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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45-49-235.09
Section 45-49-235.09 Failure to appear. (a) Whoever, having been released pursuant to this part, willfully fails to appear before any court or judicial officer as required, shall incur a forfeiture of any security which was given or was pledged for his or her release, and, in addition shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by law. (b) Failure to appear after notice of the appearance date shall be prima facie evidence that the failure to appear was willful. Whether the person was warned when released of the penalties for failure to appear, shall be a factor in determining whether the failure to appear was willful. The district attorney or any assistant district attorney, shall initiate prosecution for violation of this section by making affidavit for a warrant to be issued by any officer authorized to issue warrants. The person who failed to appear shall be arrested and shall be brought before a judicial officer in the county as are other misdemeanor...
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15-13-101
Section 15-13-101 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) APPEARANCE BOND. An appearance bond is an undertaking to pay the clerk of the circuit, district, or municipal court, for the use of the State of Alabama or the municipality, a specified sum of money upon the failure of a person released to comply with its conditions. (2) JUDICIAL OFFICER. Any supreme court, appellate court, circuit court, district court, or municipal court judge or any magistrate of any court in this state. (3) PROFESSIONAL BAIL COMPANY. A person, individual proprietor, partnership, corporation, or other entity, other than a professional surety company, that furnishes bail or becomes surety for a person on an appearance bond and does so for a valuable consideration. (4) PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN. An individual person or agent employed by a professional surety company or professional bail company to...
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45-2-84.05
Section 45-2-84.05 Credit for jail time; community service; violations of terms and conditions. (a) Any person who has been released from custody or sentenced under this part may be required by the court to report to the Baldwin County Jail during weekends or at the times or intervals of time as the court may direct. Jail time credit may be given for the time served and calculated in the customary manner. In no event shall the number of days in confinement exceed the number of days in the original sentence. Any person who has been ordered released or sentenced pursuant to this part may be required by the judicial officer as a condition of release or sentencing to perform community service hours for nonprofit entities, civil organizations, or government agencies as directed and supervised by the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center. (b) Any part of a day spent outside of jail or the custody of the Department of Corrections, but in the actual physical custody of the Baldwin County...
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36-5-14
Section 36-5-14 Liability of sureties on bonds conditionally executed. A surety on an official bond or on a bond intended as an official bond cannot avoid liability thereon on the ground that he signed or delivered it on condition that it should not be delivered to the proper officer or should not become perfect unless it was executed by some other person who does not execute it. The provisions of this section shall apply to bonds of state, county, municipal and public corporate officers; to bonds of executors, administrators, guardians, receivers, assignees, and other trustees, and to all bonds and undertakings executed in the commencement or progress of any suit or judicial proceeding, civil or criminal. (Code 1886, §276; Code 1896, §3090; Code 1907, §1505; Code 1923, §2617, Code 1940, T. 41, §56.)...
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45-2-84.06
Section 45-2-84.06 Application for pretrial release; payment of fees, etc. (a) Any person charged in Baldwin County for an offense, other than those enumerated in subdivision (5) of Section 45-2-84.02, may request and apply for pretrial release under this part. Employees of the Baldwin County Community Corrections Center or other persons designated by rules of the Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board may investigate, evaluate, and recommend to a judicial officer the terms of the defendant's pretrial release pursuant to a pretrial release program developed by the Baldwin County Pretrial Release and Community Corrections Board. The defendant shall be notified prior to his or her release of all fees or other monies he or she will be responsible to pay if he or she participates in pretrial release pursuant to this part. (b) The judicial officer having jurisdiction of the defendant may order, as a condition of pretrial release pursuant to this part, that in...
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15-13-190
Section 15-13-190 Procedures upon arrest; conditions of release or bail. (a) A person arrested for domestic violence in the first degree, pursuant to Section 13A-6-130, domestic violence in the second degree, pursuant to Section 13A-6-131, domestic violence in the third degree, pursuant to Section 13A-6-132, interference with a domestic violence emergency call, in violation of Section 13A-6-137, or domestic violence by strangulation or suffocation, pursuant to Section 13A-6-138, or a violation of a domestic violence protection order, may not be admitted to bail until after an appearance before a judge or magistrate within 24 hours of the arrest, and if the person is not taken before a judge or magistrate within 24 hours of the arrest, he or she shall be afforded an opportunity to make bail in accordance with the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure. (b) The judge or magistrate may impose conditions of release or bail on the person to protect the alleged victim of domestic violence or...
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45-41-83.14
Section 45-41-83.14 Legislative intent; construction; failure to abide by conditions. For programs utilizing supervised preadjudication release, it is the intent of the Legislature that this part shall be a guide to courts in Lee County to ensure that no eligible person is needlessly detained in the county jail because of his or her personal economic circumstances or inability to post bail, provided that his or her release shall not be contrary to the public interest or a danger to the public at large, and also shall serve the purpose of assuring the presence of the defendant at trial. It is not the intent of the Legislature that this part be so liberally construed as to allow the indiscriminate release of accused persons. Any court may order that any eligible person incarcerated before trial or adjudication be released on an unsecured appearance bond supervised by the program, under any conditions ordered by the court, and in accord with all of the program policies, rules, and...
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2-2-14.1
Section 2-2-14.1 Appearance upon arrest for misdemeanor livestock violations. (a) Whenever any person is arrested by livestock theft investigators of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries under Section 2-2-14 for misdemeanor violations of livestock sanitary and disease control laws and regulations, or any other laws and regulations governing the handling, movement, or sale of livestock, all punishable as a misdemeanor, the arresting officer shall take the name and address of such person and issue a summons or otherwise notify him in writing to appear at a time and place to be specified in such summons or notice. Upon the person signing said summons or notice, the officer shall forthwith release him from custody. (b) If the arrested person shall refuse to identify himself by giving his name and address, or shall refuse to sign the summons or notice, then the arresting officer shall immediately take such person before the nearest and most accessible district judge or...
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6-6-45
Section 6-6-45 Execution of bond by plaintiff; discharge of levy. Such officer must, when the attachment is sued out otherwise than upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident, further require the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney to execute a bond in double the amount claimed, with sufficient surety, payable to the defendant, with the condition that the plaintiff will prosecute the attachment to effect and pay the defendant all such damages as he may sustain by the wrongful or vexatious suing out of such attachment. When the attachment is sued out upon the ground that the defendant is a nonresident, such officer shall issue the writ with or without a bond being given, as the plaintiff may elect. If such attachment is issued without bond, that fact must be endorsed on the writ. Should the defendant before the return day thereof, in person or through his agent or attorney, make an unqualified appearance in the case, it is the duty of the clerk to issue notice to the plaintiff or...
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