STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 52nd Legislature (2009)

SENATE BILL 993	By:	Crutchfield

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to property; amending 60 O.S. 2001, Section 333, which relates to title by prescription; prohibiting title by prescription under specified circumstances; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     60 O.S. 2001, Section 333, is amended to read as follows:
Section 333.  A.  Occupancy for the period prescribed by civil procedure, or any law of this state as sufficient to bar an action for the recovery of the property, confers a title thereto, denominated a title by prescription, which is sufficient against all.
B.  In any suit to establish title to land, no possession thereof shall be deemed adverse to the owner in such manner as to establish title or rights in and to such land if the owner has paid and discharged all taxes and assessments due on the land during the period the adverse possessor claims to have possessed the land.  This section shall not be construed to impair the property rights granted in easements, rights-of-way, restrictions or agreements which are part of a subdivision plot, or any other appurtenance thereto.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2009.

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