2025 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-1902. Definitions.

As used in the Bus Passenger Safety Act:

1. “Bus” means a vehicle designed to carry passengers that is part of a network of passenger vehicles for use by the public, running on a regular schedule of routes, times, and fares;

2. “Bus transportation company” or “company” means any person or governmental entity providing for-hire transport to passengers or cargo by rolling stock transit vehicles upon the roads, streets, highways, public or dedicated rights-of-way, and turnpikes of this state;

3. “Deadly or dangerous weapon” includes all weapons listed in Section 1287 of this title, and any other weapon capable of inflicting serious bodily injury, except for a weapon carried for lawful self-defense in compliance under the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act;

4. “Passenger” means any person served by the bus transportation company;

5. “Rolling stock transit vehicles” include buses, vans, cars, railcars, locomotives, trolley cars, ferry boats, and vehicles used for transporting the public; and

6. “Terminal” means a bus station, stop, platform, or depot or any facility operated or leased by or operated on behalf of a bus transportation company. This term shall include a reasonable area immediately adjacent to any designated stop along the route traveled by any rolling stock transit vehicle operated by a bus transportation company and parking lots or parking areas adjacent to a terminal.

Added by Laws 1980, c. 244, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 2017, c. 314, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; Laws 2025, c. 405, § 1, emerg. eff. May 26, 2025.