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A. To use or to attempt to offer to use force or violence upon or toward the person of another is not unlawful in the following cases:

1. When necessarily committed by a public officer in the performance of any legal duty, or by any other person assisting such officer or acting by such officer’s direction;

2. When necessarily committed by any person in arresting one who has committed any crime, and delivering such person to a public officer competent to receive such person in custody;

3. When committed either by a person about to be injured, or by any other person in such person’s aid or defense, in preventing or attempting to prevent an offense against such person, to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. A person who uses or threatens to use force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat before using or threatening to use such force;

4. When committed by a parent or the authorized agent of any parent, or by any legal custodian, in the exercise of a lawful authority of such person’s child or ward, corporal discipline of a child by a parent or legal custodian for disciplinary purposes does not in itself constitute abuse when it does not result in harm to the child;

5. When committed by a carrier of passengers, or the authorized agents or servants of such carrier, or by any person assisting them at their request, in expelling from any carriage, railroad car, vessel or other vehicle, any passenger who refuses to obey a lawful and reasonable regulation prescribed for the conduct of passengers, if such vehicle has first been stopped and the force and violence used is not more than is sufficient to expel the offending passenger, with a reasonable regard to such passenger’s personal safety; and

6. When committed by any person in preventing a person who is impaired by reason of mental illness or developmental disability, a mentally ill person, insane person or other person of unsound mind, including persons temporarily or partially deprived of reason, from committing an act dangerous to such person’s self or to another, or enforcing such restraint as is necessary for the protection of the person or for restoration to health, during such period only as shall be necessary to obtain legal authority for the restraint or custody of the person. ONCA 22-33, eff. Apr. 25, 2022.