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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 749 By: Allen
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to wind energy; providing a fee for
commercial wind energy equipment; providing date for
payment of fee; providing interes t penalty for
delinquent payments; requiring the Corporation
Commission to deposit fee and penalty revenue in the
Education Reform Revol ving Fund; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE ST ATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 160.23 of Title 17, unless there
is created a duplication in nu mbering, reads as follows:
A. Beginning January 1, 2022, the re shall be a fee of one cent
($0.01) per kilowatt of total nameplate gener ating capacity for
commercial wind energy equipment, as defined pursuant to Section
160.13 of Title 17 of the Oklaho ma Statutes. The fee shall be paid
to the Corporation Commission on January 1, of each year by the
owner of the commercial wind en ergy equipment.
B. All fees not paid on January 1 shall be considered
delinquent and the Corporation Commission shall a ssess a penalty to
be paid by owners of commercial wind energy equipme nt of one percent
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(1%) of the total amount due on the last day of each month until the
fee is paid.
C. All fee revenues and penalty interest collected by the
Corporation Commission purs uant to subsections A and B of this
section shall be deposited in the Education Reform Revolving Fund of
the State Department of Education.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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