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Division 1 - General Provisions.
Section 15-13-100 - Short Title. - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
Section 15-13-101 - Definitions. - As used in this article, the following terms shall have...
Section 15-13-102 - Definitions and Purpose of Bail. - As used in this article, "bail" is the release of...
Section 15-13-103 - Order and Amount of Bail. - Admission to bail is the order of a judicial officer...
Section 15-13-104 - Order of Bail to Be Affixed to Warrants. - Judicial officers shall see that the amount of bail is...
Section 15-13-105 - Order of Bail in Warrantless Arrest Cases. - In cases where a defendant is arrested without a warrant...
Section 15-13-106 - Illegal Commitment. - Except in cases where there is no right to release...
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...
Section 15-13-108 - Bail as a Matter of Right. - In all cases of misdemeanors and felonies, unless otherwise specified,...
Section 15-13-109 - Bail in Probation Violation Cases. - In cases where the defendant has been placed on, or...
Section 15-13-110 - Professional Bondsmen - Right to Interview. - Sheriffs, chiefs of police, jailers, or other law enforcement officers...
Division 2 - Four Kinds of Bail and Their Definitions.
Section 15-13-111 - Kinds of Bail. - For persons arrested and taken into custody, there shall be...
Division 3 - Bond Forms — Entry and Return.
Section 15-13-112 - Bond Forms. - The Supreme Court of Alabama shall prescribe the different forms...
Division 4 - Effect of Undertaking and Discharge of Bail.
Section 15-13-113 - Effect of Undertaking: To What Extent Binds Parties Thereto. - The undertaking of bail binds the parties thereto, jointly and...
Section 15-13-114 - Obligation of Sureties Continues During Trial. - The obligation of the sureties continues throughout every stage of...
Section 15-13-115 - Obligation of Sureties in Probation Cases. - The obligation of sureties is continued beyond the finding of...
Section 15-13-116 - Surrender of Principal in Open Court. - When the defendant is before the court pertaining to the...
Section 15-13-117 - Authorized Arrest of Defendant by Surety and Exoneration of Bail Prior to Conditional Forfeiture. - The sureties of bail may, at any time before a...
Section 15-13-118 - Arrest of Defendant by Surety After Conditional Forfeiture. - After the entry of a conditional forfeiture against any surety...
Section 15-13-119 - Surrender of Defendant to His or Her Original Custodians Necessary to Exonerate Bail; When New Bail Is Allowed. - To exonerate the bail, the surrender of the defendant, other...
Section 15-13-120 - Substitution of Bail. - After a defendant has been released on either one of...
Section 15-13-121 - Bail Not Discharged by Irregularities or by Want of Qualifications. - No bail shall be discharged by reason of the want...
Section 15-13-122 - Bondsman's Process - Detainer. - In instances in which the surety or sureties have in...
Section 15-13-123 - Surety Discharged - Failing to Accept Detainer. - In all cases where any law enforcement officer, as described...
Division 5 - Arrest by Principal's Sureties, Procedure of Arrest, Bondsman's Process.
Section 15-13-124 - Bondsman's Process. - A bondsman's process is that document which is issued by...
Section 15-13-125 - When the Clerk Shall Issue a Bondsman's Process. - The clerk of the court having jurisdiction over the defendant...
Section 15-13-126 - Return of Bondsman's Process. - (a) All bondsman's processes, when executed by sureties or other...
Section 15-13-127 - Bondsman's Processes Have Certified Copy of Undertaking Attached. - The clerk shall see that all bondsman's processes have a...
Section 15-13-128 - Form for Bondsman's Process. - The following shall be substantially the form to be used...
Section 15-13-129 - Arrest of Principal by Out-of-State Surety. - All bondsmen or sureties from out of the State of...
Division 6 - Forfeiture - Proceedings Thereon.
Section 15-13-130 - Cash Bail - Undertaking of Bail: Basis of and When Forfeited. - The basis of all undertakings of bail, whether upon a...
Section 15-13-131 - Proceeding in Forfeiture of Bail - Not Cash - Conditional Forfeitures Order. - (a) When a defendant fails to appear in court as...
