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Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-382: Officers receiving bribes

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Every executive, legislative, county, municipal, judicial, or

other public officer, or any employee of the State of Oklahoma or

any political subdivision thereof, including peace officers and any

other law enforcement officer, or any person assuming to act as such

officer, who corruptly accepts or requests a gift or gratuity, or a

promise to make a gift, or a promise to do an act beneficial to such

officer, or that judgment shall be given in any particular manner,

or upon a particular side of any question, cause or proceeding,

which is or may be by law brought before him in his official

capacity, or as a consideration for any speech, work, or service in

connection therewith, or that in such capacity he shall make any

particular nomination or appointment, shall forfeit his office, be

forever disqualified to hold any public office, trust, or

appointment under the laws of this state, and be guilty of a Class

C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in

subsections B through F of Section 20M of this title, or by a fine

not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) and imprisonment in

jail not exceeding one (1) year.

R.L. 1910, § 2184. Amended by Laws 1967, c. 1, § 2, emerg. eff.

Feb. 1, 1967; Laws 1976, c. 41, § 2, emerg. eff. April 5, 1976; Laws

1997, c. 133, § 181, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c.

5, § 98, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 216, eff. Jan. 1,

2026.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 181 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.

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