Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 60-503

Unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different

meaning is intended, as used herein:

(a) "Declaration" means the instrument, duly recorded, by which

the property is submitted to the provisions of this act, as

hereinafter provided, and such declaration as may be amended from

time to time;

(b) "Unit" means an enclosed space consisting of one or more

rooms occupying all or part of a floor or floors in a building of

one or more floors or stories regardless of whether it be designed

for residence, for office, for the operation of any industry or

business, or for any other type of independent use, provided it has

a direct exit to a thoroughfare or to a given common space leading

to a thoroughfare; if so provided in the declaration, a unit may

include some portion of the land constituting a part of the

condominium property and improvements thereon not a part of the

common elements. A unit may include a series of buildings, not

connected or part of same structure if such is the intent of the

owners of the unit estate. This act, and any deed, declaration or

plan for a condominium project shall be liberally construed to

facilitate the establishment and operation of the project and

provisions of any of the same shall be presumed to be independent

and severable;

(c) "Unit designation" means the number, letter or combination

thereof designating the unit in the declaration;

(d) "Building" means one or more buildings or structures

comprising a part of the property;

(e) "Unit owner" means a person owning a unit within the

building;

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(f) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership,

association, trust or other legal entity, or any combination

thereof;

(g) "Unit ownership estate" means the ownership of single units

in a multi-unit building together with an undivided interest in the

common elements;

(h) "Common elements" means and includes the general common

elements and limited common elements. The term common elements does

not include unconstructed units unless otherwise specified in the

declaration or by the consent of the owners pursuant to the Unit

Ownership Estate Act;

(i) Unless otherwise provided in the declaration or by consent

of all the unit owners, "general common elements" means and

includes:

(1) The land, whether leased or in fee simple, on which the

building stands and such other land and improvements thereon as may

be specifically included in the declaration, except any portion

thereof included in a unit;

(2) The foundations, columns, girders, beams, supports, main

walls, roofs, halls, corridors, lobbies, stairs, stairways, fire

escapes, and entrances and exits of the building;

(3) The basements, yards, gardens, parking areas and storage

spaces;

(4) The premises for the lodging of janitors or persons in

charge of the property as hereinafter defined;

(5) Installations of central services such as power, light,

gas, hot and cold water, heating refrigeration, air conditioning and

incinerating;

(6) The elevators, tanks, pumps, motors, fans, compressors,

ducts and in general, all apparatus and installations existing for

common use;

(7) Such community and commercial facilities as may be provided

for in the declaration; and

(8) All other elements of the property necessary or convenient

to its existence, maintenance and safety, or normally in common use;

(j) "Limited common elements" means and includes those common

elements which are agreed upon by all the unit owners to be reserved

for the use of a certain number of units to the exclusion of the

other units, such as special corridors, stairways and elevators,

sanitary services common to the units of a particular floor, and the

like;
stence, maintenance and safety, or normally in common use;

(j) "Limited common elements" means and includes those common

elements which are agreed upon by all the unit owners to be reserved

for the use of a certain number of units to the exclusion of the

other units, such as special corridors, stairways and elevators,

sanitary services common to the units of a particular floor, and the

like;

(k) "Common expenses" means and includes:

(1) Expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or

replacement of the common elements;

(2) Expenses agreed upon as common by all the unit owners;

(3) Expenses declared common by provisions of the act, or by

the declaration or the bylaws;

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(4) Expenses incident to limited common elements which shall be

borne as provided by the declaration or the bylaws;

(l) "Common profits" means the balance of all income, rents,

profits and revenues from the common elements and facilities

remaining after the deduction of the common expenses;

(m) "Council of unit owners" means all the unit owners;

(n) "Majority of unit owners," means the owners of more than

fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate interest in the general common

elements as established by the declaration. Any specified

percentage of unit owners means such percentage in the aggregate of

such undivided ownership;

(o) "Recordation" means to file of record in the office of the

county clerk in the county where the land is situated, in the manner

provided by law for recordation of instruments affecting real

estate;

(p) "Property" means and includes the land, whether leasehold

or in fee simple, the building, all improvements and structures

thereon, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging

thereto;

(q) "Declarant" means the owner or co-owners referred to in

Section 502 of this title who originally submitted the property to

the provisions of the Unit Ownership Estate Act by the filing of a

declaration as provided in Section 502 of this title, and their

successors who have been granted and have assumed the duties,

obligations and privileges and rights reserved to the original

declarant under the terms of the declaration;

(r) "Unconstructed unit" or "unconstructed building" means a

unit or building as the case may be, which is owned by the declarant

and shown on the plan attached to the declaration pursuant to

Section 516 of this title, the construction of which has not been

completed by the declarant at the time of recordation of the

declaration. For purposes of this chapter a building is completed

upon the completion of any unit in the building and a unit is

completed when its construction is finished to the point that it is

ready for occupancy.