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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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