Oklahoma Code § 22-40.2

Title 22. Criminal Procedure: Victim protection order - Victims not to be discouraged
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from pressing charges.
A.  A victim protection order for any victim of rape, forcible
sodomy, a sex offense, kidnapping or assault and battery with a
deadly weapon shall be substantially similar to a protective order

in domestic abuse cases pursuant to the Protection from Domestic
Abuse Act.
B.  A member of the immediate family of a victim of first-degree
murder may seek a victim protection order against the following
persons:
1.  The person who was charged and subsequently convicted as the
principal in the crime of murder in the first degree; or
2.  The person who was charged and subsequently convicted of
being an accessory to the crime of murder in the first degree.
A victim protection order for a member of the immediate family of a
victim of first-degree murder shall be substantially similar to a
protective order in domestic abuse cases pursuant to the Protection
from Domestic Abuse Act.
C.  No peace officer shall discourage a victim of rape, forcible
sodomy, a sex offense, kidnapping or assault and battery with a
deadly weapon from pressing charges against any assailant of the
victim.
Added by Laws 1982, c. 220, § 3.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 325, §
13, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 2002, c. 466, § 3, emerg. eff. June 5,
2002; Laws 2015, c. 206, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 183,
§ 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.

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