Oklahoma § 52-610 - Violations - Fines and penalties - Collection of fines

§ 52-610. Violations - Fines and penalties - Collection of fines

Any person who shall disobey or violate any of the provisions of

this act or any of the orders, rules, regulations or adjudications

of the Commission made pursuant to this act shall be punished for

contempt. Punishment by the Commission in proceedings for contempt

shall be imprisonment in the county jail of Oklahoma County for not

more than one (1) year and/or a fine not to exceed Fifty Thousand

Dollars ($50,000.00). Each day the disobedience or violation

continues shall constitute a separate and additional contempt and

shall be punished by separate and additional fines each in an amount

not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). Any fine or

penalty assessed under the provisions of this act shall constitute a

lien upon all the property of the offender within the state, except

the homestead of the offender. Before any fine or penalty shall

become a lien upon any property of the offender as against third

persons, a copy of the order or adjudication of the Commission

assessing the fine or penalty, certified by the Secretary of the

Commission, shall be filed in the offices of the court clerk and the

county clerk of the county where the property of the offender is

located and entered on the judgment docket of the court of said

county. If the fine is not paid to the Commission within thirty

(30) days after the final order or judgment of the Commission

imposing the same, the Commission shall issue an execution directed

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 52. Oil and Gas

to the Director of the Commission's Oil and Gas Conservation

Division to levy upon any property of the offender found within the

state, and to sell and dispose of the same in the manner now

provided by law and required of sheriffs in this state in the levy

upon and sale of property under an execution upon a judgment of a

district court of the state. All costs incurred in the issuance,

execution and sale under such levy shall be taxed against the

offender and collected in the same manner provided herein for the

collection of such fine. All monies collected as fines or penalties

under the provisions of this act shall, when paid into or received

by the Commission, be paid to the State Treasurer to be deposited to

the credit of the Corporation Commission Revolving Fund.

Added by Laws 1985, c. 2, § 10, emerg. eff. Feb. 13, 1985.