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§21-857.
§21-857.
1. "Every person," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this act,
857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall
include human beings, without regard to their legal or natural
relationship to such minor, as well as legal or corporate entities.
2. "Minor" or "child," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this act,
857, 858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall
include male or female persons who shall not have arrived at the age
of eighteen (18) years at the time of the commission of the offense.
3. "Encourage," as used in Sections 856, Section 1 of this act, 857,
858.1 and 858.2 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, in addition to
the usual meaning of the word, shall include a willful and intentional
neglect to do that which will directly tend to prevent such act or
acts of delinquency on the part of such minor, when the person accused
shall have been able to do so.
4. "Delinquent child," as used in Sections 856, 857, 858.1 and 858.2
of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall include a minor, as herein
defined, who shall have been or is violating any penal statute of this
state, or who shall have been or is committing any one or more of the
following acts, to wit:
(a) Associating with thieves, vicious or immoral persons.
(b) Frequenting a house of ill repute.
(c) Frequenting any policy shop, or place where any gambling device is
operated.
(d) Frequenting any saloon, dram shop, still, or any place where
intoxicating liquors are manufactured, stored or sold.
(e) Possession, carrying, owning or exposing any vile, obscene,
indecent, immoral or lascivious photograph, drawing, picture, book,
paper, pamphlet, image, device, instrument, figure or object.
(f) Willfully, lewdly or lasciviously exposing his or her person, or
private parts thereof, in any place, public or private, in such manner
as to be offensive to decency, or calculated to excite vicious or lewd
thoughts, or for the purpose of engaging in the preparation or
manufacture of obscene, indecent or lascivious photographs, pictures,
figures or objects.
(g) Possessing, transporting, selling, or engaging or aiding or
assisting in the sale, transportation or manufacture of intoxicating
liquor, or the frequent use of same.
(h) Being a runaway from his or her parent or legal guardian.
(i) Violating any penal provision of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous
Substances Act.
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