{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-37a-37a-2-148","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 37A, § 37A-2-148","heading":"Grounds to revoke or suspend licenses","body":"A. Any license issued pursuant to the provisions of the\n\nOklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act by the ABLE Commission,\n\nafter due notice and hearing, may be revoked or suspended if the\n\nABLE Commission finds or has grounds to believe that the licensee\n\nhas:\n\n1. Procured a license through fraud, or misrepresentation, or\n\nconcealment of a material fact;\n\n2. Made any false representation or statement to the ABLE\n\nCommission or the Oklahoma Tax Commission in order to prevent or\n\ninduce action by the ABLE Commission or the Tax Commission;\n\n3. Maintained an unsanitary establishment or has supplied\n\nimpure or otherwise deleterious beverages or food;\n\n4. Stored, possessed, mixed or served on the premises of a\n\nbottle club any alcoholic beverage upon which the tax levied by\n\nSection 5-101 of this title has not been paid as provided for in the\n\nOklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, in a county of this state\n\nwhere the sale of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for\n\non-premises consumption has not been authorized;\n\n5. Misrepresented to a customer or the public any alcoholic\n\nbeverage sold by the licensee;\n\n6. Had any permit or license issued by the Tax Commission and\n\nrequired by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, suspended\n\nor revoked by the Tax Commission; or\n\n7. Is not in compliance with the tax laws of this state as\n\nrequired in Article XXVIII-A of the Oklahoma Constitution.\n\nB. The ABLE Commission may revoke or suspend the license of any\n\nmixed beverage, caterer or bottle club licensee if the ABLE\n\nCommission finds or has grounds to believe that such licensee:\n\n1. Has acted as an agent of a manufacturer, brewer or\n\nwholesaler of alcoholic beverages;\n\n2. Is a manufacturer, brewer or wholesaler of alcoholic\n\nbeverages;\n\n3. Has borrowed money or property or accepted gratuities or\n\nrebates from a manufacturer, brewer or wholesaler of alcoholic\n\nbeverages;\n\n4. Has obtained the use of equipment from any manufacturer,\n\nbrewer or wholesaler of alcoholic beverages or any agent thereof;\n\n5. Has violated any of the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic\n\nBeverage Control Act for which mandatory revocation or suspension is\n\nnot required;\n\n6. Has been convicted within the past twenty-five (25) years,\n\nof a violation of any state or federal law relating to alcoholic\n\nbeverage for which mandatory revocation or suspension is not\n\nrequired; or\n\n7. Is not in compliance with the tax laws of this state as\n\nrequired in Article XXVIII-A of the Oklahoma Constitution.\n\nC. The ABLE Commission may revoke or suspend the license of any\n\nretail, mixed beverage, caterer or bottle club licensee if the ABLE\n\nCommission finds or has grounds to believe that such licensee has\n\nborrowed money or property or accepted gratuities, discounts,\n\nrebates, free goods, allowances or other inducements from a wine and\n\nspirits wholesaler or beer distributor.\n\nD. The ABLE Commission shall have the authority to revoke the\n\nlicense of any licensee if the ABLE Commission finds:\n\n1. That the licensee knowingly sold alcoholic beverages or\n\nallowed such beverages to be sold, delivered or furnished to any\n\nperson under the age of twenty-one (21) years or to any person\n\nvisibly intoxicated or adjudged insane or mentally deficient;\n\n2. That the licensee, any general or limited partner of the\n\nlicensee, or in the case of a corporation, an officer or director of\n\nthe corporation, has been convicted of a felony or is not in\n\ncompliance with the tax laws of this state as required in Article\n\nXXVIII-A of the Oklahoma Constitution. Provided, an employee\n\nlicense may be issued and held by a person who has been convicted of\n\na felony if such conviction was not for a violent offense specified\n\nin paragraph 2 of Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes\n\nor an offense under the provisions of this title;\nor is not in\n\ncompliance with the tax laws of this state as required in Article\n\nXXVIII-A of the Oklahoma Constitution. Provided, an employee\n\nlicense may be issued and held by a person who has been convicted of\n\na felony if such conviction was not for a violent offense specified\n\nin paragraph 2 of Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes\n\nor an offense under the provisions of this title;\n\n3. That, in the case of a wine and spirits wholesaler, beer\n\ndistributor, retail spirits, retail wine or retail beer licensee,\n\nthe holder of the license or any member of a general or limited\n\npartnership which is the holder of such a license, has been\n\nconvicted of a prohibitory law relating to the sale, manufacture or\n\ntransportation of alcoholic beverages which constitutes a felony.\n\nE. If the ABLE Commission shall find by a preponderance of the\n\nevidence as in civil cases that a licensee has knowingly sold any\n\nalcoholic beverage to any person under the age of twenty-one (21)\n\nyears, after a public hearing, the ABLE Commission shall have the\n\ndiscretion as to the revocation of a license or administration of\n\nfines.\n\nF. The ABLE Commission shall have the authority to promulgate\n\nrules to establish a penalty schedule for violations of any\n\nprovision of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act or any rule\n\nof the ABLE Commission. The schedule shall provide for suspension\n\nor revocation of any license for major and minor violations as\n\ndetermined by the ABLE Commission. Penalties shall be increasingly\n\nsevere with each violation by a licensee.\n\nProvided, that for a fourth major violation by a licensee within\n\na twenty-four-month period, the penalty shall be mandatory\n\nrevocation of license. The twenty-four-month period shall be\n\ncalculated from the date of the most recent violation as set forth\n\nin an order signed by the Director or the designee of the Director.\n\nG. The ABLE Commission or the Tax Commission may impose a\n\nmonetary penalty in lieu of or in addition to suspension of a\n\nlicense. The amount of the fine for a major violation shall be\n\ncomputed by multiplying the proposed number of days of the\n\nsuspension period by One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). The amount of\n\nthe fine for a minor violation shall be computed by multiplying the\n\nnumber of days of the proposed suspension period by Fifty Dollars\n\n($50.00).\n\nH. The failure of any licensee to pay a fine or serve a\n\nsuspension imposed by the ABLE Commission or the Tax Commission\n\nshall result in the revocation of the license of the licensee.\n\nI. If the ABLE Commission or the Tax Commission finds that\n\npublic health, safety or welfare require emergency action, and\n\nincorporates a finding to that effect in its order, summary\n\nsuspension of a license may be ordered pending proceeding for\n\nrevocation or other action, pursuant to the provisions of Section\n\n314 of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 37A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os37A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"a350c91d4257e0ac6e146dc7775bec48f9a8bb38a6f408fd7c36dc190d790379","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-37a-37a-2-147","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-37a-37a-2-149"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}