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The Delaware Property Bail Agent license

Property Bail Agent

Pledges cash, postal money orders, cashier’s checks or other property as surety for a bail bond, without an insurer behind it. The second of the two lines of authority Delaware issues to a bail producer, and the one that puts the agent’s own balance sheet on the line.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

2

1 of them skips the state exam.

Exam

$90

Required on some routes and not others.

Every way to qualify

More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. There is no pre-licensing course among them: this license is qualified for by sitting the examination or a license already held.

  1. Route 1 Pass the examination

    State exam required

    Bail is not licensed under chapter 17's qualifications and reading it there gets the answer wrong. 18 Del. C. 4333(c) is this license's own closed list of six: at least 18, a Delaware resident, no act on a list of fourteen, the chapter 7 fees paid, the examination passed "unless specifically exempted from such examination by this subchapter", and no suspension or prohibition by any court or state. No course is in it. 4337(a) then says every natural person intending to apply must personally take and pass a written examination whose scope is all aspects of the bail bond business, and the only exemption anywhere in the subchapter is 4337(f), reinstatement within twelve months of a lapse. Delaware's examination vendor sets InsDE-BB23, one hour. Alongside the examination sit a $50,000 bond under 4336 and, under 4333B, a statement of assets and liabilities under oath and a rating plan the Commissioner must approve before the license issues. A property bail agent may not charge a rate that has not been approved in advance.

    Read at delcode.delaware.gov on 2026-08-18

  2. Route 2 Reinstate a lapsed license within twelve months

    Exempt from the state exam

    • a Delaware bail agent license lapsed for less than twelve months and neither suspended nor revoked

    18 Del. C. 4337(f), and it is the only route into this license that does not run through the examination. All fees and fines on the lapsed license have to be paid in full before the Department approves the reinstatement.

    Read at delcode.delaware.gov on 2026-08-18

No national seller carries a bail course or bail examination preparation for any state on this site, and Delaware examines this license itself under 18 Del. C. 4337.