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Bail Bond Law | Mississippi Bonding Co.
Bails Bonds and Bondsman - Mississippi Code of 1972 - Title 83 - Chapter 39
Bail - Mississippi Code - Title 99 - Chapter 5
Municipalities - Mississippi Code of 1972 - Title 21 - Chapter 23 - Section 8
(d) "Professional bail agent" means any individual who shall furnish bail, acting as a licensed personal surety agent or as a licensed limited surety agent representing an insurer as defined by this chapter. The above definition shall not include, and this chapter does not apply to, any individual who is not licensed under this chapter who acts as personal surety in instances where there is no compensation charged or received for such service.
(e) "Soliciting bail agent" means any person who as an agent or employee of a professional bail agent, or as an independent contractor, for compensation or otherwise, shall solicit, advertise or actively seek bail bond business for or on behalf of a professional bail agent and who assists the professional bail agent in presenting the defendant in Court when required or assists in the apprehension and surrender of the defendant to the court or keeps the defendant under necessary surveillance.
(2) (a) No license shall be issued or renewed except in compliance with this chapter, and none shall be issued except to an individual. No firm, partnership, association or corporation, as such, shall be so licensed. No professional bail agent shall operate under more than one (1) trade name. A soliciting bail agent and bail enforcement agent shall operate only under the professional bail agent's name. No license shall be issued to or renewed for any person who has ever been convicted of a crime that the commissioner finds directly relates to the duties and responsibilities of the business of a professional bail agent, soliciting bail agent, or a bail enforcement agent, including, but not limited to, any felony that involves an act of fraud, dishonesty, or a breach of trust, or money laundering. No licenses shall be issued to any person who is under twenty-one (21) years of age. No person engaged as law enforcement or judicial official or attorney shall be licensed hereunder. A person who is employed in any capacity at any jail or corrections facility that houses state, county or municipal inmates who are or may be eligible for bail, whether the person is a public employee, independent contractor, or the employee of an independent contractor, may not be licensed under this section.
(b) (i) No person who is a relative of either a sworn state, county or municipal law enforcement official or judicial official, or an employee, independent contractor or the contractor's employee of any police department, sheriff's department, jail or corrections facility that houses or holds federal, state, county or municipal inmates who are or may be eligible for bail, shall write a bond in the county where the law enforcement entity or court in which the person's relative serves is located. "Relative" means a spouse, parent, grandparent, child, sister, brother, or a consanguineous aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. Violation of this prohibition shall result in license revocation.
(4) (a) Each license issued hereunder shall expire biannually on the last day of September, of each odd-numbered year, unless revoked or suspended prior thereto by the department, or upon notice served upon the commissioner by the insurer that the authority of a limited surety agent to act for or on behalf of such insurer had been terminated, or upon notice served upon the commissioner that the authority of a soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent had been terminated by such professional bail agent.
(b) A soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent may, upon termination by a professional bail agent or upon his cessation of employment with a professional bail agent, be relicensed without having to comply with the provisions of subsection (7)(a) and (b) of this section, if he has held a license in his respective license category within ninety (90) days of the new application, meets all other requirements set forth in Section 83-39-5 and subsection (7)(b) of this section, and notifies the previous professional bail agent in writing that he is submitting an application for a new license.
(5) The department shall prepare and deliver to each licensee a license showing the name, address and classification of the licensee, and shall certify that the person is a licensed professional bail agent, being designated as a personal surety agent or a limited surety agent, a soliciting bail agent or a bail enforcement agent. In addition, the license, of a soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent, shall show the name of the professional bail agent and any other information, as the commissioner deems proper.
(7) (a) Before the issuance of any initial professional bail agent, soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent license, the applicant shall submit proof of successful completion of forty (40) hours of prelicensing education approved by the Mississippi Insurance Department unless the applicant is currently licensed under this chapter on July 1, 2014 and maintained that license in compliance with the continuing education requirements of subsection (8) of this section.
Any applicant who has met all continuing education requirements as set forth in subsection (8) (a) of this section and has been properly licensed under this chapter within ninety (90) days of submitting an application for a different license type shall not be subject to the prelicensing education requirement.
