J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1679

or held upon bond, with any court, or judge, magistrate, or justice of
any court, or with the prosecuting attorney in any court.

3A-8.

A typewritten or printed list alphabetically arranged of all persons
engaged under the authority of the Board of Bail Bond Commissioners
in the business and/or activity of becoming a surety upon bonds for
compensation in criminal cases shall be posted in a conspicuous place
in each police station, jail, prisoner's dock, house of detention, sheriff's
office, and every other place in which persons in custody of the law
are detained, and one or more copies thereof kept on hand; and when
any person who is detained in custody in any such place of detention
shall request any person in charge thereof to furnish him the name
of a bondsman, or to put him in communication with a bondsman, said
list shall be furnished to the person so requesting, without recom-

mendation. and it shall be the duty of the person in charge of said

place of detention within a reasonable time to put the person so de-
tained in communication with the bondsman so selected, and the per-
son in charge of said place of detention shall contemporaneously with

said transaction make in the blotter or book of record kept in any

such place of detention, a record showing the name of the person

requesting the bondsman, the offense with which the said person
charged, the time at which the request was made, the bondsman re-
quested, and the person by whom the said bondsman was called, and

preserve the same as a permanent record in the book or blotter in

which entered.

3A-9.

Every person who becomes surety upon bonds for compensation in
criminal cases shall, within twenty four FORTY-EIGHT hours after
becoming surety, mail a copy of the surety bond or receipt or other
document pertaining to any other form of collateral to the office of the
Board of Bail Bond License Commissioners, herein created.

3A-10.

Nothing in this subtitle shall affect the right of any person to be his
own recognizor upon the posting of proper security.

3A-11.

There is hereby created and established a Board of Bail Bond
License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County, with the member-
ship, powers and duties as in this subtitle provided. The Board shall
be composed of three persons of integrity and experience to be ap-
pointed by the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County from
a panel of six persons recommended to them by a committee of three
persons which shall select its own chairman and which shall consist
of the following persons:

(a) The senior Judge of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel

County. THE STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY.

(b)   One (1) attorney selected by the Anne Arundel County Bar
Association,

(c)   The Chief of Police of Anne Arundel County.

The terms of the persons appointed to the Board shall be four years,