15A-541. Persons prohibited from becoming surety.
(a) No sheriff, deputy sheriff, other law-enforcement officer, judicial official, attorney, parole officer, probation officer, jailer, assistant jailer, employee of the General Court of Justice, other public employee assigned to duties relating to the administration of criminal justice, or spouse of any such person may in any case become surety on a bail bond for any person other than a member of his immediate family. In addition no person covered by this section may act as agent for any bonding company or professional bondsman. No such person may have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the financial affairs of any firm or corporation whose principal business is acting as bondsman.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1973, c. 1286, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 299; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 15A - Criminal Procedure Act
§ 15A-532 - Persons authorized to determine conditions for release.
§ 15A-533 - Right to pretrial release in capital and noncapital cases.
§ 15A-534.2 - Detention of impaired drivers.
§ 15A-534.3 - Detention for communicable diseases.
§ 15A-534.4 - Sex offenses and crimes of violence against child victimsbail and pretrial release.
§ 15A-534.5 - Detention to protect public health.
§ 15A-534.6 - Bail in cases of manufacture of methamphetamine.
§ 15A-534.7 - Communicating a threat of mass violence; bail and pretrial release.
§ 15A-535 - Issuance of policies on pretrial release.
§ 15A-536 - Release after conviction in the superior court.
§ 15A-537 - Persons authorized to effect release.
§ 15A-538 - Modification of order on motion of person detained; substitution of surety.
§ 15A-539 - Modification upon motion of prosecutor.
§ 15A-540 - Surrender of a defendant by a surety; setting new conditions of release.
§ 15A-541 - Persons prohibited from becoming surety.
§ 15A-542 - False qualification by surety.
§ 15A-543 - Penalties for failure to appear.
§ 15A-544.1 - Forfeiture jurisdiction.
§ 15A-544.2 - Identifying information on bond.
§ 15A-544.3 - Entry of forfeiture.
§ 15A-544.4 - Notice of forfeiture.
§ 15A-544.5 - Setting aside forfeiture.
§ 15A-544.6 - Final judgment of forfeiture.
§ 15A-544.7 - Docketing and enforcement of final judgment of forfeiture.
§ 15A-544.8 - Relief from final judgment of forfeiture.
§ 15A-547 - Right to habeas corpus.
§ 15A-547.1 - Remit bail bond if defendant sentenced to community or intermediate punishment.