Norman, OK

Norman caps weeds and grass at 12 inches on any platted or unplatted lot under City Code § 16-310. Growth past that height is a public nuisance the City can abate after 10 days'…

NCC 16-910 makes it the duty of every property owner abutting a street to prune trees on their premises so limbs and undergrowth never hang lower than seven feet over an adjoining…

Norman's Stage 1 conservation plan restricts landscape watering year-round to odd or even calendar days matching the address's last digit, with hand watering always allowed and…

Norman requires written permission from the City Forester before anyone alters or removes a street tree, defined as a tree six inches DBH or larger growing in the public right-of-way…

Norman's parking-lot landscaping code tells developers using its xeriscape option that native species 'are better adapted to this climatic zone and should be used' alongside other…

Norman bans keeping exotic wildlife, native wildlife, or any venomous species under NCC 4-301(d): an Animal Services Officer can seize and impound a prohibited animal on sight, and it…

Norman allows up to four chickens or laying hens per parcel in the R-1 zoning district under NCC 4-301, but bans roosters outright and requires a predator-resistant coop and run in the…

Norman does not require a cat license, but an unaltered cat running at-large is a citable offense unless it is spayed or neutered, current on rabies vaccination, wearing a collar tag…

Norman does not require routine microchipping of pets, but a dangerous-animal conviction triggers a mandatory microchip order. The Municipal Court Judge must direct the owner to have…

Norman flatly bans letting a dog run at-large anywhere in the city under NCC 4-503: any dog off its owner's property and not physically restrained by harness, leash, or similar device…

Norman bans trapping, hunting, shooting, killing, capturing, or otherwise molesting any wild bird or its nest under NCC 4-302, with narrow carve-outs for lawfully regulated game-bird…

Norman does not ban or single out any dog breed. NCC 4-101 defines a dangerous animal purely by behavior, temperament, and circumstance, and NCC 4-408 requires anyone keeping an animal…

Norman caps unaltered pets at two dogs or three cats per property without a kennel license, and altered pets at four dogs or six cats. A licensed foster home working with a registered…

Norman requires a permit before keeping any hive outside the A-1, A-2, or R-E zoning districts, under NCC 20-601. Colonies are capped at one per 2,500 square feet of lot area, hives…

Norman treats a veterinary clinic or hospital as a discretionary special use, not a by-right use, in its agricultural and rural-commercial zones. Owners in the A-2 Rural Agricultural…

Norman's Property Maintenance Code Section 302.3.1 presumes every gravel driveway or parking area illegal unless it existed before March 1973, since Norman banned gravel surfaces…

Norman owns and runs its own electric-vehicle charging stations under NCC 2-601 and 2-602: the City Manager sets a per-kilowatt-hour price for public and other-government use, can…

Norman prohibits parking, storing, or leaving any abandoned, wrecked, nonoperating, or junked vehicle on private property, City streets, or public easements under NCC 16-302. Flat…

Norman bans parking any truck, trailer, recreational vehicle, bus, or other vehicle with more than two axles or over 20 feet long on a residential street. NCC 32-715 allows only a…

Norman bars parking in front of any driveway, inside an intersection, or facing against traffic flow under NCC 32-705. Vehicles standing at a curb must set the brake, shut off the…

Red curbs in Norman mark fire lanes where parking is banned at all times, under the fire lane definition in NCC 32-101. Fire lanes must be at least 20 feet wide, set back at least 10…

Norman reserves curb loading zones for loading or unloading passengers and freight only, under NCC 32-707. Stopping at the roadway edge elsewhere for that purpose is capped at three…

Oklahoma caps what a wrecker may charge for any nonconsensual tow, from a public road or a private lot, and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission sets those maximums by order. Under the…

Norman's Property Maintenance Code Section 303.2 requires private pools, hot tubs, and spas deeper than 24 inches to be enclosed by a fence or barrier at least 48 inches tall, with…

