VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES A. Any foreign corporation doing business of any kind in this state without first having complied with any provision of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act applicable to it, shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each such offense. Any agent of any foreign corporation that shall do any business in this state for any foreign corporation before the foreign corporation has complied with any provision of the Oklahoma General Corporation Act applicable to it, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each such offense. B. If any foreign corporation fails to file or cause to be filed a certificate as provided for in paragraphs 11 and 13 of subsection A of Section 1142 of this title or fails to pay to the Secretary of State any additional fees shown to be due by the certificate provided for in paragraph 13 of subsection A of Section 1142 of this title, the corporation: 1. may be ousted from this state by the Secretary of State and its certificate of authority to do business in this state revoked and canceled. Before such revocation the Secretary of State shall give not less than thirty (30) days' notice sent by mail duly addressed to such corporation at its principal place of business or last address shown on the records of the Secretary of State of the Secretary of State's intent to revoke the corporation's authority to transact business in this state; and 2. after notice required in paragraph 1 above, shall be subject to a penalty and shall forfeit to the state for each day it fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection, the sum of Twenty- five Dollars ($25.00) per day but not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each such offense. C. All fines and penalties provided for by this section may be recovered in a suit brought therefor by the Attorney General, in the name of the state, against the corporation, in any district court of the state. Fines and penalties received or collected pursuant to this section by the Attorney General as a result of an action brought in the name of the state by the Attorney General, shall be paid into the State Treasury provided that twenty-five percent (25%) thereof shall be deposited in the Attorney General's Evidence Fund. Such fines and penalties shall be properly accounted for and paid monthly by the Secretary of State to the State Treasurer for deposit into the General Revenue Fund. Added by Laws 1986, c. 292, § 134, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 146, § 11, emerg. eff. June 24, 1987; Laws 1989, c. 169, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1991, c. 331, § 57, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
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