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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-57. Oil carriers not to be interested in producing.

It shall be unlawful for any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership or person, engaged in the business of carrying or transporting crude oil or petroleum, or any of the products thereof, for hire or otherwise, within the limits of this article, and not becoming a common purchaser as defined by, and accepting the provisions of this article, to own or operate, directly or indirectly, any oil well, oil leases or oil holdings or interests in this state, and each of said corporations, joint stock companies, partnerships or persons, shall divest themselves of all legal or equitable ownership, interest or control, directly or indirectly, in oil wells, oil leases or oil holdings or interests in this state.
R.L. 1910, § 4310.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-58. Acceptance of laws and plats to be filed.

Before any corporation, joint stock company, partnership or person, shall have, possess, enjoy or exercise the right of eminent domain, right-of-way, right to locate, maintain or operate pipelines, fixtures or equipment thereunto belonging, or used in connection therewith, as authorized by the provisions of this article, or shall have, possess, enjoy or exercise any right (the word "right" in this connection being used in its most comprehensive legal sense) conferred by this article, every such corporation, joint stock company, partnership or other person shall file in the office of the Corporation Commission a proper and explicit authorized acceptance of the provisions of this article, and the Constitution of this state, and, in cases of pipe lines, a plat showing in detail the points within this state between which, and the route along which, the trunk lines are proposed to be constructed, the intended size and capacity thereof, and the location and capacity of all pumping stations, gate valves, check valves and connections and appliances of all kinds used, or to be used, on said trunk lines; and upon demand of the Corporation Commission, the proper parties, as required by said Commission, shall promptly file a plat showing in detail all the lines owned and operated by them respectively, with full and explicit information as to their capacity, size and location, and the capacity of their pumping stations, gate valves, check valves and connections, of all kinds, required or used in the operation thereof.
R.L. 1910, § 4311.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-59. Domestic pipeline companies have right-of-way.

Every domestic pipeline company in this state is hereby given authority to build, construct, lay and maintain oil pipelines over, under, across, or through all highways, bridges, streets or alleys in this state, or any public place therein, under the supervision of the inspector of oil and gas wells and pipelines as to where and how in said highways, bridges, streets, alleys and public places said pipelines shall be laid, and subject to the control of the local municipalities, as to how the business of distribution in that municipality shall be conducted, and subject to responsibility as provided by law for any negligent injury thereby caused.
R.L. 1910, § 4312.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-60. Eminent domain extended to oil pipelines same as railroads.

Any oil pipeline company, organized under the laws of this state shall have power to exercise the right of eminent domain in like manner as railroad companies for the purpose of securing rights-of-way and sites for pumping stations, storage tanks and depots.
R.L. 1910, § 3186.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-61. Eminent domain, who may have - Foreign corporations.

All persons, natural or artificial, except foreign corporations, shall have the right of eminent domain, and any right or privilege hereby conferred, when necessary to make effective the purposes of this article and the rights thereby conferred. Foreign corporations organized under the laws of any other state, or the United States, and doing or proposing to do business in this state, and which shall have become a body corporate pursuant to or in accordance with the laws of this state, and which, as hereby provided, shall have registered its acceptance of the terms hereof, shall receive all the benefits provided by this article.
R.L. 1910, § 4313.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-63. Penalty for violations.

Any person, co-partnership, or corporation, its agent or employee, violating any of the provisions of this article, or any order of the competent courts of this state, or the Corporation Commission, pursuant to the jurisdiction conferred by this article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisonment for not less than six (6) months, nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every violation of this article; but in case the monthly runs or takings or transportations of oil shall average so as to be without discrimination, as herein provided, the transactions of any particular day, week, or portion of a month shall be disregarded; and the competent court of the county in which the omission or commission which is a violation of this article, has occurred, shall have jurisdiction of an action under the penal code for the punishment thereof; and said penalties shall not be exclusive of civil liability.
R.L. 1910, § 4315.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-64. Suspension of penalty, when.

