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2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1588. Postage stamps, forging.

Every person who forges, counterfeits or alters any postage or revenue stamp of the United States, or who sells or offers to keep for sale, as genuine or as forged, any such stamp, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2640.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1589. False entries in corporation books.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry, or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept by any corporation within this state, or in any book of accounts kept by any such corporation or its officers, and delivered or intended to be delivered to any person dealing with such corporation, by which any pecuniary obligation, claim or credit 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, § 2641.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1590. Officer or employee of corporation making false entries.

Every person who being a member or officer or in the employment of any corporation, association or partnership, falsifies, alters, erases, obliterates or destroys any account or book of accounts or records belonging to such corporation, association or partnership, or appertaining to their business or makes any false entries in such account or book or keeps any false account in such business with intent to defraud his employers, or to conceal any embezzlement of their money, or property, or any defalcation or other misconduct, committed by any person in the management of their business, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2642.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1591. Possession of counterfeit coin.

Every person who has in his possession any counterfeit of any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or any foreign country or government, knowing the same to be counterfeit, with intent to sell or to use, circulate or export the same, as true or as false, or by causing the same to be uttered or passed, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2643.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1592. Uttering forged instruments or coin.

A. Every person who, with intent to defraud, utters or publishes as true any forged, altered or counterfeited instrument or any counterfeit gold or silver coin, the forging, altering or counterfeiting of which has previously been declared to be punishable, knowing such instrument or coin to be forged, altered or counterfeited, 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 forgery as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment 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;
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 forgery as a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections 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 forgery as a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not to exceed five (5) 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; and
4. If the value of the instrument is Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) or more, the person shall be guilty of forgery as a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections 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, § 2645. Amended by Laws 2016, c. 221, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2018, c. 116, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2018.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1593. Falsely obtaining signature.

Every person who, by any false representation, artifice or deceit, procures from another his signature to any instrument, the false making of which would be forgery, and which the party signing would not have executed had he known the facts and effect of the instrument, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.
R.L.1910, § 2646.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1621v1. First-, second- and third-degree forgery - Penalties.

A. Forgery in the first degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than seven (7) years nor more than twenty (20) years.
B. Forgery in the second degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than seven (7) years.
C. Forgery in the third degree is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year and a fine of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
R.L. 1910, § 2644. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 377, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 269, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2016, c. 221, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 377 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1621v2. Forgery a felony.

Forgery is punishable as follows:
1. Forgery in the first degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment not less than seven (7) years nor more than twenty (20) years; and
2. Forgery in the second degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding seven (7) years.
3. Forgery in the third degree is:
a.
If the value of the forgery is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), a misdemeanor punishable by confinement for not more than one (1) year and by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
b.
If the value of the forgery is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more, a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding seven (7) years.
c.
If the total or aggregate value of the forgery is Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) or more, a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding seven (7) years.
R.L. 1910, § 2644. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 377, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 269, eff. July 1, 1999; State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 20, adopted at General Election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 377 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1622. Fraudulently uttering one's signature as that of another of same name.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes or subscribes any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any property whatever, and utters or passes such instrument, under the pretense that it is the act of another who bears the same name, is guilty of forgery in the same degree as if he had forged the instrument of a person bearing a different name from his own.
R.L.1910, § 2647.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1623. Fraudulently uttering one's indorsement as another's.

Every person who, with intent to defraud, endorses any negotiable instrument in his own name, and utters or passes such instrument, under the fraudulent pretense that it is endorsed by another person who bears the same name, is guilty of forgery in the same degree as if he had forged the endorsement of a person bearing a different name from his own.
R.L.1910, § 2648.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1624. Erasure and obliterations.

The total or partial erasure or obliteration of any instrument or writing, with intent to defraud, by which any pecuniary obligation, or any right, interest or claim to property is or is intended to be created, increased, discharged, diminished or in any manner affected, is forgery in the same degree as the false alteration of any part of such instrument or writing.
R.L.1910, § 2649.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1625. Writing and written defined.

Every instrument partly printed and partly written, or wholly printed with a written signature thereto, and every signature of an individual, firm or corporation, or of any officer of such body, and every writing purporting to be such signature, is a writing or a written instrument, within the meaning of the provisions of this article.
R.L.1910, § 2650.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1626. Signing fictitious names as officers of corporations.

