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15-13-160
Section 15-13-160 Qualifications - Professional bail companies. No professional bail company
shall execute or become surety on any appearance bond in this state, unless it has an order
granting authorization to become professional surety on any bail. The order granting authorization
shall be reissued annually prior to January 1 of each year by the presiding circuit judge
of the county in which the company desires to execute bail or appearance bonds. Prior to the
judge's issuance of the original order and no later than December 1 of each year, thereafter,
professional bail companies shall submit annually to the presiding circuit judge the following:
(1) An original corporate surety bond or escrow agreement, filed and approved by the presiding
circuit judge of the county in which the professional bail company executes or becomes surety
on appearance bonds, in the amount of $25,000, guaranteeing the payment of all sums of money
that may become due by virtue of any judgment absolute that...
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15-13-159
Section 15-13-159 Qualifications - Professional surety company. No professional surety company
shall execute or become surety on any appearance bond in this state, unless it has an order
granting authorization to become professional surety on any bail. The order granting the authorization
shall be reissued annually, prior to January 1 of each year, by the presiding circuit judge
of the county in which the company desires to execute bail or appearance bonds. Prior to the
judge's issuance of the original order and no later than December 1 of each year, thereafter,
professional surety companies shall submit annually to the presiding circuit judge the following:
(1) An original or certified copy of a certificate of authority or certificate of compliance
from the Department of Insurance reflecting that the company is qualified to write a bail
line of insurance and that the company is in good standing with the department. (2) An original
qualifying power of attorney issued by the...
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15-13-161
Section 15-13-161 Filing original documents - Circuit clerk. Professional surety and professional
bail companies shall file all corporate surety bonds, escrow agreements and other original
documents required pursuant to Division 10 with the circuit clerk of the county where the
professional surety or bail company desires and intends to become surety on appearance bonds,
and such bonds, escrow agreements, and other documents shall be approved by the presiding
circuit judge as being sufficient. Any surety bonds, escrow agreements, and other documents
pertaining or attached thereto shall be originals only. After the documents are approved,
the circuit clerk shall take custody of the originals and file them for safekeeping. Such
documents are public records. (Acts 1993, No. 93-677, p. 1259, §62.)...
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15-13-201
Section 15-13-201 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board. (2) PROFESSIONAL
BONDSMAN. Any individual who is employed by a professional bail company to solicit and execute
appearance bonds or actively seek bail bond business for or on behalf of a professional bail
company, including any individual who has a direct or indirect ownership interest in a professional
bail company. (3) PROFESSIONAL SURETY BONDSMAN. Any individual who is employed by a professional
surety company to solicit and execute appearance bonds or actively seek bail bond business
for or on behalf of a professional surety company, including any individual who has a direct
or indirect ownership interest in a professional surety company. (4) RECOVERY AGENT. Any individual,
other than an attorney or law enforcement officer, utilized by a professional surety company,
professional bail company, or professional...
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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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11-50A-8
Section 11-50A-8 Powers of the authority. In addition to other powers granted the authority
by this chapter, it shall have all powers consistent with the purposes of the authority as
set forth in Section 11-50A-3, which are necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate
the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, but without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the following enumerated powers, which shall be exercised by the authority
consistently with the provisions of Section 11-50A-3: (1) To sue and be sued and to prosecute
and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereto;
(2) To adopt and alter a corporate seal; (3) To make and alter at pleasure all needful bylaws,
rules, and regulations for the transaction of its business and the control of its property
and affairs; (4) To have the same right of eminent domain through condemnation conferred by
Section 10-5-1, or any subsequent statute of similar import; provided...
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15-13-162
Section 15-13-162 Surety bond and escrow agreements - Forms. All corporate surety bonds and
escrow agreements shall contain essentially the language set out in forms provided and approved
by the Alabama Supreme Court. Corporate surety bonds presented shall have an original qualifying
power of attorney from the company attached thereto and a certificate of authority or certificate
of compliance from the Department of Insurance reflecting that the corporate surety company
is qualified to execute surety bonds in Alabama. (Acts 1993, No. 93-677, p. 1259, §63.)...
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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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15-13-22
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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23-2-143
Section 23-2-143 Authority established; composition; meetings; fidelity bonds; compensation.
(a) There is hereby established a body corporate and politic with corporate succession, to
be known as the "Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority." The authority
is hereby constituted an instrumentality exercising public and essential governmental functions
and the exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this article shall be deemed
and held to be an essential governmental function of the state. (b) The authority shall consist
of the Governor or his or her designee, the Lieutenant Governor or his or her designee, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives or his or her designee, the Director of Transportation,
the Director of Finance, the Chair of the House Government Appropriations Committee, the Chair
of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee, and two persons from the state
at large to be appointed by the Governor. (c) The Governor shall be chairman of...
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