Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-159.12: Certificate of convenience and necessity required for

water transportation lines.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, build or

equip any water transportation line to serve the public as a common

carrier of water without having first obtained from the Corporation

Commission of the State of Oklahoma a certificate that the present

public convenience and necessity require the operation of such

business.

(b) The Commission shall not grant a certificate for the

proposed water transportation line which will be in competition with

or duplication of any other line serving as a common carrier of

water unless it shall first determine that the existing common

carrier facilities are inadequate to meet the reasonable needs of

the public, or that the person operating the same in unable or

refuses or neglects, after hearing on reasonable notice, to provide

reasonably adequate service.