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r--'" ':e:' " , --~-' .. "--- .. , r-~ " -- \ . ~.:./ "-'\ '.1 ,--'"~ " '.~ t: . \, ORDINANCE NO. A?S AN ORDINANCE PR~, IDING FOR THE FIXING OF BAIL BONDS AND CASH BONDS FOR PERSONS ARRESTED FOR VI ," ATION OF CITY ORDINANCES OR 'ANY LUOF WHICH THE CORPORATION COURT HAS JURISD ~TION,THE ,FORFEITURE OF SUCH' BONDS, KEEPING OF RECORDS. RE- PEALING ALL ORDI:ANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND SAVING CLAUSE.' ~ BE IT mDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF TilE CITY OF LA PORTE. TEXAS. THAT : Section'l. Any 'person arrested for violation of any ordinance of the CitYJ or for theiviolation of any law of which .the Corporation Court has juris- 'I ' dictionr may be ~dmitted to bail ,uport executing a bondr payable to the CitYr with sufficient ~ecurity lobe approved by tbe Judge' of the Corporation Court or the Chief of Polio:e, o'r a cash hond in an amount to be determined by the Judge of the Corporation Court or the Chief of' Policer conditioned that he will appear upon, the day,. and at an hour therein namedr before the Corporation Courtr to ans~erfor th~ violation of the ordinance or law of which he is accused, and , there to wait at-his,trialr and shall appear from day to day and from time to time until the c~~e is'finally disposed of. Upon colle~tion such bond shall be turned over to t~e Judge of the Corporation Court to file in his office, and L, : tbe person so cO~lect1ng, whether he be the Chief of Police or the Judge of the Gorporation Court] sha'll keep compl ete records of all bonds so colI ected. Section,! 2.. Whenever a person is bound by a bond as mentioned in tbe :f preceding Sectio, and bis name shall be called at the door of the Court Room on -I' ' tbe, day designU~d in such bond} or any time during any day thereafter, when ''!- the case $ha11 bi reached' on ~~e Docket1 and he shall fail to appear, the for- i feiture of s~ch ~ODd ~~all b~ taken. I, ' Section;~;3. A surety bond shall be forfeited in the Corporation Court 'I in the same~ann~~ as in the Court ,Of ~ Justice of the Peace) but no final judgment shall b~ entered against the parti~s to such bond until such parties have been served -a writ of sCire facias, requirhg them to appear or sbow cause in ten(IO) :days!iaft~r' the service of such writ why judgment nisi should not be ,I made fiDidag~ln'ttbem. sec~ion~4. A,cash hond shall be forfeited as prescribed by Section 2 of this ordinanco. When such bond is forfeited the cash held under such bond shall be paid in ,to ~he City Clerk and the payment thereof entered in the records kept for such bonds. ' Section~. All cash sums heretofo~e collected as cash bonds, and de- posited in the Corporation Court. and in whicb the Defendant has failed to ente l