Whenever the operation of a valid order of a competent court or the Corporation Commission is duly suspended, according to law, the punitive provisions of this article shall likewise be suspended in their operation as to the transactions adjudicated in said court; and, further, any court having jurisdiction of an action brought by the state to punish for a violation under the terms of this article, shall not impose a punishment therefor greater than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) against any person or corporation, if it finds from the evidence that the violation was made solely with the object of testing according to law the validity of any of the provisions of this article, or of the order of any competent court or of the Corporation Commission, in any proceeding to carry out the provisions hereof.
R.L. 1910, § 4316.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-67. Authorization for construction, siting, expansion or operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities – Schedule of approval.

A. The Corporation Commission shall cooperate with and comply with deadlines established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in regards to authorization for the construction, siting, expansion, or operation of crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities.
B. The Corporation Commission shall have the authority to establish a schedule for all state pipeline authorizations with respect to crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facilities. In establishing the schedule, the Commission shall:
1. Ensure expeditious completion of all proceedings; and
2. Accommodate the applicable schedules established by state law for such proceedings.
C. Any judicial appeal of the actions of the Commission shall be to an Oklahoma court of competent jurisdiction as provided for by the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.
D. Upon application by a qualified applicant, the Commission shall issue an order authorizing, in whole or in part, the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a crude oil or refined petroleum product pipeline facility which is located in either interstate or intrastate commerce.
E. If the holder of a Commission order issued pursuant to this section cannot acquire by contract, or is unable to agree with the owner of the property on the amount of compensation to be paid for:
1. The necessary right-of-way to site, construct, operate, and maintain a pipeline or pipelines for the transportation of crude oil or refined petroleum products; and
2. The necessary land or other property for the location of compressor stations, pressure apparatus, or other stations or equipment necessary to the proper operation of such pipeline or pipelines,
the holder of the order may acquire the property through the exercise of the right of eminent domain in an Oklahoma court of competent jurisdiction as allowed under the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.
Added by Laws 2006, c. 261, § 8, eff. July 1, 2006.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.1. Definitions.

For the purposes of this act:
1. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission;
2. “Person” includes any individual, copartnership, corporation, common law or statutory trust or association of whatever character;
3. “Common source of supply" comprises and includes that area which is underlaid or which, from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, appears to be underlaid, by a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. If any such area is underlaid, or appears from geological or other scientific data, or from drilling operations, or other evidence, to be underlaid by more than one common accumulation of oil or gas or both, separated from each other by a strata of earth and not connected with each other, then such area, as to each said common accumulation of oil or gas or both, shall be deemed a separate common source of supply;
4. “Owner” means a person who has the right to drill into and to produce from any common source of supply and to appropriate the production, either for that person or for that person and others;
5. “Oil” means crude petroleum oil, and any other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods;
6. “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in paragraph 5 of this section;
7. “Producer” means any person who, along or in association with another person or persons, shall have the right to drill into and produce from, or who has any interest in production from, any common source of supply in this state;
8. “Operator” means any producer of oil or gas who has drilled a well or wells into a common source of supply and is engaged in operating the well or wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas therefrom;
9. “Taker” includes any person, who, acting alone, or jointly with any person or persons, is directly or indirectly purchasing or transporting by any means whatsoever or otherwise removing oil or gas from any common source of supply in this state; and
10. “Hearing” means any proceeding before an Administrative Law Judge, Appellate Referee or the Corporation Commission en banc, after notice and opportunity to be heard, by which the Commission may exercise its authority under Chapter 3 of this title and as set forth in the Rules of Practice of the Commission. Any evidence as defined, authorized, and permitted by the Oklahoma Constitution, the laws of the State of Oklahoma, and rules of the Commission in support of an application for Commission action or relief shall be received as evidence.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 326, § 1, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 190, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 2006.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.2. Waste in production of oil - industrial use of water produced

