Oklahoma § 21-533 - Refusing to receive or fingerprint prisoners - Medical

§ 21-533. Refusing to receive or fingerprint prisoners - Medical

exceptions.

A. Except as provided in this section and Section 979a of Title

22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for emergency medical treatment for an

injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use

of a limb or where authorized personnel of the jail have deemed a

person medically unfit to be received into custody, any peace

officer or jail or prison contractor who, in violation of a duty

imposed upon the officer or contractor by law or by contract to

receive into custody any person as a prisoner, willfully neglects or

refuses so to receive such person into custody is guilty of a

misdemeanor.

B. Except as provided in this section and Section 979a of Title

22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for emergency medical treatment for an

injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use

of a limb or where authorized personnel of the jail have deemed a

person medically unfit to be received into custody, any peace

officer or jail or prison contractor who, in violation of a duty

imposed upon the officer or contractor by law or by contract to

fingerprint any person received into custody as a prisoner,

willfully neglects or refuses so to fingerprint such person is

guilty of a misdemeanor.

C. Any person coming into contact with a peace officer prior to

being actually received into custody at a jail facility or holding

facility, including, but not limited to, during the time of any

arrest, detention, transportation, investigation of any incident,

accident or crime, who needs emergency medical treatment for an

injury or condition that threatens life or threatens the loss or use

of a limb, shall be taken directly to a medical facility or hospital

for such emergency medical care notwithstanding any duty imposed

pursuant to this section or any other provision of law to first take

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

such person into custody or to fingerprint such person. The

responsibility for payment of such emergency medical costs shall be

the sole responsibility of the person coming into the officer's

contact and shall not be the responsibility of any jail, law

enforcement agency, jail or prison contractor, sheriff, peace

officer, municipality or county, except when the condition is a

direct result of injury caused by such officer acting outside the

scope of lawful authority.

R.L.1910, § 2245. Amended by Laws 2003, c 199, § 1, eff. Nov. 1,

2003; Laws 2005, c. 470, § 1, emerg. eff. June 9, 2005; Laws 2022,

c. 105, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.