
Oklahoma Revocable Living Trust
Oklahoma got a Uniform Trust Code on November 1, 2025, and the 1941 Trust Act still runs beside it. How to create a living trust here and fund it.
An Oklahoma revocable living trust holds your property while you live and hands it to the people you name when you die, with no probate case for anything titled inside it. You stay in charge and can change or cancel it any time. It reaches only the assets you actually retitle, and that gap is where most Oklahoma trusts fail.
Oklahoma trust law moved on November 1, 2025, and most of the search results have not caught up. The Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code now sits at 60 O.S. §§ 1601.1 through 1610.3, added by Laws 2025, c. 254. The 1941 Oklahoma Trust Act at 60 O.S. §§ 175.1 through 175.57 was not repealed. Section 1610.3(A)(1) applies the new code to every trust created before, on, or after that date, and § 1610.3(C) keeps the older act in force except where a provision conflicts with an express provision of the new code. Two statutes, one subject, and you have to read both.
This guide covers what the trust does, what Oklahoma requires to create one, the revocation rule the new code left behind, how funding works here, the pour-over will that backs it up, what happens after a death, and the honest case for skipping the whole thing.
What an Oklahoma Revocable Living Trust Does
A revocable living trust is a written agreement holding assets for your benefit while you are alive and for your beneficiaries after you die. "Living" means you sign it now instead of creating it through your will. "Revocable" means you can undo it.
You keep control. 60 O.S. § 1606.2(A) lets the trustee follow a direction from the settlor that runs contrary to the terms of the trust, so long as the trust is revocable. Subsection (B) goes further: while the trust is revocable and you have capacity to revoke it, the rights of the beneficiaries are subject to your control and the trustee's duties are owed exclusively to you. Your children have no standing to inspect the books while you are alive and competent.
It skips probate for what is inside it. Property titled to the trust is not part of the probate estate, so your successor trustee takes over without a court appointment, letters, or an inventory. Nothing else about the property changes.
It does nothing for what is outside it. A trust signed and left in a drawer avoids nothing. That is the most common Oklahoma trust failure, and the fix is the funding section below. The other ways around probate reach assets the trust never touched.
Creating One: What Oklahoma Requires
60 O.S. § 1604.1 gives three methods: transfer of property to another person as trustee during your lifetime or at your death, a declaration by the owner of property that the owner holds identifiable property as trustee, or the exercise of a power of appointment in favor of a trustee. Most Oklahoma living trusts use the second, where you declare that you hold your own property as trustee.
60 O.S. § 1604.2(A) then sets five conditions. A trust is created only if:
- the settlor has capacity to create a trust
- the settlor indicates an intention to create the trust
- the trust has a definite beneficiary, or is a charitable trust or a trust for a noncharitable purpose
- the trustee has duties to perform
- the same person is not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary
Read the fifth twice. A single Oklahoma adult who names herself sole trustee and sole beneficiary with nobody taking after her has not created a trust. Naming remainder beneficiaries fixes it, and every drafted trust does.
The capacity standard is the will standard. 60 O.S. § 1606.1 says the capacity required to create, amend, revoke, or add property to a revocable trust, or to direct the trustee's actions, is the same as that required to make a will.
Here is what Oklahoma does not require. Neither the Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code nor the 1941 act carries a notary, witness, or attestation requirement for a trust instrument, and 60 O.S. § 1604.7 says a trust need not be evidenced by a trust instrument at all, though an oral trust and its terms can be established only by clear and convincing evidence. Nobody registers an Oklahoma living trust with a court.
Two writing rules survive that. A trust in relation to real property is valid only if created or declared by a written instrument subscribed by the trustor or by an agent authorized in writing, or by the instrument under which the trustee claims the estate, under 60 O.S. § 175.6. And the deed that moves your house needs a notarial acknowledgment, because 16 O.S. § 26 says no instrument affecting real estate may be received for record unless executed and acknowledged in substantial compliance with that chapter, and recording one that is not is ineffective for any purpose. Treat the notary block as the price of getting a county clerk and a bank to cooperate.
