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Mississippi Code 1972 (2024)
Title 99 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (§§ 99-1-1 — 99-51-3)
Chapter 5 - BAIL (§§ 99-5-1 — 99-5-39)
- Section 99-5-1 - Form of bail; professional and soliciting bail agents to provide certain additional information; penalties
- Section 99-5-3 - Form of bail; taken in open court by entry on minutes
- Section 99-5-5 - Bonds to be made payable to state; effect; expiration and renewal
- Section 99-5-7 - Fidelity or surety insurance company may give bail
- Section 99-5-9 - Cash bail bond
- Section 99-5-11 - All conservators of the peace may take recognizance or bond; setting bail; waiver of appearance authorized; designation of officer to take bond authorized; certificate of default; alias warrant; when protection order registry must be checked; when bond not required
- Section 99-5-13 - Court may make adjustments to excessive or insufficient bail
- Section 99-5-15 - Duty of officer to release defendant from custody; approval of sureties
- Section 99-5-17 - Sheriff to return bail-bond to clerk
- Section 99-5-19 - Person who takes insufficient bail-bond, etc., to stand special bail
- Section 99-5-21 - Bond good though it does not describe offense
- Section 99-5-23 - Bonds, recognizances, etc., to be valid and binding whether or not properly taken or recited in return of officer
- Section 99-5-25 - Forfeiture of bond; scire facias
- Section 99-5-27 - Bail agent may arrest and surrender principal; return of defendant out on bond
- Section 99-5-29 - Surety may cause arrest of principal by officer
- Section 99-5-31 - Mittimus in bailable cases to fix the bail
- Section 99-5-33 - Accused committed to prison if injured party is dangerously wounded
- Section 99-5-35 - When prisoner charged with capital offense entitled to bail
- Section 99-5-37 - Domestic violence, aggravated domestic violence, aggravated stalking, knowing violation of bond or knowing violation of domestic abuse protection order; required appearance before judge; considerations; conditions
- Section 99-5-38 - Use of global positioning monitoring system as condition of bond for defendant in domestic violence case; definitions; information to be provided victim
- Section 99-5-39 - Appearance bond as condition of any court ordered supervision; defendant's failure to appear as grounds for forfeiture of bond
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