Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-857: Definitions

1. "Every person," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this

act, 857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes,

shall include human beings, without regard to their legal or natural

relationship to such minor, as well as legal or corporate entities.

2. "Minor" or "child," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of

this act, 857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes,

shall include male or female persons who shall not have arrived at

the age of eighteen (18) years at the time of the commission of the

offense.

3. "Encourage," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this act,

857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, in

addition to the usual meaning of the word, shall include a willful

and intentional neglect to do that which will directly tend to

prevent such act or acts of delinquency on the part of such minor,

when the person accused shall have been able to do so.

4. "Delinquent child," as used in Sections 856, 857, 858.1 and

858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall include a minor,

as herein defined, who shall have been or is violating any penal

statute of this state, or who shall have been or is committing any

one or more of the following acts, to wit:

(a) Associating with thieves, vicious or immoral persons.

(b) Frequenting a house of ill repute.

(c) Frequenting any policy shop, or place where any gambling

device is operated.

(d) Frequenting any saloon, dram shop, still, or any place

where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, stored or sold.

(e) Possession, carrying, owning or exposing any vile, obscene,

indecent, immoral or lascivious photograph, drawing, picture, book,

paper, pamphlet, image, device, instrument, figure or object.

(f) Willfully, lewdly or lasciviously exposing his or her

person, or private parts thereof, in any place, public or private,

in such manner as to be offensive to decency, or calculated to

excite vicious or lewd thoughts, or for the purpose of engaging in

the preparation or manufacture of obscene, indecent or lascivious

photographs, pictures, figures or objects.

(g) Possessing, transporting, selling, or engaging or aiding or

assisting in the sale, transportation or manufacture of intoxicating

liquor, or the frequent use of same.

(h) Being a runaway from his or her parent or legal guardian.

(i) Violating any penal provision of the Uniform Controlled

Dangerous Substances Act.