Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 260 - Office of Management and Enterprise Services › Chapter 135 - Service Oklahoma › Subchapter 5 - Driver Licenses and Identification Cards › Part 31 - COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE THIRD-Y EXAMINERS › Section 260:135-5-175 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In addition to terms defined in 47 O.S. § 1-101, et
					 seq., the following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have
					 the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Use of
					 the singular term includes the plural, and use of the plural term includes the
					 singular.
"Business day"
means Monday through Friday
					 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., excluding state and federal holidays.
"Certified school"
means a school district or
					 technology center school or any public or private commercial truck driving
					 school that has or maintains a program instructing students for a commercial
					 driver license in the State of Oklahoma that is approved and licensed by
					 Service Oklahoma to provide, on the premises of the school, the driving skills
					 examinations for Oklahoma commercial driver licenses.
"Commercial driver license"
means an Oklahoma
					 Class A, B, or C commercial driver license, as defined in 47 O.S. §
					 6-101.
"Commercial truck driving school"
means any
					 public or private entity that offers a program of instruction for a Class A, B,
					 or C license in the State of Oklahoma that has been approved and certified by
					 Service Oklahoma.
"Commercial motor vehicle"
means a Class A, B,
					 or C commercial motor vehicle, as defined in 47 O.S. §§ 1-107.1,
					 1-107.2 or 1-107.3, used for training students.
"Department"
means the Department of Public
					 Safety.
"Driver training instructor"
means an employee
					 of a certified school who has been approved by the State Board of Education to
					 teach school bus driver training courses, or has been approved by Oklahoma
					 Board of Career and Technology Education to teach truck driver training
					 courses, or who has the appropriate approval to teach both courses, or an
					 employee of any commercial truck driving school that has been approved by
					 Service Oklahoma to be a Third-Party Examiner. For the purposes of 47 O.S.
					 § 6-110(E)(3), commercial school driver education instructor includes the
					 terms "driver education instructor" and "driver training instructor".
"Examination"
means the skills portion (one
					 (1) test with three (3) segments to include the pre-trip, basic controls skills
					 (BCS), and road test) of the examination for a commercial driver license which
					 shall test the ability of the applicant to operate a commercial motor vehicle
					 and shall be administered on the premises of a certified school by a
					 third-party examiner employed by that school. Examination shall also
					 mean:
(A) an examination to upgrade
				  the current commercial driver license of a driver license applicant,
				  or
(B) an examination to remove
				  restriction codes.
"Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration"
means the United States Department of Transportation Office of Motor Carrier
					 Safety, 300 N. Meridian, Suite 106 North, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73107, (405)
					 605-6047.
"Public Transit Agency"
means an entity that
					 operates a public transportation system.
"School district"
means a school district, as
					 defined in 70 O.S. § 1-108, which has at least one secondary school, as
					 defined in 70 O.S. §1-106, which offers a school bus driver training
					 course approved by the State Board of Education.
"Technology center school"
means a technology
					 center school within a technology center school district, established pursuant
					 to Section 9B of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution, and operated in
					 accordance with the rules of the Oklahoma Board of Career and Technology
					 Education which offers a school bus driver training course approved by the
					 State Board of Education or a truck driver training course approved by the
					 State Board of Education.
"Third-party examiner"
means a driver training
					 instructor employed by a certified school who has been approved by Service
					 Oklahoma to administer, on the premises of the certified school employing the
					 instructor, the examination, as defined in this Section, for a commercial
					 driver license. A third-party examiner is not and shall not be construed or
					 purported, either explicitly or by implication, to be an employee of Service
					 Oklahoma.
"Third-Party Examiner program"
means the
					 program at Service Oklahoma that issues Third-Party Examiner
					 certifications.