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Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 18-1134: Violations and penalties

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  2. Title 18

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

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 Twenty-

five 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.

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