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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1901 By: Roe
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to motor vehicles; amending 47 O.S.
2011, Section 956, which relates to financial
interest of officers; allowing law enforce ment
officers to have an interest in or be employed by a
wrecker or towing service; prohibiting certain
wrecker or towing services in same county as officer
employment; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 47 O.S. 2011, Section 956, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 956. A. No operator, employee, or contractor of a
wrecker or towing service or of a person or business that derives
any business or income from a wrecker or towing service shall offer,
and no officer or employee of the Corporation Commission, Department
of Public Safety or any political subdivision of the state shall
accept, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gift, loan, f avor
or service given for the purpose of influencing the officer or
employee in the discharge of official duties of the person.
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B. Except as provided in subsection C of this section, no
officer of the Commission, Department or any law enforcement officer
of any political subdivision of the state shall have any interest,
financial or otherwise, in a wrecker or towing service, or with a
person or in a business that derives business or income from a
wrecker or towing service, nor shall a wrecker or towing ser vice or
a person or business that derives any business or income from a
wrecker or towing service employ such officer.
C. 1. An officer of the Commission, Department or a law
enforcement officer of any political subdivision may have an
interest, financial or otherwise, in or may be employed by a wrecker
or towing service when the sole purpose and only business of the
wrecker or towing service is to perform repossessions of vehicles
which are subject to lien and are being repossessed by the lien
holder of record.
2. A law enforcement office r of any political subdivision may
have an interest, financial or otherwise, in or may be employed by a
wrecker or towing service ; provided that, the wrecker or towing
service the officer is affiliated with is not in the same county in
which he or she is employed as a law enforcement officer .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-5718 JBH 01/19/21