{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-986","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-986","heading":"Installing communication facilities for gamblers","body":"A. Installing communication facilities for gamblers is:\n\n1. Installing communications facilities in a place which the\n\nperson who installs the facilities knows is a gambling place;\n\n2. Installing communications facilities knowing that they will\n\nbe used principally for the purpose of transmitting information to\n\nbe used in making or settling bets; or\n\n3. Knowing that communications facilities are being used\n\nprincipally for the purpose of transmitting information to be used\n\nin making or settling bets, allowing their continued use.\n\nB. Any person not an employee of a communications public\n\nutility authorized to transact business in this state by the\n\nOklahoma Corporation Commission acting within the scope of his\n\nemployment, violating subsection A above, who knows or has reason to\n\nknow said communications facilities will be used in making or\n\nsettling commercial gambling transactions and installs said\n\nfacilities with the intent to facilitate said commercial gambling\n\ntransactions and is found guilty thereof shall be guilty of a Class\n\nD1 felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided\n\nfor in subsections B through F of Section 20N of this title, or a\n\nfine of not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or\n\nby both such fine and imprisonment.\n\nC. When any communications public utility providing telephone\n\ncommunications service is notified in writing by an order of a court\n\nof competent jurisdiction, acting within its jurisdiction, that any\n\nfacility furnished by it is being used principally for the purpose\n\nof transmitting or receiving gambling information, it shall\n\ndiscontinue or refuse the leasing, furnishing or maintaining of such\n\nfacility, after reasonable notice to the subscriber, but no damages,\n\npenalty or forfeiture, civil or criminal, shall be found against any\n\nsuch public utility for any act done in compliance with any such\n\ncourt order. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prejudice\n\nthe right of any person affected thereby to secure an appropriate\n\ndetermination, as otherwise provided by law, in a court of competent\n\njurisdiction, that such facility should not be discontinued or\n\nremoved, or should be restored.","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":"63a74556a1623c2dce0c48ed146795ab4009a0bb4cc633828c4bc920b0d79fdb","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-985","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-987"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}