1. A.

   1. 1. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall require that every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, registered or operated in this state be inspected once a year at official inspection stations as provided in Section 851 et. seq. of this title, and that an official certificate of inspection and approval be obtained for each such vehicle.
   2. 2. Vehicles owned or operated by a fire department may have the inspection performed at the fire station location or the principal location of the fire vehicle
   3. 3. Motor carriers and express companies operating under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and/or the Department of Transportation and interstate and/or intrastate owners and/or operators of commercial, private or public fleets of vehicles maintaining inspection and repair facilities which meet standards established by the Commissioner, may be authorized by the Commissioner to perform such inspections in such carriers' own maintenance shops, without bond, on vehicles owned or operated by them.
2. B. Such inspections shall be made and such certificates obtained with respect to the mechanism and equipment of every such vehicle as shall be designated by the Commissioner. An inspection shall not be done and a certificate shall not be issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 851 et seq. of this title for a vehicle which does not display a current Oklahoma license plate and decal, unless the vehicle is owned by a member of the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to duty in this state in compliance with official military or naval orders or the spouse of such a member of the Armed Forces; provided, the Department of Public Safety and the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall promulgate rules to provide for the inspection of rebuilt vehicles pursuant to the provisions of Section 1111 of this title prior to registration pursuant to the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act.
3. C. The Commissioner shall require that the owner of every motor vehicle equipped to be fueled by an alternative fuel shall obtain the annual inspection required by subsection A of this section from an official inspection station.

4. D.

   1. 1. Except for vehicles sold dealer to dealer, and wrecked, antique or classic vehicles not driven on the public roadway which have been certified as such under oath by the owner, every vehicle when sold by a licensed dealer shall have been inspected and shall meet the standards of inspection as provided in Section 851 et seq. of this title and shall display a current inspection sticker.
   2. 2. Every vehicle which has or has been converted to have, or upon conversion to have, the capability of being fueled by an alternative fuel, as defined by Section 130.2 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall meet the standards of inspection as provided in Section 851 et seq. of this title and shall display a current inspection sticker.
5. E. The Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate necessary rules for the administration and enforcement of Section 851 et seq. of this title and to designate any period or periods of time during which owners of any vehicles, subject to this section, shall display upon such vehicle, except those vehicles exempted pursuant to Section 851 of this title, certificates of inspection and approval or shall produce the same upon demand of any officer or employee of the Department designated by the Commissioner or any police or peace officer when authorized by the Commissioner. As a part of such rules, the Commissioner shall include the requirement that every person subject to the in-lieu-of-tax fee under Section 723 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes display a current Tax Commission decal on the vehicle as described in Section 723 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes and that proper display of the decal shall be a requirement for the issuance of an official certificate of inspection and approval for any vehicle using an alternative fuel as defined in Section 130.2 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
6. F. The Commissioner may authorize the acceptance in this state of a certificate of inspection and approval issued in another state having an inspection law similar to Section 851 et seq. of this title and may extend the time within which a certificate shall be obtained by the resident owner of a vehicle which was not in this state during the time an inspection was required.
7. G. The Commissioner may suspend the registration of any vehicle which he or she determines is in such unsafe condition as to constitute a menace to safety or which after notice and demand is not equipped as required in Section 851 et seq. of this title or for which a required certificate has not been obtained. Any person who shall have a vehicle registration suspended under the provisions of this section shall immediately forward the vehicle registration to the Department of Public Safety.

Laws 1967, c. 362, § 4, eff. January 1, 1969; Amended by Laws 1969, c. 102, § 4, emerg. eff. March 28, 1969; Amended by Laws 1988, c. 163, § 1, emerg. eff. May 16, 1988; Amended by Laws 1988, c. 179, § 2, operative July 1, 1988; Amended by Laws 1988, c. 240, § 1, eff. July 1, 1988; Amended by Laws 1989, c. 353, § 14, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989; Amended by Laws 1990, c. 294, § 15, eff. July 1, 1990; Amended by Laws 1992, c. 306, § 3, eff. July 1, 1992; Amended by Laws 1993, c. 224, § 10, eff. September 1, 1993; Amended by Laws 1994, c. 379, § 14, eff. September 1, 1994; Amended by Laws 1997, c. 179, § 1, emerg. eff. May 12, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1997, c. 325, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1998, c. 158, § 1, eff. November 1, 1998 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1999, c. 232, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available ).