Power and authority of ABLE Commission or Oklahoma Tax Commission employees to enter and examine licensed premises.

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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: Laws 2016, c. 366, was conditionally effective upon passage of State Question No. 792, Legislative Referendum No. 370, which was adopted at election held on Nov. 8, 2016.


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