Unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Building and housing codes" means any law, ordinance or governmental regulation concerning fitness for habitation or the construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use or appearance of any premises or dwelling unit;
2. "Deposit" means any money or other property required by a landlord from a tenant as a security and which is to be returned to the tenant upon termination of the rental agreement, less any deductions properly made and allowed by this act;
3. "Dwelling unit" means a structure, or that part of a structure, which is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one or more persons, and includes any site, space or lot leased to the owner or resident of a manufactured or mobile home;
4. "Good faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct of the transaction concerned;
5. "Landlord" means the owner, lessor or sublessor of the dwelling unit or the building of which it is a part, manufactured or mobile home site, space or lot, and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to comply with the disclosure provisions of Section 116 of this title;
6. "Occupant" means any person who abides within a dwelling unit, or any person who owns or occupies a manufactured or mobile home, but who is not a tenant or an unemancipated minor child of a tenant, and who is not legally obligated by the terms of a rental agreement;
7. "Organization" means a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity;
8. "Owner" means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested:
9. "Person" means an individual or organization;
10. "Premises" means a dwelling unit and the structure of which it is a part, the facilities and appurtenances therein, the site, space or lot leased to the owner or resident of a mobile or manufactured home, and the grounds, areas and facilities held out for the use of the tenant generally or the use of which is promised to the tenant;
11. "Rent" means all payments, except deposits and damages, to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement;
12. "Rental agreement" means all agreements and valid rules and regulations adopted under Section 126 of this title, which establish, embody or modify the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit and premises;
13. "Roomer" or "boarder" means a tenant occupying a dwelling unit:
14. "Single-family residence" means a structure used and maintained as a single dwelling unit. A dwelling unit, including those with common walls, shall be deemed a single-family residence if it has direct access to a street or thoroughfare and shares neither heating facilities, hot water equipment, nor any other essential facility or service with any other dwelling unit; and
15. "Tenant" means any person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit.
Added by Laws 1978, c. 257, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1978. Amended by Laws 1995, c, 149, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2003, c. 112, § 1, emerg. eff. April 21, 2003.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§41-1. Who deemed tenant at will.
§41-2. Tenant holding over as tenant at will - Expiration of unwritten contract.
§41-3. Tenant holds from one period to another, when.
§41-4. Time of notice to terminate tenancy.
§41-5. Termination of tenancy from year to year.
§41-6. Notice to quit where rent not paid.
§41-7. Notice when rent not paid under tenancy for less than three (3) months.
§41-8. Notice to quit not required, when.
§41-9. Service of notice - Termination of tenancy.
§41-10. Tenant may not assign, when.
§41-11. Landlord may reenter after unauthorized assignment.
§41-12. Attornment unnecessary to conveyance.
§41-13. Attornment to stranger void.
§41-15. Rights of alienees of lessors and lessees.
§41-16. Rents from life grants.
§41-17. Recovery of arrears of rent from life grants after death.
§41-18. Rights and liabilities of executors and administrators.
§41-19. Occupants without contract liable for rent.
§41-20. Contribution by joint tenants.
§41-21. Joint tenant may recover his share of rents.
§41-22. Recovery for waste or trespass by remainderman.
§41-23. Farm rent lien on crop.
§41-26. Purchaser of crop with notice liable for rent.
§41-27. Landlord may have attachment, when.
§41-28. Attachment for rent lien on crops.
§41-30. Taxation of improvements.
§41-33. Lease presumed to be for one year.
§41-35. Continued possession renews the lease, when.
§41-36. Renewal of lease presumed unless notice of termination given.
§41-38. Duty of tenant in case of proceedings.
§41-40. Forfeiture of lease - Release from record - Penalty.
§41-51. Abandonment or surrender of nonresidential rental property - Definitions.
§41-104. Arrangements not covered by act.
§41-105. Mitigation of damages - Rights, obligations and remedies - Enforcement.
§41-107. Good faith performance or enforcement.
§41-108. Beneficial owner to maintain premises.
§41-111. Termination of tenancy.
§41-112. Duties of parties upon termination of tenancy.
§41-113.1. Denial or termination of tenancy because of guide, signal or service dog.
§41-113.2. Assistance animal – Reasonable housing accommodation request.
§41-113.3. Victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking.
§41-113a. Disclosure of flood or flooding problems in rental agreement.
§41-114. Alienees - Rights, obligations and remedies.
§41-115. Damage or security deposits.
§41-118. Duties of landlord and tenant.
§41-119. Conveyance of property - Attornment of tenant.
§41-120. Failure of landlord to deliver possession of dwelling unit to tenant.
§41-122. Damage to or destruction of dwelling unit - Rights and duties of tenant.
§41-123. Wrongful removal or exclusion from dwelling unit.
§41-125. Defective condition of premises - Report to landlord.
§41-126. Tenant's use and occupancy of premises - Rules and regulations.
§41-129. Tenant's breach of rental agreement - Wrongful abandonment.
§41-130.1. Death of tenant - Disposition of personal property.
§41-133. Lien on tenant's property.