Title 21, Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

with other offenses - Definition. A. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly and willfully desecrate a human corpse for any purpose of: 1. Tampering with the evidence of a crime; 2. Camouflaging the death of human being; 3. Disposing of a dead body; 4. Impeding or prohibiting …

Whoever purchases, or who receives, except for the purpose of burial, any dead body of a human being, knowing the same has been removed contrary to Section 1161 of this title shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B …

Any person who opens any grave or any place of burial, temporary or otherwise, or who breaks open any building wherein any dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent either: 1. To remove any dead body of a human being for the purpose of selling the…

Whenever a cemetery or other place of burial is lawfully authorized to be removed from one place to another, the right and duty to disinter, remove and rebury the remains of bodies there lying buried devolves upon the same persons required to bury the deceased in the order in whi…

Every person who arrests or attaches any dead body of a human being upon any debt or demand whatever, or detains or claims to detain it for any debt or demand, or upon any pretended lien or charge, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2460.

Every person who willfully disturbs, interrupts or disquiets any assemblage of people met for the purpose of any funeral, or who, without authority of law, obstructs or detains any persons engaged in carrying or accompanying any dead body of a human being to a place of burial, is…

markers, etc. – Sale or barter of veteran markers. Every person who: 1. Shall willfully with malicious intent destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure placed in any cemetery or private burying ground, or any fence, railing, …

As used in this section and Sections 13 through 18 of this act:1. "Human 2. "Burial grounds" means any place where human skeletal remains are buried; 3. "Burial furniture" means any items intentionally placed with human remains at the time of burial and shall include but not be l…

skeletal remains or associated burial furniture - Felony. Anyone who knowingly buys, sells or barters for profit human skeletal remains or associated burial furniture previously buried within this state shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall be p…

leaders or certain state entities before disposition of remains. Accredited educational institutions, or officially designated institutions or museums as provided by Section 361 of Title 53 of the Oklahoma Statutes, coming into possession or knowledge of human skeletal remains or…

remains for profit or commercial enterprise. Anyone who knowingly displays an open burial ground, burial furniture or human skeletal remains previously buried in Oklahoma for profit or to aid and abet a commercial enterprise shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each day of displa…

Reporting and notification procedure. A. All persons who encounter or discover human skeletal remains or what they believe may be human skeletal remains or burial furniture thought to be associated with human burials in or on the ground shall immediately cease any activity which …

scientific purposes. If the human skeletal remains and any burial furniture are not directly related to a tribal group or if the remains are not claimed by the consulted entity, the State Archaeologist and the State Historic Preservation Officer with the Director of the Oklahoma …

A. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1168 through 1168.5 of this title shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and …

human skeletal remains or burial furniture - Reports - Disposition. A. Any federal or state department or agency which, in the performance of its duties, discovers a burial ground, human skeletal remains or burial furniture shall immediately cease any activity which may cause fur…

A. The State Board of Health is hereby directed to immediately promulgate rules and regulations for the proper disposition of human tissue by medical facilities over which the Board has jurisdiction. B. The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision and the State Board of O…

equipment – Offenses and punishment - Definition. A. Every person who hides, waits or otherwise loiters in the vicinity of any private dwelling house, apartment building, any other place of residence, or in the vicinity of any locker room, dressing room, restroom or any other pla…

other electronic communications - Penalty. A. It shall be unlawful for a person who, by means of a telecommunication or other electronic communication device, willfully either: 1. Makes any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or i…

OS 21-1173v1 (HB 1413, Laws 2025, c. 145, § 1) OS 21-1173v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 118)

A. Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person in a manner that: 1. Would cause a reasonable person or a member of the immediate family of that person as defined in subsection F of this section to feel frightened, intimidated, threaten…

A. Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses another person in a manner that: 1. Would cause a reasonable person or a member of the immediate family of that person as defined in subsection F of this section to feel frightened, intimidated, threaten…

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, to burn, or cause to be burned, a cross on the property of another, a highway or other public place. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall, u…

A laboratory, medical facility, hospital or birthing place is prohibited from the unauthorized storage, transferring, use or databasing of DNA from any newborn child without express parental consent. Added by Laws 2010, c. 246, § 1, emerg. eff. May 10, 2010.

intimidate, or harass a peace officer, public official, medical provider, or crime victim. A. Whoever, with the intent to threaten, intimidate or harass, or facilitate another to threaten, intimidate or harass, uses an electronic communication device to knowingly publish, post or…

Penalty - Definition. A. No student organization or any person associated with any organization sanctioned or authorized by the governing board of any public or private school or institution of higher education in this state shall engage or participate in hazing. B. Any hazing ac…

Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2517.

