77-20-208. Release from conditions when charges not filed in specified time period.
(1) If a prosecuting attorney does not file an information, indictment, or a request to extend time under Subsection, within 120 days after the day on which a county jail official released the individual on a financial condition under Sectionor within 120 days after the day on which a temporary pretrial status order was issued for the individual: (2) 77-20-203 the individual shall be relieved from any condition of pretrial release; the court shall refund any monetary bail in accordance with Subsection; and 77-20-402(5) if a bail bond was used to post monetary bail, the bail bond shall be exonerated without further order of the court.
(2) A request to extend time shall: be served on: the individual and the individual's attorney; and if a bail bond was used to post monetary bail, the surety; and except as provided in Subsection, be granted for a period of up to 60 days. (3)
(3) The magistrate may grant a request to extend time for a period of up to 120 days upon a showing of good cause.
(4) Nothing in this section prohibits the filing of charges against an individual at any time.