Title 21, Title 21 — Crimes and Punishments

This chapter shall be known as the penal code of the State of Oklahoma. R.L.1910, § 2082.

Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by this chapter or by some existing provisions of law, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or…

The term "signature" includes any name, mark or sign, written with the intent to authenticate any instrument or writing. R.L.1910, § 2827.

The term "writing" includes printing. R.L.1910, § 2828.

The term "real property" includes every estate, interest and right in lands, tenements and hereditaments. R.L.1910, § 2829.

material or child pornography - Solicitation of minors. A. Every person who willfully and knowingly either: 1. Lewdly exposes his or her person or genitals in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; provided, howe…

injunctive relief. A. Sections 1021 through 1024.4 of this title shall not apply to persons who may possess or distribute obscene matter or child sexual abuse material or participate in conduct otherwise prescribed by this act, when such possession, distribution, or conduct occur…

OS 21-1021.2v1 (HB 3936, Laws 2024, c. 59, 9) OS 21-1021.2v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 49)

A. Any person who shall procure or cause the participation of any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years in any child sexual abuse material or who knowingly possesses, procures, or manufactures, or causes to be sold or distributed any child sexual abuse material shall be guil…

or obscene material. A. Any person who shall procure or cause the participation of any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years in any child pornography or obscene material or who knowingly possesses, views, accesses, shares, streams, downloads, procures, sells, distributes, or…

participation of minors in sexual abuse materials. A. Any parent, guardian or individual having custody of a minor under the age of eighteen (18) years who knowingly permits or consents to the participation of a minor in any child sexual abuse material shall be guilty of a Class …

A. Any commercial film and photographic print processor or commercial computer technician who has knowledge of or observes, within the scope of such person's professional capacity or employment, any film, photograph, video tape, negative, or slide, or any computer file, recording…

materials – Delivery to magistrate. Every person who is authorized or enjoined to arrest any person for a violation of paragraph 3 of subsection A of Section 1021 of this title is equally authorized and enjoined to seize one copy of the obscene material, or all copies of explicit…

sexual abuse materials — Issuance of factual and legal basis — Delivery to district attorney. The magistrate to whom any child sexual abuse material, or any obscene material, is delivered pursuant to Section 1022 of this title, shall, upon the examination of the accused, or if th…

OS 21-1024.1v1 (HB 3936, Laws 2024, c. 59, 14) OS 21-1024.1v2 (SB 53, Laws 2025, c. 29, § 4)

A. As used in Sections 1021, 1021.1 through 1021.4, Sections 1022 through 1024, and Sections 1040.8 through 1040.24 of this title, "child sexual abuse material" means and includes any visual depiction or individual image stored or contained in any format on any medium including, …

A. As used in Sections 1021, 1021.1 through 1021.4, Sections 1022, 1023, and Sections 1040.8 through 1040.24 of this title, “child sexual abuse material” means: 1. Any visual depiction of a child engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct; 2. Any visual depiction of a child …

abuse material. It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, procure or possess child sexual abuse material in violation of Sections 1024.1 through 1024.4 of this title. Such person shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class B1 felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonmen…

copies of child sexual abuse material. Every person who is authorized or enjoined to arrest any person for a violation of this act is equally authorized or enjoined to seize an evidentiary copy of any obscene material or child sexual abuse material or all copies of explicit child…

material upon conviction. Upon final conviction of the accused and any codefendant, the magistrate or law enforcement agency shall, with the consent of the district attorney, cause any obscene material or child sexual abuse material, in respect whereof the accused and any codefen…

A. When any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or is attempting or conspiring to engage in any conduct constituting a violation of any of the provisions of Section 1024.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Oklahoma Attorney General or any district attorney in Oklahoma m…

public place where minors will be exposed. A. As used in this section: 1. "Adult performance" means any performance that contains obscene material, if done in view of a minor or in a public place; 2. "Obscene material" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined in subsec…

Every person who keeps any bawdy house, house of ill fame, of assignation, or of prostitution, or any other house or place for persons to visit for unlawful sexual intercourse, or for any other lewd, obscene or indecent purpose is, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor and sha…

Every person who keeps any disorderly house, or any house of public resort by which the peace, comfort or decency of the immediate neighborhood is habitually disturbed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2468.

Every person who lets any building or portion of any building knowing that it is intended to be used for any purpose declared punishable by this article, or who otherwise permits any building or portion of a building to be so used, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R.L.1910, § 2469.

