The Ohio Surety Bail Bond license
Surety Bail Bond
Writes bail bonds in Ohio. It is the one line the Department's degree waiver does not reach.
Course
20 hrs
The shortest single course route.
Ways in
1
It requires the state exam.
Exam
$49
Required.
Every way to qualify
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Route 1 Take the 20-hour course
State exam required
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20 hours of pre-licensing education for the Surety Bail Bond line of authority, approved by the Department
Classroom, distance learning or self-study, from an Ohio approved pre-licensing provider. The provider issues a course completion certificate per line of authority. It is valid for 180 calendar days and the exam must be passed inside that window. Nobody is admitted to an exam without the original, unaltered certificate, and a combined exam takes two of them.
Read at the Department on 2026-08-14
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A course is required and nobody sells one
Ohio requires twenty hours for this line, and its register of approved pre-licensing providers is the only place a course for it could come from. Every Ohio product any of them prices is for the life, health, property, casualty or personal lines papers. Nobody sells the surety bail bond hours.