2018 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 47. Motor Vehicles
§47-11-902c. Preemption of legislation pertaining to prosecution of offenses related to driving under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substances.
A. The State Legislature hereby occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation in this state touching in any way the prosecution of offenses relating to driving under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance or operating a motor vehicle while impaired to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance, local legislation or regulation by any municipality or other political subdivision of this state.
B. No municipality or other political subdivision shall prosecute any laws or ordinances relating to the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance or operating a motor vehicle while impaired. Any existing or future orders, ordinances, local legislation or regulations in violation of this section is void and unenforceable.
C. The preemption provisions of this section shall not apply to prosecutions in municipal criminal courts of record for offenses relating to driving under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance or operating a motor vehicle while impaired. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a municipality from establishing a municipal criminal court of record pursuant to the provisions of Section 28-101 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 172, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
