Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

Any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this act may be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, and the judgment thereon shall not be set aside or reversed by reason of the fact that such conviction was based on the testimony of an acco…

Any person who deals, plays or practices in the State of Oklahoma, or who is in any manner accessory to the dealing, playing or practicing of a swindle known as three-card monte, or any other swindle or confidence game, play or practice, shall be deemed guilty of a Class D1 felon…

21 O.S. § 955 Repealed by Laws 2013, c. 91, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013

Every person who shall permit any gaming table, bank, or gaming device prohibited by this article, to be set up or used for the purpose of gambling in any house, building, shed, shelter, booth, lot or other premises to him belonging, or by him occupied, or of which he has, at the…

Every person who shall knowingly lease or rent to another any house, building or premises for the purpose of setting up or keeping therein, any of the gambling devices prohibited by the preceding provisions of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2503.

Whenever any lessee of any house or building shall be convicted of suffering any of the said prohibited gambling devices or games of chance to be carried on in said house or building, the lease or contract or letting such house or building shall become void and the lessor may ent…

Every person duly summoned as a witness for the prosecution or defense on any proceedings ordered under this article, who neglects or refuses to attend and testify as required, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2505.

The term "knowingly," when so applied, imports only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission. R.L.1910, § 2823.

Every person who is authorized or enjoined to arrest any person for a violation of the provisions of this article, is equally authorized and enjoined to seize any table, cards, dice, or other articles or apparatus suitable to be used for gambling purposes found in the possession …

No person shall be excused from giving any testimony or evidence upon any investigation or prosecution for violation of this article, upon the ground that such testimony would tend to convict him of a crime, but such testimony or evidence shall not be received against him upon an…

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A. For the purpose of Sections 964 through 977 of this title, “slot machine” is defined to be: 1. Any machine, instrument, mechanism, or device that operates or may be operated or played mechanically, electrically, automatically, or manually, and which can be played or operated b…

For the purposes of this act, "a thing of value" is defined to be any money, coin, currency, check, chip, token, credit, property, tangible or intangible, or any representative of value or any other thing, tangible or intangible, except amusement or entertainment, calculated or i…

For the purposes of this act, "punch board" is defined to be any card, board, substance or thing upon or in which is placed or concealed in any manner any number, figure, name, design, character, symbol, picture, substance or thing which may be drawn, uncovered, exposed or remove…

Any word or words used in this act in the singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. Laws 1939, p. 9, § 4.

For the purposes of this act, "person" is defined to include any person, partnership, association, company, stock company, corporation, receiver, trustee, organization or club. Laws 1939, p. 9, § 5.

boards prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession any slot machine or punch board, or sell or solicit the sale, or take orders for the sale of, or lease or rent any slot machine or punch board in this state, and any person violating the provisions o…

The term "bribe" signifies any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value or advantage, present or prospective, or any promise or undertaking, asked, given or accepted, with a corrupt intent to influence unlawfully the person to whom it is given, in his action, vote …

machine or device near public school. Any person who sets up, operates or conducts, or who permits to be set up, operated and conducted, in or about any place of business, or in or about any place, whether as owner, employee or agent, any slot machine for the purpose of having or…

Any person who sets up, operates, exposes, conducts, displays or plays, or who permits to be set up, operated, exposed, conducted, displayed or played, in or about any place or in or about any place of business, whether as owner, employee or agent, any punch board for the purpose…

Public nuisance - Abatement. Every slot machine and every punch board as defined in this act, is hereby declared to be per se a gambling device, and each is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the same may be abated in manner as provided for the abatement of a public nui…

procedure for. A. Every sheriff, constable, policeman, and peace officer in this state is hereby required to seize every slot machine and every punch board, together with all money contained therein or used in connection therewith, and all property and items of value incident the…

It is hereby made the duty of every sheriff, constable, police officer, and peace officer to diligently do and perform the acts required under this act and to arrest or file a report to the district attorney to see if an arrest is warranted for any person who is violating any of …

existence of slot machines or punch boards in community. The fact that any slot machine or punch board is set up, operated, conducted, displayed, or exposed in a public place for any considerable length of time, provided the time and place is sufficient to put a reasonably effici…

act - Removal - Punishment. Any sheriff, constable, policeman, or police officer or district attorney who shall fail to diligently do or perform the acts and duties required of him under this act, in that he shall knowingly allow the violation of this act or the open and notoriou…

In case any section, clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent or final jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its operat…

The word "vessel," when used with reference to shipping, includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, and steamships, canal boats, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place. R.L.1910, § 2825.

As used in this act: 1. A "bet" is a bargain in which the parties agree that, dependent upon chance, or in which one of the parties to the transaction has valid reason to believe that it is dependent upon chance, one stands to win or lose something of value specified in the agree…

A. Commercial gambling is: 1. Operating or receiving all or part of the earnings of a gambling place; 2. Receiving, recording or forwarding bets or offers to bet or, with intent to receive, record or forward bets or offers to bet, possessing facilities to do so; 3. For gain, beco…

A. Permitting premises to be used for commercial gambling is intentionally: 1. Granting the use or allowing the continued use of a place as a gambling place; or 2. Permitting another to set up a gambling device for use in a place under the offender's control. B. Any person permit…

A. Dealing in gambling devices is manufacturing, transferring or possessing with intent to transfer any gambling device or subassembly or essential part thereof. B. Any person dealing in gambling devices shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as p…

A. Possession of a gambling device is knowingly possessing or having custody or control, as owner, lessee, agent, employee, bailee or otherwise, of any gambling device. B. Any person possessing a gambling device who knows or has reason to know said devices will be used in making …

A. Installing communication facilities for gamblers is: 1. Installing communications facilities in a place which the person who installs the facilities knows is a gambling place; 2. Installing communications facilities knowing that they will be used principally for the purpose of…

A. Dissemination of gambling information is the transmitting or receiving, by means of any communications facilities, information to be used in making or settling bets. Provided that nothing herein shall prohibit a licensed radio or television station or newspaper of general circ…

A. A conspiracy is any agreement, combination or common plan or scheme by two or more persons, coupled with an overt act in furtherance of such agreement, combination or common plan or scheme, to violate any section of this act. B. Any person found guilty of conspiracy shall be g…

The term "peace officer" means any sheriff, police officer, federal law enforcement officer, tribal law enforcement officer, or any other law enforcement officer whose duty it is to enforce and preserve the public peace. Every United States Marshal, Marshals Service deputy or oth…

A. Except as provided for in the Oklahoma Horse Racing Act, it shall be unlawful for any person, association, or corporation: 1. To bet or wager upon the result of any trial of speed or power of endurance of animals or beasts; or 2. To occupy any room, shed, tenement or building,…

21 O.S. § 992 Repealed by Laws 2017, c. 2, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2017

witnesses. A conviction for the violation of any of the provisions of this act may be had upon the unsupported evidence of an accomplice or participant, and such accomplice or participant shall be exempt from prosecution for any offense in this act about which he may be required …

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and adopted by State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

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and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.

and State Question No. 650, Legislative Referendum No. 294, at election held Nov. 3, 1992.