Title 21 — Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

Every person who counterfeits any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or any foreign government or country, with intent to sell, utter, use or circulate the same as genuine, within this state, is guilty of forgery in the second degree, a Class D1 felony offense. R.L…

Every person who counterfeits any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or of any foreign country or government, with intent to export the same, or permit them to be exported to injure or defraud any foreign government, or the subjects thereof, is guilty of forgery in…

Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely marks, alters, forges or counterfeits: 1. Any instrument in writing, being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate, or officer of being or purporting to be any pleading, proceeding, bond or undert…

Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept in the office of the State Auditor and Inspector, or in the office of the Treasurer of this state or of any county treasurer, by which any demand or oblig…

Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters any ticket, check or other paper or writing to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad, or in any vessel or other public conveyance; and every person who, with like i…

Every person who forges, counterfeits or alters any postage or revenue stamp of the United States, or who sells or offers to keep for sale, as genuine or as forged, any such stamp, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered, is guilty of forgery in the second degre…

Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry, or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept by any corporation within this state, or in any book of accounts kept by any such corporation or its officers, and delivered or intended to be delivered …

21 O.S. § 159 Repealed by Laws 1976, c. 35, § 2

Every person who being a member or officer or in the employment of any corporation, association or partnership, falsifies, alters, erases, obliterates or destroys any account or book of accounts or records belonging to such corporation, association or partnership, or appertaining…

Every person who has in his possession any counterfeit of any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or any foreign country or government, knowing the same to be counterfeit, with intent to sell or to use, circulate or export the same, as true or as false, or by causin…

A. Every person who, with intent to defraud, utters or publishes as true any forged, altered or counterfeited instrument or any counterfeit gold or silver coin, the forging, altering or counterfeiting of which has previously been declared to be punishable, knowing such instrument…

Every person who, by any false representation, artifice or deceit, procures from another his signature to any instrument, the false making of which would be forgery, and which the party signing would not have executed had he known the facts and effect of the instrument, is guilty…

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Ambassadors and other public ministers from foreign governments accredited to the President or the government of the United States, and recognized by it according to the laws of the United States, with their secretaries, messengers, families and servants are not liable to punishm…

OS 21-1621v1 (HB 2751, Laws 2016, c. 221, § 15) OS 21-1621v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 447)

A. Forgery in the first degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than seven (7) years nor more than twenty (20) years. B. Forgery in the second degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the De…

Forgery is punishable as follows: 1. Forgery in the first degree is a Class B3 felony offense punishable by imprisonment not less than seven (7) years nor more than twenty (20) years; and 2. Forgery in the second degree is a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as p…

of same name. Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes or subscribes any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any property whatever, and utters or passe…

Every person who, with intent to defraud, endorses any negotiable instrument in his own name, and utters or passes such instrument, under the fraudulent pretense that it is endorsed by another person who bears the same name, is guilty of forgery, a Class B3 felony offense, in the…

The total or partial erasure or obliteration of any instrument or writing, with intent to defraud, by which any pecuniary obligation, or any right, interest or claim to property is or is intended to be created, increased, discharged, diminished or in any manner affected, is forge…

Every instrument partly printed and partly written, or wholly printed with a written signature thereto, and every signature of an individual, firm or corporation, or of any officer of such body, and every writing purporting to be such signature, is a writing or a written instrume…

The false making or forging of an evidence of debt purporting to have been issued by any corporation and bearing the pretended signature of any person as an agent or officer of such corporation, is forgery, a Class B3 felony offense, in the same degree as if such person was at th…

Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud, shall obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal services theretofore performed, by means or use of any false or bogus written, prin…

In addition to the criminal penalties imposed pursuant to the provisions of Section 1627 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any person who obtains or attempts to obtain from any person, with the intent to cheat or defraud, any labor or personal services, or the postponement of…

certificate or signature. Any person who, with intent to defraud, alters, forges, falsely makes, photographs, or by any method reproduces any certificate of authority provided for in Title 1 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or other instrument, document, paper or abstract of title entry…

Any person who signs the name of a fictitious person to any subscription for, or agreement to take stock in any corporation, existing or proposed; and every person who signs, to any subscription or agreement, the name of any person, knowing that such person has not means or does …

Any officer, agent or clerk of any corporation, or of any persons proposing to organize a corporation or to increase the capital stock of any corporation, who knowingly exhibits any false, forged or altered book, paper, voucher, security or other instrument of evidence to any pub…

