Rules for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education
Chapter 1, App. 1-B
Rule 2. Scope and Exemptions.

(a) Except as provided herein these rules shall apply to every active member of the Oklahoma Bar Association as defined by Article 11 of the Rules Creating and Controlling the Oklahoma Bar Association.

(b) An attorney is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules for the calendar year during which he or she was first admitted to practice.

(c) All Judges who, during the entire reporting period, are by Constitution, law or regulation prohibited from the private practice of law, members of the United States Congress, members of the Oklahoma Legislature, the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma and members of the armed forces on full time active duty shall be exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(d) An attorney who attains the age of sixty-five (65) years of age before or during the calendar year which is being reported is exempt from all requirements of these rules except as provided in Rule 5.

(e) An attorney who, during the entire reporting period, is a nonresident of the State of Oklahoma and did not practice law in the State of Oklahoma is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(f) An attorney who files an affidavit with the Commission on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education of the Oklahoma Bar Association stating that the attorney did not practice law during the reporting period is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(g) Any person claiming an exemption hereunder is required to file an annual report in compliance with these rules and regulations.

Adopted by orders January 17, 1986; eff. March 1, 1986; amended by orders of Oct. 29, 1987; Oct 28, 1988, 1991. Amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2003 OK 83, October 9, 2003.