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Okla. Stat. tit. 20, § 1404.1

Candidate for judicial office - Standards of conduct - Removal - Disqualification

Added by Laws 1979, c. 29, § 1.

A person who is not a judicial officer but is a candidate for a judicial office shall comply with the standards enumerated below, and any violation of these standards shall constitute grounds for the removal by the Court on the Judiciary of a person who is not a judicial officer elected to a judicial office with or without disqualification to hold a judicial office in the future.

1. Participation, while a candidate for judicial office, in any partisan political activity. The term "partisan political activity" as used in this paragraph shall not include attendance by a candidate for a judicial office at a political gathering, upon payment of a nominal admission fee, for the sole purpose of campaigning in his own behalf for a judicial office.

2. Participation, while a candidate for a judicial office, in any election campaign other than that for his own election to a judicial office.

3. While a candidate for a judicial office, making publicly known in his campaign material or speeches, or knowingly permitting others to make publicly known, either directly or by implication, his political party affiliation.

Official source: Oklahoma Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oklahoma statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.