Damages. Any person, firm, business, or other entity who, without written authority from the Commissioners of the Land Office, trespasses, uses, cuts timber, injures or destroys surface or subsurface lands or improvements, removes anything of value from the surface or subsurface, assumes possession without a lease or other legal interest in the lands, or who refuses to surrender possession at the expiration, rescission or termination of a lease or easement shall be subject to a civil action for actual damages, possession of the land, injunction, civil penalties equal to the amount of actual damages, attorney fees, litigation expenses, sheriff fees and court costs. Damage claims shall carry sixteen-percent interest from the date of injury. The person, business or other entity shall also, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall be subject to imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 1935, p. 115, § 24, emerg. eff. May 14, 1935. Amended by Laws 1937, p. 131, § 8, emerg. eff. March 29, 1937; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 538, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 389, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2010, c. 41, § 13, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Renumbered from § 88 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 70, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 486, § 740, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
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