Code of Alabama
Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.
Chapter 5 - Official Bonds.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 36-5-1 - Filing and Recordation of Official Bonds of State Officials, Agents, etc., Generally; Filing and Recordation of Bond of Secretary of State. - The official bond of every state official, agent or employee,...

Section 36-5-2 - When Bonds to Be Filed. - In all cases, official bonds must be filed in the...

Section 36-5-3 - Recordation of Official Bonds of County or Municipal Officers, Agents, Etc. - Every official bond of a county or municipal officer, agent...

Section 36-5-4 - Requirement of Additional Bonds of Agents or Employees of Departments, Commissions, Bureaus, etc.; Amounts, Conditions, etc., Thereof. - The Governor, in his discretion, may and, with the approval...

Section 36-5-5 - To Whom Bonds Payable; Sureties; Conditions Generally. - The bond of each public officer required by law to...

Section 36-5-6 - Approval of Bonds Generally. - The approval of all official bonds shall be in writing,...

Section 36-5-7 - Liability of Officer Improperly Approving Bond. - The bond of any public officer which is not in...

Section 36-5-8 - Bonds Not to Be Filed Unless Properly Approved. - No officer, with whom any official bond is required to...

Section 36-5-9 - Date of Filing to Be Endorsed on Bonds. - Every officer, in whose office the official bond of any...

Section 36-5-10 - Failure to Endorse Date of Filing on Bond. - Any officer who fails to endorse the date of the...

Section 36-5-11 - Qualifications and Sufficiency of Sureties Generally. - All personal sureties on official bonds must be residents of...

Section 36-5-12 - Federal, Municipal, State, etc., Officers Required to Give Official Bonds Not Deemed Sufficient Sureties on Bonds Taken Under Article. - No officer of the United States required to give an...

Section 36-5-13 - Attorneys Not Deemed Sufficient Sureties on Official Bonds of Probate Judges, Sheriffs, Constables, Etc. - A practicing attorney-at-law must not be deemed a sufficient surety...

Section 36-5-14 - Liability of Sureties on Bonds Conditionally Executed. - A surety on an official bond or on a bond...

Section 36-5-15 - Failure of Officer to Give Bond Within Prescribed Time Vacates Office; Certification of Failure to File Bond to Appointing Power and Filling of Vacancy. - If any officer required by law to give bond fails...

Section 36-5-16 - Notification of District Attorney of Failure of Public Officer to File Bond. - If any public officer required by law to give bond...

Section 36-5-18 - Legal Effect of Official Bonds. - (a) Every official bond is obligatory on the principal and...

Section 36-5-17 - Failure to Give Notice of Omission of Public Officer to File Official Bonds. - Any officer who omits to give notice of failure by...

Section 36-5-19 - Conditions of Official Bonds; Effect of Irregularities in Form, Contents, Approval, etc., of Bonds Upon Validity Thereof Generally. - (a) The bonds of all officers required to give bond...

Section 36-5-20 - Effect of Bonds Improperly Executed, Approved or Filed. - Whenever any officer required by law to give an official...

Section 36-5-21 - Proof of Bonds or Recognizances. - It shall be lawful to show by parol that any...

Section 36-5-22 - Performance of Official Act by Public Officer Prior to Approval and Filing of Bond. - Any public officer required by law to give bond who...

Section 36-5-23 - Bonds Not Discharged by Single Recovery. - Such bonds are not discharged by a single recovery, but...

Section 36-5-24 - Liability of State or County Officials Collecting and Paying Out Money and of Recipients Thereof Under Law Declared Unconstitutional, Void, Etc. - When any state or county official shall have collected or...

Section 36-5-25 - Applicability of Provisions of Article. - All the provisions of this article shall apply to the...

Article 2 - Bonds of State Officers, Employees, etc., Generally.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 36-5-40 - Additional Bonds of Director of Finance, Treasurer or Other State Officers - When Required. - It shall be the duty of the Governor to require...

Section 36-5-41 - Additional Bonds of Director of Finance, Treasurer or Other State Officers - Procedure, Form, Etc. - The form, procedure, etc., for the additional bonds under Section...

Section 36-5-42 - Bonds to Be Made by Surety or Guaranty Companies. - Official bonds required of all officers, agents and employees of...

Section 36-5-43 - Premiums on Bonds. - The premiums on bonds required by this code of officers,...

Section 36-5-44 - Payment of Premiums on Bonds. - When any official bond or bonds required by this code...

Section 36-5-45 - Cancellation of Bonds Upon Termination, Consolidation, etc., of Positions. - If any state office or position for which a bond...

Division 2 - Discharge of Sureties on Bonds of State Officers or Employees.

Section 36-5-60 - When Surety May Apply for Discharge. - Any person who is surety upon the official bond of...

Section 36-5-61 - To Whom Application Addressed; Application to Be Sworn. - This application must be addressed to the official or to...

Section 36-5-62 - Officer to Whom Application Addressed to Require Principal to Appear and Give New Bond; Form and Service of Requisition. - The officer to whom such application is addressed must require...

Section 36-5-63 - Approval and Filing of New Bond Upon Execution Thereof. - On the execution of the additional bond provided for in...

Section 36-5-64 - When New Bond of Officer or Employee Becomes Effective; Effect of New Bond. - Every such additional bond approved and filed as provided in...

Section 36-5-65 - When Surety Discharged. - On the execution, approval and filing of such additional bond,...

Section 36-5-66 - Effect of Discharge of Surety. - The discharge provided for in Section 36-5-65 does not affect...

Section 36-5-67 - Rights and Remedies of Sureties on Bonds Among Themselves. - Whenever the sureties on either bond have made any payments...

Section 36-5-68 - Proceedings Upon Failure of Officer or Employee to Execute New Bond Within Prescribed Time. - If such requisition is personally served and the officer or...