Oklahoma § 74-152.2 - Definitions

§ 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;

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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.