A. The term "waste", as applied to the production of oil, in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include economic waste, underground waste, including water encroachment in the oil or gas bearing strata; the use of reservoir energy for oil producing purposes by means or methods that unreasonably interfere with obtaining from the common source of supply the largest ultimate recovery of oil; surface waste and waste incident to the production of oil in excess of transportation or marketing facilities or reasonable market demands. The production of oil in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under such conditions as to constitute waste, as in Sections 86.1 et seq. of this title defined, is hereby prohibited, and the Corporation Commission shall have authority, and is charged with the duty, to make rules, regulations and orders for the prevention of such waste, and for the protection of all fresh water strata and oil or gas bearing strata encountered in any well drilled for oil or gas.
B. Provided, the Commission shall work in conjunction with the Secretary of Energy and Environment, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Department of Environmental Quality to encourage industrial use of water produced in oil and natural gas operations.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 326, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 124, § 1.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.3. Waste of gas - Meaning - Prevention - Prohibition - Protection of fresh water and oil or gas bearing strata.

The term "waste", as applied to gas, in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include the inefficient or wasteful utilization of gas in the operation of oil wells drilled to and producing from a common source of supply; the inefficient or wasteful utilization of gas from gas wells drilled to and producing from a common source of supply; the production of gas in such quantities or in such manner as unreasonably to reduce reservoir pressure or unreasonably to diminish the quantity of oil or gas that might be recovered from a common source of supply; the escape, directly or indirectly, of gas from oil wells producing from a common source of supply into the open air in excess of the amount necessary in the efficient drilling, completion or operation thereof; waste incident to the production of natural gas in excess of transportation and marketing facilities or reasonable market demand; the escape, blowing or releasing, directly or indirectly, into the open air, of gas from wells productive of gas only, drilled into any common source of supply, save only such as is necessary in the efficient drilling and completion thereof; and the unnecessary depletion or inefficient utilization of gas energy contained in a common source of supply. In order to prevent the waste or to reduce the dissipation of gas energy contained in a common source of supply, in addition to its other powers in respect thereof, the Commission shall have the authority to limit the production of gas from wells producing gas only to a percentage of the capacity of such wells to produce. The production of gas in the State of Oklahoma in such manner and under such conditions as to constitute waste as in this act defined is hereby prohibited, and the Commission shall have authority and is charged with the duty to make rules, regulations, and orders for the prevention of such waste and for the protection of all freshwater strata and oil- or gas-bearing strata encountered in any well drilled for gas.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 3, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.4. Common source of supply - Orders, rules and regulations.

The Commission is hereby empowered after notice of hearing to make all such orders, rules and regulations applicable to each common source of supply as it may find to be necessary or proper and to make general orders, rules and regulations applicable alike to all common sources of supply in the state. It shall not be necessary to publish such order, rule or regulation, after its adoption or promulgation by the Commission, before it shall go into effect, nor shall it be necessary to publish any such order, rule or regulation in each subsequent annual report of the Commission. Provided, that the Corporation Commission shall not under the provisions of this act make any order establishing a well spacing or drilling unit.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 4, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.5. Procedural requirements.

This act shall be subject to all of the procedural requirements contained in Sections 84 to 135, inclusive, Title 52, Oklahoma Statutes, 1951, including the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the state on the part of any person aggrieved by any action of the Commission under and pursuant to this act.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 327, § 5, emerg. eff. April 29, 1947.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.6. Short title - Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oil and Gas Produced Water and Waste Recycling and Reuse Act".
Added by Laws 2020, c. 77, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-86.8. Compliance with the Oklahoma Brine Development Act.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, if oil and gas produced water and waste is utilized for the purpose of processing the produced water and waste by mechanical or chemical processes for the extraction of constituent elements for commercial purposes, the oil and gas produced water and waste shall be considered brine under the Oklahoma Brine Development Act. The operating activity and the ownership of the oil and gas produced water, including the constituent elements contained therein, including the entitlement to and sharing of proceeds from the extraction and sale of the constituent elements or effluent, shall be subject to the Oklahoma Brine Development Act and the operator or other person extracting or utilizing the oil and gas produced water and waste shall comply with the provisions of the act. The Oklahoma Brine Development Act shall not apply to oil and gas produced water and waste that is reused or recycled solely for the purpose of use in oil and gas operations.
Added by Laws 2020, c. 77, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-87.2. Protest of applications relating to spacing units - Proper parties - Intervention - Report by Corporation Commission.

