Florida Statutes Title XLVII Chapter 903 - Bail

• 903.011 - “bail” And “bond” Defined; General Terms.
  (1) As used in this chapter, the terms “bail” and “bond” include any and all forms of pretrial release.(2) Any monetary or cash component of any form...
• 903.02 - Actions Following Denial; Changes In Bail Conditions Or Bond Amount; Separation By Charge Or Offense.
  (1) If application for bail is made to an authorized court and denied, no court of inferior jurisdiction shall admit the applicant to bail unless such...
• 903.03 - Jurisdiction Of Trial Court To Admit To Bail; Duties And Responsibilities Of Department Of Corrections.
  (1) After a person is held to answer by a trial court judge, the court having jurisdiction to try the defendant shall, before indictment, affidavit, or...
• 903.035 - Applications For Bail; Information Provided; Hearing On Application For Modification; Penalty For Providing False Or Misleading Information Or Omitting Material Information.
  (1)(a) All information provided by a defendant, in connection with any application for or attempt to secure bail, to any court, court personnel, or individual soliciting...
• 903.0351 - Restrictions On Pretrial Release Pending Probation-violation Hearing Or Community-control-violation Hearing.
  (1) In the instance of an alleged violation of felony probation or community control, bail or any other form of pretrial release shall not be granted...
• 903.045 - Nature Of Criminal Surety Bail Bonds.
  It is the public policy of this state and the intent of the Legislature that a criminal surety bail bond, executed by a bail bond...
• 903.046 - Purpose Of And Criteria For Bail Determination.
  (1) The purpose of a bail determination in criminal proceedings is to ensure the appearance of the criminal defendant at subsequent proceedings and to protect the...
• 903.047 - Conditions Of Pretrial Release.
  (1) As a condition of pretrial release, whether such release is by surety bail bond or recognizance bond or in some other form, the defendant must:(a) Refrain...
• 903.0471 - Violation Of Condition Of Pretrial Release.
  Notwithstanding s. 907.041, a court may, on its own motion, revoke pretrial release and order pretrial detention if the court finds probable cause to believe...
• 903.05 - Qualification Of Sureties.
  A surety for the release of a person on bail, other than a company authorized by law to act as a surety, shall be a...
• 903.06 - Validity Of Undertaking By Minor.
  Minors may bind themselves by a bond to secure their release on bail in the same manner as persons sui juris.History.—s. 49, ch. 19554, 1939;...
• 903.08 - Sufficiency Of Sureties.
  The combined net worth of the sureties, exclusive of any other bonds on which they may be principal, or surety and property exempt from execution,...
• 903.09 - Justification Of Sureties.
  (1) A surety shall execute an affidavit stating that she or he possesses the qualifications and net worth required to become a surety. The affidavit shall...
• 903.101 - Sureties; Licensed Persons; To Have Equal Access.
  Subject to rules adopted by the Department of Financial Services and by the Financial Services Commission, every surety who meets the requirements of ss. 903.05,...
• 903.105 - Appearance Bonds.
  Any criminal defendant who is required to meet monetary bail or bail with any monetary component may satisfy such bail by providing a surety bond...
• 903.131 - Bail On Appeal, Revocation; Recommission.
  If a person admitted to bail on appeal commits and is convicted of a separate felony while free on appeal, the bail on appeal shall...
• 903.132 - Bail On Appeal; Conditions For Granting; Appellate Review.
  (1) No person may be admitted to bail upon appeal from a conviction of a felony unless the defendant establishes that the appeal is taken in...
• 903.133 - Bail On Appeal; Prohibited For Certain Felony Convictions.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 903.132, no person adjudged guilty of a felony of the first degree for a violation of s. 782.04(2) or (3),...
• 903.14 - Contracts To Indemnify Sureties.
  (1) A surety shall file with the bond an affidavit stating the amount and source of any security or consideration which the surety or anyone for...
• 903.16 - Deposit Of Money Or Bonds As Bail.
  (1) A defendant who has been admitted to bail, or another person in the defendant’s behalf, may deposit with the official authorized to take bail money...
• 903.17 - Substitution Of Cash Bail For Other Bail.
  When bail other than a deposit of money or bonds has been given, the defendant or the surety may deposit money or bonds as provided...
• 903.18 - Bail After Deposit Of Money Or Bonds.
  Bail by sureties may be substituted for a deposit of money or bonds as bail any time before a breach of the bond.History.—s. 61, ch....
• 903.20 - Surrender Of Defendant.
  The defendant may surrender himself or herself or a surety may surrender the defendant any time before a breach of the bond.History.—s. 63, ch. 19554,...
• 903.21 - Method Of Surrender; Exoneration Of Obligors.
  (1) A surety desiring to surrender a defendant shall deliver a copy of the bond and the defendant to the official who had custody of the...
• 903.22 - Arrest Of Principal By Surety Before Forfeiture.
  A surety may arrest the defendant before a forfeiture of the bond for the purpose of surrendering the defendant or the surety may authorize a...
• 903.26 - Forfeiture Of The Bond; When And How Directed; Discharge; How And When Made; Effect Of Payment.
  (1) A bail bond shall not be forfeited unless:(a) The information, indictment, or affidavit was filed within 6 months from the date of arrest, and(b) The clerk of...
• 903.27 - Forfeiture To Judgment.
  (1) If the forfeiture is not paid or discharged by order of a court of competent jurisdiction within 60 days and the bond is secured other...
• 903.28 - Remission Of Forfeiture; Conditions.
  (1) On application within 2 years from forfeiture, the court shall order remission of the forfeiture if it determines that there was no breach of the...
• 903.286 - Return Of Cash Bond; Requirement To Withhold Unpaid Fines, Fees, Court Costs; Cash Bond Forms.
  (1) Notwithstanding s. 903.31(2), the clerk of the court shall withhold from the return of a cash bond posted on behalf of a criminal defendant by...
• 903.29 - Arrest Of Principal By Surety After Forfeiture.
  Within 2 years from the date of forfeiture of a bond, the surety may arrest the principal for the purpose of surrendering the principal to...
• 903.31 - Canceling The Bond.
  (1) Within 10 business days after the conditions of a bond have been satisfied or the forfeiture discharged or remitted, the court shall order the bond...
• 903.32 - Defects In Bond.
  (1) A bond shall not be held invalid because of any irregularity if it was taken by a legally authorized official and states the place of...
• 903.33 - Bail Not Discharged For Certain Defects.
  The liability of a surety shall not be affected by his or her lack of any qualifications required by law, any agreement not expressed in...
• 903.34 - Who May Admit To Bail.
  In criminal actions instituted or pending in any state court, bonds given by defendants before trial until appeal shall be approved by a committing trial...
• 903.36 - Guaranteed Arrest Bond Certificates As Cash Bail.
  (1) A guaranteed traffic arrest bond certificate provided for in s. 627.758 shall be accepted as bail in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for the...

Last modified: September 23, 2016