Title 47, Motor Vehicles

The Commissioner of Public Safety and the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority are hereby authorized to enter into contracts and agreements for law enforcement on turnpikes. The Department of Public Safety is authorized to use any of its automotive and other equipment in policing turnpike…

Vehicles or equipment owned by the Oklahoma Transportation Authority, its agents or contractors, and public utilities, and engaged in maintenance or emergency operations, shall be equipped with such flashing and signal lights as may be prescribed by this title or by federal regul…

(a) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the provisions of this act, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an a…

Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights or colored lighted arrows successively one at a time, or in combination, only the colors green, red and yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals carrying a word legend…

A. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Bicycle" means a device as defined in subsection A of Section 1-104 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and 2. "Immediate hazard" means a vehicle approaching a person operating a bicycle at a proximity and rate of speed sufficient to ind…

Whenever special pedestrian-control signals exhibiting the words “Walk” or a flashing “Don’t Walk” or the WALKING PERSON or UPRAISED HAND symbols are in place, such signals shall indicate as follows: 1. Walk. Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway in the di…

A. Whenever an illuminated red or yellow signal is used in a traffic sign or signal it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows: 1. Flashing red (stop signal). When a red lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before ent…

When lane use control signals are placed over individual lanes, said signals shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles as follows: 1. Green indication - Vehicular traffic may travel in any lane over which a green signal is shown; 2. Steady yellow indication - Vehicular traf…

Whenever a pedestrian-actuated school crossing signal is provided, it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic and pedestrians in accordance with Sections 11-202 and 11-203 of this title. Laws 1961, p. 375, § 11-205; Laws 1977, c. 21, § 3, emerg. eff. April 15, 1977.

(a) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the mo…

A. No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device, including any nine-one-one (911) emergency telephone service route markers, or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shie…

A. As used in this section, the term "traffic signal preemption device" shall mean a device designed for use by authorized emergency vehicles to improve traffic movement by temporarily controlling signalized intersections. B. It shall be unlawful for a person to possess, use, or …

A. Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows: 1. When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the laws governing such movement; 2. When an obstruction exists making i…

Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in each direction each driver shall give to the other at least one-half (1/2) of the maintraveled portion of the roadway …

The following requirements shall govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions and special requirements hereinafter stated: 1. The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same dire…

(a) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions: 1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn; 2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement not occupied by parked vehicles of…

No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless such left side is clearly visible and is free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking a…

(a) No vehicle shall be driven on the left side of the roadway under the following conditions: 1. When approaching or upon the crest of a grade or a curve in the highway where the driver's view is obstructed within such distance as to create a hazard in the event another vehicle …

(a) The Oklahoma Department of Highways or other designated authorities are hereby authorized to determine those portions of any highway where overtaking and passing or driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous and may by appropriate signs or markings on th…

A. The Transportation Commission or local authorities, within their respective jurisdictions, may designate any street or highway or any separate roadway under their respective jurisdictions for one-way traffic and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. B. Upon a ro…

Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic, the following requirements in addition to all others consistent herewith shall apply: 1. A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane; 2. A vehicle shall n…

(a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway. (b) The driver of any truck or motor vehicle drawing another veh…

Whenever any highway has been divided into two or more roadways by leaving an intervening space or by a physical barrier or clearly indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle shall be driven only upon the right-hand roadway unless dire…

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled- access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority. Laws 1961, p. 378, § 11-312.

The Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Transportation Authority, or local authorities may, with respect to any controlled- access roadway under their respective jurisdictions, prohibit the use of any such roadway by pedestrians, bicycles or other non- motorized traffic or…

A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Bernardo-Mills Law". B. The driver of a motor vehicle, upon approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle, a Department of Transportation maintenance vehicle, a Turnpike Authority maintenance vehicle, a stationary ve…

A. No driver of a motor vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while the vehicles are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled b…

The driver of a motor vehicle, upon approaching a vehicle being used in the collection of refuse, solid waste or recyclables displaying side marker lamps which flash in conjunction with turn signal lamps or vehicle hazard warning lamps pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-227…

A. Whether a stop sign or yield sign is present, visible or not, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall not proceed until it is safe to do so, when the driver is: 1. On a county road upon approaching an intersection with a state or federal highway; 2. On a…

The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is so close thereto when initiating such turn as to constitute an immediate hazard. Added by Laws 1961, p. 379, § 11-402, eff. Sept. 1, …

A. Preferential right-of-way at an intersection may be indicated by stop signs or yield signs as authorized in Section 15- 108 of this title. B. Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersectio…

A. Any person convicted of failure to yield a right-of-way and who causes a fatality or great bodily injury, as defined in Section 11-904 of this title, as a result of such violation shall, in addition to any other fine or penalty, be assessed a fee in the amount of Five Hundred …

A. All unencumbered balances contained in the Motorcycle Safety and Drunk Driving Awareness Fund as of April 30, 2007, shall be deposited to the credit of the Department of Public Safety Revolving Fund of the State Treasury. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise…

The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway from a private road or driveway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said highway. Laws 1961, p. 379, § 11-404.

A. Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and visual signals meeting the requirements of Section 12-218 of this act, or of a police vehicle properly and lawfully making use of an audible signal or red flashing lights, the driver of ev…

A. A farm tractor, as defined in Section 1-118 of this title, or any implement of husbandry, as defined in Section 1-125 of this title, except trailers and semitrailers when operated in accordance with statutory limits or provisions of Section 14-101 of this title, shall not be p…

(a) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device specifically applicable to him, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. (b) Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic and pedestrian- control signals as provided in Sections 11-202 and 11-203…

Every person operating a wheelchair or a motorized wheelchair shall have all of the rights and all of the duties applicable to a pedestrian contained in Chapter 11 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes except those provisions which by their nature can have no application. Added by…

(a) When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadwa…

(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. (b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel o…

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this chapter, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any c…

Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks. Laws 1961, p. 380, § 11-505.

(a) Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway. (b) Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the left side of the roadway or its sh…

No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, donation, employment or business from the occupant of any vehicle; provided, that persons shall not be prohibited from soliciting pursuant to this section if performed on a roadway maintained by a city or to…

The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows: 1. Right turns. Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway. 2. Left turns. The driver of a vehicle int…

A. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the driver of a vehicle shall not turn the vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and without interfering with other traffic. B. No vehicle shall be turned so as t…