The false making or forging of an evidence of debt purporting to have been issued by any corporation and bearing the pretended signature of any person as an agent or officer of such corporation, is forgery in the same degree as if such person was at the time an officer or agent of such corporation; notwithstanding such person may never have been an officer or agent of such corporation, or notwithstanding there never was any such person in existence.
R.L.1910, § 2651.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1627. False or bogus order directing payment of money.

Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud, shall obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal services theretofore performed, by means or use of any false or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The term "false or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of money," in addition to its common meaning, also shall include any check, draft or order on any bank or trust company which is not honored on presentation on account of insufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer thereof with which to pay same. The word "credit," as used herein, shall mean any arrangement or understanding with a bank or trust company for the payment by it of any check, draft or money payment order.
As against the maker or drawer of any false or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of money, and as against any officer or employee of the maker or drawer thereof, who shall authorize or direct the making, drawing, uttering or delivering, or who shall make, draw, utter or deliver any such false or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of money, to obtain or to attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal services, the fact of dishonor or refusal to pay the amount of money specified in said false or bogus order shall be prima facie evidence of intent to cheat or defraud, and of knowledge of insufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer, with the drawer specified therein, to pay the same; provided, said fact shall not constitute prima facie evidence as above set forth if the maker or drawer shall pay the amount of such false or bogus order, together with protest fees, within five (5) days from the date the same shall have been presented to the drawer for payment; and provided further, that said fact shall not constitute prima facie evidence as above set forth unless the said false or bogus order be presented to the drawer within thirty (30) days after the same shall have been uttered or delivered.
Laws 1955, p. 192, § 1.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1627.1. False or bogus orders as payment for labor - Penalties.

In addition to the criminal penalties imposed pursuant to the provisions of Section 1627 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any person who obtains or attempts to obtain from any person, with the intent to cheat or defraud, any labor or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal services performed, by means or use of any false or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of money, shall also be liable to the payee, in addition to the amount owing upon such order, for damages of double the amount so owing, but in no case shall the amount of damages awarded be less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), plus reasonable attorney fees and court costs. Said damages shall be recoverable in a civil action.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 130, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1628. Fraudulently altering, forging, reproducing abstracter's certificate or signature.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, alters, forges, falsely makes, photographs, or by any method reproduces any certificate of authority provided for in Title 1 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or other instrument, document, paper or abstract of title entry signed or executed by any abstractor to whom a certificate of authority has been lawfully issued, shall be guilty of the commission of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each reproduction thereof.
Laws 1971, c. 169, § 1.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1631. Fraud in subscription for stock.

Any person who signs the name of a fictitious person to any subscription for, or agreement to take stock in any corporation, existing or proposed; and every person who signs, to any subscription or agreement, the name of any person, knowing that such person has not means or does not intend in good faith to comply with all the terms thereof, or under any understanding or agreement that the terms of such subscription or agreement are not to be complied with or enforced, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2721.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1632. Fraud in procuring organization of stock company.

Any officer, agent or clerk of any corporation, or of any persons proposing to organize a corporation or to increase the capital stock of any corporation, who knowingly exhibits any false, forged or altered book, paper, voucher, security or other instrument of evidence to any public officer or board authorized by law to examine the organization of such corporation, or to investigate its affairs, or to allow an increase of its capital with intent to deceive such officer or board in respect thereto, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years, and not less than three (3) years.
R.L. 1910, § 2722. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 378, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 270, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 378 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1633. Unauthorized use of names.

Any person who, without being authorized so to do, subscribes the name of another to, or inserts the name of another in any prospectus, circular, or other advertisement or announcement of any corporation or joint stock association existing or intended to be formed, with intent to permit the same to be published, and thereby to lead persons to believe that the person whose name is so subscribed is an officer, agent, member or promoter of such corporation or association, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2723.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1634. Omitting to enter receipt.

Any director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly receives or possesses himself of any property of such corporation or association, otherwise than in payment of a just demand, and who, with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof in the books or accounts of such corporation or association, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2724.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1635. Destroying or falsifying books.

Any director, officer, agent or member of any corporation or joint stock association, who, with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any of the books, papers, writings or securities belonging to such corporation or association, or makes or concurs in making any false entry, or omits or concurs in omitting to make any material entry in any book of accounts, or other record or document kept by such corporation or association, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years and not less than three (3) years, or by imprisonment 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, § 2725. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 379, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 271, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 379 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1636. False reports of corporation - Refusal to make report.