Signing electronically is now settled for the trust itself. 84 O.S. § 912(5)(a) puts a trust instrument, a trust power requiring a signed record, and a memorandum or certification of trust inside the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act, and 84 O.S. § 917 says such a document may not be denied legal effect solely because it is electronic. 84 O.S. § 912(5)(b) then carves out a deed of real property and a certificate of title, so the trust may be signed on a screen and the deed that funds it may not.
Revocation, and the Section the New Code Left Out
The Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code has no revocation or amendment provision. Article 6 covers capacity (§ 1606.1), the settlor's powers (§ 1606.2), and the contest deadline (§ 1606.3), and then ends. Nothing in §§ 1601.1 through 1610.3 sets a default rule for revoking a revocable trust or a method for doing it.
That gap sends you back to 60 O.S. § 175.41, preserved by § 1610.3(C). Every trust is revocable by the trustor unless expressly made irrevocable by the terms of the instrument creating it. The section then adds a route people miss: any trust may be revoked by the trustor on the written consent of all living persons holding a vested or contingent interest, with "contingent interest" defined to include an interest a beneficiary may take by purchase and to exclude one taken by descent. Section 175.41 does not reach a spendthrift trust unless the trustor created it for the trustor's own benefit.
Because the method of revocation is not written into either statute, the method your own trust document names is what governs. Pull the revocation article and follow it word for word.
One automatic revocation runs in the background. 60 O.S. § 175(A) revokes every provision of an express trust in favor of the trustor's former spouse that takes effect at the trustor's death, once the trustor divorces, and treats the former spouse as having predeceased. Annulment does the same. Subsection (B) lists six exceptions, including a vacated decree, a remarriage to the same person, contrary language in the decree or in the trust, and a post-divorce amendment. Subsection (C) applies the rule to any trustor dying on or after November 1, 1987.
Funding Is the Half People Skip
Funding means changing title so the trust owns the asset.
Real property. 60 O.S. § 175.6a lets any estate in real property be acquired and held in the name of the express trust itself, and requires any later conveyance, assignment, or transfer to be made in the name of the trust by its trustee or trustees. When real property is transferred or acquired in the trust's name, the same section requires the trustee to file a memorandum of trust with the county clerk where the property sits, stating the trust's date of creation and the name of the trustee or trustees. A person signing as trustee is then presumed to be acting in that capacity and within the scope of authority in any action to set aside the conveyance brought against a bona fide purchaser for value.
Do not record the trust document itself unless you mean to. 60 O.S. § 175.45(a) makes a trustee's deed, lease, easement, or encumbrance binding on the trust in favor of a purchaser for value without actual notice of the limits the trust puts on the trustee. Subsection (b) says recording the trust instrument in the county where the property sits charges those purchasers with constructive notice of the restrictions. Subsection (c) states the Legislature's intent plainly: trusts are private instruments, and recording is unnecessary unless the trustor wants the public on notice of limits on the trustee's powers.
Recording costs, and the transfer tax that does not apply. 28 O.S. § 32(A)(1) and (2) set $8.00 for the first page and $2.00 for each additional page, and § 32(C) adds $10.00 per instrument for records management. A nonconforming instrument under 19 O.S. § 298(C) costs $25.00 and $10.00 instead, per § 32(A)(13) and (14), so use the clerk's margin and font rules. On the transfer tax: 68 O.S. § 3201(A) charges 75 cents per $500.00 of consideration on deeds of realty sold, and 68 O.S. § 3202(4) exempts deeds between any person and an express revocable trust created by that person or that person's spouse. Funding the house triggers no documentary stamp tax.
The homestead exemption question to ask first. 68 O.S. § 2888(A)(1) defines the homestead for ad valorem exemption purposes as the actual residence of a natural person, "provided the record actual ownership of such residence be vested in such natural person residing and domiciled thereon." The section says nothing about a trust, and the words "revocable trust" appear exactly once in all of Title 68, in the documentary stamp exemption above. Call the assessor in the county where the property sits and ask how that office treats a trust-held homestead before you record the deed, rather than reasoning from the statute's silence.
