Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 15-776.6
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Commercial electronic messages – Violations
Official statutory text
A. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person to transmit a commercial electronic
mail message that:
1. Falsifies electronic mail transmission information or other
routing information for the unsolicited commercial electronic
message; or
2. Contains false or misleading information in the subject
line.
B. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends a commercial electronic
mail message to use a third party’s Internet address or domain name
without the third party’s consent for the purpose of transmitting
electronic mail in a way that makes it appear that the third party
was the sender of such mail.
C. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message to fail to use the exact characters “ADV:”
as the first four characters in the subject line of an unsolicited
commercial electronic mail message.
D. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message containing sexually explicit material, or
advertising sexually explicit goods or services, to fail to use the
exact characters “ADV-ADULT:” as the first ten characters in the
subject line of such an unsolicited commercial electronic mail
message.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 15. Contracts Page 182
E. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message to fail to provide a mechanism allowing
recipients to easily and at no cost remove themselves from the
sender’s electronic mail address lists so they are not included in
future mailings. A sender of an unsolicited commercial electronic
mail message shall remove the recipient from their electronic mail
message list if the sender receives an electronic mail message from
the recipient to the sender-operated return electronic mail address
that indicates anywhere in the subject line or text that the
recipient wants their name removed from the list of the sender.
F. Any person who violates the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and
shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B
through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
felony offense for any person to transmit a commercial electronic
mail message that:
1. Falsifies electronic mail transmission information or other
routing information for the unsolicited commercial electronic
message; or
2. Contains false or misleading information in the subject
line.
B. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends a commercial electronic
mail message to use a third party’s Internet address or domain name
without the third party’s consent for the purpose of transmitting
electronic mail in a way that makes it appear that the third party
was the sender of such mail.
C. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message to fail to use the exact characters “ADV:”
as the first four characters in the subject line of an unsolicited
commercial electronic mail message.
D. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message containing sexually explicit material, or
advertising sexually explicit goods or services, to fail to use the
exact characters “ADV-ADULT:” as the first ten characters in the
subject line of such an unsolicited commercial electronic mail
message.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 15. Contracts Page 182
E. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1
felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message to fail to provide a mechanism allowing
recipients to easily and at no cost remove themselves from the
sender’s electronic mail address lists so they are not included in
future mailings. A sender of an unsolicited commercial electronic
mail message shall remove the recipient from their electronic mail
message list if the sender receives an electronic mail message from
the recipient to the sender-operated return electronic mail address
that indicates anywhere in the subject line or text that the
recipient wants their name removed from the list of the sender.
F. Any person who violates the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and
shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B
through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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