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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1134 By: Fetgatter
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to crimes and punishments; making
certain acts unlawful; providing penalties; defining
term; providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 650.12 of Title 21, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Every person who, without justifiable or excusable cause and
with intent to do bodily harm, commits any assault, battery or
assault and battery upon the person of a municipal or county code
official who is in the lawful performance of his or her duties of
investigating or enforcing the codes, rules or regulations adopted
by county legislation or municipal ordinance, upon conviction, is
guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
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for a term not to exceed one (1) year, or by a fine not to exceed
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and
imprisonment. Upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense,
the person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in
the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to
exceed two (2) years, or by a fine not to exceed Three Thousand
Dollars ($3,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. As used in this section, "code official" means any code
enforcement official, zoning official, health official, building
official or deputies thereof, or other person designated by county
legislation or municipal ordinance to lawfully investigate and
enforce such legislation or ordinance as adopted by the governing
body thereof.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY - CRIMINAL, dated
02/24/2021 - DO PASS, As Amended.