{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-6-6-1310","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 6, § 6-1310","heading":"Lien of lessor, special remedies and proceedings for","body":"nonpayment of rent.\n\nThe lessor shall have a lien upon the contents of the lessee's\n\nbox for past due rentals and any expense incurred in opening of the\n\nbox and replacement of locks thereon where the same is done without\n\nfault of the lessor. If the lessee fails to pay the rental due and\n\nsuch default continues for sixty (60) days, the lessor may give the\n\nlessee thirty (30) days' notice by certified mail addressed to the\n\nlessee at the address shown on the lessor's records or the last-\n\nknown address of the lessee, stating the amount due and that on or\n\nafter the day designated in the notice it may open the box, remove\n\nthe contents thereof and hold the same for the account of the\n\nlessee. The opening of the box shall be witnessed by not less than\n\ntwo persons, one of which shall be an officer of the lessor, who\n\nshall make an inventory under oath of the contents thereof, and\n\nthereupon the contents shall be placed in a package and held by the\n\nlessor as a bailee for hire. If the lessee makes no demand for the\n\ncontents within one (1) year after the same have been removed from\n\nthe box, the lessor may advertise and sell the same, the sale to be\n\nmade at the time and place designated in the notice which shall be\n\npublished in one issue of a newspaper having a general circulation\n\nin the city or town wherein the business of the lessor is situated,\n\nthe publication to be not less than ten (10) days prior to the date\n\nfixed for the sale. A copy of the notice shall be mailed to the\n\nlessee at the last-known address of the lessee by certified mail.\n\nThe notice shall show the name of the lessee but it shall not be\n\nnecessary to describe the articles to be sold, except those that\n\nhave an intrinsic value, if there shall be posted, not less than ten\n\n(10) days prior to the sale, in or about the lessor, in a\n\nconspicuous place, a copy of the notice of sale and a copy of the\n\ninventory made upon opening of the box. The contents of any number\n\nof boxes may be sold under one notice of sale and the cost thereof\n\napportioned ratably to the several lessees involved. At the time\n\nand place designated in the notice the contents taken from each\n\nrespective box shall be sold separately to the highest bidder for\n\ncash and the proceeds of each sale shall be applied to the rentals\n\nand expenses due the lessor and the residue from any sale held by\n\nthe lessor for the account of the lessee. At any such sale the\n\nlessor may be the purchaser. If any lessee or his or her heirs,\n\nadministrator or executor, shall not make demand upon the lessor\n\nwithin five (5) years after the date of the sale, for such surplus,\n\nthen the surplus shall be presumed abandoned and administered in\n\naccordance with the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act. The lessor may,\n\nat its option, turn the property over to the State Treasurer prior\n\nto the expiration of the five-year abandonment period.","path":["OK Code","Title 6"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os6.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"1ca89f3b985ba3557072285592c581e81ba0d9a7c429a5f2bbc5a1b9a63d2c06","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-6-6-1309","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-6-6-1311"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}