Bank and brokerage accounts. Retitle the account into the trust's name. The bank will ask for proof, and since November 1, 2025 Oklahoma gives you a short document to hand over. 60 O.S. § 1609.7(A) lets the trustee furnish a certification of trust stating that the trust exists and the date of the instrument, the settlor's identity, the acting trustee's identity and address, the trustee's powers, the revocability of the trust and who may revoke it, the authority of co-trustees, the trust's taxpayer identification number, and the manner of taking title. Subsection (D) says it need not contain the dispositive terms. Subsection (E) lets the recipient ask for the excerpts that appoint the trustee and confer the power at issue. Subsection (H) is the sentence to read to a stubborn counter clerk: a person demanding the trust instrument on top of a certification is liable for damages if the court determines the person did not act in good faith.
Accounts to leave alone. Retirement plans and life insurance pass by beneficiary designation, and payable-on-death bank accounts pass under 6 O.S. § 901. Naming a trust as the beneficiary of a retirement account changes how the money is taxed and paid out after death, so ask an Oklahoma attorney or your plan administrator before you write the trust onto that form. Digital accounts follow their own ladder under Oklahoma's 2024 digital assets act, where a provider's online tool outranks the trust document.
The Pour-Over Will
Every Oklahoma living trust ships with a companion will, and 84 O.S. §§ 301 through 305 is the Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act that makes it work.
For a testator dying on or after November 1, 2022, 84 O.S. § 301(B)(1) validates a will's devise to the trustee of a trust established or to be established, and says the devise is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the will was signed or after the testator died. Subsection (B)(2) says property devised that way is not held under a testamentary trust; it becomes part of the trust you already have and is administered under that instrument, amendments included. Subsection (A) governs a testator who died before that date on slightly narrower terms.
Then subsection (B)(3) carries the trap. Unless the will provides otherwise, a revocation or termination of the trust before the testator's death causes the devise to lapse. Tear up an Oklahoma trust without rewriting the will and the will may have nothing left to say about the property it was written to catch.
The will still has to be a valid Oklahoma will. 84 O.S. § 55 requires a written will subscribed at the end by the testator or by another at the testator's direction and in the testator's presence, subscribed in the presence of the attesting witnesses or acknowledged to them, declared by the testator to be the will, and signed by two attesting witnesses at the end at the testator's request and in the testator's presence. Section 55(5) adds the self-proving affidavit, which spares your witnesses a trip to court, and 84 O.S. § 54 recognizes a holographic will written, dated, and signed entirely in the testator's own hand. The details sit on Oklahoma will requirements.
One thing the pour-over will cannot do is spare you the courthouse. Somebody has to take it there: 58 O.S. § 22 lets an executor, devisee, legatee, or any other person interested in the estate petition the district court to have the will proved, and 58 O.S. § 42 has the court set out findings and render judgment either admitting or refusing the will, then record the judgment and the will. So if the pour-over will is carrying real assets because funding was left unfinished, someone opens an Oklahoma probate case to pour them over. The will backstops the trust. It does not replace the funding.
What Happens After You Die
The trust becomes irrevocable and two clocks start.
Sixty days to notify beneficiaries. 60 O.S. § 1608.12(B)(3) requires the trustee, within 60 days after learning that a formerly revocable trust has become irrevocable, whether by the settlor's death or otherwise, to notify the qualified beneficiaries of the trust's existence, the settlor's identity, the right to request a copy of the trust instrument, and the right to a trustee's report. Paragraph (B)(2) gives a new trustee the same 60 days to send name, address, and telephone number after accepting. Subsection (C) then requires the trustee to send the distributees and permissible distributees of trust income or principal, and any other qualified beneficiary who asks, a report at least annually and at the trust's termination, covering trust property, liabilities, receipts, and disbursements, the source and amount of the trustee's compensation, and a listing of the trust assets with market values where that is feasible. Subsection (E) exempts a trustee who accepted before November 1, 2025 and a revocable trust that became irrevocable before that date, so a 2019 death does not carry the notice duty.
Three years to contest. 60 O.S. § 1606.3(A) lets a person commence a proceeding contesting the validity of a trust that was revocable at the settlor's death within three years after the later of the death or actual or constructive notice of the trust's existence and terms. Subsection (B) lets the trustee distribute in the meantime without liability unless the trustee knows of a pending contest, knows of claims or allowances payable from the trust, or was notified of a possible proceeding that is filed within 60 days. Subsection (C) makes a beneficiary liable to return a distribution if the trust turns out to be invalid.
