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§20-1404.
§20-1404.
A. As used in this section, the term "judicial officer" includes the
judges of all courts created by the state or municipalities of the
state.
B. In addition to the causes specified in Article VII-A, Section 1 of
the Oklahoma Constitution, the acts and omissions enumerated below
shall constitute grounds for the removal by the Court on the Judiciary
of a judicial officer from his office, with or without
disqualification to hold a judicial office in the future:
1. The acceptance of a fee, or gratuity, other than that specifically
provided by law, for performing any act in a judicial officer's
capacity as a judge.
2. Continued willful failure of a judicial officer to comply with
rules and directives of the Supreme Court, the presiding judge of his
administrative district, or the chief judge of the judicial district.
3. Participation by a judicial officer, while serving as such officer
or while a candidate for judicial office, in any partisan political
activity. But the term "partisan political activity," as used herein,
shall not include the attendance by a judicial officer or by a
candidate for a judicial office at a political gathering, upon payment
of a nominal admission fee, for the sole purpose of campaigning in his
own behalf for a judicial office.
4. Participation by a judicial officer, while serving as such officer
or while a candidate for a judicial office, in any election campaign
other than that for his own election to a judicial office.
5. A judicial officer becoming a candidate for any nonjudicial office
or for another judicial office whose term is to commence before the
expiration of his present term of office; provided that no judge
holding a nonelective judgeship shall become a candidate in a race in
which the incumbent seeks to retain an elective judicial office unless
he first resign his appointive judgeship.
6. A judicial officer, while serving as such officer or while a
candidate for a judicial office, making publicly known in his campaign
material or speeches, or knowingly permitting others to make publicly
known, either directly or by implication, his political party
affiliation.
C. Violation by a judicial officer of the Code of Judicial Conduct as
adopted by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma on July 15, 1974, or as may
be thereafter amended, may constitute grounds for the removal by the
court on the judiciary of a judicial officer from office, with or
without disqualification to hold a judicial office in the future.
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