(a) Effective January 1, 2015, except as provided herein, these rules shall apply to every active and senior member of the Oklahoma Bar Association as defined by Article II of the Rules Creating and Controlling the Oklahoma Bar Association.

(b) An attorney is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules for the calendar year during which he or she was first admitted to practice.

(c) All Judges who, during the entire reporting period, are by Constitution, law or regulation prohibited from the private practice of law, members of the United States Congress, members of the Oklahoma Legislature, the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, and members of the armed forces on full time active duty, and members of the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Bar Association, members of the Professional Responsibility Commission and members of the Professional Responsibility Tribunal, during their year(s) of service, shall be exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(d) An attorney having been granted an exemption based on attaining age 65 prior to January 1, 2015, shall be granted a continuing exemption.

(e) An attorney who, during the entire reporting period, is a nonresident of the State of Oklahoma and did not practice law in the State of Oklahoma is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(f) An attorney who files an affidavit with the Commission on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education of the Oklahoma Bar Association stating that the attorney did not practice law during the reporting period is exempt from the educational requirements of these rules.

(g) Any person claiming an exemption hereunder is required to file an annual report in compliance with these rules and regulations.