed under

this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.6 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.6
Suspension or revocation of registration permits -
Status: in_force

Appeals - Rules governing sale or transfer.

A. The State Liquefied Petroleum Gas Administrator is

authorized to suspend or revoke any registration permit issued by

the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board or impose an

administrative penalty, if it is found at a hearing on the matter,

that the registrant has violated or is violating or has failed or is

failing to comply with any provisions of the Oklahoma Liquefied

Petroleum Gas Regulation Act, any rules or specifications

promulgated or any order issued thereto, or has delivered a lesser

quantity of gas than the registrant bills the customer for with

intent to defraud.

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B. 1. Upon the motion of the Administrator, or upon the

receipt of written complaint from any member of the Board, or from

any deputy administrator or safety code enforcement officer, that a

registrant has violated or is violating or has failed or is failing

to comply with any of the provisions of the Oklahoma Liquefied

Petroleum Gas Regulation Act, the rules, or specifications

promulgated or any order issued thereto, the Administrator is

authorized and it shall be the duty of the Administrator to hold an

administrative hearing pursuant to Article II of the Administrative

Procedures Act to consider such complaint.

2. The Administrator shall have the power to conduct

investigations; to summon and compel the attendance at such hearing

of witnesses; to require the production of any records or documents

pertinent to the subject matter of any investigation or hearing; and

to provide for the taking of depositions of witnesses.

3. Notice of the date, time and place of any such hearing shall

be given by registered mail not less than ten (10) days, exclusive

of the date of mailing, before the date thereof, addressed to the

registrant complained against and to any other parties involved,

each of whom shall have the right to file answer, to appear and be

heard in person and by counsel, and to present evidence at such

hearing.

C. If the Administrator finds at the hearing that the

registrant has violated or is violating or has failed or is failing

to comply with any provision of the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Regulation Act or such rules, specifications or any order issued

thereto, the Administrator, if the findings justify such action,

shall issue an order suspending the registrant's registration permit

for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, revoking the

registration permit, or imposing an administrative penalty of not

more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each separate

offense. Any administrative penalty imposed pursuant to this

section shall be deposited into the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Fund,

created pursuant to Section 420.11 of this title.

D. 1. The Administrator's findings, judgment and order shall

be reduced to writing and be recorded in a permanent public record

to be retained in the office of the Administrator. Copies shall be

furnished to the registrant complained against and to the Board.

2. Any registrant who has been assessed an administrative

penalty or whose registration permit is suspended or revoked by the

Administrator may, pursuant to Section 317 of Title 75 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, file for a rehearing, reopening or

reconsideration by the Board. The registrant shall be given the

opportunity to request a de novo hearing by the Board. Such

decision by the Board shall constitute final action by the Board.

3. Any registrant who has been assessed an administrative

penalty or whose registration permit has been suspended or revoked

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upon review by the Board may, within thirty (30) days after such

filing, suspension or revocation, file an appeal with the district

court of Oklahoma County or in the county wherein the registrant

resides or has its principal place of business in this state,

pursuant to Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act.

E. 1. Except for an emergency as determined by the Board upon

the filing of a request for a rehearing, reopening or

reconsideration or as determined by the court upon an appeal for

judicial review of the order, enforcement of the Administrator's

order shall be stayed pending final disposition of such rehearing or

appeal.

2. Upon affirmance, the order shall become final and conclusive

and the stay of enforcement shall be vacated.

F. The Board shall promulgate reasonable rules governing the

sale or transfer of business, facilities or a permit connected with

or to be used in operations subject to regulation pursuant to the

Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-549.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-549.1
Short title
Status: in_force

SHORT TITLE

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oil and Gas

Owners’ Lien Act of 2010”.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-601 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-601
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known as the "Energy Resources Conservation

Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-36.7 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-36.7
Partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this act shall

be declared unconstitutional or void for any reason by any court of

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas Page 36

final jurisdiction, such decision shall not, in any way, invalidate

or affect any other section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this

act, but the same shall continue in full force and effect.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-393 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-393
Trademark - Imitation
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for a person, firm or corporation to

imitate the design, symbol, emblem, color scheme, trade name,

trademark, or the markings of any buildings or equipment of any

other marketer of liquids, fuels, lubricating oils, greases or other

similar products, except with the written consent of such marketer,

where such imitation may deceive, tend to deceive, or have the

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effect of deceiving the purchaser as to the nature, source, quality

or identity of the product sold or offered for sale.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-521 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-521
Leasing of mineral interests of owners who cannot be
Status: in_force

located.

