{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-8-104","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-8-104","heading":"Financial responsibility of taxicab operators","body":"A. 1. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the\n\nbusiness of operating a taxicab or taxicabs within a municipality\n\nshall file with the governing board of the municipality in which\n\nsuch business is operated proof of financial responsibility.\n\n2. No governing board of a municipality shall hereafter issue\n\nany certificate of convenience and necessity, franchise, license\n\npermit or other privilege or authority to any person, firm or\n\ncorporation authorizing such person, firm or corporation to engage\n\nin the business of operating a taxicab or taxicabs within the\n\nmunicipality unless such person, firm or corporation first files\n\nwith the governing board proof of financial responsibility.\n\n3. Every person, firm or corporation engaging or intending to\n\nengage in the business of transporting passengers outside a\n\nmunicipality shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Corporation\n\nCommission in accordance with Section 230.24 of this title and the\n\nrules of the Corporation Commission.\n\nB. As used in this section, \"proof of financial responsibility\"\n\nshall mean a certificate of any insurance carrier or risk retention\n\ngroup, as defined in Section 6453 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes, authorized to do business in the state certifying that\n\nthere is in effect a policy of liability insurance insuring the\n\nowner and operator of the taxicab business, his agents and employees\n\nwhile in the performance of their duties against loss from any\n\nliability imposed by law for damages including damages for care and\n\nloss of services because of bodily injury to or death of any person\n\nand injury to or destruction of property caused by accident and\n\narising out of the ownership, use or operation of such taxicab or\n\ntaxicabs, subject to minimum limits, exclusive of interest and cost,\n\nwith respect to each such motor vehicle as follows:\n\n1. Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) because of bodily\n\ninjury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to\n\nsaid limit for one person;\n\n2. Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) because of bodily injury\n\nto or death of two or more persons in any one accident; and\n\n3. Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) because of injury\n\nto or destruction of property of others in any one accident.","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":"e0e0c0d901bbdc855a0315b0a27cf4242a192c2cbb222106f49f6cc274d9d751","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-8-103","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-47-47-8-105"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}