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SF 400 Senate Long Description

Providing for criminal bail bond forfeitures and procedures; specifying certain requirements for setting by the court of monetary conditions for release of persons charged with an offense, requiring execution of an appearance bond with sufficient sureties or of an unsecured bond accompanied by a certain minimum deposit; prohibiting judges, courts or judicial officers from acting as surety for the release of persons charged; modifying certain deposit amount release requirements, requiring release or payment to the depositing party; providing for open court declaration of forfeiture upon failure of the defendant to appear, specifying certain court administrator notice requirements; requiring the release of surety and agent obligations under appearance bonds under certain conditions; specifying certain conditions requiring court vacation of the order of forfeiture and exoneration of the bond; clarifying the authority of sureties to arrest defendants; requiring the court to order the surety or defendent or both to reimburse law enforcement agencies incurring costs in transporting defendants to the jurisdiction of the warrant for arrest, specifying certain reimbursement requirements and limits
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