2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 47. Motor Vehicles
§47-421. Definitions - Persons not included - Sworn statement showing exemption.

(a) When used in this act:

(1) "Motor vehicle" means any automobile, automobile trucks, truck, or any other self-propelled vehicle not operated or driven upon fixed rails or track; provided, that in this act the term shall always include as one vehicle a tractor-semitrailer or tractor-trailor combination.

(2) "Highway" shall mean any thoroughfare defined by any statute or ordinance as a public highway or street.

(3) "Person" shall mean a natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, trust, lessee, trustee, or receiver, as the context may require, regardless of the gender of the pronoun used in conjunction therewith.

(4) The words "sale," "sell," or any grammatical forms thereof, when used in this act, shall mean and include barter, trade, or exchange, in addition to the usual and ordinary meanings of said words; and this definition shall not be construed to diminish any meanings of said words but shall extend such meanings.

(5) "Commission" shall mean the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

(6) "Established place of business" shall mean any permanent warehouse, building, structure, or residence, at which a permanent business is carried on as such during usual business hours throughout the year or usual production season in good faith and not for the purpose of evading this Act, and at which stocks of the property being transported are produced, stored or kept in quantities reasonably adequate for, and usually carried for, the requirements of such business, and which is recognized, and licensed or taxed, as a permanent business at such place, and shall not mean premises or buildings appurtenant thereto, tents, temporary stands or other temporary quarters, nor permanent quarters occupied pursuant to any temporary arrangement.

(7) Except as otherwise herein provided, "itinerant merchant" shall mean any person who sells, or offers to sell, in this state, at wholesale or retail, any personal property, and transports the same on any highway in this state by use of a motor vehicle.

(b) The term "itinerant merchant" shall not mean or include the following:

(1) A person who does not at any time transport in a motor vehicle a net load exceeding three thousand (3,000) pounds, except a person transporting baby chicks.

(2) A person using a motor vehicle owned by him, whether operated by him or his agent, for the transportation of milk, diary products, grain, fruits, vegetables, livestock, poultry, or other agricultural products, produced or fed by him on a farm operated by him either within or without this state, or for the transportation of newspapers, magazines, or periodicals.

(3) A person transporting property owned by him or by his agent, in a motor vehicle owned by him or by his agent, whether operated by him or his agent, when such transportation is incident to a business conducted by him or by his agent at an established place of business operated by him or by his agent, either within or without this state, and when said property is being transported to or from said established place of business.

(4) A person transporting property for his own consumption or use, or to be processed by him and not for sale.

(5) A person authorized to act as a common or contract carrier of property by motor vehicle under Part 2 of the Interstate Commerce Act, or a person operating a motor vehicle for hire under the laws of this state.

(6) A person transporting any petroleum products owned by him, by motor vehicle operated by him, or his agent, when such products are transported to or from an established oil bulk plant operated by him, or his agent, either within or without the state.

(7) This act shall not apply to bona fide residents of the State of Oklahoma having a motor vehicle license in this state and used in the conduct of business as an itinerant merchant.

(c) No person shall be exempt from the requirements of this act by reason of the provisions of subsection (b) of this section unless he or the driver of the motor vehicle upon which his property is being transported shall, upon request of any state, county, or township officer, sworn to preserve the peace, sign and swear to under oath before some person authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths, or under authority of this act, and deliver to said officer such sworn statement in writing clearly showing that the person claiming the exemption is entitled to one or more of the exemptions provided in this section. Any highway patrolman, sheriff, or peace officer, for the purpose of the enforcement of this act, shall have authority to administer oaths and take acknowledgments thereof. If the person claiming the exemption is not a natural person, such statement shall be signed and sworn to by some natural person authorized to act for it, or by the driver of the motor vehicle carrying the property. Such statement shall not be sufficient unless it shall contain, in addition to any other necessary facts, the following of such facts as are material to the particular exemption claimed: Name of the person claiming the exemption and name of the person signing such statement, and the business and residence addresses of both; where and when the products described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of this section were produced or fed, and the place where they are to be delivered if known; acreage operated by him; the location of the established place of business, how long there established, and whether the premises where located are owned or leased by the person claiming the exemption; the kind of business there conducted. The officer receiving said statement shall promptly forward it to the Commission where it shall be filed and shall be a public record. Any person knowingly making any false, material statement in said statement shall be guilty of perjury and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided by law.

Laws 1941, p. 204, § 1.