Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-983v1: Imprisonment or recommendation of suspension of driving
Where this section sits in the code
- OK Code
- 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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