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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.2. Value of Five Hundred Dollars or less - Value of more than Five Hundred Dollars.

Any person who knowingly uses or attempts to use in person, by telephone or by the Internet, for the purpose of obtaining credit, or for the purchase of goods, property or services, or for the purpose of obtaining cash advances in lieu of these items, or to deposit, obtain or transfer funds, either a credit card or a debit card which has not been issued to such person or which is not used with the consent of the person to whom issued or a credit card or a debit card which has been revoked or cancelled by the issuer of such card and actual notice thereof has been given to such person, or a credit card or a debit card which is false, counterfeit or nonexistent is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment if the amount of the credit or purchase or funds deposited, obtained or transferred by such use does not exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00); or, by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment if the amount of the credit or purchase or funds deposited, obtained or transferred by such use exceeds Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Added by Laws 1961, p. 233, § 2. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 86, § 2, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 2001, c. 437, § 9, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2008, c. 128, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.3. Actual notice.

The words "actual notice" as used herein shall be construed to include either notice given to the purchaser in person or notice given to him in writing. Such actual notice in writing shall be presumed to have been given when deposited as registered or certified mail, in the United States mail, addressed to such person at his last known address.
Laws 1961, p. 233, § 3.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.21. Definitions.

As used in this act:
1. "Cardholder" means the person or organization named on the face of a credit card or a debit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card or debit card is issued;
2. "Credit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value on credit and all such credit cards lawfully issued shall be considered the property of the cardholder or the issuer for all purposes;
3. "Debit card" means any instrument or device, whether known as a debit card or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in depositing, obtaining or transferring funds from a consumer banking electronic facility;
4. "Issuer" means any person, firm, corporation, financial institution or its duly authorized agent which issues a credit card or a debit card;
5. "Receives" or "receiving" means acquiring possession or control or accepting as security for a loan;
6. "Reencoder" means an electronic device that places encoded information from the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card onto the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a different card;
7. "Revoked card" means a credit card or a debit card which is no longer valid because permission to use it has been suspended or terminated by the issuer;
8. "Scanning device" means a scanner, reader or any other electronic device that may be used to access, read, scan, obtain, memorize or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card or from another device that directly reads the information from a credit card or debit card; and
9. "Skimming device" means a self-contained device that:
a.
is designed to read and store in the internal memory of the device information encoded on the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card or from another device that directly reads the information from a credit card or debit card, and
b.
is incapable of processing the credit card or debit card information for the purpose of obtaining, purchasing or receiving goods, services, money or anything else of value from a person or organization.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 1, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 307, § 1, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 3, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 2019, c. 347, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.22. Taking credit or debit card - Receiving taken credit or debit card.

(a) A person who takes a credit card or debit card from the person, possession, custody or control of another without the cardholder's consent, or who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, receives the credit card or debit card with intent to use it or to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the issuer or the cardholder, is guilty of card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of this title.
(b) Taking a credit card or a debit card without consent includes obtaining it by the crime of larceny, larceny by trick, larceny by the bailee, embezzlement or obtaining property by false pretense, false promise, extortion or in any manner taking without the consent of the cardholder or issuer.
(c) A person who has in his possession or under his control any credit card or debit card obtained under subsection (b) of this section is presumed to have violated this section.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 2; Laws 1971, c. 307, § 2, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 4, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.23. Receiving, holding or concealing lost or mislaid card.

A person who receives, holds or conceals a credit card or a debit card which has been lost or mislaid under circumstances which give him knowledge or cause to inquire as to the true owner and appropriates it to his use or the use of another not entitled thereto is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 3; Laws 1971, c. 307, § 3, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 5, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.24. Selling or buying credit or debit card.

A person other than the issuer who sells a credit card or debit card or a personwho buys a credit card or a debit card from a person other than the issuer is guilty of theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of this title.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 4, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 6, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.25. Controlling credit or debit card as security for debt.

A person with intent to defraud (a) the issuer, (b) a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or (c) any other person, who obtains control over a credit card or debit card as security for debt is guilty of theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of this title.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 5, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 7, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981. d
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.26. Receiving taken or retained card upon giving consideration.

A person, other than the issuer, who receives, on giving of any consideration, credit cards or debit cards issued to any other person, whichhe has reason to know were taken or retained under circumstances which constitute card theft, is guilty of card theft and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 6; Laws 1971, c. 307, § 4, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 8, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.27. False making or embossing of credit or debit card.

