{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-60-60-503","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 60-503","heading":"Definitions","body":"Unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different\n\nmeaning is intended, as used herein:\n\n(a) \"Declaration\" means the instrument, duly recorded, by which\n\nthe property is submitted to the provisions of this act, as\n\nhereinafter provided, and such declaration as may be amended from\n\ntime to time;\n\n(b) \"Unit\" means an enclosed space consisting of one or more\n\nrooms occupying all or part of a floor or floors in a building of\n\none or more floors or stories regardless of whether it be designed\n\nfor residence, for office, for the operation of any industry or\n\nbusiness, or for any other type of independent use, provided it has\n\na direct exit to a thoroughfare or to a given common space leading\n\nto a thoroughfare; if so provided in the declaration, a unit may\n\ninclude some portion of the land constituting a part of the\n\ncondominium property and improvements thereon not a part of the\n\ncommon elements. A unit may include a series of buildings, not\n\nconnected or part of same structure if such is the intent of the\n\nowners of the unit estate. This act, and any deed, declaration or\n\nplan for a condominium project shall be liberally construed to\n\nfacilitate the establishment and operation of the project and\n\nprovisions of any of the same shall be presumed to be independent\n\nand severable;\n\n(c) \"Unit designation\" means the number, letter or combination\n\nthereof designating the unit in the declaration;\n\n(d) \"Building\" means one or more buildings or structures\n\ncomprising a part of the property;\n\n(e) \"Unit owner\" means a person owning a unit within the\n\nbuilding;\n\n(f) \"Person\" means an individual, corporation, partnership,\n\nassociation, trust or other legal entity, or any combination\n\nthereof;\n\n(g) \"Unit ownership estate\" means the ownership of single units\n\nin a multi-unit building together with an undivided interest in the\n\ncommon elements;\n\n(h) \"Common elements\" means and includes the general common\n\nelements and limited common elements. The term common elements does\n\nnot include unconstructed units unless otherwise specified in the\n\ndeclaration or by the consent of the owners pursuant to the Unit\n\nOwnership Estate Act;\n\n(i) Unless otherwise provided in the declaration or by consent\n\nof all the unit owners, \"general common elements\" means and\n\nincludes:\n\n(1) The land, whether leased or in fee simple, on which the\n\nbuilding stands and such other land and improvements thereon as may\n\nbe specifically included in the declaration, except any portion\n\nthereof included in a unit;\n\n(2) The foundations, columns, girders, beams, supports, main\n\nwalls, roofs, halls, corridors, lobbies, stairs, stairways, fire\n\nescapes, and entrances and exits of the building;\n\n(3) The basements, yards, gardens, parking areas and storage\n\nspaces;\n\n(4) The premises for the lodging of janitors or persons in\n\ncharge of the property as hereinafter defined;\n\n(5) Installations of central services such as power, light,\n\ngas, hot and cold water, heating refrigeration, air conditioning and\n\nincinerating;\n\n(6) The elevators, tanks, pumps, motors, fans, compressors,\n\nducts and in general, all apparatus and installations existing for\n\ncommon use;\n\n(7) Such community and commercial facilities as may be provided\n\nfor in the declaration; and\n\n(8) All other elements of the property necessary or convenient\n\nto its existence, maintenance and safety, or normally in common use;\n\n(j) \"Limited common elements\" means and includes those common\n\nelements which are agreed upon by all the unit owners to be reserved\n\nfor the use of a certain number of units to the exclusion of the\n\nother units, such as special corridors, stairways and elevators,\n\nsanitary services common to the units of a particular floor, and the\n\nlike;\nstence, maintenance and safety, or normally in common use;\n\n(j) \"Limited common elements\" means and includes those common\n\nelements which are agreed upon by all the unit owners to be reserved\n\nfor the use of a certain number of units to the exclusion of the\n\nother units, such as special corridors, stairways and elevators,\n\nsanitary services common to the units of a particular floor, and the\n\nlike;\n\n(k) \"Common expenses\" means and includes:\n\n(1) Expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or\n\nreplacement of the common elements;\n\n(2) Expenses agreed upon as common by all the unit owners;\n\n(3) Expenses declared common by provisions of the act, or by\n\nthe declaration or the bylaws;\n\n(4) Expenses incident to limited common elements which shall be\n\nborne as provided by the declaration or the bylaws;\n\n(l) \"Common profits\" means the balance of all income, rents,\n\nprofits and revenues from the common elements and facilities\n\nremaining after the deduction of the common expenses;\n\n(m) \"Council of unit owners\" means all the unit owners;\n\n(n) \"Majority of unit owners,\" means the owners of more than\n\nfifty percent (50%) of the aggregate interest in the general common\n\nelements as established by the declaration. Any specified\n\npercentage of unit owners means such percentage in the aggregate of\n\nsuch undivided ownership;\n\n(o) \"Recordation\" means to file of record in the office of the\n\ncounty clerk in the county where the land is situated, in the manner\n\nprovided by law for recordation of instruments affecting real\n\nestate;\n\n(p) \"Property\" means and includes the land, whether leasehold\n\nor in fee simple, the building, all improvements and structures\n\nthereon, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging\n\nthereto;\n\n(q) \"Declarant\" means the owner or co-owners referred to in\n\nSection 502 of this title who originally submitted the property to\n\nthe provisions of the Unit Ownership Estate Act by the filing of a\n\ndeclaration as provided in Section 502 of this title, and their\n\nsuccessors who have been granted and have assumed the duties,\n\nobligations and privileges and rights reserved to the original\n\ndeclarant under the terms of the declaration;\n\n(r) \"Unconstructed unit\" or \"unconstructed building\" means a\n\nunit or building as the case may be, which is owned by the declarant\n\nand shown on the plan attached to the declaration pursuant to\n\nSection 516 of this title, the construction of which has not been\n\ncompleted by the declarant at the time of recordation of the\n\ndeclaration. For purposes of this chapter a building is completed\n\nupon the completion of any unit in the building and a unit is\n\ncompleted when its construction is finished to the point that it is\n\nready for occupancy.","path":["OK Code","Title 60"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os60.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"e0b632089debbb4bb50ad54b125397164e39f2ad877c236db888e275e60bd2a2","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-60-60-502","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-60-60-504"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}