Oklahoma’s DUI laws are complex and dynamic—they occasionally are updated to reflect evolving laws. While the most recent major change went into effect on November 1st, 2019, which alters the way that driver’s license revocations are handled in the State, other small updates that have been made recently. This article summarizes all the important points to know in 2025 with Oklahoma’s DUI laws.
After Your Arrest
When you get arrested for a DUI or Actual Physical Control (APC) in Oklahoma, Service OK (formerly known as the Department of Public Safety (DPS)) will mail you a notice of revocation up to 180 days after your arrest or blood test results are complete. (Note that your license can be revoked even if you haven’t been convicted.)
You have 40 days from the date of the notice to take action. Gone are the administrative hearings in front of a DPS case officer. Instead, at this point you have three options: You can do nothing, enter an Impaired Driver Accountability Program (IDAP), or fight the revocation in district court.
Option 1: Do nothing
Previously, you had the option to wait out your revocation time and then pay your revocation fees. This is no longer possible. If you do nothing, you will not get your driver's license back.
Option 2: IDAP
Under the IDAP program, you can apply with Service OK to still be allowed to drive, even after a DUI.
How does IDAP work?
After you apply to Service OK, you will have an ignition interlock device installed in your car for the amount of time that your revocation would have been. That means 180 days for your first DUI, one year for your second, or three years for your first, second or third DUI within 10 years.
The program enrollment fee is $150, which is due upfront. If you’re accepted, there will be other fees to install and maintain the ignition interlock device.
How do I apply for IDAP?
You have to send a written application to Service OK within 30 days of your arrest—there are no exceptions.
If you are accepted for the program, you have to send Service OK a signed agreement. At this point, you will pay the $150 fee. Then you will have the ignition interlock device installed in your car. All these things need to happen within 45 days of your arrest.
What are the benefits of IDAP?
Instead of having your license revoked, you will still be allowed to drive as long as you have the ignition interlock device installed.
After the program has been successfully completed—meaning, you’ve had no violations within the last 60/180/365 days (depending on if the first, second, or third offense in the last 10 years)—the restriction on your license will be removed and no revocation will be shown in your driving record. You also won’t have to pay any reinstatement fees.
What are the possible downsides of the IDAP?
If you have a violation while you have the ignition interlock device installed, the time you have to use the device may be extended by 60/180/365 days (depending on your DUI record) for each violation. You can, however, contest these violations by requesting a hearing.
You will also have to pay to have the ignition interlock device installed and maintained on a monthly basis. (Installation is usually around $75 and the monthly fee is around $75 as well.)
Service OK may also restrict the hours you are allowed to drive and they can require you to get a more expensive camera ignition interlock device. You may also get removed from the program if you get multiple violations.
Can anyone participate in IDAP?
Only people with a class D driver’s license can participate in IDAP. Class D is your regular car driver’s license. That means people with a commercial driver’s license (CDL) cannot participate in this program.
Option 3: Fight the Revocation
How do I fight a revocation?
You can fight a revocation by filing an appeal in the District Court of the county where you were arrested. The filing fee is about $180. Your petition will be set for a hearing before a judge who will look at the facts.
Service OK will have to prove that the revocation should remain. If the judge finds that Service OK did not sufficiently prove its case, the revocation will be thrown out and you will have no restrictions on your license, and you will not have to use an ignition interlock device.
If the judge finds that Service OK did sufficiently prove that your license should be revoked, the judge will then revoke your license and you can apply for IDAP.
What is the difference between using an ignition interlock device under IDAP and one ordered by a judge?
At the end of your revocation period you will have to submit to a drug and alcohol assessment and pay a reinstatement fee to Service OK and the revocation will show on your public driving record for three years.
If you use the ignition interlock device under Service OK, you will not have to submit to a drug and alcohol assessment, you won’t have to pay for reinstating your license and no revocation will show on your driving record.