Dowell v. Pletcher

T1 The issue is whether the Oklahoma County Court Clerk (Court Clerk) is required to enforce alleged violations of the "Ten Bond Rule" of the Oklahoma Bail Bondsmen Act.1 We answer in the negative and find that enforcement of 59 O.S. § 1320(B) lies with the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner.

T2 Title 59 0.8.2011 § 1820(B) (Ten Bond Rule) provides, in pertinent part:

No bail bondsman shall become a surety on an undertaking unless he has first registered his license in the office of the sher*736iff and with the clerk of the district court in the county in which the bondsman resides or offices, but not…