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17 OK Stat § 17-116.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.1. Definitions.

|As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise: |(1) "Commission" means the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.(2) "Common carrier by rail" means a railroad company operating any part of its system within this state.(3) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle which is self-propelled.(4) "Owner" means any person having the lawful use or control of a motor vehicle as holder of the legal title of the motor vehicle or under contract or lease or otherwise.(5) "Place of employment" means that location where one or more workers are actually performing the labor incident to their employment.(6) "Worker" means an individual employed for any period in any work for which he is compensated, whether full or part time.Laws 1965, c. 385, § 1, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.2. Railroad company motor vehicles used to transport workers - Safe condition and operation.

|Every motor vehicle provided by a railroad company and used to transport one or more workers to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment shall be maintained in a safe condition and operated in a safe manner at all times, whether or not used upon a public highway. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 2, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.3. Rules and regulations establishing minimum standards.

|The Commission shall make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations relating to motor vehicles used to transport workers to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment. These rules and regulations shall establish minimum standards: |(1) For the construction and mechanical equipment of a motor vehicle, including its coupling devices, lighting devices and reflectors, motor exhaust system, rear-vision mirrors, service and parking brakes, steering mechanism, tires, warning and signaling devices and windshield wipers.(2) For the transportation of gasoline and explosives.(3) For the safety of passengers in a motor vehicle, including emergency exits, fire extinguishers, first-aid kits, means of ingress and egress, side walls and a tailgate or other means of retaining freight and passengers within the motor vehicle.Laws 1965, c. 385, § 3, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.4. Hearings - Suggestions.

|Before formulating such rules and regulations, the Commission shall conduct hearings and invite the participation of interested groups. These groups may make suggestions relating to the minimum standards to be embodied in the rules and regulations. The Commission shall consider the suggestions prior to the issuance of any rules and regulations. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 4, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.5. Amendment of rules and regulations.

|The Commission may amend the rules and regulations at any time upon its own motion or upon complaint by any individual or group, in the same manner as it adopts other rules and regulations. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 385, § 5, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.6. Inspections.

|The Commission may, in enforcing the rules and regulations, inspect any motor vehicle used to transport workers to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment. Upon request, the Highway Patrol shall assist the Commission in these inspections. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 6, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.7. Orders of commission.

|Whenever the Commission finds that a motor vehicle used to transport workers to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment violates any provision of the rules and regulations or any amendment thereto, the Commission shall make, enter and serve upon the owner of the motor vehicle such order as may be necessary to protect the safety of workers transported in the motor vehicle. The Commission may direct in the order, as a condition to the continued use of the motor vehicle for transporting workers to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment, that such additions, repairs, improvements or changes be made and such safety devices and safeguards be furnished and used as are reasonably required to satisfy the requirements of the rules and regulations, in the manner and within the time specified in the order. The order may also require that any driver of the motor vehicle satisfy the minimum standards for a driver under the rules and regulations. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 7, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.8. Enforcement.

|The Commission shall have jurisdiction to enforce rules and regulations promulgated under this act relating to motor vehicles used to transport railroad workers to and from their place of employment or during the course of their employment. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 8, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-116.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-116.9. Penalties.

|Violation by the owner of a motor vehicle of any rule or regulation or any amendment thereto promulgated pursuant to this act or any order issued by the commission under Section 7 of this act, or willful failure to comply with such an order, is a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, the owner shall be punished by confinement in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or to pay a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by both such confinement and fine. |Laws 1965, c. 385, § 9, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-121 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-121. Commission has power of court of record regarding refunds.

|The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with the power of a court of record to determine: First, the amount of refund due and any interest owing upon such refund in all cases where any public service corporation, person, or firm, as defined by the Constitution, charges an amount for any service rendered by such public service corporation, person, or firm, in excess of the lawful rate in force at the time such charge was made, or may thereafter be declared to be the legal rate which should have been applied to the service rendered if no legal rate was in force at the time such charge was made; and, second, to whom the overcharge should be paid. |Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 10, § 1; Laws 1991, c. 332, § 1, eff. July 1, 1991.
17 OK Stat § 17-122 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-122. Judgment for overcharge - Lien - Collection.

|Upon ascertaining the amount of overcharge due from any public service corporation, person or firm, the Corporation Commission shall have authority to render judgment against such public service corporation, person, or firm, for the amount of such overcharge that may have been collected from the public in violation of any legal rate, or order of the Dommission, if necessary to insure the prompt payment of the same to the Commission. Such judgment shall be a lien upon the property of the public service corporation, person, or firm, and shall be collected in the same manner that fines and penalties imposed by the Corporation Commission are now authorized to be collected by law, and, when collected, shall be paid immediately by the Commission to the parties to whom it is due. |Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 10, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-123 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-123. Appealed orders - Additional judgment for expenses of commission.

|In all cases where an order fixing rates to be charged by any public service corporation, person or firm, has been appealed from and a supersedeas issued, the Corporation Commission, in making all orders requiring a refund of overcharges during the time the rates or charges were suspended, shall require such public service corporation, person, or firm, to pay, in addition to such refund, all expenses incurred by the Corporation Commission in checking such refund, determinating to whom the same belongs, and in delivering the same to the party lawfully entitled thereto. |Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 11, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-124 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-124. Appeal regarding refunds.

