2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 47. Motor Vehicles
§47-1135.4v2. Personalized license plates.

A. Service Oklahoma is hereby authorized to design and issue personalized license plates. The personalized license plates shall be issued on a staggered system except for vintage decals.

Personalized special license plates shall not be transferred to any other person but shall be removed from the vehicle upon transfer of ownership and retained. The personalized special license plate may then be used on another vehicle but only after such other vehicle has been registered for the current year.

Personalized special license plates shall be renewed each year by Service Oklahoma or a licensed operator, unless authorized by Service Oklahoma to be renewed for a period greater than one (1) year. Service Oklahoma shall notify by mail all persons issued special license plates. The notice shall contain all necessary information and shall contain instructions for the renewal procedure upon presentation to a licensed operator or Service Oklahoma. The licensed operator fees for renewals shall be paid out of the Oklahoma Tax Commission Reimbursement Fund. Beginning January 1, 2023, the licensed operator fees for acceptance of applications and renewals shall be paid out of the Service Oklahoma Reimbursement Fund.

On and after January 1, 2022, if a personalized license plate is issued pursuant to this section, any registration fee required for such plate pursuant to this section and the fee required pursuant to Section 1132 of this title shall be remitted at the same time and subject to a single registration period. Service Oklahoma shall determine, by rule, a method for making required fee and registration period adjustments if a special license plate is obtained during a twelve-month period for which a registration fee has already been remitted pursuant to Section 1132 of this title. The combination of fees in a single remittance shall not alter the apportionment otherwise provided for in this section.

B. Such plates shall be designed and issued for the following:

1. Any person in any combination of numbers or letters from one to a maximum of seven;

2. Persons eligible for two or more of the military decoration special license plates provided for in this title. Such plates may be issued in any combination of emblems. However, such plates shall only display up to three emblems and shall also display any combination of letters or numbers from one to a maximum of three;

3. Motorcycles in any combination of numbers or letters from one to a maximum of six;

4. Persons eligible for Korean War Veteran license plates provided for in this title. Such plates may display any combination of letters or numbers up to three on each side of the insignia or emblem;

5. Persons eligible for World War II Veteran license plates provided for in this title. Such plates may display any combination of letters or numbers up to three on each side of the insignia or emblem; and

6. Persons owning vehicles which are twenty-one (21) years and older are qualified to submit for approval by Service Oklahoma or a licensed operator a vintage but expired official Oklahoma license plate which is twenty-one (21) years and older. Upon approval of such personalized plate, the owner shall be issued the annual registration decal which Service Oklahoma or the licensed operator shall direct to be affixed.

C. The fee for such plates shall be Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year of renewal and shall be in addition to all other registration fees provided by the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act. Eight Dollars ($8.00) per year of renewal of the personalized tag fee shall be deposited in the Oklahoma Tax Commission Reimbursement Fund to be used for the administration of the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act. Twelve Dollars ($12.00) per year of renewal of the personalized tag fee shall be apportioned as provided in Section 1104 of this title. Beginning January 1, 2023, Eight Dollars ($8.00) per year of renewal of the personalized tag fee shall be deposited in the Service Oklahoma Reimbursement Fund to be used for the administration of the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act. Twelve Dollars ($12.00) per year of renewal of the personalized tag fee shall be apportioned as provided in Section 1104 of this title.

Added by Laws 2004, c. 504, § 13, eff. July 1, 2004. Amended by Laws 2018, c. 69, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2021, c. 276, § 6, eff. Jan. 1, 2022; Laws 2022, c. 282, § 163, emerg. eff. May 19, 2022.