{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-172","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-172","heading":"Violations of act - Penalty - Report of violations - Civil","body":"or criminal proceedings - Official misconduct - Contempt -\n\nPersonnel, salaries and powers - Oath and bond.\n\nA. Every owner of any motor vehicle, the agents or employees of\n\nthe owner, and every other person who violates or fails to comply\n\nwith or procures, aids, or abets in the violation of Sections 161\n\nthrough 180m of this title or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995, or who\n\nfails to obey, observe, or comply with any order, decision, rule or\n\nregulation, direction, demand, or requirement of the Corporation\n\nCommission, or who procures, aids or abets any corporation or person\n\nin the person's, or its, refusal or willful failure to obey, observe\n\nor comply with any such order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or\n\nregulation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction\n\nin a criminal court of competent jurisdiction, such misdemeanor is\n\npunishable by a fine of not exceeding One Thousand Dollars\n\n($1,000.00).\n\nB. The Corporation Commission shall report to the Attorney\n\nGeneral of this state and the district attorney of the proper county\n\nhaving jurisdiction of such offense, any violation of any of the\n\nprovisions of Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the Motor\n\nCarrier Act of 1995 or any rule of the Corporation Commission\n\npromulgated pursuant to the provisions of Sections 161 through 180m\n\nof this title or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995, by any motor vehicle\n\nowner, agent or employee of such owner, or any other person. Upon\n\nreceipt of such report, the Attorney General or the district\n\nattorney of the proper county having jurisdiction of such offense\n\nshall institute criminal or civil proceedings against such offender\n\nin the proper court having jurisdiction of such offense. Any\n\nwillful failure on the part of members of the Corporation\n\nCommission, the Attorney General or any district attorney, to comply\n\nwith the provisions of this section, shall be deemed official\n\nmisconduct. The Corporation Commission shall report such complaints\n\nso made to the Governor of this state who shall direct and cause the\n\nlaws of this state to be enforced.\n\nC. Any person failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with\n\nthe provisions of Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the\n\nMotor Carrier Act of 1995, or with any rule, regulation, or\n\nrequirement of the Corporation Commission promulgated pursuant to\n\nthe provisions of Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the\n\nMotor Carrier Act of 1995, shall be guilty of contempt of the\n\nCorporation Commission, and shall be subject to a fine to be imposed\n\nby the Corporation Commission in a sum not exceeding Five Hundred\n\nDollars ($500.00). Each day on which such contempt occurs shall be\n\ndeemed a separate and distinct offense. The maximum fine to be\n\nassessed on each day shall be Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). All\n\nfines collected pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be\n\ndeposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Corporation\n\nCommission Trucking One-Stop Shop Fund, as created in Section 1167\n\nof this title. This subsection shall not apply in the specific\n\ninstance of load capacity violations or violations applicable to the\n\ntransportation or discharge of deleterious substances provided for\n\nby specific statutory provisions.\n\nD. The Corporation Commission shall appoint a director of\n\ntransportation, a deputy director, an insurance supervisor, an\n\ninsurance clerk, two stenographers, a secretary to the director, an\n\nidentification device supervisor and an assistant identification\n\ndevice supervisor at such salaries as the Legislature may from time\n\nto time prescribe. The employees shall be allowed actual and\n\nnecessary travel expenses pursuant to the provisions of the State\n\nTravel Reimbursement Act. All of the expense claims shall be\n\npresented and paid monthly.\n\nE. Enforcement officers, appointed by the Corporation\n\nCommission, are hereby declared to be peace officers of this state.\nrvisor at such salaries as the Legislature may from time\n\nto time prescribe. The employees shall be allowed actual and\n\nnecessary travel expenses pursuant to the provisions of the State\n\nTravel Reimbursement Act. All of the expense claims shall be\n\npresented and paid monthly.\n\nE. Enforcement officers, appointed by the Corporation\n\nCommission, are hereby declared to be peace officers of this state.\n\nSuch officers shall be vested with all powers of peace officers in\n\nenforcing the provisions of Sections 161 through 180m of this title\n\nand the Motor Carrier Act of 1995 in all parts of this state.\n\nThe powers and duties conferred upon said enforcement officers\n\nshall in no way limit the powers and duties of sheriffs or other\n\npeace officers of the state, or any political subdivision thereof,\n\nor of members of the Division of Highway Patrol, subject to the\n\nDepartment of Public Safety.\n\nF. The enforcement officers when on duty, upon reasonable\n\nbelief that any motor vehicle is being operated in violation of any\n\nprovisions of Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the Motor\n\nCarrier Act of 1995, shall be authorized to require the driver of\n\nthe vehicle to stop and submit to an inspection of the\n\nidentification device, or devices, in the vehicle, and to submit to\n\nsuch enforcement officer bills of lading, waybills, or other\n\nevidences of the character of the commerce being transported in such\n\nvehicle, and to submit to an inspection of the contents of such\n\nvehicle for the purpose of comparing same with bills of lading or\n\nshipping documentation, waybills, or other evidences of\n\ntransportation carried by the driver of the vehicle. The officers\n\nshall not have the right to plea bargain.\n\nG. The enforcement officers are authorized to serve all\n\nwarrants, writs, and notices issued by the Corporation Commission\n\nrelating to the enforcement of the provisions of Sections 161\n\nthrough 180m of this title or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995 and the\n\nrules, regulations, and requirements prescribed by the Corporation\n\nCommission promulgated pursuant to Sections 161 through 180m of this\n\ntitle or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995.\n\nH. The enforcement officers shall not have the power or right\n\nof search, nor shall they have the right of power of seizure, except\n\nas provided in Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the Motor\n\nCarrier Act of 1995. The enforcement officers are authorized to\n\nhold and detain any motor vehicle operating upon the highways of\n\nthis state, if, the enforcement officer has reason to believe that\n\nthe vehicle is being operated contrary to the provisions of Sections\n\n161 through 180m of this title or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995, or\n\nthe rules, regulations, and requirements of the Corporation\n\nCommission promulgated pursuant to Sections 161 through 180m of this\n\ntitle or the Motor Carrier Act of 1995.\n\nI. No state official, other than members of the Corporation\n\nCommission, shall have any power, right, or authority to command,\n\norder, or direct any enforcement officer to perform any duty or\n\nservice authorized by Sections 161 through 180m of this title or the\n\nMotor Carrier Act of 1995.\n\nJ. Each of the enforcement officers shall, before entering upon\n\nthe discharge of their duties, take and subscribe to the usual oath\n\nof office and shall execute to the State of Oklahoma a bond in the\n\nsum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) each, with\n\nsufficient surety for the faithful performance of their duty. The\n\nbond shall be approved and filed as provided by law.\n\nK. No enforcement officer or employee of the Oklahoma\n\nCorporation Commission shall have the right to plea bargain in motor\n\ncarrier or motor transportation matters except the chief legal\n\ncounsel of the Commission or an assign of the legal staff of the\n\nchief legal counsel.","path":["OK Code","Title 47"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os47.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9b8d1841e6c5637e94a98fe750a8fdc6d1c494e74cddd696b141b0d81cbd7821","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-1711","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-172.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}