{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-59-59-1507","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 59-1507","heading":"Administrative hearings - Revocation, suspension,","body":"reinstatement and surrender of license.\n\nA. The Administrator of Consumer Credit shall appoint an\n\nindependent hearing examiner to conduct all administrative hearings\n\ninvolving alleged violations of the Oklahoma Pawnshop Act. The\n\nindependent hearing examiner shall have authority to exercise all\n\npowers granted by Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act in\n\nconducting hearings. The independent hearing examiner shall have\n\nauthority to recommend penalties authorized by the Oklahoma Pawnshop\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 or any entity or individual subject to the\n\nOklahoma Pawnshop Act has failed to pay any fee or charge properly\n\nimposed by the Administrator under the authority of the Oklahoma\n\nPawnshop Act;\n\n2. The licensee, either knowingly or without the exercise of\n\ndue care to prevent the same, has violated any provision of the\n\nOklahoma Pawnshop Act or any rule or order lawfully made pursuant to\n\nand within the authority of the Oklahoma Pawnshop Act; 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 under the Oklahoma Pawnshop Act.\n\nF. On application of any person and payment of the cost\n\nthereof, the Administrator shall furnish under the Administrator's\n\nseal and signature a certificate of good standing or a certified\n\ncopy of any license.\n\nG. The Commission on Consumer Credit shall prescribe by rule a\n\nfee for each license change, duplicate license, or returned check.\n\nH. A licensee shall pay a late fee as prescribed by rule of the\n\nCommission on Consumer Credit if a license is not renewed by\n\nDecember 1.\n\nI. Any entity or individual offering to engage or engaged in\n\nmaking pawn transactions in this state without a license shall be\n\nsubject to a civil penalty not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars\n\n($5,000.00).\n\nJ. The Administrator may impose a civil penalty as prescribed\n\nin subsection I 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\n000.00).\n\nJ. The Administrator may impose a civil penalty as prescribed\n\nin subsection I 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 59"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os59.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"03d47534b6f2006c0c60d559ce1e85ab815ebd6fbcc901939415b1b57b6d66e8","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-59-59-1506","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-59-59-1508"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}