Oklahoma Statutes
Title 17. Corporation Commission
§17-524. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission - Exception from repeal or limits.

Oklahoma Statutes

Title 17. Corporation Commission

§17-1. Violating rules, orders or other requirements of Commission - Switching service provider without consent of customer - Fines.

§17-2. Contempt proceedings - When authorized - Institution of prosecution - Notice.

§17-3. Pleadings, trial, judgment and appeal.

§17-4. Suspension bond.

§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.

§17-12. Depositions.

§17-13. Admission of evidence.

§17-14. Penalty for refusing examination of books in violation of Constitution, Article IX, Section 28.

§17-15. Penalty for refusing examination of books in violation of Constitution, Article II, Section 28.

§17-16. Penalty for destroying records.

§17-17. Penalties cumulative.

§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.

§17-34.1. Implementation and administration of Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act and Residential Energy Conservation Program.

§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.

§17-40.1. Regional service areas - Regional service offices - Services provided - Staffing - Reports - Telephonic communication services.

§17-40.2. Electronic signatures.

§17-41. Cotton gins declared public utilities.

§17-42. License from Corporation Commission - Necessity - Showing - Fee.

§17-43. Matters considered in issuing license - Existing gins - Showing to obtain license - Cooperative gins - Inspectors.

§17-44. Powers and authority of Corporation Commission - Rates - Department of Cotton Gin Utilities - Fiscal year and reports of cotton gins.

§17-45. Appeals to Supreme Court.

§17-46. Regulations - Enforcement of orders.

§17-47. Partial invalidity.

§17-48. Transportation, presents, or gratuities to Corporation Commissioners or employees prohibited - Exceptions - Penalty.

§17-51. Oil and gas department established.

§17-52. Corporation Commission - Jurisdiction, power and authority - Environmental jurisdiction of Department of Environmental Quality.

§17-53. Promulgation of rules - Plugging wells.

§17-53.1. Removal of surface trash and debris - Rules and regulations.

§17-53.2. Removal of operating equipment, production and storage structures, supplies and equipment, surface debris, abutment or obstacle - Filling of certain pits - Grading or terracing certain disturbed land - Release - Extension of time.

§17-53.3. Abandoned oil and gas well-site equipment - State lien.

§17-54. Definitions.

§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.

§17-73. Right of appeal.

§17-81. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission over crossings.

§17-82. Expense of crossings.

§17-83. Procedure before Commission - Appeals.

§17-84. Location and kind of crossing.

§17-85. Partial invalidity.

§17-86. Extra hazardous crossings - Protective devices - Costs.

§17-87. Payment of state costs.

§17-91. Power of Corporation Commission respecting fences.

§17-92. Procedure - Appeals.

§17-115. Rules and regulations relating to safety, sanitation and shelter.

§17-116.1. Definitions.

§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.

§17-116.6. Inspections.

§17-116.7. Orders of commission.

§17-116.8. Enforcement.

§17-116.9. Penalties.

§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.

§17-131. Certificate of convenience and necessity – Notice by new providers – Availability of emergency telephone services - Fines.

§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.

§17-138. Enforcement.

§17-139.1. Coin-activated and credit card-activated telephones - Operating requirements.

§17-139.2. Operator-assisted services - Operating requirements - Inclusion of law in directories of subscribers.

§17-139.101. Short title - Oklahoma Telecommunications Act of 1997.

§17-139.102. Definitions.

§17-139.103. Commission approval of changes in regulated telecommunications service rates required - Charges for basic local exchange service rates limited - Application and effect of act - Alternative form of regulation - Enforcement of quality of s...

§17-139.104. Compensation of Attorney General for enforcement duties - Oversight by Consumer Services Division.

§17-139.105. Credit of End User Common Line Charge for qualifying customers - Oklahoma Lifeline Fund - Documentation.

§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.

§17-139.110. High speed Internet access or broadband service – Regulation by Corporation Commission prohibited – Requirements of local exchange telecommunications service providers – Taxation.

§17-139.601. Wide Area Calling Plans - Expansion to include sole unincluded exchanges.

