Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-91
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Meters on pipelines - Commission to designate type -
Official statutory text
Inspection - Cost of operation.
The Commission is hereby empowered and authorized by its orders,
rules, and regulations, to require that meters be installed (a) upon
any pipeline used in purchasing and/or transporting oil in or out of
any prorated common source of supply and/or from storage adjacent
thereto and (b) upon any pipeline used in gathering and/or
transporting oil from leases or storage in such common source of
supply, to refineries, loading racks, and field or other storage,
and/or to deliver such oil to other transportation lines in or near
such fields. All meters installed pursuant to any order, rule or
regulation of the Commission made or issued by it under the
provisions of this section shall be of a type or types approved by
it and the Proration Umpire shall be in mechanical construction and
accuracy in operation, sufficient to register the oil transported
through the pipeline or pipelines upon which such meters are
installed with a degree of accuracy of not more than two percent
(2%) from accurate. Said meters shall be installed and maintained
at the cost and expense of the owner and/or operators of the
pipelines on which the same are required to be installed. No owner
or operator of any such pipeline upon which a meter or meters shall
have been installed and/or is being maintained pursuant to orders,
rules and regulations of the Commission made hereunder, shall
operate such pipeline or pipelines at any time when the meter or
meters thereon are not properly registering the flow of oil to the
knowledge of such owner or operator or when by the exercise of
reasonable diligence he or it should have known thereof, except or
unless permission to do so by order of the Commission shall have
been granted. Said meters shall at all times be subject to
inspection and reading by the Proration Umpire, his deputies, or any
person authorized and ordered by the Commission to inspect or read
the same. The provisions of this section shall be applied and
enforced by the Commission only when it finds and holds that the
installation of such meter or meters is necessary to the enforcement
of this act, and the installation of meters shall not be required
generally, and for other purposes as a means of measuring oil.
The Commission is hereby empowered and authorized by its orders,
rules, and regulations, to require that meters be installed (a) upon
any pipeline used in purchasing and/or transporting oil in or out of
any prorated common source of supply and/or from storage adjacent
thereto and (b) upon any pipeline used in gathering and/or
transporting oil from leases or storage in such common source of
supply, to refineries, loading racks, and field or other storage,
and/or to deliver such oil to other transportation lines in or near
such fields. All meters installed pursuant to any order, rule or
regulation of the Commission made or issued by it under the
provisions of this section shall be of a type or types approved by
it and the Proration Umpire shall be in mechanical construction and
accuracy in operation, sufficient to register the oil transported
through the pipeline or pipelines upon which such meters are
installed with a degree of accuracy of not more than two percent
(2%) from accurate. Said meters shall be installed and maintained
at the cost and expense of the owner and/or operators of the
pipelines on which the same are required to be installed. No owner
or operator of any such pipeline upon which a meter or meters shall
have been installed and/or is being maintained pursuant to orders,
rules and regulations of the Commission made hereunder, shall
operate such pipeline or pipelines at any time when the meter or
meters thereon are not properly registering the flow of oil to the
knowledge of such owner or operator or when by the exercise of
reasonable diligence he or it should have known thereof, except or
unless permission to do so by order of the Commission shall have
been granted. Said meters shall at all times be subject to
inspection and reading by the Proration Umpire, his deputies, or any
person authorized and ordered by the Commission to inspect or read
the same. The provisions of this section shall be applied and
enforced by the Commission only when it finds and holds that the
installation of such meter or meters is necessary to the enforcement
of this act, and the installation of meters shall not be required
generally, and for other purposes as a means of measuring oil.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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