A. A person, with intent to defraud:
1. A purported issuer;
2. A person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value; or
3. Any other person,
who falsely makes or falsely embosses a purported credit card or debit card or utters such a credit card or debit card is guilty of forgery in the third degree and is subject to the penalties set forth in subsection A of Section 1550.33 of this title.
B. A person other than the purported issuer who possesses any credit card or debit card which is falsely made or falsely embossed is presumed to have violated this section.
C. A person "falsely makes" a credit card or debit card when the person makes or draws, in whole or in part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card or debit card of a named issuer but which is not such a credit card or debit card because the issuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or when the person alters a credit card or debit card which was validly issued.
D. A person "falsely embosses" a credit card or debit card when, without the authorization of the named issuer, the person completes a credit card or debit card by adding any of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card or debit card before it can be used by a cardholder.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 7, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 307, § 5, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 9, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981; Laws 2016, c. 221, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.28. Signing of card - Possession of signed or unsigned card.

(a) A person other than the cardholder or a person authorized by him who, with intent to defraud (1) the issuer, (2) a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or (3) any other person, signs a credit card or debit card violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
(b) When a person, other than the cardholder or a person authorized by him, possesses any credit card or debit card which is signed or not signed, such possession shall be a crime and subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 8; Laws 1971, c. 307, § 6, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 10, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.29. Forged or revoked card.

A person who, with intent to defraud (a) the issuer, (b) a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or (c) any other person, uses for the purpose of obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value a credit card or debit card obtained or retained in violation of any provision of Sections 1550.22 through 1550.28 of this title or a credit card or debit card which he knows is forged or revoked, or obtains money, goods, services or anything else of value by representing, without the consent of the cardholder, that he is the holder of a specified card or by representing that he is the holder of a card and such card has in fact not been issued, has violated this subsection and is guilty of an offense and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of this title. Knowledge of revocation shall be presumed to have been received by a cardholder fourteen (14) days after it has been mailed to him at the address in this state set forth on the credit card application or at his last-known address by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 9, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 11, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.30. Failure to furnish money, goods or services represented to have been furnished.

A person who is authorized by an issuer to furnish money, goods, services or anything else of value upon presentation of a credit card or debit card by the cardholder, or any agent or employee of such person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer or cardholder, fails to furnish money, goods, services or anything else of value which he represents in writing to the issuer that he has furnished violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(a) of this title.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 10, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 12, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981. d
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.31. Possessing incomplete cards.

(a) A person other than the cardholder possessing one or more incomplete credit cards or debit cards, with intent to complete them without theconsent of the issuer, or a person possessing, with knowledge of its character, machinery, plates or any other contrivance designed to reproduce instruments purporting to be the credit cards or debit cards of an issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such credit cards or debit cards, is guilty of an offense and is subject to the penalties set forth in Section 1550.33(b) of this title.
(b) A credit card or debit card is "incomplete" if part of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on the credit card or debit card before it can be used by a cardholder has not yet been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written on it.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 11, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970; Laws 1981, c. 86, § 13, emerg. eff. April 20, 1981.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.32. Receiving of money, goods or services in violation of Section 1550.29.

A person who receives money, goods, services or anything else of value obtained in violation of Section 1550.29 of this title, with the knowledge or belief that it was so obtained, is guilty of an offense and is subject to the penalties set forth in subsection C of Section 1550.33 of this title.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 12, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 221, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.33. Penalties.

A. A person who is subject to the penalties of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or both fined and imprisoned.
B. A person who is subject to the penalties of this subsection shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than seven (7) years.
C. A person subject to the penalties of this subsection who received goods or services or any other item which has a value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than three (3) years, or both fined and imprisoned. If the value is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or both fined and imprisoned. For purposes of this subsection, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 258, § 13, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 307, § 7, emerg. eff. June 19, 1971; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 375, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 267, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2016, c. 221, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 375 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.34. Other criminal law not precluded - Exception.

This act shall not be construed to preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law of this state which presently applies or may in the future apply to any transaction which violates this act, unless such provision is inconsistent with the terms of this act.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 14, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.38. Emergency.

The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma finds the theft, abuse and misuse of credit cards has damaged the economic security of the people of the state and such activity must be controlled immediately to prevent further harm and that the immediate passage of this act is necessary to establish uniform and effective methods for protection against the danger so as to discourage practices contrary to this act. Therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
Laws 1970, c. 258, § 18, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1550.39. Use of scanning or skimming device on credit or debit cards – Use of reencoder on credit or debit cards – Possession of skimming device.

