(a) Any person who shall, without the authorization of the Tax Commission, make or manufacture, or who shall falsely or fraudulently forge, counterfeit, reproduce, or possess any stamps, impression, copy, facsimile, or other evidence for the purpose of indicating the payment of the tax levied by the Cigarette Stamp Tax Law, Sections 301 through 325, Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes, prescribed for use in the administration of this article, or who shall knowingly or by any deceptive act use or pass, or tender as true, or affix, impress or imprint, by use of any device, rubber stamp or by any other means, on any package containing cigarettes, any unauthorized, false, altered, forged, counterfeit or previously used stamps, impressions, copies, facsimiles or other evidence of cigarette tax payment, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not more than twenty (20) years, or by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
(b) Each person violating any other provision of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than twelve (12) months, or by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
Added by Laws 1965, c. 195, § 2, emerg. eff. June 10, 1965. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 52, § 1, emerg. eff. March 31, 1971; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 556, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 405, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 556 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
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