Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1531
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False personation - Marriage - Becoming bail or surety -
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Execution of instrument - Creating liability or benefit.
Any person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed
character:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments Page 709
1. Marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage
relation toward another, with or without the connivance of such
other person; or
2. Becomes bail or surety for any party, in any proceeding
whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail
or surety; or
3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in
the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that
the same may be delivered or used as true; or
4. Does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person
falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to any suit
or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge,
forfeiture or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the
party personating, or to any other person,
shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by
imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section
20M of this title.
R.L. 1910, § 2689. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367, eff. July
1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 259, eff. July 1, 1999;
Any person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed
character:
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments Page 709
1. Marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage
relation toward another, with or without the connivance of such
other person; or
2. Becomes bail or surety for any party, in any proceeding
whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail
or surety; or
3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in
the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that
the same may be delivered or used as true; or
4. Does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person
falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to any suit
or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge,
forfeiture or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the
party personating, or to any other person,
shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by
imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section
20M of this title.
R.L. 1910, § 2689. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367, eff. July
1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 259, eff. July 1, 1999;
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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