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§47-854.
§47-854.
A. 1. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall require that every motor
vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, registered or
operated in this state, be inspected once a year at official
inspection stations as provided in Section 851 et seq. of this title,
and that an official certificate of inspection and approval be
obtained for each such vehicle.
2. Vehicles owned or operated by a fire department may have the
inspection performed at the fire station location or the principal
location of the fire vehicle.
3. Motor carriers and express companies operating under the
jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and/or the
Department of Transportation and interstate and/or intrastate owners
and/or operators of commercial, private, or public fleets of vehicles
maintaining inspection and repair facilities which meet standards
established by the Commissioner, may be authorized by the Commissioner
to perform such inspections in such carriers' own maintenance shops,
without bond, on vehicles owned or operated by them.
B. Such inspections shall be made and such certificates obtained with
respect to the mechanism and equipment of every such vehicle as shall
be designated by the Commissioner. An inspection shall not be done and
a certificate shall not be issued pursuant to the provisions of
Section 851 et seq. of this title for a vehicle which does not display
a current Oklahoma license plate and decal, unless the vehicle is
owned by a member of the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to
duty in this state in compliance with official military or naval
orders or the spouse of such a member of the Armed Forces; provided,
the Department of Public Safety and the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall
promulgate rules to provide for the inspection of rebuilt vehicles
pursuant to the provisions of Section 1111 of this title prior to
registration pursuant to the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration
Act.
C. The Commissioner shall require that the owner of every motor
vehicle equipped to be fueled by an alternative fuel shall obtain the
annual inspection required by subsection A of this section from an
official inspection station.
D. 1. Except for vehicles sold dealer to dealer, and wrecked, antique
or classic vehicles not driven on the public roadway which have been
certified as such under oath by the owner, every vehicle when sold by
a licensed dealer shall have been inspected and shall meet the
standards of inspection as provided in Section 851 et seq. of this
title and shall display a current inspection sticker.
2. Every vehicle which has or has been converted to have, or upon
conversion to have, the capability of being fueled by an alternative
fuel, as defined by Section 130.2 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma
Statutes, shall meet the standards of inspection as provided in
Section 851 et seq. of this title and shall display a current
inspection sticker.
E. The Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate
necessary rules for the administration and enforcement of Section 851
et seq. of this title and to designate any period or periods of time
during which owners of any vehicles, subject to this section, shall
display upon such vehicle, except those vehicles exempted pursuant to
Section 851 of this title, certificates of inspection and approval or
shall produce the same upon demand of any officer or employee of the
Department designated by the Commissioner or any police or peace
officer when authorized by the Commissioner. As a part of such rules,
the Commissioner shall include the requirement that every person
subject to the in-lieu-of-tax fee under Section 723 of Title 68 of the
Oklahoma Statutes display a current Tax Commission decal on the
vehicle as described in Section 723 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma
Statutes and that proper display of the decal shall be a requirement
for the issuance of an official certificate of inspection and approval
for any vehicle using an alternative fuel as defined in Section 130.2
of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
F. The Commissioner may authorize the acceptance in this state of a
certificate of inspection and approval issued in another state having
an inspection law similar to Section 851 et seq. of this title and may
extend the time within which a certificate shall be obtained by the
resident owner of a vehicle which was not in this state during the
time an inspection was required.
G. The Commissioner may suspend the registration of any vehicle which
he or she determines is in such unsafe condition as to constitute a
menace to safety or which after notice and demand is not equipped as
required in Section 851 et seq. of this title or for which a required
certificate has not been obtained. Any person who shall have a vehicle
registration suspended under the provisions of this section shall
immediately forward the vehicle registration to the Department of
Public Safety.
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