A. Every person who:
1. Uses a scanning device or skimming device to access, read, obtain, memorize or store, temporarily or permanently, information encoded on the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card without the permission of the authorized user of the credit card or debit card and with the intent to defraud the authorized user or the issuer of the credit card or debit card or a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value;
2. Uses a reencoder to place information encoded on the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a credit card or debit card onto the computer chip, magnetic strip or stripe or other storage mechanism of a different card without the permission of the authorized user of the credit card or debit card from which the information is being reencoded and with the intent to defraud the authorized user or the issuer of the credit card or debit card or a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value; or
3. Possesses with the intent to sell, deliver or use a skimming device,
is, upon conviction, guilty of an offense and is subject to the penalties set forth in subsection B of Section 1550.33 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. The provisions of paragraph 3 of subsection A of this section shall not apply to the following individuals while acting within the scope of their official duties:
1. An employee, officer or agent of:
a.
a law enforcement agency or criminal prosecuting authority for the state or federal government,
b.
the state court system or federal court system, or
c.
an executive branch agency in this state; or
2. A financial or retail security investigator employed by a person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of value.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 347, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1551. Use of false weights and measures.

If any person with intent to defraud, use a false balance, weight or measure, in the weighting or measuring of anything whatever that is purchased, sold, bartered, shipped or delivered, for sale or barter, or that is pledged, or given in payment, he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor less than Five Dollars ($5.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall be liable to the injured party in double the amount of damages.
R.L.1910, § 2736.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1552. Retaining same knowingly.

Every person who retains in his possession any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that it was so retained without intent to use it, or permit it to be used in violation of the last section, shall be punished as therein provided.
R.L.1910, § 2737.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1553. False weights and measures may be seized.

Every person who is authorized or enjoined by law to arrest another person for violation of the first two sections of this article, is equally authorized and enjoined to seize any false weights or measures found in the possession of the person so arrested, and to deliver the same to the magistrate before whom the person so arrested is required to be taken.
R.L.1910, § 2738.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1554. Testing seized weights and measures - Disposition.

The magistrate to whom any weight or measure is delivered, pursuant to the last section, shall, upon the examination of the accused, or if the examination is delayed or prevented, without awaiting such examination, cause the same to be tested by comparison with standards conformable to law; and if he finds it to be false, he shall cause it to be destroyed, or to be delivered to the district attorney of the county in which the accused is liable to indictment or trial, as the interests of justice in his judgment require.
R.L.1910, § 2739.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1561. Wills, deeds and certain other instruments, forgery of.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits or falsely alters:
1st. Any will or codicil of real or personal property, or any deed or other instrument being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any right or interest in real property is, or purports to be, transferred, conveyed or in any way changed or affected; or,
2nd. Any certificate or endorsement of the acknowledgment by any person of any deed or other instrument which by law may be recorded or given in evidence, made or purporting to have been made by any officer duly authorized to make such certificate or endorsement; or,
3rd. Any certificate of the proof of any deed, will, codicil or other instrument which by law may be recorded or given in evidence, made or purporting to have been made by any court or officer duly authorized to make such certificate,
is guilty of forgery in the first degree.
R.L.1910, § 2621.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1562. Forgery of public securites.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters:
1st. Any certificate or other public security, issued or purporting to have been issued under the authority of this state, by virtue of any law thereof, by which certificate or other public security, the payment of any money absolutely or upon any contingency is promised, or the receipt of any money or property acknowledged; or
2nd. Any certificate of any share, right or interest in any public stock created by virtue of any law of this state, issued or purporting to have been issued by any public officer, or any other evidence of any debt or liability, of the people of this State, either absolute or contingent, issued or purporting to have been issued by any public officer; or,
3rd. Any endorsement or other instrument transferring or purporting to transfer the right or interest of any holder of any such certificate, public security, certificate of stock, evidence of debt or liability, or of any person entitled to such right or interest;
is guilty of forgery in the first degree.
R.L.1910, § 2621.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1571. Public and corporate seals, forgery of.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, or counterfeits the great or privy seal of this state, the seal of any public office authorized by law, the seal of any court of record, including judge of county seals, or the seal of any corporation created by the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, or any other public seal authorized or recognized by the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, or who falsely makes, forges or counterfeits any impression purporting to be the impression of any such seal, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2623.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1572. Records, forgery of.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely alters, destroys, corrupts or falsifies:
1. Any record of any will, codicil, conveyance or other instrument, the record of which is, by law, evidence; or,
2. Any record of any judgment in a court of record, or any enrollment of any decree of a court of equity; or,
3. The return of any officer, court or tribunal to any process of any court,
is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2624.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1573. Making false entries in record.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges or alters, any entry in any book of records, or any instrument purporting to be any record or return specified in the last section; and any abstracter, his officer, agent or employee, who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes or alters any abstract entry or copy thereof in any material matter, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2625.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1574. Making false certificate of acknowledgment.

