An attorney for an Oklahoma state senator accused of groping an Uber driver says his client has resigned from office.

Attorney Scott Anderson said Republican state Sen. Bryce Marlatt, R-Woodward, submitted his letter of resignation to Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday afternoon.

Marlatt, 40, was booked Tuesday morning on one felony count of sexual battery, arraigned before a judge and later released on a $5,000 bond.

A married father of four children, Marlatt was charged after the Uber driver told police he grabbed her head and kissed her neck after she picked him up from an Oklahoma City restaurant June 26.

Anderson said he had no further comment about the allegations against Marlatt.

If convicted, Marlatt faces up to 10 years in prison.

In court documents filed in the case, an Oklahoma City police detective says the driver told investigators Marlatt stumbled into her car and commented on her appearance when she picked him up from a restaurant June 26. She said during the ride, he grabbed her and kissed her neck and shoulder.

"He made a comment that if she worked for him then he would 'feel' her up," Detective Natalie Cannon wrote in an affidavit accompanying the charge. "(Marlatt) made comments to the victim asking her to go back to his hotel with him and to have a drink with him, which she declined."

Marlatt previously said he was shocked by the allegations.

Marlatt was relieved of his role as chairman of the Senate Energy Committee and vice-chairman of two other Senate panels by Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Schulz when the allegations surfaced in July.

"Violence and harassment should not be tolerated in any circumstance," Schulz said in a statement recently. "(Marlatt) previously was removed from leadership positions as a result of this matter and those disciplinary actions still apply. In the meantime, I will continue to review the charges before determining whether other action is warranted."

Marlatt was arrested in 2014 and charged with a misdemeanor count of being in control of his vehicle while intoxicated after a Woodward County sheriff's deputy reported finding him asleep in his running pickup truck on a country road. Marlatt received a deferred sentence after pleading no contest, and the case against him was later dismissed.

Marlatt is the third Republican Oklahoma state senator to face criminal charges this year.

Sen. Ralph Shortey, of Oklahoma City, stepped down in March after being charged with child prostitution after prosecutors say he solicited sex from a 17-year-old boy. A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday accuses Shortey of also making child pornography and child sex trafficking. He faces life in prison if convicted.

Last month, former state Sen. Kyle Loveless was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to embezzling campaign funds and other charges.