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, only those persons, or the duly authorized agent, representative or attorney of those persons, who are mineral owners or owners of the right to drill a well for oil and gas on the lands embraced within the subject area of an application or the owners of correlative rights within the common source of supply or supplies embraced within an application to the extent such owners are directly affected by such application, shall be proper parties to:
1. protest any application to establish, reestablish, or reform a spacing unit,
2. protest any application requesting authority for an additional well or wells within an established spacing unit brought pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) or (d) of Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or
3. present testimony or evidence at any hearing arising thereunder or relating thereto.
B. No other person shall be entitled to notice of such proceeding or shall be entitled to appear as a party of record therein, except that the Corporation Commission may permit persons other than those specified in subsection A of this section leave to intervene in a proceeding upon a finding, based upon clear and convincing evidence, that such person has a substantial right intended to be protected by Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes which may adversely be affected by the outcome of such proceeding. Any finding required by this section shall be made by the Corporation Commission, sitting en banc, within ten (10) days of the filing of a motion to intervene by such person and such proceeding shall be stayed during such ten-day period.
C. At the end of each calendar quarter the Corporation Commission shall file a written report with the Office of the Governor, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate describing all such findings made by the Corporation Commission pursuant to this section during such period.
Added by Laws 1988, c. 95, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1988.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-87.3. Application or petition for location exception - Notice of hearing.

A. When any petition or application is filed with the Corporation Commission for a location exception from any spacing or drilling unit, the Commission shall give notice of the hearing to be held upon such petition or application, as provided in Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Such notice shall specifically identify the proposed well location, by legal description, in order to give proper notice to owners of land adjacent to the proposed well location whether within or without the same spacing or drilling unit as such proposed well location.
B. If the location exception allows a proposed well location to be placed closer than one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) feet to a section line for a gas well or closer than three hundred thirty (330) feet to a section line for an oil well, the notice specified in subsection A of this section shall identify, by legal description, the land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception.
Added by Laws 1990, c. 310, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-87.4. Affidavit of election for drilling well under pooling order.

An affidavit evidencing any election for the drilling of a well under a pooling order issued pursuant to the proceedings set out in subsection (e) of Section 87.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall constitute constructive notice of the rights under the election claimed by the affiant when the affidavit is filed of record in the office of the county clerk for the county in which the lands described in the pooling order are located. The affidavit shall set out the name, address, if known, and election or deemed election for each pooled respondent included in the affidavit and shall have a copy of the pooling order attached. The affidavit may be filed by the operator designated in the pooling order or by any other interested party with knowledge of any election made. Filing of the affidavit shall not affect notice provided by virtue of pooling proceedings conducted by the Commission.
Added by Laws 1993, c. 337, § 1, eff. July 1, 1993.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-87.7. Corporation Commission jurisdiction.

Corporation Commission Jurisdiction. The Corporation Commission shall have jurisdiction, upon the filing of a proper application therefor, to permit the drilling, completing and producing of a multiunit horizontal well in conformity with Section 87.8 of this title, or to create a horizontal well unitization in conformity with Section 87.9 of this title, if the Commission finds that the multiunit horizontal well or the horizontal well unitization will prevent waste and will protect the correlative rights of the owners of oil and gas rights.
Added by Laws 2011, c. 54, § 3, emerg. eff. April 13, 2011. Amended by Laws 2017, c. 372, § 4.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-91. Meters on pipelines - Commission to designate type - Inspection - Cost of operation.

