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15-13-111
Section 15-13-111 Kinds of bail. For persons arrested and taken into custody, there shall be
four kinds of bail used in this state. No other form of bail may be approved and accepted
by any judicial officer, court clerk, magistrate, or any other person designated to accept
and approve bail as stipulated in Division 1, Sections 15-13-100 to 15-13-110, inclusive.
The four kinds of bail shall be judicial public bail, cash bail, property bail, and professional
surety bail. Their definitions are as follows: (1) CASH BAIL. Cash bail is when the defendant
or some person on behalf of the defendant deposits cash in an amount equal to a part or the
total sum of the bail as set by the judicial officer to the clerk of the court having jurisdiction
over the case. Acceptance of cash bail shall conform to Division 9. (2) JUDICIAL PUBLIC BAIL.
Judicial public bail is the release of any defendant without any condition of an undertaking
relating to, or a deposit of, security. Such bail shall be granted...
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45-36-80
Section 45-36-80 Additional fees and costs; Jackson County jail. (a) In Jackson County, in
addition to any and all court costs and fees now or hereafter authorized, the following fees
shall be charged and collected by the circuit court clerk on the following cases: (1) Additional
court costs in the amount of twenty dollars ($20) shall be assessed and collected on all small
claims, domestic relations, and traffic cases filed in the Jackson County Circuit Clerk's
office and all municipal court cases filed in the several municipal courts of Jackson County,
Alabama. (2) Additional court costs in the amount of fifty dollars ($50) shall be assessed
and collected on all district civil and district criminal cases filed in the circuit clerk's
office. (3) Additional court costs in the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75) shall be assessed
and collected on all circuit civil and circuit criminal cases filed in the Jackson County
Circuit Clerk's office. (4) In addition to any other costs and...
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12-14-51
Section 12-14-51 Magistrates deemed chief officers of agency; appointment and powers of magistrates.
(a) The magistrates shall be considered the chief officers of the municipal court administrative
agency. (b) The Supreme Court may, by rule, prescribe procedures for the appointment of magistrates
by class or position and, in addition thereto, provide for the appointment of other magistrates
by the Administrative Director of Courts, upon recommendation by municipal judges. (c) The
powers of a magistrate shall be limited to the following: (1) Issuance of arrest warrants.
(2) Granting of bail in minor misdemeanor prosecutions in accordance with the discretionary
bail schedule and approving property, cash, and professional surety bonds upon a municipal
judge's approval. (3) Receiving of pleas of guilty in minor misdemeanors where a schedule
of fines has been prescribed by rule. (4) Accountability to the municipal court for all uniform
traffic tickets and complaints issued, including all...
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12-22-170
Section 12-22-170 Stay of sentence when question of law reserved and admission to bail - Felonies.
When any question of law is reserved in case of a felony and it shall be made known to the
court that the defendant desires to take an appeal to the appropriate appellate court, judgment
must be entered against the defendant, but execution thereof must be stayed pending the appeal
and the defendant held in custody. If the sentence is for a term not exceeding 20 years, the
judge must direct the clerk of the court in which the conviction is had to admit the defendant
to bail in a sum to be fixed by the judge, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon his appearance
at the court, from time to time thereafter, as fixed by the court to abide such judgement
as may be entered on the appeal. All proceedings for forfeiture of bail and arrest under this
section shall be had and conducted as is otherwise provided in this code for such proceedings.
(Code 1852, §753; Code 1867, §4304; Code 1876,...
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15-13-156
Section 15-13-156 Filing of lien in default cases - Release. (a) Clerks of all courts of the
state and its subdivisions may file the "lien and affidavit" form in the probate
court of the county where the property is located immediately after a final forfeiture is
ordered by any court of the State of Alabama or its subdivisions. The probate court shall
file and record it in its real property recordings and there shall be no charge to the city
or state assessed or collected. (b) In all final forfeiture cases of property bail, where
the judgment has been satisfied by the sureties or the court has set aside the final forfeiture
and the sureties liability has been discharged by law, the clerk of the court shall see that
any "lien and affidavit" form previously filed is so cancelled. The clerk may cancel
it by issuing a cancellation of the lien. The cancellation shall be in writing and filed and
recorded by the judge of probate of the county where the property is located. The probate
court...
