Title 21, Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

After the entry of a judgment that the matter is obscene material or child sexual abuse material, any person who, with knowledge of the judgment or of the order or rule to show cause, sends or causes to be sent, brings or causes to be brought, into this state for sale or commerci…

In all cases in which a charge or violation of any section or sections of this act is brought against a person who cannot be found in this state, the executive authority of this state, being the Governor or any person performing the functions of Governor by authority of the law o…

The possession of two or more of any single article that is obscene material or child sexual abuse material, or the possession of a combined total of any five articles that are obscene material or child sexual abuse material (except the possession of them for the purpose of retur…

against property. In order to protect the citizens and residents of this state against unfit articles and printed or written matter or material which originate outside this state, it is the purpose of this section to subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state those p…

21 O.S.1961, Sections 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040.1, 1040.2, 1040.3, 1040.4, 1040.5, 1040.6 and 1040.7, are hereby repealed. Laws 1968, c. 121, § 16, emerg. eff. April 4, 1968.

activity and nudity at certain outdoor theaters prohibited - Penalty. A. Every owner or operator of an outdoor theater in this state is guilty of a misdemeanor who shows or causes to be shown a motion picture depicting: 1. Any person, whether nude or clad, in an act or simulation…

statutes relating to exhibit of obscene motion pictures. The provisions of statutes of this state and the provisions of ordinances of any city prescribing a criminal penalty for exhibit of any obscene motion picture shown in a commercial theater open to the general public shall n…

offenses relating to obscene material or child sexual abuse material. A. Any peace officer of this state is authorized to seize any equipment which is used, or intended for use in the preparing, photographing, printing, selling, exhibiting, publishing, distributing, displaying, a…

advertising signs - Requirements. A. As used in this section: 1. “Adult cabaret” means a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar establishment in which persons appear in a state of nudity in the performance of their duties; 2. “Sexually oriented business” means any business which …

A. Any person who, while under the age of eighteen (18), was a victim of an offense provided for in Section 681, 741, 843.5, 852.1, 867, 885, 886, 888, 891, 1021, 1021.2, 1021.3, 1024.2, 1040.8, 1040.12a, 1040.13, 1040.13a, 1087, 1088, 1111.1, 1114 or 1123 of this title, where su…

A. It shall be unlawful for any person who pays a fee for a sexual encounter to publish a review of that sexual encounter or to publish a review of the pubic area, buttocks, or breasts experienced in the sexual encounter on a website that facilitates, encourages, offers, solicits…

As used in Sections 1040.75 through 1040.77 of this title: 1. "Minor" means any person under the age of eighteen (18) years; 2. "Harmful to minors" means: a. that quality of any description, exhibition, presentation or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, …

or performances harmful to minors — Prohibited acts. The Legislature finds that protecting minor children from overtly sexual and violent content is a legitimate objective that should be actively enforced. The Legislature further finds that the protection of the right of the peop…

Any person convicted of violating any provision of Section 1040.76 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for the first or second offense. Any person convicted of a third or subsequent violation of any …

preparation of obscene material or child sexual abuse material - Unsolicited mailings. A. No person shall knowingly photograph, act in, pose for, model for, print, sell, offer for sale, give away, exhibit, publish, offer to publish, or otherwise distribute, display, or exhibit an…

child sexual abuse material - Court orders - Notice and hearing - Violations - Penalties - Petition for relief. A. As used in this section, the term: 1. "Interactive computer service provider" means any provider to the public of computer access via the Internet to a computer serv…

vehicle or part thereof within view of preexisting residence or adjoining property - Farm-related vehicles excepted. No person, firm, partnership or corporation shall with malice or without valid business purpose store, accumulate, allow to accumulate, or allow to remain stored o…

The word "person" includes corporations, as well as natural persons. R.L.1910, § 2832.

to issue tickets. A. A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or promised, or agreed to pay any valuable consideration for the chance of obtaining such property, or a portion of it, or for any share of or interest…

Every lottery is unlawful, and a common public nuisance. R.L.1910, § 2471.

