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 felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both fine and imprisonment.

Laws 1953, HB 846, p. 174, § 134, emerg. eff. June 3, 1953; Renumbered from 43A O.S. § 134 by Laws 1986, HB 2021, c. 103, § 103, eff. November 1, 1986; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1213, c. 133, § 468 (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 June 19, 1998) (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 1999, 1st Extr.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, § 340, emerg. eff. July 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2003, HB 1266, c. 46, § 7, emerg. eff. April 8, 2003 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2005, HB 1845, c. 150, § 10, emerg. eff. May 9, 2005 (superseded document available).