1. A. Service Oklahoma is hereby authorized to require the owner of each aircraft to pay a filing fee for the purpose of filing necessary liens with the Federal Aviation Administration when any registration fees required to be paid by the owner pursuant to the provisions of Section 256 of this title, or taxes levied pursuant to the provisions of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall become delinquent. The fee shall not exceed the actual cost of filing such liens with the Federal Aviation Administration and shall be collected in the same manner as such liens are collected.

2. B. The Special Agency Account Board is hereby directed to create an agency special account in which shall be deposited monies from subsection A of Section 256 of this title for the purpose of filing liens pursuant to subsection A of this section. All monies accruing to the credit of such account may be budgeted and expended by Service Oklahoma for the purpose of paying for filing all necessary liens with the Federal Aviation Administration.

   The amount of any balance of the agency special account in excess of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) at the close of each fiscal year shall revert to the General Revenue Fund of this state to be paid out pursuant to direct appropriation by the Legislature.

Laws 1984, HB 1869, c. 221, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 1984; Amended by Laws 1993, HB 1100, c. 146, § 1; Amended by Laws 2023, SB 773, c. 365, § 6, eff. July 1, 2024 (superseded document available).