The Commission is hereby empowered and authorized by its orders, rules, and regulations, to require that meters be installed (a) upon any pipeline used in purchasing and/or transporting oil in or out of any prorated common source of supply and/or from storage adjacent thereto and (b) upon any pipeline used in gathering and/or transporting oil from leases or storage in such common source of supply, to refineries, loading racks, and field or other storage, and/or to deliver such oil to other transportation lines in or near such fields. All meters installed pursuant to any order, rule or regulation of the Commission made or issued by it under the provisions of this section shall be of a type or types approved by it and the Proration Umpire shall be in mechanical construction and accuracy in operation, sufficient to register the oil transported through the pipeline or pipelines upon which such meters are installed with a degree of accuracy of not more than two percent (2%) from accurate. Said meters shall be installed and maintained at the cost and expense of the owner and/or operators of the pipelines on which the same are required to be installed. No owner or operator of any such pipeline upon which a meter or meters shall have been installed and/or is being maintained pursuant to orders, rules and regulations of the Commission made hereunder, shall operate such pipeline or pipelines at any time when the meter or meters thereon are not properly registering the flow of oil to the knowledge of such owner or operator or when by the exercise of reasonable diligence he or it should have known thereof, except or unless permission to do so by order of the Commission shall have been granted. Said meters shall at all times be subject to inspection and reading by the Proration Umpire, his deputies, or any person authorized and ordered by the Commission to inspect or read the same. The provisions of this section shall be applied and enforced by the Commission only when it finds and holds that the installation of such meter or meters is necessary to the enforcement of this act, and the installation of meters shall not be required generally, and for other purposes as a means of measuring oil.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 281, § 8, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-92. Reports - Oil purchased or transported - Forms - Verification.

The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered by orders, rules or regulations issued by it to require all takers of oil in or out of any prorated common source of supply to make and file periodically with the Commission, at such time or times, as often as the Commission shall in such orders, rules, and regulations provide, reports of all oil purchased and/or transported by such takers within or from such prorated fields, and that duplicate copies thereof shall be filed with the Proration Umpire. Said reports shall be upon forms prescribed by the Commission and shall describe the leases and properties, and, if ordered by the Commission, the wells from which crude oil has been taken by any such taker, and the amount thereof, and shall contain such other information as will enable or assist the Commission in enforcing the provisions of this act, which may be required by the orders, rules and regulations of the Commission; and shall be verified by the maker thereof upon oath.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 281, § 8, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-93. Operators - Books - Oil produced and sold.

Every operator in any prorated common source of supply shall, when required by any rule, order, or regulation of the Commission, keep books showing accurately (a) the amount of oil produced daily from each lease or property operated by him or it and, if the Commission shall order, from each well owned or operated by him or it on each such lease or property, and (b) the amount of oil sold or otherwise disposed of each day from each of his or its said properties, and, when so required by the order of the Commission, from each of his or its wells thereon and to whom the same is sold and delivered. Said books and all documents and records made by any such operator relating to the operation of his or its properties or wells in any such prorated common source of supply shall at all times be open for the inspection of the Commission or any officer, agent or employee authorized and directed by the Commission by its order to inspect or examine the same; and shall, upon the order of the Commission or the request of any such authorized officer, agent or employee be made immediately available for such inspection.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 282, § 10, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-94. Maps and drawings - Location of pipelines and connections - Verification.

The Commission may require any and all operators in any prorated common source of supply to file with it maps or drawings which shall show the location of all pipelines, connections, pumps and tanks, the size and capacities thereof used for producing or transporting oil from each well owned by such operator in such common source of supply, and may likewise require the takers of oil from such common source of supply to file with the Commission maps and drawings showing the pipelines, connections, tanks, size and capacity thereof used by such takers in taking or transporting oil from such common source of supply and from each and all wells therein. The correctness of such maps and drawings shall be verified upon oath as shall be provided by the orders, rules or regulations of the Commission.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 283, § 11, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-95. Reports - Quantity of oil produced and moved - Penalty.

