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16 OK Stat § 16-79 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-79. Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet title action independent of criminal action.

|A. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and, in any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason, he shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including such attorney fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and, in addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall pay to plaintiff three times the damages that plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed for record. |B. A quiet title action shall be independent of any criminal action that may be filed against the defendant, and there shall be no requirement that the defendant in a quiet title action be convicted of any criminal act.Added by Laws 1963, c. 31, § 9. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 405, § 7, emerg. eff. June 13, 1997.
16 OK Stat § 16-80 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-80. Construction.

|This act shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in Section 1 of this act, subject only to such limitations as appear in Section 2 of this act. |Laws 1963, c. 31, § 10.
16 OK Stat § 16-82 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-82. Recording of affidavit - Rebuttable presumption.

|An affidavit covering matters named in Section 83 of this title may be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county in which the real property is situated. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that facts stated in a recorded affidavit are true as they relate to real estate, its use, or its ownership. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 233, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 238, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
16 OK Stat § 16-83 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-83. Matters to which affidavit may relate.

|The affidavit may relate to the following matters: Age, sex, birth, death, relationship, family history, heirship, names, and identity of parties, whether individual, corporate, partnership or trust; identity of officers of corporations; membership of partnerships, joint ventures and other unincorporated associations; identity of trustees of trusts, and their respective terms of services; history of the organization of corporations, partnerships, joint ventures and trusts; marital status; possession; residence; service in the Armed Forces; and conflicts and ambiguities in descriptions of land in recorded instruments. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 233, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
16 OK Stat § 16-84 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-84. Description of land - Recording fee - Indexing.

|Every affidavit prescribed in Section 2 of this act shall include a description of the land for which the title may be affected by matters covered in the affidavit. The county clerk shall record the affidavit for such fees as provided by law and indicate the land affected on the numerical tract index in the county clerk's office. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 233, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
16 OK Stat § 16-85 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-85. False statements - Penalties.

|Any person who knowingly makes or causes to be made a false statement in an affidavit shall be guilty of perjury and be liable for actual damages suffered or incurred by any person or other entity as a result or consequence of the making of or reliance upon such false affidavit. The court may award punitive damages, costs and attorney fees. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 233, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.1. Short title.

|SHORT TITLE. Sections 1 through 7 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the “Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act”. |Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.2. Definitions.

|DEFINITIONS. In the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act: |(1) “Document” means information that is:(A)inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and(B)eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the county clerk.(2) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.(3) “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the county clerk in an electronic form.(4) “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. “Electronic signature” includes a digital image or electronic copy of an original signature affixed to an original or certified copy of an original paper document or instrument, provided that the person submitting the digital image or electronic copy of the document or instrument complies with all other requirements, rules or regulations concerning electronic recordings under the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.(5) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.(6) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2008. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 37, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.3. Validity of electronic documents.

|VALIDITY OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. |(a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.(b) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be signed, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic signature.(c) A requirement that a document or a signature associated with a document be notarized, acknowledged, verified, witnessed, or made under oath is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform that act, and all other information required to be included, is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature. A physical or electronic image of a stamp, impression, or seal need not accompany an electronic signature.Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.4. Recording of documents.

|RECORDING OF DOCUMENTS. |(a) In this section, “paper document” means a document that is received by the county clerk in a form that is not electronic.(b) A county clerk:(1) Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with standards established by the Archives and Records Commission;(2) May receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic documents;(3) May provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, documents and information by electronic means;(4) Who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index;(5) May convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form;(6) May convert into electronic form information recorded before the county clerk began to record electronic documents;(7) May accept electronically any fee that the county clerk is authorized to collect; and(8) May agree with other officials of a state or a political subdivision thereof, or of the United States, on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees.Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.5. Administration and standards.

|ADMINISTRATION AND STANDARDS. |(a) The Archives and Records Commission shall adopt standards to implement the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.(b) To keep the standards and practices of county clerks in this state in harmony with the standards and practices of recording offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act and to keep the technology used by county clerks in this state compatible with technology used by recording offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, the Archives and Records Commission, so far as is consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, in adopting, amending, and repealing standards shall consider:(1) Standards and practices of other jurisdictions;(2) The most recent standards promulgated by national standard-setting bodies, such as the Property Records Industry Association;(3) The views of interested persons and governmental officials and entities;(4) The needs of counties of varying size, population, and resources; and(5) Standards requiring adequate information security protection to ensure that electronic documents are accurate, authentic, adequately preserved, and resistant to tampering.Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.6. Uniformity of application and construction.

|UNIFORMITY OF APPLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION. In applying and construing the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it. |Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-86.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-86.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

|RELATION TO ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT. The Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Section 7001, et seq.) but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act (15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c)) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act (15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b)). |Added by Laws 2008, c. 295, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
16 OK Stat § 16-91 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-91. Corporations may convey by attorney.

