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Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 26.18

Application for relief - Allowance of false claims - Penalty

Added by Laws 1957, p. 455, § 6, emerg. eff

Every applicant for emergency relief or general assistance shall make a written application, containing a written certification, under penalty of perjury, alleging that all facts set out in such application are true and correct. And said application shall be forthwith acted upon, with dispatch and without delay. Any person, whose duty it is to pass upon the eligibility of persons to participate in any benefits provided in this act, who shall knowingly, willfully or intentionally allow, or cause to be allowed, any claim to any person known to be ineligible for such relief, or, who aids, or abets, or persuades any person to sign an application to obtain by means of a willfully false statement or representation or other fraudulent device, assistance to which an applicant is not entitled or assistance greater than that to which an applicant is justly entitled shall be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

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