(A) Every magistrate or judge of the Municipal Court shall keep, or cause to be kept, a record of every traffic citation, or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with, or presented to, the court or its Traffic Violations Bureau, together with a record of every crime in the commission of which a motor vehicle was used, and shall keep a record of every official action by the 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 said traffic complaint or citation deposited with or presented to said court or Traffic Violations Bureau.
(B) Within ten days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this Traffic Code or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways, the Municipal Judge or the clerk of the court of record in which such conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to the State Department of Motor Vehicles an abstract as required of the record of said court covering the case in which the person was so convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract must be certified by the person so required to prepare the same to be true and correct. This procedure may be modified by state statute.
(C) The abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the State Department of Motor Vehicles and shall include the name and address of the party charged, his age or date of birth, the number, if any, of his operator's or chauffeur's license, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, its location, 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. Report need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
(D) The failure, refusal, or neglect of any such judicial officer to comply with any of the requirements of this section shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal therefrom.
('74 Code, § 9-5-21.21) (Ord. 65-1974; Am. Ord. 29-1994)