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§47-18-101.
§47-18-101.
A. Every magistrate or judge of a court shall keep or cause to be kept
a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation, or other legal
form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to the court or its
traffic-violations bureau, and shall keep a record of every official
action by the court or its traffic-violations bureau, including, but
not limited to, a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail,
judgment of acquittal, and the amount of fine or forfeiture resulting
from every traffic complaint, citation or other legal form of traffic
charge deposited with or presented to the court or traffic-violations
bureau.
B. Within ten (10) days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of
a person upon a charge of violating any law regulating the operation
of vehicles on highways every magistrate of the court or clerk of the
court of record, in which the conviction was had or bail was
forfeited, shall prepare and immediately forward to the Department of
Public Safety an abstract of the record covering the case in which the
person was convicted or forfeited bail, which shall be certified by
the person required to prepare the abstract to be true and correct. A
report shall not be made of any conviction:
1. Involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle;
2. Involving speeding if the speed limit is not exceeded by more than
ten (10) miles per hour; or
3. Rendered by a nonlawyer judge, unless, within a period not to
exceed the preceding reporting period for Mandatory Continuing Legal
Education, the judge has completed courses held for municipal judges
which have been approved by the Oklahoma Bar Association Mandatory
Legal Education Commission for at least six (6) hours of continuing
legal education credit or attendance of at least one (1) day of a
state judicial conference, and the Department of Public Safety
receives verification of such attendance, from the judge. In the case
of attendance of a continuing legal education course, verification may
be made by a statement of attendance signed by the course registration
personnel. In the case of verification of attendance of a state
judicial conference, a statement of attendance signed by the
Administrative Director of the Courts or a designee shall be
sufficient verification.
C. The abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the Department
and shall include:
1. The name, address and driver license number, if any, of the person
charged;
2. The registration number of the vehicle involved; and
3. The nature and date of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea,
the judgment, or if bail was forfeited, the amount of the fine or
forfeiture.
D. Every court of record shall also forward a like report to the
Department upon the conviction of any person of manslaughter or other
felony in the commission of which a vehicle was used.
E. The failure, refusal, or neglect of any judicial officer to comply
with any of the requirements of this section shall constitute
misconduct in office and shall be ground for removal.
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