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§47-855.1.
§47-855.1.
A. 1. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall designate official
inspectors and shall issue licenses for and furnish instructions and
all necessary forms to said official inspectors for the inspection of
vehicles and the issuance of official certificates of inspection or
rejection.
2. Application for a license as an official inspector shall be made
upon an official form and shall be granted only when the Commissioner
of Public Safety, after appropriate training, examination and
investigation, is satisfied that the applicant is eligible in
accordance with the requirements as prescribed by the Commissioner to
make such inspections. The Commissioner shall prescribe by rule the
training requirements for all official inspectors, and the applicant
shall complete all training requirements, including any subsequent
additional training requirements which the Commissioner deems
necessary for licensed official inspectors.
3. The Commissioner and the Oklahoma Department of Vocational and
Technical Education may enter into an interlocal agreement to carry
out the requirements of this subsection.
B. Any employee of a station, facility or conversion center which
converts motor vehicles to have the capability of being fueled by
alternative fuels, as defined by Section 130.2 of Title 74 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, may be authorized by the Commissioner to perform
inspections as provided in Chapter 70 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma
Statutes. Subject to the application requirements specified in this
section, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall issue an official
inspector license to any such person who qualifies for a license as an
official inspector.
C. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall properly supervise and
cause inspections to be made of the performance of persons licensed
under this section and shall suspend or revoke and require the
surrender of the license issued to the person who is not properly
conducting inspections.
D. No license shall be revoked or suspended except upon notice to the
licensee and to the employer of the licensee and after an opportunity
to be heard by the Commissioner. A license may be temporarily
suspended without notice pending any investigation or hearing.
Whenever any license has been revoked, no license shall be reissued to
an applicant until after the expiration of a period of one (1) year
from the date of such revocation.
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