Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

service not prohibited. The provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this act shall not be construed as preventing or prohibiting the giving or accepting of gifts or rewards by any of the persons specified in said sections for outstanding play or meritorious service in the performance o…

violation of bribery laws. All monies, properties and assets of any kind or character used in the violation of any and all of the bribery laws of this state, and which has been paid, delivered or turned over to any person, firm, corporation or public official, shall be forfeited …

The court before which bribery charges are pending, shall, pending the trial thereof, issue such orders and issue such writs as may be necessary directing the sheriff of the county in which such bribery charge is pending to seize and take possession of such monies, funds, propert…

assets. The court having jurisdiction of the monies, funds, properties or assets so seized upon conviction of the person, firm, or corporation charged, shall, without a jury, order an immediate hearing as to whether the monies, funds, properties or assets so seized were being use…

Appeals may be allowed as in civil cases, but the possession of monies, funds, properties or assets being so unlawfully used shall be prima facie evidence that it is the properties, funds, monies or assets of the person so using it. Where said monies, funds, properties or assets …

The fees paid to any officer and prosecuting officer as provided in the preceding section, shall be in addition to the salaries now provided for them by law. Laws 1959, p. 114, § 5.

perpetrated. No person can be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime when it appears that the crime intended or attempted was perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt. R.L.1910, § 2802.

Every person who attempts to commit any crime, and in such attempt does any act toward the commission of such crime, but fails, or is prevented or intercepted in the perpetration thereof, is punishable, where no provision is made by law for the punishment of such attempt, as foll…

A. If two or more persons conspire, either: 1. To commit any crime; or 2. Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any crime; or 3. Falsely to move or maintain any suit, action or proceeding; or 4. To cheat and d…

If two or more persons, being out of this state, conspire to commit any act against the peace of this state, the commission or attempted commission of which, within this state, would be treason against the state, they shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imp…

No agreement to commit a felony or to commit a misdemeanor amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act besides such agreement be done to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement. R.L.1910, § 2234.

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the State of Oklahoma, any county, school district, municipality or subdivision thereof, or to defraud the State of Oklahoma, any county, school district, municipality or subdivision thereof, in any manner or fo…

OS 21-425v1 (HB 1592, Laws 2025, c. 329, 2) OS 21-425v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 370)

offenses. A. Any person who engages in a pattern of criminal offenses in two or more counties or municipalities in this state or who attempts or conspires with others to engage in a pattern of criminal offenses shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the Department…

offenses. A. Any person who engages in a pattern of criminal offenses in two or more counties in this state or who attempts or conspires with others to engage in a pattern of criminal offenses shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonme…

The last two sections do not protect a person who in attempting unsuccessfully to commit a crime, accomplishes the commission of another and different crime, whether greater or less in guilt, from suffering the punishment prescribed by law for the crime committed. R.L.1910, § 280…

Every prisoner confined upon conviction for a criminal offense, who escapes from prison, may be pursued, retaken and imprisoned again, notwithstanding the term for which he was sentenced to be imprisoned may have expired at the time when he is retaken, and he shall remain so impr…

Every prisoner confined in the penitentiary for a term less than for life, who attempts by force or fraud, although unsuccessfully, to escape from such prison, shall be guilty of a Class D2 felony offense and shall by punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B thro…

Any prisoner confined in any other prison than the penitentiary, who attempts by force or fraud, although unsuccessfully, to escape therefrom, is guilty of a Class D2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, to commence from the expir…

Any person who willfully by any means whatever, assists any prisoner confined in any prison to escape therefrom, is punishable as follows: 1. If such prisoner was confined upon a charge or conviction of a felony, such person shall be guilty of a Class C1 felony offense punishable…

Any person who carries or sends into any prison anything useful to aid any prisoner in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of any prisoner confined therein, is punishable as follows: 1. If such prisoner was confined upon any charge or conviction of fel…

Every person who willfully and knowingly conceals any prisoner, who having been confined in prison upon a charge or conviction of misdemeanor, has escaped therefrom, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2203.