Norman requires a building permit for a residential swimming pool unless it falls into one of two narrow exemptions: prefabricated pools less than 24 inches deep, or seasonal pools…

Norman exempts fences up to ten feet high from a building permit under its adopted building code amendments. A fence taller than ten feet falls outside that exemption and needs a…

Norman requires a permit for retaining walls, built to the City Engineering Design Criteria, with fees tiered at two-to-under-three feet and three feet or taller. Building without the…

Norman caps side and rear yard fences at 8 feet and front-yard screening at 4 feet unless it sits behind the required setback line, under NCC 36-552. Anything above 10 feet needs Board…

Residential side and rear fences in Norman cannot be built from corrugated fiberglass, corrugated metal, or unpainted sheet metal, and cannot contain barbed wire, under NCC 36-552. The…

Oklahoma statute 60 O.S. Section 70 makes adjoining landowners equally bound to maintain the boundary fence between them when both enclose their land. If neighbors disagree over…

Norman makes it unlawful for anyone to sell, possess, store, discharge, or ignite consumer fireworks anywhere in the city under NCC 14-302, with no residential exception. Only a…

Norman prohibits open burning in any public or private place outside a building under NCC 16-107, unless it falls into a listed exception like household refuse burning without garbage…

Norman's open-burning ban under NCC 16-107 carves out recreational fires: campfires and other fires used solely for recreational or ceremonial purposes, or for outdoor non-commercial…

The Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Administration regulates all propane storage, distribution, and installation under Title 52 O.S. Sections 420.1 through 420.16. State licensing and…

Oklahoma Forestry Services holds statewide authority over wildfire suppression and hazard designation under Title 2 O.S. Sections 16-21 through 16-30. The Director may enter private…

Norman's noise ordinance makes it unlawful to own, keep, or harbor any animal whose frequent or habitual noisemaking causes a 'noise disturbance' or exceeds the district sound limits…

Norman bans running a loudspeaker, sound truck, or public-address system on any street, sidewalk, park, or public property unless a noise permit is obtained first from the Police…

Norman bans two or more people from talking, laughing, yelling, or singing loudly enough to violate district noise limits or cause a disturbance between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m…

NCC 16-206 limits motor vehicle noise measured at 25 feet: 88 dB(A) for trucks rated 10,000 pounds GVWR or more, and 78 dB(A) for motorcycles and every other vehicle, and separately…

Norman's noise ordinance does not reach aircraft operating under FAA authorization: NCC 16-209 lists 'aircraft under authorization by the Federal Aviation Administration,' alongside…

NCC 16-205 caps stationary noise sources by land-use district and time of day: residential limits run as low as 50 dB(A) at night and 55 dB(A) by day at the L90 ambient level, rising…

Norman's short-term rental ordinance bars STR use that generates noise, vibration, glare, or odors unreasonably interfering with a neighbor's enjoyment of their residence, and…

Norman limits every short-term rental to a single party of guests at a time and bars anyone under 18 from renting one, under NCC 20-2702. The same section forbids using the rental for…

Norman requires every short-term rental licensee and guest to comply with the City's parking ordinances, and the license application itself must include a site diagram showing on-site…

No one may manage or operate a short-term rental in Norman without an annual license from the City Clerk under NCC 20-2701 and 20-2702, and appropriate fees paid. The license is a…

Norman requires every short-term rental license applicant to attest to proof of current, valid property insurance as part of the City Clerk application under NCC 20-2703. The insurance…

Norman levies a ten percent transient guest room tax on every short-term rental stay under NCC 12-502, and the City Clerk will not issue or renew a short-term rental license without…

Norman's short-term rental ordinance lets the City Clerk deny, suspend or revoke a license based on a property's violation history in the 24 months before the application, weighing the…

A Norman shed only skips the building permit if it stays under 120 square feet, sits off any slab or foundation, and has no electric, plumbing or gas connection. Bigger or serviced…

