# Oklahoma — Process server licensing and bond requirements by US state — who must be licensed to serve legal papers, and the dollar bond or insurance figure the statute sets, quoted from the statute itself

For Oklahoma, when regulation applies is Any person who knowingly and willfully serves process in Oklahoma without a process server license issued by the State of Oklahoma or who holds himself or herself out to be a process server licensed by the State of Oklahoma when the person is not licensed as such shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor; bond or insurance required is executing bond running to the State of Oklahoma in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for faithful performance of his or her duties and filing the bond with the court clerk; statute is 12 O.S. § 158.1, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Oklahoma _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **When regulation applies:** Any person who knowingly and willfully serves process in Oklahoma without a process server license issued by the State of Oklahoma or who holds himself or herself out to be a process server licensed by the State of Oklahoma when the person is not licensed as such shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor. _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Bond or insurance required:** executing bond running to the State of Oklahoma in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for faithful performance of his or her duties and filing the bond with the court clerk _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Statute:** 12 O.S. § 158.1 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> I. Any person who knowingly and willfully serves process in Oklahoma without a process server license issued by the State of Oklahoma or who holds himself or herself out to be a process server licensed by the State of Oklahoma when the person is not licensed as such shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### When regulation applies

> I. Any person who knowingly and willfully serves process in Oklahoma without a process server license issued by the State of Oklahoma or who holds himself or herself out to be a process server licensed by the State of Oklahoma when the person is not licensed as such shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a process server licensed in another state who is serving court documents issued by a court in another state to a person in Oklahoma.

### Bond or insurance required

> the application for the license shall be granted by the presiding judge or such associate district judge or district judge as is designated by the presiding judge and, upon executing bond running to the State of Oklahoma in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for faithful performance of his or her duties and filing the bond with the court clerk, the applicant shall be authorized and licensed to serve court documents in any county in this state.

### Statute

> Section 158.1 - Licensure of Private Process Server - Revocation - List of Servers Cite as: 12 O.S. § 158.1 (OSCN 2026)

## Source

- https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=93705

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2028-09-01.
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