Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-4256

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Civil proceedings

Official statutory text

A. The Attorney General, any district attorney or any aggrieved

person may institute civil proceedings against any person in any

court of competent jurisdiction seeking relief from conduct

constituting a violation of any provision of the Vessel and Motor

Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered Property Act. If the plaintiff in

such a proceeding proves the alleged violation, or its threat, by a

preponderance of the evidence, any court of competent jurisdiction,

after due provision for the rights of innocent persons, shall grant

relief by entering any appropriate order or judgment, including, but

not limited to:

1. Ordering any defendant to be divested of any interest in any

property;

2. Imposing reasonable restrictions upon the future activities

or investments of any defendant, including prohibiting any defendant

from engaging in the same type of endeavor as the defendant was

engaged in previously;

3. Ordering the suspension or revocation of a license, permit,

or prior approval granted by any public agency or any other public

authority; or

4. Ordering the surrender of the charter of a corporation

organized under the laws of the state or the revocation of a

certificate authorizing a foreign corporation to conduct business

within the state upon finding that the board of directors or a

managerial agent acting on behalf of the corporation, in conducting

the affairs of the corporation, has authorized or engaged in conduct

made unlawful by the Vessel and Motor Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered

Property Act and that, for the prevention of future criminal

conduct, the public interest requires the charter of the corporation

be surrendered and the corporation dissolved or the certificate

revoked.

B. In a proceeding under this section, injunctive relief shall

be granted in conformity with the principles that govern the

granting of relief from injury or threatened injury in other cases,

but no showing of special or irreparable injury shall have to be

made. Pending final determination of a proceeding under this

section, a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction

may be issued upon a showing of immediate danger of significant

injury, including the possibility that any judgment for money

damages might be difficult to execute, and, in a proceeding

initiated by an aggrieved person, upon the execution of proper bond

against injury for an injunction improvidently granted.

C. Any person injured, directly or indirectly, by conduct

constituting a violation by any person of Section 3 of this act

shall, in addition to any other relief, have a cause of action for

threefold the actual damages sustained by the person.

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D. A final judgment or decree rendered against the defendant in

any civil or criminal proceeding shall estop the defendant in any

subsequent civil action or proceeding brought by any person as to

all matters as to which the judgment or decree would be an estoppel

as between the parties to the civil or criminal proceeding.

E. Notwithstanding any other provision of law providing a

shorter period of limitations, a civil action under this section may

be commenced at any time within five (5) years after the conduct

made unlawful under Section 3 of this act terminates or the cause of

action accrues or within any longer statutory period that may be

applicable. If any action is brought by a prosecutor to punish,

prevent or restrain any activity made unlawful under Section 3 of

this act, the running of the period of limitations shall be

suspended during the pendency of such action and for two (2) years

following its termination.

F. Personal service of any process in an action under this

section may be made upon any person outside the state if the person

has engaged in any conduct constituting a violation of Section 3 of

this act in this state. The person shall be deemed to have thereby
of the period of limitations shall be

suspended during the pendency of such action and for two (2) years

following its termination.

F. Personal service of any process in an action under this

section may be made upon any person outside the state if the person

has engaged in any conduct constituting a violation of Section 3 of

this act in this state. The person shall be deemed to have thereby

submitted to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state for the

purposes of this provision.

G. Obtaining any civil remedy under this section shall not

preclude obtaining any other civil or criminal remedy under either

this act or any other provision of law. Civil remedies under this

section are supplemental and not mutually exclusive.

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