Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-602
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Filing in office of Secretary of State
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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government Page 497
Every official bond in effect on the effective date of this act
shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, within ten
(10) days after the effective date of this act, and it shall be the
duty of any officer, department, board, commission, institution, or
agency of the state having custody of any official bond on the
effective date of this act to transmit it to the office of the
Secretary of State within said ten-day period. If any such bond be
not filed within said time, the officer or employee for whom or on
whose behalf the said bond was executed shall be deemed not to have
complied with the statute, rule, regulations, requirement or order
requiring said officer or employee to be bonded; provided, that
nothing herein shall be construed as preventing a recovery on said
bond, against the surety or sureties, in the same manner as if the
said bond had been properly filed in the Office of the Secretary of
State.
Every official bond in effect on the effective date of this act
shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, within ten
(10) days after the effective date of this act, and it shall be the
duty of any officer, department, board, commission, institution, or
agency of the state having custody of any official bond on the
effective date of this act to transmit it to the office of the
Secretary of State within said ten-day period. If any such bond be
not filed within said time, the officer or employee for whom or on
whose behalf the said bond was executed shall be deemed not to have
complied with the statute, rule, regulations, requirement or order
requiring said officer or employee to be bonded; provided, that
nothing herein shall be construed as preventing a recovery on said
bond, against the surety or sureties, in the same manner as if the
said bond had been properly filed in the Office of the Secretary of
State.
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