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The District of Columbia Surplus Lines license

Surplus Lines

Places cover with companies the District has not otherwise authorized to do business, under D.C. Code 31-2502.40(a). There is no examination for it and no course, but it cannot be held alone: a property or casualty license has to be held already or issued at the same time.

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 Hold or simultaneously receive a property or casualty license

    No state exam for this license

    • a District of Columbia insurance producer license carrying the property line of insurance, held or issued at the same time

    • or

      a District of Columbia insurance producer license carrying the casualty line of insurance, held or issued at the same time

    D.C. Code 31-1131.07(a-1): "A person shall not be issued a license in the bail bonds or surplus lines line of insurance unless the person holds, or is simultaneously issued, a license in the property or casualty line of insurance."The District stacks two of its lines on a third, and it is the only jurisdiction here that lets the underlying license be issued in the same breath rather than first. North Dakota's surplus lines producer wants the underlying producer license and nothing else, Iowa's excess and surplus lines wants a second examination on top, and Utah's wants an examination plus three of the last four years. There is no examination here to sit or to be excused from: 31-1131.05(a)(1) puts the surplus lines line beside the limited lines on the list of applications that need none. That is why this page carries one route rather than two, in a jurisdiction whose only exemption section waives examinations and nothing else.

    Read at code.dccouncil.gov on 2026-08-16

The District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking requires no pre-licensing course for this license, so there is nothing here to price.