In an action filed by any person, firm or corporation owning an

interest in the minerals in any tract or tracts of land in the State

of Oklahoma or owning an oil and gas lease on such an interest

wherein it is made to appear that the defendant or defendants in

such action own or appear to own in the aggregate a minority

interest in said minerals thereunder but that the residence,

business address or whereabouts of one or more of the defendants

cannot be ascertained, the district court of the county wherein such

tract or tracts of land are situated shall have the power to appoint

a receiver over the mineral interest of such defendants whose

residence, business address, or whereabouts are unknown, upon

compliance with the procedure set forth in Section 2 hereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-604 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-604
Transfers prohibited
Status: in_force

No person shall effect, aid or assist in effecting a transfer in

violation of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-549.9 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-549.9
Waiver, relinquishment, release
Status: in_force

WAIVER

No interest owner shall be required, as a condition or term of

an agreement to sell or otherwise, to waive, relinquish or release

any oil and gas lien or any rights under this act other than upon

payment in full of the sales price or agree to any provision that

would apply the law of any state other than the State of Oklahoma

insofar as the same relates to rights under this act, and any such

purported waiver, relinquishment, release, or provision shall be

void as a matter of the public policy of this state.

Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any interest owner or a

representative acting on behalf of an interest owner, may waive,

relinquish or release any oil and gas lien or any rights under this

act or agree to a provision that would apply the law of any state

other than the State of Oklahoma insofar as the same relates to

rights under this act only as to such interest owner’s oil and gas

rights provided the first purchaser either:

1. Posts a letter of credit in form and amount satisfactory to

the interest owner, or a representative acting on behalf of an

interest owner; or

2. Agrees to a binding contractual arrangement satisfactory in

form and substance to the interest owner, or a representative acting

on behalf of an interest owner to prepay or escrow the sales price

under an agreement to sell in form and substance satisfactory to the

interest owner and performs all of the first purchaser’s obligations

thereunder.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.60 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.60
Renumbered as § 130.20 of Title 74 by Laws 1991, c
Status: in_force

235, § 24, eff. July 1, 1991.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-59 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-59
Domestic pipeline companies have right-of-way
Status: in_force

Every domestic pipeline company in this state is hereby given

authority to build, construct, lay and maintain oil pipelines over,

under, across, or through all highways, bridges, streets or alleys

in this state, or any public place therein, under the supervision of

the inspector of oil and gas wells and pipelines as to where and how

in said highways, bridges, streets, alleys and public places said

pipelines shall be laid, and subject to the control of the local

municipalities, as to how the business of distribution in that

municipality shall be conducted, and subject to responsibility as

provided by law for any negligent injury thereby caused.

R.L. 1910, § 4312.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-247 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-247
Violation - Penalties
Status: in_force

In addition to any penalty that may be imposed by the

Corporation Commission for contempt, any person, firm or

corporation, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, directly or

indirectly violating the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of

a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in a court of competent

jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed

Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment in the county

jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and

imprisonment.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-104 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-104
Right of entry and inspection by conservation officer, his
Status: in_force

assistants and deputies.

