Any person, either as agent or principal, who enters into or assists in making any contracts of sale of the sort of character denounced by Section 564 of this title for the future delivery of cotton, grain, stocks or other commodities, or who maintains or operates a bucket shop as that term is defined in Section 565 of this title, shall be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and any person who shall be guilty of a second offense under this statute in addition to the penalty above prescribed may, upon conviction, be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court, and if a corporation, it shall be liable to forfeiture of all its rights and privileges as such, and the continuance of such establishment after the first conviction shall be deemed a second offense. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute proceedings for the forfeiture of the charter of any corporation making itself liable to such forfeiture under the provisions of this act.

Laws 1917, HB 72, c. 97, p. 148, § 7; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1213, c. 133, § 133 (effective date amended to July 1, 1999, by Laws 1998, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1002, c. 2, §§ 23-26, emerg. eff. June 19, 1998) (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1999, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1009, c. 5, § 60, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2025, HB 2104, c. 486, § 647, eff. January 1, 2026 (superseded document available).