Okla. Stat. tit. 63 § 2-503

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 2-503 - Property subject to forfeiture

A. The following shall be subject to forfeiture:

1. All controlled dangerous substances and synthetic controlled substances which have been manufactured, distributed, dispensed, acquired, concealed or possessed in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act;

2. All raw materials, products and equipment of any kind and all drug paraphernalia as defined by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, which are used, or intended for use, in manufacturing, compounding, processing, delivering, importing or exporting, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body any controlled dangerous substance or synthetic controlled substance in violation of the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act;

3. All property which is used, or intended for use, as a container for property described in paragraphs 1, 2, 5 and 6 of this subsection;

4. All conveyances, including aircraft, vehicles, vessels, or farm implements which are used to transport, conceal, or cultivate for the purpose of distribution as defined in the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, or which are used in any manner to facilitate the transportation or cultivation for the purpose of sale or receipt of property described in paragraphs 1 or 2 of this subsection or when the property described in paragraphs 1 or 2 of this subsection is unlawfully possessed by an occupant thereof, except that:

a. no conveyance used by a person as a common carrier in the transaction of business as a common carrier shall be forfeited under the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act unless it shall appear that the owner or other person in charge of such conveyance was a consenting party or privy to a violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, and

b. no conveyance shall be forfeited under the provisions of this section by reason of any act or omission established by the owner thereof to have been committed or omitted without the knowledge or consent of such owner, and if the act is committed by any person other than such owner the owner shall establish further that the conveyance was unlawfully in the possession of a person other than the owner in violation of the criminal laws of the United States, or of any state;

5. All books, records and research, including formulas, microfilm, tapes and data which are used in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act;

6. All things of value furnished, or intended to be furnished, in exchange for a controlled dangerous substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, all proceeds traceable to such an exchange, and all monies, negotiable instruments, and securities used, or intended to be used, to facilitate any violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act;

7. All monies, coin and currency found in close proximity to any amount of forfeitable substances, to forfeitable drug manufacturing or distribution paraphernalia or to forfeitable records of the importation, manufacture or distribution of substances, which are rebuttably presumed to be forfeitable under the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. The burden of proof is upon claimants of the property to rebut this presumption;

8. All real property, including any right, title, and interest in the whole of any lot or tract of land and any appurtenance or improvement thereto, which is used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the commission of, a violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act which is punishable by imprisonment for more than one (1) year, except that no property right, title or interest shall be forfeited pursuant to this paragraph, by reason of any act or omission established by the owner thereof to have been committed or omitted without the knowledge or consent of that owner; and

9. All weapons possessed, used or available for use in any manner to facilitate a violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act.

B. Any property or thing of value of a person is subject to forfeiture if it is established by a preponderance of the evidence that such property or thing of value was acquired by such person during the period of the violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act or within a reasonable time after such period and there was no likely source for such property or thing of value other than the violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act.

C. Any property or thing of value of a person is subject to forfeiture if it is established by a preponderance of the evidence that the person has not paid all or part of a fine imposed pursuant to the provisions of Section 2-415 of this title.

D. All items forfeited in this section shall be forfeited under the procedures established in Section 2-506 of this title. Whenever any item is forfeited pursuant to this section except for items confiscated by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Department of Public Safety, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Department of Corrections, or the Office of the Attorney General, the district court of the district shall order that such item, money, or monies derived from the sale of such item be deposited by the state, county or city law enforcement agency which seized the item in the revolving fund provided for in Section 2-506 of this title; provided, such item, money or monies derived from the sale of such item forfeited due to nonpayment of a fine imposed pursuant to the provisions of Section 2-415 of this title shall be apportioned as provided in Section 2-416 of this title. Items, money or monies seized pursuant to subsections A and B of this section shall not be applied or considered toward satisfaction of the fine imposed by Section 2-415 of this title. All raw materials used or intended to be used by persons to unlawfully manufacture or attempt to manufacture any controlled dangerous substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act shall be summarily forfeited pursuant to the provisions of Section 2-505 of this title.