Norman's R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District allows one accessory dwelling unit per lot, capped at 650 square feet, under NCC 36-514. Detached one-story ADUs must sit at least ten feet…

Norman allows one tiny house per lot under NCC 36-561, capping floor area at 400 square feet excluding lofts. Every unit needs a City Building Inspector site inspection with plumbing…

A Norman home business is limited to one sign under NCC 36-564, and that sign cannot exceed one square foot in area, must be non-illuminated, and may show only the occupant's name…

A Norman home occupation cannot grow the household's traffic and parking by more than one additional vehicle at a time under NCC 36-564. The one exception is a beauty shop, barber shop…

Norman lets residents run a home occupation by right under NCC 36-564, but only if the resident occupant does the work with no employees, uses no more than one room or 25 percent of…

Norman treats an in-home daycare as a "family child care home" under Oklahoma's Child Care Facilities Licensing Act, capped at seven or fewer children for part of the day and requiring…

Oklahoma's Homemade Food Freedom Act lets you sell homemade food with no license and no kitchen inspection, provided the business stays under seventy-five thousand dollars in gross…

Oklahoma is one of the few states where a home cook may sell time- and temperature-controlled food, meaning hot meals rather than only shelf-stable baked goods, with no permit and no…

Norman follows state landlord-tenant law for evictions. Landlords must follow proper notice procedures but may not need to state cause for non-renewal of month-to-month tenancies in…

Norman requires every landlord who furnishes heat to a rental unit to maintain at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit in all habitable rooms, bathrooms, and toilet rooms under Property…

Under Okla. Stat. tit. 41 § 131, an Oklahoma landlord may terminate for unpaid rent if the tenant fails to pay within 5 days after written demand. Other lease breaches get a 10-day…

Under Okla. Stat. tit. 41 § 128, an Oklahoma landlord must give the tenant at least one (1) day's notice before entering the dwelling and may enter only at reasonable times. No notice…

Under Okla. Stat. tit. 41 § 111, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice; tenancies shorter than month-to-month require 7 days. A fixed-term…

Oklahoma sets no statutory dollar limit on a residential security deposit, but Okla. Stat. tit. 41 § 115 requires the landlord to keep it in an escrow account. After the tenancy ends…

Norman's Code Compliance Officer can formally declare a structure dilapidated under NCC 2-204 after repeat unsecured-building citations or 18 months boarded up, triggering a City…

Norman's Property Maintenance Code Section 302.4 requires premises and exterior property be kept free of weeds or plant growth over 12 inches, with noxious weeds banned outright…

Norman does not run its own business tax classification system. City Code Section 12-408 ties every taxpayer's classification to the categories the Oklahoma Tax Commission already uses…

Norman prohibits smoking, vaping, and marijuana use in Public Places, Indoor Workplaces, and on all Municipal Property, including city parks, under Norman City Code Section 16-503…

Norman City Code Section 16-503(a) makes it unlawful to "smoke tobacco or marijuana or vape marijuana" in any Public Place, Indoor Workplace, public-transit vehicle, or public body…

Norman's city code makes it unlawful to consume spirits, meaning distilled liquor such as whiskey, vodka or rum, in any public place. The only exception is on the premises of an ABLE…

Norman law lets a police officer declare a social gathering a public nuisance once three or more violations, drawn from a list covering noise, open alcohol, narcotics, nudity and…

Norman's outraging public decency ordinance makes it unlawful to commit any act in a public place, or visible from one, that openly outrages public decency, expressly naming urinating…

Norman bans mid-block jaywalking outright. NCC 32-805 forbids darting from a curb into a vehicle's path and requires crossing by the shortest straight route to the opposite curb…

Norman lets a skateboarder use any sidewalk unless a sign specifically prohibits it there, under NCC 32-303. The same section bars bicycle riding on a signed sidewalk and exempts…

