§15-757. Investigations.
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A. When the Attorney General or a district attorney has reason to believe a person has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in any practice declared to be unlawful by Section 753 of this title, and he believes it to be in the public interest that an investigation should be made to ascertain whether a person has in fact engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in any such practice, he may execute in writing and cause to be served upon any such person who is believed to have information, documentary material or physical evidence relevant to the alleged violation an investigative demand requiring such person to furnish, under oath or otherwise, a report in writing setting forth the nonprivileged relevant facts and circumstances of which he has knowledge, or to appear and testify, or to produce relevant nonprivileged documentary material or physical evidence for examination at such reasonable time and place as may be stated in the investigative demand, concerning the advertisement, offering for sale, sale or distribution of any subject of a consumer transaction or the conduct of any trade or commerce that is the subject matter of the investigation.
B. At any time before the return date specified in an investigative demand, or within twenty
(20)days after the demand has been served, whichever period is shorter, a petition to extend the return date, or to modify or to set aside the demand, stating
good cause, may be filed in the district court of the county where the person served with the demand resides or has his principal place of business, or in the district court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. At any time, an extension of the return date or a modification or setting aside of the demand may be made by agreement of the parties. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 74, § 1, operative Oct. 1, 1982.