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Okla. Stat. tit. 23, § 23-10: Recovery of damages by political subdivisions from parents

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of children under age of eighteen.

A. The state or any county, city, town, municipal corporation

or school district, or any person, corporation or organization,

shall be entitled to recover damages in a court of competent

jurisdiction from a parent or parents of any child under the age of

eighteen (18) years when the child is living with the parent or

parents at the time of the act, and commits any criminal or

delinquent act resulting in bodily injury to any person or damage to

or larceny of any property, real, personal or mixed, belonging to

the state or a county, city, town, municipal corporation, school

district, person, corporation or organization. The amount of

damages awarded pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed Two

Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00).

B. Any victim, or the victim’s representative in the event of

the victim’s death, shall be entitled to recover damages in a court

of competent jurisdiction from any person convicted of a violation

of subsection B of Section 1273 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes

or as otherwise allowed by law.

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