2017 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-1713v2. Receiving stolen property - Presumption.
A. Every person who buys or receives, in any manner, upon any consideration, any personal property of any value whatsoever that has been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense or robbery, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the same to have been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense, or robbery, or who conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding such property from the owner, shall, if the value of the property is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not to exceed five (5) years, or in the county jail not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by both such fine and imprisonment. If the value of the property received is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. Every person who, without making reasonable inquiry, buys, receives, conceals, withholds, or aids in concealing or withholding any property which has been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense or robbery, or otherwise feloniously obtained, under such circumstances as should cause such person to make reasonable inquiry to ascertain that the person from whom such property was bought or received had the legal right to sell or deliver it shall be presumed to have bought or received such property knowing it to have been so stolen or wrongfully obtained. This presumption may, however, be rebutted by proof.
R.L. 1910, § 2664. Amended by Laws 1961, p. 234, § 1, emerg. eff. July 18, 1961; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 393, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 285, eff. July 1, 1999; State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 6, adopted at General Election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 393 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
