Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1768
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Malicious injury to freehold - Carrying away earth, soil
Official statutory text
or stone.
Every person who willfully commits any trespass by either:
1. Cutting down or destroying any kind of wood or timber,
standing or growing upon the lands of another; or, driving or riding
through, into, or across any cultivated hedge or tree row, or any
grove of ornamental trees or orchard of fruit trees growing upon the
land of another, or in any other manner injurying the same; or,
2. Carrying away any kind of wood or timber that has been cut
down, and is lying on such lands; or,
3. Maliciously severing from the freehold any produce thereof,
or anything attached thereto; or,
4. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any lot situated
within the bounds of any incorporated city, without the license of
the owner, or legal occupant thereof, any earth, soil or stone,
being a part of the freehold, or severed therefrom at some previous
time, under such circumstances as would render the trespass a
larceny, if the thing so severed or carried away were personal
property; or,
5. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any land in any
incorporated city or town of this state, laid down on the map or
plan of said city or town as a street or avenue, or otherwise
established or recognized as a street or avenue, without the license
of the mayor and common council or other governing body of such city
or town, or owner of the fee thereof, any earth, soil or stone under
such circumstances as would render the trespass a larceny, if the
thing so severed or carried away were personal property;
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who willfully commits any trespass by either:
1. Cutting down or destroying any kind of wood or timber,
standing or growing upon the lands of another; or, driving or riding
through, into, or across any cultivated hedge or tree row, or any
grove of ornamental trees or orchard of fruit trees growing upon the
land of another, or in any other manner injurying the same; or,
2. Carrying away any kind of wood or timber that has been cut
down, and is lying on such lands; or,
3. Maliciously severing from the freehold any produce thereof,
or anything attached thereto; or,
4. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any lot situated
within the bounds of any incorporated city, without the license of
the owner, or legal occupant thereof, any earth, soil or stone,
being a part of the freehold, or severed therefrom at some previous
time, under such circumstances as would render the trespass a
larceny, if the thing so severed or carried away were personal
property; or,
5. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any land in any
incorporated city or town of this state, laid down on the map or
plan of said city or town as a street or avenue, or otherwise
established or recognized as a street or avenue, without the license
of the mayor and common council or other governing body of such city
or town, or owner of the fee thereof, any earth, soil or stone under
such circumstances as would render the trespass a larceny, if the
thing so severed or carried away were personal property;
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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