Oklahoma Code § 16-55

Title 16. Conveyances: Recording declaration to remove discriminatory restrictive
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covenants — Form.
All discriminatory restrictive covenants prohibited by Section 1
of this act may be declared illegal and unenforceable and considered
removed from the instrument by the owner of real property subject to
such restrictive covenants by recording a declaration to remove the
discriminatory restrictive covenants.  The real property owner may
record such declaration:
1.  Prior to recordation of a deed conveying real property to a
purchaser; or
2.  When such real property owner discovers that such
discriminatory restrictive covenants exist.
Such declaration may be prepared without assistance of an
attorney, but such declaration to remove the discriminatory
restrictive covenants shall conform substantially to the following
form:
DECLARATION TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATORY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS
County where property is located: ____________________
Date of Instrument containing discriminatory restrictive
covenants(s): ______________
Instrument Type: ____________________
Instrument recorded in Book ______ Page _______

Name(s) of Grantor(s): ____________________
Name(s) of Current Owner(s): ____________________
Real Property Description: ____________________
The discriminatory restrictive covenants contained in the above-
mentioned instrument are declared to be illegal and unlawful and
shall be considered removed from the instrument to the extent that
it contains terms purporting to restrict the ownership or use of the
property as prohibited by Section 1 of this act.
The undersigned is/are the legal owner(s) of the property described
herein.
Signed and delivered this ___ day of__________, ____.
_____________________________  ________________________
_____________________________  ________________________
State of Oklahoma,  )
) ss.
__________ County.  )
Before me, ____ in and for this state, on this ____ day of ____,
________ personally appeared ________ to me known to be the
identical person(s) who executed the within and foregoing
instrument, and acknowledged to me that ____ executed the same as
____ free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes
therein set forth.

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