(a) Surety companies. Each surety company shall, in the month of January in each year, file with the Clerk of the Court of the Court of Common Pleas, in each county in which such surety company is engaged in business, a power of attorney authorizing the execution of bonds by the attorney in fact designated in said power of attorney, before the Courts shall accept or approve such company as surety. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the execution by a surety company of any bond within this State by its proper officers as required by law.(b) Attorneys and other officers. No attorney, or other officer of this Court, shall be taken, directly or indirectly, as special bail or surety in any case pending in, or appealed to, this Court. This prohibition shall also apply to any agent, employee, member of the immediate family of any such attorney or court officer, or any corporation in which such attorney or court officer owns a controlling interest. This prohibition shall not apply to any bond in which the attorney, court officer, agent, employee or family member, as above defined, may be the principal. The phrase “member of the immediate family” shall include the spouse, father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son, daughter, brother, sister, brother-in-law, or sister-inlaw or any such attorney or Court officer.