(b) All applicants for a professional bail agent, soliciting bail agent of bail enforcement agent license applying for an original license after July 1, 2014, shall successfully complete a limited examination by the department of the restricted lines of business before the licenses can be issued; however, this examination requirement shall not apply to any licensed bail soliciting agent and bail enforcement agent transferring to another professional bail agent license, any licensed bail soliciting agent applying for a bail enforcement agent license, and any licensed bail enforcement agent applying for a bail soliciting agent license. An applicant shall only be required to successfully complete the limited examination one.
Beginning on July 1, 2011, in order to assist the department in determining an applicant’s suitability for a license under this chapter, the applicant shall submit a set of fingerprints with the submission of an application for license. The department shall forward the fingerprints to the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of conducting a criminal history record check. If no disqualifying record is identified at the state level the Department of Public Safety shall forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history record check. Fees related to the criminal history record check shall be paid by the applicant to the commissioner and the monies from such fees shall be deposited in the special fund in the State Treasury designated as the “Insurance Department Fund.”
(i) There shall be no continuing education required for the first licensure year of an original license.
(ii) Except as provided in subparagraph (i), eight (8) hours of continuing education for each year or part of a year of the two-year license period, for a total of sixteen (16) hours per license period.
(b) In an applicant for renewal failed to obtain the required eight (8) hours for each year of the license period during the actual license year in which the education was required to be obtained, the applicant shall not be eligible for a renewal license but shall be required to obtain an original license and be subject to the education requirements set forth in subsection (7). The commissioner shall not be required to comply with Section 83-39-17 in denying an application for a renewal license under this paragraph (b).
(c) The education hours required under this subsection (8) shall be approved by the Mississippi Insurance Department.
(d) The continuing education requirements under this subsection (8) shall not be required for renewal of a bail agent license for any applicant who is sixty-five(65) years of age and who has been licensed as a bail agent for a continuous period of twenty (20)years immediately preceding the submission of the application as evidenced by submission of an affidavit, under oath, on a form prescribed by the department, signed by the licensee attesting to satisfaction of the age, licensing, and experience requirements of this paragraph (d).
(9) No license as a professional bail agent shall be issued unless the applicant has been duly licensed by the department as a soliciting bail agent for a period of three (3) consecutive years immediately preceding the submission of the application. However, this subsection (9) shall not apply to any person who was licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
(10) A nonresident person may be licensed as a professional bail agent, bail soliciting agent or bail enforcement agent if:
(a) The person's home state awards licenses to residents of this state on the same basis; and
(11) On or before October 1, 2016, the Insurance Department shall establish a statewide Electronic Bondsmen Registry for all licenses, powers of appointment and powers of attorney requiring registration under this section. Once established, each professional bail agent, limited surety agent, bail soliciting agent, bail enforcement agent or insurance company writing bail bonds shall be required under this subsection (11) to register and maintain a record of each required license, power of appointment and power of attorney in the registry. Failure to comply with this provision will subject the agent to the penalties provided in Section 83-39-29.
(1) (a) Each applicant for a professional bail agent license who acts as personal surety shall be required to post a qualification bond in the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00).
(b) The Insurance Department shall submit a report to the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency that details the amount of all bonds or undertakings that each bail bondsman has written in this state on which the bail bondsman is absolutely or conditionally liable since the Bail Bond Database was established by the department. The report shall be submitted on or before December 1, 2017. The report shall also include the number of bail bondsmen who have failed to comply with the database reporting requirements, if any, the technical issues that may have occurred since the database was established and any suggested legislation to ensure each bail bondsman's continued compliance with the database reporting requirements.
(2)The qualification bond shall be made by depositing with the commissioner the aforesaid amount of bonds of the United States, the State of Mississippi or any agency or subdivision thereof, or a certificate of deposit issued by an institution whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and made payable jointly to the owner and the Department of Insurance, or shall be written by an insurer as defined in this chapter, shall meet the specifications as may be required and defined in this chapter, and shall meet such specifications as may be required and approved by the department. The bond shall be conditioned upon the full and prompt payment of any bail bond issued by such professional bail agent into the court ordering the bond forfeited. The bond shall be to the people of the State of Mississippi in favor of any court of this state, whether municipal, justice, county, circuit, Supreme or other court.
