Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-42: License from Corporation Commission - Necessity - Showing -

Fee.

No person or persons, or corporation, in this state shall be

permitted to maintain and operate a gin for the purpose of ginning

seed cotton of the general public, or of ginning seed cotton not

produced and owned by the person or persons, or the stockholders of

the corporation maintaining and operating said gin, without first

having secured a license for such purpose from the State Corporation

Commission, said license to be issued upon proper showing to be made

as prescribed by the rules and regulations promulgated by the

Commission. The fee for said license issued by the Corporation

Commission is hereby fixed at three cents ($0.03) per bale, based on

the number of bales ginned the previous year as shown by the final

report of said gin, on file, with the Corporation Commission. In

case of a new plant or gin that did not operate the preceding year,

a license fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) per gin stand will be charged;

which sum shall be converted into the State Treasury of the State of

Oklahoma.