Oklahoma § 63-4216 - Actions against nonresident owners or operators - Service

§ 63-4216. Actions against nonresident owners or operators - Service

of notice - Venue.

In an action in any court of this state, arising out of injury

to person or property caused by any vessel or motor while operating

in the waters of this state, including the Oklahoma portion of

boundary rivers, or moored in such waters or against shore land in

this state, when the owner or operator is a nonresident of this

state or a corporation not incorporated under the laws of this

state, service of the original notice may be made upon such

nonresident owner or operator or upon such foreign corporation in

the manner provided in Sections 2004 and 2005 of Title 12 of the

Oklahoma Statutes. The venue of such an action shall be the county

in which the damage occurred and the presence of such vessel and the

doing of said damage within the territory comprising the State of

Oklahoma, together with the subsequent removal of said vessel from

the jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, shall constitute a waiver

by the owner or operator thereof of any objection to the venue of

such an action commenced in a proper court of this state.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 346, § 68, emerg. eff. June 3, 1989.