Oklahoma § 12-24 - Journal record - Instruments to be entered - Microfilm

§ 12-24. Journal record - Instruments to be entered - Microfilm

Upon the journal record required to be kept by the clerk of the

district court in civil cases exclusive of the small claims docket

and juvenile proceedings docket shall be entered copies of the

following instruments on file:

1. All items of process by which the court acquired

jurisdiction of the person of each defendant in the case; and

2. All instruments filed in the case that bear the signature of

the judge and specify clearly the relief granted or order made.

The journal may be kept entirely in microfilm, optical disks, or

other appropriate medium. Existing journal records in the custody

of the court clerk may be destroyed after being stored on at least

two microfilm records, optical disks, or other appropriate medium,

one of which shall be placed by the court clerk with the Archives

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 12. Civil Procedure

and Records Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, or in

a bank or other appropriate local depository, and one shall be

available for public use in the court clerk’s office. In case of

functional failure of the record in the court clerk’s office the

copy in storage shall be made available to anyone requesting access

to it. The cost of the storage medium and equipment and for viewing

and copying shall be paid out of the court fund upon approval by the

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Copies of the journal record

reproduced from microfilm, optical disk, and other media and copies

of the original instruments that are part of the journal records,

when certified by the court clerk having the custody of the

original, may be received in evidence with the same effect as the

original would have had and without further identification by the

party desiring to offer them.

R.L.1910, § 5324. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 245, § 1, eff. Oct. 1,

1971; Laws 1972, c. 146, § 1, emerg. eff. April 7, 1972; Laws 2004,

c. 447, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004.