Norman's Historic District Ordinance, NCC 36-535, treats any designated landmark, building, site or monument as an overlay zoning district: owners must keep the exterior in good…

Norman's residential building code fixes the order of construction inspections: framing, mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-in must all pass before the insulation inspection…

Norman requires a City permit before altering, constructing, enlarging, or repairing any building or structure, installing electrical, gas, or plumbing systems, or cutting into a…

Norman adopts the 2018 International Plumbing Code, with its own amendments requiring permit fees paid before the permit is valid and a separate fee for anyone who starts plumbing work…

Norman does not mandate fire sprinklers in ordinary single-family homes, but any duplex in the Central Core Area with four or more bedrooms per unit must be sprinkled to IRC P2904 or…

Norman requires a permit before any electrical installation, alteration, or repair, enforced under the city's adopted 2020 National Electrical Code. NCC 6-104 bars work on wiring, gas…

Norman's short-term rental licensing ordinance requires every rental to have operational carbon monoxide detectors, as mandated by the adopted building code, before the City Clerk will…

Norman controls childcare facilities through its zoning code, not a separate building ordinance. A family day care home serving up to seven children is a by-right accessory use in…

Anything Norman's building code treats as an encroachment eight feet or higher over public right-of-way, including marquees, cannot be built on the strength of a building permit alone…

Norman prohibits blocking, encumbering or otherwise obstructing the free use of any public sidewalk, street, alley, road or building entrance under NCC 24-604. It is illegal to leave…

Norman's noise ordinance bans loading, unloading, or handling boxes, crates, containers, and garbage containers between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if it causes a noise disturbance or…

Norman limits any 'enclosed place of public entertainment,' meaning bars and nightclubs, to 90 dB(A) measured at a customer's normal spot unless a hearing-warning sign at least 225…

Norman treats any electronically amplified alarm signal, a category that reaches car alarms, the same way: sounding past the NCC 16-205 district noise limit for more than 15 minutes an…

Norman bans reproduced sound, the kind that carries as thumping bass, once it is plainly audible at the source's property boundary or 50 feet away from a vehicle or boat under NCC…

In Norman's R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District, buildings and permanent paving together cannot cover more than 65 percent of a lot. Front-yard paving for parking is separately capped…

In Norman's R-1, Single-Family Dwelling District, NCC 36-514 sets a 25-foot minimum front yard, five-foot side yards (15 to 20 feet on corner lots facing the intersecting street), and…

Norman caps single-family homes in the R-1 District at two stories under NCC 36-514, letting a third story through only if the side yards grow by an extra five feet. Detached accessory…

Norman levies a 10 percent excise tax on gross receipts from hotel room and RV space rentals, waived only when the daily rent is under $3.00. The definition of hotel is broad enough to…

Pawnbrokers in Norman must hold a City license before operating, and NCC 20-2002 confines pawn transactions to set weekday and weekend hours. No pawnbroker may buy or accept pledged…

Adult entertainment uses can locate only in Norman's C-2 and C-3 commercial districts under NCC 36-567, after Planning Commission and City Council review. The zoning code keeps them…

Since April 1, 2026, no one may own, operate, or manage a massage therapy or bodywork services establishment in Norman without a City license under NCC 20-3302, and the code sets…

Norman restricts police-authorized towing to contractors under a wrecker service agreement with the Police Department. NCC 32-605 requires each contractor to keep an office and…

Norman bars tobacco and e-cigarette retailers from locating within 300 feet of any school, playground, or facility used mainly by people under 21, measured property line to property…

Norman flatly bars auto repair, major or minor, from operating as a home occupation under NCC 36-564. The zoning code names it alongside carpentry work, medical or dental offices…

Norman schedules bulk item pickup separately from regular trash: cardboard must be flattened and bundled, other refuse packed in containers no larger than 32 gallons, and nothing set…

Norman bars anyone from pulling waste out of garbage receptacles or hauling refuse through city streets except to a City-approved landfill, with Chapter 34's $50-$750 penalty applying…

Norman requires every owner or occupant to use City-supplied roll-out carts and collects municipal solid waste once a week, with the Director of Utilities setting pickup frequency for…

Norman collects bagged or canned yard waste once a week, placed within seven feet of the curb, with limits of 35 gallons or 75 pounds per container and tree limbs capped at two inches…

Norman residents in the urban area must use City-supplied recycling containers for a defined list of materials, collected every other week within two feet of the curb.

