Oklahoma § 18-1134
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§ 18-1134.
Violations and penalties.
VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES
A. Any foreign corporation doing business of any kind in this
state without first having complied with any provision of the
Oklahoma General Corporation Act applicable to it, shall be fined
not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each such offense. Any agent of any
foreign corporation that shall do any business in this state for any
foreign corporation before the foreign corporation has complied with
any provision of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act applicable to
it, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor
more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each such offense.
B. If any foreign corporation fails to file or cause to be
filed a certificate as provided for in paragraphs 11 and 13 of
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 18. Corporations
subsection A of Section 1142 of this title or fails to pay to the
Secretary of State any additional fees shown to be due by the
certificate provided for in paragraph 13 of subsection A of Section
1142 of this title, the corporation:
1. may be ousted from this state by the Secretary of State and
its certificate of authority to do business in this state revoked
and canceled. Before such revocation the Secretary of State shall
give not less than thirty (30) days' notice sent by mail duly
addressed to such corporation at its principal place of business or
last address shown on the records of the Secretary of State of the
Secretary of State's intent to revoke the corporation's authority to
transact business in this state; and
2. after notice required in paragraph 1 above, shall be subject
to a penalty and shall forfeit to the state for each day it fails to
comply with the provisions of this subsection, the sum of Twentyfive Dollars ($25.00) per day but not more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) for each such offense.
C. All fines and penalties provided for by this section may be
recovered in a suit brought therefor by the Attorney General, in the
name of the state, against the corporation, in any district court of
the state. Fines and penalties received or collected pursuant to
this section by the Attorney General as a result of an action
brought in the name of the state by the Attorney General, shall be
paid into the State Treasury provided that twenty-five percent (25%)
thereof shall be deposited in the Attorney General's Evidence Fund.
Such fines and penalties shall be properly accounted for and paid
monthly by the Secretary of State to the State Treasurer for deposit
into the General Revenue Fund.
Added by Laws 1986, c. 292, § 134, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by
Laws 1987, c. 146, § 11, emerg. eff. June 24, 1987; Laws 1989, c.
169, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1991, c. 331, § 57, eff. Sept. 1,
1991.
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