South Carolina General Assembly
104th Session, 1981-1982

Bill 3454

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               3454
Ratification Number:       400
Act Number                 338
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Relating to the collection by highway
                           patrolmen of bail money
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(A338, R400, H3454)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-5-50, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE COLLECTION BY HIGHWAY PATROLMEN OF BAIL MONEY, SO AS TO INCREASE FROM ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS THE SUM OF MONEY AN APPREHENDING PATROLMAN MAY COLLECT AS BAIL.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Collection of bail money by highway patrolmen

Section 1. Section 23-5-50 of the 1976 Code is amended by striking "one" on line eleven and inserting "two" so that when amended the section shall read:

"Section 23-5-50. When any person is apprehended by a patrolman upon a charge of violating any traffic or other law, the enforcement of which by a patrolman is authorized by law, the person so being charged, upon being served with the official summons issued by such arresting patrolman, in lieu of being immediately brought before the proper magistrate, recorder or other judicial officer to enter into formal recognizance or make direct the deposit of a proper sum of money in lieu of a recognizance or incarceration, may deposit with the apprehending patrolman a sum of money as bail, not less than the minimum nor more than the maximum fine, but in no case to exceed two hundred dollars, to be in due course turned over to the judicial officer as money for bail, in lieu of entering into a recognizance for his appearance for trial as set in the aforesaid summons or being incarcerated by the arresting officer and held for further action by the appropriate judicial officer. A receipt for such sum so deposited shall be given to such person by such arresting officer. The summons duly served as herein provided shall give the judicial officer jurisdiction to dispose of the matter. Upon receipt of the fixed sum of money the patrolman may release the person so charged as above provided for his further appearance before the proper judicial officer as provided for and required by the summons."

Time effective

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon the approval by the Governor.