Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-565: Contempts, direct and indirect – Definitions

Contempts of court shall be divided into direct and indirect

contempts. Direct contempts shall consist of disorderly or insolent

behavior committed during the session of the court and in its

immediate view, and presence, and of the unlawful and willful

refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness, and the refusal to

answer any legal or proper question; and any breach of the peace,

noise or disturbance, so near to it as to interrupt its proceedings,

shall be deemed direct contempt of court, and may be summarily

punished as hereinafter provided for. Indirect contempts of court

shall consist of willful disobedience of any process or order

lawfully issued or made by court; resistance willfully offered by

any person to the execution of a lawful order or process of a court.