Oklahoma § 21-341 - Embezzlement and false accounts by officers

§ 21-341. Embezzlement and false accounts by officers

Every public officer of the state or any county, city, town, or

member or officer of the Legislature, and every deputy or clerk of

any such officer and every other person receiving any money or other

thing of value on behalf of or for account of this state or any

department of the government of this state or any bureau or fund

created by law and in which this state or the people thereof, are

directly or indirectly interested, who either:

First: Receives, directly or indirectly, any interest, profit

or perquisites, arising from the use or loan of public funds in the

officer’s or person’s hands or money to be raised through an agency

for state, city, town, district, or county purposes; or

Second: Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false

entry or erasure in any account of or relating to any moneys so

received by him, on behalf of the state, city, town, district or

county, or the people thereof, or in which they are interested; or

Third: Fraudulently alters, falsifies, cancels, destroys or

obliterates any such account,

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a Class B3

felony offense and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Five

Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and by imprisonment in the State

Penitentiary for a term of not less than one (1) year nor more than

twenty (20) years and, in addition thereto, the person shall be

disqualified to hold office in this state, and the court shall issue

an order of such forfeiture, and should appeal be taken from the

judgment of the court, the defendant may, in the discretion of the

court, stand suspended from such office until such cause is finally

determined.

R.L. 1910, § 2581. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 170, eff. July

1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 88, eff. July 1, 1999;

Laws 2002, c. 460, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 80,

eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

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

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 170 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.