Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-7-611

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Secure facilities - Certification - Violations

Official statutory text

A. For purposes of this section, “electronic communication”

means any transfer of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds,

data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or part by

a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photo-electronic, or photo-optical

system, and includes, but is not limited to, the transfer of that

communication through the Internet.

B. 1. The Office of Juvenile Affairs shall certify all secure

facilities, including secure facilities collocated with adult

facilities or juvenile detention facilities. Such collocated

facilities shall meet applicable criteria of the federal Juvenile

Justice Delinquency Prevention Act for collocation. To be

certified, a secure facility shall be required to meet standards for

certification promulgated by the Board of Juvenile Affairs.

2. Any person, including a resident of the facility, who

knowingly, willfully and without authority brings into or has in his

or her possession in any certified secure facility or certified

juvenile detention facility any gun, knife, bomb or other dangerous

instrument, any controlled dangerous substance as defined by Section

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 10A. Children and Juvenile Code Page 440

2-101 et seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any intoxicating

beverage or low-point beer as defined by Sections 163.1 and 163.2 of

Title 37 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any cellular phone or electronic

device capable of sending or receiving any electronic communication,

money, or financial documents for a person other than the juvenile

or youthful offender or relative of the juvenile or youthful

offender, shall be guilty of a felony and is subject to imprisonment

in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than

one (1) year or more than five (5) years, or a fine of not less than

One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars

($1,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.

C. Any person, including a resident of the facility, who

knowingly, willfully and without authority brings into or has in his

or her possession in any certified secure facility or certified

juvenile detention facility any cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing

tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product shall, upon

conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in

the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not

exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and

imprisonment.

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