Oklahoma § 17-43 - Matters considered in issuing license - Existing gins Showing to obtain license - Cooperative gins - Inspectors

§ 17-43. Matters considered in issuing license - Existing gins Showing to obtain license - Cooperative gins - Inspectors

The Corporation Commission in issuing such license shall have

the right to take into consideration the necessity for the operation

of a gin for such purpose at the place of its location; provided

nothing herein shall operate to prevent the licensing of gins now

established, except for violation of the provisions of this act or

of the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Corporation

Commission made and promulgated pursuant to this act. No new gin

plants shall be constructed, installed, or licensed, or any old gin

removed from one point to another until satisfactory showing shall

have been made to the Corporation Commission setting forth that such

gin is a needed utility and that the proposed corporation, company,

firm or individual is a competent and desirable corporation,

company, firm or individual to establish and operate said gin as may

appear in the discretion of said commission; provided, that on the

presentation of a petition for the establishment of a gin to be run

cooperatively, signed by one hundred (100) citizens and tax payers

of the community where the gin is to be located, the Corporation

Commission shall issue a license for said gin. The commission shall

have the right to take into consideration the responsibility and

reliability and qualifications as well as the capacity of the person

or persons or corporation to do such ginning business so far as to

afford all reasonable facilities, conveniences and services to the

public and shall have the power and authority to require such

facilities, conveniences and services to be afforded the public. The

inspectors provided herein shall be men who have served at least

three (3) years in practical and actual gin operation and shall be

appointed by the Corporation Commission; that said inspectors shall

have the power to make recommendations to the commission as to the

opening or closing of any gin or gins as well as to the affording by

such gins of the reasonable facilities, conveniences and services to

the public hereinbefore authorized to be required, as well as to

make such other reports and recommendations to the Corporation

Commission as may to said inspectors appear necessary, reasonable

and just.

Laws 1915, c. 176, § 3; Laws 1923, c. 191, p. 341, § 2; Laws 1925,

c. 109, p. 157, § 1.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 17. Corporation Commission