The Commission shall by order require every operator in each prorated common source of supply to file periodically with it when and as often as required, and upon forms approved by it, reports which shall show (a) the quantity of oil produced, and the quantity of oil removed by each operator from his or its each lease or property in said common source of supply, and unless otherwise provided by rule or regulation of the Commission, from his or its each well in said common source of supply, and (b) the amount of oil run to storage, delivered to common carrier, or to a purchaser or transporter through the operator's own pipeline, and, in the latter case to what destination, and the name or names of the person or persons purchasing or taking such oil, and which shall contain such further information as may be required by the Commission.
If any operator shall fail or refuse to file any report or reports required by this section or by any order, rule or regulation of the Commission made in pursuance of this section, in addition to the other penalties provided for in this act for such violation, the Commission may by its order require that said operator shall discontinue to produce any oil from any leasehold, property or well with respect to which such operator has failed or refused to make and file such report, until he or it shall have filed same; provided when any such operator shall have filed with the Commission any such report or reports as required by this section, or any order, rule or regulation of the Commission, the Commission shall permit such operator to produce his or its well or wells, theretofore shut down by such order of the Commission, so as to recover and make up the oil that such operator would have been lawfully entitled to produce during the period such well or wells were shut down, if the order of the Commission requiring him or it to discontinue or reduce production of oil therefrom until such report or reports were filed had not been made.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 283, § 12, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-96. Verification of reports, statements, maps and drawings.

When by an order, rule or regulation of the Commission made in pursuance of this act, any report, statement, map or drawing duly verified, is required to be filed with the Commission or any other officer, by any firm, trust, association or corporation, such report, statement, map or drawing shall be verified by (a) such member, agent or employee of such firm, trust or association, and (b) such officer or officers, agent or employee of such corporation as shall be provided or required by order, rule or regulation of the Commission.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 284, § 13, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-98. Powers of Commission - Marshal of Commission.

In all matters pertaining to the making, issuing and enforcement of its orders, rules and regulations made under the provisions of this act, the Commission shall have and exercise all of the following powers and authority; to wit (1) Of visitation and of a court of record; (2) To administer oaths; (3) To compel attendance of witnesses; (4) To compel the production of books and records; (5) To punish for contempt any person guilty of any disrespectful or disorderly conduct in the presence of the Commission while in session; (6) To punish as for contempt any disobedience or violation of the provisions of this act and of any of its orders, rules, regulations, and judgments made or rendered by it under and in pursuance of the provisions of this act; (7) To enforce the provisions of this act, and compliance with any of its orders, rules, regulations or judgments by appropriate process, and by shut down orders, ordering and directing the shutting down or discontinuance of production of oil from any well or wells of or operated by the offender with respect to which complaint has been made; and by orders or writs remedial or otherwise necessary or proper, to carry into effect its orders, rules and regulations; (8) To appoint or designate one of its agents or employees or one of the deputies to the Proration Umpire to act as Marshal of the Commission, who shall serve as such Marshal during its pleasure without additional compensation for such services, and who shall attend the sessions of the Commission, and when directed by it shall serve and execute orders, subpoenas, commitments and other process issuing from it.
Added by 1933, c. 131, p. 285, § 15, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-99. Filing of papers and documents - Use as evidence.

When under any provision of this act or of any order, rule or regulation made in pursuance of this act, any petition, motion, return, pleading, report, statement, map or drawing is required to be filed with the Commission, the same shall be deemed to be filed when filed with the Secretary of the Commission. Duplicate copies of all reports, statements, maps or drawings shall also be filed with the Proration Umpire. The original or any copy of any such reports, maps, drawings, statements or other documents duly certified by the Secretary of the Commission, when the contents thereof are material to the issues involved, shall be competent and admissible in evidence in any proceedings and hearings therein brought or had under the provisions of Section One (1) to Thirteen (13), inclusive, of this act; and any such original or certified copy thereof shall, in any proceeding upon complaint or prosecution as for contempt against any person for violation of this act or of any order, rule or regulation of the Commission, be competent and admissible in evidence to establish admissions against interest made by any defendant or defendants to such complaint or prosecution who filed or caused to be filed such report, map, drawing, statement or other document.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 286, § 16, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-100. Witnesses - Depositions.

