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Bail Enforcement Agent

Bail Enforcement Agent license issued to an individual under Miss. Code Ann. Title 83, Chapter 39.

Licensing authority: Mississippi Insurance Department · Application information

Additional enforcement license for another employing professional bail agent
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Additional License
Obtain a separate enforcement license for each additional employing professional bail agent.
Application
The MID FAQ states: "As long as the applicant is currently licensed, the only requirements are a completed application and license fee."
Education Exemption
The FAQ states that an already licensed enforcement agent adding another professional is not required to take the 40-hour course.
Existing License
Currently licensed as a bail enforcement agent.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Original licensure following failure to meet renewal continuing education
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Failed Continuing Education
The required annual continuing education was not obtained during the proper license year. Renewal is denied and an original license application is required.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Implementation Education Instruction
The MID FAQ states: "If you wish to reinstate, you will be required to take the 40-hour pre-license course (if not already taken)." The statute subjects this original application to subsection (7); retain the Board instruction as an applicant condition.
Implementation Fingerprint Instruction
The FAQ requires new fingerprints if none were taken during the preceding twelve months.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Relicensure after employer termination or transfer within ninety days
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application
File a new application with the new professional agent endorsement and $40 privilege tax.
Education And Fingerprints
The instructions accept proof of the previously completed 40-hour course and waive repeat fingerprinting if the new application is before the prior license expiration.
Eligibility
Meet the other requirements of 83-39-5 and the applicable provisions of 83-39-3(7)(b).
Examination Exemption
83-39-3(7)(b) exempts currently licensed soliciting/enforcement agents transferring their employment to another professional bail agent.
Outstanding Premium Debt
For soliciting agents, a hearing may result in refusal to issue the changed-employer privilege license when premium or debt remains owed to the previous professional agent.
Previous Employer Notice
Notify the previous professional bail agent in writing of the new license application.
Recent License
Hold this category of license within ninety days of the new application after termination or cessation of employment.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement of inactive license using an original application
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior License
An inactive license in this category; MID directs a first-time paper application for reinstatement.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Cross category issuance to a currently licensed soliciting agent
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application
Submit the notarized application, employing professional endorsement, photograph, required fingerprints and $40 privilege tax.
Education Exemption
The implementing instructions waive prelicensing education when the existing license remained in effect without adverse action and all intervening continuing-education requirements were met.
Examination Exemption
83-39-3(7)(b) expressly exempts this cross-category application from the department examination.
Existing License
Currently licensed as a soliciting bail agent, applying for the other category.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Nonresident licensure under reciprocal eligibility and Chapter 39 requirements
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Nonresident applicant: the home state must license Mississippi residents on the same basis, and all Chapter 39 requirements must be satisfied. The application attests to home-state licensure in good standing; another state examination is not a Mississippi examination requirement leaf.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application Fee
Pay the renewal fee: $100 for a professional license; $40 for soliciting or enforcement.
Continuing Education
No continuing education for the first year of an original license; otherwise eight hours for each year or part of a year, totaling sixteen hours per two-year license period.
Current License
Hold a current license in this category and remain eligible for renewal.
Renewal Cycle
Renew by September 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal Information
Provide the renewal information attachment, including the preceding five years of residence and spouse information; professional agents state their principal-office address.
Senior Exemption
The continuing-education requirement is waived at age 65 with twenty continuous years of bail-agent licensure and the prescribed sworn affidavit.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Resident original licensure by examination
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Resident applicant.

limited surety agent

An individual licensed to represent an appointing insurer for the restricted lines of bail, fidelity and surety.

