The California Rental Car Agent license
Rental Car Agent
Lets a rental company offer insurance with its rentals through its own counter staff. The license sits on the employer, the people selling are endorsees on a list, and the employer trains them on subjects the Department sets out in a form rather than in hours.
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
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Route 1 Apply as the rental company and certify your trained employees
No state exam for this license
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Training the employer must provide on ethical sales practices, personal accident insurance, liability insurance and personal effects as they pertain to renters and rental vehicles, optionally extending to roadside assistance and emergency sickness insurance, with the elements set out in form LIC RCA 4
California Insurance Code section 1758.8 is the authorizing act. What the Department asks of the employer is a list rather than a qualification: an employer certification on form LIC RCA 1, an annual certification on LIC RCA 2, an annually updated list of employees certified to sell kept for three years on LIC RCA 5, modifications to the training materials submitted thirty days in advance, periodic retraining, renewal every two years, and payment of enforcement costs. The employee's own bar is eighteen years of age and a place on the authorized list. The employer pays enforcement costs, which nothing else on this site asks of a licensee. $509 to file and $509 to renew.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-20
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The training belongs to the licensee to give its own people, with no hours and no syllabus set by the Department beyond an outline of required elements, and California gives no examination for this license. No school can sell it.