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52 OK Stat § 52-288.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-288.7. Energy Resources Revolving Fund.

|A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board to be designated the "Energy Resources Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations and shall consist of all monies received by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board from assessments received and collected pursuant to Section 288.8A of this title, donations, grants, contributions and gifts from any public or private source. The Board may expend funds as provided for by law. Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. |B. Of the monies collected and not refunded pursuant to Sections 288.8A and 288.9A of this title, a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of said monies collected, including a prorated share of administrative costs incurred from the effective date of this act, and not subsequently refunded, shall be expended on environmental cleanup and remediation projects related to oil and gas pollution authorized by the Board from a priority list of projects submitted by the Corporation Commission or, only in the absence of Corporation Commission jurisdiction, projects submitted by other appropriate state agencies.C. None of the monies collected and not refunded pursuant to Sections 288.8A and 288.9A of this title shall be used for travel expenses of any member of the Oklahoma Legislature.Added by Laws 1992, c. 257, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 184, § 7, eff. Oct. 1, 1993; Laws 1996, c. 352, § 4; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 215.
52 OK Stat § 52-288.8A (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-288.8A. Levy of assessment - Remitting - Rate - Collection.

|A. To fund the activities of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board, an assessment shall be levied in the amount of one-tenth of one percent (1/10 of 1%) of the gross revenues received at the wellhead for oil, natural gas, casinghead gas or condensate produced from each well in the State of Oklahoma except for production exempt from the payment of gross production tax pursuant to Section 1001 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. The assessment levied by subsection A of this section shall be deducted from the proceeds of production by the person remitting gross production tax to the Oklahoma Tax Commission pursuant to Section 1001 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Such assessment shall be remitted to the Oklahoma Tax Commission in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of gross production tax. Provided, the person remitting the assessment may remit cumulative amounts of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) or less quarterly. To defray the costs of receiving and depositing the assessments levied by this section, the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall retain Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) per month of the assessments received for deposit in the Oklahoma Tax Commission Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 113 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The remaining monies received by the Oklahoma Tax Commission pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the Energy Resources Revolving Fund.C. The Board shall be responsible for taking appropriate legal actions to collect any assessment which is not paid or is not properly paid. The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall not be responsible for collecting any assessment not remitted to the Oklahoma Tax Commission for deposit in the Energy Resources Revolving Fund. The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall report to the Board any information it obtains regarding failure of any person to properly pay the assessment due, including any documentation it may have of such failure.Added by Laws 1993, c. 184, § 8, eff. Oct. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 352, § 5.
52 OK Stat § 52-288.9A (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-288.9A. Refunds.

|A. Any person subject to the assessment levied by Section 288.8A of this title may request a refund as provided in this section of the assessment paid on production for the preceding calendar year. Upon compliance with the provisions of this section and rules promulgated by the Board to implement this section, the Board shall refund to each person requesting a refund of the amount of the assessment paid by or on behalf of such person during the preceding calendar year. Refunds will include interest earned at the rate equal to the average United States Treasury bill rate of the preceding calendar year as certified by the State Treasurer. |B. The request for a refund of the assessment paid on production for the preceding calendar year must be made during the first three (3) calendar months following the calendar year for which the refund is requested. Failure to request a refund during this period shall terminate the right of any person to receive a refund for the assessment paid on production for the preceding calendar year. The Board shall give notice of the availability of the refund through press releases, paid advertisements placed in the newspaper with the largest general circulation in each county in the state and such other means as it deems appropriate.C. Each person requesting a refund shall execute an affidavit showing the amount of refund requested, and the affiant was the owner of the production for which the refund is requested. Each person requesting a refund shall submit supporting evidence demonstrating the gross revenues, net to the person's revenue interest, received for oil, natural gas, casinghead gas or condensate in Oklahoma. The Board may verify, principally through the use of audits, the accuracy of the request for refund. In verifying the accuracy of a request for refund, the Board shall exercise its authority in a manner that will reduce, to the extent practicable and appropriate, the burden on persons providing the information to the Board.D. No company or person who requests a refund under this section shall be eligible to serve or have a representative serve as a member of the Board.Added by Laws 1993, c. 184, § 9, eff. Oct. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 352, § 6.
52 OK Stat § 52-288.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-288.11. Investment of funds - Utilizing funds to influence governmental action or policy.

