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15 OK Stat § 15-141.33 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-141.33. Examination of claim files.

|A. Claim files of service warranty associations licensed pursuant to the Service Warranty Act shall be subject to examination by the Insurance Commissioner or by duly appointed designees. The claim files shall contain all notes and work papers pertaining to a claim in such detail that pertinent events and the dates of the events can be reconstructed. In addition, the Commissioner and authorized employees and examiners shall have access to any files of a service warranty association that may relate to a particular complaint under investigation or to an inquiry or examination by the Insurance Department. |B. Every service warranty association, upon receipt of any inquiry from the Commissioner, shall, within thirty (30) days from the date of the inquiry, furnish the Commissioner with an adequate response to the inquiry.C. Every service warranty association, upon receipt of any pertinent written communication including, but not limited to, electronic mail or other forms of written electronic communication or documentation by the service warranty association of a verbal communication from a claimant which reasonably suggests that a response is expected, shall, within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof, furnish the claimant with an adequate response to the communication.D. Any violation by a service warranty association of this section shall subject the service warranty association to discipline including a civil penalty of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).Added by Laws 2016, c. 72, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.NOTE: Laws 2016, c. 64, § 3 repealed by Laws 2017, c. 42, § 6.
15 OK Stat § 15-141.34 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-141.34. Ex parte cease and desist order.

|The Insurance Commissioner may issue a cease and desist order, ex parte, if: |1. The Commissioner believes that:a.an unauthorized service warranty association is engaging in the business of service warranties in violation of the Service Warranty Act, orb.an unauthorized person engaged in the business of service warranties acting in violation of the Service Warranty Act is committing an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violation of Section 141.26 of Title 15 of the Oklahoma Statutes; or2. It appears to the Commissioner that the alleged conduct is fraudulent or hazardous or creates an immediate danger to the public safety or is causing or can be reasonably expected to cause significant, imminent and irreparable public injury.Added by Laws 2016, c. 72, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.NOTE: Laws 2016, c. 64, § 4 repealed by Laws 2017, c. 42, § 7.
15 OK Stat § 15-141.35 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-141.35. Cease and desist order – Procedure - Hearing.

|A. Upon issuance of an emergency cease and desist order under Section 4 of this act, the Insurance Commissioner shall serve on the person affected by the order, by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the person's last-known address, or by other lawful means, an order that contains a statement of the charges and requires the person immediately to cease and desist from the acts, methods or practices stated. |B. 1. If a person affected by an emergency cease and desist order seeks to contest that order, the person may request a hearing before the Commissioner. The person affected must request the hearing not later than thirty (30) days after the date on which the person receives the order. A request to contest an order shall be in writing and directed to the Commissioner and shall state the grounds for the request to set aside or modify the order.2. On receiving the request for a hearing, the Commissioner shall serve notice of the time and place of the hearing at which the person requesting the hearing shall have the opportunity to show cause why the order should not be affirmed. The hearing shall be held not later than ten (10) days after the date the Commissioner receives the request for a hearing unless the parties mutually agree to a later hearing date.3. Pending the hearing, an emergency cease and desist order shall continue in full force and effect unless the order is stayed by the Commissioner.4. The hearing on the order shall be conducted according to the procedures for contested cases under the Administrative Procedures Act.5. At the hearing, the Commissioner shall affirm, modify or set aside in whole or in part the emergency cease and desist order.C. A person aggrieved by a final order and decision of the Commissioner may seek judicial review pursuant to Section 318 of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes.D. The Commissioner may recover reasonable attorney fees if judicial action is necessary for enforcement of the order.E. A cease and desist order is final thirty-one (31) days after the date it is received if the person affected by the order does not request a hearing as provided by subsection B of this section.Added by Laws 2016, c. 72, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.NOTE: Laws 2016, c. 64, § 5 repealed by Laws 2017, c. 42, § 8.
15 OK Stat § 15-151 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-151. All contracts, public and private, interpreted by same rules.

|All contracts, whether public or private, are to be interpreted by the same rules, except as otherwise provided by law. |R.L.1910, § 945.
15 OK Stat § 15-152 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-152. Intent controls.

|A contract must be so interpreted as to give effect to the mutual intention of the parties, as it existed at the time of contracting, so far as the same is ascertainable and lawful. |R.L.1910, § 946.
15 OK Stat § 15-153 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-153. Intention ascertained, how.

