Oklahoma Privacy, Guests & Animal Rules
Oklahoma rules on privacy, guests & animals for renters and landlords, with the statute or official page behind each answer. Last verified: 2026-10-22.
Short answer: No landlord-specific statute. Using photographic, electronic or video equipment in a clandestine manner for an illegal, illegitimate, prurient or lewd purpose to view a person without knowledge and consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy is a felony (Peeping Tom); 21 O.S. § 1171; 13 O.S. §§ 176.3, 176.4(5)
The rules in Oklahoma
| Cameras & privacy | No landlord-specific statute. Using photographic, electronic or video equipment in a clandestine manner for an illegal, illegitimate, prurient or lewd purpose to view a person without knowledge and consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy is a felony (Peeping Tom); loitering near a residence to watch someone clandestinely is a misdemeanor. Intercepting oral, wire or electronic communications is a felony unless the person is a party or one party consented (one-party consent). § 1171 was amended by Laws 2025, c. 486 (felony classification as Class D1), effective January 1, 2026. Wiretap statute: https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os13.pdf. Landlord entry requires one day's notice except emergencies (41 O.S. § 128). |
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| Guests & occupants | A rental agreement may impose reasonable limits on use by a tenant or occupant. A landlord may demand in writing that an occupant who breaches a lease condition leave; an occupant who wrongfully fails to leave within a reasonable time commits trespass (fine up to $500 and/or up to 30 days in jail). An occupancy limit of two persons per bedroom is presumed reasonable, but does not apply to children born to the tenants during the lease. An occupant with no rental agreement whom the landlord has not accepted as a tenant may be told to leave without an eviction case. Tenants are responsible for conduct of guests that disturbs other tenants and for guests' drug-related criminal activity (§ 127(6), (8)). Federal fair-housing familial-status rules still apply to occupancy limits. Source: 41 O.S. §§ 117(B)-(C), 111(G) |
| Service & support animals (state law) | Oklahoma defines 'assistance animal' to include service animals and emotional support animals. Unless the disability or need is readily apparent, the landlord may request reliable documentation verifying the disability under the Fair Housing Act, describing the accommodation, and showing the link between the disability and the need, and may independently verify it. Documentation acquired through purchase or exchange of funds for goods and services is presumed fraudulent. A landlord is not liable for injuries caused by an assistance animal allowed as an accommodation. If a tenant obtains an accommodation by knowingly false claim or fraudulent documentation, the landlord may use the Act's noncompliance remedies, and a prevailing landlord in eviction may recover costs, fees and damages up to $1,000. A landlord may not deny or end a tenancy because of a guide, signal or service dog. § 113.2 effective November 1, 2018. No state statute on pet fees for assistance animals; under federal fair-housing rules, pet deposits or fees generally cannot be charged for an assistance animal. Source: 41 O.S. §§ 113.2, 113.1 |
Related questions
- Can a landlord put cameras in or around a rental?
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Oklahoma vs. neighboring states
| State | Cameras & privacy | Guests & occupants | Service & support animals (state law) |
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| Oklahoma | No landlord-specific statute. Using photographic, electronic or video equipment in a clandestine manner for an illegal, illegitimate, prurient or lewd purpose to view a person without knowledge and consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy is a felony (Peeping Tom); loitering near a residence to watch someone clandestinely is a misdemeanor. Intercepting oral, wire or electronic communications is a felony unless the person is a party or one party consented (one-party consent). 21 O.S. § 1171; 13 O.S. §§ 176.3, 176.4(5) | A rental agreement may impose reasonable limits on use by a tenant or occupant. A landlord may demand in writing that an occupant who breaches a lease condition leave; an occupant who wrongfully fails to leave within a reasonable time commits trespass (fine up to $500 and/or up to 30 days in jail). An occupancy limit of two persons per bedroom is presumed reasonable, but does not apply to children born to the tenants during the lease. An occupant with no rental agreement whom the landlord has not accepted as a tenant may be told to leave without an eviction case. 41 O.S. §§ 117(B)-(C), 111(G) | Oklahoma defines 'assistance animal' to include service animals and emotional support animals. Unless the disability or need is readily apparent, the landlord may request reliable documentation verifying the disability under the Fair Housing Act, describing the accommodation, and showing the link between the disability and the need, and may independently verify it. Documentation acquired through purchase or exchange of funds for goods and services is presumed fraudulent. A landlord is not liable for injuries caused by an assistance animal allowed as an accommodation. If a tenant obtains an accommodation by knowingly false claim or fraudulent documentation, the landlord may use the Act's noncompliance remedies, and a prevailing landlord in eviction may recover costs, fees and damages up to $1,000. A landlord may not deny or end a tenancy because of a guide, signal or service dog. 41 O.S. §§ 113.2, 113.1 |
