2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 40. Labor › §40-3-306. Jeopardy assessments.

JEOPARDY ASSESSMENTS. A. If the Commission, notwithstanding that a return or report, or that contributions with respect thereto may not yet be due, and whether prior to or after the close of the period when any contribution may be due under the provisions of this act, believes that:
1. An employer intends to depart or remove from the state, or conceal himself or any of his property subject to a lien for the payment of contributions;
2. An employer intends to discontinue business; or
3. An employer intends to do any other act tending to prejudice or render wholly or partially ineffectual proceedings to compute, assess or collect any contribution levied under the provisions of this act,
the Commission shall declare the period for which any contributions may become due to have terminated for such employer, and shall immediately assess the contributions from any information in his possession, notify the employer and demand immediate payment thereof. In the event of any failure or refusal to pay the contributions, by the employer upon the demand of the Commission, the contributions shall immediately become delinquent and the Commission shall proceed to collect the same as in other cases of delinquent contributions.
B. The order of the Commission assessing the contributions may be appealed from as provided in Part 4 of this Article 3, or the employer may furnish to the Commission, under rules prescribed by it, security that he will make any return or report thereafter to be required to be filed with the Commission, and pay the contributions with respect to the period for which such contributions will become due. After security is approved and accepted, and such further and other security with respect to the contributions covered thereby is given as the Commission may, from time to time, find necessary and require, the payment of such contributions shall not be enforced by any proceedings prior to the expiration of the time otherwise allowed for paying such contributions.
C. In cases where the assessment here authorized is made prior to the close of the period for which contributions become due, and in case the employer elects to pay his contribution rather than to file a bond as herein provided for, the employer may pay the Commission the sum assessed, together with additions to contributions imposed by law, and at the time of making such payment shall notify the Commission of his intention, at the close of the period for which such contributions would have become due, to file suit for recovery. Upon receipt of such notice, an account shall be set up showing the amount paid until the termination of thirty (30) days following the close of the period for which such contributions were due, and if within such period, namely, within thirty (30) days following the close of the period for which such contributions were due, the employer files suit for recovery, the account shall be further maintained pending the final determination of such suit, after which it shall be terminated or refund made by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 3-304 of this title.
Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 3-306, eff. July 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 219, § 20, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.