Oklahoma § 20-103.1 - Temporary judge or judge pro tempore - Authority - Per

§ 20-103.1. Temporary judge or judge pro tempore - Authority - Per

diem and expenses.

A. Any judge of the district court designated by the Chief

Justice to hold court in another district, or appointed by the Chief

Justice to hold court in another district when the public business

shall require, or any judge pro tempore agreed upon by the parties

or elected by the members of the bar of the district or designated

by the chief judge of the district court and approved by the Chief

Justice, shall have continuing authority, without further

assignment, to make final disposition of any matter regularly

submitted or tried before him during the term or period of time of

his designation, appointment or election, including motions and

petitions for new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the

verdict, and of all applications and proceedings pertaining to the

making, serving, amendment, settlement, signing, correcting,

extending time and completing of case made, transcript, or original

record for appeal, notwithstanding the term or period of time for

which he was designated or appointed has expired; and when necessary

for him to return to the district for the purpose of acting on such

matters, his necessary travel expense shall be paid as provided by

Section 105.1 of this title. Judges pro tempore designated by the

chief judge of a district court, shall receive per diem and expenses

as approved by the Chief Justice to be paid from the Supreme Court

Revolving Fund on claims filed with and approved by the

Administrative Director of the Courts.

B. When any judge of the district court has been lawfully

designated or appointed and be sitting in any county of his own

district, he may make any order of a nature not requiring notice and

hearing in any cause theretofore heard, or being heard, by him in a

district to which he has been properly designated or appointed; and

he may sign the journal entry of any order, judgment or decree

theretofore made by him, as such designated or appointed judge, if

such journal entry be approved as to form by all parties affected

thereby, or by their attorneys; and he may extend the time for the

completion, serving, settling and signing of cases made,

transcripts, or original record for appeal, and he may sign and

settle any case made, transcript or original record for appeal,

under the foregoing circumstances, if the parties affected thereby

or their attorneys have stipulated that he may do so. If any action

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 20. Courts

is taken under the foregoing circumstances, the judge shall make a

minute of his action and forthwith transmit said minute to the court

clerk of the county in which the action is pending.

Added by Laws 1953, p. 89, § 1. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 6, § 1,

emerg. eff. Feb. 20, 1963; Laws 1979, c. 78, § 1, eff. July 1, 1979;

Laws 1981, c. 26, § 1, emerg. eff. April 6, 1981; Laws 1994, c. 225,

§ 3, eff. July 1, 1994.