2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverage
§37A-5-115. Power and authority of ABLE Commission or Oklahoma Tax Commission employees to enter and examine licensed premises
Text effective Oct. 1, 2018. See, also, Title 37 for text effective until Oct. 1, 2018
Any employee of the ABLE Commission or the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall have power and authority, without a warrant, to enter and examine the licensed premises of all licensees to determine whether any licensee possesses any container of alcoholic beverage upon which the taxes have not been paid as required by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and the rules thereunder, and if such employee shall find any such container of alcoholic beverages, he or she shall immediately seize the same. Such employees of the ABLE Commission or the Tax Commission shall be given free access to and shall not be hindered or interfered with in their examination of the licensed premises of any licensees, and, in case any such employee is denied free access or is hindered or interfered with in making such examination, any license held by the person preventing such free access or interfering with or hindering such employee shall be subject to suspension or revocation.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 118, eff. Oct. 1, 2018.
NOTE: This section shall become effective October 1, 2018, upon certification of election returns favoring passage of the Constitutional Amendment proposed in Senate Joint Resolution No. 68 of the 2nd Session of the 55th Oklahoma Legislature.
