Title 47, Motor Vehicles

The provisions of this chapter, requiring deposit of security, filing of proof of financial responsibility, and suspensions for failure to deposit security or file proof of financial responsibility, subject to certain exemptions, shall apply to the driver and owner of any vehicle…

A. The Department of Public Safety, not less than twenty (20) days after receipt of a report of an accident, as described in Section 7-201 of this title, shall determine the amount of security which shall be sufficient in its judgment to satisfy any judgment or judgments for dama…

The provisions in this chapter requiring security, proof of financial responsibility, and suspension in this article shall not apply: 1. To the driver or owner if the owner had in effect at the time of the accident a motor vehicle liability policy with respect to the vehicle invo…

A. No motor vehicle liability policy shall be considered effective to provide any exemption under Section 7-203 of this title unless; 1. The policy is issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in this state, except as provided in subsection B of this section; and 2…

A. The security required under this chapter shall be in the form and in the amount the Department of Public Safety requires, but in no case in excess of minimum liability insurance limits. B. Every depositor of security shall designate in writing every person in whose name the de…

In the event that any person required to deposit security and file proof of financial responsibility under this article fails to deposit such security and file such proof of financial responsibility within ten (10) days after the Department of Public Safety has sent the notice as…

A. A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security for the benefit or protection of another person injured or damaged in the accident, provided he or she has given proof of financial responsibility, in the event he or she is released from liability by the …

A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security in respect to a claim for injury or damage arising out of the accident in the event such person has been finally adjudicated not to be liable in respect to such claim. Laws 1961, p. 356, § 7-208.

A. Any two or more of the persons involved in or affected by an accident, as described in Section 7-201 of this title, may at any time enter into a written agreement for the payment of an agreed amount with respect to all claims of any of the persons because of bodily injury to o…

The payment of a judgment arising out of an accident or the payment upon the judgment of an amount equal to the maximum amount which could be required for deposit under this chapter shall, for the purposes of this chapter, release the judgment debtor from the liability evidenced …

The Department, if satisfied as to the existence of any fact which under Sections 7-207, 7-208, 7-209 or 7-210 would entitle a person to be relieved from the security requirements of this chapter, shall not require the deposit of security by the person so relieved from such requi…

Unless a suspension is terminated under other provisions of this chapter, any order of suspension by the Department of Public Safety under this chapter shall remain in effect and no license shall be renewed for or issued to any person whose driving privilege is suspended until: 1…

A. In case the driver or the owner of a vehicle subject to registration under the laws of this state involved in an accident within this state has no driver license in this state, then the driver shall be denied a driver license until he or she has complied with the requirements …

The Department of Public Safety may reduce the amount of security ordered in any case within one (1) year after the date of the accident if in its judgment the amount ordered is excessive. In case the security originally ordered has been deposited, the excess deposit over the red…

Whenever the Department of Public Safety has taken any action or has failed to take any action under this article by reason of having received erroneous information or no information, then, upon receiving further information within one (1) year after the date of an accident, the …

The Department shall place any negotiable security, or security issued in bearer form, deposited with it under this chapter in the custody of the State Treasurer. Receipts or other documents evidencing the existence of a security shall be retained by the Department. Added by Laws…

Such security shall be applicable and available only 1. For the payment of any settlement agreement covering any claim arising out of the accident upon instruction of the person who made the deposit, or 2. For the payment of a judgment or judgments, rendered against the person re…

Upon the expiration of one (1) year from the date of any deposit of security, any security remaining on deposit shall be returned to the person who made such deposit or to his personal representative if an affidavit or other evidence satisfactory to the Department has been filed …

The report required following an accident, the action taken by the Department pursuant to this chapter, the findings, if any, of said Department upon which such action is based, and the security filed as provided in this chapter shall not be referred to in any way and shall not b…

Whenever any person fails within thirty (30) days to satisfy any judgment, then upon the written request of the judgment creditor or his attorney it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, or of the judge of a court which has no clerk, in which any such judgment is rendered …

If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to Service Oklahoma, as prescribed in Section 7-308 of this title, is a nonresident, then Service Oklahoma shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official in charge of the issuance of driver licen…

Service Oklahoma, upon receipt of a certified copy of a judgment as prescribed in Section 7-308 of this title and a certificate of facts relative to such judgment, on a form provided by Service Oklahoma, shall forthwith suspend the driving privilege of any person against whom the…

The provisions of Section 7-310 shall not apply with respect to any such judgment arising out of an accident caused by the ownership or operation, with permission, of a vehicle owned or leased to the United States, this state or any political subdivision of this state or a munici…