|A. The Board may invest, pending disbursement, funds collected through assessments only in obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, in general obligations of any state, in any interest-bearing account or certificate of deposit of a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System, or in obligations fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States. |B. The Board shall be prohibited from utilizing any funds collected through the assessment procedure outlined in Section 8 of this act, for the purpose of influencing governmental action or policy, with the exception of recommending amendments to this act, and for the purpose of obtaining state or federal funding for the activities of the Sustaining Oklahoma’s Energy Resources Advisory Committee.Added by Laws 1992, c. 257, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 309, § 3, emerg. eff. June 2, 2008.
52 OK Stat § 52-288.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-288.12. Act not to preempt or supersede other state or national programs - Application to rules and amendment of rules - Support of national program.

|Nothing in this act may be construed to preempt or supersede any other program relating to oil or natural gas promotion or marketing organized and operated under the laws of the State of Oklahoma or the United States. The provisions of this act applicable to the rules shall be applicable to amendments to the rules. In the event of the establishment of a national program for an assessment on oil or natural gas production, the Board, by majority vote, may elect to designate up to a maximum of fifty percent (50%) of the funds collected under this act to such a national program in lieu of an additional assessment as may be required by such national program. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 257, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 184, § 10, eff. Oct. 1, 1993; Laws 1996, c. 352, § 7.
52 OK Stat § 52-291 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-291. Confinement of gas until used.

|Any person, co-partnership, or corporation in possession, either as owner, lessee, agent or manager of any well producing natural gas, in this state in order to prevent the said gas wasting by escape, shall immediately after penetrating the gas-bearing rock, in any well hereafter drilled, shut in and confine the gas in said well until and during such time as the gas therein shall be utilized for lights, fuel or power purposes: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any well operated for oil: Provided, further, that when in the course of drilling, gas production is developed, four (4) days' free time shall be allowed in which to determine whether the well shall be shut and saved for a gas well or drilled further for the purpose of producing oil. |R.L.1910, § 4319.
52 OK Stat § 52-292 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-292. Waste from gas pipeline - Unlawful if unnecessary.

|It shall be unlawful for any person, co-partnership, or corporation, either as owner, lessee, agent or manager of any pipeline in this state, through which natural gas flows from wells utilized for the production of gas only, to allow any unnecessary leak or waste to occur from said line. |R.L.1910, § 4320.
52 OK Stat § 52-293 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-293. Flambeau lights unlawful.

|It shall be unlawful to use natural gas for illuminating purposes in what are known as flambeau lights; but nothing herein shall prohibit the use of "Jumbo" burners or other burners in glass globes consuming no more gas than such "Jumbo" burners, nor the burning of flambeau lights, not to exceed four in number, within or near the derrick of any drilling well. |R.L.1910, § 4321.
52 OK Stat § 52-294 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-294. Lights - Daytime use prohibited.

|The person, firm, company or corporation consuming said gas, and using burners in open air or in or around derricks, shall turn off said gas not later than eight o'clock in the morning of each day such lights or burners are used, and shall not turn on or relight the same between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and five o'clock p.m. |R.L. 1910, § 4322.
52 OK Stat § 52-295 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-295. Burning gas during day.

|No gas shall be used or burned for illuminating purposes between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and five o'clock p.m., unless the use of the same is regulated by meter. |R.L.1910, § 4323.
52 OK Stat § 52-296 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-296. Refuse from wells - Disposition.

|No inflammable product from any oil or gas well shall be permitted to run into any tank, pool or stream used for watering stock; and all waste of oil and refuse from tanks or wells shall be drained into proper receptacles at a safe distance from the tanks, wells or buildings, and be immediately burned or transported from the premises, and in no case shall it be permitted to flow over the land. Salt water shall not be allowed to flow over the surface of the land. |R.L.1910, § 4324.
52 OK Stat § 52-296.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-296.1. Securing of crude oil storage tanks.

