CHAPTER 35
SB 322 – FINAL VERSION
2008 SESSION
03/10
SENATE BILL 322
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill requires courts, jails, and police stations to post lists of professional bondsmen.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2683
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to lists of professional bondsmen.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
35:1 List of Professional Bondsmen. Amend RSA 598-A:3 to read as follows:
598-A:3 [Secretary of State or His Designee to Notify Courts] List of Professional Bondsmen. The secretary of state or [his] designee shall furnish all superior court clerks, [and] all district [and municipal] courts having authority to accept bail, all jails, and all police stations with a list of the names of all persons registered as professional bondsmen and shall notify such clerks, [and] courts, jails, and police stations of any change in a bondsman’s status. The secretary of state shall update the list as necessary, but not less than once per year. No person, other than the secretary of state or the secretary of state’s designee, shall alter any list furnished under this section. The list shall be displayed prominently and visibly to defendants in all courts, jails, and police stations.
35:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 12, 2008
Effective Date: July 11, 2008