The successor trustee's whole job is covered on Oklahoma trust administration.
What an Oklahoma Trust Does Not Do
It does not cut your income tax. Under 26 U.S.C. 676(a), the grantor is treated as the owner of any portion of a trust where the power to revest title in the grantor is exercisable by the grantor or a non-adverse party. The income stays yours while you live.
It does not stop your creditors. 60 O.S. § 1605.1(A)(1) subjects the property of a revocable trust to the settlor's creditors during the settlor's lifetime, spendthrift clause or not. Subsection (A)(2) carries that past death, reaching the property for the settlor's creditors, the costs of administering the estate, funeral and disposal expenses, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children where the probate estate falls short. The 1941 act reached the same result at 60 O.S. § 175.25(H), which says nothing authorizes a person to create a spendthrift trust for their own benefit and makes the trustor's beneficial interest freely alienable and subject to creditors.
It does not clear a Medicaid lien. 63 O.S. § 5051.3(E) lets the Oklahoma Health Care Authority record a lien against the homestead of a recipient in long-term nursing or ICF/IID care. Subsection (F)(2)(c) keeps that lien on the property after a transfer of title by conveyance, sale, succession, inheritance, or will, subsection (F)(4) says the lien is treated as a mortgage, and subsection (F)(3) makes it enforceable before or after the death. Deeding the house to a trust does not shake it off. Anyone who has received or may need Medicaid long-term care should talk to an Oklahoma elder law attorney before retitling a home.
It does not save you from a percentage probate fee, because Oklahoma does not charge one. 28 O.S. § 152(A)(3) sets a flat $135.00 to file a probate, and the same section stacks fixed assessments: $6.00 for the law library under (B), $25.00 for the Oklahoma Court Information System under (C), $10.00 for court-appointed special advocates under (D), $2.00 under (E), and $10.00 for records management under (G) until November 1, 2027. A county may add up to $10.00 for courthouse security under (F). Oklahoma has no percentage court fee on the value of an estate, and 28 O.S. § 152(H) waives fees entirely for a litigant who files an affidavit in forma pauperis. What a trust buys here is time, privacy, and a successor who can act the week after a death, not escape from a ruinous filing fee.
It does not create a state estate tax problem, because there is none. 68 O.S. § 804.1 says that for deaths occurring on or after January 1, 2010, no lien related to estate tax attaches to any property passing through a decedent's estate, by joint tenancy, or otherwise, and no order exempting estate tax liability is needed for real property to be marketable.
Trust or Transfer on Death Deed
For an Oklahoma family whose main asset is one house, the recorded deed usually wins on cost.
The Nontestamentary Transfer of Property Act sits at 58 O.S. §§ 1251 through 1258. Section 1252(A) lets the record owner title an interest in real estate in transfer-on-death form by recording a deed naming a grantee beneficiary, and § 1252(B) says no notice to or consent from that beneficiary is needed during the owner's life. The catch is on the other end: for a death on or after November 1, 2011, § 1252(E) requires the beneficiary to record an acceptance affidavit with a copy of the death certificate attached within nine months of the death, or the interest reverts to the deceased owner's estate. One recording fee moves one house, and a missed affidavit puts it back into probate.
The trust earns its cost somewhere else. Pick a trust where you own real estate in more than one state and want to avoid a second court case, where you want distributions staged over time rather than handed over at once, where privacy matters because both a recorded deed and a probate file are public, where a beneficiary has a disability or a creditor problem that needs managed money, or where incapacity planning matters more to you than death planning and you want a successor trustee who can act without a guardianship. Oklahoma also allows a trust for a named animal under 60 O.S. § 199, which drops the filing and accounting duties where the trust holds $20,000.00 or less and requires a remainder beneficiary.
An Oklahoma Funding Checklist
- Read your trust's revocation article, because neither statute supplies a method and the document's own terms govern. (60 O.S. § 175.41.)
