Okla. Stat. tit. 47 § 11-1401

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 11-1401 - Unlawful acts - Signs - Violations

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter that part of a turnpike enclosed by fence except in a vehicle at authorized entrances.

B. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to fail to pay the toll as prescribed by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.

C. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle on a turnpike with knowledge that the registered owner of the vehicle is liable for any outstanding toll evasion violations issued pursuant to paragraph 7 of subsection B of Section 11-1401.2 of this title.

D. It shall be unlawful for any person to cross a turnpike except at grade separations provided for cross traffic or through drainage structures under the turnpike.

E. It shall be unlawful for any person to travel a turnpike on foot except to leave or service a disabled vehicle, or for any person to hitchhike on a turnpike.

F. It shall be unlawful for any person to tear down, damage or remove any turnpike fence.

G. It shall be unlawful to drive, operate or ride any bicycle or other man-powered vehicle or means of transportation on a turnpike. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority may prohibit any light, mechanically powered vehicle from entering the turnpike, or any other vehicle it determines would be injurious to the turnpike surfacing or would be a traffic hazard.

H. When any section of highway has been closed to traffic by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority and traffic-control devices or barricades have been erected, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle through, under, over, or around the traffic-control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter the closed area.

I. Subsections A through H of this section shall not apply to:

1. Officers, employees, agents or contractors of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority in performance of their duties;

2. Commissioned officers of the Department of Public Safety;

3. Emergency vehicle operators at the request of the Department of Public Safety; or

4. Agents, employees or contractors of public utilities while actually engaged in work in furtherance of construction, maintenance or repair of such public utilities located on, above or below a turnpike.

J. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle, except:

1. Authorized emergency vehicles;

2. Vehicles owned by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, its agents or contractors;

3. Vehicles owned by public utilities, their agents, employees or contractors, while actually engaged in construction, maintenance or repair of such public utilities; and

4. Wrecker vehicles while performing services at the request of the Department of Public Safety, to cross the center dividing strip of a turnpike, or to travel on any lane of a turnpike in a direction contrary to the direction of traffic on such lane.

K. All vehicles traveling on a turnpike shall comply at all times with signs placed on the turnpike regulating traffic thereon.

L. No vehicle shall move from one lane to another unless the way is clear to do so and upon proper signaling.

M. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in Section 17-101 of this title.

Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 11-1401

Amended by Laws 2021 , c. 243, s. 1, eff. 11/1/2021.

Added by Laws 1961, HB 556, § 11-1401, eff. 9/1/1961; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1587, c. 309, § 8, emerg. eff. 7/1/1991; Amended by Laws 1993, HB 1556, c. 303, § 1; Amended by Laws 2001 , HB 1639, c. 202, § 2, eff. 11/1/2001; Amended by Laws 2008 , HB 2215, c. 319, § 5, eff. 11/1/2008; Amended by Laws 2009 , HB 1527, c. 95, § 1, eff. 11/1/2009.