§ 10-116a. Appointment - Qualifications - Political activities - Application of act - United States and agencies, powers respecting - Arrests - Information - Seal.

(a) A majority of the courts of record of such county shall appoint a person of good character with training and experience in probation, parole or other related form of social case work.

(b) Said probation officer shall not in any manner be concerned in demanding, soliciting or receiving any assessments, subscriptions or contributions, whether voluntary or involuntary, to any political party.  It shall be unlawful for any such person to be in any manner concerned with demanding or soliciting such assessments, subscriptions or contributions from any person.

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or both, and in addition thereto any person so convicted shall forfeit his office or employment and shall not thereafter be employed by the courts in any capacity.  It shall be the duty of the courts to dismiss from office any officer or other employee thereof who shall violate any of the provisions of this section.

(c) The provisions of this act are hereby extended to all persons who, at the effective date thereof, may be on probation or parole, or eligible to be placed on probation or parole under existing laws, with the same force and effect as if this act had been in operation at the time such persons were placed on probation or parole or became eligible to be placed thereon as the case may be.

(d) Said probation officer shall have the authority to accept from the United States or any of its agencies and from the State of Oklahoma or any of its agencies, such advisory services, funds, equipment or supplies as may be made available to said officer for any of the purposes contemplated by this act, and to enter into such contracts and agreements with the United States, or any of its agencies, the State of Oklahoma or any of its agencies, as may be necessary, proper, and convenient, not contrary to the laws of this state.

(e) Any probation officer may arrest a probationer or parolee without a warrant or may deputize any other officer with power of arrest to do so by giving him a written statement setting forth that the probationer or parolee has, in the judgment of the probation officer, violated the conditions of probation.

(f) All penal, eleemosynary or other institution under the jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, and any law enforcement agency or officer of the state or of any city or county within this state shall furnish said probation officer with any and all information requested by him pertaining to any person placed on probation or under his jurisdiction.

(g) Said officer shall adopt an official seal of which the courts shall take judicial notice, said seal shall be placed upon all official correspondence or papers pertaining to any case coming within his jurisdiction.

Laws 1939, p. 227, § 2; Laws 1941, p. 19, § 1.