Section 510.20. Application for recognizance or bail; making and determination thereof in general  


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  • 1.    Upon  any  occasion when a court is required to issue a securing
      order with respect to a principal, or at any time when  a  principal  is
      confined  in  the  custody  of  the  sheriff as a result of a previously
      issued securing order, he may make an application  for  recognizance  or
      bail.
        2.    Upon  such  application,  the  principal  must  be  accorded  an
      opportunity to be heard and to contend that an order of recognizance  or
      bail  must or should issue, that the court should release him on his own
      recognizance rather than fix bail, and that if bail is fixed  it  should
      be in a suggested amount and form.