Title 47, Motor Vehicles

The brake system on any motorcycle shall comply with performance ability standard set forth in 49 C.F.R., Section 571.121, and shall be adequate to control the movement of the motorcycle and to stop and hold the motorcycle, including two separate means of applying the brakes. One…

A. In addition to other requirements prescribed by this chapter, by federal law or by local ordinance, all motorcycles, except when operated on actual trail rides conducted outside of public roads and highways, shall be equipped with: 1. Two rearview mirrors, containing a reflect…

No provision in this chapter shall apply to bicycles or to equipment for use on bicycles except as to provisions in this article or unless a provision has been made specifically applicable to bicyclists, bicycles, electric-assisted bicycles or their equipment. As used in Chapter …

Every bicycle in use at the times described in subsection B of Section 12-201 of this title shall be equipped with a lamp on the front emitting a white light visible from a distance of at least one thousand (1,000) feet to the front. This section shall not apply to a street or hi…

Every bicycle in use at the times described in subsection B of Section 12-201 of this title shall be equipped with a lamp on the rear emitting a red light visible from a distance of at least one thousand (1,000) feet to the rear. This section shall not apply to a street or highwa…

Every bicycle shall be equipped with a red reflector which shall be visible for six hundred (600) feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful lower beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Added by Laws 2003, c.411, § 77, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.

Every bicycle when in use at the times described in subsection B of Section 12-201 of this title shall be equipped with reflective material of sufficient size and reflectivity to be visible from both sides for six hundred (600) feet when directly in front of lawful lower beams of…

A bicycle or its rider may be equipped with lights or reflectors in addition to those required by the foregoing sections; provided, such lights or reflectors shall comply with the provisions and limitations of Article II of Chapter 12 of this title. Added by Laws 2003, c. 411, § …

Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake or brakes which will enable its driver to stop the bicycle within twenty-five (25) feet from a speed of ten (10) miles per hour on dry, level, clean pavement. Added by Laws 2003, c.411, § 81, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.

A bicycle shall not be equipped with, nor shall any person use upon a bicycle, any siren. Added by Laws 2003, c.411, § 82, eff. Nov. 1, 2003.

No person shall drive or cause to be moved on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer, or any combination of vehicles, unless the equipment upon any and every said vehicle is in good working order and adjustment as required in this act and said vehicle…

A. Members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other employees of the Department of Public Safety as designated by the Commissioner, may at any time upon reasonable cause to believe that a vehicle is unsafe or not equipped as required by law, or that its equipment is not in proper…

Whenever the driver of a vehicle is directed by a member of the Highway Patrol to stop and submit the mechanical condition of the vehicle or its equipment to an inspection or test under the conditions stated in this act, it shall be the duty of such driver to stop and submit to s…

A. It is a misdemeanor for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight exceeding the limitations stated in this chapter or otherwise in violation of this chapter, and th…

A. Except as otherwise provided for by this chapter, no vehicle, with or without load, shall have a total outside width in excess of one hundred two (102) inches excluding: 1. Tire bulge; 2. Approved safety devices; 3. A retracted awning with a width of eight (8) inches or less o…

A. No combination of a motor vehicle and manufactured home or frame or frames thereof shall have an overall length, inclusive of front and rear bumpers, in excess of seventy (70) feet or a width in excess of eighteen (18) feet while operating on the system of interstate and defen…

A. Any automobile transporter vehicle or combination of automobile transporter vehicles operated under the provisions of Section 14-103 of this title may carry an extension of load, the extension not to exceed three (3) feet beyond the front nor more than four (4) feet beyond the…

A. The Executive Director of the Department of Transportation shall upon proper application issue a special permit to any person allowing the movement on state and federal highways of a structure in the form of a house or building, including, but not limited to, industrialized ho…

A. No person shall transport or move a manufactured home on any public road or highway in this state, except as otherwise provided by law, without a permit issued pursuant to the provisions of Sections 14-103A and 14-103C of this title and subsection B of this section, and withou…

A. Upon issuance of a permit pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-103D of this title, the Department of Transportation shall notify the Oklahoma Tax Commission of the issuance of such permit. The notification shall include the permit information required by subsection B of Se…

Any person, firm or corporation owning a manufactured home used in the course of his construction, oil field or seasonal farming activities, may apply for a special decal allowing such person to transport said manufactured home on the highways of this state, provided this section…

A. 1. The Department of Transportation may issue an annual vehicle permit under the provisions of this subsection to a specific vehicle, for the movement of oversize or overweight loads that cannot reasonably be dismantled. Unless otherwise provided by law, permits issued under t…

