Oklahoma Code § 59-1324

Title 59. Professions And Occupations: Property bond
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Where the undertaking is a property bond, whether posted by a
bail bondsman, the defendant personally, or by any other person,
said bond shall give the legal description of the property, the
assessed valuation, the amount of encumbrances, if any, and the
status of the legal title, all by affidavit.  Any property located
within the state wherein the bail is allowed, that is subject to
execution shall be accepted for security on a property bond for the
market value of the property.  Market value is defined to be four
times the assessed valuation of the property as recorded on the tax
rolls, less any encumbrances thereon; provided, that homesteads may
be accepted as security for appearance if the homestead exemption is
waived in writing.  Such waiver shall be verified and executed by
the spouse, if any.  The property listed upon any property bond or
bonds will be security on said bonds up to the aggregate amounts as
follows:
(A) In the event of bonds written by a licensed property
bondsman; four times the market value of said property.
(B) All other property bonds; in the face amount of the market
value of said property.
The court clerk, upon the approval of a property bond, shall
forthwith file a certified copy of said bond in the office of the
county clerk in which the property is located, transmitting to the
county clerk the filing fee which will be paid by the person
executing said bond.  The county clerk shall index said bond upon
his tract index as a lien against said described property, and such
bond shall be a lien upon the real estate described therein until a
certificate discharging said bond shall be filed in the office of
the county clerk.  Said lien shall be superior to any conveyance,
encumbrance or lien thereafter pertaining to said property.  When
said bond shall have been discharged, the clerk of said court shall
issue to the surety a certificate of discharge describing the bond
and the real property, which shall, upon filing with the county
clerk and the payment of the filing fee, be recorded in the tract
index. An abstract company preparing an abstract upon such real
estate, shall be required to list in said abstract only the
undischarged liens and shall not list any discharge liens.

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