Oklahoma Code § 37A-6-101

Title 37A. Alcoholic Beverages: Prohibited acts - Violations – Penalties
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A.  No person shall:
1.  Knowingly sell, deliver or furnish alcoholic beverages to
any person under twenty-one (21) years of age;
2.  Sell, deliver or knowingly furnish alcoholic beverages to an
intoxicated person or to any person who has been adjudged insane or
mentally deficient;
3.  Open a retail container or consume alcoholic beverages on
the premises of a package store, grocery store, convenience store or
drug store, unless otherwise permitted by law;
4.  Import into this state, except as provided for in the
Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, any alcoholic beverages;
provided, that nothing herein shall prohibit the importation or
possession for personal use of not more than one (1) liter of
alcoholic beverages upon which the Oklahoma excise tax is
delinquent;
5.  Receive, possess or use any alcoholic beverage in violation
of the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act;
6.  Knowingly transport into, within or through this state more
than one (1) liter of alcoholic beverages upon which the Oklahoma
excise tax has not been paid unless the person accompanying or in

charge of the vehicle transporting same shall possess a true copy of
a bill of lading, invoice, manifest or other document particularly
identifying that alcoholic beverages are being transported and
showing the name and address of the consignor and consignee;
provided, this prohibition shall not apply to the first one hundred
eighty (180) liters of alcoholic beverages classified as household
goods by military personnel, age twenty-one (21) or older, when
entering Oklahoma from temporary active assignment outside the
contiguous United States;
7.  Knowingly transport in any vehicle upon a public highway,
street or alley any alcoholic beverage except in the original
container which shall not have been opened and the seal upon which
shall not have been broken and from which the original cap or cork
shall not have been removed, unless the opened container be in the
rear trunk or rear compartment, which shall include the spare tire
compartment in a vehicle commonly known as a station wagon and panel
truck, or any outside compartment which is not accessible to the
driver or any other person in the vehicle while it is in motion;
8.  Consume spirits in public except on the premises of a
licensee of the ABLE Commission who is authorized to sell or serve
spirits by the individual drink, or be intoxicated in a public
place.  This provision shall be cumulative and in addition to
existing law;
9.  Forcibly resist lawful arrest, or by physical contact
interfere with an investigation of any infringement of the Oklahoma
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act or with any lawful search or seizure
being made by a law enforcement officer or an employee of the ABLE
Commission, when such person knows or should know that such acts are
being performed by a state, county or municipal officer or employee
of the ABLE Commission;
10.  Manufacture, duplicate, counterfeit or in any way imitate
any bottle club membership card required to be issued by the ABLE
Commission without the permission of the ABLE Commission;
11.  Consume or possess alcoholic beverages on the licensed
premises of a bottle club unless such person possesses a valid
membership card for that club issued by the club;
12.  Knowingly possess any bottle club membership card required
to be issued by the ABLE Commission which has been manufactured,
counterfeited, imitated or in any way duplicated without the
permission of the ABLE Commission; or
13.  Knowingly and willfully permit any individual under twenty-
one (21) years of age who is an invitee to the person's residence,
any building, structure or room owned, occupied, leased or otherwise
procured by the person or on any land owned, occupied, leased or
otherwise procured by the person, to possess or consume any
alcoholic beverage as defined by Section 1-103 of this title, any

controlled dangerous substance as defined in the Uniform Controlled
Dangerous Substances Act, or any combination thereof, in such place.
B.  Except as provided for in subsection C of this section,
punishment for violation of paragraph 13 of subsection A of this
section shall be as follows:
1.  Any person who is convicted of a violation of the provisions
of paragraph 13 of subsection A of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense and be punished by a
fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and shall be
required to attend a victims impact panel program as defined in
Section 991a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2.  Any person who, within ten (10) years after previous
convictions of a violation:
a. of paragraph 13 of subsection A of this section,
b. of the provisions of any law of another state
prohibiting the offense provided for in paragraph 13
of subsection A of this section, or
c. in a municipal criminal court of record for the
violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the
offense provided for in paragraph 13 of subsection A
of this section,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of
not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and shall be required
to attend a victims impact panel program as defined in Section 991a
of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
3.  Any person who, within ten (10) years after two or more
previous convictions of a violation:
a. of paragraph 13 of subsection A of this section,
b. of the provisions of any law of another state
prohibiting the offense provided for in paragraph 13
of subsection A of this section, or
c. in a municipal criminal court of record for the
violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the
offense provided for in paragraph 13 of subsection A
of this section, or
d. or any combination of two or more thereof,
shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished
by a fine of not more than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($2,500.00), or by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B
through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or by
both such fine and imprisonment and shall be required to attend a
victims impact panel program as defined in Section 991a of Title 22
of the Oklahoma Statutes.
C.  Any person who violates paragraph 13 of subsection A of this
section, and such actions cause great bodily injury or the death of
a person, shall, in addition to any other penalty provided by law,
be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, punishable by imprisonment

as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title
21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, a fine of not less than Two Thousand
Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) nor more than Five Thousand Dollars
($5,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment and shall be
required to attend a victims impact panel program as defined in
Section 991a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
D.  Except as provided in subsection C of Section 6-126 of this
title, any person who shall engage in any of the following and
disturb the peace of any person:
1.  In any public place, or in or upon any passenger coach,
streetcar, or in or upon any other vehicle commonly used for the
transportation of passengers, or in or about any depot, platform,
waiting station or room, drink or otherwise consume any intoxicating
liquor unless authorized by the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control
Act, intoxicating substance or intoxicating compound of any kind, or
inhale glue, paint or other intoxicating substance;
2.  Be drunk or intoxicated in any public or private road, or in
any passenger coach, streetcar or any public place or building, or
at any public gathering, from drinking or consuming such
intoxicating liquor, intoxicating substance or intoxicating compound
or from inhalation of glue, paint or other intoxicating substance;
or
3.  Be drunk or intoxicated from any cause,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), nor
more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment for not
less than five (5) days nor more than thirty (30) days or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
Added by Laws 2016, c. 366, § 141, eff. Oct. 1, 2018.  Amended by
Laws 2018, c. 113, § 5, eff. Oct. 1, 2018; Laws 2021, c. 273, § 1,
eff. Nov. 1, 2021; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 499, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
NOTE:  Laws 2016, c. 366, was conditionally effective upon passage
of State Question No. 792, Legislative Referendum No. 370, which was
adopted at election held on Nov. 8, 2016.

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