(Code 1981, §17-6-56, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 546, § 1.1.)
Law reviews.- For note on 1999 enactment of §§ 17-6-56 to17-6-58, see 16 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 106 (1999).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Vicarious liability for failure to register.
- When a bond recovery agent was registered as an agent in Fulton County in 2000 but had not renewed that registration for 2001 when the agent apprehended in that county a principal on a bond issued by a professional bondsman who employed the agent, the failure of the county to maintain a system for the registration of individual agents precluded a successful prosecution of the agent for violating O.C.G.A. § 17-6-58, and the agent could not be held vicariously liable for the bondsman's alleged failure to register the agent in violation of O.C.G.A. § 17-6-56(c). Additionally, O.C.G.A. § 17-6-58(a) did not provide the agent with fair notice that the agent could be held criminally responsible for acting as a bail recovery agent in Fulton County if the agent failed to renew the agent's registration in that county. Perkins v. State, 277 Ga. 323, 588 S.E.2d 719 (2003).