Oklahoma § 41-102 - Definitions

§ 41-102. Definitions

Unless the context otherwise requires:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 41. Landlord and Tenant

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:

a.

all or any part of the legal title to the property, or

b.

all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to

present use and enjoyment of the property, and such

term includes a mortgagee in possession;

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;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 41. Landlord and Tenant

13.

unit:

"Roomer" or "boarder" means a tenant occupying a dwelling

a.

which lacks at least one major bathroom or kitchen

facility, such as a toilet, refrigerator or stove,

b.

in a building

(1) where one or more of such major facilities are

supplied to be used in common by the occupants of

the roomer or boarder's dwelling unit and one or

more other dwelling units, and

(2) in which the landlord resides;

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.