|Any party in interest shall have a right to appeal from any action of the Commission to determine the amount of refund due, or to whom such refund shall be made, or from any order or judgment rendered by the Commission pertaining to the subject matter set forth in any of the above sections of this act, in the same manner as appeals are now taken from the Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court. |Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 11, § 4.
17 OK Stat § 17-125 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-125. Unclaimed refunds - Administrations.

|All refunds not paid out by the Commission, or unclaimed, shall be administered in accordance with the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1981). |Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 11, § 5; Laws 1991, c. 331, § 48, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
17 OK Stat § 17-132 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-132. Application for certificate - Notice.

|The application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity pursuant to Section 131 of this title shall be under such rules as the Corporation Commission may, from time to time, prescribe. Upon receipt of any such application for such certificate, the Commission shall cause notice thereof to be published once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in each territory affected, and provide actual notice by mail or personal service to all political subdivisions with jurisdictional boundaries that include all or portions of the service area outlined in the application for the Certificate of Convenience and Necessity. |Added by Laws 1917, c. 270, p. 491, § 2, emerg. eff. March 29, 1917. Amended by Laws 1957, p. 88, § 2; Laws 1996, c. 331, § 2, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996; Laws 2019, c. 132, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
17 OK Stat § 17-133 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-133. Grant or refusal of certificate - Protests.

|The Commission shall have power to issue said certificate as prayed for or to refuse to issue the same or to issue it for the construction, operation or acquisition of a portion only of the contemplated territory. No certificate shall be issued until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of notice, nor shall any certificate be issued without hearing unless no protest is filed to the granting of the certificate by any interested party within such thirty-day period. In the event such protest is filed, then the Commission shall set the matter for public hearing; however, in the event no protest is filed the Commission may, at its discretion, forthwith issue the certificate as prayed for or set the matter for public hearing on its own motion. |Laws 1917, c. 270, p. 491, § 3; Laws 1957, p. 88, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-134 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-134. Repair, maintenance or reconstruction - Injury to or interference with shade trees.

|Nothing in this act shall prevent the repair, maintenance or reconstruction of existing telephone properties, or the addition of necessary circuits to existing lines, to accomodate increase in business of the same character. Provided that it is hereby declared unlawful for any telephone company in building, repairing or maintaining any telephone line to cut down, trim, disturb or injure any shade tree on any public road or highway, or on any parkage on any street in any city or town, without first obtaining the consent of the abutting property owner so to do, and in the maintenance of telephone line it is hereby declared unlawful for any telephone company to construct their lines so that the wires or cables shall injure any such shade trees on such road or highway or on any parkage within any city or town. |Laws 1917, c. 270, p. 492, § 5.
17 OK Stat § 17-136 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-136. Extension of telephone service to open territories - Petition - Notice and hearing.

|Upon the petition of any citizens residing in territory which is open territory, requesting telephone service from an adjacent telephone exchange, the Commission may cause the same to be set for hearing and give due and proper notice in writing, at least ten (10) days prior to the date of hearing, to all persons, firms or corporations holding certificates to furnish service in adjacent territory or furnishing service in adjacent territory and to the municipal officials of all municipalities in said affected territories, and by publication for one (1) week in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory affected. If, at such hearing, the Commission finds from competent evidence that the public convenience and necessity requires the furnishing of telephone service in the affected territory, it shall have the further power to order and direct the person, firm, association, corporation or cooperative which can most economically extend its service so as to furnish efficient telephone service in the affected territory to so extend its service, provided that it shall not make an order so requiring unless it finds, from substantial evidence, that the person, firm or corporation so ordered to serve is earning a fair return on the fair value of its property devoted by it to the public service in this state and that the rendition of service in the affected territory will not prevent the person, firm or corporation so ordered to serve from earning a fair return on the fair value of its property devoted to the public service in this state. |Laws 1959, p. 85, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-137.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-137.3. Universal service fee.

|The Corporation Commission may, after notice and hearing, assess a universal service fee upon all contributing providers as defined in Section 139.102 of this title to support state and federal universal service objectives. |Added by Laws 1996, c. 331, § 3, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 270, § 1, emerg. eff. May 9, 2016.
17 OK Stat § 17-138 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-138. Enforcement.

|In addition to the power to punish for contempt already vested in the Commission, it shall have the power to vacate and declare open any and all territory of any telephone utility which refuses to extend service which might be ordered under Section 2 of this act. |Laws 1959, p. 86, § 4.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.1. Coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones - Operating requirements.

|The Corporation Commission shall, by rule or order, promulgate and enforce operating requirements for coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones available for public use owned or operated by corporations or persons other than telephone corporations authorized by the Commission to operate within service areas. These requirements shall include, but are not limited to a requirement that every telephone permit a caller to be connected with the operator personnel of any telephone corporation authorized by the Commission to operate within a service area through the Commission authorized access method chosen by the operator service provider with exception of those coin operated or credit card-activated telephones made available to inmates at state, federal, local and county jails and correctional facilities. |Added by Laws 1990, c. 285, § 1, operative July 1, 1990.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.2. Operator-assisted services - Operating requirements - Inclusion of law in directories of subscribers.

