§15-776.6. Commercial electronic messages – Violations.
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A. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1 felony offense for any person to transmit a commercial electronic mail message that:
1. Falsifies electronic mail transmission information or other routing information for the unsolicited commercial electronic message; or
2. Contains false or misleading information in the subject line.
B. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1 felony offense for any person that sends a commercial electronic mail message to use a third party’s Internet address or domain name without the third party’s consent for the purpose of transmitting electronic mail in a way that makes it appear that the third party was the sender of such mail.
C. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1 felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message to fail to use the exact characters “ADV:” as the first four characters in the subject line of an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message.
D. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1 felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message containing sexually explicit material, or advertising sexually explicit goods or services, to fail to use the exact characters “ADV-ADULT:” as the first ten characters in the subject line of such an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message.
E. It shall be a violation of this act and deemed a Class D1 felony offense for any person that sends an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message to fail to provide a mechanism allowing recipients to easily and at no cost remove themselves from the sender’s electronic mail address lists so they are not included in future mailings. A sender of an unsolicited commercial electronic mail message shall remove the recipient from their electronic mail message list if the sender receives an electronic mail message from the recipient to the sender-operated return electronic mail address that indicates anywhere in the subject line or text that the recipient wants their name removed from the list of the sender.
F. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20N of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Added by Laws 2003, c. 129, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2003. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 310, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2003; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 351, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.