Oklahoma § 44-930 - Stalking

§ 44-930. Stalking

ARTICLE 130. Stalking.

A. In general. Any person subject to the Oklahoma Uniform Code

of Military Justice:

1. Who wrongfully engages in a course of conduct directed at a

specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear death

or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or herself, to

a member of his or her immediate family, or to his or her intimate

partner;

2. Who has knowledge, or should have knowledge, that the

specific person will be placed in reasonable fear of death or bodily

harm, including sexual assault, to himself or herself, to a member

of his or her immediate family, or to his or her intimate partner;

and

3. Whose conduct induces reasonable fear in the specific person

of death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself or

herself, to a member of his or her immediate family, or to his or

her intimate partner,

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 44. Militia

is guilty of stalking and shall be punished as a court-martial may

direct.

B. Definitions. In this section:

1. The term "conduct" means conduct of any kind, including use

of surveillance, the mails, an interactive computer service, an

electronic communication service, or an electronic communication

system;

2. The term "course of conduct" means:

a.

a repeated maintenance of visual or physical proximity

to a specific person,

b.

a repeated conveyance of verbal threats, written

threats, or threats implied by conduct, or a

combination of such threats, directed at or toward a

specific person, or

c.

a pattern of conduct composed of repeated acts

evidencing a continuity of purpose;

3. The term "repeated", with respect to conduct, means two or

more occasions of such conduct;

4. The term "immediate family", in the case of a specific

person, means:

a.

that person's spouse, parent, brother or sister,

child, or other person to whom he or she stands in

loco parentis, or

b.

any other person living in his or her household and

related to him or her by blood or marriage; and

5. The term "intimate partner", in the case of a specific

person, means:

a.

a former spouse of the specific person, a person who

shares a child in common with the specific person, or

a person who cohabits with or has cohabited as a

spouse with the specific person, or

b.

a person who has been in a social relationship of a

romantic or intimate nature with the specific person,

as determined by the length of the relationship, the

type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction

between the persons involved in the relationship.

Added by Laws 2019, c. 408, § 179, eff. Oct. 1, 2019.