Oklahoma State Agencies a Property Owner May Need

Septic and on-site sewage

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ regulates on-site sewage systems, issues the authorisations and holds the inspection framework, at their on-site sewage page.

Our article on a failed septic system covers what the owner is actually required to do and what a sale needs.

DEQ also publishes guidance relevant to mold and to former methamphetamine manufacturing, both of which come up in property sales and neither of which Oklahoma licenses the remediation trade for.

Oil, gas and buried tanks

Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The Commission regulates oil and gas wells and, through its Petroleum Storage Tank Division, aboveground and underground storage tanks. The Division is at oklahoma.gov/occ.

Our article on an old underground fuel tank covers why you ring them before anybody digs, and our article on an old oil or gas well covers the orphan well list.

The one that pays for work on your land. The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board restores abandoned well sites at no cost to the landowner, and you register the site with them at oerb.com. Their own site has recorded hundreds of referred projects sitting unclaimed because owners never registered.

Mine subsidence

Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Its Abandoned Mine Land Division reclaims abandoned coal mines, including subsidence sites, at conservation.ok.gov.

Our article on mine subsidence and old coal workings covers what the programme does and, importantly, what it does not pay for.

If a hole has opened, that is a safety matter before it is anything else. Keep people away and ring the Commission before investigating.

Termites and pest control

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. ODAFF sets the forms and procedure for wood destroying insect reports, including the Oklahoma official report used here rather than the national form. We are not linking the department here because we could not verify a current URL to the standard we hold ourselves to on this page; search for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and use its own site.

Our article on the wood destroying insect report covers when a lender requires one and why your county can decide the answer.

Insurance

Oklahoma Insurance Department. The Department answers consumer questions and takes complaints about claim handling, at their consumer assistance and claims page. It costs nothing and it is the step people skip before paying out of pocket.

Our articles on a denied claim, the insurance appraisal clause and earthquake damage all lean on Department material.

Licensing and who regulates whom

Oklahoma Real Estate Commission. Licensing and conduct of real estate brokers and associates, and where a complaint about a licensee goes, at the Commission's consumer resources, with consumer resources at their resources page.

The Commission's own guidance points consumers elsewhere for other trades, and the map is worth knowing: the Oklahoma State Bar for attorneys, the Oklahoma Appraisal Board for appraisers, the Oklahoma Home Inspector Licensure Board for home inspectors, and the Oklahoma Office of the Commissioner of Banks for banks, mortgage companies and mortgage brokers.

Our article on broker relationships in Oklahoma covers what a broker actually owes you under the Act the Commission administers.

Tax, records and history

Oklahoma Tax Commission publishes the ad valorem forms, including the valuation protest forms. The current informal protest form sits at oklahoma.gov.

Oklahoma Historical Society maintains cemetery records. We are not linking a URL here because we could not verify a current one to the standard this page holds; search for the Society and use its own site. It matters if a burial site turns up on a parcel. Our article on a cemetery or burial plot on your property covers the position.

Oklahoma statutes themselves are published by the Legislature and through the courts network, and every statutory reference on this site can be checked against them.

A caution about this page

Checked in August 2026 and reviewed every six months. State sites are reorganised and agencies are occasionally renamed or merged.

No telephone numbers, deliberately. Each agency publishes its own current number, and a wrong number on a page about a leaking tank or a denied claim is worse than no number at all.