§ 12-29. List of authorized bondsmen to be posted; list to be furnished persons detained; records, etc.

A typewritten or printed list alphabetically arranged of all persons engaged under the authority of the circuit court for the county in the business of becoming surety upon bonds for compensation in criminal cases shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each police precinct, jail, prisoner’s dock, house of detention, and every other place in such county in which persons in custody of the law are detained, and one (1) or more copies thereof kept on hand. When any person who is detained in custody in any such place of detention shall request any person in charge thereof to furnish him the name of a bondsman, or to put him in communication with a bondsman, such list shall be furnished to the person so requesting, without recommendation. It shall be the duty of the person in charge of such place of detention within a reasonable time to put the person so detained in communication with the bondsman so elected, and the person in charge of such place of detention shall contemporaneously with the transaction make in the blotter or book of record kept in any such place of detention, a record showing the name of the person requesting the bondsman, the offense with which the person is charged, the time at which the request was made, the bondsman requested and the person by whom such bondsman was called, and preserve the same as a permanent record in the book or blotter in which entered. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 4-5; 1945, ch. 943, § 141E.)