§ 30-554. State license required; underwriter.

In addition to any other requirements contained in this article, no professional bondsperson or agent or subagent of a bondsperson shall be permitted to sign bonds for any person imprisoned unless the professional bondsperson, agent or subagent shall have previously procured the following:

(1)

A limited surety agent's license issued by the insurance commissioner of the State of Georgia.

(2)

A certified power-of-attorney agreement from an underwriter, whether the underwriter is a company, corporation, firm, partnership, association or individual, which agreement makes, constitutes and appoints the professional bondsperson, agent or subagent as the underwriter's true and lawful agent and attorney in fact with express authority to make, execute, seal and deliver, as surety, bail bonds and recognizances, such that the execution of the bail bonds and recognizances by the professional bondsperson, agent or subagent is binding upon the underwriter for the full amount of each and every bail bond or recognizance written in favor of the city.

(Code 1977, § 14-6045)