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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 385 By: Stewart
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to conveyances; amending 21 O.S.
2021, Section 1836, which relates to filing purported
conveyance without color of title ; increasing maximum
fine for certain offense; increasing maximum
imprisonment for certain offense; allowing imposition
of fine and imprisonment; updating statutory
reference; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 20 21, Section 1836, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1836. Any person, firm or officer, representative, or
agent of any firm or corporation, who shall execute and deliver, o r
who shall file for record or cause to be recorded in the office of
any county clerk of any county in this state, any deed or other
instrument in writing purporting to convey any right, title, or
interest, or right to possession in and to any real estate situated
in such county, to which the grantor, or grantors, therein did not
have and hold a bona fide color of title, and any such person who
shall file or cause to be filed for record in such office any such
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deed or other instrument which clouds the title of any real estate
allotted to any member of one of the Five Civilized Tribes, or to
the Osage Tribe of Indians Nation, as a homestead, prior to the
removal of the restrictions thereon by operation of law, or
otherwise, knowing the land conveyed to be res tricted homestead
lands, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor , and, upon
conviction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00) Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) , and by
imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to excee d thirty
(30) days ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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