Oklahoma Receives F for Disclosure of Utility Commissioner Outside Ties
Oklahoma ranked 29th in the nation for making basic information on state legislators' income, assets and potential conflicts of interest available to the public. Oklahoma received 55.5 out of a possible 100 points.
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Oklahoma Conflict-of-Interest Provision: "Nor shall such commissioners, or either of them, be, directly or indirectly, interested in any railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steam boat, pipe line, car line, sleeping car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line, operated for hire, in this State, or out of it, or any stock, bond, mortgage, security, or earnings of any such railroad, street railway, traction line, canal, steam boat, pipe line, car line, sleeping car line, car association, express line, telephone or telegraph line, compress or elevator companies …." (Oklahoma Constitution art. IX, § 16)