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#1954614 - 08/19/14 05:06 PM Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes
Queen Mum Offline
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Does state law require that we inform customers in a letter that we are going to drill the box and seize the contents?

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#1954740 - 08/19/14 06:19 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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Unless your state law specifically says that you have to include that verbiage, never tell your renter that you are going to drill the box and seize its contents.- Got that from BOL training connect.
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#1954842 - 08/19/14 07:56 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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That's why I am asking if Oklahoma state law requires it.

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#1955002 - 08/20/14 12:19 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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My experience is, in most instances you have lost contact with the customer. This is why you are drilling the box. Therefore, you cannot notify the customer.

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#1955080 - 08/20/14 02:28 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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Still want to know what state law requires so that we are in compliance.

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#1955258 - 08/20/14 05:24 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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If it is non payment of rent, this is from the State Statutes.
The lessor shall have a lien upon the contents of the lessee's box for past due rentals and any expense incurred in opening of the box and replacement of locks thereon where the same is done without fault of the lessor. If the lessee fails to pay the rental due and such default continues for sixty (60) days, the lessor may give the lessee thirty (30) days' notice by certified mail addressed to the lessee at the address shown on the lessor's records or the last-known address of the lessee, stating the amount due and that on or after the day designated in the notice it may open the box, remove the contents thereof and hold the same for the account of the lessee. The opening of the box shall be witnessed by not less than two persons, one of which shall be an officer of the lessor, who shall make an inventory under oath of the contents thereof, and thereupon the contents shall be placed in a package and held by the lessor as a bailee for hire. If the lessee makes no demand for the contents within one (1) year after the same have been removed from the box, the lessor may advertise a

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#1955282 - 08/20/14 05:37 PM Re: Drilling Safe Deposit Boxes Queen Mum
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Thank you!

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