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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1867 By: Standridge
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority;
amending 69 O.S. 2021, Section 1711, which relates to
tolls; prohibiting certain Authority from charging
tolls on certain turnpike projects in certain
circumstance; allowing certain Authority to charge
tolls on certain turnpike projects in certain
circumstance; updating statutory language; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 69 O.S. 2021, Section 1711, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1711. A. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, subject to
the provisions hereof, is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge
and collect tolls for the use of each turnpike project and the
different parts or sections thereof, except for use by law
enforcement officers responsible for enforcing the traffic laws and
the general laws of the state and federal governments on turnpikes,
who shall be entitled to free use of every such project in the
performance of official duties connected with such turnpike project,
and.
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B. The Authority, subject to the provisions of this section, is
authorized to contract with any person, partnership, association or
corporation desiring the use of any part thereof, including the
right-of-way adjoining the paved portion, for placing thereon
telephone, telegraph, electric light or power lines, gas stations,
garages, stores, hotels, restaurants and advertising signs, or for
any other purpose except for tracks for railroad or railway use, and
to fix the terms, conditions, rents and rates of charges for such
use.
C. Such tolls, subject to the other restrictions hereof, shall
be so fixed and adjusted in respect of the aggregate of tolls from
the turnpike project or projects in connection with which the bonds
of any issue shall have been issued as to provide a fund sufficient
with other revenues, if any, to pay (a) the cost of maintaining,
repairing, and operating such turnpike project or projects, and (b)
the principal of and the interest of such bonds as the same shall
become due and payable, and to create reserves for such purposes.
The tolls and all other revenues derived from the turnpike project
or projects in connection with which the bonds of any issue shall
have been issued, except such part thereof as may be necessary to
pay such cost of maintenance, repair, and operation and to provide
such reserves therefor as may be provided for in the resolution
authorizing the issuance of such bonds or in the trust agreement
securing the same shall be set aside at such regular intervals as
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may be provided in such resolution or such trust agreement in a
sinking fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the
payment of (a) the interest upon such bonds as such interest shall
fall due, (b) the principal of such bonds as the same shall fall
due, (c) the necessary charges of paying agents for paying principal
and interest, and (d) the redemption price or the purchase price of
bonds retired by call or purchase as therein provided, which are a
charge against such fund. The use and disposition of monies to the
credit of such sinking fund shall be subject to the provisions of
the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or of such
trust agreement. Except as may otherwise be provided in such
resolution or such trust agreement, such sinking fund shall be a
fund for all such bonds without distinction or priority of one over
another. The monies in the sinking fund, less such reserve as may
be provided in such resolution or trust agreement, if not used
within a reasonable time for the purchase of bonds for cancellation
as above provided, shall be applied to the redemption of bonds at
the redemption price then applicable.
D. Any person who leases, rents, or acquires control of any gas
station, garage, store, hotel, or restaurant must have been a
resident of, or been doing business in, Oklahoma for the past five
(5) years.
E. Notwithstanding anything else herein contained to the
contrary, the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma shall
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exercise the jurisdiction now or hereafter vested in it to regulate
and control the operation of motor carriers of passengers and
freight, using or desiring to use any turnpike project, in the
manner and to the extent that it regulates or controls such carriers
using the highways of the state.
F. The Authority shall not discriminate against any group or
class or individual member thereof in fixing the amount of toll,
rents, or charge for the use of the turnpike project.
G. 1. The Authority shall not charge a toll on a turnpike
project that has had an average annual daily traffic volume of less
than twenty-five thousand (25,000) vehicles for the five (5) years
preceding the effective date of this act.
2. The Authority shall not charge a toll on a turnpike project
that has an average annual daily traffic volume of less than twenty-
five thousand (25,000) vehicles over a period of five (5)
consecutive years.
3. If a turnpike project subject to the provisions of
paragraphs 1 and 2 of this subsection has, for a period of five (5)
consecutive years, an average annual daily traffic volume of at
least twenty-five thousand (25,000) vehicles, the Authority may
reinstate the toll on such turnpike project.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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