A. The Department of Public Safety shall not assess and collect multiple reinstatement fees when reinstating the driving privilege of any person having more than one suspension or revocation affecting the person's driving privilege at the time of reinstatement.
B. The Department shall:
1. Suspend or revoke a person's driving privilege as delineated within the Oklahoma Statutes; and
2. Require any person having more than one suspension or revocation affecting the person's driving privilege to meet the statutory requirements for each action as a condition precedent to the reinstatement of any driving privilege. Provided, however, reinstatement fees shall not be cumulative, and a single reinstatement fee, as provided for in subsection C of this section, shall be paid for all suspensions or revocations as shown by the Department's records at the time of reinstatement.
C. Whenever a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle is suspended or revoked pursuant to any provision as authorized by the Oklahoma Statutes, the license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle shall remain under suspension or revocation and shall not be reinstated until:
1. The expiration of each such revocation or suspension order;
2. The person has paid to the Department:
3. The person has paid to the Department a single reinstatement fee of, beginning on July 1, 2013, and any year thereafter, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).
D. The Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with persons whose license to operate a motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle has been suspended or revoked, for issuance of a provisional license subject to any restrictions imposed by law or a court order. The provisional license would allow such persons to drive from 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Driving privileges for a provisional license are limited from 12:00 a.m. to 5:59 a.m. to driving:
1. Between their place of residence and their place of employment or potential employment;
2. During the scope and course of their employment;
3. Between their place of residence and a college, university or technology center;
4. Between their place of residence and their child's school or day care provider;
5. Between their place of residence and a place of worship; or
6. Between their place of residence and any court-ordered treatment program,
with the condition that such persons pay a minimum total of Five Dollars ($5.00) per month toward the satisfaction of outstanding fees, including, but not limited to, provisional license fees, warrant fees, court costs or fees, driver license or commercial driver license reinstatement fees. The Department may suspend or revoke a provisional license pursuant to this section if the person fails to honor the payment plan. The person may re-enroll in the provisional driver license program.
E. Any violation of law by the person holding the provisional license that would result in the suspension or revocation of a driver license, except for the failure to pay fines, fees or other financial obligations if the person is participating in a payment plan, shall result in the revocation of the provisional license .
F. Eligibility for a provisional license shall not take into consideration any outstanding fines and fees owed, including, but not limited to, warrant fees, court costs or fees, driver license or commercial driver license reinstatement fees.
G. A person with a suspended driver license shall not have to take a driver license test to be eligible for a provisional license; provided, the suspended license has not expired.
H. The Department shall develop rules and procedures necessary to implement the provisions of this section except as otherwise provided by this title.
I. Effective July 1, 2002, and for each fiscal year thereafter:
1. Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) of all monies collected each month pursuant to this section shall be apportioned as provided in Section 1104 of this title, except as otherwise provided in this section; and
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all other monies collected in excess of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) each month shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 276, § 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1982. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 286, § 21, operative July 1, 1983; Laws 1984, c. 264, § 11, operative July 1, 1984; Laws 1986, c. 279, § 15, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 1987, c. 5, § 152, emerg. eff. March 11, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 226, § 5, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 219, § 39, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; Laws 1994, c. 218, § 6, eff. April 1, 1995; Laws 2001, c. 361, § 7, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 474, § 5, emerg. eff. June 6, 2002; Laws 2004, c. 396, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2004, c. 530, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2004; Laws 2007, c. 326, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2008, c. 401, § 18, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2011, c. 226, § 1; Laws 2013, c. 274, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 97, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2017, c. 392, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2019, c. 400, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2021, c. 487, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.