Okla. Stat. tit. 58, § 58-215
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Duties of special administrator
Official statutory text
A. The special administrator must collect and preserve for the
executor or administrator all the goods, chattels, debts and effects
of the decedent, all incomes, rents, issues and profits, claims and
demands, of the estate, must take the charge and management of, and
enter upon and preserve from damage, waste and injury, the real
estate, and for such and all other necessary purposes may commence
and maintain or defend suits and other legal proceedings, as an
administrator; he may sell such perishable property as the district
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 58. Probate Procedure Page 37
court may order to be sold, and exercise such other powers as are
conferred upon him by his appointment, but in no case is he liable
to an action by any creditor on a claim against the decedent. He
may obtain leave to borrow money, or to lease or mortgage real
property, in the same manner as a general administrator.
B. If an executor or administrator is not appointed within
sixty (60) days following the appointment of a special
administrator, upon application to and approval by the court, the
special administrator may, as provided by statute, give notice to
creditors and, upon receipt of creditor's claims as required by
statute, pay, with the approval of the probate court, such claims.
executor or administrator all the goods, chattels, debts and effects
of the decedent, all incomes, rents, issues and profits, claims and
demands, of the estate, must take the charge and management of, and
enter upon and preserve from damage, waste and injury, the real
estate, and for such and all other necessary purposes may commence
and maintain or defend suits and other legal proceedings, as an
administrator; he may sell such perishable property as the district
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 58. Probate Procedure Page 37
court may order to be sold, and exercise such other powers as are
conferred upon him by his appointment, but in no case is he liable
to an action by any creditor on a claim against the decedent. He
may obtain leave to borrow money, or to lease or mortgage real
property, in the same manner as a general administrator.
B. If an executor or administrator is not appointed within
sixty (60) days following the appointment of a special
administrator, upon application to and approval by the court, the
special administrator may, as provided by statute, give notice to
creditors and, upon receipt of creditor's claims as required by
statute, pay, with the approval of the probate court, such claims.
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