The Proration Umpire, his assistant and deputies shall have the

right at all times to go upon and inspect oil and gas properties

from which oil or gas is being produced, pipelines, tank farms, and

pump stations, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the

provisions of this act and the orders, rules, regulations and

judgments of the Commission made in pursuance of the provisions of

this act are being complied with, and shall report to the Commission

any violation thereof.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-149.2 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-149.2
Oil and Gas Appellate Referees
Status: in_force

The Corporation Commission is authorized to employ Oil and Gas

Appellate Referees. Any person filling the position of Oil and Gas

Appellate Referee shall be a duly licensed attorney in the State of

Oklahoma and shall be familiar with the statutes and rules governing

oil and gas operations in Oklahoma. The Oil and Gas Appellate

Referees shall hear all exceptions and appeals from recommendations

of an Administrative Law Judge for cases on the conservation docket,

except for exceptions and appeals from Administrative Law Judge

recommendations of conservation docket cases which the Commission

determines it will hear en banc without intermediate review. The

Oil and Gas Appellate Referees shall file a report and make

recommendations to the Commission for the disposition of such

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exceptions and appeals. The Commission shall promulgate such rules

as may be necessary to implement this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-704 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-704
Renumbered as Title 52, § 288.5E by Laws 2013, c. 199, §
Status: in_force

7, eff. July 1, 2013.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-102 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-102
Contempt - Punishment - Enforcement of fines - Disposition
Status: in_force

of fines and penalties.

Punishment for contempt by the Commission of any person, guilty

of any disrespectful or disorderly conduct in the presence of the

Commission while in session, or for disobedience of its subpoena,

summons or other process, may be by fine not exceeding One Thousand

Dollars ($1,000.00) or by confinement in the county jail of Oklahoma

County not exceeding one (1) year, or by both. Any person who shall

disobey or violate any of the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of

this title or any of the orders, rules, regulations or judgments of

the Commission issued, promulgated or rendered by it, shall be

punished as for contempt. Punishment by the Commission in

proceedings as for contempt for disobedience or violation of any

provision of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title or any of its

orders, rules, regulations or judgments, issued, promulgated or

rendered under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title

shall be by fine not exceeding in amount Five Thousand Dollars

($5,000.00), and each day such disobedience or violation shall

continue shall constitute a separate and additional contempt, and

shall be punished by separate and additional fines each in amount

not in excess of aforesaid amount. Any fine or penalty assessed

under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title may be

enforced in the same manner as a foreign judgment pursuant to the

Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Section 719 et seq. of

Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes provided that such procedure shall

be followed regardless of whether the offender is a resident or

nonresident of Oklahoma. Such fine or penalty shall constitute and

be a lien upon all the property of the offender within the state,

except the homestead of such offender, provided that a copy of the

order imposing the fine or penalty, certified by the Secretary of

the Commission, is filed in accordance with Section 706 of Title 12

of the Oklahoma Statutes. All monies collected as fines or

penalties under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title

shall, when paid into or received by the Commission, be by it paid

to the State Treasurer of the state for the credit of the

Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-114 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-114
Obstructing or delaying performance of duties a felony
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly and willfully delays or obstructs any

Proration Umpire, any assistant or deputy of the Proration Umpire,

or any agent or employee of the Commission, in the performance of

any duty enjoined upon such proration umpire, assistant or deputy of

such Proration Umpire, or agent, or employee of the Commission, by

the provisions of this act or by any lawful order, rule or

regulation of the Commission; or who knowingly and willfully delays

or obstructs any public officer of the state, or of any municipal

subdivision thereof in the discharge or attempted discharge of any

duty of his office, arising by virtue of or growing out of the

enforcement of or an attempt to enforce the provisions of this act,

or any lawful order, rule, or regulation of the Commission made in

pursuance of the provisions hereof; or who attempts by means of any

threat or violence to deter or prevent any such Proration Umpire,

assistant, or deputy of the Proration Umpire, or any agent or

employee of the Commission from performing any duty imposed upon

them when such duty arises by virtue of or grows out of the attempt

to enforce the provisions of this act or of any lawful order, rule,

or regulation of the Commission made hereunder, shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be punished by fine not

exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by confinement in the

county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or both. If such threat

or violence, or such attempted interference or obstruction is

accompanied by the use or attempted use of firearms by any such

person so offending, then such person shall be guilty of a Class D1

felony offense and, upon conviction, shall be punished by

imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section

20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-138 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-138
Partial invalidity, effect of
Status: in_force

If any section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this act shall

be declared unconstitutional or void for any reason, by any court of

final jurisdiction, such decision shall not in any way invalidate or

affect any other section, paragraph, sentence or phrase of this act,

but the same shall continue in full force and effect.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-609 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-609
Powers and authority of Commission
Status: in_force

