Oklahoma Code § 20-60.5

Title 20. Courts: Rules providing for duties and procedures - Compensation
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- Travel expenses - Transmission of case files and other relevant
materials - Payment of expenses - Scope of review of Court of
Criminal Appeals - Budgeting, management and administration of
Emergency Appellate Division.

A.  The duties and procedures of the Emergency Appellate
Division shall be as provided by rules of the Court of Criminal
Appeals.
B.  No district judge, associate district judge, or special
judge who is temporarily assigned to sit on the Emergency Appellate
Division shall be entitled to additional compensation for judicial
service on the Emergency Appellate Division, unless otherwise
authorized by law.
C.  Travel expenses of judges of the Emergency Appellate
Division incurred in performing their duties shall be reimbursed
pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act, Section 500.1 et
seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes from funds appropriated to
the Supreme Court for the expenses of the District Courts.
D.  The Court of Criminal Appeals is authorized to expend such
funds as may be necessary for the purpose of transmitting case files
and other relevant materials to the judges of the Emergency
Appellate Division.
E.  Expenses of the Emergency Appellate Division for the purpose
of transmitting case files and other relevant materials to the Court
of Criminal Appeals shall be paid from the court fund on claims
approved by the Court Fund Governing Board.  The Emergency Appellate
Division shall not incur additional expenses without the approval of
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
F.  The Court of Criminal Appeals shall prescribe by rule the
scope of review it will afford when a Petition for Review to the
Court of Criminal Appeals is filed.
G.  The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be responsible
for the budgeting, management and administration of the Emergency
Appellate Division, based upon rules promulgated by the Court of
Criminal Appeals and approved by the Supreme Court.

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