{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1263","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1263","heading":"Advocating or teaching necessity, etc., of crime,","body":"criminal syndicalism or sabotage - Printing, publishing, etc.,\n\nbooks, pamphlets, etc. - Organizing or becoming member of society or\n\nassembly.\n\nAny person who, by word of mouth or writings, advocates,\n\naffirmatively suggests or teaches the duty, necessity, propriety or\n\nexpediency of crime, criminal syndicalism, or sabotage, or who shall\n\nadvocate, affirmatively suggest or teach the duty, necessity,\n\npropriety or expediency of doing any act of violence, the\n\ndestruction of or damage to any property, the bodily injury to any\n\nperson or persons, or the commission of any crime or unlawful act as\n\na means of accomplishing or effecting any industrial or political\n\nends, change, or revolution, or for profit; or who prints,\n\npublishes, edits, issues, or knowingly circulates, sells,\n\ndistributes, or publicly displays any books, pamphlets, paper,\n\nhandbill, poster, document, or written or printed matter in any form\n\nwhatsoever, containing matter advocating, advising, affirmatively\n\nsuggesting, or teaching crime, criminal syndicalism, sabotage, the\n\ndoing of any act of physical violence, the destruction of or damage\n\nto any property, the injury to any person, or the commission of any\n\ncrime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing, effecting or\n\nbringing about any industrial or political ends, or change, or as a\n\nmeans of accomplishing, effecting or bringing about any industrial\n\nor political revolution, or for profit; or who shall openly, or at\n\nall attempt to justify by word of mouth or writing, the commission\n\nor the attempt to commit sabotage, any act of physical violence, the\n\ndestruction of or damage to any property, the injury to any person\n\nor the commission of any crime or unlawful act, with the intent to\n\nexemplify, spread or teach or affirmatively suggest criminal\n\nsyndicalism; or who organizes, or helps to organize or becomes a\n\nmember of or voluntarily assembles with any society or assemblage of\n\npersons which teaches, advocates, or affirmatively suggests the\n\ndoctrine of criminal syndicalism, sabotage, or the necessity,\n\npropriety or expediency of doing any act of physical violence or the\n\ncommission of any crime or unlawful act as a means of accomplishing\n\nor effecting any industrial or political ends, change or revolution,\n\nor for profit, is guilty of a Class B4 felony offense, and upon\n\nconviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State\n\nPenitentiary for a term not to exceed ten (10) years, or by a fine\n\nof not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such\n\nfine and imprisonment. Provided, that none of the provisions of\n\nSections 1261 through 1264 of this title shall be construed to\n\nmodify or affect Section 166 of Title 40 of the Oklahoma Statutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os21.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"7deccbfac9e8d49edb5bcb1f34007d0c65bea0106aca520214065a40b264c576","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1262","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1264"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}