Oklahoma 2022 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB346 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/11/2021

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021) 
 
SENATE BILL 346 	By: Dahm 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to traffic offense quotas; 
prohibiting certain entities from making certain 
plans based on certain criteria; prohibiting certain 
entities from requiring or suggesting that there are 
certain expectations relating to such citations; 
providing that certain provisions do not pro hibit 
municipalities from obtaining certain budgetary 
information or estimates; stating certain violatio ns 
are grounds for removal from office or from a 
person’s position; providing for codification; and 
providing an effective date. 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STAT E OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW    A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 34 -109 of Title 11, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  A political subdivision or an ag ency of this state may n ot 
establish or maintain, formally or informally, a plan to evaluate, 
promote, compensate or discipline: 
1.  A peace officer according to the officer’s issuance of a 
predetermined or specified number of any type or combination of 
types of traffic citations ;   
 
 
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2.  A peace officer according to the officer’s issuance of a 
traffic citation for the purpose of generating revenue; or 
3.  A justice of the peace or a judge of a county court, 
municipal court or municipal court of record accordin g to the amount 
of money the justice or judge collects from persons convicted of a 
traffic offense. 
B.  A political subdivision or an agency of this state may not 
require or suggest to a peace officer, a ju stice of the peace or a 
judge of a county court , municipal court or municipal court of 
record: 
1.  That the peace officer is required or expected to issue a 
predetermined or specified number of any type or combination of 
types of traffic citations within a specified period; 
2.  That the peace officer is required or expected to i ssue a 
traffic citation for the purpose of generating revenue; or 
3.  That the justice or judge is required or expected to collect 
a predetermined amount of money from persons convicted of a traffic 
offense within a specified period . 
C.  This section does not prohibit a municipality from obtaining 
budgetary information from a municipal court or a munici pal court of 
record including an estimate of the amount of money the court 
anticipates will be collected in a budget year. 
D.  A violation of this section by an elected official is 
misconduct and a ground for removal from office.  A violation of   
 
 
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this section by a person who is not an elected official is a ground 
for removal from the person’s position. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2021. 
 
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