§47-14-118.

§47-14-118.
   
   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 Transportation Commission shall formulate, for the State Trunk
   Highway System, including the National System of Interstate and
   Defense Highways, and for all other highways or portions thereof,
   rules and regulations governing the movement of vehicles or loads
   which exceed the size or weight limitations specified by the
   provisions of Chapter 14 of this title.
   
   2. Such rules shall be the basis for the development of a system by
   the Commissioner of Public Safety for the issuance of permits for the
   movement of oversize or overweight vehicles or loads. Such system
   shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for duration,
   seasonal factors, hours of the day or days when valid, special
   requirements as to flags, flagmen and warning or safety devices, and
   other such items as may be consistent with the intent of this section.
   The permit system shall include provisions for the collection of
   permit fees as well as for the issuance of the permits by telephone,
   electronic transfer or such other methods of issuance as may be deemed
   feasible.
   
   3. The Department of Public Safety is authorized to charge a fee of
   Two Dollars ($2.00) for each permit requested to be issued by
   facsimile machine or by any other means of electronic transmission,
   transfer or delivery. The fee shall be in addition to any other fee or
   fees assessed for the permit. The fee shall be deposited in the State
   Treasury to the credit of the Department of Public Safety Revolving
   Fund, as established in Section 6-117 of this title, and the monies
   shall be expended by the Department solely for the purposes provided
   for in Chapter 14 of this title.
   
   4. It is the purpose of this section to permit the movement of
   necessary overweight and oversize vehicles or loads consistent with
   the following obligations:
   
   a. protection of the motoring public from potential traffic hazards,
   
   b. protection of highway surfaces, structures, and private property,
   and
   
   c. provision for normal flow of traffic with a minimum of
   interference.
   
   B. The Transportation Commission shall prepare and publish a map of
   the State of Oklahoma showing by appropriate symbols the various
   highway structures and bridges in terms of maximum size and weight
   restrictions. This map shall be titled "Oklahoma Load Limit Map" and
   shall be revised periodically to maintain a reasonably current status
   and in no event shall a period of two (2) years lapse between
   revisions and publication of same. Provided, further, the Secretary of
   the Department of Transportation shall prepare and publish a map of
   the State of Oklahoma showing the advantages of this state as a
   marketing, warehousing and distribution network center for motor
   transportation sensitive industries.
   
   C. The Commissioner of Public Safety, or an authorized representative,
   shall have the authority, within the limitations formulated under
   provisions of Chapter 14 of this title, to issue, withhold or revoke
   special permits for the operation of vehicles or combinations of
   vehicles or loads which exceed the size or weight limitations of
   Chapter 14 of this title. Every such permit shall be carried in the
   vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be
   open to inspection by any police officer or authorized agent of any
   authority granting such permit, and no person shall violate any of the
   terms or conditions of such special permit.
   
   D. It shall be permissible in the transportation of empty trucks on
   any road or highway to tow by use of saddle mounts, i.e., mounting the
   front wheels of one vehicle on the bed of another leaving the rear
   wheels only of such towed vehicle in contact with the roadway. One or
   more vehicles may be full mounted on the towing or towed vehicles
   engaged in any driveaway or towaway operation. No more than three
   saddle mounts may be permitted in such combinations. The towed
   vehicles shall be securely fastened and operated under the applicable
   safety requirements of the United States Department of Transportation
   and such combinations shall not exceed an overall length of
   seventy-five (75) feet.
   
   E. The Commissioner of Public Safety, upon application of any person
   engaged in the transportation of forest products in the raw state,
   which is defined to be tree-length logs moving from the forest
   directly to the mill, or upon application of any person engaged in the
   transportation of overwidth or overheight equipment used in soil
   conservation work, or upon application of any person engaged in the
   hauling for hire or for resale, of round baled hay with a total
   outside width of eleven (11) feet or less, shall issue an annual
   permit, upon payment of a fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) each
   year, authorizing the operation by such persons of such motor vehicle
   load lengths and widths upon the highways of this state except on the
   National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Provided, however,
   the restriction on use of the National System of Interstate and
   Defense Highways shall not be applicable to persons engaged in the
   hauling of round baled hay with a total outside width of eleven (11)
   feet or less.
   
   F. Farm equipment including, but not limited to, implements of
   husbandry as defined in Section 1-125 of this title shall be exempted
   from the requirement for special permits due to size. Such equipment
   may move on any highway, except those highways which are part of the
   National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, during the hours
   of darkness and shall be subject to the requirements as provided in
   Section 12-215 of this title. In addition to those requirements,
   tractors pulling machinery over thirteen (13) feet wide must have two
   amber flashing warning lamps symmetrically mounted, laterally and
   widely spaced as practicable, visible from both front and rear,
   mounted at least thirty-nine (39) inches high.
   
   G. Any rubber-tired road construction vehicle including rubber-tired
   truck cranes and special mobilized machinery either self-propelled or
   drawn carrying no load other than component parts safely secured to
   the machinery and its own weight, but which is overweight by any
   provisions of this chapter, shall be authorized to move on the
   highways of the State of Oklahoma. Movement of such vehicles shall be
   authorized on the Federal Interstate System of Highways only by
   special permit secured from the Commissioner of Public Safety or an
   authorized representative upon determination that the objectives of
   this section will be served by such a permit and that federal weight
   restrictions will not be violated. The special permit shall be:
   
   1. A single-trip permit issued under the provisions of this section
   and Section 14-116 of this title; or
   
   2. A special annual overweight permit which shall be issued for one
   calendar year period upon payment of a fee of Sixty Dollars ($60.00).
   
   The weight of any such vehicle shall not exceed six hundred fifty
   (650) pounds multiplied by the nominal width of the tire. The vehicle
   shall be required to carry the safety equipment adjudged necessary for
   the health and welfare of the driving public. If any oversized vehicle
   does not come under the other limitations of the present laws, it
   shall be deemed that the same shall travel only between the hours of
   sunrise and sunset. The vehicle, being overweight but of legal
   dimension, shall be allowed continuous travel. The vehicles, except
   special mobilized machinery, shall be exempt from the laws of this
   state relating to motor vehicle registration, licensing or other fees
   or taxes in lieu of ad valorem taxes.