In all matters pertaining to the making, issuing and enforcing

of its orders, rules and regulations made under the provisions of

this act, the Commission shall have and exercise, without

limitation, all of the following additional powers and authority:

1. To enforce the provisions of this act, and compliance with

any of its orders, rules, regulations or adjudications, by

appropriate process and by orders otherwise necessary or proper, to

carry into effect its orders, rules and regulations which may,

without limitation, include the issuance of orders of restraint

against any person participating in or about to participate in any

violation of this act or any related orders, rules or regulations of

the Commission; and

2. To appoint a receiver to affect a rescission of a transfer

made in violation of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-287.8 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-287.8
Status and powers of unit - Liability for expenses -
Status: in_force

Liens.

Each unit created under the provisions of this act shall be a

body politic and corporate, capable of suing, being sued and

contracting as such in its own name. Each such unit shall be

authorized on behalf and for the account of all the owners of the

oil and gas rights within the unit area, without profit to the unit,

to supervise, manage and conduct the further development and

operations for the production of the oil and gas from the unit area,

pursuant to the powers conferred, and subject to the limitations

imposed by the provisions of this act and by the plan of

unitization.

The obligation or liability of the lessee or other owners of the

oil and gas rights in the several separately-owned tracts for the

payment of unit expense shall at all times be several and not joint

or collective and in no event shall a lessee or other owner of the

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oil and gas rights in the separately-owned tract be chargeable with,

obligated or liable, directly or indirectly, for more than the

amount apportioned, assessed or otherwise charged to his interest in

such separately-owned tract pursuant to the plan of unitization and

then only to the extent of the lien provided for in this act.

Subject to such reasonable limitations as may be set out in the

plan of unitization, the unit shall have a first and prior lien upon

the leasehold estate and other oil and gas rights (exclusive of a

one-eighth (1/8) royalty interest) in and to each separately-owned

tract, the interest of the owners thereof in and to the unit

production and all equipment in the possession of the unit, to

secure the payment of the amount of the unit expense charged to and

assessed against such separately-owned tract. The interest of the

lessee or other persons who by lease, contract or otherwise are

obligated or responsible for the cost and expense of developing and

operating a separately-owned tract for oil and gas in the absence of

unitization, shall however, be primarily responsible for and charged

with any assessment for unit expense made against such tract and

resort may be had to overriding royalties, oil and gas payments,

royalty interests in excess of one-eighth (1/8) of the production,

or other interests which otherwise are not chargeable with such

cost, only in the event the owner of the interest primarily

responsible fails to pay such assessment or the production to the

credit thereof is insufficient for that purpose. In the event the

owner of any royalty interest, overriding royalty, oil and gas

payment or other interest which under the plan of unitization is not

primarily responsible therefor pays in whole or in part the amount

of an assessment for unit expense for the purpose of protecting such

interest, or the amount of the assessment in whole or in part is

deducted from the unit production to the credit of such interest,

the owner thereof shall to the extent of such payment or deduction

be subrogated to all of the rights of the unit with respect to the

interest or interests primarily responsible for such assessment. A

one-eighth (1/8) part of the unit production allocated to each

separately-owned tract shall in all events be regarded as royalty to

be distributed to and among, or the proceeds thereof paid to, the

royalty owners free and clear of all unit expense and free of any

lien therefor.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-95 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-95
Reports - Quantity of oil produced and moved - Penalty
Status: in_force

The Commission shall by order require every operator in each

prorated common source of supply to file periodically with it when

and as often as required, and upon forms approved by it, reports

which shall show (a) the quantity of oil produced, and the quantity

of oil removed by each operator from his or its each lease or

property in said common source of supply, and unless otherwise

provided by rule or regulation of the Commission, from his or its

each well in said common source of supply, and (b) the amount of oil

run to storage, delivered to common carrier, or to a purchaser or

transporter through the operator's own pipeline, and, in the latter

case to what destination, and the name or names of the person or

persons purchasing or taking such oil, and which shall contain such

further information as may be required by the Commission.