|For the purpose of ascertaining the intention of the parties to a contract, if otherwise doubtful, the rules given in this chapter are to be applied. |R.L.1910, § 947.
15 OK Stat § 15-154 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-154. Language governs.

|The language of a contract is to govern its interpretation, if the language is clear and explicit, and does not involve an absurdity. |R.L.1910, § 948.
15 OK Stat § 15-155 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-155. Intention ascertained from writing.

|When a contract is reduced to writing, the intention of the parties is to be ascertained from the writing alone, if possible, subject, however, to the other provisions of this article. |R.L.1910, § 949.
15 OK Stat § 15-156 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-156. Real intention not expressed - Error to be disregarded.

|When through fraud, mistake, or accident, a written contract fails to express the real intention of the parties, such intention is to be regarded, and the erroneous parts of the writing disregarded. |R.L.1910, § 950.
15 OK Stat § 15-157 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-157. Effect given to every part.

|The whole of a contract is to be taken together, so as to give effect to every part, if reasonably practicable, each clause helping to interpret the others. |R.L.1910, § 951.
15 OK Stat § 15-158 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-158. Several contracts taken as one.

|Several contracts relating to the same matters, between the same parties, and made as parts of substantially one transaction, are to be taken together. |R.L.1910, § 952.
15 OK Stat § 15-159 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-159. Interpretation favors validity.

|A contract must receive such an interpretation as will make it lawful, operative, definite, reasonable and capable of being carried into effect, if it can be done without violating the intention of the parties. |R.L.1910, § 953.
15 OK Stat § 15-160 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-160. Words to be taken in ordinary sense - Exceptions.

|The words of a contract are to be understood in their ordinary and popular sense, rather than according to their strict legal meaning, unless used by the parties in a technical sense, or unless a special meaning is given to them by usage, in which case the latter must be followed. |R.L.1910, § 954.
15 OK Stat § 15-161 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-161. Technical words.

|Technical words are to be interpreted as usually understood by persons in the profession or business to which they relate, unless clearly used in a different sense. |R.L.1910, § 955.
15 OK Stat § 15-162 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-162. What law governs.

|A contract is to be interpreted according to the law and usage of the place where it is to be performed, or, if it does not indicate a place of performance, according to the law and usage of the place where it is made. |R.L.1910, § 956. d
15 OK Stat § 15-163 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-163. Circumstances explain.

|A contract may be explained by reference to the circumstances under which it was made, and the matter to which it relates. |R.L.1910, § 957.
15 OK Stat § 15-164 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-164. Terms restricted to intention of parties.

|However broad may be the terms of a contract, it extends only to those things concerning which it appears that the parties intended to contract. |R.L.1910, § 958.
15 OK Stat § 15-165 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-165. Promisor's belief as to promisee's understanding governs in case of ambiguity.

|If the terms of a promise are in any respect ambiguous or uncertain, it must be interpreted in the sense in which the promisor believed, at the time of making it, that the promisee understood it. |R.L.1910, § 959.
15 OK Stat § 15-166 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-166. Part subordinate to whole.

|Particular clauses of a contract are subordinate to its general intent. |R.L.1910, § 960.
15 OK Stat § 15-167 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-167. Written and original parts control.

|Where a contract is partly written and partly printed, or where part of it is written or printed under the special directions of the parties, and with a special view to their intention, and the remainder is copied from a form originally prepared without special reference to the particular parties and particular contract in question the written parts control the printed parts, and the parts which are purely original control those which are copied from a form. And if the two are absolutely repugnant, the latter must be so far disregarded. |R.L.1910, § 961.
15 OK Stat § 15-168 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-168. Repugnancy - How reconciled.

|Repugnancy in a contract must be reconciled, if possible, by such an interpretation as will give some effect to the repugnant clause, subordinate to the general intent and purposes of the whole contract. |R.L.1910, § 962.
15 OK Stat § 15-169 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-169. Inconsistent words rejected.

|Words in a contract which are wholly inconsistent with its nature, or with the main intention of the parties, are to be rejected. |R.L.1910, § 963.
15 OK Stat § 15-171 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-171. Reasonable stipulations implied.

|Stipulations which are necessary to make a contract reasonable or conformable to usage, are implied in respect to matters concerning which the contract manifests no contrary intention. |R.L.1910, § 965.
15 OK Stat § 15-172 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-172. Necessary incidents implied, when.

