Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-610
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Violations - Fines and penalties - Collection of fines
Official statutory text
Any person who shall disobey or violate any of the provisions of
this act or any of the orders, rules, regulations or adjudications
of the Commission made pursuant to this act shall be punished for
contempt. Punishment by the Commission in proceedings for contempt
shall be imprisonment in the county jail of Oklahoma County for not
more than one (1) year and/or a fine not to exceed Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($50,000.00). Each day the disobedience or violation
continues shall constitute a separate and additional contempt and
shall be punished by separate and additional fines each in an amount
not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). Any fine or
penalty assessed under the provisions of this act shall constitute a
lien upon all the property of the offender within the state, except
the homestead of the offender. Before any fine or penalty shall
become a lien upon any property of the offender as against third
persons, a copy of the order or adjudication of the Commission
assessing the fine or penalty, certified by the Secretary of the
Commission, shall be filed in the offices of the court clerk and the
county clerk of the county where the property of the offender is
located and entered on the judgment docket of the court of said
county. If the fine is not paid to the Commission within thirty
(30) days after the final order or judgment of the Commission
imposing the same, the Commission shall issue an execution directed
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas Page 263
to the Director of the Commission's Oil and Gas Conservation
Division to levy upon any property of the offender found within the
state, and to sell and dispose of the same in the manner now
provided by law and required of sheriffs in this state in the levy
upon and sale of property under an execution upon a judgment of a
district court of the state. All costs incurred in the issuance,
execution and sale under such levy shall be taxed against the
offender and collected in the same manner provided herein for the
collection of such fine. All monies collected as fines or penalties
under the provisions of this act shall, when paid into or received
by the Commission, be paid to the State Treasurer to be deposited to
the credit of the Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
this act or any of the orders, rules, regulations or adjudications
of the Commission made pursuant to this act shall be punished for
contempt. Punishment by the Commission in proceedings for contempt
shall be imprisonment in the county jail of Oklahoma County for not
more than one (1) year and/or a fine not to exceed Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($50,000.00). Each day the disobedience or violation
continues shall constitute a separate and additional contempt and
shall be punished by separate and additional fines each in an amount
not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). Any fine or
penalty assessed under the provisions of this act shall constitute a
lien upon all the property of the offender within the state, except
the homestead of the offender. Before any fine or penalty shall
become a lien upon any property of the offender as against third
persons, a copy of the order or adjudication of the Commission
assessing the fine or penalty, certified by the Secretary of the
Commission, shall be filed in the offices of the court clerk and the
county clerk of the county where the property of the offender is
located and entered on the judgment docket of the court of said
county. If the fine is not paid to the Commission within thirty
(30) days after the final order or judgment of the Commission
imposing the same, the Commission shall issue an execution directed
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas Page 263
to the Director of the Commission's Oil and Gas Conservation
Division to levy upon any property of the offender found within the
state, and to sell and dispose of the same in the manner now
provided by law and required of sheriffs in this state in the levy
upon and sale of property under an execution upon a judgment of a
district court of the state. All costs incurred in the issuance,
execution and sale under such levy shall be taxed against the
offender and collected in the same manner provided herein for the
collection of such fine. All monies collected as fines or penalties
under the provisions of this act shall, when paid into or received
by the Commission, be paid to the State Treasurer to be deposited to
the credit of the Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.
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