Licensing authority: Mississippi Insurance Department · Application information

Reinstatement after cancellation of insurer appointment
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Reinstatement Procedure
The MID FAQ requires a new application, $100 license fee, new company appointment, the current $50 appointment fee, and fingerprints if none were taken in the preceding twelve months. The older FAQ states $25; the 2026 licensing update supersedes it.
Terminated Appointment
The insurer canceled the appointment, causing cancellation of the limited-surety license by operation of law.
Original licensure following failure to meet renewal continuing education
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Failed Continuing Education
The required annual continuing education was not obtained during the proper license year. Renewal is denied and an original license application is required.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Implementation Education Instruction
The MID FAQ states: "If you wish to reinstate, you will be required to take the 40-hour pre-license course (if not already taken)." The statute subjects this original application to subsection (7); retain the Board instruction as an applicant condition.
Implementation Fingerprint Instruction
The FAQ requires new fingerprints if none were taken during the preceding twelve months.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Reinstatement of inactive license using an original application
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior License
An inactive license in this category; MID directs a first-time paper application for reinstatement.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Nonresident licensure under reciprocal eligibility and Chapter 39 requirements
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Nonresident applicant: the home state must license Mississippi residents on the same basis, and all Chapter 39 requirements must be satisfied. The application attests to home-state licensure in good standing; another state examination is not a Mississippi examination requirement leaf.
Change between professional personal surety and limited surety categories
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Category Education Exemption
The September 2012 instructions waive prelicensing education if the prior license remains in effect without adverse action and the applicant met all continuing education since prior prelicensing completion.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Existing Professional License
Currently licensed as professional personal surety and applying for the different professional category.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application Fee
Pay the renewal fee: $100 for a professional license; $40 for soliciting or enforcement.
Continuing Education
No continuing education for the first year of an original license; otherwise eight hours for each year or part of a year, totaling sixteen hours per two-year license period.
Current License
Hold a current license in this category and remain eligible for renewal.
Renewal Cycle
Renew by September 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal Information
Provide the renewal information attachment, including the preceding five years of residence and spouse information; professional agents state their principal-office address.
Senior Exemption
The continuing-education requirement is waived at age 65 with twenty continuous years of bail-agent licensure and the prescribed sworn affidavit.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Resident original licensure by examination
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Insurer Appointment
Provide a limited-surety appointment form from the sponsoring insurer and pay the current $50 certificate-of-authority fee. The $25 fee in the older instructions and FAQ is superseded by the 2026 licensing update and SB2409.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Outstanding Insurer Debt
A limited-surety license must be refused after the statutory hearing if the applicant owes premium or debt to an appointing insurer.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Resident applicant.

personal surety agent

Professional Bail Agent — Personal Surety license issued to an individual under Miss. Code Ann. Title 83, Chapter 39.

Licensing authority: Mississippi Insurance Department · Application information

Original licensure following failure to meet renewal continuing education
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Failed Continuing Education
The required annual continuing education was not obtained during the proper license year. Renewal is denied and an original license application is required.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Implementation Education Instruction
The MID FAQ states: "If you wish to reinstate, you will be required to take the 40-hour pre-license course (if not already taken)." The statute subjects this original application to subsection (7); retain the Board instruction as an applicant condition.
Implementation Fingerprint Instruction
The FAQ requires new fingerprints if none were taken during the preceding twelve months.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Qualification Bond
Post the $30,000 qualification bond in an approved form payable jointly to the agent and MID. Provide the irrevocable security power and, where applicable, the original bank safekeeping receipt.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Reinstatement of inactive license using an original application
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior License
An inactive license in this category; MID directs a first-time paper application for reinstatement.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Qualification Bond
Post the $30,000 qualification bond in an approved form payable jointly to the agent and MID. Provide the irrevocable security power and, where applicable, the original bank safekeeping receipt.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Nonresident licensure under reciprocal eligibility and Chapter 39 requirements
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Qualification Bond
Post the $30,000 qualification bond in an approved form payable jointly to the agent and MID. Provide the irrevocable security power and, where applicable, the original bank safekeeping receipt.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Nonresident applicant: the home state must license Mississippi residents on the same basis, and all Chapter 39 requirements must be satisfied. The application attests to home-state licensure in good standing; another state examination is not a Mississippi examination requirement leaf.
Change between professional personal surety and limited surety categories
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Category Education Exemption
The September 2012 instructions waive prelicensing education if the prior license remains in effect without adverse action and the applicant met all continuing education since prior prelicensing completion.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Existing Professional License
Currently licensed as professional limited surety and applying for the different professional category.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Qualification Bond
Post the $30,000 qualification bond in an approved form payable jointly to the agent and MID. Provide the irrevocable security power and, where applicable, the original bank safekeeping receipt.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Restoration after suspension for qualification bond forfeiture
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Associated Licenses
The same provision revokes associated soliciting and enforcement licenses; it does not state that those associated licenses are automatically restored by replacement of the professional agent qualification bond.
Replacement Qualification Bond
Following the statutory hearing and at least ten days written notice, the suspension continues until another qualification bond in the required amount is posted with MID.
Suspended License
A professional personal-surety license suspended under 83-39-7(3) after qualification-bond forfeiture.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application Fee
Pay the renewal fee: $100 for a professional license; $40 for soliciting or enforcement.
Continuing Education
No continuing education for the first year of an original license; otherwise eight hours for each year or part of a year, totaling sixteen hours per two-year license period.
Current License
Hold a current license in this category and remain eligible for renewal.
Renewal Cycle
Renew by September 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal Information
Provide the renewal information attachment, including the preceding five years of residence and spouse information; professional agents state their principal-office address.
Senior Exemption
The continuing-education requirement is waived at age 65 with twenty continuous years of bail-agent licensure and the prescribed sworn affidavit.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Resident original licensure by examination
Bail Agent
Annual Financial Statement
Provide the annual financial statement under oath by June 1 for the preceding calendar year; the instructions permit a statement of no prior-year licensure when applicable.
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
Mississippi Office
Maintain a registered principal office physically in Mississippi and state its address on the original or renewal application.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Other Professional License
The MID FAQ answers "No" to holding both professional licenses; 83-39-3(2)(b)(ii) prohibits writing bail as personal surety while licensed as limited surety.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior Soliciting Experience
The applicant must have held a Mississippi soliciting bail agent license for three consecutive years immediately before application; this requirement does not apply to a person licensed as a professional bail agent before July 1, 2011.
Professional Application Fee
The professional license application fee is $100.
Qualification Bond
Post the $30,000 qualification bond in an approved form payable jointly to the agent and MID. Provide the irrevocable security power and, where applicable, the original bank safekeeping receipt.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Resident applicant.

