Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular. R.L.1910, § 2834.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act". Added by Laws 1995, c. 186, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

As used in the Oklahoma Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act: 1. "Compensation" means payment of money, thing of value or financial benefit. Compensation does not include: a. payment to participants based upon sales of products purchased for actual use and consumption, or b. payment to…

Any person who promotes a pyramid promotional scheme shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than ten (10) years, …

Acceptance by district attorney - Restitution. A district attorney may accept a written assurance of discontinuance of any practice in violation of this act from the person that has engaged in the unlawful practice. The district attorney may require in the agreement that by a cer…

Except as provided in Section 4 of this act, any participant in a pyramid promotional scheme may declare their transaction void and bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the consideration paid. In such an action, the court, in addition to any judgme…

Words used in the masculine gender comprehend as well the feminine and neuter. R.L.1910, § 2835.

Any person who shall procure any other person for prostitution, or who, by promise, threats, violence or by any device or scheme shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage another person to become a prostitute; or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for ano…

It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the foregoing section that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this state. R.L.1910, § 2426.

Any such female person, referred to in the foregoing sections, shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this article, to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in he…

The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this article. R.L.1910, § 2428.

Whoever shall by any means keep, hold, detain, or restrain against her will, any female person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; or whoever shall, directly or indirectly keep, hold, detain or restrain or attempt to keep, hold, d…

Any owner, proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or other person, who knowingly permits or suffers the violation of any provision of this article, in any house, building, room, tent, lot or premises under his control or of which he has possession, upon conviction, shall be puni…

trafficking, lewdness, indecent acts, etc. A. No person shall: 1. Offer, or offer to secure, a child under eighteen (18) years of age for the purpose of child sex trafficking, or for any other lewd or indecent act, or procure or offer to procure a child for, or a place for a chil…

detaining or restraining for child sex trafficking — Penalties. A. No person shall: 1. By promise, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, including but not limited to the use of any controlled dangerous substance prohibited pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Contro…

Percentage forwarded to city - county health department. In counties having a population of greater than four hundred thousand (400,000), One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of each fine collected for violation of Sections 1028, 1029, 1030, and 1081 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes…

Words used in the present tense include the future, but exclude the past. R.L.1910, § 2836.

Any pawnbroker or person carrying on the business of a pawnbroker, and every junk dealer, who having received any goods which have been embezzled or stolen, refuses or omits to exhibit them, upon demand, during the usual business hours, to the owner of said goods or his agent aut…

Every pawnbroker who sells any article received by him in pledge, before the time to redeem the same has expired, and every pawnbroker who willfully refuses to disclose the name of the purchaser and the price received by him for any article received by him in pledge and subsequen…

different ways. If there be in any other provision of the laws of this state a provision making any specific act or omission criminal and providing the punishment therefor, and there be in this title any provision or section making the same act or omission a criminal offense or p…

Whenever, by any of the provisions of this chapter, an intent to defraud is required in order to constitute any offense, it is sufficient if an intent appears to defraud any person, association or body politic or corporate whatever. R.L.1910, § 2837.

21 O.S. § 1101 Repealed by Laws 1990, c. 135, § 1, eff. July 1, 1990

It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate a public pool or billiard hall, or any public pool or billiard table, in any incorporated city or town, without first securing a license from the district court clerk. The person applying for the license shall appear once…

A judge of the district court, upon five (5) days' notice to the person holding such license, may revoke such license for any one of the following reasons: 1. Drunkenness of the person holding such license or permitting any intoxicated person to loiter in such place; 2. Violation…

This act shall in no way impair the right of any incorporated city or town to impose an additional license fee for maintaining any such pool or billiard hall, or pool or billiard table; or to prevent any incorporated city or town from abolishing same under existing laws. Laws 191…

All fees collected and all fines collected for the violation of any provision of this act shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the court fund. Laws 1915, c. 21, § 5; Laws 1968, c. 414, § 4, eff. Jan. 13, 1969.