|All things that in law or usage are considered as incidental to a contract, or as necessary to carry it into effect, are implied therefrom, unless some of them are expressly mentioned therein, when all other things of the same class are deemed to be excluded. |R.L. 1910, § 966.
15 OK Stat § 15-173 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-173. Reasonable time allowed where not specified - Immediate performance.

|If no time is specified for the performance of an act required to be performed, a reasonable time is allowed. If the act is in its nature capable of being done instantly, as for example, if it consists in the payment of money only, it must be performed immediately upon the thing to be done being exactly ascertained. |R.L.1910, § 967.
15 OK Stat § 15-174 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-174. Time not of essence unless so provided.

|Time is never considered as of the essence of a contract, unless by its terms expressly so provided. |R.L.1910, § 968.
15 OK Stat § 15-175 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-175. Promise presumed joint and several, when.

|Where all the parties who unite in a promise receive some benefit from the consideration, whether past or present, their promise is presumed to be joint and several. |R.L.1910, § 969.
15 OK Stat § 15-176 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-176. Promise of several in singular form.

|A promise made in the singular number, but executed by several persons, is presumed to be joint and several. |R.L.1910, § 970.
15 OK Stat § 15-177 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-177. Executed and executory contracts defined.

|An executed contract is one, the object of which is fully performed. All others are executory. |R.L.1910, § 971.
15 OK Stat § 15-178 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-178. Contracts of designating former spouse as beneficiary or providing death benefits - Effect of divorce or annulment.

|A. If, after entering into a written contract in which a beneficiary is designated or provision is made for the payment of any death benefit (including life insurance contracts, annuities, retirement arrangements, compensation agreements, depository agreements, security registrations, and other contracts designating a beneficiary of any right, property, or money in the form of a death benefit), the party to the contract with the power to designate the beneficiary or to make provision for payment of any death benefit dies after being divorced from the person designated as the beneficiary or named to receive such death benefit, all provisions in the contract in favor of the decedent's former spouse are thereby revoked. Annulment of the marriage shall have the same effect as a divorce. In the event of either divorce or annulment, the decedent's former spouse shall be treated for all purposes under the contract as having predeceased the decedent. |B. Subsection A of this section shall not apply:1. If the decree of divorce or annulment is vacated;2. If the decedent had remarried the former spouse and was married to said spouse at the time of the decedent's death;3. If the decree of divorce or annulment contains a provision expressing an intention contrary to subsection A of this section;4. If the decedent makes the contract subsequent to the divorce or annulment;5. To the extent, if any, the contract contains a provision expressing an intention contrary to subsection A of this section; or6. If the decedent renames the former spouse as the beneficiary or as the person or persons to whom payment of a death benefit is to be made in a writing delivered to the payor of the benefit prior to the death of the decedent and subsequent to the divorce or annulment.C. For purposes of subsection A of this section, "death benefit" shall not include:1. Any interest in property in which the decedent's former spouse has an interest as a joint tenant; or2. Any interest in property in which the decedent's former spouse has a beneficial interest in an express trust created by the decedent during the decedent's lifetime for which provision is made in Section 175 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes.D. This section shall apply to any contract of a decedent made and entered into on or after November 1, 1987 and to depository agreements and security registrations made and entered into on or after September 1, 1994.Added by Laws 1987, c. 201, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1987. Amended by Laws 1989, c.181, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1994, c. 313, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
15 OK Stat § 15-211 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-211. What contracts are unlawful.

|Those contracts are unlawful which are: |1. Contrary to an express provision of law.2. Contrary to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited; or,3. Otherwise contrary to good morals.R.L.1910, § 972.
15 OK Stat § 15-212 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-212. Certain contracts against policy of law.

|All contracts which have for their object, directly or indirectly, to exempt any one from responsibility for his own fraud, or willful injury to the person or property of another or violation of law, whether willful or negligent, are against the policy of the law. |R.L.1910, § 973.
15 OK Stat § 15-212.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-212.1. Notice exempting business entity from liability for personal injury void.

|Any notice given by a business entity which provides services or facilities for profit to the general public and which seeks to exempt the business entity from liability for personal injury caused by or resulting from any acts of negligence on its part or on the part of its servants or employees, shall be deemed void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. |Added by Laws 1985, c. 153, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
15 OK Stat § 15-213 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-213. Penalties void.