(3)If any bond issued by a professional bail agent is declared forfeited and judgment entered thereon by a court of proper jurisdiction as authorized in Section 99-5-25, and the amount of the bond is not paid within ninety (90) days, that court shall order the department to declare the qualification bond of the professional bail agent to be forfeited and the license revoked. If the bond was not forfeited correctly under Section 99-5-25, it shall be returned to the court as uncollectible. The department shall then order the surety on the qualification bond to deposit with the court an amount equal to the amount of the bond issued by the professional bail agent and declared forfeited by the court, or the amount of the qualification bond, whichever is the smaller amount. The department shall, after hearing held upon not less than ten (10) days' written notice, suspend the license of the professional bail agent until such time as another qualification bond in the required amount is posted with the department. The revocation of the license of the professional bail agent shall also serve to revoke the license of each soliciting bail agent and bail enforcement agent employed or used by such professional bail agent. In the event of a final judgment of forfeiture of any bail bond written under the provisions of this chapter, the amount of money so forfeited by the final judgment of the proper court, less all accrued court costs and excluding any interest charges or attorney's fees, shall be refunded to the bail agent or his insurance company upon proper showing to the court as to which is entitled to same, provided the defendant in such cases is returned to the sheriff of the county to which the original bail bond was returnable within twelve (12) months of the date of such final judgment, or proof made of incarceration of the defendant in another jurisdiction, and that a "Hold Order" has been placed upon the defendant for return of the defendant to the sheriff upon release from the other jurisdiction, the return to the sheriff to be the responsibility of the professional bail agent , then the bond forfeiture shall be stayed and remission made upon petition to the court, in the amount found in the court's discretion to be just and proper. A bail agent licensed under this chapter shall have a right to apply for and obtain from the proper court an extension of time delaying a final judgment of forfeiture if such bail agent can satisfactorily establish to the court wherein such forfeiture is pending that the defendant named in the bail bond is lawfully in custody outside of the State of Mississippi.
(4) The qualification bond may be released by the department to the professional bail personal surety agent upon an order to release the qualification bond issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, or upon written request to the department by the professional bail personal surety agent no earlier than five (5) years after the expiration date of his last license.
(1) Each professional bail agent licensed under this chapter, under oath, shall provide to the Insurance Department an annual financial statement. The annual financial statement shall show assets, liabilities and net worth as of the end of the most recent calendar year. The statement shall be submitted annually to the department by June 1.
(2) (a) For purposes of applicable examinations, a professional bail agent licensed in this state shall maintain at least one (1) office physically located in any municipality or county in this state, to serve as his principal place of business operations where records pertaining to his bail agent business conducted in Mississippi are maintained and this office location shall be registered with the Insurance Department.
(c) If for any reason the professional bail agent changes the location of his principal place of business operations, removes to another state, or no longer continues in the profession as a bail agent, the bail agent shall register the new location with the department, or notify the department of his removal from the state or his cessation of business as a professional bail agent as appropriate.
(3) On or before October 1, 2016, the Mississippi Insurance Department shall establish a Bail Bond Database within the department for the reporting of all bail bonds written by personal surety agents and limited surety agents in this state. By November 15, 2016, each bail agent must input his or her bail bond information into the Bail Bond Database for all bonds written from and after October 1, 2016. By the fifteenth day of each subsequent month, each bail agent must update the Bail Bond Database regarding his or her bail bond information for bail bonds written from and after October 1, 2016, and each update must be current through the last day of the previous month. Any bail agent who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection (3) shall be assessed a fine in an amount not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per violation.
(5) Any person charged with a criminal violation who has obtained his release from custody by having a professional bail agent, insurer, agent of a bail agent or insurer, or any person other than himself furnish his bail bond and who fails to appear in court, at the time and place ordered by the court, is guilty of "bond jumping" and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or both, and payment of restitution for reasonable expenses incurred returning the defendant to court.
(4) If a defendant is found to be not guilty or if the charges against a defendant are dismissed, or if the prosecutor enters a nolle prosequi in the defendant's case or retires the defendant's case to the file, or if the defendant's conviction is reversed on appeal, the fees imposed pursuant to subsections (1), (2) (3) and (7) shall not be imposed.
