Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-79: Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet

title action independent of criminal action.

A. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices

hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and, in

any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the

court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason,

he shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including

such attorney fees as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and, in

addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall

pay to plaintiff three times the damages that plaintiff may have

sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed

for record.

B. A quiet title action shall be independent of any criminal

action that may be filed against the defendant, and there shall be

no requirement that the defendant in a quiet title action be

convicted of any criminal act.