Okla. Stat. tit. 67, § 67-83
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Obstructing copying a felony
Official statutory text
If any officer or person having possession, custody or control
of any record, book, paper taxroll, assessment, or any other file or
matter of record, authorized herein to be copied or transcribed,
shall fail, refuse, or neglect, or in any manner hinder or delay,
after demand shall have been made to permit such transcribing or
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copying, or who shall destroy, mutilate, conceal or remove any such
record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment, or any other file or
matter of record, or other evidence so required to be copied or
transcribed, or who shall cause or permit to be removed from its
customary place any such record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment,
or any other file or matter of record, or who shall refuse upon
request to divulge the location of any such record, book, paper,
taxroll, assessment, or any other file or matter of record, shall be
deemed guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, and upon conviction in
any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not
less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) nor more than Three
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) and confined as provided
for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, and any person so convicted shall be forever
barred from holding any office of profit or trust within the State
of Oklahoma.
R.L. 1910, § 7301. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 549, eff. July
1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 400, eff. July 1, 1999;
of any record, book, paper taxroll, assessment, or any other file or
matter of record, authorized herein to be copied or transcribed,
shall fail, refuse, or neglect, or in any manner hinder or delay,
after demand shall have been made to permit such transcribing or
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 67. Records Page 15
copying, or who shall destroy, mutilate, conceal or remove any such
record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment, or any other file or
matter of record, or other evidence so required to be copied or
transcribed, or who shall cause or permit to be removed from its
customary place any such record, book, paper, taxroll, assessment,
or any other file or matter of record, or who shall refuse upon
request to divulge the location of any such record, book, paper,
taxroll, assessment, or any other file or matter of record, shall be
deemed guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, and upon conviction in
any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not
less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) nor more than Three
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) and confined as provided
for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, and any person so convicted shall be forever
barred from holding any office of profit or trust within the State
of Oklahoma.
R.L. 1910, § 7301. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 549, eff. July
1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 400, eff. July 1, 1999;
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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