US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

Article 1 General Provisions.

• Section 15-13-1 — Definitions.
• Section 15-13-2 — Allowance as matter of right prior to conviction.
• Section 15-13-3 — Persons charged with capital offense.
• Section 15-13-4 — Prisoners entitled to opportunity to give bail; release of prisoner on own recognizance.
• Section 15-13-5 — Discharge of defendant by sheriff or deputy after indictment for misdemeanor.
• Section 15-13-6 — Fixing of bail for felony; discharge of defendant by sheriff upon posting of bail.
• Section 15-13-7 — Amount to be endorsed on writ of arrest.
• Section 15-13-8 — Limitation on number of applications; appeals to Court of Criminal Appeals; procedure upon order of Court of Criminal Appeals admitting defendant to bail.

Article 2 Entry and Return.

• Section 15-13-20 — Entry in minutes when taken in open court; form of entry.
• Section 15-13-21 — Form and requisites of bail not taken in open court.
• Section 15-13-22 — Qualifications for bail; bond required for bondsmen; qualification when sufficiency of bail doubtful.
• Section 15-13-23 — Lunatics and infants.
• Section 15-13-24 — Judicial and ministerial officers prohibited from becoming surety for bail or signing bonds, etc.
• Section 15-13-25 — Return of undertakings to clerk of court.
• Section 15-13-26 — When new undertaking may be required.

Article 3 Cash Deposit.

• Section 15-13-40 — When deposit authorized in lieu of bail.
• Section 15-13-41 — Deposit permitted after bail given and prior to forfeiture; exoneration of bail.
• Section 15-13-42 — Application in satisfaction of fine; refund of surplus.
• Section 15-13-43 — Deposit of federal or state bonds in lieu of cash; sale of bonds.

Article 4 Effect of Undertaking and Discharge of Bail.

• Section 15-13-60 — Extent undertaking binds parties thereto.
• Section 15-13-61 — When bail not deemed discharged.
• Section 15-13-62 — Exoneration of bail by surrender of defendant prior to conditional judgment; bail may arrest or authorize arrest of principal.
• Section 15-13-63 — Arrest of defendant by bail after conditional judgment.
• Section 15-13-64 — Surrender of defendant to sheriff required to exonerate bail; when new bail allowed.
• Section 15-13-65 — Return of cash deposit upon surrender by defendant.

Article 5 Forfeiture.

• Section 15-13-80 — Failure of defendant to appear; forfeiture of money deposited in lieu of bail.
• Section 15-13-81 — Conditional judgment - Entry; notice to defendant; execution and return of notice; alias notices.
• Section 15-13-82 — Conditional judgment - When set aside or made absolute; when excuses for default heard.

Article 6 Alabama Bail Reform Act of 1993.

• Section 15-13-100 — Short title.
• Section 15-13-101 — Definitions.
• Section 15-13-102 — Definitions and purpose of bail.
• Section 15-13-103 — Order and amount of bail.
• Section 15-13-104 — Order of bail to be affixed to warrants.
• Section 15-13-105 — Order of bail in warrantless arrest cases.
• Section 15-13-106 — Illegal commitment.
• Section 15-13-107 — Who may or shall accept, take, and approve bail and under what circumstances.
• Section 15-13-108 — Bail as a matter of right.
• Section 15-13-109 — Bail in probation violation cases.
• Section 15-13-110 — Professional bondsmen - Right to interview.
• Section 15-13-111 — Kinds of bail.
• Section 15-13-112 — Bond forms.
• Section 15-13-113 — Effect of undertaking: To what extent binds parties thereto.
• Section 15-13-114 — Obligation of sureties continues during trial.
• Section 15-13-115 — Obligation of sureties in probation cases.
• Section 15-13-116 — Surrender of principal in open court.
• Section 15-13-117 — Authorized arrest of defendant by surety and exoneration of bail prior to conditional forfeiture.
• Section 15-13-118 — Arrest of defendant by surety after conditional forfeiture.
• Section 15-13-119 — Surrender of defendant to his or her original custodians necessary to exonerate bail; when new bail is allowed.
• Section 15-13-120 — Substitution of bail.
• Section 15-13-121 — Bail not discharged by irregularities or by want of qualifications.
• Section 15-13-122 — Bondsman's process - Detainer.
• Section 15-13-123 — Surety discharged - Failing to accept detainer.
• Section 15-13-124 — Bondsman's process.
• Section 15-13-125 — When the clerk shall issue a bondsman's process.
• Section 15-13-126 — Return of bondsman's process.
• Section 15-13-127 — Bondsman's processes have certified copy of undertaking attached.
• Section 15-13-128 — Form for bondsman's process.
• Section 15-13-129 — Arrest of principal by out-of-state surety.
• Section 15-13-130 — Cash bail - Undertaking of bail: Basis of and when forfeited.
• Section 15-13-131 — Proceeding in forfeiture of bail - Not cash - Conditional forfeitures order.
• Section 15-13-132 — Conditional forfeiture notice to defendant and sureties.
• Section 15-13-133 — Provisions of sureties address for service.
• Section 15-13-134 — Service of forfeiture notice.
• Section 15-13-135 — Returns "not found" or certified mail returned.
• Section 15-13-136 — Failure to issue and serve conditional forfeiture in 90 days.
• Section 15-13-137 — Conditional judgment set aside, reduced, or made absolute.
• Section 15-13-138 — Conditions for which it shall be mandatory for the court to set aside forfeiture.
• Section 15-13-139 — Remission after final judgment of forfeiture.
• Section 15-13-140 — Reasons for default heard at any time, and allowed without costs.
• Section 15-13-141 — Revocation of authority to execute bail by clerk.
• Section 15-13-142 — Judicial public bail - Authority of release person.
• Section 15-13-143 — Procedure for bail hearings.
• Section 15-13-144 — Notice to prosecutor.
• Section 15-13-145 — Defendants who may be eligible.
• Section 15-13-146 — Judicial public bail release.
• Section 15-13-147 — Determination of conditions of release.
• Section 15-13-148 — Additional conditions.
• Section 15-13-149 — Order of release.
• Section 15-13-150 — Cumulative punishment.
• Section 15-13-151 — Evidence.
• Section 15-13-152 — Qualification for property bail.
• Section 15-13-153 — Value of property determined by approving authority.
• Section 15-13-154 — False information on property affidavit.
• Section 15-13-155 — Property owners as surety - Limited.
• Section 15-13-156 — Filing of lien in default cases - Release.
• Section 15-13-157 — Collection - Property bail forfeitures.
• Section 15-13-158 — Cash bail: Deposit with clerk.
• Section 15-13-159 — Qualifications - Professional surety company.
• Section 15-13-160 — Qualifications - Professional bail companies.
• Section 15-13-161 — Filing original documents - Circuit clerk.
• Section 15-13-162 — Surety bond and escrow agreements - Forms.
• Section 15-13-163 — Revocation by circuit judges.
• Section 15-13-164 — Misrepresentation as surety.

Article 7 Bail for Persons Arrested for Certain Domestic Violence Offenses or Violation of Protection Order.

• Section 15-13-190 — Procedures upon arrest; conditions of release or bail.