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This Title shall be interpreted and construed to fulfill the following purposes:

A. To simplify the law governing the occupation of dwelling units, and to protect the rights of landlords and tenants.

B. To preserve the peace, harmony, safety, health and general welfare of the people of the Osage Nation and those permitted to enter or reside within the Nation’s jurisdiction.

C. To provide eviction procedures and to require landlords to use those procedures when evicting a tenant.

D. To encourage landlords and tenants to maintain and improve dwellings on the Reservation in order to improve the quality of housing as an Osage Nation resource.

E. To simplify the law governing the rights, obligations, and remedies of the owners, sellers, buyers, lessors, and lessees, of buildings.

F. To avail the Nation, Nation government entities, and members of the Osage Nation of financing for the construction and/or purchase of family residence on trust land within the jurisdiction of the Nation by prescribing procedures for the recording, priority and foreclosure of mortgages given to secure loans made by or through any government agency or lending institution.

G. To establish laws and procedures which are necessary in order to obtain governmental funding for Osage Nation housing programs or loan guarantees for private or Osage Nation housing construction, purchase, or renovation. ONCA 11-41, eff. Apr. 12, 2011.