Any director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly concurs in the making, or publishes any written report, exhibit or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition, containing any material statement which is false, other than as are mentioned in Sections 2722 and 2723, or willfully refuses or neglects to make or deliver any written report, exhibit or statement required by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2726. d
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1637. Inspection of corporate books, refusing to permit.

Any officer or agent of any corporation having or keeping an office within this state, who has in his custody, or control, any book, paper or document of such corporation, and who refuses to give to a stockholder or member of such corporation, lawfully demanding, during office hours, to inspect or take a copy of the same, or any part thereof, a reasonable opportunity so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2727.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1638. Insolvencies deemed fraudulent.

Every insolvency of a moneyed corporation is deemed fraudulent unless its affairs appear, upon investigation, to have been administered fairly and legally, and generally with the same care and diligence that agents receiving a compensation for their services are bound by law to observe.
R.L.1910, § 2728.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1639. Fraudulent insolvency - Penalties.

A. In every case of a fraudulent insolvency of a moneyed corporation not licensed to conduct insurance business in the State of Oklahoma, every director thereof who participated in such fraud is guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. In every case of a fraudulent insolvency of a moneyed corporation licensed to conduct the business of insurance in the State of Oklahoma, every director thereof who participated in such fraud is guilty of a felony punishable by up to five (5) years of incarceration and a fine of up to Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).
R.L.1910, § 2729. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 235, § 2, eff. July 1, 2012.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1640. Violation of duty by officer of corporation.

Any director of any moneyed corporation who willfully does any act, as such director, which is expressly forbidden by law, or willfully omits to perform any duty expressly imposed upon him as such director, by law, the punishment for which act or omission is not otherwise prescribed by this article, or by some of the acts which it specifies as continuing in force, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2730.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1642. Director presumed to have assented, when.

Any director of a corporation or joint stock association, who is present at a meeting of the directors at which any act, proceeding or omission of such directors, in violation of this article occurs, is deemed to have concurred therein, unless he at the time causes, or in writing requires, his dissent therefrom to be entered in the minutes of the directors.
R.L.1910, § 2732.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1643. Presumption of assent when director was absent from meeting.

Any director of a corporation or joint stock association, although not present at the meeting of the directors at which any act, proceeding or omission of such directors, in violation of this article, occurs, is deemed to have concurred therein, if the facts constituting such violation appear on the record or minutes of the proceedings of the board of directors, and he remains a director of the same company for six (6) months thereafter, and does not, within that time, cause or in writing require his dissent from such illegality to be entered in the minutes of the directors.
R.L.1910, § 2733.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1662. False claim or proof of loss in insurance.

Any person who presents or causes to be presented any false or fraudulent claim, or any proof in support of any such claim, upon any contract of insurance, for the payment of any loss, or who prepares, makes or subscribes any account, certificate, survey affidavit, proof of loss, or other book, paper or writing, with intent to present or use the same, or to allow it to be presented or used in support of any such claim, shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding three (3) years, or by a fine not exceeding twice the amount of the aggregated loss sum, or both.
R.L.1910, § 2709. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 380, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 272, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2012, c. 235, § 3, eff. July 1, 2012.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 380 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1671. Fraudulent conveyance.

Every person who being a party to any conveyance or assignment of any real or personal property, or of any interest therein, made or created with intent to defraud prior or subsequent purchasers, or to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or other persons, and every person being privy to or knowing of such conveyance, assignment or charge, who willfully puts the same in use as having been made in good faith, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2717.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1672. Fraudulent removal of property.

Every person who removes any of his property out of any county, with intent to prevent the same from being levied upon by any execution or attachment, or who secretes, assigns, conveys or otherwise disposes of any of his property, with intent to defraud any creditor, or to prevent such property being made liable for the payment of his debts, and every person who receives any such property with such intent, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2718.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1673. Assignment to creditor with preference.

Every person who, knowing that his property is insufficient for the payment of all his lawful debts, assigns, transfers or delivers any property for the benefit of any creditor or creditors, upon any trusts or condition, that any creditor shall receive a preference or priority over any other, except in the cases in which such preference is expressly allowed to be given by law, or with intent to create such preference of priority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2719.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1674. Frauds by insolvent debtor.

