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17 OK Stat § 17-42 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-42. License from Corporation Commission - Necessity - Showing - Fee.

|No person or persons, or corporation, in this state shall be permitted to maintain and operate a gin for the purpose of ginning seed cotton of the general public, or of ginning seed cotton not produced and owned by the person or persons, or the stockholders of the corporation maintaining and operating said gin, without first having secured a license for such purpose from the State Corporation Commission, said license to be issued upon proper showing to be made as prescribed by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission. The fee for said license issued by the Corporation Commission is hereby fixed at three cents ($0.03) per bale, based on the number of bales ginned the previous year as shown by the final report of said gin, on file, with the Corporation Commission. In case of a new plant or gin that did not operate the preceding year, a license fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) per gin stand will be charged; which sum shall be converted into the State Treasury of the State of Oklahoma. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 2; Laws 1923, c. 191, p. 340, § 1; Laws 1929, c. 240, p. 301, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-43 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-43. Matters considered in issuing license - Existing gins - Showing to obtain license - Cooperative gins - Inspectors.

|The Corporation Commission in issuing such license shall have the right to take into consideration the necessity for the operation of a gin for such purpose at the place of its location; provided nothing herein shall operate to prevent the licensing of gins now established, except for violation of the provisions of this act or of the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Corporation Commission made and promulgated pursuant to this act. No new gin plants shall be constructed, installed, or licensed, or any old gin removed from one point to another until satisfactory showing shall have been made to the Corporation Commission setting forth that such gin is a needed utility and that the proposed corporation, company, firm or individual is a competent and desirable corporation, company, firm or individual to establish and operate said gin as may appear in the discretion of said commission; provided, that on the presentation of a petition for the establishment of a gin to be run cooperatively, signed by one hundred (100) citizens and tax payers of the community where the gin is to be located, the Corporation Commission shall issue a license for said gin. The commission shall have the right to take into consideration the responsibility and reliability and qualifications as well as the capacity of the person or persons or corporation to do such ginning business so far as to afford all reasonable facilities, conveniences and services to the public and shall have the power and authority to require such facilities, conveniences and services to be afforded the public. The inspectors provided herein shall be men who have served at least three (3) years in practical and actual gin operation and shall be appointed by the Corporation Commission; that said inspectors shall have the power to make recommendations to the commission as to the opening or closing of any gin or gins as well as to the affording by such gins of the reasonable facilities, conveniences and services to the public hereinbefore authorized to be required, as well as to make such other reports and recommendations to the Corporation Commission as may to said inspectors appear necessary, reasonable and just. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 3; Laws 1923, c. 191, p. 341, § 2; Laws 1925, c. 109, p. 157, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-44 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-44. Powers and authority of Corporation Commission - Rates - Department of Cotton Gin Utilities - Fiscal year and reports of cotton gins.

|The Corporation Commission shall have the same power and authority and be charged with the duty of regulating and controlling such cotton gins in all matters relating to the performance of public duties and the charges therefor and correcting abuses and preventing unjust discrimination and extortion, as is exercised by said Commission as to transportation and transmission companies and shall have the same power to fix rates, rules, charges and regulations to be observed by such person or persons or corporation operating gins and the affording of all reasonable conveniences, facilities and services as it may impose as to transportation or transmission companies. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, there is hereby created a Department of Cotton Gin Utilities under the Corporation Commission. The Commission shall appoint inspectors of cotton gins, whose functions, duties and term of office shall be regulated by the Commission. It shall be the duty of each and every corporation, company, firm or individual owning or operating a cotton gin to file a final report for the preceding year not later than ninety (90) days following the expiration of the fiscal year of the cotton gin utility. Failure to file said report shall constitute a forfeiture of license and is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted as such, said report to be in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission from time to time. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 4; Laws 1923, c. 191, p. 341, § 3; Laws 1991, c. 118, § 1, emerg. eff. April 29, 1991.
17 OK Stat § 17-45 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-45. Appeals to Supreme Court.

|Section 45. The orders made by said Commission fixing rates, charges, rules andregulations as to any person, persons, or corporation operating any gin or gins may be reviewed on appeal by the Supreme Court in the same manner, form, jurisdiction and procedure as apply to such orders made relative to transportation and transmission companies. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 5.
17 OK Stat § 17-46 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-46. Regulations - Enforcement of orders.

