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2021 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-832. Willfully poisoning food, drink, medicine, or patent or proprietary medicine.

Universal Citation:
21 OK Stat § 21-832 (2021)
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A. 1. No person shall willfully mingle any poison, Schedule I through V drug pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2-203 through 2-212 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or sharp object, or any other object or substance which if used in a manner which is not customary or usual is harmful to human life, with any food, drink, medicine, or patent or proprietary medicine with intent that the same shall be taken, consumed, applied, or used in any manner by any human being to his injury; and

2. Unless authorized by law, no person shall willfully poison or place any Schedule I through V drug pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2-203 through 2-212 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes or any other object or substance which if used in a manner which is not customary or usual is harmful to human life in any spring, well, or reservoir of water.

B. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than five (5) years, or by a fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

R.L. 1910, § 2391. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 19, § 1, emerg. eff. April 18, 1983; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 246, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 150, eff. July 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 246 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.

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