Compliance Information: Bail Bond Agencies
As a licensee it’s important you have access to information that helps you keep your insurance business in compliance. This section is an important tool to help you meet that goal.
However, these tools are not and cannot replace statutes, department rules, orders or case law. The items below are intended as reminders only and are not necessarily the exact text of the Estatutos de la Florida o Código Administrativo de la Florida. The legal cites have been provided for your further reference.
Debe tener un agente primario de fianzas para cada agencia de fianzas que posea y para cada sucursal de su agencia de fianzas, de acuerdo con la sección 648.387, E.F. El agente primario debe ser un agente de fianzas nombrado y con licencia y no puede ser el agente primario designado para más de una sucursal.
To do so, you will need to create a secure Mi Perfil Bail Bond Agency account type. When you do this, you will be able to do the following actions:
- Agregar Propietario o Director
- Designar y eliminar un agente primario de fianzas.
- Agregar sucursales
- Eliminar sucursales
- Cambiar una dirección
- Cambiar la información de inicio de sesión
- Cambiar direcciones de email
- Otorgar privilegios a terceros
For more instructions, please see our Bail Bond Agency Primary Agent User Guide.
As the Department strives to go paperless, the switch from paper to electronic is convenient and will allow licensees to update their individual and bail bond agency information via their secure Mi Perfil accounts in real time online.
This allows the consumer-buying public to find and locate bail bond agents and agencies on the Department’s Buscar Titulares de Licencias. This is something that they could not do previously.
Además, ahora las prisiones y los tribunales podrán verificar que un agente y una agencia de fianzas están registrados con el Departamento después de que designen un agente primario de fianzas para una sucursal.
Bail bond agencies must be owned by licensed and appointed bail bond agents only. The bail bond agency must file the name of the agency with the department, along with the name and license number of the bail bond agent designated as the primary bail bond agent. In addition, the agency must be open and accessible to the public for at least 8 hours during the normal work day, which is defined as 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.
All bail bond agents who are members of the same agency must be appointed to represent the same surety companies (insurers). Also, if any agent of a bail bond agency is licensed and appointed as a professional bail bond agent, all the agents in the agency must be licensed as one. Please see section 648.55, Estatutos de la Florida
The following persons would not be allowed to be a bail bond agency owner nor be employed at a bail bond agency. Refer to sections 648.285, F.S. and 648.44(2), Estatutos de la Florida
- Carceleros o personas empleadas en una cárcel
- Oficiales de policía o empleados de una agencia de policía
- Jueces, empleados de un tribunal o empleados de la secretaría de un tribunal
- Sheriffs y subsheriffs o empleados de cualquier departamento del sheriff
- Abogados
- Personas con poder para arrestar o personas que tienen autoridad o control sobre prisioneros
- Any person who has been convicted or pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude
- Personas cuya licencia de agente de garantías limitadas (fianzas), agente temporario de fianzas o agente profesional de fianzas fue revocada anteriormente.