SECTION 365:20-3-2. Satutory requirements

  No title insurer shall issue, permit or cause to be issued, either directly or by an agent, a binder, commitment or policy of title insurance until either the title insurance company or its authorized agent shall have obtained an opinion of title by an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Oklahoma based upon an examination of a duly certified abstract of title prepared by a bonded and licensed abstractor. For purposes of this section, a duly certified abstract means an abstract certified by a licensed and bonded abstractor with a Certificate date of not more than one-hundred eighty (180) days prior to the effective date of the title insurance policy. The above statutory requirements will not be satisfied by an examination or certification merely of copies of documents found in a search of the title record, or of the records of the Court Clerk or County Clerk.