§ 5750. Third-party sureties
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 42 Pa.C.S.A. Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureEffective: October 30, 2015
Effective: October 30, 2015
42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5750
§ 5750. Third-party sureties
(2) The written confirmation under paragraph (1)(ii) must include the name of the defendant, the name of the third-party surety, the date of the violation, the date and time the third-party surety learned of the violation, the name of the law enforcement agency receiving the report and the date and time the third-party surety reported the violation to the law enforcement agency.
(A) The terms of the bail condition are known to the third-party surety prior to bodily injury or property damage being sustained and the third-party surety received notice of the violation of the condition with sufficient reasonable time to make the report prior to the bodily injury or property damage being sustained.
(i) If the attorney for the Commonwealth is able to demonstrate that the third-party surety is a bail bondsman and the penalty is not paid within 90 days of being imposed, the court shall suspend the authority of the bail bondsman to operate as a bail bondsman in the county for 60 days and shall provide notice of the suspension to the surety insurer associated with the bail bondsman. If the penalty remains unpaid at the conclusion of the suspension, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall commence license revocation procedures under section 5745 (relating to suspension or nonrenewal of license for unpaid bail forfeitures) or 5746 (relating to suspension or revocation of authority to conduct business in a county).
(ii) Lack of knowledge of the bail conditions, if the third-party surety provides evidence that the third-party surety attempted to obtain information about the bail conditions which went unanswered or refused or that the bail conditions were altered subsequent to the defendant's release and the third-party surety lacked information about the amended conditions.
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2015, July 2, P.L. 110, No. 16, § 11, effective in 120 days [Oct. 30, 2015].
42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5750, PA ST 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5750
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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