Upon receipt of a traffic ticket by the clerk of the district court, other than a traffic ticket which has been signed by the arrested person as a plea of guilty, the district court clerk shall either prepare a copy of the ticket and deliver the original to the district attorney, or record the ticket on a list maintained in the district court clerk's office and deliver the ticket to the district attorney for his disposition. After disposition of the ticket by the district attorney, the name shall be removed from the list by the district court clerk. A traffic ticket that is certified by the arresting officer, the complainant, the district attorney, or assistant district attorney, shall constitute an information against the person arrested and served with the traffic ticket. The ticket shall be endorsed by the district attorney or assistant district attorney before it is filed with the district court clerk; except, if the person arrested and served with a traffic ticket either at the time he is arrested or at a subsequent time shall indicate in writing on the ticket, above his signature, that he elects to plead guilty to the violation charged, the traffic ticket shall be filed with the district court clerk, as an information, without the endorsement of the district attorney or an assistant district attorney, and it shall be the duty of the district court clerk to notify the district attorney and the Department of Public Safety as to the fact of such filing.

Laws 1968, HB 1050, c. 185, § 3, eff. January 13, 1969; Amended by Laws 1968, HB 1233, c. 383, § 4, eff. January 13, 1969; Amended by Laws 1969, SB 145, c. 276, § 2, emerg. eff. April 25, 1969; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1612, c. 238, § 35, emerg. eff. July 1, 1991.