E. All property taken or detained under this section by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Department of Public Safety, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Department of Corrections, or the Office of the Attorney General, shall not be repleviable, but shall remain in the custody of the Bureaus, Departments, Commission, or Office, respectively, subject only to the orders and decrees of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Director of the Department of Corrections, and the Attorney General shall follow the procedures outlined in Section 2-506 of this title dealing with notification of seizure, intent of forfeiture, final disposition procedures, and release to innocent claimants with regard to all property included in this section detained by the Department of Public Safety, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Department of Corrections, or the Office of the Attorney General. Property taken or detained by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, the Department of Public Safety, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, the Department of Corrections, or the Office of the Attorney General shall be disposed of or sold pursuant to the provisions of Section 2-508 of this title. Any money, coins, and currency, taken or detained pursuant to this section may be deposited in an interest bearing account by or at the direction of the State Treasurer if the seizing agency determines the currency is not to be held as evidence. All interest earned on such monies shall be returned to the claimant or forfeited with the money, coins, and currency which was taken or detained as provided by law.

F. The proceeds of any forfeiture of items seized by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control shall be distributed as follows:

1. To the bona fide or innocent purchaser, conditional sales vendor or mortgagee of the property, if any, up to the amount of his interest in the property, when the court declaring a forfeiture orders a distribution to such person; and

2. The balance to the Bureau of Narcotics Revolving Fund established pursuant to Section 2-107 of this title, provided the Bureau may enter into agreements with municipal, tribal, county, state or federal law enforcement agencies, or other state agencies with CLEET-certified law enforcement officers, assisting in the forfeiture or underlying criminal investigation, to return to such an agency a percentage of said proceeds.

G. Any agency that acquires seized or forfeited property or money shall maintain a true and accurate inventory and record of all such property seized pursuant to this section.

Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 2-503

Amended by Laws 2014 , c. 154, s. 5, eff. 11/1/2014.

Added by Laws 1971, HB 1100, c. 119, § 2-503, emerg. eff. 4/28/1971; Amended by Laws 1978, SB 18, c. 194, § 1, emerg. eff. 4/14/1978; Amended by Laws 1981, SB 114, c. 62, § 4, emerg. eff. 4/13/1981; Amended by Laws 1982, HB 1736, c. 153, § 1, eff. 10/1/1982; Amended by Laws 1985, SB 58, c. 263, § 5, emerg. eff. 7/15/1985; Amended by Laws 1986, HB 1976, c. 291, § 1, eff. 11/1/1986; Amended by Laws 1987, SB 169, c. 136, § 5, eff. 11/1/1987; Amended by Laws 1987, HB 1315, c. 138, § 9, emerg. eff. 6/19/1987; Amended by Laws 1988, SB 538, c. 236, § 1, eff. 11/1/1988; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1514, c. 348, § 24, eff. 11/1/1989; Amended by Laws 1990, HB 2237, c. 117, § 1, eff. 9/1/1990; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1113, c. 306, § 6, emerg. eff. 6/4/1991; Amended by Laws 1991, SB 416, c. 216, § 32 (repealed by Laws 1992, HB 2500, c. 373, § 22, eff. 7/1/1992); Amended by Laws 1992, HB 2500, c. 373, § 13, eff. 7/1/1992; Amended by Laws 1993, HB 1660, c. 57, § 1, eff. 7/1/1993; Amended by Laws 1994, HB 2476, c. 325, § 1, eff. 9/1/1994; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1532, c. 147, § 4, eff. 11/1/1995; Amended by Laws 1996, HB 2403, c. 347, § 2, emerg. eff. 6/14/1996; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1844, c. 265, § 17, eff. 9/1/1997; Amended by Laws 2004 , SB 1172, c. 537, §2, emerg. eff. 6/9/2004; Amended by Laws 2007 , HB 1185, c. 223, §5, emerg. eff. 7/1/2007; Amended by Laws 2009 , HB 2250, c. 442, §8, emerg. eff. 7/1/2009.