Certificate not to be deemed to be a pardon · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 706. Certificate not to be deemed to be a pardon. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to alter or limit or affect the manner of applying for pardons to the governor, and no certificate issued hereunder shall be deemed or construed to be a pardon.
A certificate issued under this article is not a pardon and does not change, limit, or affect the process for applying to the governor for a pardon. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 6 — The Court Clerk: Uniform Rules and Everything Else; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.