Title 21, Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

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.

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…

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…

playgrounds, parks and residences of victims - Restrictions on convicted sex offenders - Exemptions. A. A zone of safety is hereby created around elementary, junior high and high schools, permitted or licensed child care centers as defined by the Department of Human Services, pla…

The term "consent" means the affirmative, unambiguous and voluntary agreement to engage in a specific sexual activity during a sexual encounter which can be revoked at any time. Consent cannot be: 1. Given by an individual who: a. is asleep or is mentally or physically incapacita…

A. Any person has the right to direct the manner in which his or her body shall be disposed of after death, and to direct the manner in which any part of his or her body which becomes separated therefrom during his or her lifetime shall be disposed of. The provisions of Section 1…

Any person entitled by law to the right to dispose of the body of the decedent shall forfeit that right, and the right shall be passed on to the next qualifying person as listed in Section 1158 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, in the following circumstances: 1. Any person ch…

Except in the cases in which a right to dissect a dead body is expressly conferred by law, every dead body of a human being must be decently buried within a reasonable time after the death. R.L.1910, § 2447.

The last section does not affect the right to carry the dead body of a human being through this state, or to remove from this state the body of a person dying within it, for the purpose of burying the same in another state or territory. R.L.1910, § 2448.

and specimens. A. Autopsy means a post mortem dissection of a dead human body in order to determine the cause, seat or nature of disease or injury and includes, but is not limited to, the retention of tissues for evidentiary, identification, diagnostic, scientific and therapeutic…

Every person who makes or procures to be made any dissection of the body of a human being, except by authority of law, or in pursuance of a permission given by the deceased, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2450.

In all cases in which a dissection has been made, the provisions of this article requiring the burial of a dead body, and punishing interference with or injuries to a dead body, apply equally to the remains of the body dissected as soon as the lawful purposes of such dissection h…

All provisions of this article requiring the burial of a dead body, or punishing interference with or injuries to a dead body, applying equally to any dead limb or member of a human body, separated therefrom during lifetime. R.L.1910, § 2452.

person. The right to control the disposition of the remains of a deceased person, the location, manner and conditions of disposition, and arrangements for funeral goods and services vests in the following order, provided the person is eighteen (18) years of age or older and of so…

body of decedent. The district court for the county where the decedent resided may award the right of disposition to the person determined by the court to be the most fit and appropriate to carry out the right of disposition, and may make decisions regarding the remains of the de…

Any person signing a funeral service agreement, cremation authorization form, or any other authorization for disposition shall be deemed to warrant the truthfulness of any facts set forth therein, including the identity of the decedent whose remains are to be buried, cremated, or…

charges. A funeral director shall have complete authority to control the final disposition and to proceed under this act to recover reasonable charges for the final disposition when both of the following apply: 1. The funeral director has actual knowledge that none of the persons…

No funeral establishment or funeral director who relies in good faith upon the instructions of an individual claiming the right of disposition shall be subject to criminal or civil liability or subject to disciplinary action for carrying out the disposition of the remains in acco…

Every person upon whom the duty of making burial of the remains of a deceased person is imposed by law, who omits to perform that duty within a reasonable time, is guilty of a misdemeanor; and, in addition to the punishment prescribed therefor, is liable to pay to the person perf…

The person charged by law with the duty of burying the body of a deceased person is entitled to the custody of such body for the purpose of burying it, except that in the cases in which an inquest is required by law to be held upon a dead body, the officer holding the inquest is …

casket or burial vault. A. No person shall intentionally remove the dead body of a human being or any part thereof from the initial site where such dead body is located for any purpose, unless such removal is authorized by a district attorney or his authorized representative or m…