All refunds not paid out by the Commission, or unclaimed, shall be administered in accordance with the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1981).
Laws 1913, c. 10, p. 11, § 5; Laws 1991, c. 331, § 48, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 17. Corporation Commission
§17-2. Contempt proceedings - When authorized - Institution of prosecution - Notice.
§17-3. Pleadings, trial, judgment and appeal.
§17-5. Supreme Court to give precedence to such appeals.
§17-6. Judgment lien - Execution.
§17-6.1. Penalties - Willfully and knowingly injuring or destroying pipeline transportation system.
§17-7. Judgment of Supreme Court on appeal.
§17-8. Moneys to be paid into state treasury.
§17-9. Taxation of costs and fees.
§17-10. Attorney General to prosecute.
§17-11. Proceedings when no quorum present.
§17-13. Admission of evidence.
§17-16. Penalty for destroying records.
§17-18. Expert witnesses - Documentation of justification.
§17-31. Senior Utility Rate Analysts - Salary - Qualifications.
§17-32. Director of Administration - Qualifications - Duties.
§17-33. Administrative Aide - Salary - Powers and duties - Office location.
§17-34.2. Employees under Federal Underground Injection Control Project.
§17-35. Data Processing Division - Responsibilities - Support services - Director.
§17-37. Certain federal rules and regulations not to be enforced - Exceptions.
§17-39. Petty cash fund – Maximum amount - Administration.
§17-39.2. Remittances of taxes and fees – Service charges - Receipts - Deposit of money.
§17-40. Transportation Division.
§17-40.2. Electronic signatures.
§17-41. Cotton gins declared public utilities.
§17-42. License from Corporation Commission - Necessity - Showing - Fee.
§17-45. Appeals to Supreme Court.
§17-46. Regulations - Enforcement of orders.
§17-51. Oil and gas department established.
§17-53. Promulgation of rules - Plugging wells.
§17-53.1. Removal of surface trash and debris - Rules and regulations.
§17-53.3. Abandoned oil and gas well-site equipment - State lien.
§17-55. Use of frac tanks with unprotected manways prohibited.
§17-56. Inspections - Devices complying with act - Injunctions.
§17-57. Oil and Gas Division Revolving Fund.
§17-71. Passenger rate regulation - Power conferred upon commission.
§17-72. Effect of act - Amendment of Constitution - Vested rights.
§17-81. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission over crossings.
§17-83. Procedure before Commission - Appeals.
§17-84. Location and kind of crossing.
§17-86. Extra hazardous crossings - Protective devices - Costs.
§17-87. Payment of state costs.
§17-91. Power of Corporation Commission respecting fences.
§17-115. Rules and regulations relating to safety, sanitation and shelter.
§17-116.2. Railroad company motor vehicles used to transport workers - Safe condition and operation.
§17-116.3. Rules and regulations establishing minimum standards.
§17-116.4. Hearings - Suggestions.
§17-116.5. Amendment of rules and regulations.
§17-116.7. Orders of commission.
§17-121. Commission has power of court of record regarding refunds.
§17-122. Judgment for overcharge - Lien - Collection.
§17-123. Appealed orders - Additional judgment for expenses of commission.
§17-124. Appeal regarding refunds.
§17-125. Unclaimed refunds - Administrations.
§17-132. Application for certificate - Notice.
§17-133. Grant or refusal of certificate - Protests.
§17-134. Repair, maintenance or reconstruction - Injury to or interference with shade trees.
§17-136. Extension of telephone service to open territories - Petition - Notice and hearing.
§17-137. Rates - Telephone companies not subject to local exchange rate regulation.
§17-137.3. Universal service fee.
§17-139.1. Coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones - Operating requirements.
§17-139.101. Short title - Oklahoma Telecommunications Act of 1997.
§17-139.106. Oklahoma Universal Service Fund.
§17-139.107. Administration of funds.
§17-139.108. Provisions applicable to OneNet and the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network.
