(1) An applicant for registration as a professional cash-bail agent shall supply the following information to the division:
Whether the applicant during the last ten years has been convicted of a felony, entered a guilty plea to a felony, accepted a plea of nolo contendere to a felony, or engaged in or committed an act that violates this article, a rule promulgated under this article, or any act that would violate this article or a rule promulgated under this article if it had been committed in Colorado; and
Any other information required by this article or by the division, including a full-facephotograph, for which the applicant shall pay the actual costs if a photograph is required.
(2) (a) Prior to submission of an application pursuant to this article 23, each applicant shall have his or her fingerprints taken by a local law enforcement agency or any third party approved by the Colorado bureau of investigation to obtain a fingerprint-based criminal history record check. If a third party takes the person's fingerprints, the fingerprints may be electronically captured using Colorado bureau of investigation-approved livescan equipment. Third-party vendors shall not keep the applicant information for more than thirty days unless requested to do so by the applicant. The applicant is required to submit payment by certified check or money order for the fingerprints and for the actual costs of the record check when the fingerprints are submitted to the Colorado bureau of investigation. Upon receipt of fingerprints and receipt of the payment for costs, the Colorado bureau of investigation shall conduct a state and national fingerprint-based criminal history record check utilizing records of the Colorado bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation.
(b) When the results of a fingerprint-based criminal history record check of an applicant performed pursuant to this subsection (2) reveal a record of arrest without a disposition, the division shall require that applicant to submit to a name-based criminal history record check, as defined in section 22-2-119.3 (6)(d).
(3) To qualify as a professional agent, the applicant must have been licensed as an insurance producer who furnishes bail in Colorado for four years before applying for registration as a professional cash-bail agent.
Source: L. 2012: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 12-1266), ch. 280, p. 1512, § 41, effective July 1. L. 2017: (2) amended, (SB 17-189), ch. 149, p. 497, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2019: (2) amended, (HB 19-1166), ch. 125, p. 538, § 5, effective April 18.
Editor's note: Subsections (1) and (2) are similar to former § 12-7-103, and subsection (3) is similar to former § 12-7-102.5 (7), as they existed prior to 2012.