Surety Bail Bondsmen of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Insurance Commissioner

TAYLOR, V.C.J.

{1 The dispositive questions presented in this appeal are whether title 59, section 1320(B) of the 2001 Oklahoma Statutes 2 limits a professional bondsman to writing bonds on no more than ten defendants a year in a county in which the professional bondsman is not registered, and, if so, whether a professional bondsman can cireumvent this limitation by employing a surety bondsman to act on the professional bondsman's behalf pursuant to a power of attorney. We answer the first question in the affirmative and the see-ond question in the negative.

I. HISTORY

T2 In 1984, the Oklahoma…