§17-139.109.1. Special Universal Services – Eligibility – Competitive bidding - Funding.
§17-139.601. Wide Area Calling Plans - Expansion to include sole unincluded exchanges.
§17-140.2. Prohibition of certain pay-per-call services or interactive programs.
§17-140.3. Services to children under 12 years - Requirements.
§17-140.4. Rules and regulations.
§17-140.5. Provisions in conflict or inconsistent with Oklahoma Constitution.
§17-140.6. Amendments and alterations to constitution - Legislative intent.
§17-153. Implied and incidental powers of Commission - Contempt.
§17-154. Records of public utility business.
§17-155. Orders and rules of Commission - Scope - Right of appeal.
§17-158.23. Geographical areas.
§17-158.24. Fixing boundaries of certified territories - Protests - Hearings by Commission.
§17-158.25. Exclusive rights within territory - New electric-consuming facilities.
§17-158.26. Contracts between suppliers.
§17-158.28. Applicabilty of act.
§17-158.29. Annexation of area to city or town.
§17-158.30. Grand River Dam Authority excepted.
§17-158.31. Liberal construction.
§17-158.32. Section 437.2 of Title 18 not repealed - Provisions as cumulative.
§17-158.43. Affected area division procedure.
§17-158.44. Furnishing of retail electricity continued.
§17-158.45. Provisions in conflict or inconsistent with Constitution.
§17-158.52. Statement - Contents - Oath or affirmation - Amendments.
§17-158.53. Approval of acquisition of control - Public hearing.
§17-158.54. Notice of public hearing - Expenses and security.
§17-158.55. Domestic public utility - Filing application for approval - Exemption.
§17-158.56. Jurisdiction - Copies of lawful process.
§17-158.57. Corporation Commission power - Expenses of conducting analysis or investigation.
§17-158.58. Violations - Injunctions - Transmitting evidence - Criminal proceedings.
§17-158.59. Fines and penalties.
§17-158.60. Appeals - Precedence.
§17-158.61. Provisions in conflict or inconsistent with Constitution.
§17-158.66. Facilitating Internet Broadband Rural Expansion (FIBRE) Act – Pole attachment rates.
§17-159.12. Certificate of convenience and necessity required for water transportation lines.
§17-159.13. Rules and regulations for applications.
§17-159.14. Information to be furnished with application.
§17-159.15. Notice of receipt of application.
§17-159.16. Power to issue or refuse certificate - Protests.
§17-159.17. Provisions of certificate - Defaults.
§17-159.18. Assignment of certificate.
§17-159.20. Petition for service.
§17-159.21. Administrative Procedures Act to govern - Review.
§17-159.23. Restriction on owning or holding water rights.
§17-160.1. Ratemaking authority and general jurisdiction of Corporation Commission.
§17-160.2. Existing trusts to submit certain information - Rate orders.
§17-160.11. Oklahoma Wind Energy Development Act.
§17-160.12. Legislative findings.
§17-160.14. Decommissioning of wind energy facility.
§17-160.15. Required filing - Evidence of financial security.
§17-160.16. Statement to landowner.
§17-160.17. Inspection of records.
§17-160.18. Report to Corporation Commission.
§17-160.19. Insurance policies.
§17-160.20. Setback requirements.
§17-160.21. See the following versions:
§17-160.21v1. Notification of intent to build a facility.
§17-160.21v2. Notification of intent to build a facility.
§17-160.22. Authority to promulgate rules and set fees.
§17-161.1. Restrictions on charges for reselling electric current or natural gas.
§17-162. Administrative law judges - Powers - No additional compensation.
§17-164. Fees for rebates or refunds.
§17-166.1. Fees - Rules and regulations.
§17-166.2. Purchase of transcripts - Utilization of Oil and Gas Revolving Fund.
§17-167. Certificate of record showing as to oil and gas leases - Filing.
§17-168. Certificate as prima facie evidence - Burden of proof.
