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21 OK Stat § 21-482 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-482. Unlawful to pay salary to ineligible persons.

|It shall be unlawful for any such executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer mentioned in the preceding section, to draw or authorize the drawing of any warrant or authority for the payment out of any public fund, of the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such ineligible person, and it shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to pay out of any public funds in his custody or under his control the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such ineligible person. |R.L.1910, § 2236.
21 OK Stat § 21-483 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-483. Appointment of one related to another officer.

|It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial, or judicial officer to appoint and furnish employment for any person whose services are to be rendered under his direction and control and paid for out of the public funds, and who is related by either blood or marriage within the third degree to any other executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer when such appointment is made in part consideration that such other officer shall appoint and furnish employment to any one so related to the officer making such appointment. |R.L.1910, § 2237.
21 OK Stat § 21-484 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-484. Relatives cannot hold office, when.

|Any person related within the third degree by affinity or consanguinity to any elected member of the legislative, judicial or executive branch of the state government shall not be eligible to hold any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty for which compensation is received in the same agency as such elected member of the state government. |Amended by Laws 1988, c. 303, § 37, emerg. eff. July 1, 1988.
21 OK Stat § 21-484.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-484.1. Applicability.

|The provisions of Sections 481 through 484 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not apply to any situation covered by Sections 5-113 and 5-113.1 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 2009, c. 253, § 3, eff. July 1, 2009.
21 OK Stat § 21-485 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-485. Penalty.

|Any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer who shall violate any provision of this Article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor involving official misconduct, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), and shall forfeit his office. |R.L.1910, § 2239.
21 OK Stat § 21-486 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-486. Removal from office for violation of article.

|Every person guilty of violating the provisions of this article, shall, independently of, or in addition to any criminal prosecution that may be instituted, be removed from office according to the mode of trial and removal prescribed in the Constitution and laws of this State. |R.L.1910, § 2240.
21 OK Stat § 21-486.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-486.1. Exemption of employees already in service of district from certain nepotism provisions.

|Upon the election of a board member of a rural water, sewer, gas and solid waste management district created pursuant to the Rural Water, Sewer, Gas and Solid Waste Management Districts Act, the provisions of Sections 481 through 487 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not prohibit any employee already in the service of such rural water, sewer, gas and solid waste management district from continuing in such service or from promotion therein. Provided, however, the board member related to the employee shall excuse himself from the board meeting during any discussion of or action taken on any matter that could affect the employment or compensation for employment of such employee. |Added by Laws 1997, c. 172, § 3, emerg. eff. May 7, 1997.
21 OK Stat § 21-487 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-487. Officers affected.

|Under the designation executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer as mentioned herein are included the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Corporation Commissioners, all the heads of the departments of the state government, judges of all the courts of this State, mayors, clerks, councilmen, trustees, commissioners and other officers of all incorporated cities and towns, public school trustees, officers and boards of managers of the state university and its several branches, state normals, the penitentiaries and eleemosynary institutions, members of the commissioners court, and all other officials of the State, district, county, cities or other municipal subdivisions of the state. |R.L.1910, § 2241.
21 OK Stat § 21-491 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-491. Perjury defined - Defense.

|Whoever, in a trial, hearing, investigation, deposition, certification or declaration, in which the making or subscribing of a statement is required or authorized by law, makes or subscribes a statement under oath, affirmation or other legally binding assertion that the statement is true, when in fact the witness or declarant does not believe that the statement is true or knows that it is not true or intends thereby to avoid or obstruct the ascertainment of the truth, is guilty of perjury. It shall be a defense to the charge of perjury as defined in this section that the statement is true. |R.L.1910, § 2211; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 1, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965.
21 OK Stat § 21-492 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-492. Oath defined.

|The term "oath," as used in the last section, includes an affirmation, and every other mode of attesting the truth of that which is stated, which is authorized by law. |R.L.1910, § 2212.
21 OK Stat § 21-493 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-493. Oath of office.

|So much of an oath of office as relates to the future performance of official duties is not such an oath as is intended by the previous sections. |R.L.1910, § 2213.
21 OK Stat § 21-494 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-494. Irregularities no defense.

|It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner. |R.L.1910, § 2214.
21 OK Stat § 21-495 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-495. Incompetency no defense.

|It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the accused was not competent to give the testimony, deposition or certificate of which falsehood is alleged. It is sufficient that he actually was required to give such testimony or made such deposition or certificate. |R.L.1910, § 2215.
21 OK Stat § 21-496 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-496. Contradictory statements as perjury.

|Whoever, in one or more trials, hearings, investigations, depositions, certifications or declarations, in which the making or subscribing of statements is required or authorized by law, makes or subscribes two or more statements under oath, affirmation or other legally binding assertion that the statements are true, when in fact two or more of the statements contradict each other, is guilty of perjury. |R.L.1910, § 2216; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 2, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965.
21 OK Stat § 21-497 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-497. Making deposition or certificate.

