Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-5-103
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Violations by employers
Official statutory text
VIOLATIONS BY EMPLOYERS. Any employer or any officer or agent
of an employer or any other person who makes a false statement or
representation knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to
disclose a material fact, to prevent or reduce the payment of
benefits to any individual entitled thereto, or to avoid becoming or
remaining a subject employer or to avoid or reduce any contribution
or other payment required from an employing unit under this act or
under the unemployment compensation law of any state or of the
federal government, or who willfully fails or refuses to make or to
furnish any reports required hereunder or to produce or permit the
inspection or copying of records as required hereunder, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less
than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00), or by imprisonment for not longer than ninety (90) days,
or by both fine and imprisonment; and each such false statement or
representation or failure to disclose a material fact, and each day
of such failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense.
of an employer or any other person who makes a false statement or
representation knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to
disclose a material fact, to prevent or reduce the payment of
benefits to any individual entitled thereto, or to avoid becoming or
remaining a subject employer or to avoid or reduce any contribution
or other payment required from an employing unit under this act or
under the unemployment compensation law of any state or of the
federal government, or who willfully fails or refuses to make or to
furnish any reports required hereunder or to produce or permit the
inspection or copying of records as required hereunder, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less
than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00), or by imprisonment for not longer than ninety (90) days,
or by both fine and imprisonment; and each such false statement or
representation or failure to disclose a material fact, and each day
of such failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense.
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