If the judgment creditor consents in writing, in a manner as the Department of Public Safety may prescribe, that the judgment debtor be allowed to continue his or her driving privilege, the same may be allowed by the Department, in its discretion, for at least six (6) months from…

No driving privilege of any person shall be suspended under the provisions of this chapter if the Department of Public Safety shall find that an insurer was obligated to pay the judgment, at least to the extent and for the amounts required in this chapter, upon which the suspensi…

The driving privilege of any person which has been suspended under the provisions of Section 7-313 of this title shall remain suspended and shall not be reinstated, nor shall any driver license be thereafter issued in the name of the person, including any person not previously li…

A discharge in bankruptcy following the rendering of any such judgment shall relieve the judgment debtor from the security requirements which are the subject of the discharge in bankruptcy, but shall not relieve the judgment debtor from any of the other requirements of this chapt…

A. Judgments herein referred to shall, for the purpose of this chapter only, be deemed satisfied: 1. When the minimum liability insurance limits are met; or 2. When any combination of amounts as prescribed by the minimum liability insurance limits and as appropriate to the conseq…

A. A judgment debtor, upon due notice to the judgment creditor, may apply to the court in which the judgment was rendered for the privilege of paying the judgment in installments, and the court, in its discretion and without prejudice to any other legal remedies which the judgmen…

In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installment as specified by an order described in Section 7-317 of this title, then, upon notice by the court of the default, Service Oklahoma shall forthwith suspend the driving privilege of the person who is the judgment debtor …

Proof of financial responsibility when required under this article, with respect to a vehicle or with respect to a person who is not the owner of a vehicle, may be given by filing: 1. A security verification form as defined in Section 7-600 of this title; 2. A certificate of depo…

(a) Certification. A "motor vehicle liability policy" as the term is used in this article shall mean an "owner's policy" or an "operator's policy" of liability insurance, certified as provided in Section 7-321 or Section 7-322 of this title as proof of financial responsibility, a…

Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the Department of Public Safety that the person named therein has deposited with the Department at least Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) in cash, or a certificate of deposit issued by a financial …

Such deposit shall be held by the Department to satisfy, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, any execution on a judgment issued against such a person making the deposit, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or de…

The Department shall consent to the cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance or the Department shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return any money or securities to the person entitled thereto upon the substitution and acceptance of other adequate proof of fina…

A. The Department of Public Safety shall upon request consent to the immediate cancellation of any certificate of insurance or the Department shall direct and the State Treasurer shall return to the person entitled thereto any money or securities deposited pursuant to this articl…

A. Any person whose driving privilege shall have been suspended under any provision of this chapter, or whose policy of insurance, when required under this chapter, shall have been canceled or terminated, shall immediately return his or her driver license to the Department of Pub…

Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility, or who files or offers for filing any such evidence of proof knowing or having reason to believe that it is forged or signed without authority, shall be fined not more than …

(a) The Department is hereby authorized to enter into, negotiate, and execute reciprocal compacts and agreements with the proper authorities, bureaus or divisions of other states regarding the use, application and operation of the financial responsibility provisions of this Code.…

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply with respect to any vehicle which is subject to regulation by the Corporation Commission or to regulation by any other federal or state agency under provisions of any laws requiring insurance or other security. Added by Laws 1961, p.…

(a) Any person in whose name more than twenty-five vehicles are registered in this state may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the Department as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) The Department may, in its discretion, u…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the plaintiff in any action at law from relying for relief upon the other processes provided by law. Laws 1961, p. 366, § 7-504.

A. In order to furnish a means of relief from extreme and unusually severe hardship in the application of Article II or Article III of this chapter, it is hereby provided that any owner or operator whose driving privilege has been suspended by the Department of Public Safety unde…

Whenever a person's driving privilege is suspended under this chapter and the filing of proof of financial responsibility is made a prerequisite to reinstatement of the driving privilege or the issuance of a driver license, no driving privilege shall be reinstated or a driver lic…

As used in Section 7-600 et seq. of this title: 1. "Owner's policy" means a policy of motor vehicle liability insurance which: a. shall designate by explicit description or by appropriate reference all vehicles with respect to which coverage is thereby to be granted, b. shall ins…

A. The following statement or endorsement shall be included in owner's policies and operator's policies except certified policies issued pursuant to Section 7-324 of this title: "Liability insurance is provided in this policy in accordance with coverage required by the Compulsory…