|Except as expressly provided in Section 215 of this title, penalties imposed by contract for any non-performance thereof, are void. But this section does not render void such bonds or obligations, penal in form, as have heretofore been commonly used; it merely rejects and avoids the penal clauses. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 107, § 1, emerg. eff. May 28, 1985.
15 OK Stat § 15-214 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-214. Attempt to fix damages void except as provided.

|Every contract, by which the amount of damages to be paid, or other compensation to be made, for a breach of an obligation, is determined in anticipation thereof, is to that extent void, except as expressly provided by Section 215 of this title. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 107, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 1985.
15 OK Stat § 15-215 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-215. Amount presumed to be damages, provision for.

|A. A stipulation or condition in a contract except a contract to purchase and sell real property, providing for the payment of an amount which shall be presumed to be the amount of damage sustained by a breach of such contract, shall be held valid, when, from the nature of the case, it would be impracticable or extremely difficult to fix the actual damage. |B. A provision in a real estate sales contract, providing for the payment of anamount which shall be presumed to be the amount of damages sustained by a breach of such contract, shall be held valid and not a penalty, when such amount does not exceed five percent (5%) of the purchase price. In the event such amount exceeds five percent (5%) of the purchase price, such provision shall be held invalid and a penalty unless the party seeking to uphold the provision establishes that such amount is reasonable. If such provision is valid under this subsection, the limitations of Section 28 of Title 23 of the Oklahoma Statutes do not apply.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 107, § 3, emerg. eff. May 28, 1985.
15 OK Stat § 15-216 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-216. Resort to courts, provisions restricting - Limiting time therefor.

|Every stipulation or condition in a contract, by which any party thereto is restricted from enforcing his rights under the contract by the usual legal proceedings in the ordinary tribunals, or which limits the time within which he may thus enforce his rights, is void. |R.L.1910, § 977.
15 OK Stat § 15-217 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-217. Restraint of trade.

|Every contract by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind, otherwise than as provided by Sections 218 and 219 of this title, or otherwise than as provided by Section 2 of this act, is to that extent void. |R.L.1910, § 978. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 359, § 1, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Laws 2001, c. 406, § 3, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001.
15 OK Stat § 15-218 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-218. Restraint of trade - Exception as to sale of goodwill.

|One who sells the goodwill of a business may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar business within a specified county and any county or counties contiguous thereto, or a specified city or town or any part thereof, so long as the buyer, or any person deriving title to the goodwill from him carries on a like business therein. Provided, that any such agreement which is otherwise lawful but which exceeds the territorial limitations specified by this section may be deemed valid, but only within the county comprising the primary place of the conduct of the subject business and within any counties contiguous thereto. |R.L.1910, § 979.
15 OK Stat § 15-219 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-219. Restraint of trade - Exception as to partners.

|Partners may, upon or in anticipation of a dissolution of the partnership, agree that none of them will carry on a similar business within a specified county and any county or counties contiguous thereto, or a specified city or town or any part thereof. Provided, that any such agreement which is otherwise lawful but which exceeds the territorial limitations specified by this section may be deemed valid, but only within the county comprising the primary place of the conduct of the business of the subject partnership and within any counties contiguous thereto. |R.L.1910, § 980.
15 OK Stat § 15-219A (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-219A. Noncompetition agreements.

|A. A person who makes an agreement with an employer, whether in writing or verbally, not to compete with the employer after the employment relationship has been terminated, shall be permitted to engage in the same business as that conducted by the former employer or in a similar business as that conducted by the former employer as long as the former employee does not directly solicit the sale of goods, services or a combination of goods and services from the established customers of the former employer. |B. Any provision in a contract between an employer and an employee in conflict with the provisions of this section shall be void and unenforceable.Added by Laws 2001, c. 406, § 4, emerg. eff. June 4, 2001.
15 OK Stat § 15-219B (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-219B. Solicitation of employees.

|A contract or contractual provision which prohibits an employee or independent contractor of a person or business from soliciting, directly or indirectly, actively or inactively, the employees or independent contractors of that person or business to become employees or independent contractors of another person or business shall not be construed as a restraint from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind. Sections 217, 218, 219 and 219A of Title 15 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not apply to such contracts or contractual provisions. |Added by Laws 2013, c. 194, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
15 OK Stat § 15-220 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 15. Contracts|§15-220. Restraint of marriage.

|Every contract in restraint of the marriage of any person, other than a minor, is void. |R.L.1910, § 981.