Okla. Stat. tit. 58, § 58-215: Duties of special administrator

A. The special administrator must collect and preserve for the

executor or administrator all the goods, chattels, debts and effects

of the decedent, all incomes, rents, issues and profits, claims and

demands, of the estate, must take the charge and management of, and

enter upon and preserve from damage, waste and injury, the real

estate, and for such and all other necessary purposes may commence

and maintain or defend suits and other legal proceedings, as an

administrator; he may sell such perishable property as the district

court may order to be sold, and exercise such other powers as are

conferred upon him by his appointment, but in no case is he liable

to an action by any creditor on a claim against the decedent. He

may obtain leave to borrow money, or to lease or mortgage real

property, in the same manner as a general administrator.

B. If an executor or administrator is not appointed within

sixty (60) days following the appointment of a special

administrator, upon application to and approval by the court, the

special administrator may, as provided by statute, give notice to

creditors and, upon receipt of creditor's claims as required by

statute, pay, with the approval of the probate court, such claims.