A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for commission of the crime, he: (a) purposely engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as he believes them to be; or, (b) …

offender in violation of registration requirements – Unlawful acts - Penalties. A. Any person who shall knowingly feed, lodge, clothe, arm, equip in whole or in part, harbor, aid, assist or conceal in any manner any person guilty of any felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice…

Every person who willfully assists any prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from the custody of any officer or person having the lawful charge of such prisoner under any process of law or under any lawful arrest, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2205.

The term prisoner in this article includes every person held in custody under process of law issued from a court of competent jurisdiction, whether civil or criminal, or under any lawful arrest. R.L.1910, § 2206.

of Corrections - Penalty - Juvenile or youthful offender. A. Any person having been imprisoned in a county or city jail awaiting charges on a felony offense or prisoner awaiting trial or having been sentenced on a felony charge to the custody of the Department of Corrections or a…

prison after escape. In addition, all prisoners who escape from either of the aforesaid prisons either while confined therein, or while at large as a trusty, when apprehended and returned to the prison, shall be punishable by the prison authorities in such manner as may be prescr…

Removal of monitoring device. A. It is unlawful for any person, after being lawfully arrested or detained by a peace officer, to escape or attempt to escape from such peace officer. B. Any person who escapes or attempts to escape after being lawfully arrested or detained for cust…

Penalties. Any person who willfully gains unauthorized entry into any state penal institution, jail, any place where prisoners are located, or the penal institution grounds, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for i…

sheltering from detection - Destroying, hiding, altering, or keeping documentation. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, move, or attempt to transport in the State of Oklahoma any alien knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, enter…

Any person who, upon any trial, proceedings, inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, offers in evidence, as genuine, any book, paper, document, record, or other instrument in writing, knowing the same to have been forged, or fraudulently altered shall, upon convicti…

Every person who practices any fraud or deceit, or knowingly makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing, to any witness or person about to be called as a witness, upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, proceeding by authority o…

Any person guilty of falsely preparing any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced as genuine upon any trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, authorized by law, shall be guilty of a Class D1 felon…

Every person who knowing that any book, paper, record, instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, is about to be produced in evidence upon any trial, proceeding, inquiry or investigation whatever, authorized by law, willfully destroys the same, with intent thereby to preven…

witness who has given testimony. A. Every person who willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person from giving testimony or producing any record, document or other object, who has been duly summoned or subpoenaed or endorsed on the criminal information or juvenile petition…

Any person who gives or offers or promises to give to any witness or person about to be called as a witness in any matter whatever, including contests before United States land officers or townsite commissioners, any bribe upon any understanding or agreement that the testimony of…

Any clerk, register or other officer having the custody of any record, maps or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court of justice, filed or deposited in any public office, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, altering or falsifying or un…

Any person not an officer such as is mentioned in Section 461 of this title, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of this title…

Any person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed or registered or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, shal…

Any person who shall knowingly sign, subscribe or forge the name of any other person, without the consent of such other person, to any petition, application, remonstrance, or other instrument of writing, authorized by law to be filed in or with any court, board or officer, with i…

investigations. A. Any law enforcement agency or public safety entity, including, but not limited to, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, Department of Public Safety and Oklahoma Military Department, conducti…

21 O.S. § 471 Repealed by Laws 2013, c. 90, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013

A. It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to appoint or vote for the appointment of any person related to him by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty in any departme…

It shall be unlawful for any such executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer mentioned in the preceding section, to draw or authorize the drawing of any warrant or authority for the payment out of any public fund, of the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such…

It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial, or judicial officer to appoint and furnish employment for any person whose services are to be rendered under his direction and control and paid for out of the public funds, and who is related by either blood or mar…

Any person related within the third degree by affinity or consanguinity to any elected member of the legislative, judicial or executive branch of the state government shall not be eligible to hold any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty for which compensation is recei…

The provisions of Sections 481 through 484 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not apply to any situation covered by Sections 5-113 and 5-113.1 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 2009, c. 253, § 3, eff. July 1, 2009.

Any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer who shall violate any provision of this Article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor involving official misconduct, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,0…

Every person guilty of violating the provisions of this article, shall, independently of, or in addition to any criminal prosecution that may be instituted, be removed from office according to the mode of trial and removal prescribed in the Constitution and laws of this State. R.…