|The owner or operator who owns or has control over a production crude oil storage tank shall be required to do one of the following: |1. Install and maintain a locking or sealing device on the thief hatch of the tank;2. Reduce the opening of the thief hatch to not greater than six (6) inches in diameter; or3. Affix and maintain a sign on or near the thief hatch which shall meet the following specifications:a.the size of the sign shall be no smaller than forty (40) square inches,b.the sign shall read "DANGER DO NOT OPEN", andc.the word "DANGER" on the sign shall be no smaller than two (2) inches and the words "DO NOT OPEN" shall be no smaller than one (1) inch.Added by Laws 1994, c. 305, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.
52 OK Stat § 52-302 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-302. Firing oil or gas, or interfering with appliances unlawful.

|It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person maliciously to set fire to any gas or oil escaping from wells, broken or leaking mains, pipes, valves, tanks or other appliances used by any person or corporation in conveying gas or oil, or to interfere in any manner with the wells, pipes, mains, gate boxes, valves, stopcocks, or other appliances, machinery or property of any person or corporation engaged in furnishing gas or oil, unless employed by or acting under the authority and direction of any such person or corporation owning or operating said gas or oil lines, or the proper legal authorities. |R.L.1910, § 4330.
52 OK Stat § 52-303 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-303. Penalty for violations.

|Any person, co-partnership or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), in any court having competent jurisdiction in the county in which the act shall have been committed or omitted, or by being imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The amount of said penalty, when collected, shall be paid, one-half (1/2) into the public road fund, of the county in which said suit shall have been brought, and one-half (1/2) to the informer in said action. |R.L.1910, § 4331.
52 OK Stat § 52-305 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-305. Well drilling within 100 feet of underground coal mines prohibited.

|No well for oil or gas shall be drilled within one hundred (100) feet from any mined area of an active underground coal mine, or abandoned underground mine connected to an active underground mine. |Added by 1955, p. 255, § 1.
52 OK Stat § 52-306 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-306. Workable coal beds or seams defined.

|All coal beds or seams thirty (30) inches to thirty-six (36) inches in thickness, less than one thousand (1,000) feet below the surface, and all coal beds or seams more than thirty-six (36) inches in thickness, less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet below the surface, shall be deemed as workable. |Added by 1955, p. 255, § 2.
52 OK Stat § 52-307 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-307. Drilling of wells through workable seams - Regulations.

|Any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, through a workable vein or seam of coal shall be drilled in such manner as will, if practicable, exclude all oil, gas or gas pressure from the coal seam, except such as is found in the coal seam itself. Each string of casing that is run through a workable coal seam shall be seated at least thirty (30) feet below the coal seam in twenty (20) feet of cement, to form an effective seal, or the coal seam shall be protected in such other manner as may be approved by the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma. |Added by 1955, p. 255, § 3.
52 OK Stat § 52-308 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-308. Plugging.

|The owner or manager shall not permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, through a workable coal seam to remain unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled or converted. Each such well plugged shall protect the workable coal seam by a cement plug extending twenty-five (25) feet above said coal seam to a distance of twenty-five (25) feet below the same or the bottom of the hole, whichever is less. |Added by Laws 1955, p. 255, § 4.
52 OK Stat § 52-309 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-309. Findings and declarations.

|The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to protect the waters and lands of the state against pollution and, for that purpose, it is necessary and desirable in the exercise of the police power of the state to provide additional means whereby wells drilled for the exploration, development, or production of oil or gas, or as injection or disposal wells, may be plugged, replugged, or repaired by the Corporation Commission or under the authority and direction of the Corporation Commission, hereinafter called "Commission". |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 1, emerg. eff. June 8, 1965. Amended by Laws 1970, c. 217, § 1, emerg. eff. April 15, 1970; Laws 1991, c. 332, § 7, eff. July 1, 1991.
52 OK Stat § 52-310 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-310. Leaking wells - Entry upon land to plug, replug or repair - Emergencies.