§17-179. Acts in conflict of interest by Commission members prohibited.
§17-180.1. Advertising expenses by public utilities.
§17-180.2. Public utilities - Promotional payments.
§17-180.4. Political activities prohibited - Exception.
§17-180.6. Intrastate transmission of telephone communication or message.
§17-180.7. Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
§17-180.11. Assessment upon public utilities.
§17-183. Certificate to be obtained from Commission.
§17-185. Application - Filing - Examination - Issuance of certificate.
§17-186. Validation of securities or liens when certificate not obtained.
§17-188. Securities title not applicable.
§17-189. Rural electric cooperative corporations - Law not applicable.
§17-190. Addition of optical fiber to electric towers - Additional easement or license.
§17-190.2. Purpose of act - Goals of restructured electric utility industry.
§17-190.4. Study of and development of framework for electric utility industry restructuring.
§17-190.5. Study of impact of restructuring on tax revenues.
§17-190.8. Nondiscriminatory equivalent access to transmission and distribution facilities.
§17-190.9. Collection of municipal taxes by retail service distributors.
§17-190.21. Joint Electric Utility Restructuring Task Force.
§17-191.2. Procedure for acquisition, control or merger of certain domestic public utilities.
§17-191.4. Combination of statements.
§17-191.5. Conditions for disapproval of acquisition of control or merger - Hearing.
§17-191.6. Notice of hearing - Bond for payment of expenses.
§17-191.8. Court jurisdiction - Agent for service of process.
§17-191.9. Powers of Corporation Commission - Expenses of conducting analysis or investigation.
§17-191.10. Injunctions - Bond not required - Evidence.
§17-191.11. Violations - Penalties.
§17-191.12. Appeal to Supreme Court.
§17-191.13. Provisions in conflict or inconsistent with Oklahoma Constitution.
§17-200. Legislative intent - Competition.
§17-202. Authorization to enter business.
§17-205. Rules and regulations.
§17-206. Amendments and alterations to Constitution - Legislative intent.
§17-252. Monitoring of fuel adjustment clauses.
§17-253. Rules for considering adjustment applications.
§17-254. Disclosure in customer bills.
§17-255. Preexisting clauses to continue.
§17-256. Sections 251 to 255 not applicable to electric cooperatives.
§17-257. Electric generation cooperatives - Report of fuel adjustment clauses.
§17-258. Approval of purchased power adjustment clauses.
§17-259. Monitoring of application of adjustment clauses.
§17-260. Disclosure of per unit rate in consumer's bill.
§17-261. Preexisting purchased power adjustment clauses.
§17-262. Applications through common representative.
§17-263. Periodic detailed rate investigations.
§17-281. Responses to discovery requests.
§17-282. Settlement conferences.
§17-284. Rate increase applications - Effect given to known and measurable changes.
§17-285. Communications between utilities and customers.
§17-287. Development of wind energy - Expansion of transmission capacity.
§17-292. Rights of electric transmission owner.
§17-293. Local electric transmission facility.
§17-302. Legislative intent - Public policy.
§17-304.1. Exemption from certain aboveground tank requirements - Promulgation of new rules.
§17-306. Corporation Commission Petroleum Storage Tank Division - Powers and duties.
§17-306.1. Tanks containing petroleum products used for agricultural purposes - Permit fee.
§17-307. Corporation Commission - Rules governing storage tank systems.
§17-308. Permits - Registration - Fees - Inspection - Financial responsibility coverage.
§17-308.1. Storage tank systems for regulated substances - Permit fees - Penalties.
§17-309. Release from storage tank system - Corrective action.
§17-310.1. Notice to real property owners – Access to property - Compensation.
§17-311. Fines - Criminal violations.
§17-312. Enforcement of actions and remedies - Action for equitable relief - Jurisdiction - Relief.
§17-314. Annual report of new releases.
§17-315. Corporation Commission Storage Tank Revolving Fund.