| Arkansas | No landlord-specific statute. Using a camera or other image-recording device to secretly observe or record a person in a private area of a residence where they expect privacy, without consent, is video voyeurism (a felony). Security monitoring run by or at the direction of the residence's occupant is exempt. Recording a conversation is legal only if the recorder is a party or one party consents. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 5-16-101, 5-60-120 | No statute — lease governs. Arkansas sets no guest-versus-tenant rule, state occupancy limit or roommate right. The tenant must make people on the premises with the tenant's permission behave so as not to disturb other tenants, and is responsible if they damage the premises. Ark. Code Ann. § 18-17-601(6)-(8) | Arkansas law guarantees people with visual, hearing or other physical disabilities full and equal access to rental housing, and makes interfering with that right a misdemeanor. Misrepresenting an animal as a service animal to a public accommodation carries a civil penalty of up to $250 per violation. Arkansas has no state statute on emotional support animal documentation or pet-fee limits in housing; the federal Fair Housing Act governs those requests. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 20-14-302, 20-14-305, 20-14-310 |
| Colorado | No landlord-specific statute. Knowingly observing or photographing (including video or live feed) another person's intimate parts without consent where they reasonably expect privacy is criminal invasion of privacy (class 2 misdemeanor). Overhearing or recording a conversation without the consent of at least one party is eavesdropping (class 2 misdemeanor). C.R.S. §§ 18-7-801, 18-9-304 | No statute — lease governs for most rentals. Colorado's landlord-tenant law sets no guest-versus-tenant rule, statewide occupancy limit or roommate right for ordinary rentals; tenants are responsible for damage caused by their guests and invitees. C.R.S. § 38-12-102(4) | Intentionally misrepresenting entitlement to an assistance animal to obtain a housing accommodation, after a prior written or verbal warning and knowing the animal is not an assistance animal or the person has no disability, is a civil infraction: $25 for a first offense, $50-$200 for a second, and $100-$500 for later offenses. If a landlord asks for documentation about a tenant's assistance animal, it must give the tenant the state Civil Rights Division form if the division has posted one, though the tenant need not use it. Pet deposits are capped at $300 (refundable) and pet rent at the greater of $35 or 1.5% of monthly rent. Since August 12, 2026, Colorado fair housing law defines an assistance animal to include both emotional support animals and service animals. Allowing an assistance animal is presumed to be a reasonable accommodation once the housing provider has had a chance to go through an interactive process with the person asking, and a complete ban on assistance animals is presumed discriminatory. The mere presence of an assistance animal is not a direct threat to health or safety and is not presumed to cause substantial property damage, but the provider may consider documented, specific conduct of the animal that is a direct threat or causes substantial damage. The provider may ask for reasonable documentation of the disability or disability-related need unless it is obvious. C.R.S. § 18-13-107.3; § 24-34-309(2); § 38-12-106; §§ 24-34-301(2.5), (8.5), 24-34-502(1)(a)(III), 24-34-502.2(2)(b) (added by HB 26-1045) |
| Kansas | No landlord-specific statute. Kansas' breach-of-privacy law makes it a crime to enter to secretly listen to or observe people in a private place, to install or use inside or outside a private place a device to hear or record sounds not ordinarily audible there without the occupants' consent (class A misdemeanor), and to use a camera to record a person who is nude, in a state of undress, or under clothing without consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy (felony). Landlords may enter only at reasonable hours after reasonable notice (except extreme hazards) and may not use access to harass. K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(3), (4), (6); 58-2557 | No statute — the lease governs guests, occupancy limits, and roommates. Tenants are responsible for damage and disturbances caused by anyone (or any animal) on the premises with their express or implied permission. K.S.A. 58-2555(f), (g) | Kansas has no statute specific to emotional support animals in housing. By statute, a person with a guide, hearing assistance, or service dog (a dog specially selected, trained, and tested) has the right to be accompanied by it in acquiring and using rental housing without an extra charge, but is liable for damage the dog causes. A dog present only for comfort, protection, or personal defense is not an assistance dog under state law. Falsely claiming the right to be accompanied by an assistance dog in the places listed in K.S.A. 39-1101, or claiming a disability to acquire an assistance dog, is a class A nonperson misdemeanor. ESA requests are handled under federal and state fair-housing reasonable-accommodation rules. K.S.A. 39-1102; 39-1107; 39-1108; 39-1112; 39-1113 |
| Missouri | No landlord-specific statute. It is the crime of invasion of privacy to knowingly photograph, film or otherwise create an image of someone, without consent, while they are fully or partly nude in a place where they would reasonably expect privacy. It is also a crime to create images under or through someone's clothing. This is a class A misdemeanor, and a class E felony if the image is distributed, more than one person is captured, or it is a repeat offense. Recording conversations is lawful if the recorder is a party or one party consents (one-party consent). RSMo 565.252; RSMo 542.402.2 | No statute — the lease governs guests, occupancy limits and roommates. Missouri's landlord-tenant chapters don't define guests versus tenants or give roommate rights. Separate expedited eviction procedures allow immediate removal of parties other than the tenant in certain cases involving criminal activity. RSMo ch. 441 and 535 (checked); RSMo 441.710-441.880 | It is a class C misdemeanor (class B for repeat offenses), with civil liability for actual damages, to knowingly misrepresent an animal as an assistance animal to get Fair Housing Act or Rehabilitation Act accommodations. This includes emotional support animals. Misrepresentation includes creating or providing false documents, fitting a vest or sign on an animal that isn't an assistance animal, or lying to a health care provider to get documentation. All assistance-animal documentation must come from a qualified professional as permitted under federal law. Separately, service dogs may not be subject to an extra charge in places like lodging, though the owner is liable for damage. State fair housing law bans disability discrimination. RSMo 209.204.3; RSMo 209.150.3; RSMo 213.040 |
