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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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45-45-233.32
Section 45-45-233.32 Bribery. Any person engaged in the business of undertaking to act as surety
on bail bonds in Madison County, or any servant, agent, or employee of any person, firm, or
corporation engaged in the business of acting as surety on bail bonds in Madison County who
shall pay a fee or rebate or give or promise to give anything of value including any stock
or beneficial interest in a surety or bail bond company to a sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman,
peace officer, warrant magistrate, or any other person who has the power to arrest or to hold
another person in custody, or to any public official or public employee in order to induce
any sheriff, policeman, peace officer, warrant magistrate, or other public official or employee
to favor any person, firm, or corporation in any activities related to the bail bond business
including, but not limited to, the approval or disapproval of bail bonds, and access to any
jail where prisoners are housed shall be guilty of bribery and...
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27-24-2
Section 27-24-2 Sole surety - Corporations. Except as provided in Section 27-24-4, whenever
any person or corporation is, or may be, required or permitted to execute bond or other undertaking,
of whatsoever nature, with surety, or sureties, for the faithful discharge or performance
of the duties of any state, county, municipal, precinct, township, district, or corporate
office or position or of any position of public or private trust or employment for the faithful
discharge or performance of any duty or for the doing or not doing of anything in such bond
or undertaking specified or when any person or corporation is required or permitted to execute
any bond or other undertaking, of whatsoever nature, with surety or sureties, in any judicial
proceeding or as guardian, executor, administrator, receiver, assignee, or trustee, the court,
officer, or person having authority or charged with the duty of approving such bond or undertaking
may, if such bond or undertaking is otherwise...
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45-45-233.33
Section 45-45-233.33 Accepting a bribe. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman, peace officer,
warrant magistrate, or any other person who has the power to arrest or to hold another person
in custody, or any public official or employee, who receives a fee or rebate or receives or
agrees to receive anything of value, including any stock or a beneficial interest in a surety
or bail bond company, from any person engaged in the bail bond business, or from any person,
firm, or corporation engaged in the bail bond business or otherwise engaged in the business
of undertaking to act as surety on bail bonds, with an understanding, expressed or implied,
that his or her actions, decisions, or judgment will be influenced thereby or that he or she
will favor any person, firm, or corporation in the approval or disapproval of bail bonds or
in granting access to any jail where prisoners are kept, shall be guilty of accepting a bribe
and shall be punished as prescribed by Section 13A-10-61. (Acts 1978,...
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15-13-24
Section 15-13-24 Judicial and ministerial officers prohibited from becoming surety for bail
or signing bonds, etc. It shall not be lawful for any judicial or ministerial officer of this
state to sign as surety an undertaking of bail for any prisoner or other person tried before
him, to put in his charge under any criminal accusation or to sign any bond or other obligation
for the release or appearance of such person, either before himself or any other officer or
officers. (Code 1876, §4586; Code 1886, §4423; Code 1896, §4365; Code 1907, §6345; Code
1923, §3378; Code 1940, T. 15, §203; Acts 1949, No. 199, p. 230.)...
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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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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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15-13-160
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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9-17-105
Section 9-17-105 Permits; LP-Gas Recovery Fund; proof of insurance; surety bond; Liquefied
Petroleum Gas Board Personal Bond Fund; change of name. (a) The board may issue permits to
any person, who is a citizen of the United States or, if not a citizen of the United States,
is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation from the federal government,
to engage in or continue the business of selling, distributing, storing, or transporting liquefied
petroleum gases and to engage in or continue the business of installing, servicing, repairing,
removing, or adjusting liquefied petroleum gas containers, tanks, or systems or to perform
magnetic, hydrostatic, visual, or X-ray inspections of liquefied petroleum gas storage containers,
cargo tanks, motor fuel containers, and cylinders in the State of Alabama; and to prescribe
the requirements of any person to obtain the permits. The board may revoke any permit issued,
for cause, in the opinion of the board. (b) The permits...
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23-1-4
Section 23-1-4 Permit required to dig up, etc., roads for utilities, railroads, etc.; restoration
of road required upon completion of work; bond, etc., to guarantee restoration. No state-controlled
road shall be dug up or used for laying pipelines, pole lines, sewers, railways, or for other
similar purposes without the written permit of the State Department of Transportation, and
such work shall be done only in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the department,
and the cost of replacing the road in as good condition as it was before such work was done
shall be paid by the person, firm, or corporation to whom or in whose behalf such permit was
given. Such person, firm, or corporation so desiring such work shall furnish the state with
a cash deposit or certified check upon a solvent bank or surety bond in guaranty company qualified
to do business in Alabama, in the amount required by the State Department of Transportation,
conditioned that the sum is to be forfeited to the...
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