{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-103.1","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-103.1","heading":"Temporary judge or judge pro tempore - Authority - Per","body":"diem and expenses.\n\nA. Any judge of the district court designated by the Chief\n\nJustice to hold court in another district, or appointed by the Chief\n\nJustice to hold court in another district when the public business\n\nshall require, or any judge pro tempore agreed upon by the parties\n\nor elected by the members of the bar of the district or designated\n\nby the chief judge of the district court and approved by the Chief\n\nJustice, shall have continuing authority, without further\n\nassignment, to make final disposition of any matter regularly\n\nsubmitted or tried before him during the term or period of time of\n\nhis designation, appointment or election, including motions and\n\npetitions for new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the\n\nverdict, and of all applications and proceedings pertaining to the\n\nmaking, serving, amendment, settlement, signing, correcting,\n\nextending time and completing of case made, transcript, or original\n\nrecord for appeal, notwithstanding the term or period of time for\n\nwhich he was designated or appointed has expired; and when necessary\n\nfor him to return to the district for the purpose of acting on such\n\nmatters, his necessary travel expense shall be paid as provided by\n\nSection 105.1 of this title. Judges pro tempore designated by the\n\nchief judge of a district court, shall receive per diem and expenses\n\nas approved by the Chief Justice to be paid from the Supreme Court\n\nRevolving Fund on claims filed with and approved by the\n\nAdministrative Director of the Courts.\n\nB. When any judge of the district court has been lawfully\n\ndesignated or appointed and be sitting in any county of his own\n\ndistrict, he may make any order of a nature not requiring notice and\n\nhearing in any cause theretofore heard, or being heard, by him in a\n\ndistrict to which he has been properly designated or appointed; and\n\nhe may sign the journal entry of any order, judgment or decree\n\ntheretofore made by him, as such designated or appointed judge, if\n\nsuch journal entry be approved as to form by all parties affected\n\nthereby, or by their attorneys; and he may extend the time for the\n\ncompletion, serving, settling and signing of cases made,\n\ntranscripts, or original record for appeal, and he may sign and\n\nsettle any case made, transcript or original record for appeal,\n\nunder the foregoing circumstances, if the parties affected thereby\n\nor their attorneys have stipulated that he may do so. If any action\n\nis taken under the foregoing circumstances, the judge shall make a\n\nminute of his action and forthwith transmit said minute to the court\n\nclerk of the county in which the action is pending.","path":["OK Code","Title 20"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os20.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"2584e621bebef7f8d2e2aa363babec85a0b1d1a42f402975dd3b6d0596411263","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1011","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-104"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}