Every person who, upon making or prosecuting any application for a discharge as an insolvent debtor, under the provision of any law now in force, or that may hereafter be enacted, either:
1. Fraudulently presents, or authorizes to be presented on his behalf such application, in a case in which it is not authorized by law; or,
2. Makes or presents to any court or office, in support of such application, any petition, schedule, book, account, voucher or other paper or document, knowing the same to contain any false statement; or,
3. Fraudulently makes or exhibits, or alters, obliterates or destroys any account or voucher relating to the condition of his affairs, or any entry or statement in such account or voucher; or,
4. Practices any fraud upon any creditor, with intent to induce him to petition for, or consent to such discharge; or,
5. Conspires with or induces any person fraudulently to unite as a creditor in any petition for such discharge, or to practice any fraud in aid thereof,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2720.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1680.1. Definitions.

As used in this act:
1. "Animal" means any mammal, bird, fish, reptile or invertebrate, including wild and domesticated species, other than a human being;
2. "Animal facility" means any vehicle, building, structure, farm, ranch or other premises where an animal is kept, handled, transported, housed, exhibited, bred, offered for sale or used in any lawful scientific test, experiment, investigation or educational training;
3. "Person" means any individual, state agency, corporation, association, nonprofit corporation, joint stock company, firm, trust, partnership, two or more persons having a common interest, or other legal entity;
4. "Owner" means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, or a greater right to the possession of the animal or property than another person;
5. "Possession" means actual care, custody, control or management; and
6. "Effective consent" means consent by the owner or a person legally authorized to act for the owner. Consent is not effective if induced or given by force or fear; by a person the offender knows is not legally authorized to act for the owner; or by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect, or influence of drug or alcohol is known by the offender to be unable to make reasonable decisions.
Added by Laws 1991, c. 115, § 2, emerg. eff. April 25, 1991.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1680.2. Prohibited acts with regard to certain animal facilities - Penalties - Exempted acts.

A. No person shall, without the effective consent of the owner and with intent to damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility:
1. Damage, destroy or remove an animal facility or any property or animal in or on an animal facility;
2. Acquire or otherwise exercise control over an animal facility, an animal or other property from an animal facility, with the intent to deprive the owner of such facility, animal or property;
3. Enter an animal facility, not open to the public, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this section;
4. Enter an animal facility and commit or attempt to commit an act prohibited by this section;
5. Remain concealed in an animal facility, with intent to commit or attempt to commit an act prohibited by this section;
6. Enter or remain on an animal facility when the person has notice that entry is forbidden by any of the following:
a.
written or oral communication with the owner or a person with apparent authority to act for the owner,
b.
fencing or other enclosure obviously designed to exclude intruders or contain animals, or
c.
a sign or signs posted on the property or at the entrance to the building, indicating that unauthorized entry is forbidden; and
7. Release any animal or animals, with intent to deprive the owner of such animal or animal facility.
B. A violation of any of the provisions in paragraphs 1 through 7 of subsection A of this section shall be a misdemeanor, upon conviction, punishable by a fine not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), with full restitution to be paid for any damage to the property, for replacement of any animals released, and for out-of-pocket expenses incurred as a result of any violation, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to lawful activities of any governmental agency or employees or agents thereof carrying out their respective duties under the law or be construed to conflict with any provision of Section 391 et seq. of Title 4 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
Added by Laws 1991, c. 115, § 3, emerg. eff. April 25, 1991. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 382, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 274, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 23, § 1, eff. July 1, 2003.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 382 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1680.3. Veterinarian required to report suspected animal abuse – Immunity from civil liability.

A. A veterinarian shall report suspected cases of animal abuse to a local law enforcement agency in the county where the veterinarian is practicing within twenty-four (24) hours of any examination or treatment administered to any animal which the veterinarian reasonably suspects and believes has been abused. The report shall contain the breed and description of the animal together with the name and address of the owner.
B. A veterinarian who files a report as provided in this section shall be immune from civil liability with respect to any report made in good faith.
Added by Laws 2006, c. 188, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1681. Poisoning animals.

Any person who willfully administers poison to any animal, the property of another, and every person who maliciously exposes any poisonous substance with intent that the same shall be taken by any such animal, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding three (3) years, or in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
R.L. 1910, § 2742. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 383, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 275, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 383 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1682. Instigating fights between animals.

Every person who maliciously, or for any bet, stake or reward, instigates or encourages any fight between animals with the exception of dogs, or instigates or encourages any animal with the exception of dogs to attack, bite, wound or worry another, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Amended by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 10, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1683. Keeping places for fighting animals.

