The crime of trafficking in children is defined to consist of any of the following acts or any part thereof:

1. 1. Acceptance of any compensation, in money, property or other thing of value, at any time, from the person or persons adopting a child, by any person, for services of any kind performed or rendered or purported to be performed or rendered, in connection with such adoption;
2. 2. Acceptance of any compensation, in money, property or other thing of value, by any person, from any other person, in return for placing, assisting to place, or attempting to place a child for adoption or for permanent care in a foster home;
3. 3. The offering or payment of any compensation, in money, property or other thing of value, to any person in order to acquire custody of a child for adoption;
4. 4. The payment of a recognized hospital or a physician qualified under the laws of the State of Oklahoma which renders competent and needed hospital and medical care to an expectant mother or reasonable domiciliary care to a mother and child when such hospital and medical care have been approved by the judge of the district court shall not be considered as compensation for the adoption of the child or in any sense of the words be referred to as "trafficking in children"; nor shall the charge of a reasonable attorney's fee for services rendered in adoption or custody proceedings, approved by the court, be considered as trafficking in children; nor shall the fees charged by a licensed child placing agency, as defined in Section 402 of Title 10 [10-402] of the Oklahoma Statutes, approved by the court, for services rendered in the care of any child or its parent, the investigation and counseling services to and on behalf of the child, its parents and prospective adoptive home, be considered as trafficking in children; provided, however, that all such procedure relating to the care of an expectant mother and an illegitimate child and the adoption procedure therein comprised, or any other adoption, shall remain confidential in its nature, as otherwise provided by law;
5. 5. Offering to place, or advertising to place, a child for adoption or for care in a foster home, by any person, as an inducement to any woman to enter an institution or home or other place for maternity care or for the delivery of a child;
6. 6. Bringing or causing to be brought into this state or sending or causing to be sent outside this state any child for the purpose of placing such child in a foster home or of procuring the adoption thereof without first obtaining the consent of the Department. Provided, however, that this provision shall have no application to the parent or guardian of the child nor to a person bringing said child into this state for the purpose of adopting the same into his own family; or
7. 7. Acceptance of or the offering or payment of any compensation, in money, property or other thing of value, by any person, in connection with the acquisition or transfer of the legal or physical custody of a child, except as ordered by the court or except as otherwise provided by law.

Laws 1957, SB 185, p. 164, § 1; Amended by Laws 1965, SB 232, c. 166, § 1, emerg. eff. June 2, 1965; Amended by Laws 1985, HB 1007, c. 309, § 1, eff. November 1, 1985; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1491, c. 226, § 10, emerg. eff. July 1, 1987.