- Confirm remainder beneficiaries exist, so you are not the sole trustee and sole beneficiary. (60 O.S. § 1604.2(A)(5).)
- Deed each parcel into the trust and file the memorandum of trust with the county clerk, giving the date of creation and the trustee's name. (60 O.S. § 175.6a.)
- Have the deed acknowledged before recording, and budget $8.00 plus $2.00 a page plus the $10.00 records fee. (16 O.S. § 26; 28 O.S. § 32.)
- Skip the documentary stamp tax, which does not touch a deed to your own revocable trust. (68 O.S. § 3202(4).)
- Ask the county assessor about the homestead exemption before recording, since 68 O.S. § 2888(A)(1) speaks only of a natural person.
- Retitle bank and brokerage accounts, handing over a certification of trust rather than the whole instrument. (60 O.S. § 1609.7.)
- Leave retirement plans, life insurance, and P.O.D. accounts on their beneficiary forms unless an attorney tells you otherwise.
- Sign the pour-over will with two attesting witnesses and a self-proving affidavit. (84 O.S. § 55.)
- Sign the incapacity documents, because the trust covers property and nothing else. See Oklahoma power of attorney and Oklahoma advance directive.
- Keep a one-page schedule of what is titled to the trust and update it whenever you buy or sell.
When To Call An Oklahoma Attorney
Talk to a licensed Oklahoma attorney when:
- Medicaid long-term care is on the table, because a filed 63 O.S. § 5051.3 lien follows the property through any conveyance
- you own real property in another state whose recorder may not accept an Oklahoma memorandum of trust
- a blended family means the survivorship default on a deed and the trust point at different people, or a surviving spouse's statutory rights cut across the plan
- a beneficiary has a disability, a creditor problem, or a substance problem that calls for staged distributions
- a trust already exists and nobody can say which assets were ever retitled into it
- the trust instrument predates November 1, 2025 and you want to know which of its terms the new code now overrides
- the settlor has died and you are the successor trustee working out the 60-day notice and the three-year contest window
Confirm anything about a particular property with the county clerk and assessor where it sits, and anything about a filed case with the district court handling it. The rest of the planning toolkit is on Oklahoma estate planning basics.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Oklahoma have a Uniform Trust Code?
Yes, since November 1, 2025. The Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code sits at 60 O.S. §§ 1601.1 through 1610.3, added by Laws 2025, c. 254. Section 1610.3(A)(1) applies it to every trust created before, on, or after that date. The 1941 Oklahoma Trust Act was not repealed: 60 O.S. § 1610.3(C) says its provisions continue to apply unless a provision is inconsistent with an express provision of the new code. Any page that tells you Oklahoma is not a Uniform Trust Code state is describing the law as it stood before November 2025.
Is an Oklahoma living trust revocable by default?
Yes, and the rule comes from the older statute. The Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code has no revocation or amendment section at all: Article 6 runs capacity at § 1606.1, the settlor's powers at § 1606.2, and the contest deadline at § 1606.3, and then stops. So revocation still runs on 60 O.S. § 175.41 of the 1941 act, which says every trust is revocable by the trustor unless expressly made irrevocable by the terms of the instrument creating it. Section 175.41 adds a second route that surprises people: any trust may be revoked by the trustor on the written consent of all living persons holding a vested or contingent interest in it.
Does an Oklahoma living trust have to be notarized, witnessed, or recorded?
No statute requires any of the three. Neither the Oklahoma Uniform Trust Code nor the 1941 Oklahoma Trust Act contains a notary, witness, or attestation requirement for a trust instrument, and 60 O.S. § 175.45(c) states the Legislature's intent that trusts are private instruments which need not be recorded unless the trustor wants the public on notice of limits on the trustee's powers. Two writing rules still bite. A trust of real property must be created by a written instrument subscribed by the trustor or a written agent under 60 O.S. § 175.6, and the deed that moves the property must be acknowledged before a county clerk will record it under 16 O.S. § 26.
How do you put an Oklahoma house into a living trust?
