{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-104","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-104","heading":"Reimbursement for expenses of district court judges,","body":"special justices, special judges and court reporters.\n\n(a) When any judge of the district court is ordered by the Chief\n\nJustice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma or by the\n\nPresiding Judge of the Judicial Administrative District to perform\n\nduties or to attend or participate in a judicial conference outside\n\nthe county of his residence, such judge shall be entitled to\n\nreimbursement for actual and necessary travel expense as provided by\n\nthe State Travel Reimbursement Act, necessarily incurred in\n\ncomplying with such order or orders. He shall certify such expense\n\nto the Chief Justice, and, upon the latter's approval thereof, the\n\nState Treasurer shall issue his reimbursing warrant to be paid out\n\nof any funds appropriated for such purpose.\n\n(b) Whenever a member of the Bar who was appointed by the\n\nGovernor to sit on the Supreme Court as a special justice or on the\n\nCourt of Criminal Appeals as a special judge is required to travel\n\nin performance of his duties as such special justice or judge beyond\n\nthe county of his residence, he shall be entitled to actual and\n\nnecessary travel expense as provided in the State Travel\n\nReimbursement Act, upon a claim approved by the Chief Justice and\n\nsuch special justice or judge shall be reimbursed for his travel and\n\nexpenses to the same extent and in the same amount as a judge of the\n\ndistrict court would have been authorized to receive under the law.\n\n(c) Whenever a judge of the district court is assigned to serve\n\na district court outside the district court judicial district such\n\njudge regularly serves, he shall be entitled to reimbursement as\n\nprovided by the State Travel Reimbursement Act. Travel claims for\n\nreimbursement shall be submitted to the Chief Justice for approval.\n\nA court reporter assigned to serve outside the district court\n\njudicial district he regularly serves shall be entitled to\n\nreimbursement of expenses in a like manner.\n\n(d) Whenever a judge of the district court or a court reporter\n\nis assigned to serve at any place within the county designated for\n\nholding court sessions other than the courthouse of the county in\n\nwhich he is a resident judge or a resident court reporter of the\n\ndistrict court, he shall be entitled to mileage for travel from the\n\ncourthouse to such designated court location and back to the\n\ncourthouse, as well as his travel from one designated court location\n\nto another designated court location within the county and back to\n\nthe courthouse. The mileage so traveled shall be paid in accordance\n\nwith the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act. Travel\n\nclaims for reimbursement shall be submitted to the Chief Justice for\n\napproval.\n\nA district judge who is assigned to hold court at the courthouse\n\nof a county as well as at a place where formerly a superior court\n\nwas held within the same county shall be entitled to mileage for\n\nnecessary travel between the courthouse and the place where formerly\n\na superior court was located, so long as district court sessions\n\ncontinue to be held at such place. When two or more persons use the\n\nsame motor vehicle for travel required in the performance of their\n\nduties either as a judge or as a court reporter, only one of them\n\nshall be entitled to claim mileage for such travel. No mileage\n\nshall be paid for travel by a judge or by a court reporter between\n\nhis place of residence and the courthouse of the district court of\n\nthe county of which such judge or court reporter is a resident.\n\nReimbursement for mileage so traveled shall be paid in accordance\n\nwith the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement Act upon\n\nclaims submitted to the Chief Justice for approval.\n\nR.L. 1910, § 1784. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 228, § 1; Laws 1969, c.\n\n319, § 1; Laws 1970, c. 202, § 1, emerg. eff. April 14, 1970; Laws\n\n1979, c. 78, § 2, eff. July 1, 1979.\n\nNOTE: Laws 1979, c. 47, § 9 repealed by Laws 1980, c. 290, § 6,\n\neff. Oct. 1, 1980.","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":"971829ccd4bf8a813e2fa397d61ec98b5b44e6f66ec363ecc8704198630fabdf","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-103.1","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-105.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}