1. (a) Each new motor vehicle loaned and furnished free of charge by a licensed Oklahoma new car dealer to a school district in Oklahoma to be used exclusively for instructing pupils in the driver education and training program, including any vehicle used exclusively for vocational agriculture purposes, conducted by such school district may be operated for such purpose with a special driver education training license plate attached thereto. Such license plates shall be issued without any charge therefor to school districts from the central office of the Oklahoma Tax Commission upon application forms prescribed and furnished by the Commission, and such plates shall be accounted for by the school district to which issued, as the Tax Commission may require. Said special license plates shall be used only on such motor vehicles furnished free of charge by dealers and used in the driver education program, including any vehicle used exclusively for vocational agriculture purposes, and for no other purpose except for garaging and safekeeping of said motor vehicle. The school district may adopt reasonable rules and regulations to permit instructors to provide for the safekeeping and garaging of such vehicle, but they shall not be permitted to use such vehicle for private use.

2. (b) The school district may provide adequate insurance to cover such motor vehicle and its use for such purposes, and the dealer owning and so furnishing same shall not be liable for any personal injury or property damage resulting from the use of any such motor vehicle while in the possession of the school district, its officials, employees or students.

   The use of such motor vehicles for said purposes by school districts is declared to be a public governmental function and no action for damages shall be brought against the school districts and the amount of damages, if any, recoverable against the insurer and collectible from such insurer shall be limited to the amount provided in the insurance contract. Provided that the provisions hereof shall not be construed as creating any liability whatever against any school district which has not provided said insurance.

Laws 1970, HB 1808, c. 180, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1970; Amended by Laws 1971, SB 189, c. 141, § 1, emerg. eff. July 1, 1971, Amended by Laws 1986, HB 2023, c. 104, § 3, emerg. eff. August 1, 1986.