Norman requires roll-out solid waste carts to sit within two feet of the curb or alleyside, with two feet of clearance on either side, and to be pulled back by noon the day after…

Norman collects municipal solid waste once a week in City-supplied roll-out carts, one cart per pickup unless the Sanitation Department authorizes more. NCC 34-301(a) requires the cart…

Norman requires every residential property in the urban service area to recycle using containers the City or its recycling contractor supplies. NCC 34-301(c) sets a $3.00 monthly fee…

Norman limits roll-off and portable storage containers to 30 days without a building permit and 14 days on a residential driveway under NCC 36-562, with commercial or industrial…

Norman treats any film or television production as a special event under NCC 20-3001, requiring a City Clerk permit whose fee scales with shoot length: free for productions of three…

Norman's special event code treats any film or television production of any size as a regulated special event, and if the production uses sound equipment during a street shoot it needs…

Norman lets film and television productions request a full street closure to the public for a limited time, something other special events cannot do under NCC 20-3011, and the operator…

Norman requires new single-family and two-family homes to plant at least one street-frontage tree before the city issues a certificate of occupancy, under IRC Section R328.1 as added…

Property owners can nominate a tree on their own land as a 'historic tree' under NCC 16-912 if it shows at least three qualifying traits, including a trunk 36 inches DBH or larger…

Norman makes it unlawful to peddle, solicit or vend door-to-door on private property without a City Clerk permit under NCC 20-2903, and solicitors and peddlers may only operate between…

The Oklahoma Home Solicitation Sales Act under Title 14A O.S. Sections 2-501 through 2-505 universally requires written contracts and a three-day cancellation period for door-to-door…

Norman's FH, Flood Hazard District overlays every mapped special flood hazard area in the city. New construction, substantial improvements, fill, grading, or storage of materials there…

Norman requires two feet of freeboard above base flood elevation. Every new residential and nonresidential structure in a mapped special flood hazard area must sit with its lowest…

Norman requires vegetative cover and erosion or sedimentation control on every subdivision drainage improvement, installed with the drainage work itself or backed by a surety through…

Any Norman facility or activity the Department of Environmental Quality regulates under the Oklahoma Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Act needs a permit before discharging…

Medical marijuana dispensaries are a permitted use in Norman's C-1, Local Commercial District, 'as allowed by State law' under NCC 36-524, so no special rezoning or opt-out blocks…

Norman restricts home cannabis cultivation to licensed medical patients only. Recreational growing is prohibited. Medical grows require registration and must follow state guidelines.

Norman's special events ordinance does not carve out a separate track for commercial filming: NCC 20-3001 defines 'special event' and 'special event area' to expressly include film and…

Norman treats any street fair, festival, or outdoor gathering expected to draw 1,000 or more people, or to run two or more hours and stay open to the public, as a regulated special…

Any qualifying special event in a Norman city park, one expected to draw 1,000 or more people or run two-plus hours and stay open to the public, goes through the same City Clerk permit…

Norman requires a Police Chief permit before any funeral procession or parade of more than five cars or 20 people occupies, marches, or proceeds along a city street, under NCC 32-107…

Norman garage sale permits run a maximum of three consecutive days under NCC section 20-1102, and the City will not issue more than two per calendar year to the same applicant or for…

