Oklahoma Statutes
Title 42. Liens
§42-144. Oil and gas well liens.

Any person, corporation, or copartnership who shall, under contract, expressed or implied, with the owner of any leasehold for oil and gas purposes, or the owner of any gas pipeline or oil pipeline, or with the trustee or agent of such owner, perform labor or services, including written contracts for the services of a geologist or petroleum engineer, or furnish material, machinery, and oil well supplies used in the digging, drilling, torpedoing, completing, operating, or repairing of any oil or gas well, or who shall furnish any oil or gas well supplies, or perform any labor in constructing or putting together any of the machinery used in drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, or repairing of any gas well, or perform any labor upon any oil well supplies, tools, and other articles used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, or repairing any oil or gas well, shall have a lien upon the whole of such leasehold or oil pipeline, or gas pipeline, or lease for oil and gas purposes, the buildings and appurtenances, the proceeds from the sale of oil or gas produced therefrom inuring to the working interest, exempting, however, any valid, bona fide reservations of oil or gas payments or overriding royalty interests executed in good faith and payable out of such working interest, and upon the material and supplies so furnished, and upon any oil well supplies, tools, and other articles used in digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, or repairing any oil or gas well, and upon the oil or gas well for which they were furnished, and upon all the other oil or gas well fixtures and appliances used in the operating for oil and gas purposes upon the leasehold for which said material and supplies were furnished or labor or services performed. Such lien shall be preferred to all other liens or encumbrances which may attach to or upon said leasehold for gas and oil purposes and upon any oil or gas pipeline, or such oil and gas wells and the material and machinery so furnished and the leasehold for oil and gas purposes and the fixtures and appliances thereon subsequent to the commencement of or the furnishing or putting up of any such machinery or supplies; and such lien shall follow said property and each and every part thereof, and be enforceable against the said property wherever the same may be found; and compliance with the provisions of this article shall constitute constructive notice of the lien claimant's lien to all purchasers and encumbrancers of said property or any part thereof, subsequent to the date of the furnishing of the first item of material or the date of the performance of the first labor or services.

R.L. 1910, § 3865; Laws 1919, c. 258, p. 367, § 2; Laws 1927, c. 42, p. 64, § 1; Laws 1963, c. 226, § 1.

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Oklahoma Statutes

Title 42. Liens

§42-1. Lien defined.

§42-2. Classes of liens.

§42-3. General lien.

§42-4. Special lien - Prior lien.

§42-5. Law applies to what.

§42-6. Lien created, how.

§42-7. Lien created by law.

§42-8. Lien on future interest.

§42-9. Lien to take immediate effect.

§42-10. Lien transfers no title.

§42-11. Contracts for forfeiture of property and restraining redemption.

§42-12. Lien does not imply obligation.

§42-13. Extent of lien limited.

§42-14. Holder of lien not entitled to compensation.

§42-15. Priority of liens according to date.

§42-16. Priority of mortgage for price of realty.

§42-17. Order of resort for payment of prior liens.

§42-18. Persons entitled to redeem lien - Federal right of first refusal - Rule of construction.

§42-19. Holder of inferior lien - Redemption.

§42-20. Redemption - How made.

§42-21. Lien is an accessory obligation.

§42-22. Sale or conversion of property extinguishes lien.

§42-23. Limitation of time.

§42-24. Partial performance as extinguishing lien.

§42-25. Voluntary restoration as extinguishing lien.

§42-26. Vendor's lien for price of realty.

§42-27. Waiver of vendor's lien.

§42-28. Validity of liens of vendors and purchasers.

§42-30. Lien of purchaser of real property.

§42-31. Lien of factor.

§42-32. Banker's lien.

§42-33. Special lien of officer levying attachment or execution.

§42-34. Other liens.

§42-35. Judgment liens.

§42-39. Keeper of inn, hotel, boardinghouse, or rooming house - Lien on baggage and other property - Limitation - Enforcement.

§42-43. Hospital liens in personal injury cases - Priority - Exception.

§42-44. Filing of notice of lien - Enforcement by civil action.

§42-45. Insurance agent's lien.

§42-46. Physician's lien.

§42-47. Provider of seed, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides or fertilizer - Agricultural lien.

§42-48. Provider of seed, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides or fertilizer - General agriculture commodities lien.

§42-49. Ambulance service provider liens.

§42-90. Notice preparers to register and submit annual fee.

§42-91. Lien on certain personal property for service thereon - Foreclosure - Notice - Purchaser - Unpaid checks - Repossession

§42-91.1. Abandoned vehicle auctions – Exemption from fees and taxes.

§42-91.2. Liens on farm equipment.

