Oklahoma § 21-1531 False personation - Marriage - Becoming bail or surety -

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 21-1531 — False personation - Marriage - Becoming bail or surety -

Oklahoma § 21-1531

Title 21Crimes And Punishments

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Bluebook

Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1531 (2026).

Text

Execution of instrument - Creating liability or benefit. Any person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character: 1. Marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage relation toward another, with or without the connivance of such other person; or 2. Becomes bail or surety for any party, in any proceeding whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety; or 3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be delivered or used as true; or 4. Does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to any suit or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture or

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Execution of instrument - Creating liability or benefit. Any person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character: 1. Marries or pretends to marry, or to sustain the marriage relation toward another, with or without the connivance of such other person; or 2. Becomes bail or surety for any party, in any proceeding whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety; or 3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be delivered or used as true; or 4. Does any other act whereby, if it were done by the person falsely personated, he might in any event become liable to any suit or prosecution, or to pay any sum of money, or to incur any charge, forfeiture or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to any other person, shall be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20M of this title.

Legislative History

R.L. 1910, § 2689. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 259, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 234, eff. Jan. 1, 2026. NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 367 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.