Norman allows only one temporary sign to advertise a garage sale, and NCC section 20-1103 requires it to be placed in the front of the sale location itself, not at nearby intersections…

Norman lets political signs sit in the right-of-way strip between the property line and the curb in front of or beside a single-family home, but only with the homeowner's permission…

Norman caps window signs in commercial zones at 35 percent of total window area at street level, not to exceed 25 percent of the district's overall sign area allowance, under NCC…

Industrial and Commercial lots within 1,320 feet of the I-35 right-of-way get one extra ground sign under NCC 28-504 and 28-505, on top of the district's normal sign allowance. The…

Norman allows one electronic digital sign per business, but only in areas zoned commercial or industrial, under NCC 28-413. A digital sign must hold each static message for at least 12…

Anyone who works in a Norman bakery, cafe, meat market, restaurant, or other place where food is handled or served must carry a current, unrevoked work permit from the County Health…

Licensed mobile home and travel trailer parks in Norman must keep the grounds free of debris that harbors rodents, and NCC section 20-1606 requires the park operator to exterminate any…

Norman's sign code exempts holiday decorating entirely from regulation. NCC 28-104 states the chapter does not regulate noncommercial holiday signs and decorations, and NCC 28-105…

Norman requires a City Clerk-issued Food Service Establishment License for every mobile food unit, offered as an annual license or as a temporary 1-day, 30-day, or 180-day license. NCC…

Norman bars mobile temporary food vendors from selling on public right-of-way, a term NCC section 20-1010 defines to include sidewalks, streets, alleys, and pedestrian ways, except for…

A Norman mobile food license does not itself grant a place to sell: NCC section 20-1010 confines vending to private property with the owner's or lessor's actual permission, caps a stop…

Norman bars anyone under 18 from being in streets, parks, parking lots, vacant lots, unoccupied buildings or other public places between midnight and 6:00 a.m. Exceptions cover minors…

Norman's zoning code sets floors, not ceilings. NCC 36-570 states that wherever the zoning chapter's requirements conflict with a lawfully adopted covenant, deed restriction or other…

Oklahoma has no homeowner-association statute governing meetings or records, so the rules come from whichever body of law the association was organized under. Most Oklahoma HOAs are…

Oklahoma law voids any association policy or agreement that restricts or prevents a member from flying the flag of the United States at a reasonable height up to twenty (20) feet on…

Oklahoma has no statutory ceiling on what a homeowner association may charge for a covenant violation, no required notice-and-hearing procedure before a charge is levied, and no…

Oklahoma gives a condominium association a real assessment lien and a real foreclosure remedy, then subordinates the lien to four earlier claims. Under 60 O.S. Section 524(a) unpaid…

Since July 22, 2011, every new commercial, industrial, institutional, or multifamily development in Norman must use full cut-off outdoor light fixtures mounted horizontally so no light…

Norman's off-premises sign standards, NCC 28-601, ban billboard lighting that glares into traffic or obscures a traffic signal. Digital billboards face their own brightness ceiling: no…

NCC 36-549 caps light spilling onto neighboring single- or two-family property at 0.2 footcandles measured at the property line, with permanent shielding required on pole-mounted…

Norman's Appendix D Plant List flags Tree-of-Heaven and Paper Mulberry as invasive species that fail the city's cultural-characteristic test for trees and shrubs. Because Residential…

Norman's Appendix D Plant List names Ailanthus altissima, Tree-of-Heaven, an 'Invasive species' that 'will survive any condition' and does not meet the city's cultural-characteristic…

Norman's A-1, General Agricultural District (NCC 36-511) keeps farming as the baseline permitted use on the urbanizing fringe of the city, allowing crops and farm animals by right…

Oklahoma's Right to Farm Act protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when surrounding land uses change, codified at 50 O.S. 1.1 and following sections.

