Title 47, Motor Vehicles

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…

A. The Department of Public Safety shall transfer to the Oklahoma Insurance Department by January 1, 2018, the online verification system for motor vehicle liability policies as required by the Compulsory Insurance Law, subject to the following: 1. The Oklahoma Tax Commission, th…

A. Every owner of a motor vehicle registered in this state, other than a licensed used motor vehicle dealer, shall, at all times, maintain in force with respect to such vehicle security for the payment of loss resulting from the liability imposed by law for bodily injury, death a…

A. Every carrier, upon issuing an owner's policy, a renewal thereof, or a binder, shall supply a security verification form in duplicate to an owner for each insured vehicle on a form approved by the Insurance Commissioner. 1. The owner's security verification form shall contain …

No insurance carrier issuing a vehicle liability policy pursuant to this article to a person employed as a peace officer, firefighter, or operator of emergency vehicles as defined in Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, in this state shall cancel, terminate, increase the premiums d…

A. 1. The owner of a motor vehicle registered in this state shall carry in the vehicle at all times a current owner's security verification form listing the vehicle or an equivalent form which has been issued by the Department of Public Safety, and the operator of the vehicle sha…

Every operator of a motor vehicle registered in this state shall, while operating or using such vehicle, carry either an operator's or an owner's security verification form issued by an insurance carrier or an equivalent form issued by the Department of Public Safety, reflecting …

A. From its own records, the Department of Public Safety may verify the existence of security made in the form of a deposit or of self-insurance for which a certification has been made to the Department. B. The Department may at any time verify, using the online verification syst…

A. 1. Whenever any person forfeits a bond, fails to appear, or is convicted in any state or municipal court for permitting the operation in this state of a motor vehicle owned by the person without the security required by this title, for operating a motor vehicle in this state w…

A. 1. An owner or operator who fails to comply with the Compulsory Insurance Law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both su…

A. There is hereby created the Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program. B. The Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program shall be implemented and administered by the district attorneys of the State of Oklahoma within their respective districts or at the District Attorneys Council. To i…

A. Each district attorney may create within the district attorney's office an Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Diversion Program and assign sufficient staff and resources for the efficient operation of the program. The purpose of the Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Diversion Program i…

A. Every owner of a motor vehicle which is not used upon the public highways or public streets shall be exempt from the provisions of the Compulsory Insurance Law if the owner of the vehicle has filed an affidavit with the appropriate motor license agent which states that the veh…

A. It is a misdemeanor for any person: 1. To purchase a security verification form which bears altered or fictitious information concerning the existence of security required by the Compulsory Insurance Law; 2. To display or cause or permit to be displayed or to possess a securit…

A. There is hereby created the "Oklahoma Temporary Motorist Liability Plan". B. The Oklahoma Temporary Motorist Liability Plan will provide minimum vehicle liability insurance coverage for the payment of loss resulting from the liability imposed by law for bodily injury, death an…

A. Coverage shall only be provided by the Oklahoma Temporary Motorist Liability Plan from the time period beginning when the citation is issued and the vehicle license plate is seized pursuant to subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 7-606 of Title 47 of the Ok…

A. There is hereby created the Temporary Insurance Premium Pool. Funds shall be deposited into the Temporary Insurance Premium Pool pursuant to subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 7-606 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes. B. Any interest or earning accrued …