Where any coin-operated device as hereinbefore defined is placed on location, or after having been placed on location is there left without the decal affixed thereon as herein provided, the device, including all cash in the receptacle thereof, shall be considered forfeited to the State of Oklahoma and may be sealed until released by the Tax Commission or seized by any authorized agent of the Oklahoma Tax Commission, or any sheriff, constable, or other peace officer of this state, and upon so being seized shall, together with the cash, if any, contained in the receptacle of such device, forthwith be delivered to the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Provided, no device shall be seized less than fifteen (15) days after the sealing of the device and notice being placed on the device informing the owner that the device is subject to seizure if the applicable fees are not paid and decal affixed. The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall then proceed to hear and determine the matter of whether or not the device and cash, if any, should, in fact, be forfeited to the State of Oklahoma. The owner of the device shall be given at least ten (10) days' notice of the date of the hearing. In the event said Commission finds that the device including the cash contents, if any, should be forfeited to the State of Oklahoma, it shall make an order forfeiting the same to the State of Oklahoma, and directing the sale of such device. The device shall be sold in the county where seized or in Oklahoma County, at the discretion of the Commission, after ten (10) days' notice, which notice shall be by posting five notices in conspicuous places in the county where the sale is to be made, one of which notices shall be posted on the bulletin board at the county courthouse of said county. The sale shall be for cash, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied as follows:

1. To the payment of the costs incident to the seizure and sale;

2. To the payment of any taxes, including penalties, that may have accrued against the device; and

3. The balance, if any, shall be remitted to the owner.

The cash contained in any device and forfeited under the provisions of this section shall be forfeited as an additional tax penalty and shall be in addition to all other penalties provided for in Sections 1501 through 1512 of this title. The order of the Tax Commission, declaring a forfeiture of the device including the cash contents thereof, if any, and directing the sale of such device shall be a final order and may be appealed from as provided for in the Uniform Tax Procedure Act. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables and other peace officers to cooperate with the Oklahoma Tax Commission in the enforcement of the seizure and forfeiture provisions of this section.

Added by Laws 1949, p. 484, § 7, emerg. eff. May 7, 1949. Renumbered from § 1551 of this title by Laws 1965, c. 215, § 1. Amended by Laws 1988, c. 47, § 6, operative July 1, 1988; Laws 1993, c. 146, § 23; Laws 2016, c. 167, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.