§ 30-555. Presence in police station; speaking to prisoners; identification.  


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  • (a)

    No professional bondsperson shall be allowed to loiter in the police station or grounds or to enter those places except when attending court or on business in connection with a case wherein the bondsperson is surety on a bond nor shall the bondsperson be allowed to speak to any prisoner at the police station unless authorized to do so by the station captain on duty. The station captain shall not grant this authority until the station captain has received from the prisoner a written request, naming the bondsperson the prisoner wishes to see. If no bondsperson is named by the prisoner, the station captain shall call them in rotation until a bondsperson is secured.

    (b)

    Every professional bondsperson and the bondsperson's agents and subagents shall wear an identification badge or card, including photograph, designed by the mayor or the mayor's designee, whenever the professional bondsperson is acting as such in any city building or other city property.

(Code 1977, § 14-6042)