PRESS RELEASE
Troy Municipal Court Amnesty & Signature Bond Week Announced
The City of Troy Municipal Court is offering an amnesty the of week March 6-10, 2023, from 7:30 AM until 4:30 PM each day of the week. Amnesty provides an opportunity for those with certain municipal court warrants to clear their warrant without concern of being arrested. Amnesty is offered to all individuals who have received traffic, parking, litter, animal, or noise citations and Alias Warrants have been issued for your failure to appear in the matter. Also, for those who failed to pay fines, and for whom contempt warrants have been issued for not following bench orders (NOTE: new Warrants of Arrest on non-traffic cases excluding Contempt of Court charges do not apply). If by chance, you have a charge that does not apply (warrant of arrest), you can come and we will grant you an immediate signature bond. You will merely be booked and released in 10 minutes with NO time behind bars waiting on bail or bond unless it is a DV 3rd in which you must spend 24 hours in jail prior to bond per state code.
Should an individual who has an outstanding warrant in which their charges DO NOT meet the criteria explained above, for example, a felony warrant or a warrant with another agency, they are subject to immediate arrest.
Anyone wishing to take advantage of the amnesty & signature bond special program may do so by appearing at the Troy Municipal Court located at 300 Elm Street, Troy, Alabama during the week of March 6-10th. For more information regarding amnesty & signature bond week procedures call the Troy Municipal Court at 334-566-4248 or email us at court@troyal.gov.
Advantages of participating:
- Save the embarrassment of being handcuffed in public or in front of your family
- You won’t be charged the $25 Failure to Appear Fee
- You won’t have to pay a $35 state mandated bail fee as you will never be arrested
- You won’t pay a $12 warrant fee which is state mandated on executed Alias Warrants
- Come at your leisure that week without having to sit in court several hours
- No embarrassment of being seen in a public courtroom
- No embarrassment of your name called from a docket in a courtroom
- Good chance your name won’t be in the newspaper because in most cases you will not be arrested
- Dodge the gradual rise in court costs by participating in the amnesty court day
- Pay your tickets so you can get your driver’s license back
- Clear your warrants so you will not be afraid to call 911 in emergency situations