6.6.6004    PROHIBITED PRACTICES

(1) A surety bail insurance producer may not:

(a) pay a fee or rebate, or give or promise anything of value, directly or indirectly to any public official, employee, or agent, who has power to arrest or hold in custody, in order to secure a settlement, compromise, remission, or reduction of the amount of any bail bond, or the forfeiture thereof;

(b) pay a fee or rebate, or give, or promise anything of value to the principal or anyone on his or her behalf;

(c) participate in the capacity of an attorney at a trial or hearing of a person on whose bond the surety bail insurance producer is a surety;

(d) advise or assist the principal for the purpose of forfeiting bond;

(e) fail to report, preserve without use, retain separately, or return after payment in full collateral taken as security on any bail bond to the party entitled to the collateral;

(f) fail to return collateral within five business days of receiving written notice of exoneration;

(g) gain access to a prospective principal in a prisoner confinement facility for the purpose of solicitation by misrepresenting to facility officials that the prospective principal or someone on the prospective principal's behalf had so requested; or

(h) sell, solicit, or negotiate surety bail insurance while employed as an investigator with the Office of the Public Defender.

History: 33-1-313, 33-26-108, MCA; IMP, 33-17-1001, 33-17-1103, 33-18-210, 33-18-212, 33-26-108, 46-9-401, 46-9-402, 46-9-502, 46-9-503, 46-9-505, 46-9-510, 46-9-511, 46-9-512, MCA; NEW, 2021 MAR p. 410, Eff. 4/17/21.