(a) Upon exoneration of any bond involving the deposit of cash bail funds in the
court’s Registry Account, the clerk must refund the funds solely to the person
denominated legal owner at the time the funds were deposited with and received
by the clerk.
(b) No assignment of any deposited cash bail funds in the court’s Registry Account
will be effective for refund purposes by the clerk unless the person denominated
legal owner of the funds, as assignor, files with the clerk an executed, notarized
acknowledgement of the assignment of the funds.
(c) Upon court order, the clerk must apply any cash bail funds of which the defendant
is legal owner of record, whether invested or on deposit in the Registry Account,
to the payment and satisfaction of any court-imposed fine. This payment must
take place before either making refund of the remainder of the cash bail funds, if
any, to the defendant or, to any extent, honoring a defendant’s assignment of the
funds.