|Section 46. In all matters pertaining to the regulation and control of gins andginning and the business of such, the Commission shall have the same power and authority as is now exercised by it under the law as to any matter pertaining to the public visitation, regulation or control of transportation and transmission companies, and may enforce its orders against any person, firm, company, or corporation maintaining or operating a gin or gins, by imposing a fine against them, or either of them, not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the violation of any of its orders. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 6.
17 OK Stat § 17-47 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-47. Partial invalidity.

|If it shall be held that any section or part of a section contained in this act is void by reason of it being repugnant to the Constitution, the failure of such portion shall not be held to defeat the remaining portions of this act. |Laws 1915, c. 176, § 7.
17 OK Stat § 17-48 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-48. Transportation, presents, or gratuities to Corporation Commissioners or employees prohibited - Exceptions - Penalty.

|A. No person who is subject to the regulations of the Corporation Commission, or has interests in any firm, corporation or business which is subject to regulation by the Corporation Commission shall furnish transportation, presents, or gratuities other than as provided by the Rules of the Ethics Commission to any member of the Corporation Commission or any employee thereof; provided, however, during a period beginning one hundred twenty (120) days prior to a primary election, through one hundred twenty (120) days following the general election, any person may make contributions not otherwise prohibited by the Rules of the Ethics Commission to the cost of any current candidate's political campaign. It shall be unlawful for any such member or employee to knowingly accept any such transportation, presents or gratuities from any such person, firm or association. |B. A violation of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punishable as a misdemeanor.Added by Laws 1995, c. 343, § 42, eff. July 1, 1995.
17 OK Stat § 17-51 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-51. Oil and gas department established.

|The Corporation Commission is hereby empowered and authorized to create and establish an Oil and Gas Department under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Corporation Commission, and is hereby authorized to appoint with the approval and consent of the Governor, a Chief Oil and Gas Conservation Agent who shall have charge of the Oil and Gas Department herein authorized. |Laws 1917, c. 207, p. 385, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-53 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-53. Promulgation of rules - Plugging wells.

|The Corporation Commission is hereby authorized to promulgate rules for the plugging of all abandoned oil and gas wells. Abandoned wells shall be plugged under the direction and supervision of Commission employees as may be prescribed by the Commission. Provided, however, the Commission shall not order any oil or gas well to be plugged or closed if the well is located on an otherwise producing oil or gas lease as defined by the Commission, unless such well poses an imminent threat to the public health and safety which shall be determined by the Commission after conducting a public hearing on the matter. |Added by Laws 1917, c. 207, p. 385, § 3. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 340, § 1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 315, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000.
17 OK Stat § 17-53.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-53.1. Removal of surface trash and debris - Rules and regulations.

|A. The Corporation Commission shall prescribe and promulgate rules and regulations to require all operators of oil and gas wells or leases upon which oil and gas wells are located to remove all surface trash and debris, occasioned by their operations, from the vicinity of their operations and to keep such premises free and clear of such trash and debris. |B. For the purposes of this act, "surface trash and debris" means all discarded material directly connected with the drilling or producing of or exploration for hydrocarbons including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, junk or scrap.Amended by Laws 1982, c. 205, § 1, emerg. eff. April 27, 1982.
17 OK Stat § 17-53.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-53.3. Abandoned oil and gas well-site equipment - State lien.

