Oklahoma Lien Release
The Lien You Are Releasing
Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.
This instrument says the debt is paid.
Oklahoma has no statute prescribing this instrument, so what it says is what binds you. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.
Where this gets filed: County Clerk. The county clerk of the county where the land is located — the same office the lien statement was filed with under § 142.
None for a real-property mechanic's lien. 42 O.S. § 102 sits in the article on liens against PERSONAL property; 46 O.S. § 15 is the mortgage analogy. Both are unsettled if argued here. AND THE OWNER DOES NOT NEED YOUR RELEASE TO CLEAR THE TITLE: 42 O.S. § 147.1 lets any owner or other interested party — mortgagee, contractor, subcontractor — discharge the lien AT ANY TIME by depositing with the county clerk either cash equal to 125% of the lien claim or a corporate surety bond with a penal amount of 125%. Within three business days the clerk must serve you written notice at the address on your lien claim, identifying the claim, the parties, the property and the amount deposited or the bond and its surety, sent by registered or certified mail. If that notice arrives, your lien is off the land and your claim is against the deposit or the bond — check that the address on your lien statement is one you will actually read.