60 O.S. § 175.6a lets an estate in real property be acquired and held in the name of the express trust itself, and requires any later conveyance to be made in the name of the trust by its trustee or trustees. When real property is transferred or acquired in the trust's name, the same section requires the trustee to file a memorandum of trust with the county clerk where the property sits, giving the trust's date of creation and the name of the trustee or trustees. The deed needs a notarial acknowledgment under 16 O.S. § 26. Recording runs $8.00 for the first page and $2.00 for each additional page under 28 O.S. § 32(A)(1) and (2), plus $10.00 per instrument for records management under § 32(C).
Is there a transfer tax when you fund an Oklahoma trust with real estate?
No. 68 O.S. § 3201(A) taxes deeds of realty sold at 75 cents per $500.00 of consideration, and 68 O.S. § 3202(4) exempts deeds between any person and an express revocable trust created by that person or that person's spouse. Watch the other tax question instead. The ad valorem homestead exemption at 68 O.S. § 2888(A)(1) turns on record actual ownership being vested in a natural person residing and domiciled on the property, and it says nothing about a trust. Ask your county assessor how the office treats a trust-held homestead before you record the deed.
Does an Oklahoma bank have to take a certification of trust instead of the whole document?
Oklahoma added a certification of trust statute effective November 1, 2025. 60 O.S. § 1609.7(A) lets the trustee furnish a certification stating that the trust exists and the date the instrument was executed, the settlor's identity, the acting trustee's identity and address, the trustee's powers, whether the trust is revocable and who may revoke it, the authority of co-trustees, the taxpayer identification number, and the manner of taking title. Subsection (D) says the certification need not carry the dispositive terms, and subsection (H) makes a person who demands the full instrument on top of a certification liable for damages if the court finds the demand was not made in good faith.
What happens to an Oklahoma pour-over will if the trust is revoked?
The devise lapses. Oklahoma adopted the Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act at 84 O.S. §§ 301 through 305. For a testator dying on or after November 1, 2022, 84 O.S. § 301(B)(1) validates a devise to the trustee of a trust identified in the will, and § 301(B)(3) says that unless the will provides otherwise, a revocation or termination of the trust before the testator's death causes the devise to lapse. Rewriting the trust without rewriting the will is how a pour-over will ends up with nothing to say about the property it was drafted to catch.
Does an Oklahoma revocable trust protect assets from creditors?
No, in both directions. 60 O.S. § 1605.1(A)(1) subjects the property of a revocable trust to the claims of the settlor's creditors during the settlor's lifetime, whether or not the trust has a spendthrift provision. Subsection (A)(2) reaches the same property after the settlor's death for the settlor's creditors, the costs of administering the estate, funeral and disposal expenses, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children, to the extent the probate estate cannot cover them. The 1941 act said the same thing from the other side at 60 O.S. § 175.25(H): the trustor's interest as a beneficiary is freely alienable and subject to the claims of the trustor's creditors.
How long does someone have to contest an Oklahoma living trust?
60 O.S. § 1606.3(A) gives a contestant three years after the later of the settlor's death or actual or constructive notice of the trust's existence and terms. Subsection (B) lets the trustee distribute in the meantime without liability unless the trustee knows of a pending contest, knows of claims or allowances payable from the trust under § 1605.1(A)(2), or has been notified of a possible proceeding that is then filed within 60 days. A will contest after probate is far shorter: 58 O.S. § 61 allows three months from the date the will was admitted.
Related Guides
- Oklahoma Trust Administration
- How to Avoid Probate in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Estate Planning Basics
- Oklahoma Will Requirements
- Oklahoma Power of Attorney
- Oklahoma Advance Directive
- Oklahoma Probate Guide
- Oklahoma Surviving Spouse Rights
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- Title: 68 O.S. § 2888, Homestead, rural homestead and urban homestead defined. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 68 (Revenue and Taxation). Publication Date: Added by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 88, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; amended by Laws 2021, c. 405, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2022; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os68.pdf
- Title: 68 O.S. § 804.1, Estate tax lien. Publisher: Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma Statutes Title 68 (Revenue and Taxation). Publication Date: Added by Laws 2010, c. 436, § 5, eff. July 1, 2010; amended by Laws 2017, c. 171, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017; compilation through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-02. URL: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os68.pdf
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