2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 20. Courts
§20-1651. Public policy.
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state:
1. To afford a means for efficiently and impartially investigating complaints by any person concerning the conduct of persons occupying positions subject to the jurisdiction of the Court on the Judiciary;
2. To provide an agency which can determine whether such complaints should:
a.be made the subject of action before the Court on the Judiciary for the purpose of removal, reprimand, or admonition, or
b.be dismissed;
3. To provide means for procuring necessary information to enable the agency to perform its functions, including the power to issue and enforce subpoenas to testify or to produce tangible evidentiary materials; and
4. To better the administration of justice in this state through the means enumerated in Sections 1651 through 1662 of this title.
Added by Laws 1974, c. 251, § 1, emerg. eff. May 23, 1974. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 239, § 9, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 368, § 1, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 1999, c. 423, § 1, emerg. eff. June 10, 1999.
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