Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-271

A. The Board shall also have power:

1. to require the keeping of adequate records and the

furnishing of such information upon request to the Board which is

necessary and essential for the administration of this act. Failure

to keep such records and furnish such information shall constitute a

misdemeanor;

2. to gather and compile information concerning and to

investigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct,

practices, and management of any person engaged in intrastate

commerce, and the relation thereof to other persons; B. 1. For

the purposes of this act the Board shall at all reasonable times

have access to, for the purpose of examination, and the right to

copy any documentary evidence of any person being investigated or

proceeded against, and may require by subpoena the attendance and

testimony of witnesses and the production of all documentary

evidence of any person relating to any matter under investigation.

The Board may sign subpoenas and may administer oaths and

affirmation, examine witnesses, and receive evidence.

2. Such attendance of witnesses, and the production of such

documentary evidence, may be required at any designated place of

hearing. In case of disobedience to a subpoena the Board may invoke

the aid of any court designated in Section 20 of this act in

requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the

production of documentary evidence.

3. Any of the courts designated in Section 20 of this act

within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in

case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any

person, issue an order requiring such person to appear before the

Board or to produce documentary evidence if so ordered, or to give

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evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey

such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt

thereof.

4. Upon the application of the Attorney General of this state

at the request of the Board, the district court shall have

jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus commanding any person to

comply with the provisions of this act or any order of the Board

made in pursuance thereof.

5. The Board may order testimony to be taken by deposition in

any proceeding or investigation pending under this act at any stage

of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken

before any person designated by the Board and having power to

administer oaths. Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the

person taking the deposition or under his direction and shall then

be subscribed by the deponent. Any person may be compelled to

appear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same

manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and

produce documentary evidence before the Board as hereinbefore

provided.

6. Witnesses summoned before the Board shall be paid the same

fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of this

state, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons

taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are

paid for like services in such courts.

C. 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to willfully

neglect or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful

inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his or its power

to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the

Board.

2. Any person that shall willfully make, or cause to be made,

any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be

made under this act, or that shall willfully make, or cause to be

made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by

any person subject to this act, or that shall willfully neglect or

fail to make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct

entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and
any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be

made under this act, or that shall willfully make, or cause to be

made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by

any person subject to this act, or that shall willfully neglect or

fail to make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct

entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and

transactions appertaining to the business of any person subject to

this act, or that shall willfully remove out of the jurisdiction of

this state, or willfully mutilate, alter or by any other means

falsify any documentary evidence of any such person, or that shall

willfully refuse to submit to the Board or to any of its authorized

agents, for the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any

documentary evidence of any person subject to this act in his or its

possession or within his or its control, shall be deemed guilty of

an offense and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of

competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not more than One Thousand

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Dollars ($1,000.00), or to imprisonment for a term of not more than

one (1) year, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

3. Any officer or employee of this state who shall make public

any information obtained by the Board without its authority, unless

directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,

upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding

Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment not exceeding six

(6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion

of the court.