Oklahoma
Oklahoma Statutes — Title 21, Crimes and Punishments
1,397 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 21-440 — Harboring criminals and fugitives – Assisting a sex offender in violation of registration requirements – Unlawful acts - Penalties
- § 21-441 — Assisting escape from officer
- § 21-442 — Prisoner defined
- § 21-443 — Escape from city or county jail or custody of Department of Corrections - Penalty - Juvenile or youthful offender
- § 21-443a — Additional punishment under rules and regulations of prison after escape
- § 21-444 — Escape or attempt to escape from arrest or detention – Removal of monitoring device
- § 21-445 — Unauthorized entry into penal institution, jail, etc
- § 21-446 — Unlawful transport of alien - Concealing, harboring or sheltering from detection - Destroying, hiding, altering, or keeping documentation
- § 21-451 — Offering false evidence
- § 21-452 — Deceiving witness
- § 21-453 — Preparing false evidence
- § 21-454 — Destroying evidence
- § 21-455 — Preventing witness from giving testimony - Threatening witness who has given testimony
- § 21-456 — Bribing witness - Subornation of perjury
- § 21-461 — Larceny or destruction of records by clerk or officer
- § 21-462 — Larceny or destruction of records by other persons
- § 21-463 — Offering forged or false instruments for record
- § 21-464 — Forging name to petition - Penalties
- § 21-465 — Disclosure of information related to criminal investigations
- § 21-481 — Employment of relatives unlawful, when
- § 21-482 — Unlawful to pay salary to ineligible persons
- § 21-483 — Appointment of one related to another officer
- § 21-484 — Relatives cannot hold office, when
- § 21-484.1 — Applicability
- § 21-485 — Penalty
- § 21-486 — Removal from office for violation of article
- § 21-486.1 — Exemption of employees already in service of district from certain nepotism provisions
- § 21-487 — Officers affected
- § 21-491 — Perjury defined - Defense
- § 21-492 — Oath defined
- § 21-493 — Oath of office
- § 21-494 — Irregularities no defense
- § 21-495 — Incompetency no defense
- § 21-496 — Contradictory statements as perjury
- § 21-497 — Making deposition or certificate
- § 21-498 — Degree of proof required
- § 21-499 — Defenses to charges of perjury
- § 21-5 — Felony defined
- § 21-500 — Perjury as a felony
- § 21-501 — Summary committal of witness
- § 21-502 — Witness bound over to appear
- § 21-503 — Documents may be retained
- § 21-504 — Perjury by subornation - Felony - Attempted perjury by subornation
- § 21-505 — Punishment of subornation of perjury
- § 21-51.1 — Second and subsequent offenses after conviction of felony
- § 21-51.1a — Second offense of rape in the first degree, forcible sodomy, lewd molestation or sexual abuse of a child
- § 21-51.2 — Second and subsequent offenses ten years after completion of sentence
- § 21-51.3 — Repealed by State Question No
- § 21-521 — Rescuing prisoners
- § 21-522 — Taking goods from legal custody
- § 21-53 — Attempt to conceal death of child - Felony on subsequent conviction
- § 21-531 — Destruction or falsification of records
- § 21-532 — Permitting escapes
- § 21-533 — Refusing to receive or fingerprint prisoners - Medical exceptions
- § 21-534 — Delaying to take before magistrate
- § 21-535 — Arrest without authority
- § 21-536 — Misconduct in executing a search warrant
- § 21-537 — Refusing to aid officer
- § 21-538 — Refusing to make arrest
- § 21-539 — Resisting execution of process in time of insurrection
- § 21-54 — When first conviction was foreign
- § 21-540 — Obstructing officer
- § 21-540A — See the following versions: ......................................................................................................
