Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-105

production - Motion or petition for order - Temporary orders.

The Commission shall have the power to order closed, and by the

Proration Umpire, his assistant and deputies, to close any well or

wells which have been overproduced or which are being overproduced

in violation of this act and/or of the orders, rules and regulations

of the Commission and/or to order that the production of oil from

such well or wells shall be reduced, until such condition of

overproduction of any such well or wells has been equalized so that

the operator of such well or wells shall not be permitted to take

therefrom a greater amount of oil than is permitted under the

provisions of this act and/or the orders, rules and regulations of

the Commission, made in pursuance of the provisions of this act; and

may issue and enforce other orders to regulate the flow and

production of oil and gas in such common source of supply for the

purpose of preventing or stopping violations of its orders, rules or

regulations, prescribing proration of production or ratable taking

of oil in any common source of supply. Said orders of enforcement

may be issued by the Commission upon its own motion, or upon written

petition filed by (a) the Attorney General, or (b) the Proration

Attorney, or (c) the Proration Umpire, in the name of the state; or

by any person interested in the proration or ratable taking of oil

from any common source of supply where any such violation of the

orders, rules or regulations of the Commission is alleged to have

occurred. Said motion or petition for such orders of enforcement

shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission and shall state

the name of the violator or violators and the provision of the

statute, or the order, rule or regulation which it is charged are

being violated, and briefly in general language the act or acts,

omission or omissions, done or being done by the alleged violator or

violators which constitute the violation of statute or of the order,

rule or regulation of the Commission complained of. Any such

petition, other than motions by the Commission for such enforcement

orders, shall be verified by the officer or person filing the same,

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but such verification may be made upon affiant's best information

and belief. Whenever any such motion or petition for an order of

enforcement shall charge that the violation or violations by the

defendant therein of the provisions of this act or of orders, rules

and regulations of the Commission complained of, is that defendant

has produced or is producing oil from any well or wells in any

common source of supply at a rate in excess of that allowed by the

orders, rules and regulations of the Commission applicable thereto,

the Commission, in its discretion, may, at the time of the filing of

any such motion or petition, or at any time thereafter prior to its

final hearing thereon and issuance of final or permanent order in

such proceeding, make or issue a temporary order or orders, ordering

and directing the defendant or defendants in any such proceeding to

shut down and discontinue immediately, or to curtail the production

of oil from any well or wells alleged to be involved in the

violations complained of so as to comply with the orders, rules and

regulations of the Commission; and said temporary order may further

provide and require that if the defendant or defendants shall fail

to shut down or curtail the production from any such well or wells

so ordered in the manner required by such order of the Commission

within twenty-four (24) hours from the time of service of said

order, the Proration Umpire, his assistant or deputies shall

thereupon go upon the premises upon which said well or wells are

located, and shut down the production of oil from said well or wells

until the hearing provided in said temporary order of the Commission
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so ordered in the manner required by such order of the Commission

within twenty-four (24) hours from the time of service of said

order, the Proration Umpire, his assistant or deputies shall

thereupon go upon the premises upon which said well or wells are

located, and shut down the production of oil from said well or wells

until the hearing provided in said temporary order of the Commission

shall have been held, and/or until the Commission shall otherwise

order. The defendant or defendants against whom any such temporary

order has been issued shall have the right to appear before the

Commission at any time prior to the date for hearing in said

proceeding and move that such temporary order be dissolved or

modified, and show cause to the Commission why same should be done.

The Commission upon hearing any such motion, which shall be promptly

heard, and may be had with or without notice thereof to the

petitioner, may in its discretion dissolve or modify such temporary

order or continue the same until final hearing in said cause shall

have been held. Provided, however, that if upon final hearing

before the Commission in such proceeding, or upon appeal to the

Supreme Court, if an appeal from the decision of the Commission in

such proceeding shall be taken, it shall be determined that any such

temporary order was wrongfully issued by the Commission, the

defendant or defendants shall be permitted to produce their well or

wells, shut down, or the production from which was reduced by such

temporary order of the Commission, so as to recover or make up the

oil such defendant or defendants could have lawfully produced from

such well or wells during the period such well or wells were shut

down or the production thereof was reduced, if such temporary order

of the Commission requiring such well or wells to be shut down, or

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the production therefrom to be reduced, had not been made by the

Commission.