A. Each member of the general jury panel, when reporting for duty as provided for in Section 20 of this title, shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation which shall be in substantially the following form:
OATH
I, the undersigned, do solemnly swear or affirm that I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of Oklahoma, County of __________. I further swear or affirm that I am eighteen years of age or older.
I further swear or affirm that I have not been convicted of a felony for which a period of time equal to the original judgment and sentence has not expired, or for which I have not been pardoned. I further swear or affirm that I am not now adjudicated as being mentally incompetent and that I do not otherwise have a mental condition which makes me incapable of performing jury service.
I state under penalty of perjury under the laws of Oklahoma that the foregoing is true and correct.
________________________________________________ ________________
(Signature or mark of general jury panel member) (Date and place)
B. The oath or affirmation provided for in subsection A of this section shall be maintained in the office of the court clerk as a judicial record. The oath or affirmation required by this section may be taken and signed using an electronic method provided by the court for such purposes, either through the website of the court or otherwise, and may be maintained by the court clerk in electronic format.
Added by Laws 1985, c. 273, § 2. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 61, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
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