Soliciting Bail Agent

Soliciting Bail Agent license issued to an individual under Miss. Code Ann. Title 83, Chapter 39.

Licensing authority: Mississippi Insurance Department · Application information

Original licensure following failure to meet renewal continuing education
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Failed Continuing Education
The required annual continuing education was not obtained during the proper license year. Renewal is denied and an original license application is required.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Implementation Education Instruction
The MID FAQ states: "If you wish to reinstate, you will be required to take the 40-hour pre-license course (if not already taken)." The statute subjects this original application to subsection (7); retain the Board instruction as an applicant condition.
Implementation Fingerprint Instruction
The FAQ requires new fingerprints if none were taken during the preceding twelve months.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Relicensure after employer termination or transfer within ninety days
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application
File a new application with the new professional agent endorsement and $40 privilege tax.
Education And Fingerprints
The instructions accept proof of the previously completed 40-hour course and waive repeat fingerprinting if the new application is before the prior license expiration.
Eligibility
Meet the other requirements of 83-39-5 and the applicable provisions of 83-39-3(7)(b).
Examination Exemption
83-39-3(7)(b) exempts currently licensed soliciting/enforcement agents transferring their employment to another professional bail agent.
Outstanding Premium Debt
For soliciting agents, a hearing may result in refusal to issue the changed-employer privilege license when premium or debt remains owed to the previous professional agent.
Previous Employer Notice
Notify the previous professional bail agent in writing of the new license application.
Recent License
Hold this category of license within ninety days of the new application after termination or cessation of employment.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Reinstatement of inactive license using an original application
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Prior License
An inactive license in this category; MID directs a first-time paper application for reinstatement.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Cross category issuance to a currently licensed enforcement agent
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application
Submit the notarized application, employing professional endorsement, photograph, required fingerprints and $40 privilege tax.
Education Exemption
The implementing instructions waive prelicensing education when the existing license remained in effect without adverse action and all intervening continuing-education requirements were met.
Examination Exemption
83-39-3(7)(b) expressly exempts this cross-category application from the department examination.
Existing License
Currently licensed as a enforcement bail agent, applying for the other category.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Nonresident licensure under reciprocal eligibility and Chapter 39 requirements
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Nonresident applicant: the home state must license Mississippi residents on the same basis, and all Chapter 39 requirements must be satisfied. The application attests to home-state licensure in good standing; another state examination is not a Mississippi examination requirement leaf.
Biennial renewal
No examination is required for this applicant pathway.
Application Fee
Pay the renewal fee: $100 for a professional license; $40 for soliciting or enforcement.
Continuing Education
No continuing education for the first year of an original license; otherwise eight hours for each year or part of a year, totaling sixteen hours per two-year license period.
Current License
Hold a current license in this category and remain eligible for renewal.
Renewal Cycle
Renew by September 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal Information
Provide the renewal information attachment, including the preceding five years of residence and spouse information; professional agents state their principal-office address.
Senior Exemption
The continuing-education requirement is waived at age 65 with twenty continuous years of bail-agent licensure and the prescribed sworn affidavit.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Resident original licensure by examination
Bail Agent
Application
Submit a notarized application, required privilege tax, a recent full-face color photograph and fingerprints taken by MID; fingerprints support state and federal criminal-history checks.
Application Fee
The license application fee is $40 for each soliciting or enforcement license.
Course Assessment
The September 2012 instructions state: "An examination is given at the end of the 40-hour pre-licensing course." This is part of education completion; the instructions identify no separately registered course examination.
Dated Statutory Evidence
Requirements use the obtained official 2018 reenactment and other dated official statutory texts. The current official Lexis codified chapter was not obtained: its title index loaded, but chapter expansion failed; server-side access returned an empty shell.
Disqualifying Crimes
A license cannot be issued or renewed after a conviction the commissioner finds directly related to bail-agent duties, including fraud, dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering.
Employing Professional
The employing professional bail agent signs the application and accepts supervision responsibility. A soliciting agent works only for one professional agent; an enforcement agent needs a separate license for each employing professional agent.
Excluded Employment
Law-enforcement officials, judicial officials, attorneys and persons employed in a jail or corrections facility holding inmates eligible for bail are ineligible.
Handbook Score Window
The July 2025 Candidate Handbook states: "Pass the required examination(s) within two years of license application for the type of license you are seeking (see chart on page 4); and". The statute permits one successful completion; the handbook timing instruction is retained as MID implementation information.
Individual Applicant
The license is issued only to an individual; the applicant must be at least 21 years old.
One Time Licensing Examination
83-39-3(7)(b) states that an applicant need successfully complete the department examination only once. Prior successful completion may excuse another sitting.
Prelicensing Education
Complete 40 hours of MID-approved prelicensing education, subject to the statutory exemption for compliant licensees licensed on July 1, 2014, and applicants properly licensed within 90 days who meet continuing-education requirements.
Recognition Acts
This survey reads the privilege-license exclusion in 73-50-1(2)(a) and 73-50-2(2)(a), with the bail privilege license named in 83-39-3(6) and MID privilege-tax application instructions, as excluding these bail privilege licenses from those general recognition acts. The specific bail nonresident route in 83-39-3(10) is retained.
Residency
Resident applicant.

