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52 OK Stat § 52-23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-23. Pipeline operators common purchasers - Requirements - 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 before them, and provided by the laws now in force in this state regulating the purchase and transportation of oil. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 167, § 3, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-24. Pipeline companies declared common carriers - 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. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 168, § 4, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913. Amended by Laws 1919, c. 120, p. 174, § 1; Laws 1995, c. 293, § 1, emerg. eff. May 25, 1995; Laws 1999, c. 317, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 1999.
52 OK Stat § 52-24.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-24.1. Refusal to purchase or transport natural gas - Complaint - 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: |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; or3. The gas might dilute or pollute the gas being carried in their line.Added by Laws 1978, c. 100, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1978.
52 OK Stat § 52-24.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-24.2. Definitions.

|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. |Added by Laws 1978, c. 100, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1978.
52 OK Stat § 52-25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-25. Parties not complying with act not to own gas wells, etc.

|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, directly or indirectly, in gas well or wells, gas leases or gas holdings or interest in this state. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 169, § 5, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-26. Prerequisite to carrying gas - Filing acceptance and plats - Records for Corporation Commission.

|Before any corporation, joint stock company, limited copartnership, partnership or other persons shall have, possess, enjoy or exercise the right of eminent domain, right-of-way, right to locate, maintain or operate pipelines, fixtures or equipment thereunto belonging, or used in connection therewith, as authorized by the provisions of this act, 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 act, every such corporation, joint stock company, limited copartnership, partnership or other person, shall file in the office of said Corporation Commission proper and explicit authorized acceptance of the provisions of this act and the Constitution of this state, in cases of pipelines 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 or lines; and upon demand of the Corporation Commission the proper party or parties, as required by said commission, shall properly 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, respectively, required or used in the operation thereof. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 169, § 6, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-27 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-27. Right-of-way - Highways - Eminent domain - Foreign 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 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. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 170, § 7, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-28 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-28. Filing records or plats with Corporation Commission - 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. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 171, § 8, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-30 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-30. Meters - Reports.

|No corporation, joint stock company, limited copartnership, partnership or person doing business under the provisions of this act shall purchase, collect, transport, convey or sell any gas from any wells in this state except such gas as is run through properly constructed meters, the daily readings of which shall be carefully and accurately taken every twenty-four (24) hours, and of which a true and correct report under oath shall be made every month and which report of all such business transacted during the next preceding month shall be filed not later than the fifteenth day of each and every month with the Corporation Commission and which report shall at all times be open to the inspection of the public. Such report shall be based upon such daily meter readings; shall show the amount of gas run or purchased from each tract of lands; lease or leasehold estate, the names of the seller or sellers of such gas and of the purchaser or purchasers thereof; and any person or persons making or directing, counseling, advising, aiding or abetting in the making or filing of any false report in the premises shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction thereof be punished as provided by law; and to the end that such meters shall be properly constructed, maintained, repaired and operated, their installation, use and operation shall at all times be subject to such rules and regulations as the Corporation Commission may prescribe. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 172, § 10, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-30.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-30.1. Electronic natural gas measuring systems - Audit of 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; and3. 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.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.Added by Laws 1985, c. 163, § 1, emerg. eff. June 13, 1985.
52 OK Stat § 52-31 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-31. Violation of act - Punishment.

|Any person, copartnership, or corporation, its agent or employees, violating any of the provisions of this act, or any order of a court of competent jurisdiction of this state, or the Corporation Commission, pursuant to the jurisdiction conferred by this act, 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 not less than six (6) months, nor more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every violation of this act; but in case the monthly runs or takings or transportation of gas shall average so as to be without discrimination, as herein provided, a transaction or transactions of any particular day or week or portion of a month shall be disregarded; and the court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the omission or commission, which is in violation of this act, has occurred, shall have jurisdiction of an action under the Penal Code for the punishment thereof; and that said penalties shall not be exclusive of civil liability. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 172, § 11, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-32 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-32. Violations - Receivership - procedure.

|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 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. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 173, § 12, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-33 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-33. Evidence - Certified transcripts of reports of gas companies.

|A properly certified transcript of the report of any such corporation, association, or person, shall, as against the makers thereof, be prima facie evidence of the truth of any matter therein contained. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 174, § 13, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-34 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-34. Enforcement by Corporation Commission - Appeals.

|The Corporation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce all the provisions of this act, including the employment of requisite help and gas experts to carry out the same, except where jurisdiction is conferred on some other branch of the state government by the Constitution of this state; appeals may be allowed from the decision of the Commission to the Supreme Court as now provided by law for appeals in other cases. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 174, § 14, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.1. Definitions.

|As used in this act, Section 36.1 et seq. of this title, (a) "underground storage" shall mean storage in a subsurface stratum or formation of the earth; (b) "natural gas" shall mean gas either while in its original state or after the same has been processed by removal therefrom of component parts not essential to its use for light and fuel; (c) "native gas" shall mean gas which has not been previously withdrawn from the earth; (d) "public utility" shall mean any person, firm or corporation authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the business of transporting or distributing natural gas by means of pipelines into, within or through this state for ultimate public use, or that uses natural gas as a fuel to produce electricity for ultimate public use; and (e) "Commission" shall mean the State Corporation Commission. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 134, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 352, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.2. Public interest and welfare.

|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.Added by Laws 1951, p. 134, § 2, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.4. Certificate of Commission.

|Any public utility desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain as to any property for use for underground storage of natural gas shall, as a condition precedent to the filing of its petition in the district court, obtain from the Commission a certificate setting out findings of said Commission (a) that the underground stratum or formation sought to be acquired is suitable for the underground storage of natural gas and that its use for such purposes is in the public interest; (b) the amount of recoverable oil and native gas, if any, remaining therein; provided, that the Commission shall issue no such certificate until after public hearing is had on application, pursuant to notice served in compliance with notice in civil actions in the district court, together with notice published at least once each week for two (2) successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the gas is proposed to be stored, the first publication to be at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 135, § 4, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 352, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.5. Petition to district court - Examination and determination - Subsequent proceedings.

|Any public utility having first obtained a certificate from the Commission as hereinbefore provided, desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring property for the underground storage of natural gas shall do so in the manner hereinafter provided. Such public utility shall present to the district court of the county wherein the land is situated, or to the judge thereof, a petition setting forth the purpose for which the said property is sought to be acquired, a description of the property sought to be appropriated and the names of the owners thereof as shown by the records of such county. The petitioner shall file the certificate of the Commission as a part of its petition and no order by the court granting said petition shall be entered without such certificate being filed therewith. The court or the judge thereof shall examine said petition and determine whether the petitioner has the power of eminent domain and whether said property is necessary to its lawful purposes, and if found in the affirmative, such finding shall be entered in the record and subsequent proceedings shall follow the procedure now provided by law in the exercise of the rights of eminent domain by railroads. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 136, § 5, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 352, § 5, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.6. Ownership of gas.

|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; and3. The owner of the stratum shall be entitled to such compensation as is provided by law.Added by Laws 1951, p. 136, § 6, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 140, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
52 OK Stat § 52-36.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-36.7. Partial invalidity.

|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. |Added by Laws 1951, p. 136, § 7, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951.