Oklahoma § 60-2009 - Limitations on claims against museum — Donated property

§ 60-2009. Limitations on claims against museum — Donated property

A. An action shall not be brought against a museum for damages

because of injury to or loss of property loaned to the museum more

than two (2) years from the date the museum gives the lender or

person with legal interests notice of the injury or loss or two (2)

years from the date of the injury or loss, whichever occurs earlier.

B. An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover

property more than two (2) years after the date the museum gives the

person with legal interests notice of its intent to acquire the

property.

C. An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover

property on loan more than two (2) years from the date of the last

written contact between the lender or person with legal interest and

the museum as evidenced by the museum's records.

D. A lender is considered to have donated loaned property to

the museum if the lender fails to file an action to recover the

property on loan to the museum within the time periods specified in

subsections A through C of this section.

E. Notwithstanding subsections C and D of this section, a

lender who was not given notice as provided in this act that the

museum intended to terminate a loan as provided in Section 3 of this

act, and who proves that the museum received an adequate notice of

intent to preserve an interest in loaned property, which satisfies

all of the requirements of Section 3 of this act, within the two (2)

years immediately preceding the filing of an action to recover the

property, may recover the property or, if the property has been

disposed of, the reasonable value of the property at the time it was

disposed of plus interest at the legal rate.

F. A museum is not liable at any time, in the absence of a

court order, for returning property to the original lender even if a

person other than the lender has filed a notice of intent to

preserve an interest in property. If a person claims competing

interests in property in the possession of a museum, the burden is

upon the claimant to prove the interest in an action in equity

initiated by a claimant. A museum is not liable at any time for

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property

returning property to an uncontested claimant who produced

reasonable proof of ownership or the existence of a security

interest pursuant to Section 3 of this act.

Added by Laws 2025, c. 120, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.