|A. If, after notice and hearing, the Commission finds that: |1. A well drilled for the exploration, development, or production of oil or gas, or as an injection or disposal well, is abandoned and unplugged or improperly plugged or is causing or is likely to cause surface or subsurface pollution of any fresh water or is purging or is likely to purge salt water, oil, gas, or other deleterious substances onto the surface of the land in the vicinity of the well; and2. The operator of the well or any other person responsible for plugging, replugging, or repairing the well in such manner as is necessary to prevent further or future pollution cannot be found or is financially unable to pay the cost of performing said work, the Commission or any person authorized by the Commission may enter upon the land upon which the well is located and plug, replug, or repair the well as may be reasonably required to remedy the condition. If an emergency exists or if it otherwise appears to the Commission that irreparable injury will result if immediate remedial action is not taken, said entry upon the land may be made or authorized by the Commission without notice or hearing, for the purpose of taking such temporary remedial action as the Commission considers necessary to prevent or minimize the injury, pending the giving of notice and hearing. The operation shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the Commission.B. For the purpose of immediately responding to emergency situations within the Commission's jurisdiction having potentially critical environmental or public safety impact, the Commission may take whatever necessary action, without notice and hearing, including the expenditure of monies from the Corporation Commission Plugging Fund, to promptly respond to the emergency. Such emergency expenditure shall be made pursuant to the provisions of The Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act upon such terms and conditions established by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to accomplish the purposes of this section. Thereafter, the Commission shall seek reimbursement from the responsible person, firm or corporation for all expenditures made from the Corporation Commission Plugging Fund. Any monies received as reimbursement shall be deposited to the credit of the Corporation Commission Plugging Fund.C. If, at any time, the monies in the Corporation Commission Plugging Fund are insufficient to cover the cost of remedial action for all wells eligible for plugging, replugging or repair under this statute, the Commission shall prioritize expenditures according to degree of actual or potential environmental harm.Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 2, emerg. eff. June 8, 1965. Amended by Laws 1970, c. 217, § 2, emerg. eff. April 15, 1970; Laws 1983, c. 59, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983; Laws 1985, c. 201, § 2; Laws 1990, c. 107, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1990; Laws 1991, c. 332, § 8, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 216.
52 OK Stat § 52-311 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-311. Liability for damages.

|Any person entering upon the land on which the well is located to plug, replug, or repair the same, pursuant to the authority and in accordance with the order of the Commission, shall not be liable or held responsible for any damages resulting from operations reasonably necessary or proper to plug, replug, or repair the well, except damages to growing crops and improvements. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 3, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-312 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-312. Responsibility for future remedial work.

|Any person who plugs, replugs, or repairs a well in accordance with an order of the Commission under this act shall not be held to have assumed responsibility for future remedial work on said well or be liable in damages or otherwise for conditions subsequently arising from or in connection with said well. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 4, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-313 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-313. No admission of liability or discharge of action.

|The fact that any person has initiated or supported a proceeding before the Commission or has remedied or attempted to remedy the condition of any well under the authority of this act shall not be construed as an admission of liability or received in evidence against such person in any action or proceeding wherein responsibility for or damages from surface or subsurface pollution, or injury to any fresh water or oil or gas bearing formation is or may become an issue, nor shall such fact be construed as releasing or discharging any action, cause of action, or claim against such person existing in favor of any third person for damages to property resulting from surface or subsurface pollution, or injury to any fresh water or oil or gas bearing formation. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 5, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-314 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-314. Right of action for costs involved - Lien

|Any person who had no obligation to plug, replug, or repair the well but who does so under the provisions of this act shall have a cause of action against the person or persons who by law were obligated to properly plug, replug, or repair the well for the reasonable cost and expense incurred in plugging, replugging, or repairing the well, and shall have a lien upon the interest of such obligated person or persons in and to the oil and gas rights in the land and equipment located thereon. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 6, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-315 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-315. Supplemental remedy.

|Nothing in this act shall relieve any person or persons otherwise legally responsible from any obligation to properly plug, replug, or repair a well and shall not limit the authority of the Commission to require the proper plugging, replugging, or repair of the well, but is intended as a supplemental remedy when any person or persons obligated to do so fail or cannot be made to do so. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 7, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-316 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-316. Proceedings.

|All proceedings under this act including the filing of applications, giving of notices, the conduct of hearings and other action taken by the Commission, and appeals therefrom shall be in the form and manner and in accordance with the procedure provided in Sections 84 to 135, inclusive, Title 52 O.S. 1961, or any amendment thereof. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 8, eff. June 8, 1965.
52 OK Stat § 52-317 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 52. Oil and Gas|§52-317. "Person" defined.

|The term "person" as used in this act means any individual, business association or corporation, partnership, governmental or political subdivision, public corporation, body politic and corporate public authority, trust or any other legal entity. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 191, § 9, eff. June 8, 1965.