§17-140.1. Definitions.

§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.

§17-151. Public utility defined - Exemption of nonprofit water and sewer corporations - Washington County - Authority of certain beneficiaries to condemn property.

§17-151.1. Resale of water or sewage service – Maximum charges – Disclosure – Penalties - Enforcement.

§17-152. Commission's jurisdiction over public utilities - Examination of requests for review of rates and charges.

§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.

§17-156. Installation of distributed generation devices - Increased rates or surcharges - Subsidization.

§17-158.21. Short title.

§17-158.21a. Provisions of act in conflict or inconsistent with Constitution - Amendment to Constitution.

§17-158.22. Definitions.

§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.

§17-158.27. General supervision by Commission - Rate investigations - Notice of proposed rate increases - Petition by member-consumers - Exemption of rural electric cooperatives.

§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.

§17-158.41. Short title.

§17-158.42. Purpose.

§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.

§17-158.50. Definitions.

§17-158.51. Offers, requests, invitations and acquisitions - Conflict of interests - Statement - Approval.

§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.

§17-159.11. Definitions.

§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.

§17-159.19. Rates.

§17-159.20. Petition for service.

§17-159.21. Administrative Procedures Act to govern - Review.

§17-159.22. Exceptions.

§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.

§17-160.13. Definitions.

§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.

§17-163.1. Wage rates, benefits, working conditions or other terms or conditions of employment subject to collective bargaining agreements - Disallowance or change.

§17-164. Fees for rebates or refunds.

§17-166.1. Fees - Rules and regulations.

§17-166.1a. Fee schedule for permits, licenses, certificates and other authorizations - Service fee schedule - Disposition of fees collected.

§17-166.2. Purchase of transcripts - Utilization of Oil and Gas Revolving Fund.

§17-166.3. Conferences.

§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. Penalties.

§17-180.1. Advertising expenses by public utilities.

§17-180.2. Public utilities - Promotional payments.

§17-180.4. Political activities prohibited - Exception.

§17-180.5. File of applications for motor carrier operating authority - Carriers of commodities - Certificates or permits - Rate-making procedure - Divisions combined.

§17-180.6. Intrastate transmission of telephone communication or message.

§17-180.7. Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.

§17-180.10. Corporation Commission Plugging Fund - Minimum maintenance level - Additional excise tax.

§17-180.11. Assessment upon public utilities.

§17-181. Definitions.

§17-182. Issuance of securities and creation of liens declared a privilege - Power of supervision and regulation.

§17-183. Certificate to be obtained from Commission.

§17-184. Purposes for which securities may be issued - Issuance of short term securities - Foreign public utilities.

§17-185. Application - Filing - Examination - Issuance of certificate.

§17-186. Validation of securities or liens when certificate not obtained.

§17-187. Appeals.

§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.

§17-190.1. Short title.

§17-190.2. Purpose of act - Goals of restructured electric utility industry.

§17-190.3. Definitions.

§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.

§17-190.7. Furnishing of retail electric service to facilities currently being served - Extension of distribution service by municipalities - Prohibitions.

§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.

§17-191.1. Definitions.

§17-191.2. Procedure for acquisition, control or merger of certain domestic public utilities.

§17-191.3. Statement to be filed with Corporation Commission - Oath or affirmation - Contents - Amendments.

§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.

§17-191.7. Certain domestic public utilities to file application for approval of acquisition, control or merger with Commission - Factors for approval or disapproval - Review - Exemption from certain provisions of act.

§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.

§17-201. Definition.

§17-202. Authorization to enter business.

§17-205. Rules and regulations.

§17-206. Amendments and alterations to Constitution - Legislative intent.

§17-250. Terms defined.

§17-251. Change in price of fuels or power - Approval of fuel adjustment clauses - Rules for making determination.

§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.

§17-264. Article headings.

§17-270. Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 - Power and duties of Corporation Commission - Applications for determinations - Fees.

§17-271. Appeals.

§17-281. Responses to discovery requests.

§17-282. Settlement conferences.

