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The Arizona Bail Bond Agent license

Bail Bond Agent

Executes or countersigns a surety insurer’s bail bonds in Arizona criminal proceedings. It asks for a year of Arizona residency before the application, and it does not reach civil bonds unless the agent also holds a casualty producer license.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Attest to a year of Arizona residency and apply

    No state exam for this license

    • 1 year Residency in Arizona for at least one year immediately preceding the date of application, attested to by affidavit

    A.R.S. 20-340.01(A): an applicant submits an affidavit attesting to Arizona residency for at least one year immediately preceding the application. No course and no examination appear in the section. 20-340.01(B) is the part that sets the timetable rather than the qualification: a full set of fingerprints goes to the Department for a state and federal criminal records check, and the Department shall not issue the license until it has the results back, which it warns can take a month. 20-340.01(C) closes the entity route: no resident business entity is licensed unless every owner and shareholder is individually licensed as a bail bond agent. And 20-340.01(D) draws the boundary a reader is most likely to get wrong: this license does not authorize civil bonds in connection with contracts, administrative proceedings or other noncriminal matters unless the holder is also an Arizona casualty producer. Continuing education is not required.

    Read at azleg.gov on 2026-08-18

No national seller carries a bail course or bail examination preparation for any state on this site, and Arizona sets no examination for this license either: A.R.S. 20-340.01 asks for a year of residency, an affidavit and a criminal records check.