How can I fight the landlord to keep my air window unit?

Full question:

I am living in an apartment complex that does not allow additional a/c window units without a doctor's note stating you need one. I have supplied the doctor's note which said to allow me to have a a/c unit for medical purposes. Can the apartment complex require me to get another note with a specific condition? They are threatening to come in a remove the unit.

• Category: Landlord Tenant
• Date: 04/07/2025
• State: Oklahoma

Answer:

The following is an Oklahoma statute:

§ 41-126. Tenant's Use and Occupancy of Premises — Rules and
Regulations.

A. A landlord, from time to time, may adopt a rule or regulation,
however described, concerning the tenant's use and occupancy of the
premises. Such a rule or regulation is enforceable against the tenant only
if:

1. Its purpose is to promote the convenience, peace, safety or welfare
of the tenants in the premises, preserve the landlord's property from
abusive use, or make a fair distribution of services and facilities held
out for the tenants generally; and

2. It is reasonably related to the purpose for which it is adopted;
and

3. It applies to all tenants in the premises in a fair manner; and

4. It is sufficiently explicit in its prohibition, direction or
limitation of the tenant's conduct to fairly inform the tenant what such
tenant must or must not do to comply; and

5. It is not for the purpose of evading the obligations of the
landlord; and

6. The tenant has notice of it at the time such tenant enters into
the rental agreement, or when it is adopted.

B. If a rule or regulation is adopted after the tenant enters into the
rental agreement and that rule or regulation works a substantial
modification of such tenant's bargain, the rule or regulation so adopted
is not valid and enforceable against the tenant unless he consents to it
in writing.