As Amended
SEC. 83-39-29. Penalties.
The department may provide information to the district attorney in the district in which a professional bail agent, a soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent is domiciled so that proper legal action may be pursued against any licensee who is alleged to have violated any provision of Chapter 39 of Title 83. Such licensee is guilty of a misdemeanor and 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. Any insurer violating any provision of Chapter 39 of Title 83 may be fined in an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).
Any person who acts or attempts to act as a professional bail agent, soliciting bail agent, or bail enforcement agent as defined in this chapter and who is not licensed under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor 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.
Any person charged with a criminal violation who has obtained his release from custody by having a professional bail agent, insurer, agent of such 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 "bondjumping" 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.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Secs. 8745-09, 8745-10; Laws, 1968, ch. 341, Secs. 9, 10, eff from and after passage (approved August 6, 1968). Laws, 1994, ch. 495, Sec. 14, eff from and after July 1, 1994; 1994, ch. 634, Sec. 2, eff from and after July 1, 1994