- § 21-540Av1 — Eluding peace officer
- § 21-540Av2 — Eluding peace officer
- § 21-540B — Roadblocks
- § 21-540C — Fortification of access point where felony under Controlled Dangerous Substances Act is being committed
- § 21-540D — Interfering or threatening first responders
- § 21-541 — Extrajudicial oaths
- § 21-542 — Administering extrajudicial oaths
- § 21-543 — Compounding crimes
- § 21-544 — Compounding prosecution
- § 21-545 — Attempt to intimidate officer
- § 21-546 — Suppressing evidence
- § 21-547 — Buying lands in suit
- § 21-548 — Buying or selling pretended right or title to land
- § 21-549 — Mortgage of land adversely possessed not prohibited
- § 21-550 — Common barratry defined
- § 21-551 — Barratry a misdemeanor
- § 21-553 — Interest of accused no defense to barratry prosecution
- § 21-554 — Attorneys - Buying demands for suit - Misleading inferior courts
- § 21-555 — District attorneys and their partners
- § 21-556 — Prosecutor advising the defense
- § 21-557 — Attorneys may defend themselves
- § 21-559 — Claims for collection, loans or advances on
- § 21-562 — Receiving claims in payment of debts
- § 21-563 — Application of preceding sections
- § 21-564 — Privilege of witnesses in respect to claims or debts sold
- § 21-565 — Contempts, direct and indirect – Definitions
- § 21-565.1 — Trial court - Power to punish contempt - Censure - Contempt proceedings
- § 21-566 — Direct or indirect contempt - Penalties - Cases involving failure to comply with court orders regarding children
- § 21-566.1 — Noncompliance with child support order - Indirect civil contempt
- § 21-567 — Indirect contempts - Proceedings
- § 21-567A — Violation of child custody order – Affirmative defense – Emergency or protective custody
- § 21-567B — Failure to appear for jury service - Sanctions
- § 21-568 — Contempt - Substance of offense made of record
- § 21-569 — Attorneys - Second application to another judge to stay trial
- § 21-570 — Grand juror acting after challenge allowed
- § 21-571 — Disclosure of deposition
- § 21-572 — Disclosure of deposition returned by grand jury
- § 21-573 — Fraudulent concealment of property
- § 21-575 — Attorneys, misconduct by - Deceit - Delaying suit - Receiving allowance for money not laid out
- § 21-576 — Attorney permitting other person to use his name
- § 21-577 — Attorneys, use of name lawful, when
- § 21-578 — Inheritance, intercepting by fraudulent production of infant
- § 21-579 — Substituting child
- § 21-580 — Public officers - Willful neglect of duty a misdemeanor
- § 21-581 — Willful omission of duty by public officers
- § 21-582 — Disclosing presentment or indictment
- § 21-583 — Disclosing proceedings of grand jury
- § 21-584 — Prosecuting suit or bringing action or procuring arrest in false name
- § 21-586 — Communicating with a convict
- § 21-587 — False certificate by public officer
- § 21-588 — Recording of grand or petit jury proceedings - Listening or observing - Penalty
- § 21-589 — False reporting of crime - False reporting of missing child
- § 21-590 — Maintenance of financial and business records - Retention and disposal procedure - Violations
- § 21-591 — Definitions
- § 21-592 — Definitions
- § 21-593 — Failure to report child abuse and neglect — Superintendent or school administrator
- § 21-6 — Misdemeanor defined
- § 21-61.1 — Sentences to be served in order received by penal institution - Concurrent sentences - Credit for good conduct
- § 21-61.2 — Sentences to run concurrent with federal court or another state's court sentence
- § 21-61.3 — Parole - Revocation - Relinquishment of custody
- § 21-61.4 — Suspended sentence - Revocation - Relinquishment of custody
- § 21-61.5 — Return to State to complete sentence
- § 21-62.1 — Imprisonment where no maximum
- § 21-64 — Imposition of fine in addition to imprisonment
- § 21-641 — Assault defined
- § 21-642 — Battery defined
- § 21-643 — Force against another not unlawful, when - Self-defense - Defense of property
- § 21-644 — See the following versions: ........................................................................................................
