{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3233","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-3233","heading":"Interrogatories to parties","body":"A. AVAILABILITY; PROCEDURES FOR USE. Any party may serve upon\n\nany other party written interrogatories to be answered by the party\n\nserved or, if the party served is a public or private corporation or\n\na partnership or association or governmental agency, by any officer\n\nor agent, who shall furnish such information as is available to that\n\nparty.\n\nEach interrogatory shall be answered separately and fully in\n\nwriting under oath, unless it is objected to, in which event the\n\nobjecting party shall state the reasons for objection and shall\n\nanswer to the extent the interrogatory is not objectionable. When\n\nanswering each interrogatory, the party shall restate the\n\ninterrogatory, then provide the answer. The number of\n\ninterrogatories to a party shall not exceed thirty in number.\n\nInterrogatories inquiring as to the names and locations of\n\nwitnesses, or the existence, location and custodian of documents or\n\nphysical evidence shall be construed as one interrogatory. All\n\nother interrogatories, including subdivisions of one numbered\n\ninterrogatory, shall be construed as separate interrogatories. No\n\nfurther interrogatories will be served unless authorized by the\n\ncourt. If counsel for a party believes that more than thirty\n\ninterrogatories are necessary, counsel shall consult with opposing\n\ncounsel promptly and attempt to reach a written stipulation as to a\n\nreasonable number of additional interrogatories. Counsel are\n\nexpected to comply with this requirement in good faith. In the\n\nevent a written stipulation cannot be agreed upon, the party seeking\n\nto submit such additional interrogatories shall file a motion with\n\nthe court (1) showing that counsel have conferred in good faith but\n\nsincere attempts to resolve the issue have been unavailing, (2)\n\nshowing reasons establishing good cause for their use, and (3)\n\nsetting forth the proposed additional interrogatories. The answers\n\nare to be signed by the person making them, and the objections\n\nsigned by the attorney making them. Interrogatories may, without\n\nleave of court, be served upon any party after the filing of a\n\npetition. The party upon whom the interrogatories have been served\n\nshall serve a copy of the answers, and objections if any, within\n\nthirty (30) days after the service of the interrogatories. The 30-\n\nday response period shall not commence until an answer to the\n\npetition is filed. However, upon leave of court or otherwise agreed\n\nto in writing by the parties subject to Section 3229 of this title,\n\nanswers to interrogatories may be required prior to the filing of an\n\nanswer to the petition. All grounds for an objection to an\n\ninterrogatory shall be stated with specificity. Any ground not\n\nstated in a timely objection is waived unless the party's failure to\n\nobject is excused by the court for good cause shown. The party\n\nsubmitting the interrogatories may move for an order under\n\nsubsection A of Section 3237 of this title with respect to any\n\nobjection to or other failure to answer an interrogatory.\n\nB. SCOPE; USE AT TRIAL. Interrogatories may relate to any\n\nmatters which can be inquired into under subsection B of Section\n\n3226 of this title, and the answers may be used to the extent\n\npermitted by the Oklahoma Evidence Code as set forth in Sections\n\n2101 et seq. of this title.\n\nAn interrogatory otherwise proper is not necessarily\n\nobjectionable because an answer to the interrogatory involves an\n\nopinion or contention that relates to fact or the application of law\n\nto fact. The court may order that such an interrogatory need not be\n\nanswered until after designated discovery has been completed or\n\nuntil a pretrial conference or other later time.\n\nC. OPTION TO PRODUCE BUSINESS RECORDS. Where the answer to an\n\ninterrogatory may be derived or ascertained from the business\n\nrecords, including electronically stored information, of the party\nt such an interrogatory need not be\n\nanswered until after designated discovery has been completed or\n\nuntil a pretrial conference or other later time.\n\nC. OPTION TO PRODUCE BUSINESS RECORDS. Where the answer to an\n\ninterrogatory may be derived or ascertained from the business\n\nrecords, including electronically stored information, of the party\n\nupon whom the interrogatory has been served or from an examination,\n\naudit or inspection of such business records, including a\n\ncompilation, abstract or summary thereof, and the burden of deriving\n\nor ascertaining the answer is substantially the same for the party\n\nserving the interrogatory as for the party served, it is a\n\nsufficient answer to such interrogatory to specify the records from\n\nwhich the answer may be derived or ascertained and to afford to the\n\nparty serving the interrogatory reasonable opportunity to examine,\n\naudit or inspect such records and to make copies, compilations,\n\nabstracts or summaries thereof. A specification shall be in\n\nsufficient detail to permit the party submitting the interrogatory\n\nto locate and to identify, as readily as can the party served, the\n\nrecords from which the answer may be ascertained.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9a40e11e3ef6a3bb1a2f05cb60e674e2e2f73ad0473d97bad2acb40aa6f726a8","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3232","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-3234"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}