Oklahoma § 67-83 - Obstructing copying a felony

§ 67-83. Obstructing copying a felony

If any officer or person having possession, custody or control

of any record, book, paper taxroll, assessment, or any other file or

matter of record, authorized herein to be copied or transcribed,

shall fail, refuse, or neglect, or in any manner hinder or delay,

after demand shall have been made to permit such transcribing or

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 67. Records

copying, or who shall destroy, mutilate, conceal or remove any such

record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment, or any other file or

matter of record, or other evidence so required to be copied or

transcribed, or who shall cause or permit to be removed from its

customary place any such record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment,

or any other file or matter of record, or who shall refuse upon

request to divulge the location of any such record, book, paper,

taxroll, assessment, or any other file or matter of record, shall be

deemed guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, and upon conviction in

any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not

less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) nor more than Three

Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) and confined as provided

for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, and any person so convicted shall be forever

barred from holding any office of profit or trust within the State

of Oklahoma.

R.L. 1910, § 7301. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 549, eff. July

1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 400, eff. July 1, 1999;

Laws 2025, c. 486, § 558, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

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

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 549 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.