LICENSES 2391

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205R.

229. (Probation of Minors.) The magistrates of the Traffic Court
shall have and possess the power to release on probation any persons under
the age of 21 years who may be found guilty of violating the Motor Vehicle
Laws of this State, such release on probation to be in lieu of the payment
of fine or service of sentence.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205S.

230. (Probation Officer.) One of the clerical assistants herein provided
for shall be assigned and designated by the chief magistrate as probation
officer. The chief magistrate shall have power, whenever he deems it
necessary or advisable, to assign one or more of the other clerical assis-
tants to assist the said probation officer in his duties.

1939, ch. 433, sec. 205T.

231. (Terms of Probation.) The probation officer, when directed by
one of the magistrates of the Traffic Court, shall fully investigate and
report in writing on the circumstances of the offense, criminal record, if
any, and social history of a defendant, and shall make any other investiga-
tion or report required of him by said magistrate. The magistrate shall
notify the probation officer in writing of his designation to act in a particu-
lar case, and of the period and terms of probation. He may also deter-
mine the conditions of probation and may at any time revise, modify or
enlarge said conditions or period of probation as to any probationer. The
magistrate may at any time discharge a probationer from further super-
vision and he may require that the probationer shall appear before him
in person at the end of his probation. Whenever within the period of pro-
bation any probationer shall violate his probation, the magistrate may
impose any sentence he might have originally imposed.

Motor Vehicles as Bail.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 206. 1912, sec. 160. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 160.

232. Any person arrested for violating any of the provisions of this
sub-title may tender as bail a motor vehicle of which he is the owner, or
which he has written authority of the owner to pledge as bail, and if such
vehicle is of sufficient value it shall be accepted as security for his appear-
ance in lieu of any other bail. Any person offering a motor vehicle as bail
shall be required to state under oath whether or not there are any mortgages
or liens of any kind against the vehicle so offered, and the amount of such
mortgage or other lien. Any person securing the acceptance of a motor
vehicle as bail by making a false statement concerning the existence of any
mortgage or other lien against such vehicle shall be deemed guilty of
perjury and, upon indictment and conviction in a court of law, punished
accordingly. Any person securing the acceptance of any such motor vehicle
as bail upon the representation that he is the owner of such vehicle, when,
in fact, he is not such owner, shall be deemed guilty of the crime of
larceny and, upon indictment and conviction in a court of law, punished
accordingly.