|A. The Corporation Commission shall, by rule or order, promulgate and enforce operating requirements for every corporation or person, other than a telephone corporation authorized by the Commission to operate within a service area, which, for a charge, furnishes operator-assisted services. These requirements shall include, but not be limited to: |1. A requirement that furnishing these operator-assisted services for telephone calls within a service area is prohibited unless the Commission, after instituting a proceeding for the purpose, finds and determines that to permit these operator-assisted services is in the public interest; provided, state, federal, local and county jails and correctional facilities may utilize operator-assisted services in conjunction with collect call only telephones, if intended for exclusive use by prisoners;2. A requirement that the charges for these operator-assisted services be disclosed to users of the services upon request; and3. The provider of operator services, upon accessing a call, shall audibly and distinctly identify the company to the user of any telephone before any charges are incurred and shall permit the consumer to terminate the telephone call at no charge.B. The Commission shall require every telephone corporation which publishes a directory of subscribers to include in that directory information comprising the substance of this section and the rules and orders of the Commission promulgated pursuant to this section.Added by Laws 1990, c. 285, § 2, operative July 1, 1990.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.101 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.101. Short title - Oklahoma Telecommunications Act of 1997.

|This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Telecommunications Act of 1997". |Added by Laws 1997, c. 408, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 80, § 1, eff. July 1, 2002; Laws 2016, c. 270, § 2, emerg. eff. May 9, 2016.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.104 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.104. Compensation of Attorney General for enforcement duties - Oversight by Consumer Services Division.

|A. For the exercise of duties and performance of responsibilities relating to telecommunications fraud pursuant to the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, Section 751 et seq. of Title 15 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and for representation in telecommunications matters as established in Section 18b of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Attorney General shall receive Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) per fiscal year to be paid from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund established in Section 6 of this act. For the 1998 fiscal year, the total amount of the monies shall be paid to the Attorney General in one payment. For each fiscal year thereafter, the monies shall be paid to the Attorney General in equal monthly payments. All monies shall be deposited in the Attorney General's Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 20 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. In addition to any other duties prescribed by law or by Corporation Commission rules, the Commission, through its Consumer Services Division, shall mediate grievances between consumers and telecommunications carriers and ensure compliance with quality of service standards adopted for local exchange telecommunications service providers and other telecommunications carriers which operate in this state.Added by Laws 1997, c. 408, § 4, eff. July 1, 1997.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.108 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.108. Provisions applicable to OneNet and the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network.

|A. Except for the provisions of this section, nothing in this act shall be construed as applicable to the telecommunications network known as OneNet or to any other component of the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network. Neither OneNet nor any other component of the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network shall be assessed any fee or other charge for the support of universal service. |B. No provider of Internet service or any company providing telecommunications services or its affiliate or subsidiary, may price such Internet service in an anticompetitive, discriminatory, or predatory manner or subsidize the price of Internet service with revenues received from other services. No governmental agency or entity using or being eligible to use OneNet facilities may price such Internet services in an anticompetitive or predatory manner. Any governmental agency or entity using OneNet facilities is hereby prohibited from reselling OneNet access directly to the general public at any nonpublic site. Any company or individual damaged from a violation of this subsection by a private company or individual shall be entitled to treble damages. The Attorney General shall be responsible for bringing an action for violation of this section against a private company or individual.C. The Corporation Commission shall not approve, endorse, forward or file any application for reimbursement submitted pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, for transmission services requiring a circuit of T-1 or greater capacity unless OneNet is the circuit provider. For purposes of this subsection, "T-1" means a digital, one-million-five-hundred-forty-four-thousand-bit (1.544 Mbit) circuit with capacity sufficient to simultaneously transmit twenty-four (24) voice or data channels at sixty-four thousand bits per second (64 Kbits/sec).Added by Laws 1997, c. 408, § 8, eff. July 1, 1997.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.110 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.110. High speed Internet access or broadband service – Regulation by Corporation Commission prohibited – Requirements of local exchange telecommunications service providers – Taxation.

|A. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission shall not, by entering any order, adopting any rule, or otherwise taking any agency action, impose any regulation upon a provider of high speed Internet access service or broadband service in its provision of such service, regardless of technology or medium used to provide such service. |B. An incumbent local exchange telecommunications service provider (ILEC) subject to the provisions of 47 U.S.C., Section 251(c) shall be required to provide unbundled access to network elements, including but not limited to loops, subloops, and collocation space within the facilities of the ILEC, to the extent specifically required under 47 C.F.R., Section 51.319 or any successor regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission.C. Nothing in this section shall effect the assessment of any company under Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution or Section 2801 et seq. of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes.Added by Laws 2002, c. 80, § 3, eff. July 1, 2002.
17 OK Stat § 17-139.201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-139.201. Short title - Oklahoma Rural Broadband Expansion Act.

|This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Rural Broadband Expansion Act". |Added by Laws 2020, c. 165, § 1, emerg. eff. May 22, 2020.