Every district judge, district associate judge, and judicial magistrate shall keep a full record of every case in which a person is charged with any violation of this chapter or of any other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways.
Within ten 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 every magistrate of the court or clerk of the court of record in which the conviction occurred or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to the department an abstract of the record of the case. The abstract must be certified by the person preparing it to be true and correct.
The abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the department or by copying a uniform citation and complaint or by using an electronic process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for accurately and legibly reproducing an unaltered image or reproduction of the citation, and must include the name and address of the party charged, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment, or whether the bail was forfeited, the amount of the fine or forfeiture, and any court recommendation, if any, that the person's motor vehicle license be suspended. The department shall consider and act upon the recommendation.
Every clerk of a court of record shall also forward a like report to the department upon the conviction of any person of manslaughter or other felony in the commission of which a vehicle was used.
The failure, refusal, or neglect of an officer to comply with the requirements of this section shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be ground for removal from office.
All abstracts received by the department under this section shall be open to public inspection during reasonable business hours.
[S13, § 1571-m23; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5076--;5078; C39, § 5037.08; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.491]
90 Acts, ch 1230, §73; 93 Acts, ch 16, § 10; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §2; 96 Acts, ch 1218, § 66
Referred to in § 321.206, 321.555, 602.8102(51), 805.6, 805.9
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