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2021 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-1242. Refusing to disclose place and person from whom obtained.

Universal Citation:
21 OK Stat § 21-1242 (2021)
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Any person under the age of twenty-one (21) being in possession of cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, nicotine product or vapor products and being by any police officer, constable, juvenile court officer, truant officer, or teacher in any school, asked where and from whom such cigarettes, cigarette papers, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco product, nicotine product or vapor products were obtained, who shall refuse to furnish such information, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before the district court, or any judge of the district court, such minor being of the age of sixteen (16) years or upwards shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding Five Dollars ($5.00) or to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper county not exceeding five (5) days, or both; if such minor shall be under the age of sixteen (16) years, he or she shall be certified by such magistrate or justice to the juvenile court of the county for such action as the court shall deem proper. For the purposes of this section, the term "vapor product" shall have the same meaning as provided in the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco Act.

Added by Laws 1915, c. 190, § 2. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 54, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2014, c. 162, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2020, c. 70, § 3, emerg. eff. May 19, 2020; Laws 2021, c. 554, § 3, emerg. eff. May 28, 2021.

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