Any person who shall inoculate himself or any other person or shall suffer himself to be inoculated with smallpox, syphilis or gonorrhea and shall spread or cause to be spread to any other persons with intent to or recklessly be responsible for the spread of or prevalence of such…

transfer HIV virus. A. It shall be unlawful for any person knowing that he or she has Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or is a carrier of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with intent to infect another, to engage in conduct reasonably likely to result in the tr…

Every person who throws or deposits any gas tar, or refuse of any gas house or factory, into any public waters, river or stream, or into any sewer or stream emptying into any such public waters, river or stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2528. de

Every person who having been lawfully ordered by any health officer to be detained in quarantine and not having been discharged leaves the quarantine grounds or willfully violates any quarantine law or regulation, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2529. d

acts or omissions. Every apothecary or every person employed as clerk or salesman by an apothecary, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines, willfully, negligently or ignorantly omits to label the same, or put…

Whosoever shall willfully lay out poison with the intent that the same be taken by any domestic animal, or in such a manner as to endanger human life; or whoever shall, if in open range livestock territory, lay out poisons except in a safe place on his own premises, is guilty of …

acts. Every person who, at any burning of a building, is guilty of any disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or fireman, or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the same, or of any disorderly…

Every person who willfully exposes himself or another person, being affected with any contagious disease in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2540.

Effective date. A person committing a felony offense listed in Section 30 of this act on or after March 1, 2000, and convicted of the offense shall serve not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the sentence of imprisonment imposed within the Department of Corrections. Such per…

Every person who willfully makes or publishes any false statement, spreads any false rumor, or employs any other false and fraudulent means or device, with intent to affect the market price of any kind of property, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2541.

Every editor or proprietor of any newspaper who willfully publishes in such newspaper as true, any statement which he has not good reason to believe to be true, with intent to increase thereby the sales of copies of such paper, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2542. d

Every person guilty of secretly loitering about any building, with intent to overhear discourse therein, and to repeat or publish the same to vex, annoy, or injure others, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2543.

or occupied dwelling unlawful - Establishment of solid waste disposal sites. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or leave or deposit garbage, tin cans, junk, rubbish or refuse and other items and matters commonly referred to as trash within one hundred (100) yards of any…

Any person or any officer of any city or town violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) d…

accessible to children - Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation who abandons or discards, in any place accessible to children, any refrigerator, icebox, or ice chest, of a capacity of one and one-half (1 1/2) cubic feet or more, which has an attached lid or door which may be op…

hampering rescue operations. The purpose of this act is to prevent sightseers, thrill- seekers, souvenir hunters and other unauthorized persons from hampering the work of rescue operations in a disaster area. Laws 1959, p. 276, § 1.

For the purpose of, and when used in this act: 1. The term "disaster area" means the scene or location of a natural or military disaster, an explosion, an aircraft accident, a fire, a railroad accident and a major traffic accident. 2. The term "authorized person" shall include al…

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle other than one on official business to follow any emergency vehicle or to purposely drive to any location on or near a highway where a disaster area exists. Laws 1959, p. 276, § 3.

Penalties. Any person who intentionally interrupts, disrupts, impedes or interferes with an emergency telephone call or intentionally prevents or hinders another person from placing an emergency telephone call shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person shall be…

Removal of objects. It shall be unlawful for any person except an authorized person to proceed to or to remain at a disaster area for the purpose of being a bystander, spectator, sightseer or souvenir hunter; or for any such person to take or remove from the disaster area, or dis…

1. It is a misdemeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of Section 1209 et seq. of this title. 2. Every person convicted of a misdemeanor for violating any provision of Section 1209 et seq. of this title shall be punished by a fine of not more than Three Thousand D…

Unlawful uses. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a mobile radio capable of receiving transmissions made by any law enforcement agency for illegal purposes or while in the commission of a crime and not otherwise, and any person violating the provisions hereof shall be…

Any person or persons acting in concert with each other who knowingly and willfully interfere with, molest, or assault firemen in the performance of their duties, or who knowingly and willfully obstruct, interfere with or impede the progress of firemen to reach the destination of…

protests without consent prohibited. It shall be unlawful for the names of persons killed in military action to be carried, displayed on cards or placards, or otherwise published for the purpose of any antiwar, antipolice action or antidraft demonstration or protest on the ground…