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2025 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 60. Property
§60-2001. Definitions.

Universal Citation:
60 OK Stat § 2001 (2025)
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As used in this act:

1. "Lender" means a person whose name appears on the records of the museum as the person legally entitled to property held or on loan to the museum;

2. "Lender's last-known address" means a description of the physical or mailing address of the lender, as shown on the museum's records pertaining to the property on loan from the lender, which is sufficient for the purpose of delivering mail;

3. "Loan", "loaned", and "on loan" means all deposits of property with a museum which are not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property;

4. "Museum" means an organization which uses a professional staff or the equivalent, whether paid or unpaid, that is primarily engaged in the acquisition, care, and exhibition to the public of objects, interactive displays, or exhibits owned or used by the institution. Further, a museum is understood to possess a variety of the following characteristics:

  • a.is organized on a permanent or regular basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes,
  • b.owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate,
  • c.cares for these objects,
  • d.exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis at or in a facility which it owns or operates, and
  • e.provides educational and cultural programming;

5. "Person" means an individual, association, trust partnership, corporation or similar organization having a legal interest in property in the possession of a museum;

6. "Property" means all tangible objects, animate and inanimate, under a museum's care which have intrinsic scientific, historic, artistic, or cultural value; and

7. "Undocumented property" means property in the possession of a museum for which the museum cannot determine the person with legal interest by referencing the museum's records.

Added by Laws 2025, c. 120, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2025.

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