Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-104

special justices, special judges and court reporters.

(a) When any judge of the district court is ordered by the Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma or by the

Presiding Judge of the Judicial Administrative District to perform

duties or to attend or participate in a judicial conference outside

the county of his residence, such judge shall be entitled to

reimbursement for actual and necessary travel expense as provided by

the State Travel Reimbursement Act, necessarily incurred in

complying with such order or orders. He shall certify such expense

to the Chief Justice, and, upon the latter's approval thereof, the

State Treasurer shall issue his reimbursing warrant to be paid out

of any funds appropriated for such purpose.

(b) Whenever a member of the Bar who was appointed by the

Governor to sit on the Supreme Court as a special justice or on the

Court of Criminal Appeals as a special judge is required to travel

in performance of his duties as such special justice or judge beyond

the county of his residence, he shall be entitled to actual and

necessary travel expense as provided in the State Travel

Reimbursement Act, upon a claim approved by the Chief Justice and

such special justice or judge shall be reimbursed for his travel and

expenses to the same extent and in the same amount as a judge of the

district court would have been authorized to receive under the law.

(c) Whenever a judge of the district court is assigned to serve

a district court outside the district court judicial district such

judge regularly serves, he shall be entitled to reimbursement as

provided by the State Travel Reimbursement Act. Travel claims for

reimbursement shall be submitted to the Chief Justice for approval.

A court reporter assigned to serve outside the district court

judicial district he regularly serves shall be entitled to

reimbursement of expenses in a like manner.

(d) Whenever a judge of the district court or a court reporter

is assigned to serve at any place within the county designated for

holding court sessions other than the courthouse of the county in

which he is a resident judge or a resident court reporter of the

district court, he shall be entitled to mileage for travel from the

courthouse to such designated court location and back to the

courthouse, as well as his travel from one designated court location

to another designated court location within the county and back to

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the courthouse. The mileage so traveled shall be paid in accordance

with the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act. Travel

claims for reimbursement shall be submitted to the Chief Justice for

approval.

A district judge who is assigned to hold court at the courthouse

of a county as well as at a place where formerly a superior court

was held within the same county shall be entitled to mileage for

necessary travel between the courthouse and the place where formerly

a superior court was located, so long as district court sessions

continue to be held at such place. When two or more persons use the

same motor vehicle for travel required in the performance of their

duties either as a judge or as a court reporter, only one of them

shall be entitled to claim mileage for such travel. No mileage

shall be paid for travel by a judge or by a court reporter between

his place of residence and the courthouse of the district court of

the county of which such judge or court reporter is a resident.

Reimbursement for mileage so traveled shall be paid in accordance

with the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act upon

claims submitted to the Chief Justice for approval.

R.L. 1910, § 1784. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 228, § 1; Laws 1969, c.

319, § 1; Laws 1970, c. 202, § 1, emerg. eff. April 14, 1970; Laws

1979, c. 78, § 2, eff. July 1, 1979.

NOTE: Laws 1979, c. 47, § 9 repealed by Laws 1980, c. 290, § 6,

eff. Oct. 1, 1980.