Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-1148
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Local authorities - Powers
Official statutory text
The local authorities of cities and towns of this state shall
have no power to pass, enforce, or maintain any ordinances, rules,
or regulations requiring from any owner to whom this act is
applicable any tax, fee, license, or permit for the free use of the
public highways or excluding or prohibiting any vehicle registered
in compliance with this act or the accessories used thereon from the
free use of the public highways, and no ordinance, rule, or
regulation in any way contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, now in force or hereafter enacted, shall
have any force or effect. The powers given to local authorities in
municipalities to enact general rules and ordinances applicable
equally to all vehicles upon certain streets in such cities where
the traffic is heavy and continuous and the powers given local
authorities to regulate vehicles offered to the public for hire or
for processions, assemblages, or parades in the streets or public
places shall remain in full force and effect. Local authorities may
set aside a specified public highway or highways for speed contests
or races to be given under proper restrictions for the safety of the
public and may exclude by ordinance orregulation vehicles used
exclusively for commercial purposes from the parks and parkways of
this state, provided such ordinance or regulation is applicable
equally and generally to all other vehicles used for the same
purpose. The local authorities may exclude vehicles from any
cemetery or ground used for burial of the dead. Cities and towns
may regulate the speed of vehicles within their corporate limits;
and that as to streets and highways within the corporate limits
which have been constructed or reconstructed with state or federal
funds, local authorities shall have joint authority with the
Transportation Commission to establish or alter speed limits. No
local authority shall impose speed limits on any such street or
highway substantially lower than those justified by the highway
design, capacity, and traffic volume as determined by engineering
studies. A municipality may issue licenses authorizing the parking
or unloading of vehicles in zones on streets restricted for loading,
unloading or commercial use.
have no power to pass, enforce, or maintain any ordinances, rules,
or regulations requiring from any owner to whom this act is
applicable any tax, fee, license, or permit for the free use of the
public highways or excluding or prohibiting any vehicle registered
in compliance with this act or the accessories used thereon from the
free use of the public highways, and no ordinance, rule, or
regulation in any way contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, now in force or hereafter enacted, shall
have any force or effect. The powers given to local authorities in
municipalities to enact general rules and ordinances applicable
equally to all vehicles upon certain streets in such cities where
the traffic is heavy and continuous and the powers given local
authorities to regulate vehicles offered to the public for hire or
for processions, assemblages, or parades in the streets or public
places shall remain in full force and effect. Local authorities may
set aside a specified public highway or highways for speed contests
or races to be given under proper restrictions for the safety of the
public and may exclude by ordinance orregulation vehicles used
exclusively for commercial purposes from the parks and parkways of
this state, provided such ordinance or regulation is applicable
equally and generally to all other vehicles used for the same
purpose. The local authorities may exclude vehicles from any
cemetery or ground used for burial of the dead. Cities and towns
may regulate the speed of vehicles within their corporate limits;
and that as to streets and highways within the corporate limits
which have been constructed or reconstructed with state or federal
funds, local authorities shall have joint authority with the
Transportation Commission to establish or alter speed limits. No
local authority shall impose speed limits on any such street or
highway substantially lower than those justified by the highway
design, capacity, and traffic volume as determined by engineering
studies. A municipality may issue licenses authorizing the parking
or unloading of vehicles in zones on streets restricted for loading,
unloading or commercial use.
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