Section 15-13-132 - Conditional Forfeiture Notice to Defendant and Sureties. - A notice of the rendition of the judgment set forth...
Section 15-13-133 - Provisions of Sureties Address for Service. - It shall be the sole responsibility of any defendant or...
Section 15-13-134 - Service of Forfeiture Notice. - A conditional forfeiture notice may be served by any law...
Section 15-13-135 - Returns "Not Found" or Certified Mail Returned. - If the notice is not served on any of the...
Section 15-13-136 - Failure to Issue and Serve Conditional Forfeiture in 90 Days. - In forfeiture cases where the clerk of the court has...
Section 15-13-137 - Conditional Judgment Set Aside, Reduced, or Made Absolute. - If the defendants appear and show sufficient cause for the...
Section 15-13-138 - Conditions for Which It Shall Be Mandatory for the Court to Set Aside Forfeiture. - The court shall set aside the conditional forfeiture in its...
Section 15-13-139 - Remission After Final Judgment of Forfeiture. - In forfeiture cases where the sureties have paid the amount...
Section 15-13-140 - Reasons for Default Heard at Any Time, and Allowed Without Costs. - Reasons for default shall be heard by the court on...
Section 15-13-141 - Revocation of Authority to Execute Bail by Clerk. - In all cases where a conditional forfeiture has been made...
Division 7 - Qualification of Bail - Judicial Public Bail.
Section 15-13-142 - Judicial Public Bail - Authority of Release Person. - Only a judicial officer may release a person on judicial...
Section 15-13-143 - Procedure for Bail Hearings. - A judicial public bail hearing may commence by a motion...
Section 15-13-144 - Notice to Prosecutor. - Prior to the hearing, the judicial officer shall have the...
Section 15-13-145 - Defendants Who May Be Eligible. - Any person charged with a felony, misdemeanor, or violation shall...
Section 15-13-146 - Judicial Public Bail Release. - Any person charged with an offense other than an offense...
Section 15-13-147 - Determination of Conditions of Release. - In determining the restrictions and conditions of release that will...
Section 15-13-148 - Additional Conditions. - A judicial officer ordering the release of a person on...
Section 15-13-149 - Order of Release. - A judicial officer authorizing the release of a person shall...
Section 15-13-150 - Cumulative Punishment. - Nothing in this chapter shall interfere with or prevent the...
Section 15-13-151 - Evidence. - Information stated in, or offered in connection with, any order...
Division 8 - Property Bail, Qualifications, Value of Property, Property Owners as Surety.
Section 15-13-152 - Qualification for Property Bail. - The qualifications for property bail are that each surety be...
Section 15-13-153 - Value of Property Determined by Approving Authority. - Any person having the authority to approve and accept property...
Section 15-13-154 - False Information on Property Affidavit. - Any person or owner of property who willfully or intentionally...
Section 15-13-155 - Property Owners as Surety - Limited. - A property owner shall not execute or become surety for...
Section 15-13-156 - Filing of Lien in Default Cases - Release. - (a) Clerks of all courts of the state and its...
Section 15-13-157 - Collection - Property Bail Forfeitures. - The clerks of all courts of the State of Alabama...
Division 9 - Cash Bail.
Section 15-13-158 - Cash Bail: Deposit With Clerk. - At any time after an order admitting a defendant to...
Division 10 - Qualification and Regulation.
Section 15-13-159 - Qualifications - Professional Surety Company. - No professional surety company shall execute or become surety on...
Section 15-13-160 - Qualifications - Professional Bail Companies. - No professional bail company shall execute or become surety on...
Section 15-13-161 - Filing Original Documents - Circuit Clerk. - Professional surety and professional bail companies shall file all corporate...
Section 15-13-162 - Surety Bond and Escrow Agreements - Forms. - All corporate surety bonds and escrow agreements shall contain essentially...
Section 15-13-163 - Revocation by Circuit Judges. - The presiding judge of the circuit court may, and on...
Division 11 - Miscellaneous.
Section 15-13-164 - Misrepresentation as Surety. - Any person who becomes surety on any bail for a...