If any operator shall fail or refuse to file any report or

reports required by this section or by any order, rule or regulation

of the Commission made in pursuance of this section, in addition to

the other penalties provided for in this act for such violation, the

Commission may by its order require that said operator shall

discontinue to produce any oil from any leasehold, property or well

with respect to which such operator has failed or refused to make

and file such report, until he or it shall have filed same; provided

when any such operator shall have filed with the Commission any such

report or reports as required by this section, or any order, rule or

regulation of the Commission, the Commission shall permit such

operator to produce his or its well or wells, theretofore shut down

by such order of the Commission, so as to recover and make up the

oil that such operator would have been lawfully entitled to produce

during the period such well or wells were shut down, if the order of

the Commission requiring him or it to discontinue or reduce

production of oil therefrom until such report or reports were filed

had not been made.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.9 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.9
Violation of act - Damages
Status: in_force

Upon presentation of clear, cogent and convincing evidence that

the operator willfully and knowingly entered upon the premises for

the purpose of commencing the drilling of a well before giving

notice of such entry or without the agreement of the surface owner,

the court may, in a separate action, award treble damages. The

issue of noncompliance shall be a fact question, determinable

without jury, and a de novo issue in the event of appeal.

Any operator who willfully and knowingly fails to keep posted

the required bond or who fails to notify the surface owner, prior to

entering, or fails to come to an agreement and does not ask the

court for appraisers, shall pay, at the direction of the court,

treble damages to the surface owner.

Damages collected pursuant to this act shall not preclude the

surface owner from collecting any additional damages caused by the

operator at a subsequent date.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-471 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-471
Short title
Status: in_force

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This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Standard Gas

Measurement Law."
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-288.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-288.1
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Energy

Education and Marketing Act".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-309 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-309
Findings and declarations
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public

interest to protect the waters and lands of the state against

pollution and, for that purpose, it is necessary and desirable in

the exercise of the police power of the state to provide additional

means whereby wells drilled for the exploration, development, or

production of oil or gas, or as injection or disposal wells, may be

plugged, replugged, or repaired by the Corporation Commission or

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under the authority and direction of the Corporation Commission,

hereinafter called "Commission".
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-86.4 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-86.4
Common source of supply - Orders, rules and regulations
Status: in_force

The Commission is hereby empowered after notice of hearing to

make all such orders, rules and regulations applicable to each

common source of supply as it may find to be necessary or proper and

to make general orders, rules and regulations applicable alike to

all common sources of supply in the state. It shall not be

necessary to publish such order, rule or regulation, after its

adoption or promulgation by the Commission, before it shall go into

effect, nor shall it be necessary to publish any such order, rule or

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regulation in each subsequent annual report of the Commission.

Provided, that the Corporation Commission shall not under the

provisions of this act make any order establishing a well spacing or

drilling unit.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-801 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-801
Exploration Rights Act of 2011
Status: in_force

Sections 3 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited

as the “Exploration Rights Act of 2011”.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-243 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-243
Corporation Commission - Authority to make rules and
Status: in_force

regulations.

The Corporation Commission shall have authority to make

regulations for the prevention of waste of natural gas, and for the

protection of all natural gas, fresh water, and oil-bearing strata

encountered in any well drilled for oil or natural gas, and to make

such other rules and regulations, and to employ or appoint such

agents, with the consent of the Governor, as may be necessary to

enforce this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-118 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-118
Bribery - Accepting bribe - Punishment
Status: in_force

Any member of the Commission, Proration Umpire, assistant,

deputy, agent or employee of the Proration Umpire, Proration

Attorney, or any agent or employee of the Commission who asks,

receives or agrees to receive any gift or gratuity upon any

agreement or understanding that his acts or conduct with respect to

(a) enforcing any provision of this act or of any order, rule, or

regulation of the Commission made under or in pursuance of this act,

or (b) the discharge of any duty by any such officer or person

imposed upon him by the provisions of this act, or by any order,

rule, or regulation of the Commission issued and promulgated under

the provisions of this act, shall be influenced thereby shall be

guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as

provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20M of Title 21

of the Oklahoma Statutes.

