{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-1506","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-1506","heading":"Civil proceedings - Remedies - Treble damages - Estoppel","body":"- Limitations - Service of process.\n\nA. The Attorney General, any district attorney or any aggrieved\n\nperson may institute civil proceedings against any person in any\n\ncourt of competent jurisdiction seeking relief from conduct\n\nconstituting a violation of any provision of the Motor Vehicle Chop\n\nShop, Stolen and Altered Property Act. If the plaintiff in such a\n\nproceeding proves the alleged violation, or its threat, by a\n\npreponderance of the evidence, any court of competent jurisdiction\n\nafter due provision for the rights of innocent persons, shall grant\n\nrelief by entering any appropriate order or judgment, including, but\n\nnot limited to:\n\n1. ordering any defendant to be divested of any interest in any\n\nproperty;\n\n2. imposing reasonable restrictions upon the future activities\n\nor investments of any defendant, including prohibiting any defendant\n\nfrom engaging in the same type of endeavor as the defendant was\n\nengaged in previously;\n\n3. ordering the suspension or revocation of a license, permit,\n\nor prior approval granted by any public agency or any other public\n\nauthority; or\n\n4. ordering the surrender of the charter of a corporation\n\norganized under the laws of the state or the revocation of a\n\ncertificate authorizing a foreign corporation to conduct business\n\nwithin the state upon finding that the board of directors or a\n\nmanagerial agent acting on behalf of the corporation, in conducting\n\nthe affairs of the corporation, has authorized or engaged in conduct\n\nmade unlawful by the Motor Vehicle Chop Shop, Stolen and Altered\n\nProperty Act and that, for the prevention of future criminal\n\nconduct, the public interest requires the charter of the corporation\n\nbe surrendered and the corporation dissolved or the certificate\n\nrevoked.\n\nB. In a proceeding under this section, injunctive relief shall\n\nbe granted in conformity with the principles that govern the\n\ngranting of relief from injury or threatened injury in other cases,\n\nbut no showing of special or irreparable injury shall have to be\n\nmade. Pending final determination of a proceeding under this\n\nsection, a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction\n\nmay be issued upon a showing of immediate danger of significant\n\ninjury, including the possibility that any judgment for money\n\ndamages might be difficult to execute, and, in a proceeding\n\ninitiated by an aggrieved person, upon the execution of proper bond\n\nagainst injury for an injunction improvidently granted.\n\nC. Any person injured, directly or indirectly, by conduct\n\nconstituting a violation by any person of Section 3 of this act\n\nshall, in addition to any other relief, have a cause of action for\n\nthreefold the actual damages sustained by the person.\n\nD. A final judgment or decree rendered against the defendant in\n\nany civil or criminal proceeding shall estop the defendant in any\n\nsubsequent civil action or proceeding brought by any person as to\n\nall matters as to which the judgment or decree would be an estoppel\n\nas between the parties to the civil or criminal proceeding.\n\nE. Notwithstanding any other provision of law providing a\n\nshorter period of limitations, a civil action under this section may\n\nbe commenced at any time within five (5) years after the conduct\n\nmade unlawful under Section 3 of this act terminates or the cause of\n\naction accrues or within any longer statutory period that may be\n\napplicable. If any action is brought by a prosecutor to punish,\n\nprevent or restrain any activity made unlawful under Section 3 of\n\nthis act, the running of the period of limitations shall be\n\nsuspended during the pendency of such action and for two (2) years\n\nfollowing its termination.\n\nF. Personal service of any process in an action under this\n\nsection may be made upon any person outside the state if the person\n\nhas engaged in any conduct constituting a violation of Section 3 of\nany activity made unlawful under Section 3 of\n\nthis act, the running of the period of limitations shall be\n\nsuspended during the pendency of such action and for two (2) years\n\nfollowing its termination.\n\nF. Personal service of any process in an action under this\n\nsection may be made upon any person outside the state if the person\n\nhas engaged in any conduct constituting a violation of Section 3 of\n\nthis act in this state. The person shall be deemed to have thereby\n\nsubmitted to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state for the\n\npurposes of this provision.\n\nG. Obtaining any civil remedy under this section shall not\n\npreclude obtaining any other civil or criminal remedy under either\n\nthis act or any other provision of law. Civil remedies under this\n\nsection are supplemental and not mutually exclusive.","path":["OK Code","Title 47"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os47.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"028f22b5e9a77724fccb7fd8bfbb79c1c86e7c4bacc76db6146b67a6c2ace911","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-1505","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-1508"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}