Norman bans parking, stopping, or standing any vehicle within a bicycle lane under NCC 32-705, defined in NCC 32-101 as a roadway portion striped, signed, or marked for the…

Oklahoma bans golf carts from the streets and highways of the state and then lists five exceptions, four of which depend on a local government acting first. 47 O.S. Section 11-1116(C)…

Norman's off-street parking landscaping code encourages developers to limit turf to high-traffic areas and use drought-tolerant grasses like buffalo grass under NCC 36-551's xeriscape…

Oklahoma law preempts cities and counties from setting minimum wages higher than the state and federal floor, locking local employers to the statewide standard wage rate.

Oklahoma authorizes both permitless constitutional carry for eligible adults and the Self-Defense Act handgun license, governed by the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act under Title 21.

Oklahoma law preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, and components, reserving authority to the state legislature with narrow exceptions for state-permitted…

Oklahoma permits open carry of handguns by eligible adults under constitutional carry and the Self-Defense Act, subject to location restrictions and private property rights.

Oklahoma authorizes eligible adults to transport and carry handguns and long guns in private motor vehicles under permitless carry, with state preemption barring stricter local vehicle…

Oklahoma bans commercial bingo but lets charitable nonprofits run bingo, U-PIK-EM bingo, and breakopen ticket games under an ABLE Commission license. The Oklahoma Charity Games Act (3A…

Oklahoma carves out no exception for a private card game among friends. 21 O.S. § 941 makes it a Class C2 felony to open or conduct poker, roulette, craps, or any dice or card game for…

Oklahoma has no legal, licensed way to bet on sports, not through a casino, an app, or a tribal compact. Wagering on athletic contests for money falls under the state's general…

The Oklahoma Legislature has never enacted a sobriety checkpoint scheme. A full-text reading of Titles 13, 22, 47 and 63 returns no instance of the words checkpoint or roadblock at…

Oklahoma protects filming police, but not through a standalone right. Laws 2015, c. 286, Section 1 added a sentence to the obstructing-an-officer statute itself, 21 O.S. Section 540…

Oklahoma has never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute. Nothing in Title 21 creates a failure-to-identify offence, and the arrest chapter of Title 22 runs the other way: 22…

Oklahoma has not codified anything about consenting to a vehicle search. Title 22's search chapter, Sections 1221 through 1241, is written entirely around warrants and never uses the…

Oklahoma prohibits municipalities from regulating, taxing, or banning auxiliary containers including plastic bags, foam, and similar items, reserving authority to the state legislature.

Oklahoma has never enacted a solar access, solar rights or solar easement statute, and nothing in state law voids a covenant that bans or conditions rooftop panels. Under 60 O.S…

Oklahoma prohibits the sale of tobacco, vapor, and nicotine products to anyone under age 21, aligning state law with federal Tobacco 21 requirements under Title 63.

Oklahoma allows a private vehicle no more than two spot lamps, two front fog lamps or two rear fog lamps, two auxiliary driving lamps and two daytime running lamps, and 47 O.S. Section…

Oklahoma has never legislated about dash cameras. Two other provisions decide where one may go, and they set different tests. 47 O.S. Section 12-422(B)(1) makes it unlawful to operate…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Oklahoma. 47 O.S. Section 11-1103(D) states that no driver of a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized scooter, motorized bicycle or…

Oklahoma outlaws every license plate cover, not just tinted or smoked ones. 47 O.S. Section 1113(A) makes it a violation to operate a vehicle in the state on which the license plate is…

A radar detector is lawful in an ordinary Oklahoma passenger car. The only Oklahoma statute that reaches detectors, 47 O.S. Section 11-808.1, is written entirely around the commercial…

Oklahoma allows metal-studded tires only between November 1 and April 1, and only on vehicles with a rated capacity of two tons or less. The studs may cover no more than three percent…

Oklahoma lets you tint side and rear windows only if the glass plus film still passes at least twenty-five percent of light and reflects no more than twenty-five percent, under 47 O.S…