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15-13-107
Section 15-13-107 Who may or shall accept, take, and approve bail and under what circumstances.
(a) Judges of any court within the State of Alabama may accept, take, and approve bail within
the jurisdiction of their respective courts. (b) Circuit, district, and municipal court clerks,
including magistrates, may accept, take, and approve bail within the jurisdiction of their
respective courts. (c) Only judicial officers and circuit, district, and municipal court clerks
or a designee of the court may accept and approve appeal bonds and cash bonds. Provided, however,
that any person designated by the court to receive cash bonds, shall be bonded to receive
court moneys and have the written approval of their chief administrative officer. Clerks of
the courts of Alabama may delegate to their employees the right to accept and approve appeal
bonds and cash bonds. (d) Sheriffs of the state and chiefs of police having custody of a defendant
may accept, take, and approve property or professional...
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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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15-13-111
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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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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45-49-83.41
Section 45-49-83.41 Creation; procedures; collection and distribution of funds; enforcement.
The District Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama may establish a Recovery
Unit of the Special Services Division. The district attorney, after electing to establish
the unit, shall assign sufficient staff and resources to effectively operate the unit. The
recovery unit shall be created for the purpose of the administration, collection, and enforcement
of court costs, fines, fines for failure to appear in court, victim compensation assessments,
bail bond forfeitures, restitution, or other payments which are ordered in any criminal proceeding,
quasi-criminal, or any other court proceeding by any court including, but not limited to,
municipal courts, district courts, and circuit courts payable to the state, the county, to
any municipality, or town within the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, to any crime victim on any
court order or judgment entered which has not been otherwise...
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15-13-141
Section 15-13-141 Revocation of authority to execute bail by clerk. In all cases where a conditional
forfeiture has been made final by any court of the state or any of its subdivisions and there
has been no further action or request filed with the court, appeal taken, application to the
State Pardons and Paroles Board, or any other litigation of which the court has knowledge
has been filed by the surety with the court within 30 days of the entry or order of the final
judgment and the same has not been paid to the clerk of the court, then the clerk shall refuse
to accept and approve any bonds from the surety as being insufficient. The clerk shall notify
all persons authorized to accept and approve bonds returnable to the court of the action and
they shall no longer accept or approve surety on bonds until notified otherwise by the clerk.
The clerk shall also notify the circuit clerk of the county who shall notify all other clerks
of any courts in the county in writing and the clerks...
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45-9-81
Section 45-9-81 Additional costs and fees; disposition of funds; Judicial Administration Fund.
(a) In Chambers County, in addition to all other fees, there shall be taxed as costs the sum
of twenty dollars ($20) in each criminal case, quasi-criminal case, proceedings on a forfeited
bail bond or proceedings on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment
or conviction in any inferior or municipal court of the county, in the Circuit Court of Chambers
County, or the District Court of Chambers County, hereinafter filed in or arising in the Circuit
Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of Chambers County, or brought by appeal,
certiorari, or otherwise to the Circuit Court of Chambers County, or the District Court of
Chambers County, which costs shall be collected as other costs in such cases are collected
by the clerk, or ex officio clerk, of the courts or the register of the Circuit Court of Chambers
County as the case may be. Such fees, when collected by...
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45-27-81
Section 45-27-81 Escambia County Law Library and Judidcial Administration Fund. (a) In Escambia
County, in order to provide a special fund for the creation and maintenance of the law library
and for the purposes of judicial administration as further specified in this section, there
shall be taxed as additional court costs the sum of thirty dollars ($30) in each civil or
quasi-civil action at law, small claims case, suit in equity, criminal case, traffic case,
quasi-criminal case, juvenile court case, proceeding on forfeited bail bond, or a proceeding
on a forfeited bond given in connection with an appeal from a judgment of conviction in any
district or municipal court to each circuit court or to the juvenile court hereinafter filed
in, arising in, or brought by appeal, certiorari, or otherwise to the circuit court or district
court or to the juvenile court in Escambia County. The costs shall be collected as other costs
in cases are collected by the clerk of the court and shall be paid...
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11-45-9.1
schedule of fines; additional penalty for failure to appear; disposition of fines. (a) By ordinance,
the governing body of any municipality may authorize any law enforcement officer of a municipality
or any law enforcement officer of the state, in lieu of placing persons under custodial arrest,
to issue a summons and complaint to any person charged with violating any municipal littering
ordinance; municipal ordinance which prohibits animals from running at large, which shall
include leash laws and rabies control laws; or any Class C misdemeanor or violation
not involving violence, threat of violence or alcohol or drugs. (b) Such summons and complaint
shall be on a form approved by the governing body of the municipality and shall contain the
name of the court; the name of the defendant; a description of the offense, including the
municipal ordinance number; the date and time of the offense; the place of the offense; signature
of the officer issuing the citation; the scheduled...
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45-36-232.28
Section 45-36-232.28 Release pending trial; conditions; order; notice. (a) Any person in Jackson
County charged with an offense, at his or her appearance before a judicial officer, may be
ordered released pending trial on his or her personal recognizance or upon the execution of
an unsecured appearance bond in an amount specified by the judicial officer, unless the judicial
officer determines, in the exercise of his or her discretion, that such a release will not
reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required. When such a determination is made,
the judicial officer, either in lieu of or in addition to the above methods of release, shall
impose the first of the following conditions of release which will reasonably assure the appearance
of the person for trial or, if no single condition gives that assurance, any combination of
the following conditions: (1) Place the person in the custody of a designated person agreeing
to supervise him or her. (2) Place restrictions on the...
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