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§21-986.
§21-986.
A. Installing communication facilities for gamblers is:
1. Installing communications facilities in a place which the person
who installs the facilities knows is a gambling place;
2. Installing communications facilities knowing that they will be used
principally for the purpose of transmitting information to be used in
making or settling bets; or
3. Knowing that communications facilities are being used principally
for the purpose of transmitting information to be used in making or
settling bets, allowing their continued use.
B. Any person not an employee of a communications public utility
authorized to transact business in this state by the Oklahoma
Corporation Commission acting within the scope of his employment,
violating subsection A above, who knows or has reason to know said
communications facilities will be used in making or settling
commercial gambling transactions and installs said facilities with the
intent to facilitate said commercial gambling transactions and is
found guilty thereof shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished
by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years or a fine of not more
than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
C. When any communications public utility providing telephone
communications service is notified in writing by an order of a court
of competent jurisdiction, acting within its jurisdiction, that any
facility furnished by it is being used principally for the purpose of
transmitting or receiving gambling information, it shall discontinue
or refuse the leasing, furnishing or maintaining of such facility,
after reasonable notice to the subscriber, but no damages, penalty or
forfeiture, civil or criminal, shall be found against any such public
utility for any act done in compliance with any such court order.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prejudice the right of any
person affected thereby to secure an appropriate determination, as
otherwise provided by law, in a court of competent jurisdiction, that
such facility should not be discontinued or removed, or should be
restored.
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