Bail Agent

Provider
Pearson VUE
Format
Multiple choice at a physical testing location; the handbook lists Bail Agent as unavailable through OnVUE.
Exam questions
50 scored questions and 10 pretest questions
Time limit
120 minutes
Passing score
70%
Exam fee
$50
Examination outline
  • Skip tracing, arrest, surrender, and release
    • Who may make an arrest
    • Surrender of defendants
    • Surrender of defendants — Reasons
    • Surrender of defendants — Return of premium
    • Surrender of defendants — Procedures
    • Issuing warrants
    • Apprehension of defendants
    • Property Bond
    • Consideration for setting bonds
  • Collateral and indemnity
    • Return of collateral after fulfillment
    • Custody of Collateral
    • Penalties
  • Contracts, Writing, and Underwriting Bonds
    • Obligations of the Parties to a contract (Obligor, Surety, Principal)
    • Indemnification agreements/surety contracts including underwriting authority
    • Creating a valid contract
    • Bond application
    • Bail contract
    • Posting the bond/recordings
    • Bond receipts
  • Courts and their jurisdiction
    • Courts
    • Power of attorney
    • Posting licensing with courts
    • Persons excluded from acting as a bail agent
    • Court procedures
    • Court appearance
    • Amount of bail
    • Arraignment
    • Transferring a bond
    • Trial
    • Appeal
    • Conditions for release
    • Failure to appear
  • Forfeitures and judgements
    • Bond forfeiture
    • Motions to set aside judgements
    • Final judgement of forfeiture
  • Fulfilling the Obligation
    • Discharging Bonds
    • Evidence to convict
  • Mississippi Bail Laws & Regulations
    • License Requirements
    • License Eligibility
    • Qualification, including bonds
    • Appointments
    • Non-resident eligibility
    • Soliciting bail agent
    • Limited surety agent
    • Personal surety agent
    • Bail enforcement agent
    • Record keeping
    • Licensing renewal and expiration
    • Denial, suspension or revocation of license
    • License transfer requirements License appeal
    • Continuing education
    • Reinstatement requirements
    • Fines for agents and insurers
    • Change of address
    • Disciplinary actions/penalties
    • Unlawful acts
  • Definitions and Terminology
    • Arraignment
    • Bail
    • Bonds
    • Bonds — Appeal
    • Bonds — Bail
    • Bonds — Cash
    • Bonds — Personal recognizance
    • Bonds — Criminal
    • Bonds — Civil
    • Bonds — Appearance
    • Bonds — Post-conviction
    • Collateral
    • Custody
    • Defendant
    • Extradition
    • Felony
    • Fugitive
    • Insurer
    • Levy
    • Premium
    • Trust Account
    • Writs
Examination sources