{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1404","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 20-1404","heading":"Additional grounds for removal of judicial officer","body":"A. As used in this section, the term \"judicial officer\"\n\nincludes the judges of all courts created by the state or\n\nmunicipalities of the state.\n\nB. In addition to the causes specified in Article VII-A,\n\nSection 1 of the Oklahoma Constitution, the acts and omissions\n\nenumerated below shall constitute grounds for the removal by the\n\nCourt on the Judiciary of a judicial officer from his office, with\n\nor without disqualification to hold a judicial office in the future:\n\n1. The acceptance of a fee, or gratuity, other than that\n\nspecifically provided by law, for performing any act in a judicial\n\nofficer's capacity as a judge.\n\n2. Continued willful failure of a judicial officer to comply\n\nwith rules and directives of the Supreme Court, the presiding judge\n\nof his administrative district, or the chief judge of the judicial\n\ndistrict.\n\n3. Participation by a judicial officer, while serving as such\n\nofficer or while a candidate for judicial office, in any partisan\n\npolitical activity. But the term \"partisan political activity,\" as\n\nused herein, shall not include the attendance by a judicial officer\n\nor by a candidate for a judicial office at a political gathering,\n\nupon payment of a nominal admission fee, for the sole purpose of\n\ncampaigning in his own behalf for a judicial office.\n\n4. Participation by a judicial officer, while serving as such\n\nofficer or while a candidate for a judicial office, in any election\n\ncampaign other than that for his own election to a judicial office.\n\n5. A judicial officer becoming a candidate for any nonjudicial\n\noffice or for another judicial office whose term is to commence\n\nbefore the expiration of his present term of office; provided that\n\nno judge holding a nonelective judgeship shall become a candidate in\n\na race in which the incumbent seeks to retain an elective judicial\n\noffice unless he first resign his appointive judgeship.\n\n6. A judicial officer, while serving as such officer or while a\n\ncandidate for a judicial office, making publicly known in his\n\ncampaign material or speeches, or knowingly permitting others to\n\nmake publicly known, either directly or by implication, his\n\npolitical party affiliation.\n\nC. Violation by a judicial officer of the Code of Judicial\n\nConduct as adopted by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma on July 15,\n\n1974, or as may be thereafter amended, may constitute grounds for\n\nthe removal by the court on the judiciary of a judicial officer from\n\noffice, with or without disqualification to hold a judicial office\n\nin the future.","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":"415602420e247f728174e8e6bc2e467eb0559cf53253a59233957b8e73b0f9b0","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1403","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-20-20-1404.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}