If the bond is taken from a soliciting bail agent, the full name of the soliciting bail agent and the license number of such agent must be preprinted or stamped clearly and legibly along with all information required for a professional bail agent and a true and correct copy of an individual's power of attorney authorizing such soliciting bail agent to sign the name of the professional bail agent
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 3049; 1892, § 1400A; Laws, 1906, § 1473; Hemingway's 1917, § 1231; 1930, § 1253; Laws, 1942, § 2496.
"Came the said A. B. and C. D. and E. F. and agreed to pay the state of Mississippi ________ dollars, unless the said A. B. shall appear at the present term of this court, and remain from day to day, and from term to term until discharged by law, to answer a charge of ________.”
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 3049; 1892, § 1400a; Laws, 1906, § 1473; Hemingway's 1917, § 1231; Laws, 1930, § 1253; Laws, 1942, § 2496.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 2(57); 1857, ch. 64, art. 291; 1871, § 2791; 1880, § 3040; 1892, § 1393; Laws, 1906, § 1465; Hemingway's 1917, § 1223; Laws, 1930, § 1245; Laws, 1942, § 2488; Laws, 1996, ch. 450, § 1; Laws, 1997, ch. 346, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1997.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 12(2); 1857, ch. 64, art. 288; 1871, § 2788; 1880, § 3038; 1892, § 1391; Laws, 1906, § 1463; Hemingway's 1917, § 1221; Laws, 1930, § 1243; Laws, 1942, § 2486; Laws, 1960, ch. 267.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 12(2); 1857, ch. 64, art. 288; 1871, § 2788; 1880, § 3038; 1892, § 1391; Laws, 1906, § 1463; Hemingway's 1917, § 1221; Laws, 1930, § 1243; Laws, 1942, § 2486; Laws, 1960, ch. 267. Effective July 1, 2007
Sources: Codes, 1871, § 2874; 1880, § 3044; 1892, § 1397; Laws, 1906, § 1469; Hemingway's 1917, § 1227; Laws, 1930, § 1249; Laws, 1942, § 2492.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 3051; 1892, § 1402; Laws, 1906, § 1475; Hemingway's 1917, § 1233; Laws, 1930, § 1255; Laws, 1942, § 2498.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 12(3); 1857, ch. 64, art. 289; 1871, § 2789; 1880, § 3039; 1892, § 1392; Laws, 1906, § 1464; Hemingway's 1917, § 1222; Laws, 1930, § 1244; Laws, 1942, § 2487.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 12(3); 1857, ch. 64, art. 289; 1871, § 2789; 1880, § 3039; 1892, § 1392; Laws, 1906, § 1464; Hemingway's 1917, § 1222; Laws, 1930, § 1244; Laws, 1942, § 2487; Laws, 1997, ch. 335, § 1; Laws, 2004, ch. 363, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2004.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 368; 1871, § 2873; 1880, § 3042; 1892, § 1395; Laws, 1906, § 1467; Hemingway's 1917, § 1225; Laws, 1930, § 1247; Laws, 1942, § 2490.
All bonds, recognizance’s, or acknowledgments of indebtedness, conditioned for the appearance of any party before any court or officer, in any state case or criminal proceeding, which shall have the effect to free such party from jail or legal custody of any sort, shall be valid and bind the party and sureties, according to the condition of such bond, recognizance, or acknowledgment, whether it was taken by the proper officer or under circumstances authorized by law or not, or whether the officer's return identify it or not.
Sources: Codes, 1880, §§ 3041, 3050; 1892, §§ 1394, 1401; Laws, 1906, §§ 1466, 1474; Hemingway's 1917, §§ 1224, 1232; Laws, 1930, §§ 1246, 1254; Laws, 1942, §§ 2489, 2497.
(c) The judgment nisi shall be returnable for ninety (90) days from the date of issuance. If during such period the defendant appears before the court, or is arrested and surrendered, then the judgment nisi shall be set aside. If the surety produces the defendant or provides to the court reasonable mitigating circumstances upon such showing, then the forfeiture shall not be made final. If the forfeiture is made final, a copy of the final judgment shall be served on the surety within ten (10) working days by either personal service or certified mail. Reasonable mitigating circumstances shall be that the defendant is incarcerated in another jurisdiction, that the defendant is hospitalized under a doctor's care, that the defendant is in a recognized drug rehabilitation program, that the defendant has been placed in a witness protection program and it shall be the duty of any such agency placing such defendant into a witness protection program to notify the court and the court to notify the surety, or any other reason justifiable to the court.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 5; 1857, ch. 64, art. 292; 1880, § 3043; 1892, § 1396; Laws, 1906, § 1468; Hemingway's 1917, § 1226; Laws, 1930, § 1248; Laws, 1942, § 2491; Laws, 1996, ch. 317, § 1; Laws, 1999, ch. 428, § 1; Laws, 2001, ch. 547, § 1; Laws, 2009, ch. 520, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 2009.
