Title 47, Motor Vehicles

The Department of Public Safety may promulgate reasonable and necessary rules concerning the implementation of the Oklahoma Temporary Motorist Liability Plan. Added by Laws 2013, c. 176, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.

Any person whose driving privileges have been withdrawn by the Department under the provisions of Chapter 7 of this title, and whose driving privileges are subsequently withdrawn for another violation of Chapter 7 of this title arising out of the same incident, shall not be requi…

A. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any motor vehicle engaged in the business of renting motor vehicles without drivers to rent a motor vehicle without a driver otherwise than as a part of a bona fide transaction involving the sale of such motor vehicle, unless he or she has…

A. In the event the owner of a for-rent motor vehicle has not given proof of financial responsibility as provided in Section 8-101 of this title, then Service Oklahoma shall not register any motor vehicle owned by such person and rented, or intended to be rented, to another unles…

A. No person shall rent a motor vehicle to any other person unless the person to whom the vehicle is to be rented is duly licensed to operate a motor vehicle as required under this act or, in the case of a nonresident, then duly licensed under the laws of the state or country of …

A. 1. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a taxicab or taxicabs within a municipality shall file with the governing board of the municipality in which such business is operated proof of financial responsibility. 2. No governing board of a munici…

A. If a motor vehicle rental company imposes additional mandatory charges, the rental company shall: 1. Provide a good-faith estimate of the total charges for the entire rental, including all additional mandatory charges, whenever a quote is provided to a potential customer. The …

The provisions of this chapter shall apply upon highways and elsewhere throughout the state. Added by Laws 1961, p. 370, § 10-101, eff. Sept. 1, 1961. Amended by Laws 1972, c. 160, § 2.

A. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in a nonfatal injury to any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of t…

A. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in the death of any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accid…

The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident or as close thereto as possible but shall forthwith return to and in every event sha…

The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall give his or her correct name, address and registration number of the vehicle he or she is driving, and shall up…

The driver of any vehicle which collides with any vehicle which is unattended shall immediately stop and shall then and there either locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle of the correct name and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle striking the unatten…

The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to fixtures, fences, or other property legally upon or adjacent to a highway shall take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of such property of such fact and of the driver's…

The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall immediately, by the quickest means of communication, give notice of such accident to the local police department, if such accident occurs within a municipality, or to the office of…

A. Except for collisions occurring on private property, the operator of a motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in a collision upon any road, street, highway or elsewhere within this state resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or in which it is apparent tha…

(a) The form of the report required by this section shall be prescribed by the Commissioner, and the Commissioner shall cause to be prepared such blanks and shall make such blanks available to the motoring public by leaving a supply with sheriffs, chiefs of police, justices of th…

The Department may require any driver of a vehicle involved in an accident of which report must be made as provided in this section to file supplemental reports whenever the original report is insufficient in the opinion of the Department. Laws 1961, p. 316, § 1-110.

(a) An accident report is not required under this chapter from any person who is physically incapable of making report during the period of such incapacity. (b) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an immediate notice of an accident as required in Se…

Any person who gives information in reports as required in Sections 10-108, 10-110 or 10-111 knowing or having reason to believe that such information is false shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year, or both. Laws …

A. The Department shall prepare and make available to police departments, coroners, sheriffs, garages and other suitable agencies or individuals forms for accident reports required hereunder, appropriate with respect to the persons required to make such reports and the purposes t…

The Commissioner of Public Safety may suspend the license or permit to drive and any nonresident operating privileges of any person failing to report an accident as herein provided until such report has been filed, and the Commissioner may extend such suspension not to exceed thi…

A. All collision reports made by persons involved in collisions shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the Department or other state agencies having use for the records for collision prevention purposes, or for the admin…

The Department may tabulate and analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents. Laws 1961, p. 372, § 10-116.

Any incorporated city, town, village or other municipality may by ordinance require that the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident shall also file with a designated city department a report of such accident or a copy of any report herein required to be filed with the Depart…

A. Notwithstanding any other section of law to the contrary, no person or entity shall impose an accident response fee for the response or investigation of a motor vehicle accident by law enforcement. B. For purposes of this section, “accident response fee” means a fee imposed fo…

A. 1. Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main-traveled part of the highway when it is practicable to stop, park or so leave such vehicle off such …

A. Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of any of the provisions of subsection A of Section 11-1001 of this title, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to…

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection B of this section, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the foll…

A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent curbs shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such vehicle parallel to and within eighteen (18) inches of the right- hand curb. B. Local au…

Provisions of this article shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles or to vehicles or machinery used in the construction or maintenance of highways, and such vehicles or machinery may be operated on any part of the road, whether same is open to traffic or closed, when suc…

(a) It shall be unlawful to place or park a motor vehicle or a trailer upon the posted private property of another, without first obtaining permission from the landowner or the person in charge of such property, except where said placing or parking is casual or involuntary. (b) V…

A. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or park a motor vehicle in any parking space that is designated and posted as a reserved area for the parking of a motor vehicle operated by or transporting a physically disabled person unless such person has applied for and been…

A. No person shall place, stop, park, or stand any vehicle including trailers or implements of husbandry, contrary to any official sign reserving, restricting, or regulating the placing, stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle at any state building or property, including grou…

The provisions of this chapter relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon the highways except: 1. Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section. 2. The provisions of Chapter 10 of this title and Article IX of…

A. The Department of Transportation in coordination with the Department of Public Safety shall have the authority to erect and maintain signs reserving, restricting or regulating the placing, stopping, standing or parking of vehicles within the boundaries of the following: 1. Sta…

In counties with a population over five hundred thousand (500,000) according to the last decennial census, marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles or any vehicle which a law enforcement officer is using in an official capacity shall be exempt from paying a parking meter whil…

It is unlawful and, unless otherwise declared in this chapter with respect to particular offenses, it is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this chapter. Laws 1961, p. 373, § 11-102.

No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic. Laws 1961, p. 373, § 11-103; Laws 1968, c. 58, § 1, emerg. eff. March 18, 1968.

Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-driven vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except those provisions of this chapter which by their very nature…

Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of this chapter except those contained in Article IX hereof shall not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles and other equipment, while actually engaged in work upon the surface of a highway, or to persons, motor vehicles and o…

A. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the privilege set forth in this section, but su…

The military forces of the United States and organizations of the National Guard, performing any military duty, shall not be restricted by municipal traffic regulations, and shall have the right of way on any street or highway through which they may pass against all, except carri…

The person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall not permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, and effectively setting the brake thereon and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway. Laws 1961, p. 38…

No vehicle shall be backed upon any street or highway except for such distance as may be necessary to permit the vehicle to enter the proper driving lane from a parked position. Such backing shall be done only after the driver of said vehicle has ascertained that such movement ca…

A. No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall drive a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, or motorized bicycle on any highway of this state while transporting any other person. B. The operator of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, or moto…