{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-208","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-208","heading":"Powers of Board","body":"(a) The Board shall also have power:\n\n(1) To gather and compile information concerning and to\n\ninvestigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct,\n\npractices, and management of any person, firm, or corporation\n\nengaged in intrastate commerce, and the relation thereof to other\n\npersons, firms, and corporations;\n\n(2) To require, by general or special orders, persons, firms,\n\nand corporations engaged in intrastate commerce, or any class of\n\nthem, or any of them to file with the Board in such form as the\n\nBoard may prescribe, annual or special, or both annual and special,\n\nreports or answers, in writing, to specific questions, furnishing to\n\nthe Board such information as it may require as to the organization,\n\nbusiness, conduct, practices, management, and relation to other\n\npersons, firms, and corporations, of the person, firm, or\n\ncorporation filing such reports or answers in writing. Such reports\n\nand answers shall be made under oath, or otherwise, as the Board may\n\nprescribe, and shall be filed with the Board within such reasonable\n\nperiod as the Board may prescribe, unless additional time be granted\n\nin any case by the Board.\n\n(b) For the purposes of this act the Board shall at all\n\nreasonable times have access to, for the purpose of examination, and\n\nthe right to copy any documentary evidence of any person, firm, or\n\ncorporation being investigated or proceeded against, and may require\n\nby subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the\n\nproduction of all documentary evidence of any person, firm, or\n\ncorporation relating to any matter under investigation. The Board\n\nmay sign subpoenas and may administer oaths and affirmations,\n\nexamine witnesses, and receive evidence.\n\n(1) Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such\n\ndocumentary evidence may be required at any designated place of\n\nhearing. In case of disobedience to a subpoena the Board may invoke\n\nthe aid of any court designated in Section 6-205 of this title in\n\nrequiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the\n\nproduction of documentary evidence.\n\n(2) Any of the courts designated in Section 6-205 of this title\n\nwithin the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in\n\ncase of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any\n\nperson, firm, or corporation, issue an order requiring such person,\n\nfirm, or corporation to appear before the Board or to produce\n\ndocumentary evidence if so ordered, or to give evidence touching the\n\nmatter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court\n\nmay be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.\n\n(3) Upon the application of the Attorney General of this state\n\nat the request of the Board, the district court shall have\n\njurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus commanding any person, firm,\n\nor corporation to comply with the provisions of this act or any\n\norder of the Board made in pursuance thereof.\n\n(4) The Board may order testimony to be taken by deposition in\n\nany proceeding or investigation pending under this act at any stage\n\nof such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken\n\nbefore any person designated by the Board and having power to\n\nadminister oaths. Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the\n\nperson taking the deposition or under his direction, and shall then\n\nbe subscribed by the deponent. Any person may be compelled to\n\nappear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same\n\nmanner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and\n\nproduce documentary evidence before the Board as hereinbefore\n\nprovided.\nnister oaths. Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the\n\nperson taking the deposition or under his direction, and shall then\n\nbe subscribed by the deponent. Any person may be compelled to\n\nappear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same\n\nmanner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and\n\nproduce documentary evidence before the Board as hereinbefore\n\nprovided.\n\n(5) Witnesses summoned before the Board shall be paid the same\n\nfees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of this\n\nstate, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons\n\ntaking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are\n\npaid for like services in such courts, except the person or\n\nrepresentatives of the firm or corporation charged with a violation\n\nand so summoned shall not be paid the fees and mileage that are paid\n\nwitnesses.\n\n(6) No person, firm, or corporation shall be excused from\n\nattending and testifying or from producing books, papers, schedules\n\nof charges, contracts, agreements, or other documentary evidence\n\nbefore the Board or in obedience to the subpoena of the Board,\n\nwhether such subpoena be signed or issued by it or its delegate, or\n\nin any cause or proceeding, criminal or otherwise, based upon or\n\ngrowing out of any alleged violation of this act, or of any\n\namendments thereto, on the ground or for the reason that the\n\ntestimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him or\n\nit may tend to incriminate him or it or subject him or it to a\n\npenalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted or\n\nsubjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any\n\ntransaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled,\n\nafter having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to\n\ntestify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that\n\nany person so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and\n\npunishment for perjury committed in so testifying.\n\n(c) Any person, firm, or corporation that shall neglect or\n\nrefuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to\n\nproduce documentary evidence, if in his or its power to do so, in\n\nobedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the Board shall\n\nbe guilty of an offense and upon conviction thereof by a court of\n\ncompetent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not more than\n\nOne Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more\n\nthan one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.\n\n(1) Any person, firm, or corporation that shall willfully make,\n\nor cause to be made, any false entry or statement of fact in any\n\nreport required to be made under this act, or that shall willfully\n\nmake, or cause to be made, any false entry in any account, record,\n\nor memorandum kept by any person, firm, or corporation subject to\n\nthis act or that shall willfully neglect or fail to make, or to\n\ncause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in such accounts,\n\nrecords, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions appertaining to\n\nthe business of such person, firm, or corporation, or that shall\n\nwillfully remove out of the jurisdiction of this state, or willfully\n\nmutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary\n\nevidence of any such person, firm, or corporation or that shall\n\nwillfully refuse to submit to the Board or to any of its authorized\n\nagents, for the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any\n\ndocumentary evidence of any such person, firm, or corporation in his\n\npossession or within his control, shall be deemed guilty of a\n\nfelony. Such person shall be subject, upon conviction in any court\n\nof competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not more than Five Thousand\n\nDollars ($5,000.00), or to imprisonment for a term of not more than\n\nthree (3) years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.\nany\n\ndocumentary evidence of any such person, firm, or corporation in his\n\npossession or within his control, shall be deemed guilty of a\n\nfelony. Such person shall be subject, upon conviction in any court\n\nof competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not more than Five Thousand\n\nDollars ($5,000.00), or to imprisonment for a term of not more than\n\nthree (3) years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.\n\n(2) If any person, firm, or corporation required by this act to\n\nfile any annual or special report shall fail so to do within the\n\ntime fixed by the Board for filing the same, and such failure shall\n\ncontinue for thirty (30) days after notice of such default, such\n\nperson, firm, or corporation shall forfeit to this state the sum of\n\nOne Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each and every day of the\n\ncontinuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into\n\nthe treasury of this state, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit\n\nin the name of the state brought in the county where the person,\n\nfirm, or corporation has his or its principal office or in any\n\ncounty in which he or it shall do business. It shall be the duty of\n\nthe various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney\n\nGeneral of this state, to prosecute for the recovery of such\n\nforfeitures. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be\n\npaid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of this\n\nstate.\n\n(3) Any officer or employee of this state who shall make public\n\nany information obtained by the Board without its authority, unless\n\ndirected by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,\n\nupon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding\n\nFive Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment not exceeding\n\none (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the\n\ndiscretion of the court.","path":["OK Code","Title 2"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os2.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9c1d0754b63e16015c15a15e7d71c7dfaa0bf1a478c434c67859d27bd58eccac","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-207","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-2-2-6-209"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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