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Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-63 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-63
Penalty for violations
Status: in_force

Any person, co-partnership, or corporation, its agent or

employee, violating any of the provisions of this article, or any

order of the competent courts of this state, or the Corporation

Commission, pursuant to the jurisdiction conferred by this article,

shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than One

Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), nor more than Five Thousand Dollars

($5,000.00), or imprisonment for not less than six (6) months, nor

more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each

and every violation of this article; but in case the monthly runs or

takings or transportations of oil shall average so as to be without

discrimination, as herein provided, the transactions of any

particular day, week, or portion of a month shall be disregarded;

and the competent court of the county in which the omission or

commission which is a violation of this article, has occurred, shall

have jurisdiction of an action under the penal code for the

punishment thereof; and said penalties shall not be exclusive of

civil liability.

R.L. 1910, § 4315.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-570.12 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-570.12
Information to be included with payments to interest
Status: in_force

owner - Calculation of revenue decimals - Measurement of gas volume

reported – Electronic dissemination.

A. The following information for each property and month of

sale shall be included with each payment made to an interest owner

from the sale of oil or gas:

1. Lease or well identification;

2. Month and year of sales included in the payment;

3. Total barrels or MCF attributed to such payment;

4. Price per barrel or MCF, including British Thermal Unit

adjustment of gas sold;

5. Total amount attributed to such payment of severance and

other production taxes, with the exception of windfall profit tax;

6. Net value of total sales attributed to such payment after

taxes are deducted;

7. Owner's interest, expressed as a decimal, in production from

the property;

8. Owner's share of the total value of sales attributed to such

payment prior to any deductions;

9. Owner's share of the sales value attributed to such payment

less owner's share of the production and severance taxes; and

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10. A specific listing of the amount and purpose of any other

deductions from the proceeds attributed to such payment due to the

owner upon request by the owner.

B. For purposes of the Production Revenue Standards Act:

1. All revenue decimals shall be calculated to not less than

the nearest sixth decimal place, which is the nearest part in one

million; and

2. Gas volumes reported to any owner shall be measured as

required by Section 474 of this title.

C. All information required to be included under subsection A

of this section may be provided or made available to an owner by

electronic means including but not limited to electronic mail or a

website or database accessible to the owner, upon the mutual written

consent of the information provider and the owner.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-420.21 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-420.21
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Research,

Marketing and Safety Act:

1. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Research, Marketing and Safety Commission;

2. "Cargo container" means any receptacle mounted on a

transport vehicle, including a bobtail or semitrailer designed and

used for the transportation or storage of liquefied petroleum gas,

but shall not include the motor fuel tank of the vehicle;

3. "First sale" means the first transaction within the State of

Oklahoma in which ownership of odorized liquefied petroleum gas

transfers from seller to purchaser;

4. “Importer” means the owner of odorized liquefied petroleum

gas (LP gas) at the time of entry into this state from another state

or from outside the United States;

5. "Liquefied petroleum gas (LP gas)" means any material that

is composed predominantly of any of the following hydrocarbons or

mixtures of hydrocarbons: propane, propylene, normal butane,

isobutane or butylenes;

6. "Loading rack" means any material handling facility where LP

gas is loaded into cargo containers, including, but not limited to,

gas processing plants, refineries, underground and aboveground bulk

storage facilities, pipeline terminals and unattended LP gas

dispensing facilities;

7. "Loading rack operator" means the owner or any person or

entity controlling the day-to-day operations of the facility. When

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this person or entity is not the person or entity invoicing the

first sale of odorized LP gas dispensed into a cargo container at a

loading rack, the person or entity invoicing the first sale of

odorized LP gas dispensed into a cargo container at a loading rack

shall be considered the loading rack operator;

8. "Person" means any individual, group of individuals, or any

partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or employee

thereof, or any other entity; and

9. "Time of import" means the time of entry into the State of

Oklahoma from another state or from outside the United States.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-244 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-244
Pipeline companies - Acceptance of act as prerequisite to
Status: in_force

right to operate.

