2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37. Intoxicating Liquors
§37-514. Powers and duties of ABLE Commission.

The Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission shall have the following powers and duties:

1. To supervise, inspect, and regulate every phase of the business of manufacturing, importing, exporting, transporting, storing, selling, distributing, and possessing for the purpose of sale, all alcoholic beverages which shall be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

2. To promulgate rules and regulations, in the manner herein provided, to carry out the purposes of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

3. To have the sole authority to issue any license provided for in the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and except as provided in Sections 554.1 and 554.2 of this title with respect to cities, towns and counties, and except as may be provided under Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes with respect to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, no other agency, instrumentality or political subdivision of this state shall be authorized to issue any license or permit allowing any licensee to engage in any activity covered by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act anywhere within the State of Oklahoma;

4. To refuse to issue any license provided for in the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for cause provided for in the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

5. To revoke or suspend, for cause after hearing, any license issued under the authority of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

6. To prescribe the forms of applications for licenses and the information to be shown thereon, and of all reports which it deems necessary in administering the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;

7. To fix standards, not in conflict with those prescribed by any law of this state or of the United States, to secure the use of proper ingredients and methods of manufacture and dispensing of alcoholic beverages;

8. To make seizures of alcoholic beverages manufactured, sold, possessed, imported, or transported in violation of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, and apply for the confiscation thereof whenever required by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, and cooperate in the prosecution of offenders before any court of competent jurisdiction;

9. To submit to the Governor and members of the State Legislature annual or semiannual reports upon request of the Governor;

10. To inspect or cause to be inspected any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured, stored, distributed, sold, dispensed or served;

11. In the conduct of any hearing authorized to be held by the ABLE Commission, to examine or cause to be examined, under oath, any person, and to examine or cause to be examined books and records of any licensee; to hear testimony and take proof material for the ABLE Commission's information and the discharge of its duties hereunder; to administer or cause to be administered oaths; and for any such purposes to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books or records which shall be effective in any part of the state; and any district court or any judge thereof, either in term or vacation, may by order duly entered require the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books or records subpoenaed by the ABLE Commission, and the court or judge may compel obedience to the order by proceedings for contempt;

12. To prescribe the kind and size of retail containers of alcoholic beverages other than beer which may be purchased, possessed and sold by a licensee;

13. To prescribe by regulations, in addition to those herein required, the kinds of records to be kept and reports to be rendered by licensees, and the information to be shown therein; provided, that the period for which all such records and reports be retained shall not be less than five (5) years;

14. To gather, compile and print such statistical data as may in the opinion of the ABLE Commission be needed or useful, and prescribe charges or fees to be collected from any person or company to whom such data shall be provided. No reports shall contain sales information of either wholesalers, retailers, mixed beverage licensees, caterers or special event licensees by name or license number;

15. To educate persons employed by licensees to serve alcoholic beverages as to the provisions of Article XXVIII of the Oklahoma Constitution and the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, with emphasis on recognizing and preventing intoxication and particular emphasis on those provisions prohibiting the serving of alcoholic beverages to minors. The ABLE Commission may contract with one or more persons to perform the duties specified in this paragraph; and

16. To exercise all other powers and duties conferred by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, and all powers incidental, convenient or necessary to enable it to administer or carry out any of the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

Added by Laws 1959, p. 148, § 14, emerg. eff. June 23, 1959. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 51, § 1, emerg. eff. March 18, 1968; Laws 1985, c. 6, § 15, emerg. eff. March 14, 1985; Laws 2000, c. 213, § 1, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2012, c. 120, § 3, eff. July 1, 2012.