The Commission may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in any proceeding pending before it in any manner provided by law for taking depositions in civil actions in courts of record; and any deposition so taken shall be sealed up and endorsed with the title of the cause and the name of the officer taking the same, and by him addressed and transmitted to the Secretary of the Commission, where it shall remain under seal until opened by the Secretary on order of the Commission, or at the request of a party to the proceeding, or an attorney for such party.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 286, § 17, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-101. Procedure - Rules of - Enforcement of orders and rules.

The Commission shall have power with or without any notice of hearing to make and promulgate rules of procedure not inconsistent with the provisions of this act to govern the filing, prosecution, hearing, and determination of proceedings authorized to be brought before the Commission and for the enforcement of its orders, rules and regulations made under the provisions of this act; provided, that no order, rule or regulation of the Commission and no order made in the enforcement thereof shall be held void or be reversed merely because the Commission may not have promulgated procedural rules.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 286, § 18, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-102. Contempt - Punishment - Enforcement of fines - Disposition of fines and penalties.

Punishment for contempt by the Commission of any person, guilty of any disrespectful or disorderly conduct in the presence of the Commission while in session, or for disobedience of its subpoena, summons or other process, may be by fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by confinement in the county jail of Oklahoma County not exceeding one (1) year, or by both. Any person who shall disobey or violate any of the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title or any of the orders, rules, regulations or judgments of the Commission issued, promulgated or rendered by it, shall be punished as for contempt. Punishment by the Commission in proceedings as for contempt for disobedience or violation of any provision of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title or any of its orders, rules, regulations or judgments, issued, promulgated or rendered under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title shall be by fine not exceeding in amount Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), and each day such disobedience or violation shall continue shall constitute a separate and additional contempt, and shall be punished by separate and additional fines each in amount not in excess of aforesaid amount. Any fine or penalty assessed under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title may be enforced in the same manner as a foreign judgment pursuant to the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Section 719 et seq. of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes provided that such procedure shall be followed regardless of whether the offender is a resident or nonresident of Oklahoma. Such fine or penalty shall constitute and be a lien upon all the property of the offender within the state, except the homestead of such offender, provided that a copy of the order imposing the fine or penalty, certified by the Secretary of the Commission, is filed in accordance with Section 706 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes. All monies collected as fines or penalties under the provisions of Section 86.1 et seq. of this title shall, when paid into or received by the Commission, be by it paid to the State Treasurer of the state for the credit of the Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, § 19, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933. Amended by Laws 1975, c. 285, § 5, emerg. eff. June 5, 1975; Laws 1984, c. 284, § 16, operative July 1, 1984; Laws 1990, c. 107, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1990.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-103. Contempt - Proceedings - How commenced - Complaint - Citation.

Proceedings as for contempt for disobedience or violation of the provisions of this act or of the orders, rules, regulations and judgments of the Commission made, issued and/or rendered under the provisions of this act, may be commenced by the filing with the Commission by (a) the Attorney General, or (b) the Proration Attorney, or (c) the Proration Umpire, or (d) Assistant Proration Umpire, or (e) by any producer of oil or taker in the state, of a complaint which shall, when filed by any producer of oil or taker, be verified upon information and belief. Said complaint by whomsoever filed shall state, (a) the name of the person, firm, trust, corporation, or association against whom the complaint is made; (b) the order or orders, rule or rules, regulation or regulations and judgment or judgments of the Commission, violation of which is charged; (c) and briefly in general terms the acts or omissions of the defendant constituting the violation of which complaint is made. Any such complaint may charge against any defendant one or more violations of the provisions of this act and/or of any rule, order or regulation of the Commission made hereunder; provided, that the acts or omissions of the defendant constituting each violation charged shall be briefly stated in general terms in separately numbered paragraphs or counts of such complaint. Upon the filing of any such complaint the Secretary of the Commission shall issue in the name of the state by him as Secretary of the Commission, addressed to the defendant or defendants, a citation to the defendant or defendants in said complaint, to which shall be attached a copy of said complaint. Said citation shall state (a) the date on which and by whom said complaint was filed and the name of the complainant, (b) a brief general description of the nature of the complaint, (c) a reference to copy of the complaint which shall be attached to said notice, (d) the date on which said complaint is set for hearing, which shall not be earlier than ten (10) days from the date of such citation, and (e) a statement that unless the defendant shall on or before said date for hearing file his or its pleadings to such complaints, allegations and charges therein contained, the same shall be taken as confessed. Service of said citation in such proceedings for contempt shall be had and return thereof made as hereinafter provided.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 287, § 20, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-104. Right of entry and inspection by conservation officer, his assistants and deputies.

