All state, county, school district, city, town, or other taxes shall be paid to the county treasurer, either in lawful currency, or by check or draft upon a bank therein stated, or by post office or express order, or at the option of the county treasurer, by a nationally recognized credit or debit card as determined acceptable by the Oklahoma Tax Commission. If payment is made by a credit or debit card, the county treasurer may add an amount equal to the amount of the service charge incurred for the acceptance of such card. County treasurers may enter into contracts for credit card processing services according to applicable county purchasing law or may enter into agreements with the State Treasurer to participate in any credit card processing agreements entered into by the State Treasurer. It shall be unlawful for any county treasurer to receive in payment of any taxes to be collected, any state, county, school district, city or town warrants. No county treasurer shall be required to execute a tax receipt for any taxes except those paid in lawful money, until the check, draft, post office or express order has been actually paid, and in case any such check, draft, post office or express order should prove to be worthless, it shall not operate as a payment of the tax for the payment of which it was given, and any tax receipt or other receipt given therefor shall be illegal and void. Further, the county treasurer has the option of requiring cash as the method of payment if the taxpayer has previously issued bad or hot checks.
Added by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 116, eff. Jan. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 144, § 3, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 1997, c. 340, § 4, emerg. eff. June 9, 1997; Laws 2006, c. 77, § 5, eff. July 1, 2006.