A. In all instances of sexual assault including, but not limited to, rape, rape by instrumentation and forcible sodomy where force is alleged, the term "force" shall mean any force, no matter how slight, necessary to accomplish the act without the consent of the victim. The force…

OS 21-1111v1 (HB 1995, Laws 2025, c. 60, 1) OS 21-1111v2 (SB 630, Laws 2025, c. 103, § 1) OS 21-1111v3 (HB 1003, Laws 2025, c. 365, § 1)

A. Rape by instrumentation, a Class A2 felony offense, is an act within or without the bonds of matrimony in which any inanimate object or any part of the human body, not amounting to sexual intercourse is used in the carnal knowledge of another person without his or her consent …

A. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or female within or without the bonds of matrimony who may be of the same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator under any of the following circumstances: 1. Where the victim is…

A. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or female within or without the bonds of matrimony who may be of the same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator under any of the following circumstances: 1. Where the victim is…

A. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal penetration accomplished with a male or female within or without the bonds of matrimony who may be of the same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator under any of the following circumstances: 1. Where the victim is…

No person can be convicted of rape or rape by instrumentation on account of an act of sexual intercourse with anyone sixteen (16) years of age or older, with his or her consent, unless such person was more than four (4) years older than the other person at the time of such act. R…

The essential guilt of rape or rape by instrumentation, except with the consent of a male or female over fourteen (14) years of age, consists in the outrage to the person and feelings of the victim. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime. R.L.…

second degree. A. Rape or rape by instrumentation in the first degree, a Class A2 felony offense, shall include: 1. Rape committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of age upon a person under fourteen (14) years of age; 2. Rape committed upon a person incapable through mental …

OS 21-1115v1 (SB 1425, Laws 2002, c. 455, 5) OS 21-1115v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 29)

Rape in the first degree is a felony punishable by death or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, not less than five (5) years, except as provided in Section 3 of this act, in the discretion of the jury, or in case the jury fails or refuses to fix the punishment then the same s…

Rape in the first degree is a Class A2 felony offense punishable by death or imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections, for a term of not less than five (5) years, life or life without parole. Except for persons sentenced to life or life without parole, any per…

Rape in the second degree is a Class B2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not less than one (1) year nor more than fifteen (15) years. R.L. 1910, § 2419. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 293, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 194…

Any person who takes any woman against her will and, by force, menace or duress, compels her to marry him or to marry any other person, shall be guilty of a Class A2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not less than ten (10) years. R.L. 1910, § 242…

Any person who takes any woman unlawfully against her will, with the intent to compel her by force, menace or duress to marry him, or to marry any other person, shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10…

Every person who takes away or induces to leave any person under the age of fifteen (15) years, from a parent, guardian or other person having the legal charge of the person, without the consent of said parent, guardian, or other person having legal charge, for the purpose of mar…

The term "sexual assault" is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the recipient including, but not limited to, forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, child sexual abuse, incest, fondling and all attempts to complet…

21 O.S. § 1120 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 155, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

21 O.S. § 1121 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 155, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

21 O.S. § 1122 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 155, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

OS 21-1123v1 (HB 1995, Laws 2025, c. 60, § 2) OS 21-1123v2 (SB 599, Laws 2025, c. 281, § 2) OS 21-1123v3 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 38)

or person believed to be under 16 – Sexual battery. A. It is a felony for any person to knowingly and intentionally: 1. Make any oral, written or electronically or computer- generated lewd or indecent proposal to any child under sixteen (16) years of age, or other individual the …

or person believed to be under 16 – Sexual battery. A. It is a felony for any person to knowingly and intentionally: 1. Make any oral, written or electronically or computer- generated lewd or indecent proposal to any child under sixteen (16) years of age, or other individual the …

or person believed to be under 16 – Sexual battery. A. It is a Class A3 felony offense for any person to knowingly and intentionally: 1. Make any oral, written or electronically or computer- generated lewd or indecent proposal to any child under sixteen (16) years of age, or othe…