2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 74. State Government › §74-152.2. Definitions.

For purposes of this act:
1. “Broker” means every person whose primary business is buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in used materials as agent for the seller of the used materials, or as agent for the buyer of the used materials, or as agent for both;
2. "Bureau" means the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation;
3. “Dealer” means every person whose primary business is buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in used materials and who has a fixed, designated place or places of business within this state;
4. "Director" means the Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation;
5. "Gas" means natural gas, including casinghead gas, and any and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil;
6. "Load ticket" means an invoice or other shipping paper described and required by Section 1013 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes or other manifest required by state or federal law describing the cargo;
7. "Oil" means crude petroleum oil, and any other liquid hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods;
8. "Oil field equipment" means equipment, machinery or materials that are part of or incident to drilling, well servicing, exploration, development, maintenance, production, transportation and operation of oil and gas properties and includes equipment and materials that are part of or incident to the construction, maintenance and operation of oil and gas wells, oil and gas leases, gasoline plants and refineries;
9. "Oil reclaimer" means any person who reclaims, salvages, or in any manner removes or extracts oil from the waste products associated with the production, storage, and transportation of oil, including but not limited to salt water, and the residue from oil storage tank bottoms;
10. “Peddler” means every person who is not a dealer or broker and whose primary business is buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in used materials;
11. "Person" means any individual, copartnership, corporation, common law or statutory trust or association of whatever character;
12. “Pipeline equipment” means all pipes, fitting, pumps, telephone and telegraph lines, and all other material and equipment used as part of or incident to the construction, maintenance and operation of a pipeline for the transportation of oil, gas, water, or other liquid or gaseous substance;
13. "Transportation" or "transport" means the movement of oil or gas or salt water by any vehicle in this state. The term does not include movement by railroad tank car or by pipeline. The term transportation or transport shall not apply to the transportation of oil or gas when such oil or gas is contained in the ordinary equipment of a motor vehicle and is used only for the operation of the motor vehicle in which contained;
14. "Transporter" means any person who actually transports oil or gas or salt water in any vehicle on any road, street, or highway in this state;
15. "Unlawful gas" means gas transported or taken in violation of any law of this state;
16. "Unlawful oil" means any oil transported or taken in violation of any law of this state;
17. “Used materials” means pipeline equipment or oil field equipment after the equipment has once been placed in the use for which it first was manufactured and intended; and
18. "Vehicle" means every device upon or in which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 187, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Amended by Laws 1986, c. 201, § 9, operative July 1, 1986; Laws 2008, c. 364, § 2, eff. Jan 1, 2009.