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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-402. Forfeiture of monies, properties and assets used in violation of bribery laws.

All monies, properties and assets of any kind or character used in the violation of any and all of the bribery laws of this state, and which has been paid, delivered or turned over to any person, firm, corporation or public official, shall be forfeited to the state by order of the court before which the action concerning the person, firm, or corporation charged with such bribery has terminated with the conviction of such person, firm, or corporation.
Laws 1959, p. 113, § 1.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-403. Issuance of orders and writs pending trial.

The court before which bribery charges are pending, shall, pending the trial thereof, issue such orders and issue such writs as may be necessary directing the sheriff of the county in which such bribery charge is pending to seize and take possession of such monies, funds, properties or assets, and to hold the same subject to the further proceedings to be had therein.
Laws 1959, p. 113, § 2.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-404. Hearing - Judgment of forfeiture - Sale of properties or assets.

The court having jurisdiction of the monies, funds, properties or assets so seized upon conviction of the person, firm, or corporation charged, shall, without a jury, order an immediate hearing as to whether the monies, funds, properties or assets so seized were being used for unlawful purposes, and take such legal evidences as are offered on each behalf and determine the same as in civil cases. Should the court find from a preponderance of the testimony that the monies, funds, properties or assets so seized were being used for the violation of the bribery laws of the State of Oklahoma, it shall render judgment accordingly and declare said monies, funds, properties or assets forfeited to the State of Oklahoma. Thereupon, said properties or assets shall, under the order of said court, be sold by the officer having the same in charge, after ten (10) days' notice published in a daily newspaper of the county wherein said sale is to take place, or if no daily newspaper is published in said county, then by posting five notices in conspicuous places in the city or town wherein such sale is to be made; and if the same is money or a fund, or of such nature as being negotiable and sale unnecessary, then such money, fund or negotiable property shall be held by the officer having charge of same, until disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this act. All sales of property and assets hereunder shall be for cash.
Laws 1959, p. 114, § 3.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-405. Appeals - Disposition of proceeds.

Appeals may be allowed as in civil cases, but the possession of monies, funds, properties or assets being so unlawfully used shall be prima facie evidence that it is the properties, funds, monies or assets of the person so using it. Where said monies, funds, properties or assets are sold or otherwise ordered forfeited under the provisions of this act the proceeds shall be disbursed and applied as follows:
First. To the payment of the costs of the forfeiting proceedings and actual expenses of preserving the properties.
Second. One-eighth (1/8) of the proceeds remaining to the public official, witness, juror or other person to whom the bribe was given, provided such public official, witness, juror or other person had theretofore voluntarily surrendered the same to the sheriff of the county and informed the proper officials of the bribery or attempted bribery.
Third. One-eighth (1/8) to the district attorney prosecuting the case.
Fourth. The balance to the county treasurer to be credited by him to the court fund of the county.
Laws 1959, p. 114, § 4.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-421. Conspiracy – Definition - Punishment.

A. If two or more persons conspire, either:
1. To commit any crime; or
2. Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any crime; or
3. Falsely to move or maintain any suit, action or proceeding; or
4. To cheat and defraud any person of any property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or by any means which, if executed, would amount to a cheat or to obtaining money or property by false pretenses; or
5. To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice or the due administration of the laws,
they are guilty of a conspiracy.
B. Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law the punishment for conspiracy shall be a misdemeanor unless the conspiracy is to commit a felony.
C. Conspiracy to commit a felony shall be a felony and is punishable by payment of a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten (10) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
R.L. 1910, § 2232. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 84, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1968; Laws 1979, c. 174, § 1; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 186, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 102, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 186 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-422. Conspiracy outside state against the peace of the state.

If two or more persons, being out of this state, conspire to commit any act against the peace of this state, the commission or attempted commission of which, within this state, would be treason against the state, they shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years.
R.L. 1910, § 2233. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 187, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 103, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 187 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-424. Punishment for conspiracy against state.

