Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 56-26.18
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Application for relief - Allowance of false claims -
Official statutory text
Penalty.
Every applicant for emergency relief or general assistance shall
make a written application, containing a written certification,
under penalty of perjury, alleging that all facts set out in such
application are true and correct. And said application shall be
forthwith acted upon, with dispatch and without delay.
Any person, whose duty it is to pass upon the eligibility of
persons to participate in any benefits provided in this act, who
shall knowingly, willfully or intentionally allow, or cause to be
allowed, any claim to any person known to be ineligible for such
relief, or, who aids, or abets, or persuades any person to sign an
application to obtain by means of a willfully false statement or
representation or other fraudulent device, assistance to which an
applicant is not entitled or assistance greater than that to which
an applicant is justly entitled shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony
offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned as provided
for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, or be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars
($100.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be both
so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
Every applicant for emergency relief or general assistance shall
make a written application, containing a written certification,
under penalty of perjury, alleging that all facts set out in such
application are true and correct. And said application shall be
forthwith acted upon, with dispatch and without delay.
Any person, whose duty it is to pass upon the eligibility of
persons to participate in any benefits provided in this act, who
shall knowingly, willfully or intentionally allow, or cause to be
allowed, any claim to any person known to be ineligible for such
relief, or, who aids, or abets, or persuades any person to sign an
application to obtain by means of a willfully false statement or
representation or other fraudulent device, assistance to which an
applicant is not entitled or assistance greater than that to which
an applicant is justly entitled shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony
offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned as provided
for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, or be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars
($100.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be both
so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
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