§ 12-35C. Copies of bonds to be forwarded to central bail bond clerk; persons arrested to be taken before judge or commissioner as soon as possible; indexed record to be kept.


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  • (a) Any judge of the circuit court or judge of the district court, or commissioner of the district court or sheriff, deputy sheriff or clerk of any court of Montgomery County receiving or accepting bonds shall forward, within twenty-four (24) hours, copies of all bonds of those persons arrested in Montgomery County to the central bail bond clerk.
    (b) Those persons who are arrested in Montgomery County for a criminal offense for which the setting of bond is required by law shall be taken as soon as possible before a judge of the circuit court or a judge of the district court or a commissioner of the district court in order that bond may be set.
    (c) The central bail bond clerk shall keep a properly indexed record of each defendant for whom a bail bond is received and accepted as aforesaid, the number of the case, indictment, information or warrant, the crime or crimes charged, the amount and type bond and any forfeiture thereof; and it shall be the duty of said central bail bond clerk to enter on writs and process directed to him, affecting a defendant for whom a bail bond has been received and accepted as aforesaid, whether or not the bond of the defendant is in full force and effect or has been forfeited. (1971, ch. 765, § 4.)