Oklahoma § 6-1309 - Adverse claims to contents of safe deposit box

§ 6-1309. Adverse claims to contents of safe deposit box

A. An adverse claim to the contents of a safe deposit box, or

to property held in safekeeping, is not sufficient to require the

lessor to deny access to its lessee unless:

(1) the lessor is directed to do so by a court order issued in

an action in which the lessee is served with process and named as a

party by a name which identifies him with the name in which the safe

deposit box is leased or the property held; or

(2) the safe deposit box is leased or the property is held in

the name of a lessee with the addition of words indicating that the

contents or property are held in a fiduciary capacity, and the

adverse claim is supported by an affidavit stating facts disclosing

that it is made by or on behalf of a beneficiary and that there is a

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reason to believe that the fiduciary may misappropriate the trust

property.

B. A claim is also adverse where one of several lessees claims,

contrary to the terms of the lease, an exclusive right of access, or

where one or more persons claim a right of access as agents or

officers of a lessee to the exclusion of others as agents or

officers, or where it is claimed that a lessee is the same person as

one using another name.

Added by Laws 1965, c. 161, § 1309.