If any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of any conveyance of real property, or of any other instrument which by law may be recorded, knowingly and falsely certifies that any such conveyance or instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto, or was proved by any subscribing witness, when in truth such conveyance or instrument was not acknowledged or proved as certified, he is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2626.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1575. False bank note plates.

Every person who, makes or engraves, or causes or procures to be made or engraved, any plate in the form or similitude of any promissory note, bill of exchange, draft, check, certificate of deposit or other evidence of debt issued by any banking corporation or association, or individual banker, incorporated or carrying on business under the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, without the authority of such bank, or has or keeps in his custody or possession any such plate, without the authority of such bank, with intent to use or permit the same to be used for the purpose of taking therefrom any impression, to be passed, sold or altered, or has or keeps in his custody or possession, without the authority of such bank, any impression taken from any such plate, with intent to have the same filled up and completed for the purpose of being passed, sold or altered; or makes or causes to be made, or has in his custody or possession, any plate upon which are engraved any figures, or words, which may be used for the purpose of falsely altering any evidence of debt issued by any such bank, with intent to use the same, or to permit them to be used for such purpose, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2627.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1576. Imitation of genuine bank note defined.

Every plate specified in the last section shall be deemed to be in the form and similitude of the genuine instrument imitated, in either of the following cases:
1. When the engraving on such plate resembles and conforms to such parts of the genuine instrument as are engraved; or,
2. When such plate is partly finished, and the part so finished resembles and conforms to similar parts of the genuine instrument.
R.L.1910, § 2628.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1577v1. Notes, checks, bills, drafts - Sale, exchange or delivery.

Every person who sells, exchanges or delivers for any consideration any forged or counterfeited promissory note, check, bill, draft or other evidence of debt, or engagement for the payment of money absolutely, or upon any contingency, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with intent to have the same uttered or passed, or who offers any such note or other instrument for sale, exchange or delivery for any consideration, with the like knowledge and intent, or who receives any such note or other instrument upon a sale, exchange or delivery for any consideration with the like knowledge and intent, is guilty of forgery in the second degree if the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more and forgery in the third degree if the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L. 1910, § 2629. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 221, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1577v2. Notes, checks, bills, drafts - Sale, exchange or delivery.

A. Every person who sells, exchanges or delivers for any consideration any forged or counterfeited promissory note, check, bill, draft, or other evidence of debt, or engagement for the payment of money absolutely, or upon any contingency, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with intent to have the same uttered or passed, or who offers any such note or other instrument for sale, exchange or delivery for any consideration, with the like knowledge and intent, or who receives any such note or other instrument upon a sale, exchange or delivery for any consideration with the like knowledge and intent, is punishable as follows:
1. If the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of misdemeanor forgery punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
2. If the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more but less than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed two (2) years or in the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
3. If the value of the instrument is Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or more but less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed five (5) years or in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine; or
4. If the value of the instrument is Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) or more, the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed eight (8) years, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
B. For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L.1910, § 2629. Amended by State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 17, adopted at election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017; Laws 2018, c. 116, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2018.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1578v1. Possession of forged evidences of debt.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, has in his or her possession any forged, altered or counterfeit negotiable note, bill, draft or other evidence of debt issued or purporting to have been issued by any corporation or company duly authorized for that purpose by the laws of this state or of any other state, government or country, the forgery of which is hereinbefore declared to be punishable, knowing the same to be forged, altered or counterfeited, with intent to utter the same as true or as false, or to cause the same to be so uttered, is guilty of forgery in the second degree if the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more and forgery in the third degree if the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L. 1910, § 2630. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 221, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1578v2. Possession of forged evidences of debt.

A. Every person who, with intent to defraud, has in his or her possession any forged, altered or counterfeit negotiable note, bill, draft or other evidence of debt issued or purporting to have been issued by any corporation or company duly authorized for that purpose by the laws of this state or of any other state, government or country, the forgery of which is hereinbefore declared to be punishable, knowing the same to be forged, altered or counterfeited, with intent to utter the same as true or as false, or to cause the same to be so uttered, is punishable as follows:
1. If the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of misdemeanor forgery punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
2. If the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more but less than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed two (2) years or in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
3. If the value of the instrument is Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or more but less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed five (5) years or in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine; or
4. If the value of the instrument is Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) or more, the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed eight (8) years, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
B. For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L. 1910, § 2630. Amended by State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 18, adopted at election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017; Laws 2018, c. 116, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2018.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1579v1. Possession of other forged instruments.