§42-91A. Lien on certain personal property for service thereon - Certificate of title - Foreclosure - Notice - Purchaser - Unpaid checks – Repossession.

§42-92. Laborer's lien on products of labor.

§42-93. Enforcement of lien.

§42-94. When lien attaches.

§42-95. Time for enforcement.

§42-96. Priority of lien.

§42-97. Lien for labor or materials for production, alteration or repair of personal property - Commencement of lien.

§42-98. Filing of statement of lien with county clerk - Innocent purchasers.

§42-99. Priority of mortgage liens.

§42-100. Foreclosure of liens.

§42-101. Sale, disposal or removal of property covered by lien - Punishment.

§42-102. Discharge of lien when satisfied.

§42-104. Enforcement and foreclosure of liens on farm equipment.

§42-111. Persons entitled to liens - Commencement of lien.

§42-112. Filing statement of lien in office of county clerk - Right to lien as against purchaser.

§42-113. Priority of mortgage liens - Liability of mortgagee consenting in writing.

§42-114. Statement furnished owner by thresher - Forfeiture on failure to comply.

§42-115. Enforcement of lien.

§42-116. Sale for purpose of paying threshing or combining bill.

§42-117. Selling in violation of lien.

§42-118. Satisfaction of lien - Discharge - Record - Duty of holders.

§42-119. Right to lien - Persons liable for threshing bills - Enforcement of lien by attachment - Persons against whom valid.

§42-120. Statement to be furnished owner or person in charge - False statements as to law.

§42-121. Removal of grain or seed with fraudulent intent - Fraudulent appropriation.

§42-131. Lien provided for work.

§42-132. Procedure to perfect lien.

§42-141. Right to lien - Priority - Enforceablility against property - Constructive notice.

§42-141.1. Transfer of records, funds, and powers and duties to county clerk.

§42-142. Statement to be filed.

§42-142.4. Fraudulent statement - Felony.

§42-142.6. Pre-lien notice - Requirements – Affidavit - Penalties.

§42-143. Lien by or through subcontractor.

§42-143.1. Notice - Filing of lien statement - Fees.

§42-143.3. Leased or rented equipment - Exemption from act.

§42-143.4. Leased or rented equipment - Property used for production of oil or gas.

§42-144. Oil and gas well liens.

§42-144.1. Effectiveness of lien against purchaser - Delivery of copy of statement of lien.

§42-144.2. Trust funds for payment of lienable claims.

§42-145. Oil and gas well lien by or through subcontractor.

§42-146. Enforcement of lien on oil and gas wells.

§42-147.1. Discharge of lien.

§42-148. Lien on mining property for work thereon.

§42-149. Suit within one year.

§42-150. Filing statement.

§42-151. Lightning rods not included herein.

§42-152. Proceeds of building or remodeling contracts, mortgages or warranty deeds as trust funds for payment of lienable claims.

§42-153. Payment of lienable claims.

§42-154. Corporations - Execution, attestation, seal or acknowledgment of lien statement - Release of lien.

§42-161. Right to lien against railroads.

§42-162. Limitations.

§42-163. How enforced.

§42-164. Notice.

§42-171. Assignment of liens.

§42-172. Enforcement by civil actions - Limitations - Practice, pleading and proceeding - Amendment of lien statement.

§42-173. Parties.

§42-174. Consolidation of actions and stay of trial.

§42-175. Sale of property after judgment.

§42-176. Attorney's fees.

§42-177. Suit by owner to determine lien and cancellation of lien on docket.

§42-178. Proceeds insufficient.

§42-180. Liens against manufactured homes – Repossession - Notice.

§42-191. Short title.

§42-192. Definitions.

§42-193. Applicability of Article 7 of Commercial Code.

§42-194. Duty of care - Disclosure.

§42-195. Default by occupant - Prevention of access - Liability for damage to property.

§42-196. Lien - Date of attachment - Disclosure of other lienholders.

§42-197. Priority - Enforcement - Notice - Sale of property.

§42-197.1. Abandonment or surrender – Possession – Disposal – Notice.

§42-198. Residential use prohibited.

§42-199. Other rights not impaired or affected.

§42-200. Publication of act.

§42-201. Short title.

§42-202. Definitions.

§42-203. Real estate broker lien - Attachment.

§42-204. Notice of lien - Mailing.

§42-205. Suit to enforce lien - Extinguishment of lien.

§42-206. Notice of lien - Contents.

§42-207. Release or satisfaction of lien - Demand for suit to enforce lien - Alternate dispute resolution - Attorneys' fees, costs and interest.

§42-208. Priority of lien.

§42-209. Lien on escrow account.