|The making of a deposition or certificate is deemed to be complete, within the provisions of this article, from the time when it is delivered by the accused to any other person with the intent that it be uttered or published as true. |R.L.1910, § 2217.
21 OK Stat § 21-498 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-498. Degree of proof required.

|(a) Proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is sufficient for conviction under this act, and it shall not be necessary also that proof be by a particular number of witnesses or by documentary or other type of evidence. |(b) Lack of materiality of the statement is not a defense but the degree to which a perjured statement might have affected some phase or detail of the trial, hearing, investigation, deposition, certification or declaration shall be considered, together with the other evidence or circumstances, in imposing sentence.(c) In a prosecution for perjury by contradictory statements, as defined in Section 496 of Title 21, it is unnecessary to prove which, if any, of the statements is not true.R.L.1910, § 2218; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 3, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965.
21 OK Stat § 21-499 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-499. Defenses to charges of perjury.

|(1) Upon accusation of a charge of perjury by single statement, as defined in Section 491 of Title 21, it is a defense that the statement is true. |(2) Upon accusation of a charge of perjury by contradictory statements, as defined in Section 496 of Title 21, it is a defense that the accused at the time he made each statement believed the statement was true.Laws 1965, c. 126, § 4.
21 OK Stat § 21-500 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-500. Perjury as a felony.

|Perjury is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary as follows: |1. When committed on the trial of an indictment for felony, by imprisonment not less than two (2) years nor more than twenty (20) years;2. When committed on any other trial proceeding in a court of justice, by imprisonment for not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years; and3. In all other cases by imprisonment not more than five (5) years.R.L. 1910, § 2219. Amended by Laws 1931, p. 8, § 1. Renumbered from § 499 of this title by Laws 1965, c. 126, § 6, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 204, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 114, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 204 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-501 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-501. Summary committal of witness.

|Whenever it appears probable in any court of record, that any person who has testified in any action or proceeding in such court has committed perjury, such court must immediately commit such person by an order or process for that purpose to prison or take a recognizance with sureties for his appearance and answering to an indictment for perjury. |R.L.1910, § 2220; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 6.
21 OK Stat § 21-502 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-502. Witness bound over to appear.

|Such court shall thereupon bind over the witnesses to establish such perjury to appear at the proper court to testify before grand jury, and upon the trial, in case an indictment is found for such perjury, and shall also cause immediate notice of such commitment or recognizance, with the names of the witnesses so bound over, to be given to the district attorney. |R.L.1910, § 2221; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 6.
21 OK Stat § 21-503 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-503. Documents may be retained.

|If, upon the hearing of such action or proceeding in which such perjury has probably been committed, any papers or documents produced by either party shall be deemed necessary to be used on the prosecution for such perjury, the court may by order detain such papers or documents from the party producing them, and direct them to be delivered to the district attorney. |R.L.1910, § 2222; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 6.
21 OK Stat § 21-504 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-504. Perjury by subornation - Felony - Attempted perjury by subornation.

|Whoever procures another to commit perjury is guilty of perjury by subornation. Perjury by subornation is a felony, punishable as provided in Section 505 of this title. Whoever does any act with the specific intent to commit perjury by subornation but fails to complete that offense is guilty of attempted perjury by subornation. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 126, § 5, emerg. eff. May 24, 1965. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 205, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 115, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 205 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-505 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-505. Punishment of subornation of perjury.

|Any person guilty of subornation of perjury is punishable in the same manner as he would be if personally guilty of the perjury so procured. |R.L.1910, § 2224; Laws 1965, c. 126, § 6.
21 OK Stat § 21-521 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-521. Rescuing prisoners.

|Any person who by force or fraud rescues or attempts to rescue, or aids another person in rescuing or in attempting to rescue any prisoner from any officer or other person having him in lawful custody, is punishable as follows: |1. If such prisoner was in custody upon a charge or conviction of felony, such person shall be guilty of a felony by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than ten (10) years; or2. If such prisoner was in custody otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of a felony, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.R.L. 1910, § 2194. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 206, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 116, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 206 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-522 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-522. Taking goods from legal custody.

|Every person who willfully injures or destroys, takes or attempts to take, or assists any other person in taking or attempting to take from the custody of any officer or person, any personal property which such officer or person has in charge under any process of law, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2195.
21 OK Stat § 21-531 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-531. Destruction or falsification of records.

|Any sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer who mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases, obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his office shall be guilty of a felony. |R.L.1910, § 2243. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 207, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2002, c. 460, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 207 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-532 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-532. Permitting escapes.

|Any sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer and any deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer, who either: |1. Willfully or carelessly allows any person lawfully held by him in custody to escape or go at large, except as may be permitted by law; or2. Receives any gratuity or reward, or any security or promise of one, to procure, assist, connive at or permit any prisoner in his custody to escape, whether such escape is attempted or not; or3. Commits any unlawful act tending to hinder justice,shall be guilty of a felony.R.L. 1910, § 2244. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 208, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 208 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-533 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-533. Refusing to receive or fingerprint prisoners - Medical exceptions.

