1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 37
  3. CHAPTER 61
  4. Part 4
  5. 37-61-419 Attorney not to become surety on bond

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 37. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

CHAPTER 61. ATTORNEYS AT LAW

Part 4. Provisions Regulating Practice

Attorney Not To Become Surety On Bond

37-61-419. Attorney not to become surety on bond. (1) Without the consent of the district court judge who had first approved the security, no attorney and counselor at law shall become security in any bond or recognizance of any sheriff, constable, or coroner or upon any bond, undertaking, or recognizance authorized by any statute, to be taken for the payment of any sum of money into court in default of the principal.

(2) No attorney at law may act as surety for bail or furnish bail.

History: En. Sec. 14, p. 373, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 14, p. 378, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 53, 5th Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 115, 5th Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 416, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6408, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8991, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8991, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2118; amd. Sec. 164, Ch. 575, L. 1981.