Any person who contrives, prepares, sets up, proposes or draws any lottery shall be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense punishable by a fine equal to double the amount of the whole sum or value for which such lottery was made and, if such amount cannot be ascertained, then by imp…

Every person who sells, gives or in any manner whatever furnishes or transfers to or for any other person, any ticket, chance, share or interest, or any paper, certificate or instrument, purporting or represented or understood to be or represent any ticket, chance, share or inter…

Every person who, by writing or printing, by circulars or letters, or in any other way advertises or publishes any account of any lottery stating when or where the same is to be or has been drawn, or what are the prizes or any of them therein, or the price of a ticket or of any s…

Every person who offers for sale, distribution or disposition in any way, any real or personal property, or things in action, or any interest therein, to be determined by lot or chance, that shall be dependent upon the drawing of any lottery within or out of this state, and every…

Every person who opens, sets up or keeps, by himself, or by any other person or persons, any office or other place for registering the numbers of any ticket in any lottery or for making, receiving or registering any bets or wagers upon the drawing, determination or result of any …

Every person who, by writing or printing by circulars or letters, or in any other way, advertises or publishes any account of the opening, setting up or keeping of any office or other place for either of the purposes prohibited by the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L…

of offense. Where the term "person" is used in this chapter to designate the party whose property may be the subject of any offense, it includes this state, any other state, government or country which may lawfully own any property within this state, and all public and private co…

Every person who insures or receives any consideration for insuring for or against the drawing of any ticket, share, or interest in any lottery, or for or against the drawing of any number, or ticket, or number of any ticket in any lottery; and every person who receives any valua…

Every person who, by writing or printing, by circulars or letters, or in any other way, advertises or publishes any offer, notice or proposal for any violation of the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2480.

All property offered for sale, distribution, or disposition, in violation of the provisions of this article, is forfeited to the people of this state, as well before as after the determination of the chance on which the same was dependent. And it is the duty of the respective dis…

Every person who lets or permits to be used any building or portion of any building, knowing that it is intended to be used for any of the purposes declared punishable by this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2482.

The provisions of this article apply in respect to lotteries drawn or to be drawn out of this state, whether authorized or not by the laws of the state where they are drawn or to be drawn, in same manner as to lotteries drawn or to be drawn within this state. R.L.1910, § 2483.

The provisions of Sections 2475 and 2478 are applicable wherever the advertisement was published, or the letter or circular sent or delivered through or in this state, notwithstanding the person causing or procuring the same to be published, sent or delivered, was out of this sta…

Every person who sets up, promotes or engages in any plan by which goods or anything of value is sold to a person, firm or corporation for a consideration and upon the further consideration that the purchaser agrees to secure one or more persons to participate in the plan by resp…

The district court of the judicial district in which any such plan is proposed, operated or promoted may issue an injunction without bond, upon petition filed by the Attorney General, the district attorney of the county in which such plan is proposed, operated or promoted, or oth…

Any person violating the provisions of Section 1066 or 1067 of this title shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and be punished by a fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by impr…

The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular. R.L.1910, § 2834.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act". Added by Laws 1995, c. 186, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

As used in the Oklahoma Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act: 1. "Compensation" means payment of money, thing of value or financial benefit. Compensation does not include: a. payment to participants based upon sales of products purchased for actual use and consumption, or b. payment to…

Any person who promotes a pyramid promotional scheme shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than ten (10) years, …

Acceptance by district attorney - Restitution. A district attorney may accept a written assurance of discontinuance of any practice in violation of this act from the person that has engaged in the unlawful practice. The district attorney may require in the agreement that by a cer…

Except as provided in Section 4 of this act, any participant in a pyramid promotional scheme may declare their transaction void and bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the consideration paid. In such an action, the court, in addition to any judgme…

Words used in the masculine gender comprehend as well the feminine and neuter. R.L.1910, § 2835.

Any person who shall procure any other person for prostitution, or who, by promise, threats, violence or by any device or scheme shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage another person to become a prostitute; or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for ano…

It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the foregoing section that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this state. R.L.1910, § 2426.

Any such female person, referred to in the foregoing sections, shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this article, to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in he…

The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this article. R.L.1910, § 2428.

Whoever shall by any means keep, hold, detain, or restrain against her will, any female person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; or whoever shall, directly or indirectly keep, hold, detain or restrain or attempt to keep, hold, d…

Any owner, proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor, or other person, who knowingly permits or suffers the violation of any provision of this article, in any house, building, room, tent, lot or premises under his control or of which he has possession, upon conviction, shall be puni…

trafficking, lewdness, indecent acts, etc. A. No person shall: 1. Offer, or offer to secure, a child under eighteen (18) years of age for the purpose of child sex trafficking, or for any other lewd or indecent act, or procure or offer to procure a child for, or a place for a chil…