Before any person, firm or corporation shall have, possess,

enjoy or exercise the right of eminent domain, right-of-way, right

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to locate, maintain, construct or operate pipelines, fixtures, or

equipments belonging thereto or used in connection therewith, for

the carrying or transportation of natural gas, whether for hire or

otherwise, or shall have the right to engage in the business of

purchasing, piping, or transporting natural gas, as a public

service, or otherwise, such person, firm or corporation, shall file

in the office of the Corporation Commission a proper and explicit

authorized acceptance of the provisions of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-308 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-308
Plugging
Status: in_force

The owner or manager shall not permit any well drilled for oil,

gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the

production of oil and gas, through a workable coal seam to remain

unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for

which it was drilled or converted. Each such well plugged shall

protect the workable coal seam by a cement plug extending twenty-

five (25) feet above said coal seam to a distance of twenty-five

(25) feet below the same or the bottom of the hole, whichever is

less.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-549.12 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-549.12
Cumulative rights
Status: in_force

RIGHTS CUMULATIVE

A. The provisions of this act and the rights granted under this

act are intended to be cumulative with all other rights an interest

owner may otherwise have at law or in equity. To the extent that

there is a conflict between the provisions of this act and any other

rights an interest owner has at law or in equity, then the rights of

the interest owner are to be liberally construed to the end that

those rights which afford the interest owner the most comprehensive

protection to secure the receipt by the interest owner of the sales

price shall be given preference.

B. The rights of any interest owner accrued under the

provisions of Section 548.1 et seq. of Title 52 of the Oklahoma

Statutes prior to the effective date of this act shall be preserved

to the extent not in conflict with the provisions of this act.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-317 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-317
"Person" defined
Status: in_force

The term "person" as used in this act means any individual,

business association or corporation, partnership, governmental or

political subdivision, public corporation, body politic and

corporate public authority, trust or any other legal entity.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-30.1 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-30.1
Electronic natural gas measuring systems - Audit of
Status: in_force

certain leases and collection of royalties.

A. The Commissioners of the Land Office and the Gross

Production Tax Division of the Oklahoma Tax Commission are hereby

authorized to enter into such contracts and agreements as are

necessary to purchase electronic measuring systems for natural gas

produced from wells located within the State of Oklahoma as follows:

1. Such electronic measuring systems should make use of the

best technology available and conform to all standards set forth by

the American Gas Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the

American National Standards Institute, or the American Society of

Metalogical Engineers, or any other industry-wide standards which

may hereafter be adopted;

2. The systems must have fail-safe security that will detect if

the system has been tampered with; and

3. Any purchase made under the authority granted by this act

shall comply with the requirements of Sections 85.1 et seq. of Title

74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

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B. The Commissioners of the Land Office and the Gross

Production Tax Division of the Oklahoma Tax Commission are hereby

granted the authority to employ the professionals necessary to

install, maintain and monitor the measuring systems as provided for

in subsection A of this section.

C. The Commissioners shall audit all oil and gas leases

covering royalties for the past five (5) years, to determine if the

state is receiving royalties in the percentage called for in such

leases, and if not, the Commissioners shall initiate appropriate

legal proceedings to collect the same, plus interest.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-392 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-392
Marked containers or distributing equipment - Use in
Status: in_force

selling petroleum products.

It shall be unlawful for a person, firm or corporation, to

store, sell, expose for sale or offer for sale in or from any

container, tank, pump, or other distributing device or equipment,

any other liquid fuels, lubricating oils, grease, or other similar

products, than those manufactured or distributed by the manufacturer

or distributor, indicated by the name, trade name, symbol, sign or

other distinguishing trademark or device appearing upon the tank,

container, pump, or other distributing equipment in which the same

are sold, offered for sale, or distributed.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-5 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-5
Construction and operation of pipelines - Safety regulations
Status: in_force

- Markers - Promulgation of rules - Personnel - Expenses.

A. The Corporation Commission is hereby authorized, directed

and empowered to promulgate, adopt and enforce reasonable rules

establishing minimum state safety standards for the design,

construction, maintenance and operation of all pipelines used for

the transmission and distribution of natural gas in this state.