|Corporations, as well as individuals, may make, acknowledge and deliver instruments affecting real estate by an attorney in fact. |R.L.1910, § 1172.
16 OK Stat § 16-92 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-92. Instrument by corporation valid.

|Every instrument affecting real estate or authorizing the execution of any deed, mortgage or other instrument relating thereto, executed and acknowledged by a corporation or its attorney in fact in substantial compliance with this chapter, shall be valid and binding upon the grantor, notwithstanding any omission or irregularity in the proceedings of such corporation or any of its officers or members, and without reference to any provision in its constitution or by-laws. |R.L.1910, § 1173.
16 OK Stat § 16-93 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-93. Manner of execution by corporation.

|Every deed or other instrument affecting real estate made by a corporation must have the name of such corporation subscribed thereto either by an attorney-in-fact, president, vice-president, chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors of such corporation. |R.L. 1910, § 1186; Laws 1987, c. 146, § 26, emerg. eff. June 24, 1987; Laws 1994, c. 238, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
16 OK Stat § 16-95 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-95. Acknowledgment by corporation - Form.

|Every deed or other instrument affecting real estate, executed by a corporation, must be acknowledged by an officer or attorney-in-fact subscribing the name of the corporation thereto, which acknowledgment may be in substantially a form as provided for in the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts or in substantially the following form: |State of Oklahoma, )) ss.__________ County. )Before me, a ____ in and for this state, on this ____ day of ____, ____ personally appeared ____ to me known to be the identical person who subscribed the name of the maker thereof to the foregoing instrument as its (attorney-in-fact, president, vice-president, chair, or vice-chair of the board of directors or mayor, as the case may be) and acknowledged to me that ________ executed the same as ______ free and voluntary act and deed, and as the free and voluntary act and deed of the corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.R.L. 1910, § 1188; Laws 1994, c. 238, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 1999, c. 104, § 3, emerg. eff. April 19, 1999.
16 OK Stat § 16-96 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-96. Mechanic's materialman's lien statement - Execution, attestation, seal or acknowledgement not required - Release.

|Any lien statement authorized pursuant to the provisions of Sections 141 through 164 of Title 42 of the Oklahoma Statutes when executed on behalf of a corporation may be signed and verified by any officer or agent of said corporation without the necessity of attestation, seal, or acknowledgement and any release of such lien when executed on behalf of a corporation may be signed by any officer or agent of such corporation without the necessity of attestation, seal, or acknowledgement. |With respect to the execution and release of lien statements in accordance with this section the provisions of Sections 15, 93, 94 and 95 of Title 16 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not apply.Added by Laws 1984, c. 257, § 2, emerg. eff. May 30, 1984.
16 OK Stat § 16-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-201. Citation.

|This act may be cited as the Uniform Vendor and Purchaser Risk Act. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 92, § 1.
16 OK Stat § 16-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-202. Rights and duties of parties.

|Any contract hereafter made in this state for the purchase and sale of realty shall be interpreted as including an agreement that the parties shall have the following rights and duties, unless the contract expressly provides otherwise; |(a) if, when neither the legal title nor the possession of the subject matter of the contract has been transferred, all or a material part thereof is destroyed without fault of this purchaser or is taken by eminent domain, the vendor cannot enforce the contract, and the purchaser is entitled to recover any portion of the price that he has paid; or(b) if, when either the legal title or the possession of the subject matter of the contract has been transferred, all or any part thereof is destroyed without fault of the vendor or is taken by eminent domain, the purchaser is not thereby relieved from a duty to pay the price, nor is he entitled to recover any portion thereof that he has paid.Laws 1965, c. 92, § 2.
16 OK Stat § 16-203 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 16. Conveyances|§16-203. Uniform law.

|This act shall be so interpreted as to effectuate its purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. |Laws 1965, c. 92, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-1. Violating rules, orders or other requirements of Commission - Switching service provider without consent of customer - Fines.

|A. 1. Upon a determination by the Corporation Commission of violation of any of its rules, orders or other requirements, a corporation, person or firm may be fined by the Commission, a sum not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), as the Commission may deem proper. Each day's continuance of such violation, after due service upon such corporation, person or firm, of the order or requirement of the Commission shall be a separate offense. |2. If the operation of such order or requirement is suspended, pending an appeal, the period of such suspension shall not be computed against the corporation, person or firm, with regard to its liability for fines and penalties.B. Any corporation, person or firm that switches the local or long distance telephone, electrical energy, or natural gas service provider of a customer without the consent of the customer may be fined by the Commission a sum not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per occurrence, as the Commission may deem proper after notice and opportunity for hearing.R.L. 1910, § 1192. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 48, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 178, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000.
17 OK Stat § 17-2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-2. Contempt proceedings - When authorized - Institution of prosecution - Notice.

