Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

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.

1, 1999.

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…

21 O.S. § 1207 Repealed by Laws 1992, c. 284, § 58, eff. Jan. 1, 1993

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…

§ 27, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.

§ 27, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.

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…

Consuming or inhaling marijuana or secondhand smoke — Special assessment — Exceptions — Penalty. A. 1. It shall be unlawful for any operator to knowingly transport or for any passenger to possess in any moving vehicle upon a public highway, street, or alley any alcoholic beverage…

It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, furnish, manufacture or possess any alcohol inhalation device, alcohol infuser or any other device capable of causing a blood or breath alcohol concentration in the human body by means of fumes, vapors, gases, air particles or matter in…

21 O.S. § 1221 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

21 O.S. § 1222 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

domestic animal carcass. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or deposit, or cause to be deposited or left, the carcass of any animal, chicken or other fowl in any well, spring, pond or stream of water; or leave or deposit the same within one-fourth (1/4) mile of any o…

21 O.S. § 1224 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

21 O.S. § 1225 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

21 O.S. § 1226 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

21 O.S. § 1227 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

21 O.S. § 1228 Repealed by Laws 2019, c. 389, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2019

substances or performance of certain surgical procedures to alter appearance. For livestock utilized for exhibition purposes, it shall be unlawful for any person to inject into the livestock or cause the livestock to ingest any drug, chemical or substance that is not labeled for …

Sections 339 through 347 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Environmental Crimes Act". Added by Laws 1992, c. 363, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 1992. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 338, eff. July 1, 1993.

civil or administrative penalties. Nothing in Sections 1230.1 through 1230.10 of this title is intended to repeal any existing law. Any penalty imposed under Section 1230.8 of this title shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any civil or administrative penalty or sanction …

A. As used in the Environmental Crimes Act: 1. "Waste" means at least twenty-eight (28) gallons or two hundred twenty (220) pounds, whether liquid or solid, of discarded or abandoned materials and by-products including but not limited to trash, refuse, garbage, biomedical waste, …

Any person who knowingly and willfully transports or causes the transportation of hazardous waste within the State of Oklahoma without a proper manifest, as prescribed in the Oklahoma Hazardous Waste Management Act, commits the offense of unlawful hazardous waste transportation w…

Any person required by law to have a permit or authorization from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission or the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture to receive, store, treat, process, recycle or dispose of waste, who without such permi…

A. It shall be unlawful to knowingly and willfully: 1. Make false statements, include false data or omit material information in an application for a waste permit, or for a waste authorization, from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, the Oklahoma Corporation Commis…

Any person who knowingly and willfully fails to secure a permit required by or pursuant to law, and who, without lawful permit or authorization, knowingly and willfully disposes, directs the disposal or aids and abets the disposal of hazardous waste into a sanitary sewer system w…

Any person commits a Class B4 felony offense of unlawful concealment of hazardous waste who knowingly and willfully subjects any other person, including but not limited to peace officers, emergency responders or clean-up crews, to the potential for immediate or long-term risk to …

Any person convicted of the offense of: 1. Unlawful hazardous waste transportation 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, or a fine of not more than Twenty-five Thousand Doll…

The fines provided for in Section 1230.8 of this title shall be doubled for any person convicted of any violation of the provisions of the Environmental Crimes Act if: 1. The conviction is for a second or subsequent violation of the same or another provision of the Environmental …

to persons under 21 - Punishment. A. Any person who shall furnish to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) by gift, sale or otherwise any cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, bidis, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, nicotine product or vapor pro…

Any person under the age of twenty-one (21) being in possession of cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, nicotine product or vapor products and being by any police officer, constable, juvenile court officer, truant off…

Of all sums recovered hereunder as fines, one-fourth (1/4) shall be paid to the complaining witness, if not a public officer, the remainder to be paid into the county road fund and be used in the construction and maintenance of the public roads of the county to be distributed as …

educational facilities prohibited - Exemptions - Penalty. A. The possession of lighted tobacco in any form is a public nuisance and dangerous to public health and is hereby prohibited when such possession is in any indoor place used by or open to the public, all parts of a zoo to…

Every person in charge, as engineer of a locomotive engine, who omits to cause a bell to ring or a steam whistle to sound at the distance of at least eighty (80) rods from the place where the track crosses, on the same level, any traveled public way, is punishable by a fine not e…