{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-7-606.1","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-7-606.1","heading":"Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program","body":"A. There is hereby created the Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement\n\nProgram.\n\nB. The Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program shall be\n\nimplemented and administered by the district attorneys of the State\n\nof Oklahoma within their respective districts or at the District\n\nAttorneys Council. To implement this program, the use of technology\n\nand software to aid in detection of offenses involving uninsured\n\nmotorists is necessary and district attorneys and participating law\n\nenforcement agencies shall have the authority to enter into\n\ncontractual agreements with automated license plate reader providers\n\nto provide necessary technology, equipment and maintenance thereof.\n\nC. 1. Participating law enforcement agencies may use automatic\n\nlicense plate reader systems utilizing individual automatic license\n\nplate reader system units to access and collect data for the\n\ninvestigation, detection, analysis or enforcement of Oklahoma's\n\nCompulsory Insurance Law.\n\n2. To accomplish the purposes of the program, law enforcement\n\nagencies shall be allowed to access the online verification system\n\nfor motor vehicle liability policies to establish compliance with\n\nthe Compulsory Insurance Law as provided in Section 7-600.2 of Title\n\n47 of the Oklahoma Statutes.\n\n3. Access to the system shall be restricted to authorized law\n\nenforcement agency users in the program; provided, any entity with\n\nwhich a contract is executed to provide necessary technology,\n\nequipment and maintenance for purposes of the program shall be\n\nauthorized, as necessary, to collaborate for required updates and\n\nmaintenance of their software.\n\n4. Any data collected and stored by law enforcement pursuant to\n\nthe program shall be considered evidence if noncompliance with the\n\nCompulsory Insurance Law is confirmed.\n\nD. A law enforcement officer may verify by sworn affidavit that\n\na photograph generated by an automatic license plate reader system\n\nunit identifies a particular vehicle operating on or having been\n\noperated on a public road, highway, street, turnpike, other public\n\nplace or upon any private road, street, alley or lane which provides\n\naccess to one or more single-family or multifamily dwellings and\n\nthat the online verification system shows that the vehicle was\n\nuninsured at the time such vehicle was being operated. The\n\naffidavit shall constitute probable cause for prosecution under\n\napplicable state law.\n\nE. Data collected or retained through the use of an automated\n\nlicense plate reader system pursuant to the program shall be\n\nretained by a law enforcement agency when the data is being used as\n\nevidence of a violation of the Compulsory Insurance Law; provided,\n\nwhen the data is no longer needed as evidence of a violation, the\n\ndata shall be deleted or destroyed.\n\nF. Data collected or retained through the use of an automated\n\nlicense plate reader system shall not be used by any individual or\n\nagency for purposes other than enforcement of the Compulsory\n\nInsurance Law or as otherwise permitted by law.\n\n1. No law enforcement agency or other entity authorized to\n\noperate under this program shall sell captured license plate data\n\nfor any purpose or share it for any purpose not expressly authorized\n\nby this section.\n\n2. Any and all data collected, retained or shared through the\n\nuse of an automated license plate reader system, except data\n\nretained as evidence of a violation of the Compulsory Insurance Law,\n\nshall be exempt from the Oklahoma Open Records Act.\n\nG. The provisions of the program shall not apply to, or be\n\nconstrued or interpreted in a manner to prohibit the use of, any\n\nother automated license plate reader system by an individual or\n\nprivate legal entity for purposes not otherwise prohibited by law.\n\nH. The provisions of the program shall not be implemented until\n\nsuch time that the Insurance Department verifies that the following\n\nconditions have been met:\nof the program shall not apply to, or be\n\nconstrued or interpreted in a manner to prohibit the use of, any\n\nother automated license plate reader system by an individual or\n\nprivate legal entity for purposes not otherwise prohibited by law.\n\nH. The provisions of the program shall not be implemented until\n\nsuch time that the Insurance Department verifies that the following\n\nconditions have been met:\n\n1. At least Ninety-Five Percent (95%) of the personal lines\n\nauto insurance market in the state participates in the Oklahoma\n\nCompulsory Insurance Verification System using a real-time web\n\nportal system; and\n\n2. The Oklahoma Compulsory Insurance Verification System is\n\nupdated in such a way to allow for the provisions of the program to\n\nbe implemented without interrupting or impeding any other lawful\n\nuses of the system.\n\nI. Following the implementation of the program and every year\n\nthereafter, the District Attorneys Council shall publish an annual\n\nreport for the previous fiscal year of the Uninsured Vehicle\n\nEnforcement Program by September 1. An electronic copy of the\n\nreport shall be distributed to the President Pro Tempore of the\n\nSenate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the\n\nchairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The\n\nreport shall comprise an evaluation of program operations, and may\n\ninclude any information and recommendations for improvement of the\n\nprogram deemed appropriate by the entity submitting the report.\n\nJ. For purposes of this section:\n\n1. \"Automatic license plate reader system\" means a system of\n\none or more mobile or law-enforcement-controlled cameras combined\n\nwith computer algorithms to convert images of registration plates\n\ninto computer-readable data;\n\n2. \"Law enforcement agency\" includes the district attorney's\n\noffice of any county, the Department of Public Safety, the sheriff's\n\noffice of any county, and the chiefs of police of any city or town\n\nhaving a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000)\n\nresidents; and\n\n3. \"Program\" means the Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program.","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":"2dc97b8dabfeeb32456061fd86f3a1087b1530bbfd8eed14c3c2e13d5e217dc2","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-7-606","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-7-606.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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