Any officer or employee of a facility who maliciously assaults, beats, batters, abuses, or uses mechanical restraints, or willfully aids, abets, advises or permits any consumer confined therein to be maliciously assaulted, beaten, battered, abused, or mechanically restrained shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both fine and imprisonment. Added by Laws 1953, p. 174, § 134, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953. Renumbered from § 134 of this title by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 103, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 468, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 340, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 46, § 7, emerg. eff. April 8, 2003; Laws 2005, c. 150, § 10, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 508, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
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