The Minnesota Bail Bonds license
Bail Bonds
Writes the three-party contract that releases an accused person into a surety's custody. Minnesota holds it as a limited line on the producer license and gives chapter 60M a whole chapter of conduct rules to sit on top of it.
Course
None
This license has no pre-licensing course route.
Ways in
None
There is nothing to qualify for. Neither a course nor an examination is required.
Exam
n/a
Not required.
How to qualify
Minnesota asks neither a prelicensing course nor an examination for this license, and that was read at revisor.mn.gov rather than left blank here: there is no route to show because there is nothing to qualify.
No national seller sells a course for this license, and nothing could. Minn. Stat. 60K.36, subd. 2 names four limited lines and takes the paper away from all of them at once: "A resident individual applying for a limited lines credit insurance, title insurance, travel insurance, or bail bonds license is not required to take a written examination."The course goes with it. Subdivision 4 sizes the program of studies at "20 hours per major line of authority", and a limited line is not a major line, so nothing in the section reaches these four. Minnesota is unusual in saying it in one sentence for four lines rather than license by license. California asks a bail agent for 20 hours and West Virginia's surety bail bondsman for 20; Minnesota asks for none, and puts its weight on chapter 60M's rules about premiums, collateral, audits and solicitation instead.