GA 17-6-56 - GA 17-6-56

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 agen...