Okla. Stat. tit. 16 § 55

Current through Laws 2024, c. 378.
Section 55

All discriminatory restrictive covenants prohibited by Section 1 of this act may be declared illegal and unenforceable and considered removed from the instrument by the owner of real property subject to such restrictive covenants by recording a declaration to remove the discriminatory restrictive covenants. The real property owner may record such declaration:

1. Prior to recordation of a deed conveying real property to a purchaser; or
2. When such real property owner discovers that such discriminatory restrictive covenants exist.

Such declaration may be prepared without assistance of an attorney, but such declaration to remove the discriminatory restrictive covenants shall conform substantially to the following form:

DECLARATION TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATORY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS County where property is located: ____________________

Date of Instrument containing discriminatory restrictive covenants(s): ______________

Instrument Type: ____________________

Instrument recorded in Book ______Page _______

Name(s) of Grantor(s): ____________________

Name(s) of Current Owner(s): ____________________

Real Property Description: ____________________

The discriminatory restrictive covenants contained in the abovementioned instrument are declared to be illegal and unlawful and shall be considered removed from the instrument to the extent that it contains terms purporting to restrict the ownership or use of the property as prohibited by Section 1 of this act.

The undersigned is/are the legal owner(s) of the property described herein.

Signed and delivered this ___ day of__________, ____.

_____________________________ ________________________

_____________________________ ________________________

State of Oklahoma, )

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__________County. )

Before me, ____ in and for this state, on this ____ day of ____,

________personally appeared ________to me known to be the identical person(s) who executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that ____executed the same as ____free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 55

Added by Laws 2023 , c. 267, s. 2, eff. 11/1/2023.