The Proration Umpire, his assistant and deputies shall have the right at all times to go upon and inspect oil and gas properties from which oil or gas is being produced, pipelines, tank farms, and pump stations, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this act and the orders, rules, regulations and judgments of the Commission made in pursuance of the provisions of this act are being complied with, and shall report to the Commission any violation thereof.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 288, § 21, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-106. Notice on filing of motion or petition.

Upon the filing of any motion or petition for order or orders of enforcement, as provided in the preceding section of this act, the Secretary of the Commission, in the name of the Commission and by him as its Secretary, shall issue a notice to the defendant or defendants named in such motion or petition, which said notice shall be addressed to the defendant or defendants in said petition, and shall state, (a) the filing of such motion or petition; (b) the order or orders, rule or rules, regulation or regulations of the Commission, or the provisions of this act, violations of which are charged therein; (c) the common source of supply in or with respect to which such violation has occurred or is occurring; (d) the date on which said motion or petition is set for hearing, which shall be on such date as shall be provided by order, rule or regulation of the Commission, but shall not be earlier than ten (10) days from the date of the issuance of such notice; and (e) a copy of said motion or petition filed in said cause shall be attached to said notice, and if any temporary order of enforcement shall have been made by the Commission in said proceedings, reference to such order shall be contained in said notice and a copy thereof shall be attached to said notice, in order that service of the same upon the defendant or defendants may be made at the same time as the service of said notice.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 290, § 23, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-107. Process - Service - How made - Return.

Except as otherwise provided or authorized in this act, service of any notice, petition or other pleading, citation, summons, subpoena, order of the Commission of which service is required, and execution, commitment or other process, in any proceeding before the Commission under the provision of this act, may be made by the Proration Umpire, his assistant or any deputy to the Proration Umpire, or by any other person authorized and directed by order of the Commission to make such service, and such service may be made upon any person, firm, trust, association or corporation, required to be served, in the same manner as is provided for the service of summons in civil actions in the district courts of the state, upon such persons, firms, trusts, associations, and corporations respectively. The officer or other person making any such service shall make his return thereof and file the same with the Secretary of the Commission. Said return shall show the time when the notice, pleading, citation, petition, summons, subpoena, order of the Commission, execution, commitment, or other process was received by him and the time and manner the same was served by him.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 291, § 24, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-108. Oaths - Felony of perjury.

Every person who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare or depose before the Commission, in any proceeding, or at any hearing before said Commission, authorized and provided for under the provisions of this act, shall willfully and contrary to such oath state any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of the felony of perjury, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than five (5) years.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 291, § 25, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 490, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 355, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 490 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 52. Oil and Gas › §52-109. False verification of documents as perjury - Punishment.

Any person who shall verify under oath any report, map or drawing or other statement or document authorized or required by the provisions of this act, or by any order, rule or regulation of the Commission made under the provisions of this act to be filed with the Commission or with the Secretary of the Commission, or with any other officer, and who files or causes the same to be filed with the Secretary of the Commission or other officer, which states or contains any material matter which he knows to be false is guilty of the felony of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than two (2) years, nor more than ten (10) years.
Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, p. 291, § 26, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 491, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 356, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 491 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.