Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-602: Filing in office of Secretary of State

Every official bond in effect on the effective date of this act

shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, within ten

(10) days after the effective date of this act, and it shall be the

duty of any officer, department, board, commission, institution, or

agency of the state having custody of any official bond on the

effective date of this act to transmit it to the office of the

Secretary of State within said ten-day period. If any such bond be

not filed within said time, the officer or employee for whom or on

whose behalf the said bond was executed shall be deemed not to have

complied with the statute, rule, regulations, requirement or order

requiring said officer or employee to be bonded; provided, that

nothing herein shall be construed as preventing a recovery on said

bond, against the surety or sureties, in the same manner as if the

said bond had been properly filed in the Office of the Secretary of

State.