Every person who keeps any house, pit or other place, to be used in permitting any fight between animals with the exception of dogs or in any other violation of Section 1682 of this title, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Amended by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 11, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 11, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982. d
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1684. Wounding or trapping birds in cemetery.

Every person who, within any public cemetery or burying ground, wounds or traps any birds or destroys any bird's nest, or removes any eggs or young birds from any nest; and every person who buys or sells, offers or keeps for sale, any bird which has been killed or trapped in violation of this section, is punishable by a fine of Five Dollars ($5.00) for each offense, recoverable by a civil action in any justice's court within the county where the offense is committed, brought in the name of any person making a complaint. R.L. 1910 Sec. 2745.
R.L.1910, § 2745.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1685. Cruelty to animals.

Any person who shall willfully or maliciously torture, destroy or kill, or cruelly beat or injure, maim or mutilate any animal in subjugation or captivity, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to the person or to another, or deprive any such animal of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering; or who shall cause, procure or permit any such animal to be so tortured, destroyed or killed, or cruelly beaten or injured, maimed or mutilated, or deprived of necessary food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care to prevent suffering; or who shall willfully set on foot, instigate, engage in, or in any way further any act of cruelty to any animal, or any act tending to produce such cruelty, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Any animal so maltreated or abused shall be considered an abused or neglected animal.
R.L. 1910, § 2746. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 384, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 276, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 363, § 1, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 188, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 384 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1685.1. Greyhounds - Using live animal as lure in training - Penalties.

A. No person may knowingly use any live animal as a lure or bait in training a greyhound for entry in any race.
B. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00).
C. The provisions of subsection B of this section shall be the exclusive remedy for any violation of the provisions of subsection A of this section.
Added by Laws 1991, c. 23, § 1, eff. July 1, 1991.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1686. Abandoned animals – Euthanasia – Custody of animal following arrest.

A. Any person owning or having charge or custody of a maimed, diseased, disabled, or infirm animal who abandons the animal or who allows the animal to lie in a public street, road, or public place one (1) hour after the person receives notice by a duly constituted authority that the animal is disabled or dead, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. Any peace officer or animal control officer may humanely destroy or cause to be humanely destroyed any animal found abandoned and for which no proper care has been given.
C. When any person who is arrested is, at the time of the arrest, in charge of any animal or of any vehicle drawn by or containing any animal, any peace officer, or animal control officer may take custody of the animal or of the vehicle and its contents, or deliver the animal or the vehicle and its contents into the possession of the police or sheriff of the county or place where the arrest was made, who shall assume the custody thereof. All necessary expenses incurred in taking custody of the animal or of the vehicle and its contents shall be a lien on such property.
D. For the purpose of the provisions of this section and Section 1691 of this title, the term “abandon” means the voluntary relinquishment of an animal and shall include but shall not be limited to vacating a premises and leaving the animal in or at the premises, or failing to feed the animal or allowing it to stray or wander onto private or public property with the intention of surrendering ownership or custody over the animal.
R.L. 1910, § 2747. Amended by Laws 1984, c. 104, § 1, operative July 1, 1984; Laws 2006, c. 188, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1689. Poisonous drugs, unjustifiable administration of.

Any person who unjustifiably administers any poisonous or noxious drug or substance to any animal, or unjustifiably exposes any such drug or substance with intent that the same shall be taken by an animal, whether such animal be the property of himself or another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
R.L.1910, § 2750.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1691. Abandoning of domestic animals along streets or highways or in any public place prohibited.

Any person who deposits any live dog, cat, or other domestic animal along any private or public roadway, or in any other private or public place with the intention of abandoning the domestic animal upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Amended by Laws 1984, c. 104, § 2, operative July 1, 1984.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692. Penalty.

Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of Sections 1686, 1688, 1689 and 1691 of this title shall be punished by a fine in an amount not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both said fine and imprisonment.
Amended by Laws 1984, c. 104, § 3, operative July 1, 1984.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.1. Definitions.

As used in this act:
A. “Cockfight” or “cockfighting” is a fight between birds, whether or not fitted with spurs, knives, or gaffs, and whether or not bets or wagers are made on the outcome of the fight, and includes any training fight in which birds are intended or encouraged to attack or fight with one another.
B. “Equipment used for training or handling a fighting bird” includes knives or gaffs, cages, pens, feeding apparatuses, training pens and other related devices and equipment, and is hereby declared contraband and subject to seizure.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 1, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.2. Instigating or encouraging cockfight.

