2020 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 47. Motor Vehicles
§47-11-1103. Motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, motorized scooters or motorized bicycles - Restrictions on transporting other persons.

A. No person under the age of sixteen (16) years shall drive a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, or motorized bicycle on any highway of this state while transporting any other person.

B. The operator of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, or motorized bicycle who has attained the age of sixteen (16) years or older may carry a passenger if the vehicle has a wheel diameter of twelve (12) inches or greater and is factory-designed and equipped with either:

1. A double seating device with double foot rests; or

2. A sidecar attachment providing a separate seat space within such sidecar attachment for each person riding therein so that such person shall be seated entirely within the body of said sidecar.

C. No rider of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, or motorized bicycle shall hold to any moving vehicle for the purpose of being propelled.

D. No driver of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle, or electric-assisted bicycle shall pass other vehicles between lanes of traffic traveling in the same direction. This subsection shall not apply to the operator of an authorized emergency vehicle.

Added by Laws 1961, p. 389, § 11-1103, eff. Sept. 1, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 411, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 2003; Laws 2004, c. 521, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2019, c. 43, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.