{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-91","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 52-91","heading":"Meters on pipelines - Commission to designate type -","body":"Inspection - Cost of operation.\n\nThe Commission is hereby empowered and authorized by its orders,\n\nrules, and regulations, to require that meters be installed (a) upon\n\nany pipeline used in purchasing and/or transporting oil in or out of\n\nany prorated common source of supply and/or from storage adjacent\n\nthereto and (b) upon any pipeline used in gathering and/or\n\ntransporting oil from leases or storage in such common source of\n\nsupply, to refineries, loading racks, and field or other storage,\n\nand/or to deliver such oil to other transportation lines in or near\n\nsuch fields. All meters installed pursuant to any order, rule or\n\nregulation of the Commission made or issued by it under the\n\nprovisions of this section shall be of a type or types approved by\n\nit and the Proration Umpire shall be in mechanical construction and\n\naccuracy in operation, sufficient to register the oil transported\n\nthrough the pipeline or pipelines upon which such meters are\n\ninstalled with a degree of accuracy of not more than two percent\n\n(2%) from accurate. Said meters shall be installed and maintained\n\nat the cost and expense of the owner and/or operators of the\n\npipelines on which the same are required to be installed. No owner\n\nor operator of any such pipeline upon which a meter or meters shall\n\nhave been installed and/or is being maintained pursuant to orders,\n\nrules and regulations of the Commission made hereunder, shall\n\noperate such pipeline or pipelines at any time when the meter or\n\nmeters thereon are not properly registering the flow of oil to the\n\nknowledge of such owner or operator or when by the exercise of\n\nreasonable diligence he or it should have known thereof, except or\n\nunless permission to do so by order of the Commission shall have\n\nbeen granted. Said meters shall at all times be subject to\n\ninspection and reading by the Proration Umpire, his deputies, or any\n\nperson authorized and ordered by the Commission to inspect or read\n\nthe same. The provisions of this section shall be applied and\n\nenforced by the Commission only when it finds and holds that the\n\ninstallation of such meter or meters is necessary to the enforcement\n\nof this act, and the installation of meters shall not be required\n\ngenerally, and for other purposes as a means of measuring oil.","path":["OK Code","Title 52"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os52.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"cb465fbcbf35f512850453f06c3c2c2d61fd06a7f263854117489a7681bf6b8c","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-903","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-52-52-92"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}