Oklahoma § 21-1531 - False personation - Marriage - Becoming bail or surety Execution of instrument - Creating liability or benefit

§ 21-1531. False personation - Marriage - Becoming bail or surety Execution of instrument - Creating liability or benefit

Any person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed

character:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

1. Marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage

relation toward another, with or without the connivance of such

other person; or

2. Becomes bail or surety for any party, in any proceeding

whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail

or surety; or

3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in

the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that

the same may be delivered or used as true; or

4. Does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person

falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to any suit

or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge,

forfeiture or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the

party personating, or to any other person,

shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by

imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section

20M of this title.

R.L. 1910, § 2689. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367, eff. July

1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 259, eff. July 1, 1999;

Laws 2025, c. 486, § 234, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.