{"id":"DUT-OK-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Oklahoma","state":"OK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Penal Code)","authority":"21 O.S. ch. 48; R.L. 1910, sec. 2540","instrument":"21 O.S. 1199","title":"Penalty for Exposing Oneself or Another With Contagious Disease in Public Place","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally; employers and operators of places open to the public as to \u0027another person\u0027"],"clause":"Every person who willfully exposes himself or another person, being affected with any contagious disease in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a misdemeanor.","enforcement":"Misdemeanor","functions":[],"notes":"No person may willfully bring a person affected with a contagious disease into a public place, which binds an employer that would require a symptomatic or diagnosed employee to report to a workplace open to the public and is the criminal backdrop of every screening and exclusion protocol.","sourceUrl":"https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=69657","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":352692,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-OK","url":"/library/DUT-OK-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-OK-005","citation":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Penal Code), 21 O.S. 1199 (standing) (Ex. DUT-OK-005)","stateName":"Oklahoma","related":["DUT-OK-003","DUT-OK-008","DUT-OK-004"]}