Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-159.12
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Certificate of convenience and necessity required for
Official statutory text
water transportation lines.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, build or
equip any water transportation line to serve the public as a common
carrier of water without having first obtained from the Corporation
Commission of the State of Oklahoma a certificate that the present
public convenience and necessity require the operation of such
business.
(b) The Commission shall not grant a certificate for the
proposed water transportation line which will be in competition with
or duplication of any other line serving as a common carrier of
water unless it shall first determine that the existing common
carrier facilities are inadequate to meet the reasonable needs of
the public, or that the person operating the same in unable or
refuses or neglects, after hearing on reasonable notice, to provide
reasonably adequate service.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, build or
equip any water transportation line to serve the public as a common
carrier of water without having first obtained from the Corporation
Commission of the State of Oklahoma a certificate that the present
public convenience and necessity require the operation of such
business.
(b) The Commission shall not grant a certificate for the
proposed water transportation line which will be in competition with
or duplication of any other line serving as a common carrier of
water unless it shall first determine that the existing common
carrier facilities are inadequate to meet the reasonable needs of
the public, or that the person operating the same in unable or
refuses or neglects, after hearing on reasonable notice, to provide
reasonably adequate service.
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