Nevada Code § 697.340

Prohibited acts; persons who may not be bail agents, bail enforcement agents, general agents or bail solicitors
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1. A bail agent, general agent, bail
enforcement agent or bail solicitor shall not:
(a) Suggest or advise the employment of or name
for employment any particular attorney to represent his or her principal.
(b) Solicit business in or about any place where
prisoners are confined or in or about any court.
(c) Pay a fee or rebate or give or promise
anything of value to any person in order to secure a settlement, compromise,
remission or reduction of the amount of any undertaking or bail bond.
(d) Pay a fee or rebate or give anything of value
to an attorney in bail bond matters, except for legal services actually
rendered.
(e) Pay a fee or rebate or give or promise
anything of value to the principal or anyone in his or her behalf.
(f) Participate in the capacity of an attorney at
a trial or hearing of a person on whose bond the bail agent, general agent or
bail solicitor is surety, except for the purposes of surrendering the
defendant, making motions to set aside orders of bail forfeitures and motions
to exonerate bails and protecting his or her financial interest in such a bond.
(g) Allow any person to participate in the
functions of a bail enforcement agent unless the person is a licensed bail
enforcement agent.
2. The following persons may not be bail
agents, bail enforcement agents, general agents or bail solicitors and shall
not, directly or indirectly, engage in any act that would require licensing as
a bail agent, bail enforcement agent, general agent or bail solicitor or
receive any benefits from the execution of any bail bond:
(a) Jailers;
(b) Police officers;
(c) Justices of the peace;
(d) Municipal judges;
(e) Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and
deputy constables;
(f) Any person having the power to arrest or
having anything to do with the control of federal, state, county or municipal
prisoners; and
(g) Trustees or prisoners incarcerated in any
jail, prison or any other place used for the incarceration of persons.
3. A bail agent shall not sign or
countersign in blank any bond, or give the power of attorney to, or otherwise
authorize, anyone to countersign the name of the bail agent to bonds unless the
person so authorized is a licensed bail agent directly employed by the bail
agent giving the power of attorney.
4. A bail agent, bail enforcement agent,
bail solicitor or general agent shall not advertise or hold himself or herself
out to be a surety insurance company.

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