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the State of Oklahoma, any county, school district, municipality or subdivision thereof, or to defraud the State of Oklahoma, any county, school district, municipality or subdivision thereof, in any manner or for any purpose, and if one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Added by Laws 1915, c. 260, § 1. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 148, § 1, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 188, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 104, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 188 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-425. Engaging or conspiring to engage in pattern of criminal offenses.

A. Any person who engages in a pattern of criminal offenses in two or more counties in this state or who attempts or conspires with others to engage in a pattern of criminal offenses shall, upon conviction, be punishable by imprisonment in the Department of Corrections for a term not exceeding two (2) years, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine in an amount not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such punishment shall be in addition to any penalty imposed for any offense involved in the pattern of criminal offenses. Double jeopardy shall attach upon conviction.
B. For purposes of this act, “pattern of criminal offenses” means:
1. Two or more criminal offenses are committed that are part of the same plan, scheme, or adventure; or
2. A sequence of two or more of the same criminal offenses are committed and are not separated by an interval of more than thirty (30) days between the first and second offense, the second and third, and so on; or
3. Two or more criminal offenses are committed, each proceeding from or having as an antecedent element a single prior incident or pattern of fraud, robbery, burglary, theft, identity theft, receipt of stolen property, false personation, false pretenses, obtaining property by trick or deception, taking a credit or debit card without consent, or the making, transferring or receiving of a false or fraudulent identification card.
C. Jurisdiction and venue for a pattern of criminal offenses occurring in multiple counties in this state shall be determined as provided in Section 1 of this act.
Added by Laws 2004, c. 292, § 2, emerg. eff. May 11, 2004.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-431. Rearrest of escaped prisoners.

Every prisoner confined upon conviction for a criminal offense, who escapes from prison, may be pursued, retaken and imprisoned again, notwithstanding the term for which he was sentenced to be imprisoned may have expired at the time when he is retaken, and he shall remain so imprisoned until tried for such escape, or discharged, on a failure to prosecute therefor.
R.L.1910, § 2196.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-434. Attempt to escape from penitentiary.

Every prisoner confined in the penitentiary for a term less than for life, who attempts by force or fraud, although unsuccessfully, to escape from such prison, shall be guilty of a felony.
R.L. 1910, § 2198. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 189, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 189 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-436. Attempt to escape from other prison than penitentiary.

Any prisoner confined in any other prison than the penitentiary, who attempts by force or fraud, although unsuccessfully, to escape therefrom, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, to commence from the expiration of the original term of his imprisonment.
R.L. 1910, § 2200. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 190, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 105, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 190 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-437. Assisting prisoner to escape.

Any person who willfully by any means whatever, assists any prisoner confined in any prison to escape therefrom, is punishable as follows:
1. If such prisoner was confined upon a charge or conviction of a felony, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years.
2. If such prisoner was confined otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of a felony, by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by fine, not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both.
R.L. 1910, § 2201. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 191, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 106, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 191 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-438. Carrying into prison things to aid escape.

Any person who carries or sends into any prison anything useful to aid any prisoner in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of any prisoner confined therein, is punishable as follows:
1. If such prisoner was confined upon any charge or conviction of felony, by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years.
2. If such prisoner was confined otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of felony, by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both.
R.L. 1910, § 2202. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 192, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 107, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 192 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-440. Harboring criminals and fugitives – Assisting a sex offender in violation of registration requirements – Unlawful acts - Penalties.

A. Any person who shall knowingly feed, lodge, clothe, arm, equip in whole or in part, harbor, aid, assist or conceal in any manner any person guilty of any felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice, or any person seeking to escape arrest for any felony committed within this state or any other state or territory, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a period not exceeding ten (10) years.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person who has reason to believe that a sex offender is in violation of the registration requirements of the Sex Offenders Registration Act and who has the intent to assist the sex offender in eluding arrest, to do any of the following:
1. Withhold information from, or fail to notify, a law enforcement agency about the noncompliance of the sex offender with the registration requirements of the Sex Offenders Registration Act, and, if known, the whereabouts of the offender;
2. Harbor, attempt to harbor, or assist another person in harboring or attempting to harbor, the sex offender;
3. Conceal, or attempt to conceal, or assist another person in concealing or attempting to conceal, the sex offender; or
4. Provide information to a law enforcement agency regarding the sex offender that the person knows to be false information.
C. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of subsection B of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
R.L. 1910, § 2204. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 193, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 108, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2009, c. 404, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 193 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-443a. Additional punishment under rules and regulations of prison after escape.

