Oklahoma § 52-97 - Commission - Jurisdiction to make orders, rules and

§ 52-97. Commission - Jurisdiction to make orders, rules and

regulations - Hearings.

The Commission upon its own motion, or upon the petition of the

Attorney General, or of the Conservation Attorney, or of the

Director of Conservation, on behalf of the state, or of any

operator, producer, or taker of oil from any common source of

supply, to be affected by any such order, rule or regulation, filed

with the Commission, shall have jurisdiction to make any and all

orders, rules and regulations authorized and/or provided for in

Sections 1 to 13 of this act, inclusive, provided that said orders,

rules, and regulations shall be made only after a hearing before the

Commission, of which the Commission shall have given at least ten

(10) days' notice, by one publication of such notice in some

newspaper of general circulation published in Oklahoma County,

Oklahoma, at which hearing the Attorney General, or the Conservation

Attorney or the Director of Conservation upon behalf of the state,

any operator or taker or producer of oil from any common source of

supply, or any other person interested in such common source or

sources of supply to be affected by the order, rule or regulation

sought, shall have an opportunity to offer evidence and to be heard

in support of or in opposition to such motion or petition for such

order, rule, or regulation. Such notice of hearing shall be signed

by at least a majority of the members of the Commission and shall

specify (a) the time and place of hearing, (b) briefly the general

nature of the order or orders, rule or rules, regulation or

regulations sought in the proceeding before the Commission, and (c)

the name or names or general description of the common source or

sources of supply that may be affected by any such rule, order, or

regulation, unless by such motion or petition filed the order or

orders, rule or rules, regulation or regulations sought are intended

to apply and affect the entire state.

With respect to any motion or petition filed under the

provisions of this act, the service of notice thereof and any

hearing thereon, and any order, rule or regulation, made thereon,

the Commission shall have the power of a court of record, and shall

have the further powers and authority with respect thereto

enumerated and provided in Section 98 of this title; provided, that

the Commission upon the date set or fixed in the notice of hearing

in any proceeding commenced under the provisions of this section, or

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas

at the time of such hearing therein, or of making any order or

orders, rule or rules, regulation or regulations therein, may by its

order provide that said proceeding shall be continued upon the

docket of the Commission for further hearing or hearings therein,

and for the issuance and/or promulgation of further order or orders,

rule or rules, or regulation or regulations by the Commission

therein, modifying, supplementing, repealing or vacating any

previous order, rule or regulation of the Commission therein as it

shall determine; and if the Commission shall, in any such order,

rule or regulation continuing any such case upon its docket for

further hearings and orders therein, fix the time and place of such

hearing or hearings, no further notice thereof shall be required;

but if the Commission shall not, in its orders continuing upon its

docket any such proceeding for further hearings and orders therein,

fix the time and place of such hearing or hearings, then no further

hearing therein shall be had until notice thereof shall have been

given for the same length of time and in the same manner provided in

this act for notice of the initial hearing in said proceeding.

Added by Laws 1933, c. 131, § 14, emerg. eff. April 10, 1933.

Amended by Laws 1992, c. 93, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.