Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 68-1005
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Reports by carriers of oil and gas transported - Refiners
Official statutory text
- Persons purchasing or storing oil - Delinquency dates – Penalties.
(a) Upon request of the Tax Commission, every railroad company,
pipeline or transportation company shall provide, upon forms
prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the
transportation of crude oil or gas subject to gross production tax,
that may be required to properly enforce the provisions of this
article; and such reports shall contain, along with other
information required, the name of shipper, amount of oil and gas
transported, point of receipt of shipment and point of destination.
The Tax Commission may require any such pipeline or transportation
company to install suitable measuring devices to enable such company
to include in such reports the quantity of oil or gas transported
within, into, out of, or across the State of Oklahoma.
(b) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
operation of a refinery for the processing of oil or gas in the
State of Oklahoma to furnish monthly to the Tax Commission, upon
forms prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the
amount of oil or gas subject to gross production tax that has been
processed by it during such monthly period, and oil on hand at the
close of such period, that may be required to properly enforce the
provisions of this article.
(c) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
selling, purchasing, treating or transporting of tank bottoms, pit
oil or liquid hydrocarbons from which petroleum oil is extracted, to
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furnish monthly a report to the Tax Commission, upon forms
prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the selling,
purchasing, treating or transporting of all tank bottoms, pit oil or
liquid hydrocarbons that may be required to properly enforce the
provisions of this article.
(d) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
purchasing or storing of oil subject to gross production tax in the
State of Oklahoma to furnish monthly a report to the Tax Commission,
upon forms prescribed by it, showing the amount of such oil in
storage, giving, along with other information required, the
location, identity, character and capacity of the storage receptacle
in which such oil is stored.
(e) All reports required by this article shall become due on
the first day of each calendar month on all lead, zinc, jack,
copper, petroleum oil, tank bottoms, pit oil and liquid hydrocarbons
from which petroleum oil is extracted, natural gas or casinghead gas
produced in and saved during the preceding monthly period, and if
such reports are not received on or before the tenth day of the
calendar month following the month such reports become due, the
reports shall become delinquent. The failure of any person to
comply with the provisions of this section shall make any such
person liable for a penalty, in accordance with Section 1010 of this
title, for each day it shall fail or refuse to furnish such
statement or comply with the provisions of this article. Such
penalty may be recovered at the suit of the state, on relation of
the Tax Commission and shall be apportioned as other gross
production tax penalties.
(a) Upon request of the Tax Commission, every railroad company,
pipeline or transportation company shall provide, upon forms
prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the
transportation of crude oil or gas subject to gross production tax,
that may be required to properly enforce the provisions of this
article; and such reports shall contain, along with other
information required, the name of shipper, amount of oil and gas
transported, point of receipt of shipment and point of destination.
The Tax Commission may require any such pipeline or transportation
company to install suitable measuring devices to enable such company
to include in such reports the quantity of oil or gas transported
within, into, out of, or across the State of Oklahoma.
(b) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
operation of a refinery for the processing of oil or gas in the
State of Oklahoma to furnish monthly to the Tax Commission, upon
forms prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the
amount of oil or gas subject to gross production tax that has been
processed by it during such monthly period, and oil on hand at the
close of such period, that may be required to properly enforce the
provisions of this article.
(c) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
selling, purchasing, treating or transporting of tank bottoms, pit
oil or liquid hydrocarbons from which petroleum oil is extracted, to
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation Page 385
furnish monthly a report to the Tax Commission, upon forms
prescribed by it, any and all information relative to the selling,
purchasing, treating or transporting of all tank bottoms, pit oil or
liquid hydrocarbons that may be required to properly enforce the
provisions of this article.
(d) It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the
purchasing or storing of oil subject to gross production tax in the
State of Oklahoma to furnish monthly a report to the Tax Commission,
upon forms prescribed by it, showing the amount of such oil in
storage, giving, along with other information required, the
location, identity, character and capacity of the storage receptacle
in which such oil is stored.
(e) All reports required by this article shall become due on
the first day of each calendar month on all lead, zinc, jack,
copper, petroleum oil, tank bottoms, pit oil and liquid hydrocarbons
from which petroleum oil is extracted, natural gas or casinghead gas
produced in and saved during the preceding monthly period, and if
such reports are not received on or before the tenth day of the
calendar month following the month such reports become due, the
reports shall become delinquent. The failure of any person to
comply with the provisions of this section shall make any such
person liable for a penalty, in accordance with Section 1010 of this
title, for each day it shall fail or refuse to furnish such
statement or comply with the provisions of this article. Such
penalty may be recovered at the suit of the state, on relation of
the Tax Commission and shall be apportioned as other gross
production tax penalties.
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