In addition, all prisoners who escape from either of the aforesaid prisons either while confined therein, or while at large as a trusty, when apprehended and returned to the prison, shall be punishable by the prison authorities in such manner as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the prison provided that such punishment shall not be cruel or unusual.
Laws 1939, p. 7, § 2.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-444. Escape or attempt to escape from arrest or detention – Removal of monitoring device.

A. It is unlawful for any person, after being lawfully arrested or detained by a peace officer, to escape or attempt to escape from such peace officer.
B. Any person who escapes or attempts to escape after being lawfully arrested or detained for custody for a misdemeanor offense shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. Any person who escapes or attempts to escape after being lawfully arrested or detained for custody for a felony offense shall be guilty of a felony.
D. It is unlawful for any person admitted to bail or released on recognizance, bond, or undertaking for appearance before any magistrate or court of the State of Oklahoma, and required as a condition of such release from detention to wear any electronic monitoring device on the body of the person to remove such device without authorization from the court. For purposes of this subsection, any person charged with a misdemeanor offense who removes such device without authorization from the court shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and any person charged with a felony offense who removes such device without authorization from the court shall be guilty of a felony.
Added by Laws 1981, c. 163, § 1. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 195, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2010, c. 226, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 195 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-445. Unauthorized entry into penal institution, jail, etc. - Penalties.

Any person who willfully gains unauthorized entry into any state penal institution, jail, any place where prisoners are located, or the penal institution grounds, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years, or by the imposition of a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 84, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 196, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 110, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 196 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-446. Unlawful transport of alien - Concealing, harboring or sheltering from detection - Destroying, hiding, altering, or keeping documentation.

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, move, or attempt to transport in the State of Oklahoma any alien knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law, in furtherance of the illegal presence of the alien in the United States.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to conceal, harbor, or shelter from detection any alien in any place within the State of Oklahoma, including any building or means of transportation, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally destroy, hide, alter, abscond with or keep documentation, including birth certificates, visas, passports, green cards or other documents utilized in the regular course of business to either verify or legally extend an individual’s legal status within the United States for the purpose of trafficking a person in violation of Section 748 of this title.
D. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prohibit or restrict the provision of any state or local public benefit described in 8 U.S.C., Section 1621(b), or regulated public health services provided by a private charity using private funds.
E. Any person violating the provisions of subsections A, B or C of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year, or by a fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Added by Laws 2007, c. 112, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2007. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 409, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-451. Offering false evidence.

Any person who, upon any trial, proceedings, inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, offers in evidence, as genuine, any book, paper, document, record, or other instrument in writing, knowing the same to have been forged, or fraudulently altered, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished in the same manner as the forging or false alteration of such instrument is made punishable by the provisions of this title.
R.L. 1910, § 2226. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 197, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 197 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-452. Deceiving witness.

Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, proceeding by authority of law, with intent to affect the testimony of such witness, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2227.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-453. Preparing false evidence.

Any person guilty of falsely preparing any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced as genuine upon any trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, shall be guilty of a felony.
R.L. 1910, § 2228. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 198, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 198 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-454. Destroying evidence.

Every person who knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, willfully destroys the same, with intent thereby to prevent the same from being produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2229. d
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-455. Preventing witness from giving testimony - Threatening witness who has given testimony.

