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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 21. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

  § 21-99a. Authority of peace officers.  

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  • A.  Subject to subsections C and D of this section in addition to any other powers vested by law, a peace officer of the State of Oklahoma as used in this section may enforce the criminal laws of this state throughout the territorial bounds of this state, under the following circumstances:

    1.  In response to an emergency involving an immediate threat to human life or property;

    2.  Upon the prior consent of the head of a state law enforcement agency, the sheriff or the chief of police in whose investigatory or territorial jurisdiction the exercise of the powers occurs;

    3.  In response to a request for assistance pursuant to a mutual law enforcement assistance agreement with the agency of investigatory or territorial jurisdiction;

    4.  In response to the request for assistance by a peace officer with investigatory or territorial jurisdiction; or

    5.  While the officer is transporting a prisoner.

    B.  While serving as peace officers of the State of Oklahoma and rendering assistance under the circumstances enumerated above, peace officers shall have the same powers and duties as though employed by and shall be deemed to be acting within the scope of authority of the law enforcement agency in whose or under whose investigatory or territorial jurisdiction they are serving.  Salaries, insurance and other benefits shall not be the responsibility of a law enforcement agency that is not the employing agency for the officer.

    C.  A municipal peace officer may exercise authority provided by this section only if the officer acts pursuant to policies and procedures adopted by the municipal governing body.

    D.  A Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement officer or a tribal law enforcement officer of a federally recognized Indian tribe who has been commissioned by the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and has been certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training shall have state police powers to enforce state laws on lands the title to which is held by the United States in trust for the benefit of either a federally recognized American Indian tribe or an enrolled citizen thereof.

    E.  Nothing in this act shall limit or prohibit jurisdiction given to tribal officers pursuant to a cross-deputization agreement between a state or local governmental agency or another state or federal law.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 43, § 3, emerg. eff. April 7, 1997.  Amended by Laws 2013, c. 249, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.