|A. The State of Oklahoma shall have a lien upon any abandoned oil and gas well-site equipment situated upon a lease site, including but not limited to production and storage structures, along with their contents, in an amount equal to the cost of plugging all wells associated with said lease and restoring the site. The lien created by this act shall attach only to abandoned oil and gas well-site equipment located on or affixed to an oil or gas well which has been or is required to be plugged, replugged or repaired by rules of the Commission. |B. Well-site equipment is presumed abandoned if:1. For longer than one (1) year, the well has shown no activity in terms of production, injection, disposal or testing, and has not otherwise been maintained in compliance with plugging rules; and2.a.the last operator of record is without valid surety as required by Section 318.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes and cannot be located by the Corporation Commission after diligent search, orb.the last operator of record has plugging liability in excess of the amount of such operator's surety as filed with the Corporation Commission.The presumption of abandonment shall apply only for purposes of the lien created herein and shall have no effect upon the term, duration, or continued existence of any property or contract right in the premises.C. The lien created by this section shall be perfected against the equipment when notice of the lien is filed in the office of the county clerk of the county or counties where the equipment is situated. Upon receipt, the county clerk shall record the notice in the tract index and in the mechanic's lien journal. The notice shall contain a description of each item upon which a lien is claimed, and a legal description of the site upon which the equipment is situated.D. The lien provided for in this section shall be subject to all prior perfected liens.E. The lien created by this section shall be assignable by the Corporation Commission.For purposes of this act the term "abandoned well" shall mean those wells that are described and listed in a report published by the Corporation Commission identifying oil or gas wells which have been determined to be abandoned or orphaned by the Corporation Commission as a result of bankruptcy, inability to find the owner, or for other reasons.Added by Laws 1992, c. 362, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 328, § 3, eff. July 1, 1995.
17 OK Stat § 17-54 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-54. Definitions.

|As used in this act: |1. "Frac tank" means any portable or stationary, high volume holding vessel designed and constructed for use in separating, storing or temporarily holding materials used in or resulting from fracturing techniques in oil and gas exploration;2. "Fracturing" means any processes, chemicals or other materials used to enhance an oil and gas well recovery operation;3. "Manway" means any opening on a frac tank allowing a person ingress into or egress from the interior of the vessel; and4. "Unprotected" means a manway without grates, bars or other means of halting unexpected ingress into or egress from the interior of the vessel.Laws 1981, c. 153, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-55 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-55. Use of frac tanks with unprotected manways prohibited.

|No employer in this state shall use any frac tanks with unprotected manways into which a person could fall. |Laws 1981, c. 153, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-56 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-56. Inspections - Devices complying with act - Injunctions.

|The Oklahoma Corporation Commission shall make periodic inspections to insure compliance with the provisions of this act. Any device which will halt unexpected ingress or egress from the interior of a frac tank shall be deemed to comply with this act. The Corporation Commission may institute, in the name of the State of Oklahoma, upon the relation of the Commission, any necessary action or proceeding to enjoin such persons, firm, association or corporation from continuing operations until such time when there exists compliance with the provisions of this act, and in all proper cases injunction shall be issued without a bond being required from the state. |Laws 1981, c. 153, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-57 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-57. Oil and Gas Division Revolving Fund.

|There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Corporation Commission, to be designated the "Oil and Gas Division Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies designated for deposit to said fund. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and shall be expended by the Corporation Commission for the purposes of expeditious prevention and abatement of oil and gas pollution, the protection of correlative rights and the prevention of waste. 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. No money shall be transferred or expended by the Corporation Commission for any other purpose than that authorized by this section. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 21, emerg. eff. June 12, 1992. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 401, § 2, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 57.
17 OK Stat § 17-71 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-71. Passenger rate regulation - Power conferred upon commission.

|The Corporation Commission shall have the power and authority to prescribe and enforce against any railroad or transportation company, operated in whole or in part within this state, such rates and charges for the transportation of passengers between points within this state as may be found to be reasonable and just after due notice and hearing, as now provided by the Constitution for prescribing freight rates and regulations. |Laws 1913, c. 130, p. 286, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-72 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-72. Effect of act - Amendment of Constitution - Vested rights.

|This act shall have the effect of amending Section 37, Article IX of the Constitution prescribing and fixing passenger rates at two cents ($0.02) per mile, by conferring upon the Corporation Commission the power to promulgate and fix other than two cents ($0.02) per mile for passenger fare upon railroads and transportation companies within the state, after due notice and hearing; provided, that any orders issued by the Corporation Commission hereunder shall not have the effect of interfering with any right vested and accrued under the existing law. |Laws 1913, c. 130, p. 286, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-73 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-73. Right of appeal.

|From any action of the Commission prescribing rates and charges for the transportation of passengers between points within this state, any party aggrieved may appeal to the Supreme Court in the manner now provided by law for appealing cases from the Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court. |Laws 1913, c. 130, p. 287, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-81 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-81. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission over crossings.

|The Corporation Commission is given full jurisdiction over all public highway crossings, where same cross steam or electric railroads or railways within the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 53, p. 88, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-82 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-82. Expense of crossings.