Every person who willfully instigates or encourages any cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony. The penalty for a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section 8 of this act.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 2, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.3. Keeping place, equipment or facilities for cockfighting.

Every person who keeps any pit or other place, or knowingly provides any equipment or facilities to be used in permitting any cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony. The penalty for a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section 8 of this act.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 3, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.4. Servicing or facilitating cockfight.

Every person who does any act or performs any service in the furtherance of or to facilitate any cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony. Such activities and services specifically prohibited by this section include, but are not limited to: promoting or refereeing of birds at a cockfight, advertising a cockfight, or serving as a stakes holder of any money wagered on any cockfight. The penalty for a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section 8 of this act.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 4, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.5. Owning, possessing, keeping or training bird for fighting.

Every person who owns, possesses, keeps, or trains any bird with the intent that such bird shall be engaged in a cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony. The penalty for a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section 8 of this act.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 5, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.6. Spectators.

Every person who is knowingly present as a spectator at any place, building, or other site where preparations are being made for a cockfight with the intent to be present at such preparation or cockfight, or is knowingly present at such cockfight, upon conviction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 6, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.7. Seizure, destruction, or forfeiture of cockfighting equipment or facilities.

Following the conviction of a person for Sections 2, 3, 4, or 5 of this act, the court entering the judgment shall order that the birds and knives or gaffs used in violation of this act be forfeited to the state, and may order that any and all equipment described in Section 1 used in violation of this act be forfeited to the state.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 7, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.8. Punishment.

A. Every person who is guilty of a felony under any of the provisions of Sections 2, 3, 4, or 5 of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years, or shall be fined not less than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) nor more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. Every person who upon conviction is guilty of any of the provisions of Section 6 of this act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 8, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1692.9. Exemption.

Nothing in this act shall prohibit any of the following:
A. Hunting birds or fowl in accordance with Oklahoma regulation or statute, including but not limited to the sport of hunting game with trained raptors.
B. Agricultural production of fowl for human consumption.
Added by State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365, Provision No. 9, adopted at General Election held on November 5, 2002.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1693. Definitions.

As used in this act:
1. "Equipment used for training or handling a fighting dog" includes harnesses, treadmills, cages, decoys, pens, houses, feeding apparatuses, training pens and other related devices and equipment;
2. "Equipment used for transporting a fighting dog" includes any automobile, or other vehicle, and its appurtenances which are intended to be used as a vehicle for transporting a fighting dog to a fight;
3. "Concession equipment" includes any stands, equipment or devices intended to be used to sell or otherwise to dispense food, drinks, liquor, souvenirs or spectator comforts;
4. "Equipment used to promote or advertise a dogfight" includes any printing presses or similar equipment, any paper, ink, photography equipment, and related items and equipment intended to be used to transport same;
5. "Equipment used to stage a dogfight" includes, but is not limited to, dogfighting arenas, bleachers, or spectators' stands or other seating, tents, canopies, buildings, fences, cages, speakers, public address systems, portable toilet facilities and related equipment; and
6. "Fighting dog" includes any dog trained, being trained, intended to be used for training, or intended to be used to attack, bite, wound or worry another dog.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 1, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1694. Instigating or encouraging dogfight - Felony - Penalty.

Every person who willfully or for any bet, stake or reward, instigates or encourages any fight between dogs, or instigates or encourages any dog to attack, bite, wound or worry another dog, except in the course of protection of life and property, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony, punishable as provided in Section 1699.1 of this title.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 2, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 385, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 277, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 385 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1695. Keeping place, equipment or facilities for dogfighting - Felony - Penalty.

Every person who keeps any house, pit or other place, or provides any equipment or facilities to be used in permitting any fight between dogs or in furtherance of any activity described in Section 1693 of this title, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony, punishable as provided in Section 1699.1 of this title.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 3, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 386, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 278, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 386 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 21. Crimes and Punishments › §21-1696. Servicing or facilitating dogfight - Felony - Penalty.

Every person who does any act or performs any service in the furtherance of or to facilitate any dogfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony. Such activities and services specifically prohibited by this section include, but are not limited to: Promotion, refereeing, handling of dogs at a fight, transportation of spectators to or from a dogfight, providing concessions at a dogfight, advertising a dogfight, or serving as a stakes holder of any money wagered on any dogfight, punishable as provided in Section 1699.1 of this title.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 184, § 4, emerg. eff. April 20, 1982. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 387, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 279, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 387 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.