§ 12-12. Bail.

(a)

Any person arrested for violation of any ordinance may be admitted to bail by executing a bond to the city, with sufficient security to be approved by the municipal judge, the municipal court clerk or any two (2) members of the city council, in the order named, in a sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), conditioned that such person will appear on the day therein stated before the municipal court to answer to the charge against him. All bonds so taken shall forthwith be filed with the municipal judge by the officer approving and taking the same. Whenever any person shall be arrested and brought before the court, and for any cause the trial is postponed to a time certain, such person shall be required to enter into a recognizance with security, to be approved by the court at the time and place appointed, then and there to answer the complaint alleged against him. If any person arrested or brought before the court shall fail or refuse to enter into recognizance, he shall be committed to prison and held to answer the complaint against him.

(b)

Upon approval by the municipal judge or by a duly authorized agent of the county acting in accordance with the rules and regulations pertaining to release on recognizance without security as set by the county, a person may be released on his own recognizance without security.

(Ord. No. 163, Art. 1, § 6, 2-1-77; Ord. No. 525, § 2, 1-4-94)