Any person who, without being authorized so to do, subscribes the name of another to, or inserts the name of another in any prospectus, circular, or other advertisement or announcement of any corporation or joint stock association existing or intended to be formed, with intent to…

Any director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly receives or possesses himself of any property of such corporation or association, otherwise than in payment of a just demand, and who, with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or…

Any director, officer, agent or member of any corporation or joint stock association, who, with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any of the books, papers, writings or securities belonging to such corporation or association, or makes or concurs in making…

Any director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly concurs in the making, or publishes any written report, exhibit or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition, containing any material statement which is false, other than as are ment…

Any officer or agent of any corporation having or keeping an office within this state, who has in his custody, or control, any book, paper or document of such corporation, and who refuses to give to a stockholder or member of such corporation, lawfully demanding, during office ho…

Every insolvency of a moneyed corporation is deemed fraudulent unless its affairs appear, upon investigation, to have been administered fairly and legally, and generally with the same care and diligence that agents receiving a compensation for their services are bound by law to o…

A. In every case of a fraudulent insolvency of a moneyed corporation not licensed to conduct insurance business in the State of Oklahoma, every director thereof who participated in such fraud is guilty of a misdemeanor. B. In every case of a fraudulent insolvency of a moneyed cor…

Any director of any moneyed corporation who willfully does any act, as such director, which is expressly forbidden by law, or willfully omits to perform any duty expressly imposed upon him as such director, by law, the punishment for which act or omission is not otherwise prescri…

Any director of a corporation or joint stock association is deemed to possess such a knowledge of the affairs of his corporation, as to enable him to determine whether any act, proceeding or omission of its directors, is a violation of this article. R.L.1910, § 2731.

Any director of a corporation or joint stock association, who is present at a meeting of the directors at which any act, proceeding or omission of such directors, in violation of this article occurs, is deemed to have concurred therein, unless he at the time causes, or in writing…

meeting. Any director of a corporation or joint stock association, although not present at the meeting of the directors at which any act, proceeding or omission of such directors, in violation of this article, occurs, is deemed to have concurred therein, if the facts constituting…

It is no defense to a prosecution for a violation of the provisions of this article, that the corporation was one created by the laws of another state, government or country, if it was one carrying on business, or keeping an officer thereof, within this state. R.L. 1910 Sec. 2734…

The term director, as used in this article, embraces any of the persons having by law the direction or management of the affairs of a corporation by whatever name such persons are described in its charter, or known by law. R.L.1910, § 2735.

Any person who presents or causes to be presented any false or fraudulent claim, or any proof in support of any such claim, upon any contract of insurance, for the payment of any loss, or who prepares, makes or subscribes any account, certificate, survey affidavit, proof of loss,…

A. Any person who commits workers' compensation fraud, upon conviction, 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 by a fine not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), o…

Every person who being a party to any conveyance or assignment of any real or personal property, or of any interest therein, made or created with intent to defraud prior or subsequent purchasers, or to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or other persons, and every person being pr…

Every person who removes any of his property out of any county, with intent to prevent the same from being levied upon by any execution or attachment, or who secretes, assigns, conveys or otherwise disposes of any of his property, with intent to defraud any creditor, or to preven…

Every person who, knowing that his property is insufficient for the payment of all his lawful debts, assigns, transfers or delivers any property for the benefit of any creditor or creditors, upon any trusts or condition, that any creditor shall receive a preference or priority ov…

Every person who, upon making or prosecuting any application for a discharge as an insolvent debtor, under the provision of any law now in force, or that may hereafter be enacted, either: 1. Fraudulently presents, or authorizes to be presented on his behalf such application, in a…

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Animal Facilities Protection Act". Added by Laws 1991, c. 115, § 1, emerg. eff. April 25, 1991.

As used in this act: 1. "Animal" means any mammal, bird, fish, reptile or invertebrate, including wild and domesticated species, other than a human being; 2. "Animal facility" means any vehicle, building, structure, farm, ranch or other premises where an animal is kept, handled, …

facilities - Penalties - Exempted acts. A. No person shall, without the effective consent of the owner and with intent to damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility: 1. Damage, destroy or remove an animal facility or any property or animal in or on an animal facility;…

– Immunity from civil liability. A. A veterinarian shall report suspected cases of animal abuse to a local law enforcement agency in the county where the veterinarian is practicing within twenty-four (24) hours of any examination or treatment administered to any animal which the …