Whenever these rules, including the Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions, require or permit the giving of security by a party, and security is given in the form of a bond or stipulation or other undertaking with one or more sureties, each surety submits to the jurisdiction of the court and irrevocably appoints the clerk of the court as the surety’s agent upon whom any papers affecting the surety’s liability on the bond or undertaking may be served. The surety’s liability may be enforced on motion without the necessity of an independent action. The motion and such notice of the motion as the court prescribes may be served on the clerk of the court, who shall forthwith mail copies to the sureties if their addresses are known.
(As added Feb. 28, 1966, eff. July 1, 1966; amended Mar. 2, 1987, eff. Aug. 1, 1987; Apr. 12, 2006, eff. Dec. 1, 2006.)
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Whenever these rules, (including the Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions,) require or permit the giving of security by a party, and security is given in the form of a bond or stipulation or other undertaking with one or more sureties, each suretyallow a party to give security, and security is given with one or more security providers, each provider submits to the court’s jurisdiction of the court and irrevocably appoints the clerk of the court as the surety’s agent upon whomourt clerk as its agent for receiving service of any papers that affecting the surety’ its liability on the bond or undertaking may be servedsecurity. The secureity provider’s liability may be enforced on motion without the necessity of an independent action. The motion and suchany notice of the motion asthat the court prescribeorders may be served on the clerk of the court, who shall forthwith mail copies to the sureties if theirourt clerk, who must promptly send a copy of each to every security provider whose addresses are is known.
(As added Feb. 28, 1966, eff. July 1, 1966; amended Mar. 2, 1987, eff. Aug. 1, 1987; Apr. 12, 2006, eff. Dec. 1, 2006; Apr. 30, 2007, eff. Dec. 1, 2007; Apr. 26, 2018, eff. Dec. 1, 2018.)