{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-145","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 24, § 24-145","heading":"Administrative hearing - Suspension, revocation or","body":"surrender of license.\n\nA. The Administrator shall appoint an independent hearing\n\nexaminer to conduct all administrative hearings involving alleged\n\nviolations of the Credit Services Organization Act. The independent\n\nhearing examiner shall have authority to exercise all powers granted\n\nby Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act in conducting\n\nhearings. The independent hearing examiner shall have authority to\n\nrecommend penalties authorized by the Credit Services Organization\n\nAct and issue proposed orders, with proposed findings of fact and\n\nproposed conclusions of law, to the Administrator pursuant to\n\nArticle II of the Administrative Procedures Act. The Administrator\n\nshall review the proposed order and issue a final agency order in\n\naccordance with Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act. A\n\nfinal agency order issued by the Administrator shall be appealable\n\nby all parties to the district court as provided in Article II of\n\nthe Administrative Procedures Act. The costs of the hearing\n\nexaminer may be assessed by the hearing examiner against the\n\nrespondent, unless the respondent is the prevailing party.\n\nB. The Administrator may, after notice and hearing, decline to\n\nrenew a license, suspend or revoke any license, or in addition to or\n\nin lieu of suspension or revocation, order refunds for any unlawful\n\ncharges or enter a cease and desist order if the Administrator finds\n\nthat:\n\n1. The licensee has failed to pay any fee or charge properly\n\nimposed by the Administrator under the authority of the Credit\n\nServices Organization Act;\n\n2. The licensee or any entity or individual subject to the\n\nCredit Services Organization Act, either knowingly or without the\n\nexercise of due care to prevent the same, has violated any\n\nprovisions of the Credit Services Organization Act or any regulation\n\nor order lawfully made pursuant thereto; or\n\n3. Any fact or condition exists which, if it had existed or had\n\nbeen known to exist at the time of the original application for a\n\nlicense, clearly would have justified the Administrator in refusing\n\nthe license.\n\nC. Any licensee may surrender any license by delivering it to\n\nthe Administrator with written notice of its surrender, but such\n\nsurrender shall not affect the licensee's civil or criminal\n\nliability for acts committed prior thereto.\n\nD. No revocation, suspension or surrender of any license shall\n\nimpair or affect the obligation of any preexisting lawful contract\n\nbetween the licensee and any customer.\n\nE. The Administrator may reinstate suspended licenses or issue\n\nnew licenses to a person whose license or licenses have been revoked\n\nif no fact or condition then exists which clearly would have\n\njustified the Administrator in refusing originally to issue such\n\nlicense pursuant to the Credit Services Organization Act.\n\nF. On application of any person and payment of the cost\n\nthereof, the Administrator shall furnish under the seal and\n\nsignature of the Administrator a certificate of good standing or a\n\ncertified copy of any license.\n\nG. Any entity or individual offering to engage or engaged as a\n\ncredit service organization without a license in this state shall be\n\nsubject to a civil penalty not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars\n\n($5,000.00).\n\nH. The Administrator may impose a civil penalty as prescribed\n\nin subsection G of this section, after notice and hearing in\n\naccordance with Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act.\n\nAny administrative order or settlement agreement imposing a civil\n\npenalty pursuant to this section may be enforced in the same manner\n\nas civil judgments in this state. The Administrator may file an\n\napplication to enforce an administrative order or settlement\n\nagreement imposing a civil penalty in the district court of Oklahoma\n\nCounty.","path":["OK Code","Title 24"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os24.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"426907729808bfa72d8ac440c85323f07a8ac1fc31b672f622b4e9647f07d026","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-144","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-146"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}