Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-948
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Officers - Illegal gambling - Collusion - Penalties
Official statutory text
Any state, district, city, town, county or township officer who
shall engage or participate in, or who shall assist or encourage any
other person or persons in any kind of illegal gambling, whether the
same be by cards, dice, dominoes, billiards or any game of chance or
a gambling device, by betting money, property or other things of
value in such game of chance, or gambling device, such officer shall
be deemed guilty of a Class C2 felony offense, and upon conviction
shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by
imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section
20M of this title, and such judgment of conviction shall carry with
it an immediate removal from office and a disqualification to hold
any office of profit or trust in the State of Oklahoma.
shall engage or participate in, or who shall assist or encourage any
other person or persons in any kind of illegal gambling, whether the
same be by cards, dice, dominoes, billiards or any game of chance or
a gambling device, by betting money, property or other things of
value in such game of chance, or gambling device, such officer shall
be deemed guilty of a Class C2 felony offense, and upon conviction
shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by
imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section
20M of this title, and such judgment of conviction shall carry with
it an immediate removal from office and a disqualification to hold
any office of profit or trust in the State of Oklahoma.
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