|The expense of construction and the maintenance of public highway grade crossings shall be borne by the railroad or railway company involved. For overgrade or undergrade public highway crossings over or under steam or electric railroad or railway, the assignment of cost and maintenance shall be left to the discretion of the Corporation Commission; but in no event shall the city, town or municipality be assessed with more than fifty percent (50%) of the actual costs of such overgrade or undergrade crossings. |Laws 1919, c. 53, p. 88, § 2.
17 OK Stat § 17-83 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-83. Procedure before Commission - Appeals.

|In all actions arising before the Corporation Commission the same rules as to procedure, notice of hearing and trial, and as to appeals to the Supreme Court, shall be applicable as are prescribed for said Commission, as to transportation companies generally; and the same rules applicable to the enforcement of other orders of the Corporation Commission as to transportation companies shall be applicable to the enforcement of any order or orders made hereunder. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 53, p. 88, § 3.
17 OK Stat § 17-84 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-84. Location and kind of crossing.

|The Corporation Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine and prescribe the particular location of highway crossings, for steam or electric railways, the protection required, to order the removal of all obstructions as to view of such crossings, to alter or abolish any such crossings, and to require, where practicable, a separation of grade at any such crossing, heretofore or hereafter established. |Laws 1919, c. 53 p. 88, § 4.
17 OK Stat § 17-85 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-85. Partial invalidity.

|The invalidity of any section, subdivision, clause or sentence of this act shall not in any manner affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. |Laws 1919, c. 53, p. 88, § 5.
17 OK Stat § 17-86 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-86. Extra hazardous crossings - Protective devices - Costs.

|The Oklahoma Corporation Commission shall have the authority, after having made proper investigations, to designate those grade crossings which are extra hazardous. At all such crossings so designated, the Commission shall have the authority to order the installation of appropriate protective devices. All such installations to be performed by the railroad. The Commission shall have the authority to determine the number, type, and location of such signs, signals, gates or other protective devices, which, however, shall conform as near as may be with generally-recognized national standards, and said Commission shall have authority to prescribe the division of the cost of the installation of such signs, signals, gates or other protective devices between the public utility and the state or its political subdivisions; provided, however, that the cost to the utility shall be not less than ten percent (10%) or more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total costs. The railroads shall be responsible for all subsequent maintenance and cost thereof. Provided, however, that the results of investigation or investigations, findings, determinations, or orders of the Corporation Commission shall not be admissible in any civil action. |Laws 1965, c. 388, § 1, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-87 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-87. Payment of state costs.

|All such division of costs that become an obligation of the state shall be paid from funds accruing to the credit of the State Highway Construction and Maintenance Fund under 68 O.S.1963, Supp., § 5-504(b), and all such division of costs that become an obligation of a municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state shall be paid from the funds accruing to the various counties of the state under 68 O.S.1963 Supp., § 5-504(d). |Added by Laws 1965, c. 388, § 2, emerg. eff. June 30, 1965.
17 OK Stat § 17-91 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-91. Power of Corporation Commission respecting fences.

|Where application is made to the Corporation Commission for fence or repairs to fence along a railroad or railway right-of-way by a landowner whose property adjoins said right-of-way, the Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power to enforce the installation of such fence or its repairs. |Laws 1919, c. 54, p. 89, § 1.
17 OK Stat § 17-92 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-92. Procedure - Appeals.

|In all actions arising before the Corporation Commission, the same rules as to procedure, notice of hearing and trial, and as to appeals to the Supreme Court, shall be applicable as are prescribed for said Commission as to transportation companies generally and the same rules applicable to the enforcement of other orders of the Corporation Commission, as to transportation companies shall be applicable to the enforcement of any order or orders made hereunder. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 54, p. 89, § 2, emerg. eff. April 2, 1919.
17 OK Stat § 17-115 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 17. Corporation Commission|§17-115. Rules and regulations relating to safety, sanitation and shelter.

|The Oklahoma State Corporation Commission is hereby authorized to promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations relating to safety, sanitation and adequate shelter as affecting the welfare and health of railroad trainmen, enginemen, yardmen, signal men, maintenance of way employees, highway crossing watchmen, and clerical employees of railroads. |Laws 1963, c. 186, § 1, emerg. eff. June 10, 1963.