- § 21-644.1 — Domestic abuse with a prior pattern of physical abuse
- § 21-644v1 — Assault - Assault and battery - Domestic abuse
- § 21-644v2 — Assault - Assault and battery - Domestic abuse
- § 21-644v3 — Assault – Assault and battery – Domestic Abuse
- § 21-644v4 — Assault – Assault and battery – Domestic Abuse
- § 21-645 — Assault, battery, or assault and battery with dangerous weapon
- § 21-646 — Aggravated assault and battery defined
- § 21-647 — Punishment for aggravated assault and battery
- § 21-648 — Definitions
- § 21-649 — Assault, battery or assault and battery upon police officer or other peace officer - Penalties
- § 21-649.1 — Striking, tormenting, and other mistreatment of a police dog or horse - Penalties - Restitution
- § 21-649.2 — Killing, disfiguring, disabling, and other acts committed against a police dog or horse - Penalties - Restitution - Exceptions
- § 21-649.3 — Harming, mistreating or killing service animal – Willful interference with service animal’s performance - Permitting animal Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21
- § 21-65 — Civil rights suspended
- § 21-650 — See the following versions: ........................................................................................................
- § 21-650.1 — Athletic contests - Assault and battery upon referee, umpire, etc
- § 21-650.10 — Touching assistive device with intent to harass – Penalties
- § 21-650.11 — Medical battery – Penalties - Definition
- § 21-650.2 — Assault or battery upon Corrections, Human Services or Juvenile Affairs employee or contractor
- § 21-650.3 — Delaying, obstructing or interfering with emergency medical technician or other emergency medical care provider - Punishment
- § 21-650.4 — Assault and battery upon emergency medical care provider
- § 21-650.5 — Aggravated assault and battery or assault with firearm or other dangerous weapon upon medical care provider - Penalty
- § 21-650.6 — Assault and battery — County and court officers, witnesses, jurors, or process servers
- § 21-650.7 — Assault, battery, or assault and battery upon school employee or student – Notice - Definition
- § 21-650.8 — Felony assault, battery or assault and battery upon employee of facility for delinquent children, juvenile detention center or juvenile bureau
- § 21-650.9 — Persons in custody - Placing body wastes or fluids upon government employee or contractor
- § 21-650v1 — Aggravated assault and battery upon peace officer
- § 21-650v2 — Aggravated assault and battery upon peace officer
- § 21-651 — Poison, attempt to kill by administering
- § 21-652 — Shooting or discharging firearm with intent to kill - Use of vehicle to facilitate discharge of weapon in conscious disregard of safety of others - Assault and battery with deadly weapon, etc
- § 21-653 — Punishment for other assaults with intent to kill
- § 21-661 — Duel defined
- § 21-662 — Dueling a felony
- § 21-67 — Person of convict protected
- § 21-68 — Conviction does not work forfeiture
- § 21-681 — Assaults with intent to commit felony
- § 21-691 — Homicide defined
- § 21-692 — Homicide classified
- § 21-693 — Proof necessary to conviction of murder or manslaughter
- § 21-694 — Certain common law rules abolished
- § 21-695 — Confidential or domestic relation may be considered
- § 21-7 — Objects of penal code
- § 21-701.10 — Sentencing proceeding - Murder in the first degree - State seeking death penalty
- § 21-701.10a — Sentencing proceeding on remand - Murder in the first degree - Admissibility of evidence
- § 21-701.10b — Death sentence prohibited for defendants who were intellectually disabled prior to age 18 - Sentencing proceedings
- § 21-701.11 — Instructions - Jury findings of aggravating circumstance
- § 21-701.11a — Clemency not affected
- § 21-701.12 — Aggravating circumstances
- § 21-701.13 — Death penalty - Review of sentence
- § 21-701.15 — Constitutionality - Sentence
- § 21-701.16 — Solicitation for murder in the first degree
- § 21-701.7 — Murder in the first degree
- § 21-701.8 — Murder in the second degree
- § 21-701.9 — Punishment for murder
- § 21-702 — Design to effect death inferred
- § 21-703 — Premeditation
- § 21-704 — Anger or intoxication no defense
- § 21-705 — Act imminently dangerous and evincing depraved mind
- § 21-711 — Manslaughter in the first degree defined
- § 21-712 — Liability of physicians
- § 21-715 — Manslaughter in the first degree a felony
- § 21-716 — Manslaughter in the second degree
- § 21-717 — Owner of mischievous animal which kills person
- § 21-722 — Manslaughter in the second degree a felony - Penalty
- § 21-723 — Offender's knowledge of victim's pregnancy
- § 21-731 — Excusable homicide, what is
- § 21-732 — Justifiable homicide by officer
- § 21-733 — Justifiable homicide by any person
- § 21-741 — Kidnapping defined