AGENCY: Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 3302
TITLE: Bail bond files
DATES: ca. 1917-1943.
ARRANGEMENT: None

DESCRIPTION: These are authorizations for defendants in criminal actions to be discharged from actual custody upon payment of a set monetary bail and promised appearance at trial. "Bail must be put in by a written undertaken executed by at least two sufficient sureties (with or without the defendant) in the discretion of the magistrate, and duly acknowledged" (Utah Rev._Stat._105-44-13_(1933). These bail bonds are for defendants in district, justice, and city courts in Tooele County. The files include undertaking of bonds and actual bail bond. The acknowledgment includes the names of plaintiff(s), defendant(s), date, name of judge, charge, amount of bond, annual premium, and date of bond.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 06/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 1 year after expiration of bond and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative

This disposition is based on the record's primary value to the agency. Until 1989, the county clerk was the clerk of the district courts. This is one of the court's records which remained after the transfer of the district court to the state. These bonds are now obsolete and should be destroyed.

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