§ 2-1451. Posting of appearance bond.

(a)

Amount; conditions. Any person arrested for violation, failure, neglect or refusal to comply with any provision, regulation or requirement of any ordinance may be admitted to bail, by executing a bond to the city, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by a judge of the municipal court or, in his absence or inaccessibility, by the clerk of the municipal court, the chief of police or an assistant chief of police, or any officer in charge of any police station, in the sum of not less than $25.00 and not more than $1,000.00, conditioned that such person will appear upon the day named therein, not longer than 90 days from the date of the bond, before the municipal court, and await his trial upon the charge against him, and every bond so taken shall be forthwith filed with the clerk of the municipal court by the officer approving and taking the bond; providing that no attorney at law, police officer, constable or his deputy, or any officer of the city whatsoever, elected or appointed, shall be taken as security upon any bond provided for in this section.

(b)

Cash in lieu of bond. In lieu of sureties on such bond, the person summoned or arrested, or someone for him, may make a deposit in cash equaling the amount of the bond with a judge of the municipal court or, in his absence or inaccessibility, with the clerk of the municipal court, chief of police or assistant chief of police, or any officer in charge of any police station, and such officer shall state on the bond the receipt of such cash deposit. The city shall in no manner be responsible to any depositor of a cash bond but the person receiving such deposit shall be prosecuted by the city counselor or other proper officer to the use of the depositor or city, for failure to account for and pay over the deposit.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 22.11; Ord. No. 35644, 8-16-68; Ord. No. 43114, 8-24-73)