There is hereby created within the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Division the Size and Weight Enforcement Section. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall employ a minimum of twenty-five additional members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, one Captain and eight Lieutenants and shall assign the twenty-five members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, one Captain and eight Lieutenants to the Size and Weight Enforcement Section. The Size and Weight Enforcement Section shall have the primary duty of the enforcement of the provisions of Section 14-101 et seq. of this title.
Said Commissioner shall purchase and maintain the necessary motor vehicle equipment, portable scales and other items of equipment and supplies and shall provide proper training necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of Section 14-101 et seq. of this title.
Added by Laws 1949, p. 321, § 11, emerg. eff. May 31, 1949. Amended by Laws 1957, p. 439, § 1, emerg. eff. June 5, 1957; Laws 1967, c. 369, § 3, emerg. eff. May 22, 1967; Laws 1971, c. 129, § 1, emerg. eff. May 5, 1971; Laws 1979, c. 267, § 4, eff. July 1, 1979; Laws 1982, c. 352, § 17, emerg. eff. June 2, 1982; Laws 1992, c. 195, § 1, eff. July 1, 1992. Renumbered from § 116.11 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 131, § 17, eff. July 1, 2001. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.