§17-283. Exit conferences.

§17-284. Rate increase applications - Effect given to known and measurable changes.

§17-285. Communications between utilities and customers.

§17-286. Electric utility – Transmission upgrade costs presumed recoverable – Applications for capital expenditures, facilities.

§17-287. Development of wind energy - Expansion of transmission capacity.

§17-291. Definitions.

§17-292. Rights of electric transmission owner.

§17-293. Local electric transmission facility.

§17-301. Short title – Oklahoma Petroleum Storage Tank Consolidation Act - Oklahoma Petroleum Storage Tank Division – Responsibilities of Division.

§17-302. Legislative intent - Public policy.

§17-303. Definitions.

§17-304. Exemptions.

§17-304.1. Exemption from certain aboveground tank requirements - Promulgation of new rules.

§17-305. Corporation Commission and Department of Environmental Quality designated as state agencies to administer certain federal programs.

§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. Inspections and investigations - Violations - Notice - Failure to take corrective action - Hearings - Orders.

§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.

§17-313. Records, reports and information - Public inspection - Confidentiality - Disclosure to federal or state representatives.

§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.

§17-318. Licensing of storage tank professionals - Contractors required to meet training and other requirements of federal and state laws and regulations.

§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.

§17-325. Annual reports.

§17-327. Approval requirements for certain bills to change the Petroleum Storage Tank Indemnity 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.

§17-328. Oklahoma Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund - Oklahoma Leaking Underground Storage Tank Revolving Fund.

§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.

§17-341.3. Severability.

§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.

§17-345. Authority to promulgate tests, standards, specifications and rules – Voluntary calibration program.

§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.

§17-346.4. Noncompliance of measuring device – Tampering with sign, label, seal or lock – Violation of rule or order - Penalties.

§17-347. Ethanol or methanol label requirements.

§17-347.1. Retail facilities not required to post information on fuel activities – Label required for aircraft fuel with alcohol.

§17-348. Definitions.

§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.

§17-500. Short title.

§17-501. Purpose.

§17-502. Definitions.

§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.

§17-512. Appeal from orders.

§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.

§17-517. Payment of proceeds - Times - Information accompanying payment - Violation - Jurisdiction of district court - Court costs and fees.

§17-518. Compliance by operator with rules - Evidence of financial ability - Neglect, failure or refusal to plug and abandon or replug well, etc. - Forfeiture or payment - Transfer of title.

§17-519. Notice to surface owner of intent to drill - Exceptions - Duty to negotiate surface damages.

§17-520. Security for location damages - Filing - Entry upon property - Increase in security.

§17-521. Failure to negotiate damages agreement - Petition for appointment of appraisers - Notice - Selection of appraisers - Report by appraisers - Filing of exceptions or demand for jury trial - Assessment of costs and attorney fees.

§17-522. Appeal from court review or jury verdict of appraiser's report - Probate - Authority to execute instruments of conveyance.

§17-523. Impairment of existing contract rights or contracting for correlative rights - Indian property rights.

§17-524. Jurisdiction of Corporation Commission - Exception from repeal or limits.

§17-525. Willful and knowing entry upon premises, failure to post bond, failure to request appraisers, etc. - Treble damages - Trial de novo.

§17-608. Corporation Commission - Jurisdiction over sales of compressed natural gas - Notice of price increases - Hearing.

§17-701. Background information of employees or potential employees - NCIC searches for stolen vehicles - Transfer of authority.

§17-710.1. Electric Usage Data Protection Act.

§17-710.2. Legislative findings.

§17-710.3. Definitions.

§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.

§17-801.3. Definitions.

§17-801.4. Renewable energy standard.

§17-801.5. Natural gas energy standard.

§17-801.6. Utilization of energy efficiency and demand side management measures to meet renewable energy standard.

§17-801.7. Construction of act.

§17-801.8. Legislative declaration on natural gas – Corporation Commission report and recommendations.

§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.

§17-802.3. Oklahoma Low Carbon Energy Initiative Board.

§17-802.4. Oklahoma Energy Initiative Revolving Fund.