| New Mexico | No landlord-specific camera statute. Voyeurism — intentionally viewing, photographing, videotaping, filming, webcasting, or recording another person's intimate areas without knowledge and consent in a bedroom, bathroom, or other place with a reasonable expectation of privacy — is a misdemeanor (fourth-degree felony if the victim is under 18). Owner entry generally requires 24 hours' written notice of the purpose, date, and estimated time. NMSA 1978, §§ 30-9-20, 47-8-24 | The owner may not charge the resident a fee for occupancy of the unit by a reasonable number of guests for a reasonable length of time (charges for guests' use of other facilities are allowed). Otherwise the rental agreement governs occupants; residents must make persons on the premises with their consent behave so as not to disturb neighbors. NMSA 1978, §§ 47-8-15(E), 47-8-22(G) | The Service Animal Act defines 'qualified service animal' as a trained service dog or miniature horse and expressly excludes emotional support, comfort, and therapy animals. Knowingly presenting an animal as a qualified service animal when it does not meet that definition is a misdemeanor. The Act's access and no-extra-charge rules are framed around buildings open to the public, public accommodations, and common carriers. No state statute sets ESA documentation rules or pet-fee limits for housing. NMSA 1978, §§ 28-11-1.1 to 28-11-6 |
| Texas | No landlord-specific statute. Criminal laws apply: it is a state jail felony to photograph or record, without consent and with intent to invade privacy, another person in a place where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, which the statute says includes a bathroom, bedroom and changing room; posting a sign does not establish consent. Intercepting oral, wire or electronic communications is a crime unless a party to the communication consents (one-party consent), so audio recording of tenants' conversations is restricted. Tex. Penal Code Sec. 21.15; 16.02 | State occupancy cap: a landlord may not allow more adults (18+) to occupy a dwelling than three times the number of bedrooms, except where a fair housing law requires more, or for up to one month for an adult seeking sanctuary from family violence. Neighbors within 3,000 feet (or a government or civic association) may sue to enjoin violations and recover $500 per violation plus fees. No statute defines when a guest becomes a tenant or gives roommate/additional-occupant rights; the lease governs. Tex. Prop. Code Sec. 92.010 | Texas law guarantees persons with disabilities equal access to rental housing and says a person with a service animal may not be charged extra compensation or a deposit for the animal, but is liable for damage the animal causes beyond reasonable wear and tear. The state definition of 'assistance animal'/'service animal' is limited to a specially trained or equipped dog. Knowingly misrepresenting an animal as an assistance or service animal is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and 30 hours of community service. No state statute sets documentation rules for emotional support animals. Tex. Hum. Res. Code Sec. 121.002, 121.003(g)-(h), 121.006 |
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Oklahoma Privacy, Guests & Animal Rules FAQ
Can a landlord put cameras in or around a rental in Oklahoma?
No landlord-specific statute. Using photographic, electronic or video equipment in a clandestine manner for an illegal, illegitimate, prurient or lewd purpose to view a person without knowledge and consent where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy is a felony (Peeping Tom); loitering near a residence to watch someone clandestinely is a misdemeanor. Intercepting oral, wire or electronic communications is a felony unless the person is a party or one party consented (one-party consent). (21 O.S. § 1171; 13 O.S. §§ 176.3, 176.4(5))
Can a landlord limit guests or roommates in Oklahoma?
A rental agreement may impose reasonable limits on use by a tenant or occupant. A landlord may demand in writing that an occupant who breaches a lease condition leave; an occupant who wrongfully fails to leave within a reasonable time commits trespass (fine up to $500 and/or up to 30 days in jail). An occupancy limit of two persons per bedroom is presumed reasonable, but does not apply to children born to the tenants during the lease. An occupant with no rental agreement whom the landlord has not accepted as a tenant may be told to leave without an eviction case. (41 O.S. §§ 117(B)-(C), 111(G))
Can a landlord deny a service or emotional support animal in Oklahoma?
Oklahoma defines 'assistance animal' to include service animals and emotional support animals. Unless the disability or need is readily apparent, the landlord may request reliable documentation verifying the disability under the Fair Housing Act, describing the accommodation, and showing the link between the disability and the need, and may independently verify it. Documentation acquired through purchase or exchange of funds for goods and services is presumed fraudulent. A landlord is not liable for injuries caused by an assistance animal allowed as an accommodation. If a tenant obtains an accommodation by knowingly false claim or fraudulent documentation, the landlord may use the Act's noncompliance remedies, and a prevailing landlord in eviction may recover costs, fees and damages up to $1,000. A landlord may not deny or end a tenancy because of a guide, signal or service dog. (41 O.S. §§ 113.2, 113.1)
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