|A. Except as provided in this section and Section 979a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for emergency medical treatment for an injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use of a limb, any peace officer or jail or prison contractor who, in violation of a duty imposed upon the officer or contractor by law or by contract to receive into custody any person as a prisoner, willfully neglects or refuses so to receive such person into custody is guilty of a misdemeanor. |B. Except as provided in this section and Section 979a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for emergency medical treatment for an injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use of a limb, any peace officer or jail or prison contractor who, in violation of a duty imposed upon the officer or contractor by law or by contract to fingerprint any person received into custody as a prisoner, willfully neglects or refuses so to fingerprint such person is guilty of a misdemeanor.C. Any person coming into contact with a peace officer prior to being actually received into custody at a jail facility or holding facility, including, but not limited to, during the time of any arrest, detention, transportation, investigation of any incident, accident or crime, who needs emergency medical treatment for an injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use of a limb, shall be taken directly to a medical facility or hospital for such emergency medical care notwithstanding any duty imposed pursuant to this section or any other provision of law to first take such person into custody or to fingerprint such person. The responsibility for payment of such emergency medical costs shall be the sole responsibility of the person coming into the officer’s contact and shall not be the responsibility of any jail, law enforcement agency, jail or prison contractor, sheriff, peace officer, municipality or county, except when the condition is a direct result of injury caused by such officer acting outside the scope of lawful authority.R.L.1910, § 2245. Amended by Laws 2003, c 199, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2003; Laws 2005, c. 470, § 1, emerg. eff. June 9, 2005.
21 OK Stat § 21-534 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-534. Delaying to take before magistrate.

|Every public officer or other person having arrested any person upon any criminal charge, who willfully delays to take such person before a magistrate having jurisdiction to take his examination, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2246.
21 OK Stat § 21-535 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-535. Arrest without authority.

|Every public officer or person pretending to be a public officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, arrests any person, or detains him against his will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses anyone of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2247.
21 OK Stat § 21-536 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-536. Misconduct in executing a search warrant.

|Every peace officer who, in executing a search warrant, willfully exceeds his authority, or exercises it with unnecessary severity, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2248.
21 OK Stat § 21-537 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-537. Refusing to aid officer.

|Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid any officer in arresting any person or in retaking any person who has escaped from legal custody, or in executing any legal process, willfully neglects or refuses to aid such officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2249.
21 OK Stat § 21-538 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-538. Refusing to make arrest.

|Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded by any magistrate to arrest another person, willfully neglects or refuses so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor. |R.L.1910, § 2250.
21 OK Stat § 21-539 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-539. Resisting execution of process in time of insurrection.

|Any person who, after proclamation issued by the Governor declaring any county to be in a state of insurrection, resists or aids in resisting the execution of process in the county declared to be in a state of insurrection, or who aids or attempts the rescue or escape of another from lawful custody or confinement, or who resists or aids in resisting a force ordered out by the government to quell or suppress an insurrection, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than two (2) years. |R.L. 1910, § 2251. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 209, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 117, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 209 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
21 OK Stat § 21-540 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-540. Obstructing officer.

|Any person who willfully delays or obstructs any public officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall preclude a person from recording the activity of law enforcement in a public area, as long as the recording activity does not delay or obstruct the law enforcement agent in his or her duties. |R.L. 1910, § 2252. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 286, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
21 OK Stat § 21-540B (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 21. Crimes and Punishments|§21-540B. Roadblocks.

|A peace officer may set up one or more roadblocks to apprehend any person riding upon or within a motor vehicle traveling upon a highway, street, turnpike, or area accessible to motoring public, when the officer has probable cause to believe such person is committing or has committed: |1. A violation of Section 540A of this title;2. Escape from the lawful custody of any peace officer;3. A felony under the laws of this state or the laws of any other jurisdiction.A roadblock is defined as a barricade, sign, standing motor vehicle, or similar obstacle temporarily placed upon or adjacent to a public street, highway, turnpike or area accessible to the motoring public, with one or more peace officers in attendance thereof directing each operator of approaching motor vehicles to stop or proceed.Any operator of a motor vehicle approaching such roadblock has a duty to stop at the roadblock unless directed otherwise by a peace officer in attendance thereof and the willful violation hereof shall constitute a separate offense from any other offense committed. Any person who willfully attempts to avoid such roadblock or in any manner willfully fails to stop at such roadblock or who willfully passes by or through such roadblock without receiving permission from a peace officer in attendance thereto is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than one (1) year, nor more than five (5) years, or by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by both such fine and imprisonment.Added by Laws 1980, c. 115, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1980. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 211, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 119, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 211 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.