Virginia Administrative Code › Title 6 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS › Agency 20 - DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES › Chapter 250 - REGULATIONS RELATING TO PROPERTY AND SURETY BAIL BONDSMEN › Part I - Definitions › Section 6VAC20-250-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this regulation
					 shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Agent " means a person who is a licensed bail bondsman who
					 has been given power of attorney to act on behalf of a licensed property bail
					 bondsman.
"Armed" means a bail bondsman who carries or has immediate
					 access to a firearm in the performance of his duties.
"Bail" means the pretrial release of a person from custody
					 upon those terms and conditions specified by order of an appropriate judicial
					 officer.
"Bail bondsman" means any person who is licensed by the
					 department who engages in the business of bail bonding and is thereby
					 authorized to conduct business in all courts of the Commonwealth.
"Board" means the Criminal Justice Services Board or any
					 successor board or agency.
"Bond" means the posting by a person or his surety of a
					 written promise to pay a specific sum, secured or unsecured, ordered by an
					 appropriate judicial officer as a condition of bail to assure performance of
					 the terms and conditions contained in the recognizance.
"Certificate" means a certificate issued by a judge on or
					 before June 30, 2005, pursuant to former § 19.2-152.1 of the Code of
					 Virginia.
"Department" or "DCJS" means the Department of Criminal
					 Justice Services or any successor agency.
"Firearm endorsement" means a method of regulation, which
					 identifies a person licensed as a bail bondsman who has successfully completed
					 the annual firearms training and has met the requirements as set forth in this
					 regulation.
"Licensee" means a licensed bail bondsman.
"License number" means the official number issued to a bail
					 bondsman licensed by the department.
"Manual processing fee" means a fee charged for
					 applications not submitted to the department utilizing available online
					 application processing procedures.
"Property bail bondsman" means a person pursuant to this
					 article who, for compensation, enters into a bond or does so through his agent
					 and who pledges real property, cash or certificates of deposit issued by a
					 federally insured institution, or any combination thereof as security for a
					 bond as defined in § 19.2-119 of the Code of Virginia that has been posted to
					 assure performance of terms and conditions specified by order of an appropriate
					 judicial officer as a condition of bail.
"Private security services training school" means a
					 training school that is certified or licensed by the department pursuant to §
					 9.1-139 of the Code of Virginia for the specific purpose of training regulated
					 personnel in at least one category of the compulsory minimum training
					 standards.
"Recognizance" means a signed commitment by a person to
					 appear in court as directed and to adhere to any other terms ordered by an
					 appropriate judicial officer as a condition of bail.
"Surety bail bondsman" means a person licensed pursuant to
					 this article who is also licensed by the State Corporation Commission as a
					 property and casualty insurance agent, and who sells, solicits, or negotiates
					 surety insurance as defined in § 38.2-121 of the Code of Virginia on behalf of
					 insurers licensed in the Commonwealth, pursuant to which the insurer becomes
					 surety on or guarantees a bond, as defined in § 19.2-119 of the Code of
					 Virginia, that has been posted to assure performance of terms and conditions
					 specified by order of an appropriate judicial officer as a condition of
					 bail.
Statutory Authority
§ 9.1-185.2 of the Code of
						Virginia.