Public Conduct in Oklahoma (2026)

Broken Arrow makes aggressive begging, panhandling, or solicitation unlawful, including within 20 feet of ATMs and…

Lawton bans panhandling or soliciting in an 'aggressive manner' anywhere in the city, defined to include unwanted…

Midwest City bans standing in a street or roadway to solicit rides, donations, employment or business from drivers, and…

Oklahoma City bans aggressive begging, panhandling or soliciting, including approaching, touching, blocking, or…

Tulsa bans aggressive begging: repeatedly blocking someone's path to ask for money, or using physical action to make a…

Midwest City bans urinating in any public place not designated or intended for that purpose, a citywide misdemeanor…

Lawton's disturbing-the-peace ordinance flatly lists 'urinating in a public place' as one of thirteen prohibited acts…

Norman's outraging public decency ordinance makes it unlawful to commit any act in a public place, or visible from one…

Tulsa fines anyone who willfully urinates or defecates in a street, park, parking lot, or other public-facing spot up…

Skateboarding, rollerskating and rollerblading on school grounds, public business sidewalks and curtilages, or the…

Skateboarding, roller blades and roller skates are banned on sidewalks and streets in the Bricktown/downtown MAPS Canal…

Lawton allows skateboards, roller skates, and in-line skates only on city facilities built for that use and on the…

Tulsa bars skateboards, bicycles and roller skates from the downtown Main Street Pedestrian Mall and Civic Center Plaza…

Norman lets a skateboarder use any sidewalk unless a sign specifically prohibits it there, under NCC 32-303. The same…

Norman law lets a police officer declare a social gathering a public nuisance once three or more violations, drawn from…

Broken Arrow bans music or noise from a home that disturbs neighbors, with a strict nighttime standard covering loud…

Edmond makes it unlawful for whoever controls a property to knowingly host a gathering of three or more people where a…

Lawton treats a loud, unruly gathering as disturbing the peace: Section 16-4-1-401 bans holding an unlawful assembly…

Oklahoma City's noise code separately bans shouting, carousing, singing, and amplified music loud enough to be heard…

Tulsa's disorderly conduct law makes hosting a loud, drunken gathering an offense and holds the person keeping the…

Broken Arrow makes it unlawful to loiter without business or duty inside a railroad station, on a platform, or anywhere…

Lawton's Peeping Tom ordinance makes it a crime to hide, wait or otherwise loiter near any private dwelling, apartment…

Midwest City makes it unlawful to obstruct any public sidewalk, street, alley or passageway, and separately bars…

Oklahoma City bans obstructing sidewalks, streets, alleys, or building entrances after a police officer orders you to…

Tulsa bans loitering within railroad stations, platforms, or rights-of-way once a railroad employee tells you to leave…

Edmond bans tobacco and vapor product use on all city property, in parks and playgrounds and within 50 feet of them…

Lawton prohibits lighting tobacco, nicotine, marijuana, or vapor products inside any city-owned park or playground and…

Norman prohibits smoking, vaping, and marijuana use in Public Places, Indoor Workplaces, and on all Municipal Property…

Oklahoma City bans smoking and vaping outdoors in all city parks and on nearly all city-owned property, with a 25-foot…

Tulsa bans tobacco and vapor product use on all municipal property, indoor and outdoor, including every city park and…

Broken Arrow's smoking ban targets indoor places; outdoor areas are exempt, except smoking on a restaurant's outdoor…

Outside a crosswalk, Edmond requires pedestrians to cross by the shortest, right-angle route to the opposite curb, and…

Lawton bars pedestrians from crossing anywhere except a marked crosswalk between signalized intersections, and…

Between signalized intersections, pedestrians in Midwest City must cross only in a crosswalk: mid-block jaywalking is…

Norman bans mid-block jaywalking outright. NCC 32-805 forbids darting from a curb into a vehicle's path and requires…

Crossing mid-block instead of at a crosswalk means the pedestrian, not the driver, must yield the right-of-way under…

Tulsa requires pedestrians to cross streets at a crosswalk or intersection, except in residential neighborhoods without…

Possessing or consuming marijuana anywhere in Midwest City is a criminal offense under Section 28-130 unless the person…

Oklahoma City's smoking and vaping ban, codified at Municipal Code § 30-471, expressly reaches marijuana products, not…

Broken Arrow bans smoking or vaping marijuana anywhere on city property and treats marijuana odor from licensed use as…

Lawton makes it a public nuisance to smoke or vape marijuana, tobacco, or nicotine in any indoor place open to the…

Norman City Code Section 16-503(a) makes it unlawful to "smoke tobacco or marijuana or vape marijuana" in any Public…

Tulsa fines anyone caught smoking or vaping marijuana in a public place, medical license or not, under the city's Penal…

Broken Arrow makes it unlawful to drink or otherwise consume intoxicating liquor in any public place, or to appear…

Edmond makes it a misdemeanor to drink or be intoxicated in any public place, vehicle, or public gathering under §…

Lawton bans selling, drinking or even possessing alcohol on any property the city owns or controls, unless it falls…

Drinking intoxicating liquor in any public place is illegal citywide in Midwest City, with the only exception being…

Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 5-24 bars consuming spirits in public outside ABLE-licensed premises, opening containers…

Norman's city code makes it unlawful to consume spirits, meaning distilled liquor such as whiskey, vodka or rum, in any…

Tulsa bans drinking alcohol on park roads and parking lots, and lets the Park Board post any other park area off-limits…