§ 67-83. Obstructing copying a felony.

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 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 felony, 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 in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than one (1) year and not more than five (5) years, 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.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 549 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.