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12-19-311
Section 12-19-311 Bail bond fees. (a)(1) In addition to all other charges, costs, taxes, or
fees levied by law on bail bonds, additional fees as detailed in paragraph a. and paragraph
b. shall be imposed on every bail bond in all courts of this state. The fee shall not be assessed
in traffic cases, except for those serious traffic offenses enumerated in Title 32, Chapter
5A, Article 9. Where multiple charges arise out of the same incident, the bond fee pursuant
to this section shall only be assessed on one charge. For the purposes of this section, the
term same incident shall be defined as the same date, location, and proximate time. Where
the charge is negotiating a worthless negotiable instrument, the fee shall not be assessed
more than three times annually per person charged. The fees shall be assessed as follows:
a. A filing fee in the amount of thirty-five dollars ($35) on each bond executed. b. For a
misdemeanor offense, a bail bond fee in the amount of 3.5 percent of the total...
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15-13-203
Section 15-13-203 Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board - Creation; composition; adoption
and enforcement of rules; compensation. (a) The Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board is
created to administer and enforce this article. The board shall consist of all of the following
members: (1) Seven professional bondsmen, one from each of the seven congressional districts
of the state, nominated by the Alabama Bail Bond Association and appointed by the Governor
from a list of not more than four nominees for each position on the board. For the initial
terms of office, the President of the Alabama Bail Bond Association shall be the professional
bondsman member of the board who represents the congressional district in which he or she
resides. The nominating and appointing authorities shall coordinate their nominations and
appointments to ensure that one of the professional bondsman members is the owner of a professional
bail bond company with at least 10 years of experience. Except as...
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15-13-22
Section 15-13-22 Qualifications for bail; bond required for bondsmen; qualification when sufficiency
of bail doubtful. (a) Each person signing as surety an undertaking of bail must be: (1) A
resident of this state; and (2) Worth, exclusive of property exempt from execution, the amount
expressed in the undertaking; but the court or magistrate, in taking bail, may allow more
than two persons to justify severally as bail in amounts less than that expressed in the undertaking,
provided the whole is equivalent to two sufficient bails. (b) The court or magistrate in taking
bail, in lieu of the foregoing, may allow a corporation, foreign or domestic, qualified to
do a bonding business in this state and authorized to execute the undertaking of bail, to
execute such bail. (c) Every person engaged in the business of making bail bonds and charging
therefor, except corporations qualified to do a bonding business in this state, shall be required,
in addition to all other requirements of this...
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45-45-81.31
Section 45-45-81.31 Bail bonds. Every person engaged in the business of making bail bonds in
Madison County, Alabama, in addition to the twenty-five thousand dollar ($25,000) surety requirement
of Section 15-13-22, shall be required to furnish a bond with corporate surety in an amount
to be set by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County. The circuit clerk shall use
the following criteria in determining the amount of bond required: (1) The monetary total
of all bonds issued by the bondsman which are outstanding as of July 1 of each year. (2) The
monetary total of all unpaid final judgments rendered against the bondsman during that year.
(3) The general cooperation exhibited by the bondsman in his or her relations with judges,
the district attorney, the circuit clerk, and other court-related officers and employers.
(Act 82-355, p. 510, § 1.)...
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34-1-14
Section 34-1-14 Hearings; judicial review. (a) Commencement of proceeding. The board may initiate
proceedings under this chapter either on its own motion or on the complaint of any person.
(b) Notice; service and contents. A written notice stating the nature of the charge or charges
against the accused and the time and place of the hearing before the board on such charges
shall be served on the accused not less than 30 days prior to the date of said hearing either
personally or by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail to the address of
the accused last known to the board. (c) Failure to appear. If, after having been served with
the notice of hearing as provided for herein, the accused fails to appear at said hearing
and defend, the board may proceed to hear evidence against him or her and may enter such order
as shall be justified by the evidence, which order shall be final unless he or she petitions
for a review thereof as provided herein; provided, that within 30...
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