Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

Any person convicted of violating the provisions of Section 842.1 of this title or rules promulgated pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety (90) days, a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,0…

or county regulations - Licensing - Fines. A. All body piercing operators, tattoo operators and artists shall be prohibited from performing body piercing or tattooing unless licensed in the appropriate category by the State Department of Health. The State Board of Health shall pr…

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

abuse or exploitation of charge. A. 1. No caretaker or other person shall abuse, commit financial neglect, neglect, commit sexual abuse, or exploit any person entrusted to the care of such caretaker or other person in a nursing facility or other setting, or knowingly cause, secur…

A. No caretaker shall verbally abuse any person entrusted to the care of the caretaker, or knowingly cause, secure, or permit an act of verbal abuse to be done. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The violator, upon c…

vulnerable adult. A. Any person who engages in abuse, sexual abuse, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult, as defined in Section 10-103 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense. The person, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than T…

A. As used in this section, “exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult” means: 1. Knowingly, by deception or intimidation, obtaining or using, or endeavoring to obtain or use, an elderly person’s or disabled adult’s funds, assets, or property with the intent to temporar…

OS 21-843.5v1 (HB 3936, Laws 2024, c. 59, 6) OS 21-843.5v2 (SB 599, Laws 2025, c. 281, § 1) OS 21-843.5v3 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 8)

Child sexual exploitation - Enabling - Penalties. A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as defined in this section, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not excee…

Child sexual exploitation - Enabling – Penalties. A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as defined in this section, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not excee…

Child sexual exploitation - Enabling – Penalties. A. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously engage in child abuse, as defined in this section, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class A3 felony offense punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corr…

A. 1. In addition to any other costs which a court is authorized to require a defendant to pay, upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require that the defendant pay court-appointed attorney fees for the child to any local or state agency i…

A. 1. In every criminal case filed pursuant to the Oklahoma Child Abuse Reporting and Prevention Act, the judge of the district court may appoint an attorney-at-law to appear for and represent a child who is the alleged victim of child abuse or neglect. 2. The attorney may be all…

Provided, however, that nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit any parent, teacher or other person from using ordinary force as a means of discipline, including but not limited to spanking, switching or paddling. Added by Laws 1963, c. 53, § 2.

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

20, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

explosives a felony. Every person who shall attach to, or place in or upon any motor vehicle or any vehicle designed or customarily used to transport a person or persons or any structure designed or customarily used for the occupancy of a person or persons, any explosive material…

color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability - Standardized reporting system. A. No person shall maliciously and with the specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin or disability: 1.…

A. Any parent of any child or children under the age of ten (10) years, and every person to whom such child or children have been confided for nurture or education, who deserts such child or children within this state, or takes such child or children without this state, with the …

A. Unless otherwise provided for by law, any parent, guardian, or person having custody or control of a child as defined in Section 1-1-105 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes who willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food, clothing, shelter, monetary chi…

OS 21-852.1v1 (HB 1731, Laws 2025, c. 113, 1) OS 21-852.1v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 187)

sexual abuse – Good-faith reliance on spiritual healing - Penalties. A. A person who is the parent, guardian, or person having custody or control over a child as defined in Section 1-1-105 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes, commits child endangerment when the person: 1. Knowi…

sexual abuse – Good-faith reliance on spiritual healing - Penalties. A. A person who is the parent, guardian, or person having custody or control over a child as defined in Section 1-1-105 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes, commits child endangerment when the person: 1. Knowi…

Every person who shall without good cause abandon his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances and neglect and refuse to maintain or provide for her, or who shall abandon his or her minor child or children under the age of fifteen (15) years and willfully neglect or refuse …

County Attorney to prosecute. No other evidence shall be required to prove marriage of such husband and wife, or that such person is the lawful father or mother of such child or children than is or shall be required to prove such fact in a civil action, and such wife shall be a c…

bond - Revocation of parole - Suspension of sentence - Who may inform against violator. Every person convicted under the provisions of this act, upon the confinement of such person at the State Penitentiary, the warden thereof shall put the said convicted person to work at some s…

delinquent or runaway child, to commit felony or to become involved with criminal street gang. A. 1. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, every person who shall knowingly or willfully cause, aid, abet or encourage a minor to be, to remain, or to become a delinquent c…

participate in certain drug-related crimes. Every person who shall knowingly, intentionally or willfully cause, aid, abet or encourage a minor child to: 1. Distribute, dispense, possess or manufacture a controlled dangerous substance, as provided in the Uniform Controlled Dangero…

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and willfully harbour an endangered runaway child. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by im…

OS 21-856.3v1 (SB 861, Laws 2025, c. 108, 1) OS 21-856.3v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 159)

Any person who attempts or commits a gang-related offense as a condition of membership in a criminal street gang or while in association with any criminal street gang or gang member shall be guilty of a felony offense punishable upon conviction by imprisonment in the custody of t…

Any person who attempts or commits a gang-related offense as a condition of membership in a criminal street gang or while in association with any criminal street gang or gang member shall be guilty of a Class B5 felony offense. Upon conviction, the violator shall be punished by i…

1. "Every person," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this act, 857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall include human beings, without regard to their legal or natural relationship to such minor, as well as legal or corporate entities. 2. "Minor" or "ch…

of firearm on school property - Administrative penalty. Any custodial parent or guardian of a child under eighteen (18) years of age whose child commits the crime of possession of a firearm on school property may be fined not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or ordered to…

become in need of supervision or dependent or neglected - Punishment - Second or subsequent conviction. A. Any parent or other person who knowingly and willfully: 1. causes, aids, abets or encourages any minor to be in need of supervision, or deprived; or 2. shall by any act or o…

court. In all cases where a minor has been adjudged delinquent, in need of supervision or deprived by a court of competent jurisdiction and such court by order for care or probation, has placed such minor in the care or on probation to the parent, legal guardian, legal custodian …

delinquent, in need of supervision, or dependent and neglected - Penalty. Any person who knowingly and willfully: 1. Causes, aids, abets or encourages a minor to be, to remain or to become delinquent, in need of supervision or dependent and neglected, or 2. Omits the performance …

Every person who administers to any woman, or who prescribes for any woman, or advises or procures any woman to take any medicine, drug or substance, or uses or employs any instrument, or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless t…

21 O.S. § 862 Repealed by Laws 2021, c. 308, § 1, eff. June 24, 2022

21 O.S. § 863 Repealed by Laws 2021, c. 308, § 1, eff. June 24, 2022

As used in this act the terms hereinafter enumerated shall have the following meanings: 1. "Advertising" or "Advertisement" means any communication that originates within this state by newspaper, periodical, telephone book listing, outdoor advertising sign, radio, television or a…

A. 1. The crime of trafficking in children is defined to consist of any of the following acts or any part thereof: a. the acceptance, solicitation, offer, payment or transfer of any compensation, in money, property or other thing of value, at any time, by any person in connection…

A. The first conviction of the crime of trafficking in children by any person shall be a felony and punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor for more than three (3) years. B. Conviction of the crime of trafficki…

If any provision or section of this act or the application thereof to any person, corporation, organization, association, partnership, or institution shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the act and the application of such provision or section to any …

Except as otherwise set forth or except in case of conflict between the provisions hereof and other law, the provisions of this act shall be cumulative to existing law. Laws 1957, p. 164, § 5.

A. Every person having reason to believe that a person or child-placing agency is engaging in the crime of trafficking in children as described in Section 866 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall report the matter promptly to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous D…

Adultery is the unlawful voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with one of the opposite sex; and when the crime is between persons, only one of whom is married, both are guilty of adultery. Prosecution for adultery can be commenced and carried on against either of the …