A. Every person who willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person from giving testimony or producing any record, document or other object, who has been duly summoned or subpoenaed or endorsed on the criminal information or juvenile petition as a witness, or who makes a report of abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 1-2-101 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes or Section 10-104 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, or who is a witness to any reported crime, or threatens or procures physical or mental harm through force or fear with the intent to prevent any witness from appearing in court to give his or her testimony or produce any record, document or other object, or to alter his or her testimony is, upon conviction, guilty of a felony punishable by not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
B. Every person who threatens physical harm through force or fear or causes or procures physical harm to be done to any person or harasses any person or causes a person to be harassed because of testimony given by such person in any civil or criminal trial or proceeding, or who makes a report of abuse or neglect pursuant to Section 1-2-101 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes or Section 10-104 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, is, upon conviction, guilty of a felony punishable by not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
R.L. 1910, § 2230. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 158, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1977; Laws 1981, c. 92, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1991, c. 296, § 29, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 1993, c. 182, § 1, emerg. eff. May 17, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 199, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 111, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2013, c. 243, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 199 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-456. Bribing witness - Subornation of perjury.

Any person who gives or offers or promises to give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness in any matter whatever, including contests before United States land officers or townsite commissioners, any bribe upon any understanding or agreement that the testimony of such witness shall be influenced, or who attempts by any other means fraudulently to induce any witness to give false testimony shall be guilty of a felony, but if the offer, promise, or bribe is in any way to induce the witness to swear falsely, then it shall be held to be subornation of perjury.
R.L. 1910, § 2231. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 200, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 200 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-461. Larceny or destruction of records by clerk or officer.

Any clerk, register or other officer having the custody of any record, maps or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court of justice, filed or deposited in any public office, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, altering or falsifying or unlawfully removing or secreting such record, map, book, paper or proceeding, or who permits any other person so to do, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, and in addition thereto, such person shall forfeit office.
R.L. 1910, § 2207. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 201, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 112, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 201 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-462. Larceny or destruction of records by other persons.

Any person not an officer such as is mentioned in Section 461 of this title, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, or in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
R.L. 1910, § 2208. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 202, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 113, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 202 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-463. Offering forged or false instruments for record.

Any person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed or registered or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, shall be guilty of a felony.
R.L. 1910, § 2209. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 203, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 203 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-464. Forging name to petition - Penalties.

Any person who shall knowingly sign, subscribe or forge the name of any other person, without the consent of such other person, to any petition, application, remonstrance, or other instrument of writing, authorized by law to be filed in or with any court, board or officer, with intent to deceive or mislead such court, board or officer, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
R.L.1910, § 2210.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-465. Disclosure of information related to criminal investigations.

A. Any law enforcement agency or public safety entity, including, but not limited to, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, Department of Public Safety and Oklahoma Military Department, conducting a criminal investigation shall be prohibited from disclosing information about the investigation unless the disclosure is necessary to gather information and evidence related to the investigation. Disclosures authorized by the Oklahoma Open Records Act, Section 24A.1 et seq. of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall not be prohibited under this section.
B. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Added by Laws 2021, c. 12, § 26, emerg. eff. April 13, 2021.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-481. Employment of relatives unlawful, when.

A. It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to appoint or vote for the appointment of any person related to him by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty in any department of the state, district, county, city or municipal government of which such executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer is a member, when the salary, wages, pay or compensation of such appointee is to be paid out of the public funds or fees of such office. Provided, however, that for the purposes of this chapter, a divorce of husband and wife shall terminate all relationship by affinity that existed by reason of the marriage, regardless of whether the marriage has resulted in issue who are still living.
B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any situation covered by Section 5-113 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
R.L. 1910, § 2235. Amended by Laws 1953, p. 95, § 1; Laws 2001, c. 29, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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; and
3. 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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; or
2. 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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; or
2. 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; or
3. 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.
2023 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 or where authorized personnel of the jail have deemed a person medically unfit to be received into custody, 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 or where authorized personnel of the jail have deemed a person medically unfit to be received into custody, 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; Laws 2022, c. 105, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.