§17-316. Ordinance or regulations in conflict with act prohibited.
§17-319. Underground Storage Tank Operator Training Program.
§17-321. Short title - Purpose - Scope.
§17-322. Petroleum Storage Tank Division - Jurisdiction - Director - Powers and duties.
§17-324. Petroleum Storage Tank Indemnity Fund – Expenditures – Administrator – Composition of fund.
§17-327.1. Assessment on motor fuel – Exemptions - Allocation.
§17-327.2. Duty to precollect assessment – Collection report.
§17-327.3. Reimbursement for allowable costs from an eligible release.
§17-327.4. Confidential records, reports or information.
§17-327.5. Indemnity Fund claim payments - Subrogation.
§17-330. Required procedures for hearing of protests.
§17-340. Storage Tank Advisory Council - Members - Quorum - Authority - Rules - Expenses.
§17-341. Unlawful to sell, offer for sale, use or consume regulated substances not in compliance.
§17-341.1. Fuel inspection and compliance personnel.
§17-341.2. Division employees – Prohibited from jobs or businesses in regulated field.
§17-342. Authority to promulgate rules and specifications.
§17-343. Inspection required for regulated substances and mixtures - Penalties.
§17-344. Refusal to admit inspector - Penalties.
§17-346. Duty to inspect fueling facilities.
§17-346.1. Duty to inspect measuring devices.
§17-346.2. Applicability to regulated substances in transit to other states.
§17-346.3. Noncompliance – Tampering with sign, lock or seal - Penalties.
§17-347. Ethanol or methanol label requirements.
§17-348.1. Adulterated antifreeze.
§17-348.2. Misbranded antifreeze.
§17-348.3. Sample analysis of antifreeze prior to sale – Annual permit application and fee.
§17-348.4. Enforcement by Petroleum Storage Tank Division.
§17-348.5. Authority to promulgate rules.
§17-348.6. List of brands and trademarks of antifreeze permitted.
§17-348.7. Advertising of antifreeze – Restricted statements.
§17-348.8. Fees deposited to credit of Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
§17-348.9. Violations - Penalties.
§17-503. Corporation Commission - Jurisdiction - Rules and regulations - Exceptions.
§17-504. Utilization of brine rights - Application - Solution gas owners as respondents.
§17-505. Unitization of brine rights - Notice of application.
§17-506. Commission's findings - Evidence required - Orders.
§17-507. Delineation of unit area - Allocation of production.
§17-508. Plan of unitization - Provisions - Ratification by record owners - Election to sell.
§17-509. Amendment and modification of property rights and obligations - Distribution of production.
§17-510. Increase or decrease of unit area size.
§17-511. Liability of owner or lessee - Liens.
§17-513. Participation in plans by state and local land management boards.
§17-514. Taxation of unit production or sale proceeds.
§17-515. Purchasing priority of solution gas.
§17-516. Pre-existing brine, solution gas or brine and solution gas units - Effect of Act.
§17-520. Security for location damages - Filing - Entry upon property - Increase in security.
§17-524. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission - Exception from repeal or limits.
§17-710.1. Electric Usage Data Protection Act.
§17-710.2. Legislative findings.
§17-710.4. Electric utilities – Customer information.
§17-710.5. Electric utilities – Usage data.
§17-710.6. Customer information - Affiliates.
§17-710.7. Aggregate customer usage information.
§17-710.8. Promulgation of rules.
§17-801. Legislative intent - Use of cedar trees and residue as renewable energy source.
§17-801.1. Oklahoma Energy Security Act.
§17-801.2. Legislative intent.
§17-801.4. Renewable energy standard.
§17-801.5. Natural gas energy standard.
§17-801.7. Construction of act.
§17-801.9. Hydrogen fuel production standard – Annual report.
§17-802.1. Oklahoma Energy Initiative Act.
§17-802.2. Oklahoma Low Carbon Energy Initiative - Duties.