collection of unlawful debt prohibited - Investment of funds prohibited - Conspiracy to violate prohibition - Venue of actions. A. No person employed by or associated with any enterprise shall conduct or participate in, directly or indirectly, the affairs of the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt. B. No person, through a pattern of racketeering activity or through the collection of an unlawful debt, shall acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise or real property. C. No person who has received any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity, or through the collection of any unlawful debt, in which the person participated as a principal, shall use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds or any proceeds derived from the investment or use of any of those proceeds in the acquisition of any right, title, or interest in real property or in the establishment or operation of any enterprise. A purchase of securities on the open market with intent to make an investment, and without the intent of controlling or participating in the control of the issuer or of assisting another to do so, shall not be unlawful pursuant to the provisions of this section if the securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of the immediate family of the purchaser, and accomplices of the purchaser or immediate family of the purchaser in any pattern of racketeering activity, or the collection of an unlawful debt after the purchase, do not amount in the aggregate to one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of any one class and do not confer the power to elect one or more directors of the issuer. D. No person shall attempt to violate or conspire with others to violate the provisions of subsection A, B or C of this section. E. Venue for a civil or criminal action to enforce the provisions of the Oklahoma Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act shall be in any county in which at least one act of racketeering activity is alleged to have occurred in the petition or information or indictment, it being the intent of this act, that one district court have jurisdiction over all the conduct, persons and property subject to this act.
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