A. If any tax warrant or certificate remains outstanding and unpaid, the Tax Commission may issue an order attaching the sums due or to become due, up to the amount of the liability upon such tax warrant or certificate, upon any contract between the taxpayer named in such tax warrant or certificate and the State of Oklahoma or any department, board, institution, commission or agency thereof, for the furnishing of any services, goods, merchandise, supplies, materials or equipment for which payment is made upon claims approved by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. B. A certified copy of the attachment order shall be delivered to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and notice of such attachment shall be mailed to the taxpayer at the taxpayer's last-known address. C. From and after receipt of the attachment order, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall not pay nor shall the State Treasurer issue any check or warrant for payment to the taxpayer for the sums or funds so attached without a written release from the Tax Commission. D. The attachment orders issued by the Tax Commission shall continue in force until released by the Tax Commission. The Tax Commission may issue subsequent or successive attachment orders, which shall be cumulative. E. If the taxpayer fails within thirty (30) days after his claim upon such contract, or contracts if there are more than one, has been initially received by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, or within thirty (30) days after the mailing of notice of such attachment, whichever is later, to obtain and file with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services a release executed by the Tax Commission, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall authorize the payment to the Tax Commission of the sums or funds attached, or so much thereof as have been certified for payment pursuant to procedures prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. Such payments to the Tax Commission shall be credited against the liability on the tax warrant or certificate, and shall constitute to the extent thereof, payment by the state, department, board, institution, commission or agency to the taxpayer upon such contract. F. The Tax Commission may release funds from the claims or contracts attached to effectuate payment of the liability on such tax warrant or certificate or to protect the interest of the state, and shall release the funds attached within thirty (30) days of full payment of such liability. G. The provisions of this section shall not apply to payroll claims of or on behalf of employees of this state. H. No person, firm or corporation that is delinquent in the reporting or paying of any tax due under the laws of this state shall be registered as a vendor under the provisions of Section 85.33 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, nor included on the approved bidder lists maintained by the Purchasing Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
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