Oklahoma § 40-3-303 Priorities under legal dissolutions or distributions.

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 40-3-303 — Priorities under legal dissolutions or distributions.

Oklahoma·Title 40 Labor

PRIORITIES UNDER LEGAL DISSOLUTIONS OR DISTRIBUTIONS. In the event of any distribution of an employer's assets pursuant to an order of any court or under the laws of this state, including any receivership, assignment for benefit of creditors, adjudicated insolvency, composition, or similar proceedings, all contributions, interest, penalties and fees imposed by the provisions of this act are hereby declared to constitute a lien in favor of the state upon all franchises, property, and the rights to property, whether real or personal, then belonging to or thereafter acquired by the person, firm, corporation, partnership or association owing the contribution, whether such property is employed by such person, firm, corporation, partnership or association in the prosecution of business, or is in

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PRIORITIES UNDER LEGAL DISSOLUTIONS OR DISTRIBUTIONS. In the event of any distribution of an employer's assets pursuant to an order of any court or under the laws of this state, including any receivership, assignment for benefit of creditors, adjudicated insolvency, composition, or similar proceedings, all contributions, interest, penalties and fees imposed by the provisions of this act are hereby declared to constitute a lien in favor of the state upon all franchises, property, and the rights to property, whether real or personal, then belonging to or thereafter acquired by the person, firm, corporation, partnership or association owing the contribution, whether such property is employed by such person, firm, corporation, partnership or association in the prosecution of business, or is in the hands of an assignee, trustee, or receiver for the benefit of creditors, from the date of the filing by the Commission of a notice of claim of said lien in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such property is located. Said lien shall be in addition to any lien accrued by the filing of a tax warrant as provided in this act. Said lien shall be prior, superior and paramount to all other liens, or encumbrances of whatsoever kind or character, attaching to any of said property subsequent to the filing of such notice of claim of lien, except liens for other taxes, in which event said lien shall be coequal, and claims for wages of not more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to each claimant, earned within six (6) months of the commencement of any proceeding distributing an employer's assets pursuant to an order of the court under the laws of this state. Said lien shall continue until the amount of contribution, interest, penalty and fees due and owing, and interest subsequently accruing thereon, is paid. In the event of an employer's adjudication in bankruptcy, judicially confirmed extension proposal, or composition, under the Federal Bankruptcy Act of 1898, as amended, contributions then or thereafter due shall be entitled to such priority as is provided in that act for taxes due any state of the United States.

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Legislative History

Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 3-303, eff. July 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 259, § 19, emerg. eff. June 25, 1981; Laws 1993, c. 219, § 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.