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2013 Code of Alabama
Title 15 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Chapter 13 - BAIL.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Division 1 General Provisions.
- 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 15-13-113 - 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 15-13-159 - 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.
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