Oklahoma SB 741: The Oklahoma Electronic Toll Collection Act; creating certain exemption. Effective date.

Bill Text

Req. No. 882 Page 1 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023) 
 
SENATE BILL 741 By: Woods 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Electronic Toll 
Collection Act; amending 47 O.S. 2021, Section 11-
1401.2, as amended by Section 96, Chapter 282, O.S.L. 
2022 (47 O.S. Supp. 2022, Section 11-1401.2), which 
relates to collection of tolls; creating certain 
exemption; and providing an effective date. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     47 O.S. 2021, Section 11-1401.2, 
as amended by Section 96, Chapter 282, O.S.L. 2022 (47 O.S. Supp. 
2022, Section 11-1401.2), is amended to read as follows: 
Section 11-1401.2.  A.  For purposes of this section: 
1.  “Authority” means the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority; 
2.  “Department” means the Department of Public Safety; 
3.  “Electronic toll collection system” means a system of 
collecting tolls or charges which is capable of charging an account 
holder the appropriate toll or charge by transmission of information 
from an electronic device on a motor vehicle to the toll lane, which 
information is used to charge the account the appropriate toll or 
charge; 

 
 
 
Req. No. 882 Page 2 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
4.  “Owner” means any person, corporation, partnership, firm, 
agency, association, or organization who, at the time of the 
violation and with respect to the vehicle identified in the notice 
of toll evasion violation: 
a. is the beneficial or equitable owner of the vehicle, 
b. has title to the vehicle, 
c. is the registrant or coregistrant of the vehicle which 
is registered with Service Oklahoma or a similar 
registering agency of any other state, territory, 
district, province, nation or other jurisdiction, 
d. uses the vehicle in its vehicle renting businesses, or 
e. is a person entitled to the use and possession of a 
vehicle subject to a security interest in another 
person; 
5.  “Photo-monitoring system” means a vehicle sensor installed 
to work in conjunction with a toll collection facility which 
automatically produces one or more photographs, one or more 
microphotographs, a videotape or other recorded images of each 
vehicle at the time it is used or operated on the turnpikes under 
the Authority’s jurisdiction; 
6.  “Toll collection regulations” means those rules and 
regulations of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority or statutes providing 
for and requiring the payment of tolls and/or charges prescribed by 
the Authority for the use of turnpikes under its jurisdiction or 

 
 
 
Req. No. 882 Page 3 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
those rules and regulations of the Authority or statutes making it 
unlawful to refuse to pay or to evade or to attempt to evade the 
payment of all or part of any toll and/or charge for the use of 
turnpikes under the jurisdiction of the Authority; 
7.  “Toll evasion violation” means a failure to comply with the 
Authority’s toll collection regulations, including the failure to 
pay an invoice submitted by the Authority via its video toll 
collection system; 
8.  “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which a person 
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except 
devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; 
9.  “Video toll collection system” means a photo-monitoring 
system used to charge and collect tolls from owners of vehicles 
imaged using the turnpike system.  The owner of a vehicle imaged by 
the photo-monitoring system may or may not be an Authority account 
holder; and 
10.  “Video toll collection system account” means the 
administrative assignment of all vehicles registered to an owner to 
an account for efficient billing of the appropriate toll or charge 
to an owner. 
B.  1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall 
be imposed monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure 
of an operator thereof to comply with the toll collection 

 
 
 
Req. No. 882 Page 4 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
 
regulations of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority in accordance with 
the provisions of this section. 
2.  An owner’s vehicle shall be registered with Service Oklahoma 
or a similar registering agency of this state or any other state, 
territory, district, province, nation or other jurisdiction that 
permits access to owner registration infor