{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-503a","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 15-503a","heading":"Safe, vault or other depository - Notice - Liability to","body":"guest for loss of property.\n\nWhenever the proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel,\n\napartment hotel or inn shall provide a safe, vault or other\n\ndepository for the safekeeping of any money, jewels, ornaments, bank\n\nnotes, bonds, negotiable securities, or other valuable papers,\n\nprecious stones, railroad tickets, articles of gold or silver\n\nmanufacture, or other valuable property of small compass, belonging\n\nto guests of said hotel, apartment hotel or inn, and shall notify\n\nthe guests thereof by posting a notice in a public and conspicuous\n\nplace and manner in the office or public rooms, or in the public\n\nparlors, or in the guest rooms for said hotel, apartment hotel or\n\ninn, stating the fact that such safe, vault or other depository is\n\nprovided, in which such property may be deposited, and if such\n\nguests shall neglect to deliver such property to the person in\n\ncharge of such office, for deposit in such safe, vault or other\n\ndepository, the proprietor, manager or operator of such hotel,\n\napartment hotel or inn shall not be liable for any loss of any such\n\nproperty, sustained by such guest, whether by negligence of such\n\nproprietor, manager or operator, or his, her, or its servants, or\n\nemployees, or by fire, theft, burglary or any other cause. Such\n\nguest shall, at the time of delivering such property to the person\n\nin charge of the office of such hotel, apartment hotel or inn,\n\nadvise such person of the actual value of such property, and no\n\nproprietor, manager or operator or person in charge of the office of\n\nsuch hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall be required to receive\n\nproperty on deposit for safekeeping exceeding Three Hundred Dollars\n\n($300.00) in value; and in case of loss of any such property so\n\ndeposited for safekeeping, the proprietor, manager or operator of\n\nsuch hotel, apartment hotel or inn shall be liable only for the\n\nactual market or pecuniary value of such property, in no event\n\nexceeding the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00). Provided,\n\nthat the proprietor, manager or operator of any hotel, apartment\n\nhotel or inn may, by special agreement in writing with any such\n\nguest or guests, receive property of greater value than Three\n\nHundred Dollars ($300.00) and assume liability as shall be provided\n\nfor in such written agreement.","path":["OK Code","Title 15"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os15.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9b0e6a04f119fe07ab89bd42890b7f4bda9f8a84d92c8f78dd3e1036946ccb23","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-503","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-503b"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}