Every person who has in his or her possession any forged or counterfeited instrument, the forgery of which has previously been declared to be punishable, other than such as are enumerated in Section 1578 of this title, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered with intent to injure or defraud by uttering the same to be true, or as false, or by causing the same to be uttered, is guilty of forgery in the second degree if the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more and forgery in the third degree if the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L. 1910, § 2631. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 221, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1579v2. Possession of other forged instruments.

A. Every person who has in his or her possession any forged or counterfeited instrument, the forgery of which is hereinbefore declared to be punishable, other than such as are enumerated in the last section, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered with intent to injure or defraud by uttering the same to be true, or as false, or by causing the same to be uttered, is punishable as follows:
1. If the value of the instrument is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of misdemeanor forgery punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
2. If the value of the instrument is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more but less than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed two (2) years or in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine;
3. If the value of the instrument is Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or more but less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00), the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed five (5) years or in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine; or
4. If the value of the instrument is Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) or more, the person shall be guilty of felony forgery punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed eight (8) years, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
B. For purposes of this section, a series of offenses may be aggregated into one offense when they are the result of the formulation of a plan or scheme or the setting up of a mechanism which, when put into operation, results in the taking or diversion of money or property on a recurring basis. When all acts result from a continuing course of conduct, they may be aggregated into one crime. Acts forming an integral part of the first taking which facilitate subsequent takings, or acts taken in preparation of several takings which facilitate subsequent takings, are relevant to determine the intent of the party to commit a continuing crime.
R.L. 1910, § 2631. Amended by State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 19, adopted at election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017; Laws 2018, c. 116, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2018.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1580. Issuing spurious certificates of stock.

Any officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association formed or existing under or by virtue of the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, who, within this state, willfully signs or procures to be signed, with intent to issue, sell or pledge, or to cause to be issued, sold or pledged, or who willfully issues, sells or pledges, or causes to be issued, sold or pledged, any false or fraudulent certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such corporation or association, whether of full paid shares or otherwise, or of any interest in its property or profits, or of any certificate or other evidence of such ownership, transfer or interest, or any instrument purporting to be a certificate or other evidence of such ownership, transfer or interest, the signing, issuing, selling or pledging of which has not been duly authorized by the board of directors or other managing body of such corporation or association having authority to issue the same, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2632.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1581. Reissuing canceled certificates of stock.

Any officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association formed or existing under or by virtue of the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, who, within this state, willfully reissues, sells or pledges, or causes to be reissued, sold or pledged, any surrendered or canceled certificate, or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such corporation or association, or of an interest in its property or profits, with intent to defraud, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2633.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1582. False evidences of debt.

Any officer or agent of any corporation, municipal or otherwise, of any joint stock association formed or existing under or by virtue of the laws of this state, or of any other state, government or country, who, within this state, willfully signs or procures to be signed with intent to issue, sell or pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged, or who willfully issues, sells or pledges, or causes to be issued, sold or pledged, any false or fraudulent bond or other evidence of debt against such corporation or association of any instrument purporting to be a bond or other evidence of debt against such corporation or association, the signing, issuing, selling or pledging of which has not been duly authorized by the board of directors or common council or other managing body of officers of such corporation having authority to issue the same, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2634.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1584. Counterfeiting coin for exportation.

Every person who counterfeits any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or of any foreign country or government, with intent to export the same, or permit them to be exported to injure or defraud any foreign government, or the subjects thereof, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2636.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1585. Forging process of court or title to property, etc.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely marks, alters, forges or counterfeits:
1. Any instrument in writing, being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate, or officer of being or purporting to be any pleading, proceeding, bond or undertaking filed or entered in any court, or being or purporting to be any license or authority authorized by any statute; or,
2. Any instrument of writing, being or purporting to be the act of another by which any pecuniary demand or obligation is, or purports to be created, increased, discharged or diminished, or by which any rights or property whatever, are, or purport to be, transferred, conveyed, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, the punishment of which is not hereinbefore prescribed, by which false marking, altering, forging or counterfeiting, any person may be affected, bound or in any way injured in his person or property, is guilty of a forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2637.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1586. Making false entries in public book.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept in the office of the State Auditor and Inspector, or in the office of the Treasurer of this state or of any county treasurer, by which any demand or obligation, claim, right or interest either against or in favor of the people of this state, or any county or town, or any individual, is or purports to be discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2638; Laws 1979, c. 30, § 9, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1587. Forging tickets or passage.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters any ticket, check or other paper or writing to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad, or in any vessel or other public conveyance; and every person who, with like intent, sells, exchanges or delivers, or keeps or offers for sale, exchange or delivery, or receives upon any purchase, exchange or delivery any such ticket, knowing the same to have been forged, counterfeited or falsely altered is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2639.