(1) (a)”Surrender" means the delivery of the defendant, principal on bond, physically to the sheriff or chief of police or in his absence, his jailer, and it is the duty of the sheriff or chief of police, or his jailer, to accept the surrender of the principal when presented and such act is complete upon the execution of verbal or written surrender notice presented by a bail agent and shall relieve the bail agent of liability on the principal's bond.
(b) A bail agent may surrender the principal if the principal is found to be detained on another charge. If the principal is found incarcerated in another jurisdiction, the bail agent may surrender him by verbal or written notice of surrender to the sheriff or chief of police, or his jailer, of that jurisdiction and the notice of surrender shall act as a "Hold Order" and upon presentation of written surrender notice to the court of proper jurisdiction, the court shall order a "Hold Order" placed on the principal for the court and shall relieve the bail agent of liability on the principal's bond, with the provision that, upon release from incarceration in the other jurisdiction, return of the principal to the sheriff shall be the responsibility of the bail agent. The bail agent shall satisfy the responsibility to return a principal held by a "Hold Order" in another jurisdiction upon release from the other jurisdiction either by personally returning the principal to the sheriff at no cost to the county or, where the other jurisdiction will not release the principal to any person other than a law enforcement officer, by reimbursing to the county the reasonable cost of the return of the principal, not to exceed the cost that would be entailed if the first option were available.
(2) (a) A bail ***agent, at any time, may surrender the principal to any law enforcement agency or in open court in discharge of the bail agent’s liability on the principal's bond if the law enforcement agency that was involved in setting the original bond approves of such surrender, to the State of Mississippi and any of its courts and at any time may arrest and transport its principal anywhere or may authorize another to do so, may be assisted by any law enforcement agency or its agents anywhere upon request of bail and may receive any information available to law enforcement or the courts pertaining to the principal for the purpose of safe surrender or for any reasonable cause in order to safely return the principal to the custody of law enforcement and the court.
(b) A bail *** agent, at any time, may arrest the principal anywhere or authorize another to do so for the purpose of surrender of the principal on bail bond. Failure of the sheriff or chief of police or his jailer, any law enforcement agency or its agents or the court to accept surrender by a bail *** agent shall relieve the bail agent of any liability on the principal's bond, and the bond shall be void.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 3045; 1892, § 1398; Laws, 1906, § 1470; Hemingway's 1917, § 1228; Laws, 1930, § 1250; Laws, 1942, § 2493; Laws, 1997, ch. 335, § 2; Laws, 1999, ch. 399, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1999.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 3046; 1892, § 1399; Laws, 1906, § 1471; Hemingway's 1917, § 1229; Laws, 1930, § 1251; Laws, 1942, § 2494.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 12(1); 1857, ch. 64, art. 287; 1871, § 2787; 1880, § 3037; 1892, § 1390; Laws, 1906, § 1462; Hemingway's 1917, § 1220; Laws, 1930, § 1242; Laws, 1942, § 2485.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 283; 1871, § 2783; 1880, § 3036; 1892, § 1389; Laws, 1906, § 1461; Hemingway's 1917, § 1219; Laws, 1930, § 1241; Laws, 1942, § 2484.
(2) The court may issue an order sua sponte or upon notice by the clerk or the probation officer that the person has violated the terms of probation, community control, court ordered supervision or other applicable court order to produce the defendant. The court or the clerk of court of the court shall give the bail agent a minimum of a seventy-two hour notice to have the defendant before the court. If the bail agent fails to produce the defendant in court or to the sheriff at the time noticed by the court or the clerk of court, the bond shall be forfeited according to the procedures set forth in Section 99-5-25. The defendant's failure to appear shall be the sole grounds for forfeiture of the appearance bond.