{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-28-28-86","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 28, § 28-86","heading":"Jurors' fees – Parking - Persons excused from serving -","body":"Lengthy Trial Fund - Wage replacement or supplementation.\n\nA. Jurors shall be paid the following fees out of the local\n\ncourt fund:\n\n1. For each day's attendance before any court of record, Fifty\n\nDollars ($50.00); and\n\n2. For mileage going to and returning from jury service each\n\nday, pursuant to the provisions of the State Travel Reimbursement\n\nAct.\n\nB. The Court Fund Board of the district court may contract for\n\nor provide reimbursement for parking for district court jurors to be\n\npaid from the Court Fund. Parking so provided to jurors shall be in\n\nlieu of any reimbursement to jurors for parking fees.\n\nC. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person\n\nwho is summoned for jury duty and who is excused from serving\n\npursuant to the provisions of subsection A of Section 28 of Title 38\n\nof the Oklahoma Statutes, beginning on the day the person is excused\n\nfrom service.\n\nD. The Supreme Court shall promulgate rules to establish a\n\nLengthy Trial Fund that shall be used to provide full or partial\n\nwage replacement or wage supplementation to jurors who serve as\n\npetit jurors for more than ten (10) days.\n\n1. The court rules shall provide for the selection and\n\nappointment of an Administrator for the fund; procedures for the\n\nadministration of the fund, including payments of salaries of the\n\nAdministrator and other necessary personnel; procedures for the\n\naccounting, auditing and investment of money in the Lengthy Trial\n\nFund; and a report by the Supreme Court on the administration of the\n\nLengthy Trial Fund included in its annual report on the judicial\n\nbranch, setting forth the money collected for and disbursed from the\n\nfund.\n\n2. The clerk of the court shall collect from each attorney who\n\nfiles a civil case, unless otherwise exempted under the provisions\n\nof this section, a fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per case to be paid\n\ninto the Lengthy Trial Fund. A lawyer will be deemed to have filed\n\na case at the time the first pleading or other filing on which an\n\nindividual lawyer's name appears is submitted to the court for\n\nfiling and opens a new case. All such fees shall be forwarded to\n\nthe Administrator of the Lengthy Trial Fund for deposit.\n\n3. The Administrator shall use the fees deposited in the\n\nLengthy Trial Fund to pay full or partial wage replacement or\n\nsupplementation to jurors whose employers pay less than full regular\n\nwages when the period of jury service lasts more than ten (10) days.\n\n4. The court may pay replacement or supplemental wages of up to\n\nTwo Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per day per juror beginning on the\n\neleventh day of jury service. In addition, for any jurors who\n\nqualify for payment by serving on a jury for more than ten (10)\n\ndays, the court may, upon finding that such service posed a\n\nsignificant financial hardship to a juror, even in light of payments\n\nmade with respect to jury service after the tenth day, award\n\nreplacement or supplemental wages of up to Fifty Dollars ($50.00)\n\nper day from the fourth to the tenth day of jury service.\n\n5. Any juror who is serving or has served on a jury that\n\nqualifies for payment from the Lengthy Trial Fund, provided the\n\nservice commenced on or after January 1, 2005, may submit a request\n\nfor payment from the Lengthy Trial Fund on a form provided by the\n\nAdministrator. Payment shall be limited to the difference between\n\nthe state-paid jury fee and the actual amount of wages a juror\n\nearns, up to the maximum level payable, minus any amount the juror\n\nactually receives from the employer during the same time period.\n\nThe form shall disclose the juror's regular wages, the amount the\n\nemployer will pay during the term of jury service starting on the\n\neleventh day and thereafter, the amount of replacement or\n\nsupplemental wages requested, and any other information the\n\nAdministrator deems necessary for proper payment. The juror shall\nunt the juror\n\nactually receives from the employer during the same time period.\n\nThe form shall disclose the juror's regular wages, the amount the\n\nemployer will pay during the term of jury service starting on the\n\neleventh day and thereafter, the amount of replacement or\n\nsupplemental wages requested, and any other information the\n\nAdministrator deems necessary for proper payment. The juror shall\n\nbe required to submit verification from the employer as to the wage\n\ninformation provided to the Administrator, including but not limited\n\nto the employee's most recent earnings statement or similar\n\ndocument, prior to initiation of payment from the fund. If an\n\nindividual is self-employed or receives compensation other than\n\nwages, the individual may provide a sworn affidavit attesting to his\n\nor her approximate gross weekly income, together with such other\n\ninformation as the Administrator may require, in order to verify\n\nweekly income.\n\n6. The following attorneys and causes of action are exempt from\n\npayment of the Lengthy Trial Fund fee:\n\na. government attorneys entering appearances in the\n\ncourse of their official duties,\n\nb. pro se litigants,\n\nc. cases in small claims court or the state equivalent\n\nthereof, or\n\nd. claims seeking Social Security disability\n\ndeterminations, individual veterans' compensation or\n\ndisability determinations, recoupment actions for\n\ngovernment backed educational loans or mortgages,\n\nchild custody and support cases, actions brought in\n\nforma pauperis, and any other filings designated by\n\nrule that involve minimal use of court resources and\n\nthat customarily are not afforded the opportunity for\n\na trial by jury.\n\n7. Until June 30, 2021, the Office of Management and Enterprise\n\nServices shall, at the request of the Administrative Director of the\n\nCourts, transfer any monies from the Lengthy Trial Fund to the\n\nSupreme Court Administrative Revolving Fund or the Interagency\n\nReimbursement Fund as necessary to perform the duties imposed upon\n\nthe Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals and district courts by\n\nlaw.\n\nR.L. 1910, § 3236. Amended by Laws 1923, c. 6, p. 5, § 1, emerg.\n\neff. Feb. 13, 1923; Laws 1947, p. 248, § 1, emerg. eff. May 16,\n\n1947; Laws 1963, c. 79, § 1, emerg. eff. May 21, 1963; Laws 1967, c.\n\n122, § 9, emerg. eff. April 27, 1967; Laws 1968, c. 199, § 1, eff.\n\nJan. 13, 1969; Laws 1977, c. 189, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1977; Laws 1981,\n\nc. 217, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1996, c. 339, § 7, eff. Nov. 1,\n\n1996; Laws 1997, c. 400, § 10, emerg. eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2004,\n\nc. 525, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2005; Laws 2015, c. 343, § 5, emerg. eff.\n\nJune 1, 2015; Laws 2016, c. 249, § 5, emerg. eff. May 5, 2016; Laws\n\n2017, c. 12, § 5, emerg. eff. April 6, 2017; Laws 2020, c. 4, § 1,\n\nemerg. eff. March 18, 2020; Laws 2023, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 16, § 1,\n\neff. Nov. 1, 2023.","path":["OK Code","Title 28"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os28.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"295cde1e3758f70832f2e5bb2db14a926db7c42195b11934ec7ac754e689bb3f","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-28-28-85","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-28-28-86.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}