Utah Association of Professional Bondsmen and Agents
UAPBA
Code of Ethics
Date: August 22, 2000
Section
1
Relations
with the Client
Article 1
In Justice to those who place their faith and interests in her or his care, the Surety and/or their Agents should
endeavor constantly to be informed regarding current laws, proposed legislation, governmental orders or regulations, and other
significant information and public policies which may effect the interests of the client.
Article 2
The Surety and/or their Agents should make a constant practice of full and complete disclosure to all parties, be
they principal or indemnitor, of any and all possible liabilities, penalties or detriments which may arise from their involvement
in that particular undertaking which secures the release from custody of a person who is charged with a criminal offense.
Article 3
The Surety and/or their Agents should not prior to forfeiture or breach,
arrest or surrender any principal and thereby terminate his or her release from governmental custody unless the Surety and/or
their Agents can materially show good cause for such action , such good cause should reasonably take the form of judicial
action, information concealed or misrepresented, or the renunciation of an indemnitor or the principal, any of which may be
considered material to the risk assumed by the Surety and/or their Agents.
Article
4
The Surety and/or
their Agents, upon receipt of notice of forfeiture or breach where notice is required, or upon personal knowledge of forfeiture
or breach, should promptly and formally notify any and all ~ indemnitors and real parties of interest of the forfeiture or
breach by the principal, and the Surety and/or their Agents should at that time concisely state the liability thereby incurred
or pending.
Article 5
The Surety and/or their Agents should supply all indemnitors
to an undertaking with a true copy of any document representing a binding legal contract to which she or he is to be or is
being committed.
