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§ 15-1001
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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 : Procedure on Arrest

15-611 : Record of traffic cases; report of convictions to state department of safety.

  1. The recorder shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to his court or the traffic violations bureau and shall keep a record of every official action by the recorder's court or its traffic violations bureau in reference thereto, including, but not limited to, a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal and the amount of fine or forfeiture resulting from every traffic complaint or citation deposited with or presented to the recorder's court or traffic violations bureau.
  2. Within ten (10) days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this chapter or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, the recorder shall prepare and immediately forward to the state department of safety an abstract of the record of the court covering the case in which the person was so convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract shall be certified by the recorder to be true and correct. A report need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
  3. The abstract required by subsection (1) must be made upon a form furnished by the state department of safety and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the number if any of his operator's or chauffeur's license, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment or whether bail was forfeited and the amount of the fine or forfeiture, as the case may be. (1973 Code, § 11-82)