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Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-983v1: Imprisonment or recommendation of suspension of driving

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  1. OK Code
  2. Title 22

privileges for failure to pay fines, costs, fees, or assessments -

Hearing - Installments.

A. Any defendant found guilty of an offense in any court of

this state may be imprisoned for nonpayment of the fine, cost, fee,

or assessment when the trial court finds after notice and hearing

that the defendant is financially able but refuses or neglects to

pay the fine, cost, fee, or assessment. A sentence to pay a fine,

cost, fee, or assessment may be converted into a jail sentence only

after a hearing and a judicial determination, memorialized of

record, that the defendant is able to satisfy the fine, cost, fee,

or assessment by payment, but refuses or neglects so to do.

B. After a judicial determination that the defendant is able to

pay the fine, cost, fee, or assessment in installments, the court

may order the fine, cost, fee, or assessment to be paid in

installments and shall set the amount and date for each installment.

C. In addition, the district court or municipal court, within

one hundred twenty (120) days from the date upon which the person

was originally ordered to make payment, may send notice of

nonpayment of any court ordered fine and costs for a moving traffic

violation to the Department of Public Safety with a recommendation

of suspension of driving privileges of the defendant until the total

amount of any fine and costs has been paid. Upon receipt of payment

of the total amount of the fine and costs for the moving traffic

violation, the court shall send notice thereof to the Department, if

a nonpayment notice was sent as provided for in this subsection.

Notices sent to the Department shall be on forms or by a method

approved by the Department.

D. The Court of Criminal Appeals shall implement procedures and

rules for methods of establishing payment plans of fines, costs,

fees, and assessments by indigents, which procedures and rules shall

be distributed to all district courts and municipal courts by the

Administrative Office of the Courts.

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