Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 68-2896
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Homesteads - Separate listing and assessment - Buildings
Official statutory text
used for both dwelling and business or commercial purposes - Rural
homesteads.
A. All homesteads shall be separately listed and assessed and
separately described on the assessment rolls and tax rolls wherever
possible. No homestead exemption shall be allowed on any
improvements on real estate or other buildings which are used for
business or commercial purposes, but where the same improvement or
building is used both as a dwelling and for business purposes the
value of that portion used as a dwelling shall be considered to be a
part of the homestead and subject to exemption.
B. In any case where a building is used partially as a dwelling
and partially for business or commercial purposes, or where some
buildings on the same tract of land consist of the dwelling and
appurtenances and others are used for business or commercial
purposes, it shall be the duty of the county assessor to separately
value the dwelling and appurtenances and that part used for business
or commercial purposes. The keeping of boarders or roomers by
citizens in a building maintained otherwise exclusively as a home
shall not be considered as commercial purposes.
C. The location and use of a part of a building or buildings
for business or commercial purposes on a rural homestead shall not
prevent the owner of such homestead from obtaining an exemption on
one hundred sixty (160) acres of land; but in case of urban
homesteads where it is impossible to definitely separate by
description, land upon which the dwelling and appurtenances are
located, from the land upon which the business or commercial
buildings are located, only that proportion of the land shall be
considered a part of the homestead and subject to exemption which
the proportion of the assessed value of the dwelling and
appurtenances bears to the total assessed valuation of all buildings
and improvements on such lot or lots.
D. In the case of rooming houses, duplexes, apartment
buildings, or any other building occupied by more than one family,
and used entirely for residential purposes, the homestead and part
subject to exemption shall be considered only that proportion of the
total assessed value of the land and improvements as the number of
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation Page 1239
rooms occupied by the owner bears to the total number of rooms of
such building. The renting of not to exceed three bedrooms shall
not constitute business or commercial use or affect the exemption of
a homestead and at no part of any hotel, motel, hostelry or
apartment hotel shall be exempt.
E. In the case of rural homesteads, the homestead shall consist
of not more than one hundred sixty (160) acres of land, which shall
include and be about and contiguous or adjacent to the land upon
which the dwelling house stands, to be selected by the owner, and
the land designated as the homestead shall, as nearly as possible,
consist of some legal subdivision of a section or sections.
homesteads.
A. All homesteads shall be separately listed and assessed and
separately described on the assessment rolls and tax rolls wherever
possible. No homestead exemption shall be allowed on any
improvements on real estate or other buildings which are used for
business or commercial purposes, but where the same improvement or
building is used both as a dwelling and for business purposes the
value of that portion used as a dwelling shall be considered to be a
part of the homestead and subject to exemption.
B. In any case where a building is used partially as a dwelling
and partially for business or commercial purposes, or where some
buildings on the same tract of land consist of the dwelling and
appurtenances and others are used for business or commercial
purposes, it shall be the duty of the county assessor to separately
value the dwelling and appurtenances and that part used for business
or commercial purposes. The keeping of boarders or roomers by
citizens in a building maintained otherwise exclusively as a home
shall not be considered as commercial purposes.
C. The location and use of a part of a building or buildings
for business or commercial purposes on a rural homestead shall not
prevent the owner of such homestead from obtaining an exemption on
one hundred sixty (160) acres of land; but in case of urban
homesteads where it is impossible to definitely separate by
description, land upon which the dwelling and appurtenances are
located, from the land upon which the business or commercial
buildings are located, only that proportion of the land shall be
considered a part of the homestead and subject to exemption which
the proportion of the assessed value of the dwelling and
appurtenances bears to the total assessed valuation of all buildings
and improvements on such lot or lots.
D. In the case of rooming houses, duplexes, apartment
buildings, or any other building occupied by more than one family,
and used entirely for residential purposes, the homestead and part
subject to exemption shall be considered only that proportion of the
total assessed value of the land and improvements as the number of
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation Page 1239
rooms occupied by the owner bears to the total number of rooms of
such building. The renting of not to exceed three bedrooms shall
not constitute business or commercial use or affect the exemption of
a homestead and at no part of any hotel, motel, hostelry or
apartment hotel shall be exempt.
E. In the case of rural homesteads, the homestead shall consist
of not more than one hundred sixty (160) acres of land, which shall
include and be about and contiguous or adjacent to the land upon
which the dwelling house stands, to be selected by the owner, and
the land designated as the homestead shall, as nearly as possible,
consist of some legal subdivision of a section or sections.
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