However, except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this

section, the Commission shall not promulgate, enforce or interpret

any rule or regulation unless such rule, regulation or

interpretation shall be consistent with and no more restrictive than

the rules, regulations and interpretations of the United States

Secretary of Transportation for pipeline transportation and pipeline

facilities. When any such transmission pipeline shall be

constructed, operated or maintained under, through and across a

highway, section-line road or improved public road or street, there

shall be erected directly above where such pipeline enters or leaves

said highway, section-line road or improved public road or street, a

suitable sign or marker stating thereon the name of the owner of

such pipeline and such other information as the Corporation

Commission may by rule direct.

B. The Commission is authorized and directed to promulgate and

enforce reasonable rules relating to an incident on a gathering

pipeline unit not subject to the U.S. Department of Transportation

Pipeline Safety Regulations, codified at 49 CFR Parts 191 and 192,

provided that such rules of the Commission are limited to the

following specified areas: telephonic notification of and a written

report about the incident which shall be consistent with and require

no more information than the rules, regulations and interpretations

issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline Safety

Regulations relating to the reporting of incidents, maps depicting

the location of the incident, and reasonable corrective measures to

the gathering pipeline unit involved in the incident.

C. For the purposes of this section:

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1. “Incident” shall have the same meaning as it is defined in

the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline Safety Regulations;

and

2. “Gathering pipeline unit” means the portion of the

nonregulated gathering pipeline involved in the incident not to

exceed one mile of pipeline.

D. If contacted by any other entity or person regarding an

incident, as defined in paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section,

the Commission may disclose to such entity or person the time, date

and location of the incident, the identity of the operator involved

in the incident, the size of the gathering pipeline involved and the

number of fatalities or injuries, if any, resulting from the

incident.

E. With the exception of the information outlined in subsection

D of this section, all reports, data, maps or other information

which the Commission may be authorized to obtain under the

provisions of this section may be filed as confidential and the

Commission shall maintain them as confidential and such records

shall not be subject to the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Records

Act. Only authorized Commission employees may obtain or access such

confidential records.

F. The Corporation Commission may appoint a registered

professional engineer with actual experience in the design,

construction, maintenance or operation of natural gas pipelines, and

such other personnel as may be provided by law, to carry out the

provisions of Section 1 et seq. of this title. Such engineer shall

be furnished with personnel, supplies and equipment as may be

necessary to carry out the provisions of Section 1 et seq. of this

title. The expenses of any inspection shall be borne and paid for

by the parties laying and constructing or operating such pipelines

for the transportation or transmission of natural gas.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-25 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-25
Parties not complying with act not to own gas wells, etc
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any corporation, joint stock company,

limited copartnership, partnership or other person, now or hereafter

engaged in the business of carrying or transporting natural gas for

hire or compensation or otherwise, within the limits of this act and

not becoming a common purchaser as defined by, and accepting the

provisions of this act, to own or operate, directly or indirectly

any gas well or wells, gas leases, or gas holdings or interests in

this state, after six (6) months next after the approval of this

act, and each and every of said corporations, joint stock company,

limited co-partnership, partnership or other persons shall divest

themselves of all legal or equitable ownership, interest or control,

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directly or indirectly, in gas well or wells, gas leases or gas

holdings or interest in this state.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-318.21 — OK Code / Title 52 / Section 52-318.21
Short title - Seismic Exploration Regulation Act -
Status: in_force

Definitions.

A. Sections 318.21 through 318.23 of this title shall be known

and may be cited as the "Seismic Exploration Regulation Act".

B. As used in the Seismic Exploration Regulation Act:

1. "Seismic exploration" means the drilling of seismograph test

holes and use of surface energy sources such as weight drop

equipment, thumpers, hydropulses or vibrators, and any of the

activities associated therewith;

2. "Operator" or "applicant" means a person or entity who is

either the owner of the right to conduct seismic exploration or

acting on behalf of the owner;

3. "Surface estate" means the same as defined in Section 802 of

this title; and

4. "Surface owner" means the owner or owners of record of the

surface estate of the property upon which the seismic exploration is

to occur, based upon the records of the county clerk of the county

within which the surface estate is actually located.