Oklahoma § 52-116 - Violation of orders, rules and regulations - Injunction Appeal - Supersedeas

§ 52-116. Violation of orders, rules and regulations - Injunction Appeal - Supersedeas

Where the Commission shall make and issue any order, rule, or

regulation for the prevention or prohibition of any waste prohibited

by this act, or by any order, rule, or regulation of the Commission,

authorized by this act, and the same has been or is being violated

by any person, firm, trust, association or corporation, the Attorney

General of the state, or the Proration Attorney may in the name of

the state bring an action in the district court of the county

wherein the oil or gas properties have been or are being operated in

violation of such order, rule, or regulation of the Commission or

wherein any such violation of any order, rule or regulation of the

Commission has been or is being committed, for a prohibitory and/or

a mandatory injunction, enjoining and prohibiting the offender from

further violating the provisions of this act or any such order,

rule, or regulation of the Commission and/or commanding and

compelling such offender to obey such order, rule, or regulation;

and such court is hereby given jurisdiction to grant such injunction

or such other relief as may be proper in the premises, and shall

have power to grant in any such proceedings temporary restraining

orders and/or injunctions, to obtain which no bond shall be

required. Neither a temporary nor permanent injunction granted

under the provisions of this section shall be stayed or superseded

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas

on appeal therefrom except upon order of the Supreme Court, and then

only upon application therefor, and hearing thereon after reasonable

notice to plaintiff. Insofar as permitted and not prohibited by

existing statutes, all suits brought under the provisions of this

section shall be given, in the hearing and trial thereof, by all

courts in which the same are brought and prosecuted, precedence over

other actions pending in said courts.

Added by 1933, c. 131, p. 295, § 33, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.