A. No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or w…

Every trailer, or semitrailer, shall be equipped with a coupling device which shall be so designed and constructed that the trailer, or semitrailer will follow substantially in the path of the vehicle drawing it without whipping or swerving from side to side. In addition, every s…

As used in this chapter: 1. "Axle load" means the total load transmitted to the road by all wheels whose centers are included between two parallel transverse vertical planes forty (40) inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle; 2. "Tandem axle" means any two or…

A. On any road or highway: 1. No single axle weight shall exceed twenty thousand (20,000) pounds; and 2. The total gross weight in pounds imposed thereon by a vehicle or combination of vehicles shall not exceed the value calculated in accordance with the Federal Bridge formula im…

Motor vehicle load overweight violations shall not be recorded as traffic offenses on the driving record of the operator of the vehicle, unless the operator is the owner of the vehicle, or the owner of a majority of the stock of any company which is the owner of the vehicle, on w…

A. Except as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of delivering agriculture commodities to and from the farm only, any vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be commercially weighed on a vehicle scale only as a single draft, that is, the total weight of the vehicle or combinat…

A. A motor vehicle, if operated by an engine fueled wholly or partially by compressed or liquefied natural gas, may exceed the gross vehicle weight limits and any axle weight limits by an amount, not to exceed a maximum of two thousand (2,000) pounds, that is equal to the differe…

A. A motor vehicle or a commercial motor vehicle, if operated by an engine fueled wholly or partially by an electric battery or hydrogen fuel cell electric fueling system, may exceed the gross vehicle weight limits and any axle weight limits by an amount, not to exceed a maximum …

The registration certificate for any truck, trailer, semitrailer or combination thereof shall be carried in or on the vehicle at all times and shall be presented on demand of any officer of the Department of Public Safety, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, or any sheriff for inspe…

A. Any officer of the Department of Public Safety, the Corporation Commission, any sheriff, or any salaried deputy sheriff is authorized to stop any vehicle upon any road or highway in order to weigh such vehicle by means of portable or stationary scales, or cause the same to be …

The Director of the Department of Transportation with respect to highways on the state highway system, or local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, as defined in Title 69 of the Oklahoma Statutes, may prohibit the operation of vehicles on any such highw…

(a) The owner and operator of any motor vehicle who shall drive the same into any overpass or underpass and shall damage such overpass or underpass shall be absolutely liable to the owner or owners of such overpass or underpass thereby damaged for the amount of such damage, regar…

A. The Executive Director of the Department of Transportation shall charge a minimum permit fee of Forty Dollars ($40.00) for any permit issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-101 et seq. of this title. In addition to the permit fee, the Executive Director of the Departm…

Any person, firm, or corporation who moves or transports any load or manufactured home without a permit issued by the Department of Transportation as required by the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished a…

A. 1. Pursuant to such rules as may be prescribed by Oklahoma agencies of jurisdiction, Oklahoma motor carriers may engage in any activity in which carriers subject to the jurisdiction of the federal government may be authorized by federal legislation to engage. Provided further,…

The Department of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with governmental entities outside this state for the issuance of regional and national oversize and overweight permits for single-trip nondivisible loads. The Executive Director of the Department of Transpor…

Any common, contract, or private motor carrier or any shipper, firm, corporation, or other person who willfully or knowingly transports a load having a capacity greater than the axle or gross weights authorized by statute or by special permit pursuant to the provisions of Section…

A. Manufactured items, with the exception of manufactured homes as defined in Section 1102 of this title and industrialized housing as described in subsection B of Section 14-103A of this title, exceeding sixteen (16) feet but not exceeding twenty-three (23) feet in width traveli…

A. 1. Any vehicle or combination of vehicles with an outside width that exceeds twelve (12) feet operating on highways in the state, including the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, shall, in addition to being in compliance with provisions of Section 14-101 et se…

A. Every person required by the Department of Transportation, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, or any federal agency or commission to have a law enforcement escort provided by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety for the transport of any oversiz…

A. No person shall operate a special combination vehicle within this state without a special combination vehicle permit for the vehicle issued by the Department of Transportation. Such permit may be issued for operation upon Federal Aid Interstate Highways or four-lane divided Fe…

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1104 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the first Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) of the following fees shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund to be apportioned as follows: 1. Twenty Dollars ($20.00) of any fee colle…

Any motor vehicle of any size, except those motor vehicles regulated pursuant to Section 14-101 et seq. of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, meeting the legal requirements for safety equipment and licensed to operate on public roadways in this state shall be allowed to operate i…

Any person driving under a commercial class A license shall not be required to obtain a hazardous material endorsement pursuant to 49 C.F.R. Section 383 if the person is: 1. Acting within the scope of the license holder's employment as an employee of a custom harvester operation;…