Price gouging law in effect for 12 counties, Drummond announces

heTEmergency Price Stabilization Act is in effect in the 12 Oklahoma counties hard hit by last night’s tornadoes.The counties are Carter, Cotton, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln, Love, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Payne and Pontotoc.The law, also referred to as the price gouging statute, prohibits an increase of more than 10 percent for the price of goods and services and helps protect citizens…