(A) Each municipal judge shall report the disposition of each criminal case to the State Law Enforcement Division within five days, weekends and holidays excluded. (B) A municipal judge shall also report to the State Law Enforcement Division, within five days, weekends and holidays excluded, the issuance, rescission, or termination of any: (1) restraining orders and emergency restraining orders; (2) municipal court orders of protection from domestic abuse act orders; (3) orders of state firearms prohibition pursuant to Section 16-25-30; and (4) any other restraining orders, orders of protection, or other orders that prohibit a person from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm, but only upon being directed to transmit such orders by the appropriate judge. For any form orders provided by Court Administration that may require transmission pursuant to this subsection, Court Administration shall include within the form order a checked box option that the judge may select, when appropriate, to order the clerk to transmit the appropriate information to SLED. (C) The reporting required by this section must be in a format approved by the State Law Enforcement Division and Court ppropriate, to order the clerk to transmit the appropriate information to SLED. (C) The reporting required by this section must be in a format approved by the State Law Enforcement Division and Court Administration. HISTORY: 2021 Act No. 66 (H.3094), Section 10.C, eff October 1, 2021.
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