|In case of failure of any corporation, person or firm to obey or comply with any order or requirement of the Corporation Commission, the Commission may punish such corporation, person or firm, as for contempt. Such contempt proceedings may be instituted by any citizen of this state, or other parties affected by such order, by filing an affidavit with the Corporation Commission, setting forth the acts of omission or failure to comply with such order or requirement. Upon the filing of such affidavit or information above mentioned, it shall be the duty of the Commission to forward to such offending corporation, person or firm a copy of such affidavit or information, and shall also issue citation to such corporation, person or firm to answer at a time to be fixed in the citation, not less than ten (10) days, nor more than twenty (20) days from the date of the service of said citation. |R.L.1910, § 1193.
17 OK Stat § 17-3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-3. Pleadings, trial, judgment and appeal.

|If the defendant shall fail to appear or file answer on the day mentioned in the citation, such failure to appear or file answer shall be deemed an admission of the truth of each and every material allegation in such affidavit, or information, and the Commission may render judgment without further hearing or testimony; or the Commission may in its discretion require additional evidence before rendering judgment in any case of default. Upon the appearance and filing of answer of the defendant, such appearance may be by plea, demurrer or answer, and when the issue shall have been settled, the Commission may hear evidence as to the matters and facts in reference to the alleged violation of the order or requirement, and may continue the hearing from time to time, and the defendant shall be given ample opportunity to introduce proper evidence and be fully heard in the premises. Upon the conclusion of the evidence and arguments of counsel, the Commission shall render judgment, a copy of which shall be delivered to the defendant, and the defendant shall have five (5) days from the receipt of copy of the judgment to file its exceptions thereto, and shall be allowed to appeal from the judgment of the Commission, to the Supreme Court, as provided in other cases, upon its filing a bond with the Commission in double the amount of such fine or judgment, with such security as may be required by the Commission. Upon the filing of such bond with the commission and allowing of the appeal, the same shall operate a suspension of the fine and judgment appealed from. |R.L.1910, § 1194.
17 OK Stat § 17-4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-4. Suspension bond.

|If the order violated for which such fine or judgment is imposed shall have been an order promulgating or fixing rates, to be charged by public service corporations, persons or firms, it shall be necessary in appealing from such fine or judgment for the defendant to give a suspending bond, executed and filed with and approved by the Commission, payable to the state, and sufficient in amount and security to insure the prompt refunding by the appealing corporation, person or firm, to the parties entitled thereto, of all charges which such company may collect or receive, pending the appeal, in excess of those fixed or authorized by the order of the Commission violated or disregarded by such corporation, person or firm. Such bond shall be conditioned to require such corporation, person or firm to keep such accounts and to make to the Commission from time to time such report, verified by oath, as may in the judgment of the Commission suffice to show the amount being charged or received by the company pending the appeal, in excess of the charge prescribed by the Commission in the order violated, together with the names and addresses of persons to whom such overcharges will be refunded in case the charges made by the company pending the appeal be not sustained on the final judgment, and the commission may at any time require such corporation, person or firm to give additional security or to increase the suspending bond when the same may appear to the Commission to be necessary to insure the prompt refunding of the overcharges aforesaid. Upon the final judgment, if the order violated is sustained in the Supreme Court, the Commission shall distribute such overcharges to the persons to whom the same are due, as provided in Section twenty-one, Article nine, of the Constitution: Provided, that if the order violated is one fixing or establishing rates and the corporation, person or firm shall obey such order and carry its provisions into effect pending such appeal, the last above-mentioned bond shall not be required. |R.L.1910, § 1195.
17 OK Stat § 17-5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-5. Supreme Court to give precedence to such appeals.

|All cases appealed to the Supreme Court from the judgment of the Corporation Commission as herein provided, shall have precedence therein, except as provided in the Constitution, and it shall be the duty of the Supreme Court to advance the same on the docket for immediate consideration and proceed to final judgment without any unnecessary delay. |R.L.1910, § 1196.
17 OK Stat § 17-6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-6. Judgment lien - Execution.

|All judgments or fines assessed against any corporation, person or firm, for the violation of any order or regulation, as herein provided, shall be a first lien on all property of such corporation, person or firm within this state, and it shall be the duty of the Corporation Commission, if such judgment or fine is not paid within thirty (30) days after the rendition of such judgment or fine, to issue an execution, directed to the marshal of the Corporation Commission, commanding him to seize sufficient property of such corporation, person or firm, to satisfy the fine or judgment. And it shall be the duty of the Marshal to sell or dispose of properties levied on by reason of an execution issued by the Commission, in like manner as now required by sheriffs of this state, for the sale of property levied on by virtue of an execution issued on a judgment of a district court. |R.L.1910, § 1197.