- Renting - Procuring - Receiving person for forbidden purpose - Transportation - Receiving proceeds. A. It shall be unlawful in the State of Oklahoma: 1. To keep, set up, maintain, or operate any house, place, building, other structure, or part thereof, or vehicle, trailer, or o…

- Residing or being in place for prohibited purpose - Aiding, abetting or participating - Child prostitution – Presumption of coercion. A. It shall further be unlawful: 1. To engage in prostitution, lewdness, or assignation; 2. To solicit, induce, or entice another person to pay …

The term "personal property" includes every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidences of right in action, and written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property, real or personal, is created or acknowledged, transferred, increased, d…

As used in the Oklahoma Statutes, unless otherwise provided for by law: 1. "Prostitution" means: a. the giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, masturbation, anal intercourse or lewdness with any person not his or her spouse, in exchange for…

OS 21-1031v1 (HB 3450, Laws 2024, c. 151, 5) OS 21-1031v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 397)

in prostitution while infected with HIV - Violations within certain distance from school or church. A. Except as provided in subsection B, C, D, or E of this section, any person violating any of the provisions of Section 1028, paragraph 1, 2, 3, or 5 of subsection A of Section 10…

in prostitution while infected with HIV - Violations within certain distance from school or church. A. Except as provided in subsection B, C, D, or E of this section, any person violating any of the provisions of paragraph 1, 2, 3, or 5 of subsection A of Section 1029 or Section …

The term "property" includes both real and personal property. R.L.1910, § 2831.

Sexual Abuse Material. Sections 1021 through 1040.77 of this title shall be known as the "Oklahoma Law on Obscenity and Child Sexual Abuse Material" and may be referred to by that designation. Added by Laws 1968, c. 121, § 1, emerg. eff. April 4, 1968. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 20…

OS 21-1040.12av1 (HB 3936, Laws 2024, c. 59, 20) OS 21-1040.12av2 (SB 53, Laws 2025, c. 29, § 3) OS 21-1040.12av3 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 26)

material - Penalties - Definitions. A. Any person who, with knowledge of its contents, possesses one hundred (100) or more separate materials depicting child sexual abuse material shall be, upon conviction, guilty of aggravated possession of child sexual abuse material. The viola…

material - Penalties – Definitions. A. Any person who, with knowledge of its contents, possesses one hundred (100) or more separate visual depictions of child sexual abuse material shall, upon conviction, be guilty of aggravated possession of child sexual abuse material. The viol…

material - Penalties – Definitions. A. Any person who, with knowledge of its contents, possesses one hundred (100) or more separate visual depictions of child pornography shall, upon conviction, be guilty of aggravated possession of child pornography, a Class A2 felony offense. T…

Every person who, with knowledge of its contents, sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought into this state for sale or commercial distribution, or in this state prepares, sells, exhibits, commercially distributes, gives away, offers to give away, or has in his or her posses…

sexual conduct or engaging in sexual communication with a minor or person believed to be a minor. A. It is unlawful for any person to facilitate, encourage, offer or solicit sexual conduct with a minor, or other individual the person believes to be a minor, by use of any technolo…

OS 21-1040.13bv1 (HB 1364, Laws 2025, c. 23, 1) OS 21-1040.13bv2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 399)

images. A. As used in this section: 1. "Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, including the ability to: a. perceive rea…

images. A. As used in this section: 1. "Image" includes a photograph, film, videotape, digital recording or other depiction or portrayal of an object, including a human body; 2. "Intimate parts" means the fully unclothed, partially unclothed or transparently clothed genitals, pub…

sexual abuse content of mailable matter. A. Whenever the Attorney General of this state or the district attorney for any district has reasonable cause to believe that any person, with knowledge of its contents, is: 1. Engaged in sending or causing to be sent, bringing or causing …

The action described in Section 1040.14 of this title shall be commenced by filing with the court a petition: 1. Directed against the matter by name or description; 2. Alleging it is obscene material or child sexual abuse material; 3. Listing the names and addresses, if known, of…

cause order. A. Upon the filing of the petition described in Section 1040.15 of this title, the court shall summarily examine the obscene material or child sexual abuse material. B. If the court finds no probable cause to believe it is obscene material or child sexual abuse mater…

A. On or before the return date specified in the order or rule to show cause, the author, publisher, or any person interested in sending or causing to be sent, bringing or causing to be brought, into this state for sale or commercial distribution, or any person in this state prep…

(a) The court shall conduct the trial in accordance with the rules of civil procedure applicable to the trial of cases by the court without a jury. (b) The court shall receive evidence at the trial, including the testimony of experts, pertaining, but not limited, to: (1) whether,…

In the event that a judgment is entered adjudicating the matter to be obscene material or child sexual abuse material, the court shall further: 1. Order the person or persons having possession of it to surrender it to the sheriff for destruction and, in the event that person refu…

judgment. Any matter which, following the entry of a judgment that it is obscene material or child sexual abuse material, is sent or caused to be sent, brought or caused to be brought, into this state for sale or commercially distributed, given away or offered to be given away, b…